Figure 2: An axial CT scan of the brain which shows a loss of the right frontal and partial bones. The brain tissue appear bulging at this point loss associated with a severe brain edema, pneumocephalus, and minimal subarachnoid hemorrhage.

Critique of Itzahk Bentov’s View of Conciousness

Itzahk started his book Stalking The Wild Pendulum: On The Mechanics of Conciousness (1977), by saying this book is not for scientists, but for young people. Also, the book has unsceitific things after chapter 4. However, the book has many mistakes in the 1^st four chapters. The book was used as a reference by the CIA and the Department of Army published in a document titled Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process (1983). Since this book is used as a source autherity and it has some new authentic ideas, it will be summarized here and it will be criticized in details. Pay attetion that the words between parentheses are my comments on Itzhak ideas.

Itzahk Bentov’s Book Summary with Comments

·       Ideas, thoughts, emotion, and information are non-material;

·       Humans composed of two systems: material and non-material;

·       The non-material part of humans called psyche;

·       The psyche process information;

·       The psyche is indepenent of the physical body;

·       The information are saved on the universal mind;

·       The information generation and processing need energy then the information is saved on the universal mind which follows the energy conservation law;

·       Nature information storages are the holograms which preserve information for the universal mind;

·       These information come to us subconciously;

·       He accused people who deny the existence of conciousness as people who have “Griaffe Syndrome”;

·       Disturbing the air cause a sound;

·       Gravitional waves are broadcasted and it can affect anyone whether that person is aware of it or not;

·       Interference patterns of waves can be called holograms;

·       Superposition is included in the broder term of interaction;

·       Hologram is a flat photographic film where information are recorded on it about the shape of an object in a form of a wave-front interference pattern;

·       He described the use of constructive, destructive interference, and beat frequancies in modulating a signal that is in phase;

·       Humans’ brains store information in a holographic form;

·       Holograms required a coherent light like a lazer;

·       To have interference you need interacting components what he calls them a reference beam and working beam which will make a baseline comparison like the dopplar effect;

·       Reference beam: pure, virgin, and untouched, while experienced beam: has experience in life;

·       When the result is imprented on a film, illumination with the same light (i.e. laser) will make a hologram like an actuall object;

·       Oscillating or resonanting systems will cause sympathatic resonance with other oscillating systems;

·       The heart aortic system in addiation to the ventricular system in the brain are resonating systems and they work in synchrony like up = up and down = down in both systems (not a scientific point, but wishful thinking);

·       The brain inside the meninges and the CSF can move from 0.005 to 0.010 mm;

·       The resonating systems enters in phase or called “rhythm entrain”;

·       The moon has a gravitional effect on humans, for example, crime rate increases with a full moon;

·       Humans are rhythm entrained creatures;

·       Rythmic movment affects it’s enviroment whether it is air, water, solid, electromagnatic field, or gravitional field;

·       Vibratory energy is in everything. Our enviroment is not static since all atoms are vibrating;

·       The heart and the brain make rythmic electrical currents which forms interference patterns spread away from the planet Earth to the universe;

·       These oscillator systems are tuned (i.e. following the fine tune argument that everything within a range and an orgnized system);

·       It is not important that gravitional waves or magnetic effect are weak, it could affect the psyche very strongly, for example, the full moon effect on crime rates and psychatric wards;

·       There is an electromagnatic and electrostatic field effect on our bodies including: A- Isoelectric static field of the planet, B- Our bodies’ electrostatic field, C- Earth’s magnetic field, D- Atomosphere’s electromagnetic field, E- Gravitational field of planets, and F- Human made electromagnatic fields (i.e. TV, radio, etc.);

·       Our bodies electrostatic fields are measured by commerical static meters;

·       The static energy can be detected 16 to 18 inch from the body by a static meter;

·       The heart-aortic system is the producer of the static energy;

·       Our bodily signal is spread around the planet, but it is a weak signal;

·       There are tuned systems when two oscillators are in rhythm with each other;

·       Human body micro-motion is about 6.8 to 7.5 Hz and when we stop breathing, the amplitude of micro-motion increases by the factor of three to make resonance which can pass through anything like; metal, water, and concerate;

