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Amygdala - brain stimulation ??

 
 
E. Coli from the Milky Way
20:42 / 19.04.06
Hi, surfing on the net i founded this web. Its from musician Neil Slade, who apparently learned from an exccentric brain researcher who claims that has discovered technicques of brains stimulation in order to achieve "super intelligence, genius creativity, pleasure, and even start tapping into your ESP"

Does anybody know anything about this guy?

(If it is a bluff, i love the book covers, anyway)
 
 
Sam T.
09:38 / 20.04.06
He can claims that he was first to Operation Coincidence Driver at least. And on national Tv, no less.

As for the rest, I'll try. If I manage to get something from the presented web material, I'll let you know.
 
 
Sam T.
10:03 / 20.04.06
Wrong link above, sorry

And it was on radio, not TV.
 
 
Sam T.
10:14 / 20.04.06
This is way clearer, objective, and on a less flashy background
 
 
E. Coli from the Milky Way
10:54 / 20.04.06
Wahahha ... but flashy backgrounds are just great!! They're more cortico-stimulants, aren't them ?
 
 
Gypsy Lantern
12:51 / 20.04.06
Once you become accustomed to clicking your amygdala forward it becomes as natural as wiggling your baby finger. How do you stimulate your amygdala? With ease thanks to me.

You people are fucking joking, right?
 
 
E. Coli from the Milky Way
13:14 / 20.04.06
Well, that paragraph you quote isn't from Neil Slade's web. Joking? No, i'm asking if someone has tried to do that thing of the amygdala.
 
 
All Acting Regiment
14:07 / 20.04.06
GL has point. Can you actually "click" your brain in the way that you can move a finger?
 
 
Gypsy Lantern
14:18 / 20.04.06
It just comes across like spam. The copy reads exactly like the emails you get for viagra or "natural male enhancement". The fact that he actually has to tell us "you don't need any machines, gadgets, pills, or signing up for expensive retreats or courses" doesn't exactly instill me with confidence.
 
 
E. Coli from the Milky Way
14:22 / 20.04.06
Well, first of all, i haven't experienced the amigdala click; that's because i'm asking.

But it could be true. Why not?

Of course it can't be easy to stimulate as a finger. But that doesn't mean an internal organ can't be stimulated by consciousness. A couple months ago, i was reading about the cultural loss of sensitivity on women's wombs. It was said that, once taking consciousness of that loss, and understanding that "womb's neck" is generally stiff (sorry i don't know the english word for the muscle), many woman experienced it and took control on it.

You have too all that writings about Sri Auribindo about cellullar cosciousness and things like that. Or testimonial from yoguis in the india makin themselves little ulceres on their bodies.

Haven't gone deeper, anyway, but this book seems interesting.

So why not amygdala?
 
 
Gypsy Lantern
14:27 / 20.04.06
Why not Emoto? Why not Scientology?
 
 
Quantum
14:37 / 20.04.06
Why not biofeedback? Isn't that what this is a rubbish version of? I tried to follow the link but couldn't get past the infinitely irritating repellogif at the top, ugh.
 
 
kidninjah
15:37 / 20.04.06
This book: Pathnotes of an American Ninja Master has a passage or two on the subject of awakening the amygdala.

It's by this chap: Dr.Glenn Morris

I've not tried it. The book messed with my head too much; engage heavy shit-filters before reading ;-)

It'd be worth doing some reading around in medical journals and scientific papers/books to find out what the amygdala is thought to do by people who study it 24/7.

All this said.. I once had a hugely powerful peak experience on a combination of weed, hollywood film driven mood altering, week-old psylocibin mushroom fall-out that left me with "heightened/vastly altered" perceptions in the visual, kinesthetic and auditory spectra for a week or more. When I say "altered", I don't mean that I was hallucinating, it felt more like i was taking on a tonne more data than usual, conciously processing more of the data than usual. This matched loosely with some of the effects spoken about in Morris' book. Couldn't say if it was my amygdala or not! :-)
 
 
E. Coli from the Milky Way
18:02 / 20.04.06
Ey! Actually, in my experience, biofeedback worked! It was doing practises of electrocardiogram, and, yes, i was able to modify the machines lectures. That's an isolated personal experience, anyway. But it makes me not to close the door to biofeedback.

