Max Planck

Owltwelve had set another video as favorite. It was a compilation of well-put sentences from multiple films and videos (some of which I had seen earlier). What caught my attention though, was a quote from Max Planck. I googled up some of his quotes and found this page: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Max_Planck. A couple of quotes to express my amazement:

As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this much: There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter.

I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness. 

Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of nature and therefore part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.

In some of these quotes, I can recognize spontaneous ideas that have popped into my mind at random moments. A lot of them express my perspective on things amazingly well. I'm simply amazed..

Sunset calling

Yesterday night I tried some yoga exercises that either owltwelve had posted in the forums (this one) or I had googled while reading the yoga book that he had posted (this book).

Took yesterdays program and upgraded it a little. I noticed that programming brought me into the pk mind-state - I started to feel the laptop and objects surrounding me. If I could always be in the same state, no matter what I were doing, then that would be fun - it would all be like a big meditation and pk practice.

While reading instructions for an upcoming practical, I visualized the weather outside changing. Visualized a beautiful sunset emerging from an otherwise cloudy sky. I noticed a slight change in the light that was reflected off the wallpaper and walked up to the balcony door to check the weather. A nice sunset had emerged indeed and I realized that I could control the brightness of it to some degree. Anyway, I went back to continue reading and a few seconds later, the sunset got covered in clouds again.

ESP aid

Took a few hours and wrote a simple program for practicing ESP, clairvoyance or remote viewing today. It queries Google Image search for random numbers, takes a random image and downloads it. There are still a few problems though:

• It only downloads small thumbnails of the pictures
• QT doesn't display .gif files and fails with wikipedia .svg.png files as well
• For some unknown reason, most pictures are car pictures =/

So far I haven't had much success with attempts on it though. Practiced some stasis on a large toy windmill and tried again when I felt overwhelmed by that. At first I was like "Nah, wrong again.." but then I changed my attitude so that it would be more fun. When I did, I guessed the texture that was on one picture, color on another and just when I was about to give up for today, I guessed the shape on the third one - the shape was exactly like on the picture. The color of the shape also looked like it had popped into my mind. Cool..

During these attempts, I occasionally saw rooms and places in the darkness of closed eyes. Everything was dark and I could only see some room edges. I could sense the surroundings better by feeling walls, trees or whatever was around me. I felt my presence in these places and I felt the response / echo of the presence from the walls so that I could almost tell how far the walls were about 360 degrees around me. Something similar often happens during meditation or before falling asleep.

Tried to spin one of those big windmill toys with an open balcony door again and was able to twitch it more than yesterday. I once even managed to turn it 360 degrees and when I stroke it with a finger, then I managed to speed it up when it was starting to slow down. Managed to help it make about 3 turns like this. Perhaps wind was also slightly stronger, but it certainly wasn't enough for a full turn - I would've felt that wind. A slight gust of wind did come later when I was about to stop practicing.

Here's how I attempted stasis on the big toy windmill today: 

I set the windmill right in front of the fan so that propeller was exactly behind the windmill. The toy windmill is so large that it blocks almost all the wind coming from the fan. I attempted stasis on the toy windmill, while trying to "transfer" the rotation to the propeller (aka stop the windmill and make the propeller spin). I think it should be an easier way to get all kind of objects spinning, since there's an example of something spinning right next to the object one would want spinning. It was the first time I attempted stasis on such a big toy windmill and almost the first time with moving the propeller without using a fan for it. Although I could visibly slow down the windmill, I only managed to turn the propeller less than 90 degrees once. For most of the time, it just wiggled up and down a little.

Writing scientific articles

The first lecture today morning was on preparing scientific articles (prof. Peeter Saari again - the one, who also gave Quantum Mechanics, Electricity and Magnetism). It addressed most of the problems that I had read about throat chakra blockages yesterday. Most of the lecture goes for pk as well as writing articles.

