BRAIN MAGIC

Popping Your Frontals

Think of the best time you have ever had in your life........Got it?

Now, multiply that experience, that feeling, times ten. Multiply it times a hundred, or a thousand. Or ten thousand. Or even more.

You can turn on increased creativity, intelligence, pleasure, even ESP and other paranormal abilities as easily as clicking on a light switch. You can have "the best day of your life" over and over, each time better than the last. You may even be able to move clouds and change the weather using the incredible power of your own human infinity machine- your brain.

That is exactly what you will experience- no exaggeration in the least- when you learn how to self-stimulate a part of your brain know as the amygdala. This is not wishful thinking or new-age hocus-pocus. This is what the latest brain and behavior research is now showing us is possible........for anyone. The method for amygdala self-stimulation is easy, and has been learned by persons ages 6 to 86. The basic method can be learned and taught by anyone, for free. It is democratic in the extreme. You are getting started by reading this article. Results are often immediate, and are accumulative- it gets better the more you do it. Unlike stage magic, this is no illusion. This is real brain magic.

No surprise that these things are actually possible once you realize that the three pounds of solid neurocircuitry between every person's ears is the most complex structure we know of in the entire universe. You have more connections in your brain than there are literally grains of sand on all the beaches on Earth. Carl Sagan has pointed out that in every brain, your fantastic one included, there are more combinations of connections than there are protons and neutrons in the universe. Heck, telepathy is nothing for your infinity brain calculator. Provided you know what buttons to push.

Brain Science

New research in the field of brain and behavior now allows any ordinary person to learn how to control and self-stimulate their own brain for such results as mentioned above. Studies by one particular behaviorist and researcher, T.D.A. Lingo, in his work from 1957 through 1993, has been able to pinpoint this area of the brain which seems to be responsible for releasing enormous levels of untapped intelligence, creativity and pleasure. Additionally, and remarkably so, self-amygdala stimulation frequently additionally turns on such "hidden" brain functions as pre-cognition, clairvoyance, clairaudience, telepathy, telekinesis, and in can even allow the ability for some individuals the ability to communicate with non-ordinary physical and non-physical intelligences and entities.

Lingo conducted a 30-year study of three hundred and nine students and test subjects involved in long and short-term brain education, behavioral, and thought self-modification programs. The resultant increases in intelligence, creativity, and positive emotions were demonstrated and measured by a variety of objective and subjective means, standardized tests and analysis methods. Lingo reports that this included 10 to 40 point increases on the Stanford-Binet I.Q. test, and 500% to 1400% increases on the Getzels-Jackson Creativity Index. Presently, similar results continue to be reported from individuals from across the U.S. experimenting and doing brain-self-control on their own, following the standard procedure and brain "exercises."

Amygdala stimulation directed at the front or anterior portions of the amygdala apparently can additionally produce an intense emotional state known historically throughout world cultures and religions by various names: nirvana, satori, samadhi, born again, peak experience, cosmic consciousness, one-with-the-universe rapture. Among brain laboratory subjects this has been affectionately nicknamed "Popping your frontal lobes." Now science understands the actual neuro-pathways and brain physiology responsible for this "mystical" state, and makes it available to anyone from bus drivers and short-order cooks, as well fasting monks. Only now, you don't have to meditate for twenty years to experience it.

Self-amygdala stimulation increases activity of the brain's most advanced and evolutionarily most complex structure of the brain- the frontal lobes. Hold your forehead with one hand. Everything under your palm is your frontal lobes, the front 1/3 of your brain. The frontal lobes are further developed in humans beyond all other mammals, save dolphins and whales (who is to say they are not more intelligent than we? different perhaps...). The human frontal lobes are exactly what allow us to plan and devise actions far beyond the capability of lower mammals and apes. The frontal lobes allow the most advanced behavior:

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By deliberately focusing mental energy and activity- a simple thought process- on the anterior amygdala, this causes an increase in frontal lobes processes, which instantly causes increased and measurable levels of intelligence, creativity, pleasure, and often various "normal-paranormal" experiences. The method can be as simple as "imaging" a feather tickling the amygdala, which automatically shunts neurochemical activity forward into the previously "dormant" frontal lobes. The amygdala can be seen as a gateway click switch, somewhat like the light switch on your wall. But in your brain, you "click" on the big light bulb in your frontal lobes.

