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The following is transcribed from blackboard lectures updating research into the Physics of Thought. ©Copyright 1978 - 2002 Advanced Research Consultants, Inc. A Report on a Preliminary Investigation of the Nature of Thought P1-8, P9-13, P14-17, P18-22, P23-30

Experimental verification

This concept of more thought per unit real time can be experienced without drug, trauma or near-death induced illusion, delusion or elaborate dreams. The method described here is from Raja Yoga (the Royal path to enlightenment). The meditation mantra is mental: “Find the source of thought in yourself”. Figure 16 shows the starting point.

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Fig. 16

Here we see a conscious thought followed by another. Since we do not think the same conscious thought all the time, we know that one ends and another begins. The effort in this meditation is to see where the next thought comes from. This is not as easy as it seems. The first few weeks (1 hour per day) of meditation produces only the results of Fig. 17. We get caught up in the next (#2) conscious thought and find ourselves thinking it and not where the next (#3) though is coming from.

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Fig. 17

There is a trick to getting beyond this point. Before implementing this trick, it may be necessary to go deeper into basic Yoga’s breathing exercises. Make them a dependable habit in your meditation. This prevents fear thoughts from coming in when you appear to forget to breathe while trying this trick.

The trick is to try to hold off the next thought, which is the same as trying to create a blank mind. This too is easier said, than done. Many more weeks of deep meditation for some, months or years for others, produces startling results: Nature hates a vacuum here too. Once you’re good at not thinking the conscious thoughts (creating a blank mind), other thoughts rush in (see fig 18).

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Fig. 18

The first thing the student notices is that there is an apparent time compression in these new thoughts. This is the expected effect of any long hypotenuse of figure 14. When we get caught up in them (think them), they expand into a conscious thought as shown in fig. 19.

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Fig. 19

So far we see what we would expect to see from an increasing q (in Fig. 14). It’s as though maintaining a blank mind causes q to increase.

Put these distractions aside and continue the mantra (find the source of thought in you). By this time you’ve got the trick of maintaining a blank mind. So kick in a bit more effort to hold that blank mind longer. You find that the thoughts keep getting smaller (in time) and larger in content at a non-linear rate.

Continued effort brings you eventually to the state described in ancient Oriental literature as “one hand clapping”. For many years before beginning this journey, I considered “one hand clapping” as an interesting metaphor, but the next “level” or “major distraction” in this effort (Fig. 20) changed that.

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Fig. 20

The small circles in Fig. 20 and 21 represent gigantic thoughts that are compressed in real time. They represent the long hypotenuse associated with approaching 90 degrees in Fig. 14. The impact of these very large, very elaborate thoughts is SIGNIFICANT and silent: “one hand clapping”.

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Fig. 21

An example of the size of thought that occurred in the silent snap of a finger, follows:

Build robots. Build walking, talking, seeing, hearing robots that can do skilled labor. Teach them to assemble robots. Then teach them to manufacture subassemblies for other robots to assemble. Next we teach them to mine ore, build factories, build robots. Send them to the moon, then the planets, with the imperative: “Mine ore, build factories, build robots, build robot spaceships, ship manufactured goods back to earth”. Later, build robot starships and send them to the stars with the imperative: “If planets are found suitable for human habitation, then mine ore, build factories, build robots, build cities, roads, etc. for human

habitation, send starships back to earth to take some people there. If no habitable planets are found, mine ore, build factories, build robots, build robot starships, send them to the stars. With each star manufacturing and launching starships on a continuing basis, humanity is spread at an exponential rate all over the universe. This process continues till the end of time or until the end of the universe is reached.

I call this “The Robot Sequence”. It is a plan (hence the blue) to assure the survival of humanity until the end of time. Please note that humanity’s ultimate survival is presently not assured:

Humanity on Earth is like all of humanity living on a single volcanic island in the middle of an impassable ocean. We have no boats and the volcano is rumbling (earthquakes, global warming, solar flares, giant asteroids, nova, etc.). Our population is growing exponentially and our resources are not. Humanity’s survival is not assured until we spread off this star.

Enough detail (technical, social, economic, political) came to fill volumes and is necessarily omitted here. Nothing in the ancient literature can prepare one for the IMPACT (POW!) of such a thought.

There were other gigantic thoughts. I found it impossible (for me) to get past these gigantic thoughts. They were too fascinating/gripping. It was only with the passive assistance of a guru that I SAW/EXPERIENCED the next level.

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Fig. 22

Fig. 22 is somewhat misleading because the red points imply different points when in fact they are all the same. They are all moment-to-moment holes in real space time through which thoughts come. This is shown in fig. 15 as q = 90 labeled The Enlightened State. Later it will be shown to be the Source of Thought.

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