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Excess correlation between the activity or properties of two particles separated by non-local dis... more Excess correlation between the activity or properties of two particles separated by non-local distances has been demonstrated for photons, shifts in relative proton and hydroxyl ratios in spring water, and the distribution of values from random number generators if both loci shared a specific type of rotational magnetic field. Previous experiments had shown that specific responses from pairs of people who shared circumcerebral magnetic fields with changing angular velocities revealed significant excess correlation. The most significant differences occurred during the component of the field exposure that has previously been associated with " excess correlation ". In the present experiments, we found evidence of excess correlation of performance (serial in-game scores) occurred between pairs (separated by 10 m) of experienced gamers during the relative measures for the central portion of the protocol but was diminished when the " excess correlation " electromagnetic fields were activated, suggesting a similar competing mechanism. The results are consistent with the interpretation that shared video systems and activities may enhance excess correlation of responses. This can be simulated in novice players by experimentally inducing excess correlation through appropriate application of changing, circumcerebral angular velocity magnetic fields that were similar in magnitude to those associated with computer systems and time frames that define human consciousness.

There have been multiple historical and cross-cultural reports of excess correlation of specific ... more There have been multiple historical and cross-cultural reports of excess correlation of specific experiences between individuals separated by thousands of kilometers. Recently there have been experimental demonstrations of excess correlations between measurable cerebral events for small percentages of test subjects. More reliable effects can be elicited when electromagnetic fields and photons are involved. In this experiment completed during the summer of 2015, 5 pairs of volunteers separated by more than 6,000 km wore identical cerebral toroids through which patterns of phase shifting, 30 nT magnetic fields that diminished the local magnetic field in both loci by 1-5 nT were exposed to the sequences that produced excess correlation in chemiluminescent reactions and shifts in pH. Compared to the various baselines and control procedures enhanced power between the right hemispheres of pairs of participants occurred during the interval documented to produce excess correlation. Specific analyses indicated diminished coherence within the theta band only within the right temporal lobes of the pairs. Sequential block analyses revealed that the paired brains’ responses to pulsed tones at 6.5 Hz occurred within the 30-40 Hz band over the caudal temporal lobes during the exposures to the effector field. Primary independent component analyses verified these patterns. During the 6.5 Hz tones there was a peak in the spectral power density (SPD) at that frequency over the right temporal lobe of the person listening but a trough in (SPD) over this region for the person who was not. Even subjective experiences, as measured by the Profile of Mood States (POMS), indicated significantly increased excess correlation for scales by which increased anger and decreased vigour are inferred. This experiment, based upon physical principles, suggests there is a technology that can generate reliable excess correlation of brain activity (and potentially consciousness and specific experiences) between two people separated by thousands of kilometers.

Teilhard de Chardin’s integration of geobiological phenomena with philosophical and spiritual per... more Teilhard de Chardin’s integration of geobiological phenomena with philosophical and spiritual perspectives resulted in ideas, such as potentially quantifiable “spiritual energy”, the emergence of a “sphere of human thinking” (noosphere) as the next evolutionary stage of the biosphere, and the ultimate expansion of consciousness into the galaxy. Transformations of his concepts into contemporary values that effectively define cosmology, quantum biology, and human cerebral parameters could support his interpretations. Scaled quantification of basic universal energies match the magnitudes measured within the human cerebrum during thinking. Superposition of the magnetic fields associated with thinking upon the intergalactic strength fields for induced changes in magnetic moments of elementary electrons solves for durations that approach the age of the universe or “immortality”. The immersion of the human species within both the earth’s magnetic field and the Schumann Resonances creates the conditions for producing the “noosphere” and for its potential expansion into space. The rapid development of new computer-based technologies that expose the human population to homogeneous energetic patterns and produce cognitive states consistent with “unifying” the noosphere could be sufficient to produce physical changes which would support Teilhard de Chardin’s hypotheses.

International Journal of Geosciences, 2015

The daily median ground surface flux densities per day from a continuously operating photomultipl... more The daily median ground surface flux densities per day from a continuously operating photomultiplier tube unit for four years in Sudbury, Ontario are presented for December 2010 to December 2014. Increases of about 2 to 4 PMT units (1 unit = 5 × 10 −11 W•m −2 ) for median daily measures reliably occurred about two weeks before M ≥ 7.7 earthquakes anywhere on the planet. The PMT units, until June 2014, usually returned to baseline within a few days after the events. There has been a slow positive drift in flux power density since about 2012 and a conspicuous maintained increase after May, 2014. The equivalent energy per day if it were represented isotropically within the volume occupied by the earth is the same order of magnitude as the average daily global total seismic energy release. Spectral power densities revealed enhanced peaks (periodicities) between 100 to 150 days, 60 days, 30 days, and 25 days. Discriminable peaks in power were noted around 18 days, 14 days, and 4 to 6 days. These results suggest that continuous measurement of photon emissions within hyper-dark conditions may reveal geophysical processes that precede larger seismic events and could reflect the movement of the earth-solar system around the galactic center.