About Scientology and Emoto, well, maybe some ideas on them are good, but maybe after they are distorted but, who knows, authoritarian drives, crazy scientific egotism. Who knows. It's like third reich. In fact it is a revival of paganism (and occultism) but driven by fascist feelings, anger and destructive drives.

Putting together scientology, that is a well known-destructive group with emoto, biofeedback or even this thing of amygdala, doesn't make any sense to me, anyway.

In the other hand, i'm very interested on listening *arguments* against emoto or biofeedback. :-)

So well, yes, i'm only asking if anyone ACTUALLY has make an approach to neil slade's ideas to know a first hand oppinion, because the design of the web is very weirdo to go inmediately and buy the books. Altought there are sites from very intelligent people with that weirdo look (Cliff Pickover's Reality Carnival is a good exemple)

Ey! you said infinitely irritating repellogif,but .... it rocks ! )

 
 
Sam T.
22:00 / 20.04.06
My point of view on this kind of things is very simple: You never know.

So, if a) You can learn about it without spending any money or getting involved in an association and b) It doesn't seems harmful, then, if I got nothing better to do, I'll try it for a while. With the job I'm doing I've got plenty of free time to try out precisely this kind of thing.

This guy, is promising that his method will "turn on incredible CREATIVITY, INTELLIGENCE, PLEASURE, and ESP as easy as clicking on a light switch. ". Do I find this dubious? Sure! I mean this claim is extravagant, look at that site, and the language he is using, and... No problem, our bullshit detector was blinking red when we opened that page.

Nevertheless, I googled for 'Amygdala stimulation', because at first the web site was really poor at giving me precise instruction to test out its claim (apart from putting my face at the bottom of a dirty trash can...).

First thing: even if at the end of the day I didn't manage to get hold of incredible CREATIVITY, INTELLIGENCE, PLEASURE, and ESP, I sure did learn many interesting things about the brain!

Anyway, I finally did find the pages that tells it all. This looks simple enough. I'll give it a while, and let you know. What have I got to loose? And just imagine I really manage to get incredible CREA... < ducks under the table >
 
 
Sam T.
22:34 / 20.04.06
Reread myself.

What I really meant is that I'm doing a job that involves standing outside doing nothing, answering people questions when they come.

Pranayama and all is very neat, but sometimes, you just want to do something else. I just wish I could read...

So, I'm in the perfect situation to try things. Send the cranks my way.
 
 
eye landed
06:45 / 21.04.06
reads like a prank to me.

'Smile!...Whoooosh! Ha ha ha! Click! That's it!'

and thats probably the useful part.

the amygdala is most important in forming emotional context in memories. it is therefore important in shaping behavior. it is currently considered one of the most important brain structures social behavior, at least in monkeys. (im looking at a book of review studies on neuroscience of social behavior from 2005. one study shows that amygdala lesions impair a monkeys ability to act flexibly, such as when pushing button a no longer gets a reward and they have to switch to button b. no word on whether or not they taught the crippled monkeys to just switch forward.)

mr slades two modes remind me of the autonomic nervous system-- forward to engage with the world, backward to retreat from it. probably the best way to click that into good mode would be to smile and laugh. an impaired amygdala could mess this up, since youd need a positive or negative cognitive association to motivate the change, and a malfunctioning amygdala would impair such emotional values in memories.

i was told by one of those people-who-just-show-up-to-tell-you-something-then-disappear that i could accomplish an emotional switch by visualizing my awareness either between my eyes (fear mode) or at the base of my head (relaxed mode).
 
 
Sam T.
09:58 / 22.04.06
Gives me nothing but headaches. I'm dropping it.

i was told ... that i could accomplish an emotional switch by visualizing my awareness either between my eyes (fear mode) or at the base of my head (relaxed mode).

This works way better and is pleasant, easier to do.
 
 
E. Coli from the Milky Way
16:32 / 22.04.06
God bless empirical experiences
 
 
Pyewacket The Elder
01:17 / 23.04.06
Amygdala
 
  
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