Extrasensory Perception and the Caudate Nucleus

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The Caudate Nucleus

Bernard Haisch wrote in The God Theory that the brain may be a filter rather than an enlightener. It filters the entire wealth of information and restricts it down to simply sense perception. This could then lead us to assume an individual identity, similar to the "alts" described by Bernardo Kastrup. The people that are able to get a wider sense of reality might therefore be those with greater access to the informational realm and could be those with additional fibre connections in their caudate nucleus, the same people that Aldous Huxley called “visionaries, all of the time” in Doors of Perception. These additional connections could be a brain deficit, or indeed, an evolutionary stage increase. Their perceptions are widening beyond the normal bodily senses and starting to perceive a more complex reality and the information contained in things beyond their usual observed physical attributes. 

I'd previously written an article for the SilvaRecord on a presentation performed by Dr. Gary Nolan and Dr. Christopher (Kit) Green at the Consortium for Space Genetics at Harvard Medical School that described the additional brain connections. Dr. Nolan also pointed me in the direction of a book titled Through the Curtain by Viola Petitt Neal, Ph.D and Shafica Karagulla, M.D. This book describes how Dr. Neil would go into trances and receive "night classes" where she'd have anomalous visions and obtain information that there's no objective reason for her to receive. Especially if those details were accurate, which hindsight appears to confirm.

Dr. Neil had a night class on December the 10th in 1961 where she had received information about the caudate nucleus, stating that "millions of antennae" would in the future allow people to "see events at a distance" (reminiscent of the CIA's remote viewing program), also for telepathic contact, and allowing people to read the "planetary records". It's an incredible piece of literature and we can assume that Neal herself would have had these additional cudate-putamen connections that Green and Nolan are studying. The book states:

The caudate nucleus deals with the head antennae. Millions of antennae which in the future will deal with the ability of all the extrasensory perception abilities. Such as the ability to see events at a distance and the ability of telepathic contact. The sending and receiving station for telepathic contact is located in the caudate nucleus. This nucleus is the mechanism that would be activated  and used as the race develops. Some people have a certain amount of development. The ability to read the planetary records (Akashic) has something to do with certain antennae activated in the caudate nucleus. This is the physical mechanism used by the interplay of the top head center and the kundalini center (base of the spine or root center), with its outer focus in the ajna center. This would be the physical mechanism for handling this ability from the etheric to the physical. This physical mechanism is the caudate nucleus. The ventricles of the brain act as a screen (like a screen for moving pictures).

Shafica Karagulla: Could you describe the caudate nucleus as you saw it in thoughtform presented in class?

Viola Petitt Neal: This thoughtform was about three feet long and about two to three feet deep, depending upon which part of it, it was. The teacher projected it in midair but did not discuss it completely because there were a lot of things which were interesting in that large projection. There were innumerable lines like the radiations of the sun. There were different centers for higher sense perception (HSP or ESP).

There were very fine lines, thousands of them, and the caudate nucleus is like a miniature brain for higher stages of development. The centers for higher sense perception were located in different points in this caudate nucleus and the antennae for these were focused at a point. There were certain foci which were pointed out in it that had to do with each higher sense development. In most people the circuits in the caudate nucleus are not connected. This is the best way to describe it.

When the esoteric teaching talked about antaskarana, or the bridge in the brain, it was really referring to a connecting of the caudate nucleus with the rest of the brain at least the connecting of these antennae circuits.

Incredible that someone would appear to have anomalous knowledge about something that they, presumably, couldn't have heard of before - unless this information was widely known about in 1961 - which seems unlikely. We can only guess that Neal herself would have had exactly these connections and used them during her "night classes". The presentation that Nolan shared with me in January 2019 shows images that match these descriptions from Neil.

"...innumerable lines like the radiations of the sun..."

"...there were very fine lines, thousands of them, and the caudate nucleus is like a miniature brain for higher stages of development..."

It's worth reiterating that the caudate-putamen constitutes only a small area in the central region of the brain. It's also accepted within mainstream science as being a source of higher functions and even described in several papers as processing intuitive information.

This detail from Through the Curtain also ties with the work of Helena Blavatsky, where she describes a change in humans where they'd eventually become psychic as they evolve. Many esoteric texts, including Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, appear to agree that humans will evolve this way. These insights appear to match with the work of Green and Nolan and suggest that significant changes may be in process for the human species.

People with these additional connections may need to place themselves into a meditative or trance-like state in order to receive these types of information. I wonder whether using an active meditation and imagining environment and allowing the anomalous information to seep into the consciousness via some ultra low frequency waves (as suggested by Andrija Puharich) and silencing the bodily senses. Or even flashes of inspiration via imagery when the brain is otherwise preoccupied with some other task.

