SUPERLEARNING-LAZANOV
- The fluent, liberating, creative aspects of altered states can be incorporated into consciousness…This is our open sesame to an infinitely richer life than we have believed possible.
- Lazanov made the curious discovery that a continuous, monotonous rhythm of somewhere around 10 seconds seems to open up the minds ability to remember… We know about heartbeats, but what’s this—the beat of memory?
- Repetition helped memory, but is also hampered it. Lazanov and his colleagues solved this problem by using 3 different intonations for material being recited rhythmically: 1) normal (declarative) 2) soft whisper (quiet, ambiguous, misleading tone) 3) loud, commanding voice (with a domineering tone).
- We seldom give breathing much conscious attention, yet we breathe about 5 thousand gallons (35 lbs) of air every day, about 6 times our food and drink consumption. Obviously, breath is life.
- Modern information science has a law that says more information can be transferred over a smooth medium. Maybe the synchronized rhythms make the information transfer unusually smooth… the various synchronized components smooth out “psychological noise” current6s in the brain thus improving the signal to noise ratio.
- After particular breathing exercises instruments showed that brain waves and muscle activity in chest and abdomen become synchronized. Head and body are aligned, harmonized.
- Respiratory rate has a tremendous influence on states of consciousness.—rhythmic pollution.
- So the overall effect of music in superlearning is to give you a sonic massage—to eliminate the stress of hard mental work. The music helps fix the focus of attention inwardly instead of outwardly. The reverie state is highly orderly because of the highly structured nature of music.
- Current lab research shows certain drumbeats act as a kind of pacemaker, regulating brain-wave rhythms and breathing, which leads to biochemical changes that produce altered states of consciousness. If you listen to a different drummer, you do see a different world.
- The proposition that various kinds of music have vastly different effects, some helpful and harmonizing, others not, fits with yoga theories of music too. I. K. Taiminin in the Science of Yoga says there is a fundamental relationship between vibration and consciousness existing on all octaves.
- Because each level of consciousness has a specific vibrational associated with it, according to yoga theory, particular states of consciousness can be brought about by setting u7p sound vibrations tunes to the state of mind you want. This is the principle behind mantra meditation—meditating with sound—or toning. But music affecting the mind isn’t a one-way street. When you change your state of mind, your are changing the vibrations being emitted, and these changed vibrations in turn can affect everything around us from plants to people.
- The Soviet’s newly christened bio-plasmic energy seemed to match the ancient Chinese chi and Indian prana (‘sea of energy”). Soviets found this energy is heightened by breathing and is affected by many things—by magnetism, sunspots, light, and sound Dr. Burr discovered that changes inside the body, changes in one’s brain waves or heartbeat, were the result of changes in these energetic fields not the other way around. These life fields, he felt are the means by which mind affects the body.
- Plants grown in scientifically controlled chambers were given concerts of different kinds of music from rock to Baroque. Plants grown in the chambers given baroque music-by Bach and Indian music by Ravi rapidly grew lush and abundant with large roots . these plants leaned toward the music source “so as to almost embrace the speaker” Some leaned as much as 60 degrees. The plants in the chamber getting rock music shriveled and died.
- Over the years, as the same experiments with plants were repeated in universities and research centers the same fact kept emerging—plants responded and grew abundantly, rapidly and more healthily when they were in a sonic environment of classical or Indian music compared with other kinds of music or silence.
- All-that-is emanates from the same source, according to Hermetic philosophy, and therefore the same laws, principles and characteristics apply to each unit—“As above, so below”.
- Everything is our universe is in a state of vibration. Matter is made up of certain types of waves on pulsing vibrations. There is commonness between the vibrations in a musical note, in a color, in the bonds of a chemical or the vibration of the electrons in an atom. Each vibrates at tis specific frequency in a ratio. A below C vibrates at 215 cycles a second, relating to the color red-orange and the metal copper. B below C vibrates at 240 cycles a second and relates to yellow and zinc. We are finding that the universe I composed not of matter but of music.
- Thomas Carlyle: See deep enough and you / see musically: the heart of /nature being everywhere music / if you can only reach it.
- Alan Hovhaness: When music was melody and rhythm, when each melodic combination was a gift of the gods, each rhythmic combination a main tram to unlock a key power in nature, then music was one of the mysteries of the elements, of the planetary systems, of the worlds visible and invisible.
- The ancient schools of music believed that music was the bridge linking all thins. Following the ideas of Pythagoras, they built a sacred canon of these specific harmonies, intervals and proportions into their music—these would be the linking sounds. When people heard sounds made of specific ratios, the rhythms of their cells, bodies and minds would be synchronized to the very same rhythms as the planets and plants, earth and sea. Disharmony and out-of-sync patterns in mind/body would be dissolved. These particular sounds and rhythms, they thought, would enhance life and make it healthier and more abundant. Music would be the bridge to the cosmos, opening body and mind to higher powers and amplifying awareness. Through music, microcosm and macrocosm could be connected.
- Stanford neuroscientist Dr. Karl Pribram has decade of evidence that the brain’s structure is holographic. Just as the hologram has information scattered throughout, the brain has each of its memories distributed throughout the system, each fragment encoded to produce the information of the whole. “ our brains mathematically construct “concrete” reality by interpreting frequencies from another dimension, a realm of meaningful, patterned primary reality that transcends time and space. The brain is a hologram, interpreting a holographic universe. Holography works in wholes, not in parts or step by step progressions. It involves frequency and phase relationships, just like the rhythmic synchronies of supermemory. At root, just exactly what is going on in holistic programs like superlearning that light up more of the mind’s capacities will probably come into clearer focus as the experts fill in their holographic model of brain and memory.
- If we are going to fly, we have to take the controls and become aware of the things that influence us, so we can take on what we like and unload the rest.
- Self-implanted, positive affirmations, properly done, will also help0 dissolve blocks and lack of confidence.
- The appearance of effortlessness in superlearning comes from all elements being productive, economical and efficient. “The birth of knowledge should be painless” says Dr. Lazanov.
- By putting conscious and unconscious stimuli together, we stimulate the personality globally… the whole personality holistically… right and left brain simultaneously.
- Joy in learning is another basic tenet of the superlearning systems. Perhaps this sense of exhilaration is one more norm we have forgotten.. Very small children have this joy naturally: if they didn’t they’d never learn to walk, talk or feed themselves. But then they get caught up in what Alan Watts called “the conspiracy against knowing who you are”. Or as Wordsworth put it… “Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy…
- Achievement is the inevitable and natural by-product of awareness.
- In communicating with the inner mind, the “courier” that helps deliver the message is emotion.
- …slow movements from Baroque instrumental music featuring string instruments gave the best results.
- A session lasting 20 minutes is recommended: 1) Four minutes of introductory music 2) Thirteen minutes ( 100 cycles of 8 seconds) 3) Three minutes of fast music to end the session
- If a child can grasp the basics quickly and surely and gain increasing confidence in his ability to learn, then more and better quality time can be devoted to learning how to reason, analyze, experiment, synthesize and create.
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