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Studying these unique cases of ‘profectum’ allows us to better understand exactly what changes occur in the brain and how they can affect our daily lives. It also gives us the opportunity to explore how these changes can be interconnected with ancient practices and teachings that have shown us the path to enlightenment and self-realization over the centuries.
In this way, “Homo profectum sapiens’ may become not just a new species in the biological sense, but a symbol of the new level of awareness that humanity is striving for. This could be the beginning of a new chapter in our history, where the development of the mind and awakened consciousness will become central elements of our existence.
In my quest to understand and describe this phenomenon, I am going to share some of the most unique and revealing stories of those who have already experienced the state of ‘profectum’. These stories not only illustrate the general features of the phenomenon we are experiencing, but also help us see the physiological trends of changes that occur in the brain.
It is difficult to give exact statistics, but according to preliminary estimates, tens of thousands of people have already experienced the profectum effect, and since all the personal stories of the experience are almost identical, it makes no sense to list them, so I will present in my opinion some of the most unique cases:
Dmitry. F. Age 15 years.
“I didn’t feel my body well, there was a feeling of peace, a kind of “levitation” – that is, the body felt as light as possible.
This state is very similar to the phenomenon of “hyper-realization” and that my brain begins to work as quickly as possible, productively, 100%. In this state, any difficult tasks were instantly solved. Apparently, a large amount of blood entered the brain, activating a significant part of the neural ensembles.
I began to be fully aware of myself, the feeling of anxiety completely disappeared, a state of complete comfort and relaxation came.
There was only a certain feeling that I could “change the world” and that I was not a separate person, but a part of this world and nothing separate.
Passing my hand, her movement seemed to me to be some kind of slides, that is? When I passed my hand near my face, I saw what had happened to it a second ago in the form of a transparent “image” that had a different time than the one I was in.
I felt what I would call hallucinatory levitation, literally I did not feel my body as some kind of mass. Very interesting.
I told my sister about this condition, that perhaps it was “hyper-realization”, she is a psychologist. Hyperrealization is a kind of spatial disturbance of perception, a state between sleep and wakefulness – a fairly similar description to what I experienced at that point in time.”
It is noteworthy that after three years, Dmitry is fond of various sciences; physics, space, futurology, the development of the mind, and wants to change the world for the better.
Pay attention to the fact that Dmitry did not have a complete transition to the pure work of consciousness, as a result of which visual images were perceived simultaneously as an accelerated and slowed down picture of the visible. That is, the visual system in our brain has two ways of perception; direct to the frontal structures and the second through the filter of the singular cortex (which stores our personality – I see, my body, my hand, etc.). The two paths of visual perception have a completely different speed – in the normal state, a person sees with a delay of 300 milliseconds to 30 seconds, and in the state of profectum, perception speeds up several times. As a result, this is why Dmitry developed such an unusual effect of a visual image with a bifurcation in time and space.
Apparently, this visual effect is an accidental coincidence, but a similar multiple depiction of hands can be found in Shaivism.
Another story of personal experience is told by Alexander V., 34 years old.
“It was summer, about 5 in the morning. Going out on the balcony and sitting on an armchair, I just listened to the street, trying not to distinguish sounds, allowing myself not to understand, but to listen, and did not notice how I listened to the singing of birds. And then the unusual happened. I no longer understood where the body was, whether it was breathing there or not, or in what position. At that moment, it was as if I was singing birds myself. Not with birds, not with sound waves, but with the singing itself. Then, a moment before, he could seem to control it or predict which one would sing and how.
I decided to ask my own question. Not words. It’s not just how you want to think and the mind expresses it in a monologue to itself, but without putting it into words, you already know what you want to think about before the thought takes shape. In fact, you don’t have to talk to yourself in your head, as it usually happens. I’m going to ask a question, and I just already know the answer. That’s what frightened my mind, as soon as I realized it, the fear of what was happening, threw me out of this state
All my life waiting for an answer from the outside and trying to find it: I did not even notice that I had already been communicating with the “voice of silence” since childhood. I began to rediscover the world around me through perception and gradually merging with it, I began to “hear” it again, to be in harmony with the world.”
Like the story of Dmitry described above, Alexander did not have a complete transition of feelings to pure consciousness, but in his case it is associated with auditory perception. The consciousness in accelerated perception had already heard the birds singing, but to the slowed personal awareness it seemed that it was predicting in an instant how the birds would sing.
The experience is described by Osho R. 1931 – 1990.
“The condition was supernatural. For the first time, it shakes to the very depths of the soul. After this experience, you will never be the same again. It brings a completely new outlook on life, makes you completely different.
