DELTA WAVES AND CONNECTION WITH NONLOCAL
CONSCIOUSNESS
My friend and colleague Dr. Joe Dispenza has been collecting brain scans at
meditation workshops for many years and now has a compendium of over
10,000 scans. Studying the patterns that are common to this group of mind maps
gives us fascinating insights into the experience of workshop participants.
What we see in Joe’s collection is people with much more theta and delta than
usual. The baseline amount of delta in the brains of meditators is much greater
usual. The baseline amount of delta in the brains of meditators is much greater
than those in “normal” brains (Thatcher, 1998). Meditators have practiced
releasing their attachment to local mind and immersing themselves in
experiences of oneness with nonlocal mind.
Repeated meditation moves the brain into a new zone of functioning that
includes much more delta than the old normal. When Joe tested first hundreds
and then thousands of such brains, what he noticed was that they were
processing information in a way that was very different from the average brain
(Dispenza, 2017).
Activity in many of these people is in the red zone, which means that the
amount of delta is two deviations from the mean greater than that found in a
database of normalized mind maps (Thatcher, 1998). The practical meaning of
this statistic is that only 2.5 percent of the general population has the delta
function we’re seeing in experienced meditators. Neuroscientists measuring the
changes in brain waves during Joe’s advanced workshops found that over the
four days of a workshop, the brain’s baseline delta activity increases by an
average of 149 percent (Dispenza, 2017).
Delta brain waves range in amplitude from 100 to 200 microvolts from peak
to trough (ADInstruments, 2010). When testing people in EcoMeditation
workshops, we often see amplitudes of over 1,000 microvolts. Sometimes we see
surges of over a million microvolts. Most EEG equipment is not even able to
measure so much delta.
This correlates with powerful spiritual experiences such as the ones reported
by today’s Julie and yesterday’s Tukaram. They have been reported by mystics
from all traditions for thousands of years. We can’t objectively measure an
experience like the sense of local self and local mind dissolving into nonlocal
self and universal mind. We can, however, measure how the brain having such
an experience processes information. The common denominator is enormous
amplitudes of delta waves. This energy is matched by molecules like serotonin
and dopamine, as well as the ecstasy neurotransmitter anandamide and the
bonding hormone oxytocin. These types of experience are not isolated
exceptions. Research shows that 40 percent of Americans and 37 percent of
Britons have had at least one transcendent experience that took them beyond
local mind. Often they describe it as the most important experience of their lives,
shaping everything that came later (Greeley, 1975; Castro, Burrows, & Wooffitt,
2014).
Few talked about their experiences with others, however. Children didn’t tell
parents. Patients didn’t tell doctors. Wives didn’t tell husbands. Because this
type of conversation is outside our normal social conventions, we don’t have the
language or context to conduct it.
language or context to conduct it.
That doesn’t mean these experiences aren’t happening. When we start to look
for them, encounters with nonlocal mind are all around us.
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