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The Warrior

Visionary theologian and evolutionary theorist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin applied his whole life, his tremendous intellect, and his great spiritual faith to building a philosophy that would reconcile religion with the scientific theory of evolution. In this timeless book (originally titled “The Human Phenomenon” in French), Teilhard argues that just as living organisms sprung from inorganic matter and evolved into ever more complex thinking beings, humans are evolving toward an “omega point”—defined by Teilhard as a convergence with the Divine.

Midway through, a neighbor lady came in from the house next door. She stood respectfully in the distance listening to what I was saying. Then she left and she came back with a book, and she walked around the desk and put the book right beside me. It was Autobiography of a Yogi. Now, if somebody had given that to me two weeks before, I'd have looked at it and I'd just tossed it. Well, obviously, very different relation. And I was reading The Phenomenon of Man by Father Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. And this was all really cool and wonderful, but there wasn't anything that could be measured.

I somehow, at some level, knew I was going to be working with weird stuff, and I figured maybe if I got a PhD in psychology, I'd have somebody's stamp of approval on my rational mind so I could maybe get away with it, maybe help others. So I registered for grad school. They really liked me and they gave me a full scholarship and a stipend to live on. But I applied for a predoctoral fellowship from NIMH to go back to San Francisco and do my doctoral work with Joe Kamiya in his lab, which is pretty good thing I did that. It came through just as I got my master's degree.

I came out of the student union after lunch to be greeted by this really large hand-painted sign where every letter was a slightly different color. It was a painting and design teacher. Her students had made the signs that had attracted my attention. I was the only one from the engineering college that was there. Midway through, a neighbor lady came in from the house next door. She stood respectfully in the distance listening to what I was saying. Then she left and she came back with a book. It was Autobiography of a Yogi. Now, if somebody had given that to me two weeks before, I'd have looked at it and I'd just tossed it.

Oftentimes people will come to Biocybernaut and they might want something like relief from insomnia, relief from the constant worry, elimination of a depression that's been with them for 50 years. So that's the reason for coming. And so what we've learned is that when you change the brain waves, you change your consciousness, you change your experiences. And in the process, they may have experiences like out-of-body experiences. And so then something that they would never have been interested in before now becomes a passion, might even become a life purpose. Chief Willie Littlechild said, if you have been abused and you haven't forgiven, you will become an abuser. So when everybody's forgiven, there aren't any abusers left. And wow, now we're talking golden age for all humanity.

I was in my senior year of a bachelor's degree in physics at Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh. And I came out of the student union after lunch to be greeted by this really large hand-painted sign where every letter was a slightly different color, and it said Dr. Joe Kamiya will talk on brain waves and consciousness. I didn't have a class that hour, so I went. I was the only one from the engineering college that was there. And so Dr. Kamiya was talking about his incredible work. And so there's Joe Kamiya saying, oh well, these high states of consciousness have high alpha. So the rest of my senior year, every spare minute was spent in the library learning everything I could. I had this big stack of reprints, and I had read through that three times before I graduated, at which point I jumped on my Triumph motorcycle and headed for San Francisco to hang out with Joe Kamiya.

It's to reduce suffering and to expand awareness and to help usher in an enduring golden age for all humanity. To have as a vocation to make this experience available to everyone is far more than what those words describe. He made a $6 million scholarship fund to train people from his company and also to train over 200 Canadian Aboriginals. At one point, Chief Willie Littlechild, the first Aboriginal to be elected to the Canadian National Parliament, invited me to speak at the United Nations in Geneva at the Aboriginal intersection about the work. I actually had to come up with a new word. Contagion is the transmission of something bad, and protagen is the transmission of good qualities. Protagenous. When people are living from their purpose, they're happier, and the people around them are happier. They're not creating trauma.

Oh, there were endless roadblocks along the way in this. Professors in my psych department, many of them were rat runners. They were behaviorists. They didn't believe in experience. They didn't believe in consciousness. So they didn't like me. They hated my guts. I wanted to do brainwave training there. Permission to use the electrophysiologic equipment denied. Nobody who's interested in consciousness, he wrote, could possibly be serious about pursuing a degree in physiological psychology. However, if you will abandon this nonsense and submit to me, I will design a program of research which will lead to a PhD. And I looked at it, I almost laughed. My thesis advisor scheduled my public defense for a time when the two most hostile professors were leading seminars and were not able to attend, and so they sent hostile questions, but you answer the question and then there's no hostile follow-up.

While Neurofeedback is only beginning to receive mainstream attention, many people I speak with are surprised to learn that Neurofeedback has been around for more than 50 years. Back in the 1960s, Dr. Joe Kamiya conducted a study using EEG sensors paired with a simple reward system to determine whether people could learn to change […]

There's Dr. Joe Kamiya talking about his incredible work. He is the human who, in 1962, reported that humans, when given feedback, could voluntarily control their own alpha brain waves. I had a dear friend who was a grad student at Duquesne University. They had a bunch of French priests in, followers of Merleau-Ponty, the father of phenomenology. And they were teaching how to study the structure of consciousness. So I walk up the hill and enter Ralph's house. He sees me, he sees I'm completely different, and he goes, sit down, and he takes one arm and he sweeps everything off his desk. Sit down. And then he folds his hands, puts his elbow on the desk, and he says, okay, tell me what's happened to you. At the end, Ralph folds his hands and he leans forward, and a little twinkle in his eye, he says, we could do that here. Midway through, a neighbor lady came in from the house next door. She stood respectfully in the distance listening to what I was saying. Then she left and she came back with a book, and she walked around the desk and put the book right beside me. It was Autobiography of a Yogi.

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And so there's Dr. Joe Kamiya talking about this. He had stumbled upon this really quite accidentally. He was doing sleep research. He kind of had a hunch that somehow his feedback of, oh, there was just an alpha wave, somehow contributed to there being another. And so there was a lot of research done on what I called the natural reactivity of alpha. Like if you're tired or too frightened, your alpha is low. You have to be in a middle range of arousal and have your naturally occurring alpha, and then, and only then, when you do meditative strategies will your alpha go up literally off the charts. And then you have all these cool meditative, transcendental experiences. At the end of the first day, I knew this was the most exciting thing I had ever done in my life. So I went back the next day. And so it was increasingly wonderful.

I went in there as a Protestant fundamentalist physics major, Mr. Science Guy. I had had out-of-body experience. I was ego disintegration. I was flying around the universe meeting up with discorporate entities, and this was quite a lot. And I was exploring states of bliss that were unimaginable and unspeakable. They weren't language. And then the door was open and there's 10 people standing there. Of course, Joe is worried, like, oh, is he okay? And so I come out, and Joe starts interviewing me, like, well, what did you do? So I started telling things that had happened, and Paul Gorman would say, oh, that's a meditation experience. And so I mean, I knew the word meditation. I could spell it, but I had no idea what it was. I'd certainly never done it. I'd never wanted to do it, Mr. Science Guy. So I was so high that for three days I walked around and my feet didn't touch the ground. I was still out of body. At the end, Ralph folds his hands and he leans forward, and a little twinkle in his eye, he says, we could do that here. Oh, it was a download. And I had not a job, not a profession, not a career. I had a vocation. And the vocation was to make this available to as many people as possible all around the planet.