I never said I disbelieve that spectacular undiscovered changes occur in the brain while under the influence of powerful molecules. I think that it seems unlikely that these changes are attributable to this omega frequency, unless you grant that it is somehow extremely difficult to detect. As a non-expert, assuming limitations of a technique and its engineering seems fraught unless well justified, especially if the limitation is present within the ordinary use of the technology. In absence of strong justification, it seems like one is disparaging the technology to advance their own beliefs.
Please pardon me for the delayed response. I work 6 days a week and I've had a number of home improvement projects and creative endeavors occupying my attention. Thank you for your fine reply. I never said or implied that you denied that the primary psychedelics trigger said spectacular occurrences (and always have opened doors of perception which exist within alternate fields of existential being). As for myself, whomever I may be at this very moment, I never claimed that a hypothetical Omega wave was in any way a catalyst. What does constitute the shift in conscious-awareness is primarily the molecules involved. I chose the name Omega to imply a far-reaching departure from the established, well mapped out states of mind. I do emphatically speculate that the state does indeed exist.... with or without our participation or our acknowledgement of it's existence.
I do suggest through word-play that as Alpha is the begging, Omega is the polarized ending. Omega wave function may well be the seeming cessation of brain wave activity as we currently understand it? Not unconsciousness, rather, supra-consciousness...
Samadhi. It is neither a seizure state nor a state of comatose. The message of my hypothetical construct revolves around a state of consciousness in which individuated brain wave activity does not exist, experientially speaking. Obviously the brain still functions while the attention of the observer still holds witness to being present and alert, yet, subjectivity is held in stasis, a focussed and clear void of thought. The Zen Buddhists refer to this phenomenon as, "No Mind". The main question which might feasibly be raised is, can it be detected by neurological science, it's methodologies and it's technologies? Does it behave as the other waves do and if it doesn't, how do we map it's parameters? I don't know and cannot claim to know.
To address the main thrust of your statements: I think an analogy can be made with mineralogy in the discovery of the first natural quasi-crystal, icosahedrite. It was found by searching databases of X-ray diffraction patterns that had the potential to be misinterpreted as minerals, while actually being quasi-crystalline (and therefore lacking translational symmetry). It was then confirmed with detailed measurements. Why was it searched for? The precedent was found in decades of quasi-crystal synthesis in chemistry. Unbeknownst to the researchers, this exact quasi-crystal had even been synthesized before, whereas this sample was from an asteroid. There are probably mountains of EEG data, but where is your precedent, and how will you actually search for it? Does it mimic seizure activity or something?
The main thrust of my statements is in fact, the honest desire of one who has given nearly forty years of their life looking beyond the surface confines the known and the procedurally quantifiable. Undiscovered miracles do remain shrouded in mystery. But who doesn't love a good mystery?
Granted, how this relates to brain wave detection does come off as a leap away from logic and concrete deduction. That being said, I've long believed that reason is a wonderful tool and not meant to become a prison. I first entertained this notion in 1980, due to firsthand experience. I was amongst a small group of participants undergoing EEG brainwave scans, while engaging in progressive stages of guided visualization, a period of contemplation and sitting deep meditation, progressively leading to what we used to phrase in those days as, "silencing the mind".
My heart rate, respiration and brainwave activity were monitored for about 35-40 minutes. I was not under the enigmatic effect of any psychedelic or entheogenic substance, nor was I deep into a period iof fasting or sensory deprivation. Myself and a few other fellow members of the Moksha Foundation, were invited by a few people whose research was apparently funded by the University of Colorado. I found it fascinating at the time and that's an understatement. At the appex of my session, I was told that my brain was experiencing gamma wave activity. This is wholly congruent with studies involving EEG scans on Indian yogis and Tibetan Buddhists. Swami Rama was instrumental in the pioneering research taking place in the late 1970s and 1980s. While a good deal of information was forthcoming... the general gist was to attribute extraordinary states of mental activity to higher gamma wave resonance, the higher mind activated through such an exquisite band of cognitive functioning.
But as highly speculative as it may appear in absence of evidence corroborated through procedural method. I am personally certain that there are levels upon levels, expanding beyond the known and rationally knowable, quantifiable consensus belief in any reality which has clearly defined parameters within a known spectrum. As such, the basic theory revolves around the suggestion that there is another brain wave state which perhaps lies beyond what we currently understand, a supra high frequency field within the higher mind, one in which stops all thought fluctuations, an enigmatic pause between the artifice of human beliefs and the wide open expanse of possibility, exponentially expanded, ad infinitum (something Hive members share amongst themselves by having crossed the threshold, as well). I suspect that sober master souls throughout our species' long history and it's unfolding future, have experienced.
I lack tact in the absence of tone, my apologies (not saying that reading my comment with proper tone would make it tactful, just that I resort to rudeness in text conversation to avoid confusion). I engage with consensus reality, and if you want to lead me a few steps off that path, I will entertain those notions. I will not follow you to your world, where few people are. I think that if you are unable to interface these two worlds for most people, they will have no desire to follow your exact thoughts. My comment on you not using an EEG before was simply a statement that the first step down that path might be comparing your state with the feedback from an EEG; this is not condescension. I don't know.
That's cool and I do believe you. As they say in sunny Brazil, "nao problema". I am glad you took the time to share your well-crafted, intelligent counterpoint. And my purpose in presenting this thread was mostly born in a kind of post-tripping spontaneity. I had recently had my third experience with 5-MeO-DMT and was revisiting an idea which I had four decades ago and still revisit occasionally. This 5 molecule took me so deeply into the nondual state... I was shaken to the very depths of my being. Much of the experience cannot be described but there are jewels which have been culled from the direct interphase with the Absolute. Even calling it, "Absolute" is quite ludicrous.
I agree that these experiences simply aren't understood scientifically. But why then, must they directly relate to this particular thing which is probably currently measurable? To be frank, it's what you thought while/from taking large amounts of drugs.
it is what it is
To be equally frank, there are no limits to conscious-awareness. Intuition may not be a science but it is a force which often leads to new breakthroughs and discoveries. "Who feels it knows it". But such a proposed wave must be more than just a hunch, it remains a mystery until it becomes reliably detectable. I don't know if it is feasible to entertain this idea, which is currently immeasurable, for it theoretically remains undetected by any known standard procedure. And while some early explorations and studies were undergone with human participants under the influenced mescaline, LSD and mushrooms, way back in the 1960s... all of that changed in the wake of the scheduling of these psychedelics, during the repression of the 1970s and further on. Research went from quite widespread to practically underground. A new day dawns in this 21st century and perhaps we are approaching greater interest in researching such areas?