Russian neurosurgeon Alexandre Luria, along with many other distinguished researchers have repeatedly shown us that the frontal lobes are at least 90% dormant, "untapped", unused. Although some may object to this description of the brain, it is one effective way of describing the infinite potential of the human brain. We normally don't live up to even a fraction of what is available or possible. It is the great cosmic joke.

In this day and age, when 6-year-old kids are learning to use complex computers- nearly all of us have failed to properly learn about the most complex machine in the universe- our own brain. We are taught how to drive sophisticated cars, operate complicated tools and appliances, but nobody ever taught us how our own brain works. We are driving blind.

Never the less, when an individual learns some very basic things about their brain, and thus learns some basic brain self-control and amygdala/frontal lobes control, then one begins to access radical and overwhelmingly positive changes in function, behavior, and activity. We start to access more and more of that enormous untapped infinite potential. We give our brain wings. As one subject stated "This feels like flying."

A recent national radio broadcast on Art Bell's Coast to Coast radio show elicited thousands of responses from persons "clicking" their amygdala forward as brain basics and directions were given over the air, including the simple "feather tickling" visualization. For many, this caused immediate dramatic auditory, visual, and physical sensations, as well as a very remarkable response to a "Cloudbusting" exercise. In the informal Cloudbusting exercise, "clicking the amygdala forward" is followed by concentration on a specific cloud in the sky, which is vaporized and disappears within minutes- leaving surrounding clouds untouched. As unlikely as this sounds, the number of person's reporting success at this paranormal use of their brain was and continues to be extremely impressive as well as great fun!

Mind Music Metamorphosis

A wild mountain man screaming.......he started me on this brain stuff.

I write this sitting at an old weather beaten redwood desk looking out a large picture window facing east. I am 10,200 feet up in a mountain log cabin, aspen and spruce trees everywhere as far as the eye can see. I look down on gray and white clouds enveloping the tall rolling green valley in front of me. To one side of the cabin is a huge 300-foot tall granite cliff. Across the valley, off in the distance, looms 14,000-foot high Mount Evans. One hundred miles downrange, Pikes Peak.

The scenery from this vantagepoint in the Colorado Rockies, is stupendous! I am at the Dormant Brain Research and Development Laboratory near Blackhawk, Colorado. My journey here began in 1981. I was watching TV late one Saturday night in Denver, half-asleep and flipping through the channels. On a local progressive educational PBS channel, I stopped to watch a group of people talking about their brain(s) and their experiences while in the mountains at a unique wilderness laboratory.

The leader of the group was a wild looking guy wearing faded blue jeans, with long hair and a beard. Only later would I learn that he had had attended four universities, and was anything but a "hippie". What especially got my immediate attention, and what woke me up, was the frank and logical manner in which they described some fairly outrageous and unusual experiences they were having. They described fantastic and intensely pleasurable daily events. They found creativity and invention pouring from them effortlessly, like water from a faucet.

They all agreed that the key to all of this was having learned how to turn on previously "uncharted" regions of their brain. If what they were saying was true, my own brain must have been on hold for most of my life. After the show ended, the leader of the group appeared with an interviewer from the station for a live segment. This time the "brain man" wore a conventional city suit. He spoke with a great deal of enthusiasm and animation, joking more than occasionally. This was T.D.A. Lingo (his legal name), and he gave out an address for more information.

Being intrigued by this combination of science, nature, and non-convention I wrote in and received typewritten information about the "Brain In Nature" course held every summer in the pristine wilderness forest forty miles west of Denver. I also learned that, according to the latest neurological opinion, the human brain was at least 90% dormant- hence, the name "Dormant" Brain Research Laboratory. For the past twenty-five years (at that time) Lingo had directed a brain and behavior study facility and school. The main purpose of the program was to discover exactly why human neurons remained so unused, and what methods would additionally activate them.

Directions were enclosed for visiting, and so the next weekend I drove up. It sounded like fun, and an adventure. My first experience at the lab was unforgettable. Mainly, because the first thing that happened was that I was scolded severely by the director, like some dumb kid, for not reading the directions carefully. I expected to be welcomed with open arms and instead had Lingo yelling at me for coming up on the wrong day.

"You didn't read the instructions," he insisted. "Visitors are allowed on Sunday, NOT SATURDAY. The first thing you'll learn up here is to read the instructions."

Embarrassed, and maybe insulted, I was none-the-less encouraged to stay put. As long as I was already there Lingo figured I might as well see what the place was all about. Lingo's history and the evolution of the facility turned out to be quite amazing, and like nothing I imagined it would be.

