Psychomantium Mirrors - Past, Present, Future?

[Persej]

I think I understand why I felt so good in a recliner chair. I think that recliners work as a form of deep pressure therapy. Only that instead of having a deep pressure from above, as when using a weighted blanket, you have a deep pressure from below, because it is your body making a pressure by its weight on a recliner. In a regular chair, you have a pressure on only a few points of your body. But in a recliner it's all over your body, on a side that is in contact with the recliner. But you can also use a weighted blanket for the other side of your body for improved relaxation.

 

[Persej]

There is also something called Neutral body posture. This is what recliners try to mimic. So perhaps the reason why recliners are so relaxing lies in both, a deep pressure effect and a neutral body posture. So when we are meditating in bed, we could put something below our knees for a more relaxed posture. Something like this: PureFit Adjustable Wedge Pillow System

Or a footrest, when we are sitting, like this one: DAGOTTO Footrest, black - IKEA

 

[Persej]

When I meditate, I close my eyes and focus on the area of the "third eye" just above the nose. That turns the eyes slightly inward and upward. Works for me!

In 1971 I discovered a shortcut. In research experiments student volunteers were exposed to a number of relaxation methods as their EEG was monitored to see which exercises produced the most phase-synchronous alpha. Some were asked to visualize peaceful scenes and locations. Some listened to their favorite music. Others tried fragrances, negative-ion generation, and colored lights. Some of these things had a mild alpha-enhancing effect; most had very little impact. One day I tried a standard twenty-item relaxation inventory. During the first few questions—imagine a dewdrop on a rose petal or a cascading waterfall, for example—their EEG manifested little change. Then I asked. “Can you imagine the space between your eyes?” Boom. The pens scribbled the symmetrical waves of high-amplitude alpha. A subsequent question was, “Can you imagine the space between your ears?” Again, boom, high-amplitude alpha appeared instantly. When either of these “space”-related questions was asked, subjects almost invariably generated a significant increase in alpha brain synchrony in the brain sites being monitored. No other question or imagery brought about such profound changes in the EEG. “Objectless imagery”—the multisensory experience and awareness of space, nothingness, or absence—almost always elicits large amplitude and prolonged periods of phase-synchronous alpha activity.

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So Laura was using unfocused upward gaze with closed eyes and was mentally focusing on the "third eye space" area. I think that she instinctively found a way to produce alpha waves while meditating, and that could have been a key for her success in meditation.

 

[Gaby]

There is also something called Neutral body posture.

In certain disciplines of Martial Arts, like Japanese swordsmanship, you use neutral position with the tail bone slightly inwards to not lose Chi energy. It doesn't look forced, it feels natural. You can see the contrast when people are working out in gyms, and they stick their tail bone out. That's probably not wise, regardless of how they explain it to themselves.

In neutral position, you are much more stable against onslaught because it's your stronger position, energy and physical wise.

It's probably not practical to be in that position to meditate, though, unless you have a recliner. If anything, notice how with the standard meditation positions even in a chair, your tail bone already takes the neutral position.

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[Persej]

In certain disciplines of Martial Arts, like Japanese swordsmanship, you use neutral position with the tail bone slightly inwards to not lose Chi energy. It doesn't look forced, it feels natural. You can see the contrast when people are working out in gyms, and they stick their tail bone out. That's probably not wise, regardless of how they explain it to themselves.

In neutral position, you are much more stable against onslaught because it's your stronger position, energy and physical wise.

That's interesting. I never thought about Chi flow.

It's probably not practical to be in that position to meditate, though, unless you have a recliner. If anything, notice how with the standard meditation positions even in a chair, your tail bone already takes the neutral position.

Interestingly, in the beginning years with meditation I was meditating in another bed, and that bed had triangular pillows, similar to this one: Robot or human?

I just tried it and I think that it puts me more in this neutral position compared to without it.

 

[Persej]

I just tried it and I think that it puts me more in this neutral position compared to without it.

What I meant by this is that it puts me in a neutral position in a sitting position. My pillow is too tick and short to be used in a horizontal position. But there are such triangular pillows, which are called wedge pillows, which are much thinner and longer and can be used in a horizontal position.

 

[Persej]

I was thinking about the purpose of curtains in the psychomantium. What is their purpose? Is it to only block the light, or something more? What about the sound? The textile material would block mostly the higher frequency sounds, leaving only the low frequency sounds. But what would that do to the human brain?

While looking about that, I found some research about "hypersonic effect". They found out that sounds at frequencies above 16 kHz can have effect on alpha waves. Some can increase it (above 40 kHz), and some can decrease it (from 16 kHz to 32 kHz). They also found that they cannot reproduce the effect by using headphones, the sound must be felt by the body. Which means that to cancel the distracting noise it is not enough to isolate the ears, the entire body has to be isolated.

