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That's a very interesting article - thanks for sharing.

There were two parts that I think are very important. The first is about his inventive process:

Inventing is a Dangerous Business

What really sold me on Dr. Nakamats was when I came across the following passage from some German interview. The question was one the author has probably asked hundreds of times--"so, where do you get your ideas?"--and Nakamatsu has the last answer anyone but him would ever suspect:

(picture of person holding their breath underwater)
Is there a secret to becoming an inventor? How do you come up with new ideas?

        I am teaching philosophy at the University of Tokyo. The base for everything is a strong spirit, followed by a strong body, hard studies, experience and finally leads to a "trigger" experience. You "trigger" a bullet which contains spirit, body, study and experience - and finally that releases the actual invention.

How do you "trigger" an invention?

        A lack of oxygen is very important.

A lack? Isn't that dangerous?

        It's very dangerous. I get that Flash just 0.5 sec before death. I remain under the surface until this trigger comes up and I write it down with a special waterproof plexiglas writing pad I invented.

Do you do that a lot? Putting yourself in that kind of situation to come up with a new invention?

        Of course. This is the Dr. Nakamatsu method.

U.S. Creativity expert Win Wenger, PhD talks about the mammalian diving response as a way for anyone to increase blood flow to the brain, thereby increasing one's intelligence. When the Co2 concentration in a mammal's blood rises, arteries to the brain open up so that the brain doesn't starve to death. With repetition, the arteries become permanently enlarged.

I myself have spent some time holding my breath underwater at the pool. I haven't done the full 30-day protocol, but at one point I built up to over 2 minutes underwater. This is not a lot (the record for free diving is over 19 minutes), but many people can only hold their breath for 15 seconds...

Furthermore, we had a pool in our backyard when I was a kid (before I turned 5), and I remember doing held-breath underwater swimming then. I'd dive down to pick stuff up off the bottom of the pool, and swim through underwater rings.

Furthermore, I had a VHS copy of Star Trek IV, and I repeatedly tried to hold my breath for the entire time that Captain Kirk (or was it Mr. Spock?) held his breath to release the whales, after the bird of prey crashed into San Francisco Bay... I was never able to do it, but I now think the effort was good for something.

I don't know that I'm a genius now, but I think I do pretty well.

According to Dr. NakaMats' research, the unhealthy body has a poor blood circulation to extremities resulting cold feet. This is the same state with the stressed body in which your sympathetic nervous system took over parasympathetic nervous system. Sympathetic nervous system anticipates your body for "fight-or-flight" situation.

My hands were cold as ice for a long time... Then I built a "radial appliance", which is said to balance the body's parasympathetic nervous system. My hands are now warm.

I think my website (above) links to the radial appliance stuff... This is kooky esoteric shit, so don't bother clicking if you just want to scoff...

Anyways, thanks again for the link!

Select and undertake only those actions which are also worth undertaking for other reasons or for their own sake, until the emergency itself becomes certain. -linky

I've got my imagination... don't we all? Makes a pretty good "virtual" world for me when needed.

My imagination is currently disabled. I started to figure this out some 9 years ago, when I started to pursue having a lucid dream.

Many people just don't realize that they have an imagination, or if they do, don't realize what it's good for. Win Wenger has a nice set of creative problem solving methods for imagination utilization, and a set of backup procedures for those who need a little extra help getting their 'mental picture maker' operational.

My imagination troubles stem from a bump to the head I sustained 9 years ago (just before I became interested in 'Lucid Dreaming' and this 'imagination' thing). I've almost fully repaired my body from that one (took 6.5 years just to figure out what needed to be done), so hopefully I'll get this imagination thing worked out soon - I really feel as if I'm missing out. I grokked your comment, so a +1 for you.

I've got my imagination... don't we all? Makes a pretty good "virtual" world for me when needed.

My imagination is currently disabled. I started to figure this out some 9 years ago, when I started to pursue having a lucid dream.