·       The diaphram regulates the heart-aorta system to keep them tuned;

·       Stop breathing will not affect metabolism since it requires less oxygen;

·       In conclusion the human body emitts harmonic sound motion ? 7 Hz;

·       At a room temprature, an atom will vibrate at the rate of 10¹⁵ Hz, while the nucleus will vibrate at the rate of 10²² Hz;

·       Similar to Morse code of action and rest, the neurons send electrical pulses and spikes then the resting stage comes when the cell regenerates and reloud to fire again;

·       Electrons circle the nucleus in two fashion: Circular spin like motion and reciprocating motion due to vibrating (the last one is the most important point in this topic);

·       According to quantum mechanics, when the distance is smaller than 10^-33 cm (i.e. Blanck’s distance) a new world opens up and many things happen and we do not use time; therefore; no matter is seen due to infinite velocity;

·       According to Heidenberg’s Principle of Uncertanity, when momentum is knowen, the position is indefinate and vice versa;

·       Objective reality is made up of vacum and void filled by pulsation and oscillation of electromagnetic field;

·       Perceptible rest means perceptible reailty;

·       Subjective and objective reality occurs between two states of rest;

·       Humans have tangible reality when there is movment, when the movment stops the reality disappears and diffuses;

·       Without change/movment, there is no subjective or objective reailty;

·       According to the theory of relativity: two moving observers that move to eachother do not agree on how the rates of their respective clocks are runing;

·       Timelike and spacelike are terms used by physicists that refere to our normal space-time universe;

·       There is a hypothetical particle called tachyon which moves faster that the speed of light to infinite velocity which travel any distance at no time since no time is used to cross that distance;

·       When the tychon is crossing a distance and no time is used then it is called spacelike activity by physicists;

·       The spacelike behaviour can be called omnipresence which humans can achive then they become omnipresent;

·       After using this speed of tychon and visiting all universes then we can become omniscient;

·       After doing the previous two points, we will know that going too fast is like being at rest in all places at once by having the observer mind without traveling so fast (he implies that yoga and medition is the replacment of having the speed of tychon which does not make anysense);

·       Subjective time vary from objective time;

·       As long as our subjective time is spacelike, our time becomes infinite;

·       Itzhak gave an equation to calculate the ratio of time which he called conciousness index , when it passes 89 degrees toward the 90 angle then the ratio rapidly change like at 89.8 degrees is about 575, and at 89.9 it passes one million. After 90 degree, time becomes infinte because the Cos of 90 degree is zero. Hence Subjective Time  (i.e. infenity);

·       The body can’t cross the velocity of light barrier, so non-metaphysical entity “observer” can cross that barrier. This metaphysical entity “observer” is linked to the physical body and it can send to it undistorted messages;

·       This will cause the physical body to lose it’s definitness in space;

·       When we reach objectve time, two blinks (i.e. on and off) per oscillation at point of rest without retaining any memory of that event;

·       The observer allows our timelike subjective space is becoming objective time to enter his/her own and others objective time which will allow accessing the past and the future (time travel);

·       Subconcious thinking is like “subliminal advertising” which was out lawed;

·       With training, anyone can access that unconcious observer level;

·       7 Hz rate of motion of the body allows to “eject” the observer;

·       Our bodies’ atoms oscillate and vibrate at 10¹⁵ and all atoms are not in synch, when they become in synch then we reach high levels of conciousness;

·       The observer is the psyche which can becomes omnipresent then expands into outer space;

·       Conciousness is defined as the capacity of a system to repond to a stimuli;

·       Itzhak believes in panpsychism to greater and lesser extend;

·       When? quality of conciousness = ? frequancy response;

·       As there is hearing frequancy limits (i.e. from 30 – 20,000 Hz), there is limitation in frequancy of vision;

·       Level of conciousness is equated with the “intelligence of response”;

·       Quanlity of conciousness is the number of responses of a system in reaction to a stimulus;

·       Quality of conciousness is the degree of intellegnce of responses and their rangs expressed in frequancy of reality band;