Frequencies of Inaudible High-Frequency Sounds Differentially Affect Brain Activity: Positive and Negative Hypersonic Effects

The hypersonic effect is a phenomenon in which sounds containing significant quantities of non-stationary high-frequency components (HFCs) above the human audible range (max. 20 kHz) activate the midbrain and diencephalon and evoke various physiological, ...

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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0006899305019499

 

[whitecoast]

If anyone was still fixing to build a psychomantium mirror room, I found out about a Japanese company that produces what it calls Musou Black, purported to be "the blackest paint on the planet," which on their website is reported to have a % reflectance rate of only 0.8 percent in its airbrushed form (displayed below are fabrics they also manufacture).

The later part of this youtube video showcases a man painting an entire room airbrushed with Musou Black. It could be a video artefact, but darn if that room doesn't look like a one-way ticket to deep space.

 

[Persej]

If anyone was still fixing to build a psychomantium mirror room, I found out about a Japanese company that produces what it calls Musou Black, purported to be "the blackest paint on the planet," which on their website is reported to have a % reflectance rate of only 0.8 percent in its airbrushed form (displayed below are fabrics they also manufacture).

I was also thinking about that possibility, but what if the purpose of the curtains is not only to blacken the room, but also for sound isolation? And even if you do have a silent room, what if it is also about sounds that you cannot hear, but can still affect you? In that case, black acoustic panels might do the trick, but not painting the walls.

 

[Persej]

So we know how to increase the iron in the blood, which seems to be important for some reason for the alchemical purposes. Possibly because the iron can increase the electromagnetic field of the electromagnet. And we can view the human body as an organic electromagnet. And the energy that our psychic body uses as an electromagnetic energy. So, the more iron we have, the stronger this energy can be.

But what about the strongest electromagnet in our body, our brain? How can we increase the iron in the brain?

Well, there is a connection between iron and neurotransmitters.

Neurotransmitters bind to second messenger-linked receptors to initiate a complex cascade of chemical events that can either excite or inhibit further electrical signals. The complete process of this communication between cells involves the synthesis, transport, storage, control of release, and binding of these neurotransmitters to neuronal receptors. Iron plays a role in each of these processes. Monoamine neurotransmitters include dopamine (DA), serotonin (5-HT), or norepinephrine (NA), which are involved in the regulation of cognitive, emotional, and excitatory processes. Another type of neurotransmitter is gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), which has a calming effect in the CNS. Serotonin is synthesised by tryptophan hydroxylase (TPH), and dopamine and noradrenaline by tyrosine hydroxylase (TH), whereas gamma-aminobutyric acid is synthesised by glutamate dehydrogenase and GABA transaminase. Both hydroxylases are homotetramers using non-haem iron as their cofactor to catalyse the reaction to incorporate one molecular oxygen atom into the substrate, leading to the formation of hydroxylated products. In the absence of iron, all three enzymes cannot perform their function, resulting in inhibition of the synthesis of these neurotransmitters.

The Iron Metabolism with a Specific Focus on the Functioning of the Nervous System

Iron is the micronutrient with the best-studied biological functions. It is widely distributed in nature, and its involvement in the main metabolic pathways determines the great importance of this metal for all organisms. Iron is required for cellular ...

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Ritalin may ease early iron deficiency damage

Ritalin may help improve brain function in adolescent rats that were iron deficient during infancy, according to a neuroscientists. This may have implications for iron-deficient human infants as well.

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Hypoxia-inducible factor upregulation by roxadustat attenuates drug reward by altering brain iron homoeostasis - PubMed

Substance use disorder remains a major challenge, with an enduring need to identify and evaluate new, translational targets for effective treatment. Here, we report the upregulation of Hypoxia-inducible factor-1α (HIF-1α) expression by roxadustat (Rox), a drug developed for renal anemia that...

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Brain iron levels in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder normalize as a function of psychostimulant treatment duration - PubMed

Brain iron homeostasis is a dopamine-related mechanism that may be modified with long-term psychostimulant treatment in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). We previously reported that while medication-naïve youth with ADHD have reduced brain iron compared to controls and...

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So, it's not just that iron can increase the neurotransmitters, but neurotransmitters can also increase the iron in the brain. Which can then perhaps increase the strength of brainwaves.

 

[Persej]

Q: Speaking of seeing, I have been practicing a little bit with the mirror. Am I supposed to see something IN the mirror, or IN my mind?

A: Both.

Q: So, at some point the mirror will become like a television for me?

A: With proper lighting.

Q: I have been putting the candle on the floor so that I don't actually see it. So far, nothing.