Many people just don't realize that they have an imagination, or if they do, don't realize what it's good for. Win Wenger has a nice set of creative problem solving methods for imagination utilization, and a set of backup procedures for those who need a little extra help getting their 'mental picture maker' operational.

My imagination troubles stem from a bump to the head I sustained 9 years ago (just before I became interested in 'Lucid Dreaming' and this 'imagination' thing). I've almost fully repaired my body from that one (took 6.5 years just to figure out what needed to be done), so hopefully I'll get this imagination thing worked out soon - I really feel as if I'm missing out. I grokked your comment, so a +1 for you.

Increases in blood CO2 levels triggers the Mammalian Diving Response/Reflex, where the body increases the diameter of the arteries to the brain. If the response is triggered frequently enough, the body will make the widening of the arteries permanent. Win Wenger says that brains with more oxygen capacity function better - increasing the intelligence of their owners.

Liked your comment, but I think you're missing something.

In Secrets of Power, Vol. 1, Ingo Swann talks about how social institutions have been set up to "depower" the masses. (Mr. Swann is something of a word nazi and notes that "depower" is not yet in the dictionary, but that it should be. It refers to how an individual loses his Power. The book is heavy heavy reading, so I don't recommend it - I've only been able to skim through it.)

This is especially obvious in the perennially broken government schools. John Taylor Gatto tells us that the government schools were specifically set up to depower the population (to use Mr. Swann's word), and make them (us) suitable for factory work. Pre-government school, the american ideal was an independant livelihood. Post-government school, most people hope for a good job with a good company with good benefits.

One of the side-effects of depowerment, is that people don't realize their creative potential. If the government schools taught people to use their power of creativity, more would figure out, like you, that the rat race isn't worth running.

Also see my other comment in this story, about hidden inflation and making your own food.

such a simple question, and yet I'm thinking through all the books I've bought, and none of them really talk about what I've learned from my cranial osteopath or the biodynamic cranio-sacral therapist (superior, imho, to regular craniosacral therapy, as taught by the Upledger Institute) I've also worked with.

The Edgar Cayce Manual for Health through Drugless Therapy was written by an Osteopath, but he practiced before Dr. Sutherland's "cranial" technique (a supplemental to Andrew Still's system of osteopathic manipulation) became widespread.

If all you want to do is learn how to visualize, start with Win Wenger's techniques, or start by learning Self Hypnosis, or The Silva Method / Silva Ultramind, or start with a notepad to write down your dreams every morning (working towards waking up in your dreams, commonly known as "lucid dreaming").

In another post, I talked about how I discovered I had a problem 7 years ago... I missed the first week and a half of my senior year (I bumped my head, and don't remember 2 weeks), and went out on the internet to get information about speed reading, so I could catch up in my classes. I ended up buying Win's The Einstein Factor, which uses visualization for creative problem solving. "Wow, neat, I want to be able to do that." Win says that visualization is a natural human ability, and even people who don't visualize can easily be taught.

For me, Win Wenger's methods didn't work. So I picked up a silva method book. Then self-hypnosis books. These books all have steps to follow techniques to get the skills (creative problem solving, self mind control, visualization, etc) promised. I was also interested in Lucid Dreaming, and learned all I could about dreaming, what to do, which vitamins to take, etc. I did all these things, and still I couldn't even remember anything more than the tiniest fragments of my dreams when I woke in the morning, let alone "picture" something when I was wide-awake.

After stumbling around for six years, I figured that my problem was related to my disfunctional body, and that I needed an osteopath to fix that. My mother frequently told me what a difficult baby I was. Now I know that crying is an indication that baby hurts. Osteopathic Manipulation is especially good for children - ADHD, chronic childhood ear infections, ... etc. - all are a good indication that the kid's body is out of alignment, and needs proper attention.

Dr. D. says that one of the purposes of osteopathic treatment is to remove trauma from the body. I needed osteopathic treatment because of unresolved brith trauma and the afore-mentioned head injury. Most people (99.9+%) are nowhere near as bad as I was, and can learn visualization without going through all the hoops I've been through.