Some points from the lecture, slightly modified for pk:

Tune in

• Who am I? (psion-wannabe, psion, master, superhero - always position yourself one step higher than who you think you are)
• Why am I doing this? (to figure out how the universe works, for enlightenment, for saving people, for proving skeptics wrong...)
• How can I make myself enjoy the process? (devise fun experiments for pk practice, make up new skills to improve on)

Overcome the potential barrier of hard work and get started

• Start from the best point (practice the most fun skills and take the most fun experiment set up for that)
• Write the introduction last (you don't have to start from the basics and then get to more advanced stuff - you'll get the basics while practicing the more advanced and more fun stuff anyway)
• Don't postpone it - hit the iron while it's still warm (always continue practicing and do at least something even when you don't have the time; tuning in is costly)
• Logics must not limp (when you have decided to go at it with proper belief and without doubt, make sure to keep it like that)

Use the power of technology (pk practice can be made more fun with the help of technology)

Decided to take another recording attempt on the radiometer (this time at slower speed). Well, I hadn't practiced on it for quite a while and couldn't stop it at slower speed. However, practicing pk with a camera rolling is good for overcoming stage fever anyway.

Attempted to spin one of the big toy windmills I bought recently. I think I got it to twitch barely, but nothing remarkable. Opened the balcony door and positioned it in front of the balcony hoping that for enough wind from the outside to make it wiggle or something. Well, it didn't even budge with such a small air draft. Took another attempt on spinning it with pk and it twitched noticeably. I gave it a spin with my finger and attempted to spin it with pk again - it twitched even more. Practiced on it like this until my hands and feet got cold. I got it to twitch by about 1 cm along its outer circle.

Also attempted pk on my room door in a similar way, but didn't see much effect. 

QMech exam

Quantum mechanics exam didn't go too well. Well, I don't have anything to lose if I fail it, nor do I have anything to lose when I pass it. Either way, I have to study it more, because even when I pass, I would have to take an oral exam to rise the grade.

Edit: The total maximum number of points that was awarded on this exam was 68 of 100. I got 51 points (barely passed it). It was funny, how quickly I was able to react - professor had just uploaded the page and hadn't even managed to write an e-mail yet. I just suddenly got the feeling that it's up while studying for spectroscopy.

Anyway, it's finally a free weekend in the span of about 3 weeks and I can practice some pk (and do homework). 

Attempted pk on that wooden stick and my throat started to hurt when I put effort into trying to move it. So, I guess I'm stuck at the throat chakra now and need to solve the problems that block it.

Googled on throat chakra and found other symptoms of a slight blockage there as well. I have occasionally found it difficult to express myself in correct terminology. So far I have also had difficulties leading people - I'm too soft and often unable to motivate them (I'm too used to doing everything myself).

Meditated on the chakra before going to sleep. I started feeling a lot better. 

Dragon Ball

Although quantum mechanics exam is tomorrow, I watched quite a lot of Dragon Ball episodes today. All the episodes I watched today were the most interesting and inspiring episodes of Dragon Ball I have seen so far (50+ something to 61). Interesting pk in the Penguin village (a small kid fixing and building electronics with intent, sensing and analyzing pk around him and downloading new information with his mind). Then a bulletproof Indian and that assassin Tao Pai Pai, who redirected a sniper bullet with his slipper in a very cool way. Also, it was inspiring to see how the cat hermit trains people - that strength potion probably won't do much, but it serves as a great dummy goal to make one strong while they're trying to reach that potion.

Edit: Yup, the potion was tap water =D.

Nothing worth mentioning on pk today though - a rather regular day with only small occasional pk attempts.

QMech hangover

Had a slight headache today, but it seemed like it was a hangover from studying quantum mechanics.

I feel a bit down for not having had the chance to seriously practice pk for about 3 weeks or even more. Reading pk success stories of other guys from the forum make me want to practice it more, but my days are stuffed with homework, preparations for the exam and work for my thesis. Need to meditate and make myself more joyful again.

Anyway, I'm happy that in addition to integrating over wavefunctions in the dreams, I also saw a cool dream. I was helping people with remote viewing. Some guys started chasing me because I was freeing people they had kidnapped. We were hitting fences with a girl I was helping and at some point I realized that gravity was only an illusion and flew to rescue someone. Since I had not watched any "Green Lantern" videos yet, I think it could have been "The men who stare at goats" that I watched Saturday evening after a day of quantum mech.

Yesterday evening, after watching a video on the Bindu point that owltwelve had posted on the forums a while ago, I meditated on moving psi through the point. Found that it was the same point that had occasionally hurt after the grounding exercise I sometimes performed. It was the point, through which the psi flow left the head and turned into a fountain. Perhaps it wasn't the studying that made my head hurt, but the Bindu instead .. don't know.