A: Keep going.

Session 16 August 1997

With proper lighting means with proper flicker.

I am using the laptop which has the screen replaced. Unfortunately, the replaced screen is of bad quality and has a very obvious flicker, especially during the night. In my apartment I am using it attached to the monitor so it doesn't bother me, but currently I am away, so I am looking at the laptop screen directly. What I noticed a few days ago is that if I am using the laptop late at night, with a very dim background light, something happens to me. I feel a very familiar feeling to me, it's like something is tickling me in my chest. It's not a physical feeling, but like an emotional feeling. It used to happen to me randomly before, and I don't know what triggers it. But this thing works every time, with the proper dim background lighting, and if I am tired. It doesn't work during the day.

Once, I was reading something interesting on the laptop late at night, so I spent a lot of time looking at the screen with this feeling in my chest. After that, I couldn't sleep normally all night because I was constantly feeling this tickling. But last night I stopped looking at the screen as soon as I felt the feeling. I was able to sleep nicely after that, and I had some interesting emotional dreams. I think that this flickering light has some kind of effect on me, which caries on into my dream state.

I used a Flicker Meter application on my phone and I measured a flicker of about 265 Hz. It goes a little bit up a down, but I don't know if the screen is changing the frequency or the application cannot measure the correct frequency with my phone camera. It's probably later.

I don't know if there is anything special about this frequency, if it really is 265 and not 240 or something else. So far, scientists measured effects of low frequencies below 100, so there are no studies with this high numbers.

But it seems that flickering lights can be powerful tools, if we learn how to use them properly.

 

[Persej]

In one of my previous posts, I talked about how red light flicker is the best type of light for inducing the alpha waves. Well, it seems that it is not only good for that but also for the increase of melatonin. And the C's said a few interesting things about melatonin. Perhaps this flickering light is also the best way to increase the melatonin in our brains?

Pulsed Led’s Light at 650 nm Promote and at 470 nm Suppress Melatonin’s Secretion

Discover the impact of different LED light wavelengths on melatonin secretion. Explore the effects of red and blue light stimulation on the retina and their influence on melatonin levels. Uncover the molecular mechanisms behind these findings.

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Alpha Rhythms Response to 10 Hz Flicker Is Wavelength Dependent

Discover the impact of light on the brain's alpha system response. Our study reveals the significance of RED-LED flashing at 10 Hz, shedding light on photobiomodulation and melanopsin's role in retinal ganglion cells. Explore the modulation of alpha rhythms in the retina.

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Q: (L) Why should we take the Melatonin?

A: Is mild hallucinogen.

Q: (L) Why do we need this?

A: Keeps exercising psychic abilities and opens paths. Don't be alarmed by vividly erotic dreams.

Q: (L) Should we expect to have vividly erotic dreams?

A: Possible as psyche passes through levels on ascension.

Session 28 October 1994

Q: (L) Why are the results of sleep deprivation, psychosis, delirium tremens, and psychedelic drugs and some mystical states so similar in their expressions and manifestations? What is being seen?

A: Openings.

Q: (L) Well, if doing without sleep provides an opening, what is it an opening to?

A: Density levels 4 and up.

Q: (L) It would seem to me - well, why is this not good?

A: Who said it wasn't?

Q: (L) Well, apparently a lot of people who have psychotic episodes, literally go out of their minds. They can no longer function in this world. They LOCK them up!

A: Yes...

Q: (L) Why does melatonin induce these openings?

A: Gentle hallucinogen.

Session 9 June 1996

Q: I want to you have lost a fan because he was not happy with what he considered to be "internal inconsistencies" in that you were NOT favorably disposed toward hallucinations produced by substances such as Mescaline and Ayahuasca, but yet you recommend Melatonin because it is a hallucinogen. Then, you said that spiritual powers could not be obtained through chemicals or plant type means, but then said that Melatonin exercises psychic abilities. Could you comment on this?

A: Several comments: First of all, "fan" is short for "fanatic." Secondly, melatonin does not force an alteration in physiological brain chemicals, as do mescaline, peyote, LSD, etc. Accessing the higher levels of psychical awareness through such processes is harmful to the balance levels of the prime chakra. This is because it alters the natural rhythms of psychic development by causing reliance on the part of the subject, thus subjugating the learning process. It is a form of self-imposed abridging of free will. Melatonin simply allows the system to clear obstructions in the brain chemistry naturally, thereby allowing the subject to continue to learn at a natural pace. And, it is by no means unimportant that melatonin is a natural body hormone. The other substances mentioned are, at least in part, synthetic, with the exception of peyote. But even that is not a natural ingredient of the human physiological being.

Session 23 October 1999