Talks by Brendan Lehman

Transatlantic Study: Experimental Production of Excess Correlation of Right Temporal Theta-Gamma ... more Transatlantic Study: Experimental Production of Excess Correlation of Right Temporal Theta-Gamma Activity Between Subjects Pairs Sharing Circumcerebral Rotating Magnetic Fields

Traditional studies of human consciousness assume the necessitation of dynamic, time-varying meta... more Traditional studies of human consciousness assume the necessitation of dynamic, time-varying metabolic processes often without consideration of the properties of and interactions with the spatial environment within which these processes occur. Quantitative electroencephalographic (QEEG) measurements were obtained from an adult human brain specimen, preserved in ethanol-formalin-acetic acid (EFA). Probes were inserted into gyri approximating areas which underlie QEEG channels corresponding to the 10-20 International System of Electrode Placement and referenced to a living human ear. Before measurements were obtained, the specimen was submerged for 20 min in EFA (pH<3) or distilled H2O (pH > 5). During measurements, the brain was either placed on a flat surface, within a polystyrene box, or within a polyethylene human replica skull. Baseline measures were obtained with applied filters so as to eliminate ambient electromagnetic noise. Independent Component Analysis (ICA) performed upon the QEEG data revealed two major activation patterns. The first activation pattern consisted of a right temporo-occipital profile, which dominated all conditions. However, a second pattern emerged: bilateral frontal lobe and left supramarginal gyrus activation. This second pattern was only observed when the experimental conditions approximated those that would be expected to closely simulate the human body (i.e. brain pH approached neutrality and was contained within a skull). In order to identify a potential mechanism, environmental electrodynamics were considered. Raw data from all conditions as well as data collected from an induction coil which measures Schumann oscillations from the Earth’s geomagnetic field were extracted and spectral analyzed. Correlational analyses of spectral densities within the frequency band corresponding to the fundamental mode of the Schumann field (7Hz – 9Hz) revealed significant relationships that were present only when the brain was contained within a skull (r = -.25, p<.01) or approached pH neutrality (r = -.29, p< .001). These results are indicative of a
relationship between the Earth’s magnetic field, the human skull, water, and areas of the brain associated with the construction of the sense of self.

Embodied cognition is the materially-grounded theory that the nature of the human mind is predomi... more Embodied cognition is the materially-grounded theory that the nature of the human mind is predominantly determined by the form of the human body. This is in relation to the cognitive sciences through three main avenues: (1) The attributes of the physical body and its biological functions (i.e. photon emissions, ELF magnetic interactions, etc.), (2) the role of the body in cognitive processes and how the mind conceptualizes the actions and mechanisms of the body, and (3) interaction with the local environment (enactivism), exploring how the local environment is seen as an extension of the body's cognitive process. More specifically, enactivism describes how cognition arises through the dynamic interaction between an organism and its environment, and in particular, how our environment is one we selectively create through our capacities to interact with the immediate space. The relationship between these concepts and the play of video games is often explored through, and expands upon, the concepts of immersion in that they provide a two-way exchange of information with the virtual environment. This model includes the standard framework of the player affecting the game, and leaves open exploration into how the game may affect the external world through the player. The neurophysiological mechanisms involved in both these models are explored here using immersive role-playing games and quantitative electroencephalography (QEEG). Brain activity of players as measured by QEEG during an immersive gameplay task using The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and analyzed by Independent Component Analysis indicated the activation of fronto-parietal networks associated with action video game play and other executive functioning tasks. Fronto-parietal network activations significantly differ from baseline in theta and high alpha frequency bands; bands critical to the formation of functional long-range coherence. As a principal function of the superior parietal lobe is to represent the position of the body in physical space, the appearance of a fronto-parietal network in an immersive gaming task implies the involvement of an embodied cognition-type mechanism. Chiefly, this finding suggests that cognition with regard to the body may be “transferred” to the player avatar during an immersive gaming task, and as such provides a completely different cognitive environment within which the brain may create its own consciousness.

Thesis Chapters by Brendan Lehman

The interactions between the brain of the participant and the temporal flow of events within comp... more The interactions between the brain of the participant and the temporal flow of events within computer games could reflect a new type of consciousness-machine interface that could reveal novel options for biological-electronic evolution. The flow state which is defined as an inclusive, immersed affect state can be considered a component of and contribution to the interface computer (machine) simulations of real life events. Complex analyses during interactive gaming revealed two parent clusters of topographical quantitative electroencephalographic activity (QEEG) that emphasized the two cerebral hemispheres. A conspicuous peak around 40 Hz (25 ms) occurred upon the declining power gradient of cerebral output. The interactive flow state was more involved with right caudal hemispheric activations within relatively narrow frequency bands that overlapped with the earth-ionospheric Schumann resonances which are also found with normal spectral densities of QEEGs. Independent Component Analyses and Linear Discriminant Analyses for components of QEEG during reward and skill segments of computer game involvement verified the importance of the duration of a percept (around 130 ms). The results were consistent with the possibility that two successive percepts, one of them preceding awareness, might be influenced by extracerebral factors strongly correlated with Schumann Resonance properties. When two experienced or non-experienced gamers shared the same circumcerebral magnetic fields with 20 to 25 ms phase modulations as a second derivative, evidence of excessive correlation, the basis of entanglement, was evident. Application of these results and integration with a biological theory developed by Teilhard de Chardin that the next stage of evolution involve the “noosphere” within which collective experiences would direct subsequent developments in life suggest the feasibility is much greater than previously anticipated.

International Journal of Geosciences, 2015