Around midnight, my eyes suddenly opened by themselves… In any case, I did not make any effort to do so. Something disturbed my sleep. I felt someone’s presence next to me, in my room. My room was very tiny, but I could feel the beating of life all around, powerful vibrations. It was as if I had been caught in the eye of a typhoon and was drowning in a majestic storm of light, joy and bliss.
It was so real that everything else became unreal: the walls of the room, the whole house, my body itself. Everything became unreal, because only now did I see the real reality for the first time.”
As in the stories of Dmitry and Alexander, Osho lost the sense of his own physical body, and his visual perception changed.
Tesla N. 1856 – 1943.
“My sight and hearing are perfect, and I dare say, stronger than those of other people. I hear thunder 250 kilometers away and see colors in the sky that other people can’t see. I acquired such a sharpening of vision and hearing as a child. Later, I developed them consciously. I learned to control emotions, dreams and vision.”
John Jacob O’Neill. 1944. In the book “Genius Overflowing. The Life of Nikola Tesla” describes the feelings experienced by N. Tesla:
“One of the symptoms was hypersensitivity. His senses had always been extremely heightened, but now his sensitivity had grown so much that it had become simply painful. The ticking of the clock, from which he was separated by three rooms, sounded like the sound of a hammer on an anvil. The vibration created by ordinary street traffic, transmitted through a chair or bench, reverberated throughout the body, and in order to completely eliminate all vibrations, it was necessary to put the legs of his bed on rubber pads. Ordinary speech was perceived as a terrible noise, and the slightest touch had a psychological effect similar to a powerful blow. The ray of sunlight falling on him felt like an internal explosion. A particularly unpleasant sensitivity in the forehead made it possible to feel an object at a distance of ten paces in the dark.”
Tesla is the most striking example of the state of profectum – a complete transition to a heightened sense of touch, visual and auditory perception.
At the moment of direct work of consciousness (frontal structures of the brain), there is a multiple acceleration and increase in the work of the mind, a colossally larger amount of information stored in the brain is involved. Perhaps it was these mental abilities that allowed N. Tesla to make more than 700 inventions.
Another unique example of the tested state of Profectum is presented by Larisa B., 60 years old.
I like to walk, having a certain long-distance goal. Outline the final destination of the walk and walk without thinking about anything. To do this, I have long developed my own way of stopping thinking. I begin to experience thoughts as an internal movement of the energy they produce. I began to stop movements in the inner space and not only from loud thoughts, but also from the idea of stopping them, and from any intention to go somewhere and achieve something. It’s just that any interest, any desire, generates a vector of movement, a subtle, barely perceptible internal tension. It is very subtle and it should be noticed. And how to remove the intention, the desire to come to something? But only if you create a state in which you have already come, have already achieved everything, have already received everything and you do not need anywhere and do not need anything. I have already implemented everything I wanted and you don’t need to do anything, explain to yourself, prove something, control… And when there is no intention, no goal, and all that remains is to stop micro-movements from current thoughts that arise spontaneously.
Attention was somewhere inside, in some center, some point from which all these mental movements arose… And as soon as the next thoughts tried to come, I immediately returned them back to the point of peace from which they arose.
In general, I did it for about 10 or 15 minutes, and suddenly I was thrown out somewhere… The whole perception has changed… Space has changed… I even stopped from surprise… Amazing silence and some kind of viviparous emptiness. The density of the air and the space around is completely unfamiliar.
Thoughts simply did not arise and their absence was completely natural. It was perceived as a very colorfully shining, as if slightly moving space. It’s like you lived in a two-dimensional world before, and in an instant you got into a three-dimensional one. Some strange additional and shining volume appeared.
The picture is so “alive” that, in comparison with it, in the usual perception of reality, it seems that there is not enough “life”. In general, physical reality seemed to come to life… For myself, I later called it a stop in the inner world of a person.
Then a slight shadow of “me” appeared, curiosity about what was happening turned on (this, as I understand now, threw me back, but after 15 minutes). I began to look at everything carefully and even try to think… Houses are standing, trees are growing, cars are driving… Everything works, only everything is different, all the senses are sharpened.
And the exit was very gradual, soft, as if everything was slowly dissipating. Then, for about 10 days, a strong trace of the condition remained. It was incomprehensible how I had not seen this “living” thing in space before. I did not have any questions that would require answers. The answers came by themselves, I don’t know where they came from… The information also somehow came by itself…
As a person who is honest with myself and reasonable, I realized that this is certainly not “enlightenment” at all, just a deeper immersion in something, but the fact that this is a move to something more – yes. And for some reason I am sure that there is no end to this, deeper and deeper until it dissolves completely. Wei Wu Wei writes in his book “The Tenth Man” that this is not enough for liberation, and he is right. In this state, there was a “me” in which everything happened.
