Exploring Consciousness and Reality

Classified as a non-physical reality.

What happens is that that slip opens up, opens up

more and more and more. So you see more and more of

that reality, and we assume that we see different

realities. They're not

very different realities, but rather a, a very extended broad

view of one very large reality.

Can we speed that up, are you?

Yeah.

Well, you use techniques which push the nervous system a lot

faster.

Those techniques are available.

Shortly after making that claim, he was gone.

In nineteen seventy-nine, Itzhak Bentov was on his way to

Japan to meet with leading scientists and share that he had

cracked the code of reality. But his first flight from

Chicago to Los Angeles never made it.

The plane crashed. Strange. The man who had spent

years mapping the hidden architecture of consciousness died

on his way to reveal it. Later, parts of his work surfaced

in CIA files, quietly folded into their own

projects. Modern physics now flirts with this

idea through quantum field theory.

But Bentov wasn't a physicist chasing equations.

He was describing the cosmos like a giant interconnected

hologram where every fragment contains the whole picture.

Think about that for a second. If your mind is tuning into a

universal signal, then death might not be the end.

It could be just changing the channel.

The soul is the repository of information that we gather

during life.

Well, okay, maybe we should draw another diagram.

Mm-hmm.

Physical bodies are here, another physical body,

another physical body,

and this is Joe, and this is Jim, and this is Sarah, et

cetera. Now, clearly, on the phys-- this is the physical

level, yeah? Now, on this physical level, we're all separate.

You sit there, and I sit here, and we're all separate.

Let's do another level. This level is, is slightly higher, and let's

call this the level of the soul, yeah?

Well, there will be some mingling here.

Let's, let's draw this person as extending

to practically infinity this way. Now look what happens.

At the physical level, we are separate.

We are separate,

and there's this much distance between us.

Mm-hmm.

Let's say that on the soul level, this person

extends this much, and the other person gets slightly

mixed in with him. That is, the souls are in a way in

touch with each other.

Okay, they overlap this much. Now let's go now to a higher

level, and let's call this, uh, say the level

of the higher self, which is kind of the boss of the soul.

Mm-hmm.

Uh, there what we find is that

this fellow's

higher self extends this much, and the other fellow's

extends this much.

There is more overlap between them.

Right.

On the very highest level, which is the high spiritual level,

we are basically overlapping

completely.

Everybody is overlapping everybody else.

In other words,

everything and everyone is everywhere.

In other words, we've become omnipresent.

This is the state of highly spiritual perfected beings or gods, you

may call them.

Okay?

Okay. And so that we exist on all of those

simultaneously.

On all of those simultaneously.

So then, uh-

But we're not aware of it

... in, in, in your view then if when, when we see each other as separate

entities,

that's only seen on one plane of reality.

Correct.

And that was just his starting point because Bentov didn't

stop at the mind. He mapped out how your heart and brain

physically interact with the cosmos.

The results were shocking and the evidence measurable.

But that's where his story takes an even stranger turn.

Oh, let's take a simple example. The family sitting at dinner

table

and, uh, say there's a kid maybe fifteen years old,

sixteen years old,

and he looks up and suddenly says to his mother, "Hey, Ma, look at

this, this, uh, dead grandmother is standing in the corner."

Oh.

Mother looks around, she says, "No." Then,

mm, psychiatrist says, "Oh, young fella, you're in trouble." So then he

writes out a little prescription for Thorazine or electroshock or

whatever, and pretty soon in a matter of two weeks,

kid is back in shape,

very normal.

No longer sees the dead-

No longer sees anything.

Yeah.

So the doctor says, "You need this." This

is called a psychotic

episode,

uh, or acute schizophrenic

break or whatever it is.

And what you would say is that there's a good chance that

that kid is seeing-

Very good chance-

... the dead great-grandmother

... that the kid had a spontaneous opening of

his senses.

That is, is classified as a non-physical

reality. The nervous system is that thing that gives

us that picture of our realities. That is our

realities. That reality which you see all, all around you, the

flowers and the chairs and the microphones and the, the teacup

is given to us by our senses.

Mm-hmm. Yeah.

We don't see light which is beyond UV and beyond infrared.

Uh, w-we hear only a limited, uh, scale

of vibrations. Like for instance, we hear anywhere from fifty to, to twenty

thousand maximum.

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

In other words, all our senses are limited.

So what happens is that that slip opens up, opens

up more and more and more. So you see more and more

of that reality, and we assume that we see different

realities. They're not very different realities,

but rather

a, a very extended broad view of one very

large reality.

Through years of experiments and self-observation, he discovered

that the heartbeat sends a rhythmic wave up the spine into the

brain. This microscopic mechanical motion, measured

in fractions of a millimeter, generates oscillations that

synchronize with the body's electromagnetic field.

Here's the twist. Those oscillations match frequencies found

throughout nature, from the vibration of atoms to the

rotation

of planets. To him, this wasn't a coincidence.

It was evidence of a built-in cosmic feedback loop.

Itzhak Bentov, he wrote Stalking the Wild Pendulum,

is, uh, probably one of the greatest

works he created so that people could understand what a

holographic matrix field is or a holographic universe.

So you could understand entrainment.

So you could understand, uh, the electrostatic field

surrounding the Earth.

Yeah.

Uh, he coined these simple, crazy little phrases, these

explanations for people that said, you know, we're just all raisins

in the jelly.

Yeah.

In the Jell-O.