Kundalini and the Output of a Random Number Generator
2006; Rhine Research Center; Volume: 70; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
0022-3387
Autores Tópico(s)Chaos-based Image/Signal Encryption
ResumoParapsychologists have long been preoccupied with issue of repeatability (see, for example, Shapin & Coly, 1985). It has occurred to me from time to time to ponder whether researchers are in an appropriate position to seek unusual/rare phenomena from essentially naive participants if they do not know how to elicit such phenomena from themselves. I am thus very much in favor of experimenters testing themselves and trying to train themselves to educe such phenomena. Self-experimentation is in fact not an uncommon approach in psi research, for example, with pseudoor-true random number generators (RNGs): two such experimenters are Dean Radin (e.g., 1990; 1990-1991), and Helmut Schmidt (1991, 1997, 2000). The experiments to be reported in present paper are of such a kind. The initial suggestion was that scores on a Random Number Generator may be higher when phenomenon known as is in progress within a participant. (1) The word is: A Sanskrit term variously translated, but most commonly as life-force, and sometimes, simply, as the energy, often used as a theoretical construct to explain a syndrome of various psychophysiological and other phenomena, which are described as energy-like sensations starting usually [but not necessarily] at base of spine, and then progressing rapidly with a powerful surge, upwards through body to crown of head; experience is said to lead to higher and more desirable states of awareness, such as mystical consciousness, along with manifestation of paranormal phenomena. (Thalbourne, 2003, pp. 61-62) It is my understanding that means literally the coiled one, especially as applied to a snake, which from a coiled position may suddenly spring up and strike. The reader may accordingly sometimes hear Kundalini referred to as the Serpent Power (e.g., Avalon, 1974; Grof & Grof, 1985). Kundalini is also a goddess in Hindu pantheon, which is probably why is traditionally spelled with a capital K. I experience Kundalini fairly regularly (Thalbourne, in press a), though in my case energy usually begins from throat region and goes simultaneously up to my scalp and down to my toes. Aside from definition given above, how may sensations of (functional) Kundalini be described for people who have not experienced them? Perhaps there is a relation to expression it sent tingles up my spine. Again, is pleasantly creepy, to coin an oxymoron. Apart from this phrase, best I can do by way of description is to liken to deliciousness of a big yawn that seems to travel from mouth throughout body. Music frequently inspires Kundalini in me, both music that I consider moving and beautiful, and other sorts of music on occasion. This factor was incorporated into experiments to be described here, in a manner to which we shall come later. D. Scott Rogo (1985) gives a useful description of Kundalini-like phenomena mentioned in parapsychological literature. For example, he quotes a correspondent of Professor James Hyslop (1919), who was said to be plagued by psychic experiences (p. 110) and who stated that when the fluid [sic] gets out and gets in head is enough to set any one crazy. My nervous strength soon gives out. I am nearing a breakdown. With fluid in proper place there is no trouble at all (p. 511). This would appear to be a case of dysfunctional Kundalini--what might today be described as a spiritual emergency (see also harrowing account of Gopi Krishna's [1971] personal battle with misdirected Kundalini). Rogo also mentions similar phenomena occurring among !Kung of Kalahari Desert, where is called n/um, together with manifestation of psychic phenomena. Moreover, he mentions a similar phenomenon among practitioners of Judaic mysticism, or Kabbalism. …
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