The story unfolds with Lingo as a spearhead infantry scout for General Patton's army in World War II. He experienced the horrors of war from the front lines, and was one of the soldiers to first to arrive at Hitler's death camps to liberate the remaining survivors. On his return home after the end of the war, Lingo attended the University of Chicago earning his bachelor's and master's degrees in behavioral science and nearing completion of his Ph.D. His horrific experiences during the war drove him to ask but one question: "Why must I kill my brother?"

To this his school and his professors had no answer. But one professor's advice was "If there is an answer to this question, it's up here," pointing to his own gray head. "The answer has got to be in human brain.......but the research hasn't been done yet in academe. If you want to go slow, work here. If you want to go fast, you're going to have to build your own research center to solve that riddle."

So, Lingo dropped out of his Ph.D. program, and started to scheme how to put together his own research facility. Unfortunately to do that, one had to have money, and he had none. But he could tell a good story! He decided if there was a fortune to be made in a hurry, he might just be able to do it in show business. Twenty five years later he would wink "Yep, I bought this mountain and built this place with just a guitar, three chords, and nine folk songs." And he was right.

Lingo started out playing the local joints around Denver and eventually landed a spot on Groucho Marx's "You Bet Your Life" television show from Hollywood. He wore buckskins and played the part of a back woods mountain man to perfection. It was during that appearance on the Marx show that a New York City producer spotted him. "I know a good phony when I see one," the mogul observed, "And that son of a bitch is a great one!"

So, Lingo was quickly summoned out to New York City and was immediately signed to do a summer replacement show on NBC network television. He hosted a weekly program in which the "new" fad of folk singing (back in 1955) was featured. People like Burl Ives and Woody Guthrie made guest appearances and performed with him. The network paid him $2,000 an hour for this lucrative play. On the last show, Lingo looked right into the camera an asked the million viewers watching "If anybody out there has a mountain to sell, call me!" And sure enough, once he got off camera, somebody did.

At the end of the summer he took two grocery sacks full of money and ran! He gave one to the IRS, and he bought "Laughing Coyote Mountain" with the other. He began to axe timber and build log cabins. That was in 1957. For the next thirty years Lingo dedicated himself totally to explore behavior from the perspective of the human brain. He and his staff examined every bit of available scientific research and philosophic literature they could get their hands on. They ran their own short and long term studies and experiments. The environment of rugged mountain wilderness provided a total focus into the self that could never be replicated in any city or sterile clinical hospital. There was no electricity (As Carl Jung had insisted in his own Swiss study retreat), no TV, no movie entertainment. There were no four-lane highways to get away from it all. You were away from it all- to face only yourself, your mind, and your brain.

To the end of the lab's operations in 1993, it remained remarkably free of electrical power lines or even running water. It was just you, the hand water pump, a wood stove, and your own central nervous system.

The brain lab's records grew and grew. The log buildings became crammed full with file cabinets. The books lined the walls from the stone floors to the ceiling rafters eighteen feet up. In the end, Lingo and his group discovered the mechanisms to release startling new intelligence, creativity, and pleasure inside the human brain. His conclusions were original and unmatched by any other research establishment at the time. Then, and since, his findings are supported and corroborated with foundation findings by scientists everywhere.

My Own Brain

After my first visit to the lab in 1981, I spent the next eleven years running back and forth between my own home in Denver and the forest field station. My own personal "experiments", with my own brain, was guided by the work done at the Dormant Brain Lab. This took the form of "brain exercises", journal keeping, analysis of activity, and periodic consultation with the director, and other staff members and participants. Before long I was assisting Lingo in various assignments he gave me, organizing city group sessions, information gathering, organizing lectures, and eventually writing my own books on the subject.

The results of my work was breathtaking on many occasions- sitting on the peak of Laughing Coyote Mountain, with the clearest possible perception of everything around me- a fifty thousand square mile view of the earth circle, with incredibly heightened senses and awareness. I learned how to go far beyond my own limitations, mental and physical, tested by pulling hundreds of thirty foot tall firewood logs down the labs steep wooded slopes. I ecstatically felt on many occasions the most powerful emotional experiences of my life. This might take the form of fantastic waves of internal energy, or indescribable and spectacular feelings of unity and balance. Strangely enough, these were more often than not triggered by simple daily activities- hearing a piece of music, walking among the trees, discarding a useless notion, or just sitting on my sofa at home.

