The frontal lobe (in red), is the ‘executive’. It’s the part that decides on actions. The area where planning, speculating, and inventing takes place. It’s where intent is. And it’s its oversize in reference to the rest of the brain that is unique only to us humans.

It is the frontal lobe’s key role in driving our actions, that earned it the unbelievably violent treatment used in sever mental illnesses in the 40s and 50s, named lobotomy. And as this blog is mostly peace and love, I’ll leave it to the horror genre lovers to read further…

But what does Quantum Physics have to do with all that? Is what asked myself yesterday when I was watching Dr. Joe Dispenza‘s (of “What The Bleep Do We Know” movie) “Mastering the Art of Observation“.

In this thought provoking monologue/DVD, he builds a case that bridges the gap between Quantum Physics and Spontaneous Remissions. And one of the key building blocks in the case is our power, as ‘observers’, to pro-actively observe a different outcome – of the state of our physical bodies included.

In his research, he found that people who experienced spontaneous remissions of illnesses had something very interesting in common. They all said, in one way or another, “I’m going to observe a different outcome. and I’m going to hold on to this observation, independent of the in feedback from my body, environment and time.” He explains further: “And it’s the frontal lobe, the crown of human achievements, that allows us to do that. The frontal lobe gives us permission to make a thought more real than anything else. To hold on to a concept, an idea, a vision  or a dream, independent of circumstances that exist in the world, in our body, in reference to time. And those are the traits that we secretly admire in all great people”.

And he closes the loop:

“The whole idea of separation between mind and matter, the separation between the objective and the subjective may actually begin to merge when we apply these principles together. Maybe quantum physics gives us permission to say that my observations matter. Maybe the frontal lobe, the crowning achievement of human being allows us to modify our behaviour in one lifetime, and to grow new circuits and now connections as a new place of being. And this this merging that takes place between mind and matter says this: My thoughts matters. And because it matters, it should have a direct effect on the closest thing that exists to me, which is my physical body. And if we can begin to merge these ideas, we’ve come a complete circle back to understanding that there is no separation. Mind gives life to matter.”

And he ends with:

“To learn, to remember, and to experience is out gift as human beings. By this process, we are forever changing. To stop learning is to stop changing. When we can demonstrate that we can learn the universe will never leaves us behind. Our change is our own evolution.”

Scientifically, this bridge may still be more of a quantum leap, so to speak… But intuitively, and experientially,  this idea totally makes sense to me. And science after all, is limited to the realm of what’s measurable in tools we have today.

“Even though my environment is different than my thinking, my thinking is more important.” - Dr. Dispenza

There are some fascinating experiments by Dr. William A. Tiller that explore the limits of traditional ‘time-space’ science:

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Enjoy, it’s a killer!

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Take 2 wasn’t very pretty.

And here’s Tan Le, head of Emotiv Systems, demoing the headset at the TED Global 2010 conference in Oxford.

It’s like there were two me. One that was experiencing everything and another me who’s the observer of the whole scene. I notice that the beige Asian carpet I have, and my african art collection are also hovering close to the ceiling in the two corners of the room.

I make my way out of the bedroom to the window in the living room, pull myself out and I’m flying! But not in Tel Aviv anymore, in the country side. And I navigate my way between tree branches and as the trees get thicker, I can suddenly fly into the tree tops and go through it. And it is BY FAR the most euphoric feeling I ever had. Ever! Nothing comes remotely close. Not even flying a fighter jet (you can Google that) or pole dancing on a mirror topped bar (you had to be at my wedding for that).

The next thing, I find myself back in my room and it blows my mind that I just fucking flew into trees. I pick up the phone right from where I left it when I went to bed, and I call Noam my (now) husband to tell him. Instead of hearing his voice I get his picture on the phone screen. I try again and the damn thing doesn’t make the call – it just keeps showing different images of Noam. I get so frustrated trying to dial again and again and I can feel as the blood rushes to my head and then, snap! I wake up! on my stomach, in my old apt in Tel Aviv.

They say that in lucid dreaming, when something happens that is too unrealistic, too against any common sense, the conflict makes you snap out of the dream and wake up. So, flying is totally reasonable, but that the iphone doesn’t work, nah’ that just can’t be!!!

That was my first flying lucid dream, about 6 months ago. I am now working on making calls in my dreams…

What are your dreams like?

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