ALPHA-THETA BRAINWAVE TRAINING: INSTRUMENTAL VIPASSANA?

The following paper was presented by Elmer Green on June 22, 1993 at a symposium in Montreal Canada. In it, Dr. Green addresses similarities observed between alpha-theta brainwave ftedback and vipassana meditation and points to the usefolness ofthese practices in stimulating intuitive answers from the unconscious that are often valuable in relation to solving problems. rEds.

BIOFEEDBACK AND YOGA

Early in their exploring the new field of biofeedback, Elmer and Alyce Green developed a strategy ofstudying individuals with unusual abilities in psychophysiologic self-regulation. This strategy provided a usefol way ofdetermining possibilities and limits in the new field. In the selection below, "Biofeedback and Yoga, "from The Five Minute Hour, published by Geigy Pharmaceuticals, Ardsley, New York, in 1914, Elmer Green details how this specialized area of studies developed, and what was learned from investigations with an Indian yogi, Swami Rama. rEds.

THE ESOTERIC SIGNIFICANCE OF BIOFEEDBACK TRAINING

From Elmer Green's Journal 1 November 1994 Tuesda

ALPHA-THETA BRAINWAVE TRAINING: INSTRUMENTAL VIPASSANA?

The following paper was presented by Elmer Green on June 22, 1993 at a symposium in Montreal Canada. In it, Dr. Green addresses similarities observed between alpha-theta brainwave ftedback and vipassana meditation and points to the usefolness ofthese practices in stimulating intuitive answers from the unconscious that are often valuable in relation to solving problems. rEds.

PSYCHOPHYSICS: An Answer from the Unconscious

Biopsychology, and more specifically psychophysics are explored in relationship to information obtained from the unconscious with a meditative practice. Problem-solving methods and related principles of living in harmony with the cosmos without trying to manipulate the future for physical, emotional, or mental gain are presented through the experiences of one meditator

BEYOND PSYCHOPHYSICS

In this section Dr. Green extends his earlier psychophysiologic principle concerning «inside-theskin" mind-body interaction to interactions of the individual consciousness with the cosmos as a whole. The latter is stated succinctly as the Psychophysical Principle concerned with "outside-the-skin:" mind-universe interaction. Both principles are further subdivided into sensory and motor components, and the various components of the model are defined and explored. Every undesirable thoughtform that remains hidden in the unconscious continues to influence immediate events. We are both the sensors of life events, and the effectors who co-create the environment around us

COPPER WALL RESEARCH; PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHOPHYSICS

One day Dr. Green finished writing a grant proposal concerning the possibility ofdetecting static electrical effects from the body during meditation and during the process of bioenergetic healing. As described in the following paper, this topic was central in his dreams and visions for decades, springing from his study of the esoteric literature and his recognition that electrostatic energies were being used in training chelas (as described in the articles below) perhaps for hundreds ofyears. The very week he completed the grant proposal, he received a phone call on behalf ofJohn Fetzer of the Fetzer Foundation, Kalamazoo, Michigan. Fetzer thought ofthe mind as a 'subtle" radio transmitter and was looking for someone interested in measuring how the mind could be used to affect the world in a similar way a radio transmitter affects a radio. After conversation he asked for Green s grant proposal. This synchronicity led to several years ofscientific efforts studying electrostatic correlates of the body during meditation, and to the eventual selection ofa group of individuals with 'special abilities "-bioenergetic healing and intuitional diagnosis-with whom he conducted laboratory studies. The following three papers describe this work. The first summarizes the history of this work in Dr. Green sown words. rEds.

BIOFEEDBACK: RESEARCH AND THERAPY

The following article originally appeared in New Ways to Health (Nils 0. Jacobson, Ed, Natur Rultur Stockholm, Sweden, 1975)

BIOFEEDBACK AND STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS

Selections below are from the Greens' Bioftedback and States of Consciousness which appeared in Handbook of States of Conscioumess. 1 In this paper we see five major states ofconsciousness are described and illustrated. The Greens relate the role of "bioftedback" to each state ofconsciousness. By "bioftedback," unless otherwise stated, they always mean se/fregulation, voluntary contro!' the human capacity to exercise volition, awareness, intention, will; the potential to grow and transform. [Eds.