LOOKING FOR CREATIVE ANSWERS: Using Schumann's Resonance to solve the problem of 'Attention Deficit' Disorder, autism...and maybe a whole host of other things...(Who knows...maybe the School Shooting Syndrome would simply melt away...)
http://www.lightworks.com/MonthlyAspectarian/1997/September/0997-08.html
A Conversation with Brad Keeney (FOR ENTIRE INTERVIEW GO TO LINK ABOVE)
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For a very special reason, Bradford Keeney, former professor of psychology, has been accepted by indigenous people the world over to tell us we can directly connect with the resonance of the Earth, and it will change our lives. Each of us, they assure us, has the natural ability to access healing, creativity and joy every time we attain the resonance of 7.83 ... the frequency of Earth itself.
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When you go out with the aborigines and you look at their sacred ceremonies, typically an anthropologist talks about the number of feathers, the costume, what they're saying and so forth, and fails to realize that what the aborigines center on doing is vibrating their body to pulse at the same frequency as that of Earth.
When the body is vibrating with the frequency of the sacred Earth, then there's an entering into the mind of Earth, which is the dreamtime. And then you are dreamed, and then you can have relationship to the original ancestors, the ones who are dreaming us and dreaming our Earth and all that we can encounter as life. And the same with the bushmen. When you look at the bushmen, you get past trying to see what's the abracadabra magic words, what's the song that has to be sung. We fail to realize that the singing is coming simply from being in an energized state. It's not the singing that brings on the energized state, it's the energized state that brings on spontaneous singing.
TMA: Have you identified a specific frequency?
BK: The amazing thing about this frequency -- and it's been discovered by others --is that it's that wonderful 7.83 cycles per second. Physicists call it "Schumann's Resonance" and that's the pulse of the geomagnetic field as it bounces off the earth's crust to the ionosphere. That's the same frequency as the alpha wave that so many meditators for years have known they were trying to aim for.
The first book I ever wrote was dedicated to an anthropologist named Gregory Bateson. He and Margaret Mead wrote a classic book on Balinese culture. They discovered that the parents encouraged their children to vibrate parts of their body . . . and guess what? It was 7.83 cycles per second. And you can do the same thing.
If you sit in a chair and move your foot so that it's resting on the ball of the foot, and you get it at the right angle, your whole leg will start to vibrate. It goes into an oscillation. That oscillation is 7.83 cycles per second, thereabouts. And that's what Balinese parents encouraged their children to do. It helps them go into trance. If you watch Balinese culture, you see they know that everyday life is enhanced by being as trance-y as you possibly can be. And you get in that through moving bodies.
In this book that's coming out next spring, I talk about how, if you look at a classroom, you notice that the children are never sitting still. Teachers go nuts and parents go nuts constantly telling them, "Sit still!" They're bouncing their legs, they're moving their arms. This is a natural way in which our body energizes itself. And this is the heart and soul of ceremonial experience. The body will begin to move, hands will flutter.
When you look at the hands of the healer, they're typically fluttering. And if you look at the ancient ones in the oldest ceremonies where there's less constraint on what they should or should not do so they're purely free to improvise, the whole body is shaking. It's fluttering. It's moving. And you'll see in the Kalihari bushmen healing dance someone filled with life energy to the extent that every part of their body is hot, and they're totally shaking and they will grab another person and hug them and start them to shaking too, and then they'll turn around and grab someone else. One by one, everyone begins to vibrate, literally vibrate with this pulsing energy.
Now by the time it gets to our culture and gets through other contemporary cultures like Chinese medicine, it's become very constrained and it's made into a subtle practice. But I can assure you there are energy practices that aren't subtle and sometimes we're shocked by these impacts of powerful energy . . . for instance, the Indian yoga traditions talk about a kundalini spontaneous occurrence; it sometimes frightens people because the power can be so strong. Well anyway, I'm getting real talky --
TMA: No, I'm sitting here fascinated. 7.83. Can anybody just sitting around induce that frequency?
BK: That's in the book I wrote that's coming out next spring. It talks about all the kinds of little tricks and techniques -- because there's not one right way. There are all kinds of ways. I write of all the things I've learned from other traditions and have taught to others. And how you can cultivate this and how it's the heart and soul of healing practice around the world. Once you learn to take time out to do this kind of practice, to enter this frequency, it opens up not only the energy as a way of self healing, it opens the door to one's creative imagination. If you have some kind of problem you're trying to solve or you're trying to have a creative leap of imagination, this is the way to do it. You just sort of get into the zone, if you wish, the energy zone, and you have access to the miraculous kinds of experiences that we've tended in the past to be mystified by. People have gotten so lost in elaborate, complicated explanations that border the metaphysical, they fail to see that this is a very natural thing that our bodies are capable of doing, vibrating with the pulse of life itself.
If you believe that life itself as a whole is alive, whether you call that the Gaia Hypothesis or just believe in the mind of nature, then you're one step closer to realizing that you simply have to pulse with the whole of life to enter into its mind. And that when you enter into the mind of nature or life as a whole, then it dreams you. It's not the limited psychological dreaming of the ego-caught mind of a limited individual, it's the dreaming of the whole of nature. Then, when you have those events that we tend to see as mystical or paranormal or parapsychological and so forth -- they're not to be mystified by, they're now seen as natural. We're just simply connected to the greater Mind. And this is what every indigenous culture knows.
They know when they go sit in a ceremony or go fast or pray or dance that they're trying to get outside the limitations and constraints of their own individual mind and connect with the greater Mind, which they may have any number of names for, but it's the Mind that links us to one another and to nature as a whole. And there we receive information that's greater than what we can get as an individual mind. There's nothing magical about it. As they say, this is the most natural way to be.