·       Realitve reailty is all reailty band under the absloute;

·       The absolute is the total sum of conciousness;

·       Energy exchange curves occur between an entity and it’s enviroment. The interaction occurs at the peak of the curve where it resonate with the enviroment;

·       The spectrum of reailty has no sharp define borders, but electromagnatic radiation band with a visual spectrum which occurs between 4,000 – 8,000 angstroms in wavelength (i.e. 1 angstrom = 10^-10 meter);

·       The absolute is the source of conciousness;

·       Conciousness is going under the evolution process from atoms to reach the absloute level (redenet and wishful thinking, if we become all like the absolute, then the obsolute is a degree that can be achived and the real obslute needs to step down or change over time which is illogical);

·       Highest level of interaction with the enviroment will lead to controling the nature/enviroment;

·       The energy exchange level called in esoteric terminology “the astral” level;

·       The energy exchange curve never goes to zero and its energy is the same in all levels of interaction;

·        To form an image a.k.a reailty, we need reference frequancy beam and modulated/ expierence of out-of-phase beam;

·       The two beams come from the same source as one beam split into two;

·       Frequancy vibration determines the energy of the electron;

·       Waves transverse using wave packet;

·       The relative is visible, manifested, and changing, while the absolute is fixed, eternal, and invisible;

·       Itzhak claimed that by accpeting the previous statement; mind over matter probleum is solved and there is no difference between the two and they are made of the same basic material;

·       He gives an example of ice to be the solid matter (brain), while steam or vapor are (conciousness), so they are made of the samething water, but they manifested in different ways;

·       Mind is not over matter, but mind over it’s changing aspects or nature;

·       Non-vibratory state is called “absolute protospace” and the non-vibratory state caused the vibratory state then to manifest into a physical reailty;

·       Where the wave is so small and its frequancy is so high then this wave is invisible (same as my idea that the ampiltude is so small, it is undetcted);

·       Everything is producing sound “waves”;

·       Minral reality is a term used by Itzhak where he discrbes dim perception like hot, cold, light, and dark without any growth, just attrition;

·       Planet reailty is different from mineral reailty becase there is growth and reproduction. Also, there is a social life and sex. The sex life is done by a third party (i.e. to transmit the seed like wind or insect like bees). There is a book titled The Secret Life of Planets, 1973 by Peter Tompkins that Itzahk refer to to prove that planets are concious;

·       Itzhak makes a synonymy between the devlopment of the nervous system with the expansion of conciousness;

·       He mentioned the effect of psychodelics on “the expansion of conciousness” and commented that these drugs funnel the conciousness to a particular level. They take the person into a trip, but the psychodelics distorted the experience by not allowing the brain to function normally in the trip;

·       Prolonged use of the drug prevent the nervous system from accessing higher levels of conciousness without the drug as well as “evolution of conciousness”;

·       Particles’ waves duality in photons, electons, or other nuclear particles that exist in a large aggregated matter. (I agree with this because it can explain the parallel universe);

·       A particle manfists when a photon hits the retina;

·       A process of individuation of the continuum to make senses interact with a processed signal (one by one). This duailty happens at a large scale in the universe;

·       Critical mass of conciousness will devolop a dim awarness of self;

·       He claimed that thought are electrical signals in the brain starts tiny to become 70 milivolt in the brain cortex. This signal is braodcasted as an electromagnatic waves to the universe. Following the law of preserving energy, no energy is lost, therefore, the energy accumulates in the cosmo then picked up by another person who thinks in the relevent topic (weak point and circular reasoning);

·       Interaction of higher realites is possible like the interaction when striking the C note on a piano, it vibrates at 264 Hz, the other strings will vibrate in resonance (i.e. some strings will vibrate more and some will vibrate less), like two times rate, three times rate, etc. Some will vibrate at a fractional level like 1.5 times rate, 11/3 times rate, etc.