I came to understand how to be effective. There are no difficulties in achieving something, there are conditioning and reluctance. There was a conviction that everything is possible. The intensity of living has increased, it is possible to say: the speed has somehow increased…
Lyudmila’s story is most unique in that she was able to feel the information energy field. In contrast to the above examples, which partly have a natural basis, it has reached the state of profectum by practicing the cessation of the internal dialogue, the uninterrupted flow of thoughts. Her example proves that absolutely every person has the opportunity, with the help of meditative practices, to acquire the abilities of the mind of Nikola Tesla, to have the calmness of the Buddha, to change not only the perception of reality, but also to completely reset the parameters of the “I”, the subjective personality.
Meditation is able to reset the settings of programs acquired from early childhood, which leads to natural nature, self-knowledge, comprehension of the very basis of life and its fundamental purpose.
We are still only at the beginning of the path of upcoming discoveries, but even today, thanks to the Dalai Lama XIV, who initiated joint research with the participation of representatives of modern science and Buddhist monks, using the latest equipment, scientists are studying the effect of meditative practices on the physiological activity of the brain.
A participant in this scientific project and expeditions to India and Nepal, Professor Alexander Kaplan shared his view on meditation. “Meditation is not mysticism, it is a transformative force. You come out of it a different person. It is this transformative force that we are studying.”
This power, the professor is sure, “can make us better – more sensitive and compassionate to the world around us.”
Meditative practices certainly change the brain, making a person calmer, improve memory, thereby increasing mental abilities, but they are only the beginning. The beginning of the path of development to the phenomenal, sometimes inexplicable possibilities of the work of consciousness. It is impossible to describe something that goes beyond logical perception, so a survey of those who experienced the profectum revealed a number of cognitive changes that we are already able to study and justify scientifically.
The altered state of consciousness profectum usually occurs once and lasts an average of 5—10 minutes, in rare cases it lasts up to several hours and recurs episodically.
The age of those who have experienced profectum varies from 10 to 65 years, but there is mainly a predominance of two age categories, these are 20—25 years and 40—45 years.
In most cases, the effect occurs naturally, without meditative, spiritual or any other practices. Psychological experiences preceding the moment, depression, and health problems are often mentioned. That is, in such a case, it is the occurrence of critical life situations that serve as a stimulus for the activation of the functional activity of consciousness.
The survey of those who experienced the profectum reveals a number of common parameters of cognitive changes;
Table; 1
– Absolute peace of mind.
– Absence of “I”, ego, personality, character.
– The disappearance of the internal dialogue, the usual incessant flow of thoughts.
– A sense of pure reason.
– Increase in the amount of memory structures involved.
– The absence of a pressure filter over the perception of accumulated experience, knowledge, which contributes to a changed vision of reality.
– Acceleration and significant increase in the volume of sensory information processing (hearing, sight, touch).
– As a result of the departure from personal perception, there is a globalization of thinking, identity with the external world.
Individual symptoms are rare;
– Visual bifurcation of the external picture of the visible, simultaneous layering of ordinary and accelerated visual perception.
– Anticipatory auditory perception, advance knowledge of the external source of sound, which will occur in a moment.
– A heightened sense of touch, which allows you to feel objects at a distance.
– An increase in the speed of reactions, a change in the physical state of the whole body, the vegetative and endocrine system at the cellular level, a change in body weight, an increase in blood pressure.
– Access to all the information stored in the brain opens up, which contributes to the manifestation of unusual rational logic, and a form of thinking, which can be called intuitively creative and having a much higher speed.
Subsequently, after a short-term profectum, there is;
– Slow, lasting on average from 2 days to several months, disappearance of the effects of absolute memory.
– Self-analysis and conscious observation of one’s own thoughts and emotions are manifested.
– Continuous, ongoing learning, information-seeking, and community experiences similar experiences.
– Interests, life goals and values change dramatically.
– There is a change in the field of activity, profession, or at least new hobbies appear.
– The psyche, personality, perception of oneself and the outside world change.
– Often there are complications in relationships with the close environment, which are not able to perceive such a sharp change in personality.
– Those who have experienced attract others to themselves with a positive mental background, but due to the difference in the experience of knowledge and misunderstanding, over time they prefer to stay away from social society and its consumer interests.
