And so if you play at biofeedback, neurofeedback yourself, without the guide of, one, the protocol, and without the guide of a skilled trainer, all you may do is teach your ego how to resist the insights that could break through if the training were conducted under a more vigorous and disciplined way. And so the idea of doing initial training at home, I'm skeptical about that.
I won't say it will never happen. But I've designed methods for doing this in India, where we have a thousand people in a vast hall, all sending their little [inaudible 01:03:49] like in a language lab, and then semi-skilled people serving as their coaches or trainers. This would not be the same as having a skilled trainer, but it would be better than trying to do it on your own with an untrained person. I'm mindful of wanting to do this for seven billion people, so I'm exploring ways of doing it en masse.
Erik: Well, that's great, and I think it's great to hear such powerful aspirations for the future of psychological health and spiritual development in human beings. And so before we wrap up the call in just a couple minutes, I'd like to ask if there's anything else that you feel would be good for folks to know.
James: Well, I mentioned in passing earlier that I know the brain wave patterns of halos
Erik: Yes, tell us you have.
James: I don't yet have the technology in place to provide that training, but I'm working on it. And I first discovered this pattern. Well, I had FM recordings of brain wave meditations of 30-some Zen meditators, including a famous Roshi, advanced meditators, intermediate meditators, and beginning meditators. And I had access to a computer program that I've actually documented the assembly language code on, so I understood it probably better than the programmer. And I had the opportunity to run to play these FM tape recordings, magnetic tape recordings, through the computer program that analyzed power and coherence, spectral analysis. And so I produced these graphs.
And I recognized, first of all, I confirmed the patterns that were seen by Kasamatsu and Hirai in a similar study they did in Japan with Zen meditators, about the brain wave differences of beginners, intermediate, and advanced. But I also had a Roshi, a Zen master, a very famous Roshi. And he had a pattern which I had seen in only one other of the advanced, only one other of the 30 meditators. Well, in science, all you need is 1 out of 20 to have statistical significance. P less than .05, 1 in 20, and then you can say this is statistical significance.
And so if you play at biofeedback, neurofeedback yourself, without the guide of, one, the protocol, and without the guide of a skilled trainer, all you may do is teach your ego how to resist the insights that could break through if the training were conducted under a more vigorous and disciplined way. And so the idea of doing initial training at home, I'm skeptical about that.
I won't say it will never happen. But I've designed methods for doing this in India, where we have a thousand people in a vast hall, all sending their little [inaudible 01:03:49] like in a language lab, and then semi-skilled people serving as their coaches or trainers. This would not be the same as having a skilled trainer, but it would be better than trying to do it on your own with an untrained person. I'm mindful of wanting to do this for seven billion people, so I'm exploring ways of doing it en masse.
Erik: Well, that's great, and I think it's great to hear such powerful aspirations for the future of psychological health and spiritual development in human beings. And so before we wrap up the call in just a couple minutes, I'd like to ask if there's anything else that you feel would be good for folks to know.
James: Well, I mentioned in passing earlier that I know the brain wave patterns of halos
Erik: Yes, tell us you have.
James: I don't yet have the technology in place to provide that training, but I'm working on it. And I first discovered this pattern. Well, I had FM recordings of brain wave meditations of 30-some Zen meditators, including a famous Roshi, advanced meditators, intermediate meditators, and beginning meditators. And I had access to a computer program that I've actually documented the assembly language code on, so I understood it probably better than the programmer. And I had the opportunity to run to play these FM tape recordings, magnetic tape recordings, through the computer program that analyzed power and coherence, spectral analysis. And so I produced these graphs.
And I recognized, first of all, I confirmed the patterns that were seen by Kasamatsu and Hirai in a similar study they did in Japan with Zen meditators, about the brain wave differences of beginners, intermediate, and advanced. But I also had a Roshi, a Zen master, a very famous Roshi. And he had a pattern which I had seen in only one other of the advanced, only one other of the 30 meditators. Well, in science, all you need is 1 out of 20 to have statistical significance. P less than .05, 1 in 20, and then you can say this is statistical significance.