When I began my investigations into the work at the lab and into how my own brain worked, my creativity and emotional state might be compared to a plugged up toilet (even with my degree, magna cum laude)- not to mention what I observed in most everybody else at the time. Since learning the basic bio-mechanics of my own human thought motor- utilizing the discoveries of general neuroscience as well as the brain lab's own methods and discoveries, I have written, arranged, performed and recorded eight albums of original music, some of which has received national public television and radio airplay. I have written several books, and I have established an run my own successful musical teaching and publishing business, sidestepping the 9 to 5 minimum wage-slave labor syndrome. My social relationships have gone from amazingly disastrous in pre-brain days, to harmonious and highly entertaining. The simple ABC's of "how the human brain works" has had nothing short of a miraculous effect on my daily life. And as for the miracles of paranormal telepathy and pre-cognition- they have become rather commonplace for me after many years of clicking my amygdala forward and turning on magical frontal lobes circuits.

Click It Baby!

The crux of the program at the brain lab hinged on voluntary self-control of one particular section of the human brain, a trigger site or neuro-gateway for intelligence, pleasure, and creativity: the anterior amygdala. The brain has two of these organs, one for the right hemisphere of the brain, the other for the left side. Each amygdala is about the size of an almond, a small knobby protuberance about one inch inside each temple in the brain- a part of the brain's limbic system. Various researches have found that stimulation of this part of the brain results in automatic responses of pain or pleasure- depending which part of the amygdala is stimulated. Simple electrical anterior amygdala stimulation shuts off the "killer instinct" and results in automatic responses of cooperative and pleasurable behavior.

Self-amygdala stimulation without electrodes can be performed by using the brain's capacity for guided imagery. >>>>> For example, by simply imagining that you are tickling the front part of each amygdala with a feather, you change the flow of electro-chemical activity in the brain- and voila! This clicks the amygdala forward, if only temporarily.<<<<< This imaging alone increases frontal lobes activity and begins increases in creativity, intelligence, and so on. The more frequently you tickle, the more you click, the more pronounced the results. These changes are measurable by modern brain scanning medical instruments such as PET and MRI machines. The brain is a thought machine- and thus, one controls the brain and it's electro-chemical circuitry with simple thought. (No surprise there!) This simple exercise properly done often brings immediate results, with sometimes very pronounced effects. The brain lab developed hundreds of methods that further refined, accelerated, supercharged, and make permanent the results.

When a person learns how to internally stimulate the amygdala and voluntarily increase frontal lobes processes at will, it can eventually result in a very intense peak phenomenon known as "frontal lobes transcendence" or "popping your frontal lobes". This occurred regularly at the brain lab where all the distractions of a typically hectic or neurotic life were minimized, or where subjects and students received sufficient training. For myself, this first occurred on September 11, 1987 while sitting in the control room at a recording studio. It was just about the last thing on my mind. Generally, this phenomenon can't be predicted exactly- more like when a soap bubble is ready to pop.

What is it like to pop your frontals? Imagine you are sailing in a rickety wooden boat in 1492, looking for India, lost in the middle of an endless ocean for what seems like an eternity. Everybody, including yourself, is just waiting for you to fall off the edge of the planet into oblivion. Then all of a sudden, out of nowhere......

YOU SEE LAND! HOLY COW!!!!!!!!!

That's something like what popping your frontal lobes feels like. Only, it's really happening, and it's happening to YOU. NOW.

Some persons have compared popping their frontal lobes to feeling as though they were flying through the cosmos at the speed of light, or feeling the power of a train blasting through their head (pleasurably so) at 120 miles an hour. Or as one adult student put it, "a million times better than the best sex." It all depends on your personality and your preferences. After your first (they keep happening) frontal lobes "big bang" things are never quite the same again. You begin looking through a mental windshield that is clean for the first time since you were a little kid. My college education and ten years of meditation and yoga practice never prepared me for this.

Why has nature provided the human brain with this emotional fireworks rocketship blast? Nature is smart. Your brain wants you to survive. When you use more of your brain and access more of your brain's potential specifically located in the most advanced part of your brain- your frontal lobes- your chances of survival in this rough world skyrocket. Sustained and intense pleasure is exactly how neurocircuits in various sites within the brain motivate and reward the individual for frontal lobes advanced survival thought production. Free and legal. Use enough frontal lobes- and you hit the jackpot.

What are you waiting for? Click it baby! Click it!

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