·       Itzhak claimed that there are “astrial bodies” based on the range of frequancies that he made in an “arbitrary fashion” as he wrote (which is a weak point to his clssification system);

·       He claims that conciousness is like a bicycle which appears unstable, but when it runs by motion which  Itzhak calls it “The Invisibe Prinicple of Interna” (i.e. the point is that conciousness is the invsible principle of interna);

·       Biofeedback experiments in hypnosis, altered states of conciousness, and drug companies should be the best method to test conciousness (i.e. since conciousness is invisible and the only thing visible to humans is it’s effect, so we should use the biofeedback studies to test anything with consciousness);

·       For example these biofeedbacks are used with chemists to modify drugs which proves that biofeedback studies work;

·       He believes that mental illnesses like schizophernia are people who sees the metaphsical world, so they see and hear things from that world (which I agree with);

·       Itzhak believes that there is a spirit, soul, and body. The spirit uses the soul to move the body (it is a problmatic concept that contradicts the 21-gram experiment and I have written a paper about it);

·       Itzhak used this argument “as above as below” to explain the design of microcosm reflects the design of macrocosm and vice versa (which is a strong argument that uses the atom design to compare it with the solar system. The smiliarity in design, the gravity forces, etc. This shows that the micro level is similar to macro level's morphology and function since the electron acts in instinctive conciousness. Due to gravitional waves, humans act the same with space graviational waves);

·       The universe is the bank of total experience where it takes from our conciousness;

·       Itzhak follows the general astrophysical model of Friedmann-Gamov;

·       Hydrogen and helim produce huge clouds or nebulae which is made of smaller units then causes rise in temperature of their centers;

·       Our physical bodies were synthesized in stars;

·       Homogeneity and isotropy which means same in all direction of the expanding universe. Some measurments show bit of unevenness (i.e. anistropy) which is a possibility caused by the distribuation of quasars (quasistellar object) which are distant and unusual galaxies;

·       Quasars are compact star-like and the source of energy emitted as visible light and radio waves. The amount of energy emitted by quasars have no explination since they emit 1,000 times more than a regular galaxy and change their brightness. (Quasars are fake stars (psudeo star));

·       The time space is called protospace/ground substance;

·       The movment of matter in space-time behaves like viscous fluid;

·       The entire galactic magnetic and gravitional fields cause this viscous fluid like movment;

·       Metamorphsis of unbaked jelly donut is the same shape of the universe;

·       Protospace trapped inside the envolpe of the space time of torus of our universe;

·       Laws of nature breaks at the singularity state which makes a different universe like a white hole opposite to a black hole (the black hole is the enternce and the exit is the white hole);

·       Expansion of the universe is the expansion of conciousness;

·       The non-physical observer is the psyche which contain all the information, knowledge, personaility, intellects, and intution;

·       Itzhak makes two assumptions: 1) the information/observer behaves in a cohernt way as it expands, and 2) information can move at velocities faster than light;

·       Coherency is important because interfernce patterns in protospace (i.e. space time) as it expands;

·       Interference patterns are what make a hologram and holograms are the nature way to store information;

·       Sex is interference between two observers to make a new DNA that contains/store the interfered observers genes;

·       The observer is the working beam and the obsolute is the pure beam;

·       The theory of realtivity states that the speed of light can’t be broken when transfering information;

·       Tachyons reseachers are looking for a better theory than the theory of realtivity;

·       Direct propotional relation among the following: ? level of conciousness = ? frequancy response = ? corssed distance = ? faster time;

·       Humans are units of conciousness which make up a universal conciousness;

·       He supports his claim about the universal egg information density as being low and high in certain areas by using a chicken’s egg and open two window in it (i.e. on top and bottom of the egg) and a positive charge comes out from top and negative charge comes from bottom. The voltage is 2.40 milivolts at a fregrator;

·       The chicken’s egg field is called by Harold Saxton Burr the author of Blue Prints for Immortality, 1972, “the organizing fields” claiming it guides atoms and molecules into a proper form. Itzhak explains it as an electromagnatic hologram makes up overtime a mold filled up with matter to form a body. Our bodies are held togather by a 4 dimensional interfernce pattern;

·       The body is the end product (which contadicts the primse of the hard probleum of conciousness and I proposed the same idea that is the spirit came first then the body later which solves the hard probleum of conciousness);

·       Matter and planet are concious;

