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.These "lifefields," as he named them, are the link between mind, body, and cosmos, Burr believed.He and colleagues measured altered states of consciousness through these fields- In thatdirection, Dr.Burr discovered something highly important to understanding life ingeneral, and now, to understanding superlearn-ing in particular.He found that changesinside the body, changes in one's brain waves or heartbeat, were the result of changesin these energetic fields, not the other way around.These life fields, he felt, are themeans by which mind affects the body.Evidence is accumulating on many fronts that there is an energy exchange going on insideus and between us and the environment that has gone generally unrecognized in the West.So far, it shows a striking resemblance to that bright, fundamental energy alwaysrecognized in the E^ast.Pandit Gopi Krishna speaks for many Eastern philosophies whenhe says this energy is at the basis of life; it is the nourishing force of genius andsuperb performance.You can "charge up" or heighten this energy through breathing,rhythm, and sound, all agree.Super-learning uses breathing, rhythm, and sound to sparksuper-memory and supernormal abilities.If you have genius longings, it might be veryrewarding to research all the things that aresupposed to enhance this "other" energy (pulsed magnetic fields, breathing, "live" food,sound, light) to see if and how they enhance learning.As physicist F.Capra shows so lucidly in his Tao of Physics, modern physics and Easternphilosophy are beginning to meet in the middle.The ancient dictums of the East arebecoming the propositions of physics in the West.Today, it isn't so strange to think ofyoga as a science, something its practitioners always maintained.Music as the Bridge to AwarenessPerhaps there is yet another story to be unearthed behind the reason for the particularkind of music used for superlearning sessions the specific music by Baroque composers.The idea of music as the bridge to inner awareness goes way back to the hidden sourcesof music itself.It runs deep in the legends of Orpheus who used music as a means of"charming" living creatures.As the reports poured out of Bulgaria about the effects of music, we began to wonder.Afew minutes a day of this Baroque music, and listeners in Lozanov classes began toreport not only expanded awareness and better memory but also a whole repertoire ofhealth benefits.They felt refreshed, energized, centered.Tension and stressdisappeared.Headaches and pains went.The impersonal physiological graphs printed outproof lowered blood pressure, lowered muscle tension, slower pulse.Is it just the beatof this music that slows body/ mind rhythms to healthier levels, or is there somethingelse about this particular music that makes it appear to be especially life-enhancing?While this research on the benefits of Baroque music was going on in Bulgaria and theUSSR, another kind of investigation into this same type of music and its effects wasgoing on in other countries.Scientists around the world were uncovering8081SUPERLEARNINGSUPERLEARNINGthe baffling effects of particular kinds of music on basic living cells in plants.This wave of discovery started after a California researcher, Dorothy Retaltack,revealed years of work with plants.Plants grown in scientifically controlled chamberswere given concerts of different kinds of music from rock to Baroque.Plants grown inthe chambers given Baroque music by Bach and Indian music by Ravi Shankar rapidly grewlush and abundant with large roots.These plants leaned toward the music source "so asto almost embrace the speaker." Some leaned as much as sixty degrees.The plants in thechamber getting rock music shriveled and died.What was going on? Researchers tried other kinds of music.To country-western music theplants showed no reaction, Ms.Retallack was personally partial to the music of Debussy.The plants didn't respond with better growth and they leaned away from the music by tendegrees.Jazz had a somewhat better effect.Plants leaned toward the speakers by aboutfifteen degrees and grew more abundant than in silent chambers.Over the years, as the same experiments with plants were repeated in universities andresearch centers, the same fact kept emerging plants responded and grew abundantly,rapidly, and more healthily when they were in a sonic environment of classical or Indianmusic compared with other kinds of music or silence.If different kinds of music can have different effects on plants, what does it do tohumans? Ms.Retallack asked.Possibly the Bulgarians could have told her.What was the "secret ingredient" those early classical composers added to their musicthat seemed to make it so healthful for plants and people? Was it the instruments used?The combination of sounds? Or just what?A little digging into the hidden sources of music shows that the art of music was oncetied to medicine and to bringing about so-called "supernatural feats." Two books devotedto music are attributed to Hermes Trismegistus of Ancient Egypt.He set outthe principles of a philosophy relating to music that was passed down for centuriesthrough secret groups and through guilds of musicians, masons, and architects.The gist of his philosophy was that there is a harmony and correspondence among all thedifferent kinds of manifestations in the universe the circling of the planets, the tidesof the earth, the growth of vegetation, the lives of animals and people all aro related [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]