Stalking the Wild Pendulum: On the Mechanics of Consciousness

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What he was talking about was the fact that we arise from, exist in and are nothing but consciousness', and therefore the process of meditation is by inference no more difficult than falling off a log. The present scientific establishment has grown somewhat fossilized by its current world picture and is locked into a view of reality that has outlived its usefulness. Rating is not a reflection of the book itself but my understanding of the topics and theories presented in it. The physical universe is entirely composed of consciousness and all living and non-living beings contain consciousness (it is just a matter of what degree).

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The first four chapters are quite demanding science reading for the novice, however well worth the effort. This book takes a great step forward by simply articulating that fact—thus contributing to the understanding of our future development. In childhood, the events that occur to us seem to be random and unconnected, a kind of fallout from the world of the grownups.

This was followed by the design of experiential journeys into the microcosm and macrocosm of the universe; collectively, out of it all has flowed this beautiful little book. This book might be hard to take serious for people with fundamental materialist philosophic backgrounds. The first 6 chapters are still pretty solid; that is, Bentov does a great job of explaining quantum physics in layman's terms. Itzhak Bentov was a mechanical engineer who combined a brilliant mind for mechanisms and structures with a lifelong interest in meditation to describe quantum physics and the advanced states of higher awareness in ways easily grasped by readers.

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Additionally, the book is full of author's funny doodles and anecdotes, that help the reader visualize some of the mentioned phenomena and concepts.

However, during meditation and when the breath is held, the echo off the bifurcation of the aorta (where the aorta forks at the pelvis to go into each leg) is in resonance with the heartbeat and the system becomes synchronized, thus utilizing a minimum amount of energy. Here's a brief video I did on Izhak Bentov's model of the mechanics consciousness as explained in his book, Stalking the Wild Pendulum. Bentov posits that we literally occupy a different reality than the manifested (moving) physical reality during these moments of periodic wave rest, and expansion of space-time, clairvoyance and deep meditative states of altered consciousness, including the absolute, can be accessed.