·       Conciousness is rudimentary and it can operate the body independty from the psyche, but conciousness and psyche are connected;

·       Wisodm comes from the inner core/part (which I believe it is wrong because if wisodm comes from within our body, then we just need time alone to figure out that wisodm from within our body. As a result, the prisoners will be the masters of wisdom in the world since they spend years in prisons, but we see the opposite of that in reality and no wisom or philosphy have changed the world that came from prsioners);

·       Planets have a rudimentary conciousness;

·       Rudmentary conciousness = constant x mass x flux x temperature;

·       Where the constant is planck’s constant; flux is the amount of energy radiating by the mass;

·       Planets need balance and without it, the planet makes catastrophies to return to balance;

·       The sun communicates with other planets by using it’s acoustic output/solar wind;

·       The holograms interference patterns are the universal mind;

·       The 4D electromagnetic holograms change overtime;

·       He claim that humans are a 4D holograms;

·       Stopping pulsation and energy field will lead us to void or to the absolute;

·       No motion = no time + no matter;

·       Concousness can separate itself from continuum;

·       Humans are animated matter/holograms (which fits with the simulation theory);

·       Subjective time convert to objective space when conciousness equals to 90 degree on Itzhak paradim;

·       Protomatter is the precursor of matter and it could be positive or negative;

·       As above as below, therefore, chiecken egg is like the universal egg (which is wrong);

·       Stress and nervousness is noise in the nervous system;

·       A 25-30% of the institionlized schizophrnics are misdiagnosed and they have the Physio-Kundalini Syndrome.

A Ceritique of Itzhak View

·       He designed a figure then he relies on it as some kind of proof;

·       He is into so much spirtuality;

·       He uses different religions (Buddism, Christanity, etc.) which they are contradictory to the law of non-contradiction (two opposite view can’t be true and false in the same time. One is true and the other is wrong, both are wrong and a third option is true, but two opposing things can’t be true in the same time like a square circle or a married bachelor);

·       He tried to use evolution and he explained it which is contradictory to the creationist religions that he cited;

·       He defines conciousness as the capacity of a system to respond to a stimuli which is a wrong defination and this defination is for reaction, not conciousness;

·       He shorten the term “live being” as beings that can reproduce which is wrong since many beings can’t reproduce for fertility issues;

·       His classification of levels of conciousness is more spirtual;

·       If conciousness is made of the same material of the brain, why we do not see conciousness like steam or vapor at least?;

·       He denys the existence of the see currant waves;

·       He claims that there is an evolutionary process in conciousness, but did not bother himself to explain it with examples like it is a gaven thing;

·       He divided the frequancies based on arbitrary groups without making a method to classify them based on a hard eviedence;

·       The aura measurements have no scientific evidence;

·       He claims that anger cause cancer which sound not true, but ulcer and anxity can lead to changes in the GIT then it could contribuate in formation of cancer cells;

·       His claims contradicts the 21-gram experiment;

·       He speaks about yoga and other things to appeal to the public in order to make them like his ideas;

·       As above as below can explain the same system in the galaxies and the solar system comapred to atoms and sub-atomical particles;

·       He made a scientific mistake by claiming that matter is energy. Matter is not energy since energy has no mass;

·       He speaks about myths like the cosmic egg and attach that myth to Kerr black hole;

·       He uses the bible as a reliable source of information;

·       He attached real things like northern and southern poles with a myth like the cosmic egg;

·       The author uses the hindus book “the Vedas” as a reliable source of information;

·       The author claims that there are low and high information densities in the universal egg separated by torus which has no eviedence to support it;

·       He speaks about irrlative things like the egg chiecken contraversy;

·       He based his believe on conciousness and psyche from the bible. The psyche is the soul in another word. Even though, he is a jew which is an appeal to the christian readers;

·       He tried to make unscientific justifications to the Physio-Kundalin Syndrome;

·       He uses myths like the chakras;

·       Progressive sensory motor syndrome is not in the liturture to the best of my knwoledge;

·       He is trying to connect patterns which do not exist; and

·       Connecting the heart with the brain’s venrticles is not scientific.