New Brain-Computer, Mind-Control Technology

Posted on June 21, 2011 by user6

KURZWEILAI– University of Michigan Center for Wireless Integrated Microsystems professor Euisik Yoon and colleagues are developing a next-generation design for a brain-computer interface (BCI): a brain implant called BioBolt.

This patent-pending invention could someday allow some disabled patients to control an arm muscle (or other muscles) by just thinking about the movement — without wires keeping them immobilized in a chair.

A bolt implanted in the skull would contain an ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit) microchip under the skin in the skull. It would pick up and process neural signals, and transmit them via the skin directly to a receiver located in or near the target muscle group (such as an arm or hand).

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RSA Animate – The Empathic Civilization

Posted on April 28, 2011 by user6

TED– Can we reach biosphere consciousness and global empathy in time to avert planetary collapse? In this talk from RSA Animate, bestselling author Jeremy Rifkin investigates the evolution of empathy and the profound ways it has shaped human development and society.

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Documentary Interviews – DMT: The Spirit Molecule

Posted on February 27, 2011 by abby

THE SPIRIT MOLECULE– DMT: The Spirit Molecule weaves an account of Dr. Rick Strassman’s groundbreaking DMT research through a multifaceted approach to this intriguing hallucinogen found in the human brain and hundreds of plants. Utilizing interviews with a variety of experts to explain their thoughts and experiences with DMT within their respective fields, and discussions with Strassman’s research volunteers brings to life the awesome effects of this compound, and far-reaching theories regarding its role in human consciousness.

Several themes explored include possible roles for endogenous DMT; its theoretical role in near-death and birth experiences, alien-abduction experiences; and the uncanny similarities in Biblical prophetic texts describing DMT-like experiences. Our expert contributors offer a comprehensive collection of information, opinions, and speculation about indigenous use of DMT, the history and future of psychedelic research, and current DMT research. All this, to help us understand the nature of the DMT experience, and its role in human society and evolution.

The subtle combination of science, spirituality, and philosophy within the film’s approach sheds light on an array of ideas that could considerably alter the way humans understand the universe and their relationship to it.

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To learn more about the film go to http://www.thespiritmolecule.com/

Art by Abby Martin and Maria Scott

Jill Bolte Taylor’s Stroke of Insight

Posted on February 15, 2011 by abby

TED– One morning, a blood vessel in Jill Bolte Taylor’s brain exploded. As a brain scientist, she realized she had a ringside seat to her own stroke. She watched as her brain functions shut down one by one: motion, speech, memory, self-awareness…

Amazed to find herself alive, Taylor spent eight years recovering her ability to think, walk and talk. She has become a spokesperson for stroke recovery and for the possibility of coming back from brain injury stronger than before. In her case, although the stroke damaged the left side of her brain, her recovery unleashed a torrent of creative energy from her right. From her home base in Indiana, she now travels the country on behalf of the Harvard Brain Bank as the “Singin’ Scientist.”

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The CIA, LSD, Shulgin & the DEA, DMT & Consciousness

Posted on November 16, 2010 by abby

Media Roots Radio- The CIA, LSD, DMT, Shulgin & the DEA, Lucid Dreaming, Consciousness by Media Roots

MEDIA ROOTS – Robbie and Abby Martin talk about the initiation and evolution of psychedelic drugs into our culture: the research, CIA experimentation, takeover and demonization of psychedelics following the 60s, MDMA and its use in psychology, the nature of consciousness, DMT and Lucid Dreaming.

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