– They become spiritual leaders, trying to explain their personal experience in an accessible language for ordinary people.
There are many more general parameters, but the above table is limited to logical perception, since only at the level of rational logic is it possible to describe the sensations of what has been experienced. At the very least, rational logic is limited to speech and what goes beyond it at the level of modern knowledge cannot be described.
I will give an example for understanding the level of thinking of the neocortex as a form of a higher order;
When the body needs a certain element, such as phosphorus, the brain is not always able to directly indicate the possibility of obtaining it in a pharmacy. Instead, our neocortex, which is responsible for more complex cognitive functions such as problem-solving and planning, ‘scans’ memory for sources of a given element.
This inner ‘search’, or more precisely, the awareness of a need, can manifest itself in the form of a sudden desire to eat foods rich in phosphorus, such as fish, almonds or pistachios. This is an example of how our biological needs can influence our preferences and desires, even if we are not aware of the true reason for this desire.
When the need is satisfied, the brain releases dopamine as a reward, which we perceive as a sensation of pleasure or ‘delicious’.
This example of unconscious needs of the body is especially observed during pregnancy or at the time of illness, when the lack of demanded elements increases many times over.
This process also highlights the importance of listening to our body’s signals and intuition. They can provide us with valuable insights into our physiological needs, which in turn can help us make more informed decisions.
Conclusion – listen to your intuition.
Neuroscientists Andrew Newberg and Mark Robert Waldman, after interviewing more than 2,000 people who had experienced Profectum in their book Our Brain and Enlightenment, published a table of five basic elements that mark experiences;
– A sense of unity or interconnectedness.
– Incredible power of experience.
– Clarity of mind and a new understanding of fundamental truths.
– A feeling of absolute resignation, or loss of conscious control.
– Awareness of irreversible changes – in beliefs, in life, in goals.
Further, the authors note:
However, the nature of the manifestation of these elements is highly variable and individual. For example, you may experience oneness with nature, universal consciousness, or God.
Here is the story of a 65-year-old American woman who professes Judaism: It was like an energetic merging and union with the most powerful Creative Force/Being in all universes and beyond. At that moment, I was at the same time aware of myself as an individual, but I was also part of “God” (I don’t have another word, though). Imbued with the power of all Creation/Creative Power, I was filled with joy so great that it nourished my Existence with a spiritual kinship with everything and everyone.
Now notice the similarities in the experience of oneness: the following is another story sent by a woman in India (43 years old):
One day, when I was doing Pranic Healing (directing energy to different parts of the body through the laying on of hands), tears poured down my cheeks. Then I experienced a sense of “ONENESS” with all creatures. My body was very light, and there was no difference between me and the external reality. There was no sense of “myself.”
This experience was unique. Both of these examples express an experience of unity: in the first case, a sense of incredible connection with God, in the second, a connection with all living beings and with reality itself. But the second story serves as an example of another quality that is often mentioned in the scriptures of the East: the loss of the sense of self. A person literally feels as if his own personality is dissolving. There is no “me” – just a universal sense of awareness or experience of oneness. Please think about it for a moment. How would you feel if you experienced the disappearance of your self?”
Often, the state of profectum is associated with the effect of taking psychotropic substances, which is basically a distorted interpretation of sensations. At least a comparison of only one, but the main effect of Profectum is a departure from one’s own “I”, personality, identity with the surrounding world, while some psychotropic substances create a splitting of the “I”, observation of the personality from the outside. The state of Profectum is a natural physiological change in the brain, and not a single extraneous substance is able to lead to it, not to mention harmful addiction, addiction or caused, sometimes irreversible damage to the brain. Quite the opposite: even a short-term state of profectum can become a catalyst for positive changes in a person’s life. When the new cortex of the brain, responsible for conscious thought and self-control, is activated, it leads to a decrease in dependence on primitive desires controlled by older brain structures, such as the limbic system.
This positive change in the structural functioning of the brain may explain why people who have experienced profectum often give up bad habits and focus on satisfying interests in more intellectual and spiritual pursuits. They begin to appreciate the process of learning and enjoying the work of mental activity, which becomes a new source of inspiration as a higher order.
My personal experience confirms the observed tendency of changing interests. After experiencing a profectum, with no explicit intention of breaking bad habits, I noticed a change in my perception of what was “superfluous” or “unnecessary.” This led me to give up alcohol, nicotine, and other forms of entertainment that I had previously thought were indispensable. Instead, he turned to scientific knowledge and education, which became a new source of satisfaction and meaning in life.