If any of these assumptions were true then it'd require a complete reassessment of the human condition and our place within, or part of, the environment. All of which would likely require entire new levels of study in order to even acknowledge a partial understanding of the broader reality. Truthfully, I have no inside knowledge of these systems and processes and I'm basing this entire blog post on my own observations, so should only be considered interesting (I hope) speculation.

Thoughts on ESP

Just as an animal has no understanding of politics or economics, so might we also be incapable of understanding aspects of reality. In fact there must be elements to the universe that are completely beyond our capability of comprehending, but how much? If we have misinterpreted reality, then I'd hope that we're able to reassess and make some sense of a deeper truth.

So how would something unfamiliar and unseen appear? We'd likely, and incorrectly, apply the familiar to it. A more correct course of action may be to make lots of small observations about what's seen and heard, as this should remove some bias. Imagine a situation where you're exposed to "seeing" into another reality, most people would immediately assume they're seeing three dimensions and say they're seeing "sky" or "water" for something that appears blue either high or low in any imagery. As consciousness appears within different dimensions to height, width, depth; exposure to higher dimensions may require describing feelings, mental imagery and influence. As that could just as easily be within the parameters of any higher realities. Maybe even unrecognised attributes of this one.

Our subjective experiences are always being influenced by images viewed within the usual three dimensions. It should really be considered as influencing and being influenced by them. Just as the moving of an object influences spatial dimensions, it also influences conscious experience. Only in a less objectively obvious way. Unless recorded objectively from subjective experience (i.e., a diary).

Society believes that we can only sense three dimensions, so all measurements are based on those. That may be a self-defined delusion. Accepting that other, observable, parameters exist, then we may be able to better understand the original source and may even help to explain how ESP-like functions could work.

Imagine an ESP-type game where a card is presented to someone and placed on a table. The guesser cannot visibly see with their eyes the potential value of the card, the "data", or rather information, is present within the environment. If we assume that environmental changes affect a type of consciousness dimension(s), just as they will have affected height, width, and volume; then you can imagine the parameters of the card being accessible to the reader - as it will have affected their conscious state, just as the rest of the environment will have. Just in a very subtle and difficult to recognise way. I wonder if taking the other cards further away would reduce further noise? 

All information are therefore available. This could also explain anomalous information receipt from things like the CIA researched remote viewing. Mental exercises of imagining being within other environments may then be beneficial, as it'll teach people how to view using thought processes and inner vision rather than strictly using the eyes and outer vision. Why does society exclude subjectivity from reported dimensions? Large areas of science considers it an illusion. I suggest that ignoring it could be a self-inflicted limitation. 

It's likely that we're way too quick to conclude all of our experiences, even our sense of who we are and what we're here for. Maybe our understanding of who we are could be a complete misinterpretation. Humanity has already agreed that consciousness is an epiphenomenon of the brain, but what if we got it the wrong way around? A simple reverse of the accepted answer would fundamentally change how we perceive everything. It's easy to rationalise this too, since ideas, or thoughts, really do come prior to their physical manifestation - someone thinks of an smartphone and an smartphone (eventually) manifests. It makes me wonder if our bodies are a marionette that functions based on outside commands, only with a sleeping puppeteer. 

Real Vs "Unreal"

As we gain a greater understanding of the complexity of a potential wider informational field, then people may start to get a better grip on physical reality and our place within it. Even to the point where they may be able to adapt physical space to an initially small extent. Aren't we all really doing that anyway? Just that we're assuming limits based on bodily interactions rather than lesser understood changes.

The real and unreal may have blurred lines - maybe the unreal actually is just as real as the objective world. I wonder if we have creative energy that's somewhat limited by being stuck in a physical body and not recognised or even discussed.

A person that's blind from birth and has their brain stimulated in areas of vision may start to develop a synaesthesia-type response in order to try and interpret that information, in a non-visual way. It's easy to imagine that a standard brain when subjected to non-traditional stimulus may make interpretations of that information. So they may visualise non-visual concepts in a synaesthesia-like way. 

We could be being subjected to information that we don’t recognise, because it’s outside of the textbook descriptions of “reality”, therefore we struggle to recognise it for what it is. A lot of people may even choose to ignore anomalous information, disregarding that which does not easily fit with the quantifiable world. I wonder if this is a failure of the scientific world, too quick to reject conclusions that do not fit with consensus reality.

While writing this blog post I keep thinking Aristotle’s phrase; "greater than the sum of its parts" and feel that this can be applied to the human condition in quite a literal sense when thinking of physicality and our apparent unrecognised "psychic" potential.