Healing Through Cranial Osteopathy by Tajinder Deoora - I don't have this book, but it does seem like a good modern take on what Cranial Osteopathy is good for.

Also see chapter 2 of Andrew Weil's Spontaneous Healing.

(not all Osteopaths are equally talented. The most specialized form of osteopathic manipulation treats the patient's visual perception, but my osteopath says there's only about 100 D.O.'s in the country who've taken the training. Cranio-Sacral therapy is osteopathic manipulation done by non-osteopaths. Your mileage will vary with CST practitioners - some are very good, some so-so, some have just taken a week or two of courses & set up shop as a CST. Biodynamic certification is a good indication of competency; some Biodynamic practitioners may be more advanced than cranial-academy certified docs.... ? - gotta build your own road map here. :)

Hope this helps.

In the short term (~10 years) I'll agree with you - we're going to see more and more of the police state meme spreading throughout the land between the Atlantic and Pacific, but long term the it'll most likely accelarate "the US's" present path towards future irrelevancy. Consider:

"The great historian and theorist, Arnold Toynbee, whose descriptions (A Study of History , Oxford U. Press) of the patterns of history were, I believe, pretty well on target, observed that declining and falling civilizations tend to attempt to solve their problems through central agencies and authorities.

"The fact that declining civilizations fail to solve their problems, which Toynbee attributed to other causes, might very well be attributed instead to that very tendency to try to work through central arrangements."

Fortunately, the decline of "the U.S." as a world power (akin to Rome's fall from glory) doesn't necessarily have to be the case:

" In rising civilizations, people on their own, at "grass roots" level, take on the problems and issues. People are enough in communication to imitate each other's successes and avoid each other's failures, but for the most part are working free of central direction, and usually aren't the people who had been expected to be the source of the answer.

How to learn through a periscope

We had enrolled our 4-year-old daughter in a neighborhood swim team, not for the sake of competing but simply for safety reasons, to ensure she would be competent in the water. During one of the team's meets, in one heat a clerical error had her swim as the only small kid among 8-, 9- and 10-year-olds. To our amazement, she swam far faster than ever before and finished right in the middle of the pack.

"How did you do that?!?" we asked her. Her reply: "I made-believe I was one of the big kids."

Yes, money used to be based on physical assets. It is no longer that way because people in "government" are afraid of the responsibilities of gold - if you're a politician and you need an extra $100 million for your project, you can't just call up the fusion reactor people and tell them to cook up some gold coins like you could fiat currency from the printing press.

This article talks about the creation of a computerized bater system to enable local economies to strengthen themselves. Such a system would enable your "environment where money is irrelevant," but for a different reason.

I'm (gradually) moving away from using fiat currency myself. E-gold presents a viable alternative to government fiat money systems of the world, and is my payment medium of choice. E-gold isn't perfect, but at least I don't have to rely on the belief that others will find my pieces of paper worth trading for.

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a drastic improvement in how long it takes us to grasp something - check.

how long it takes us to retain and absorb information - check.

Pick up one or two of Win's books (I recommend The Einstein Factor). I'm not sure about your "new, better methods for communicating person-to-person" - maybe you could pioneer methods for developing telepathic skills.

The Win Wenger/Project Renaisance page is actually *not* hosted by slashdot, but is at http://www.winwenger.com/.. Win Wenger's written 48 books, many on the nature of intelligence. I've only read The Einstein Factor, but found it very interesting. Based on his 35 years of research, he claims that anyone can raise their I.Q. by 20 points in 25 hours.. If it worked for Einstein, it can work for me, right? Anakin's Brain has the full text of two of his books in the Project Renaisance section..

• Anakin's Brain
• Exploreit.net

The Einstein Factor details a technique he calls Image Streaming that everyone can use to increase the number of connections between your brain cells. Image streaming can be used to "improve your performance in virtually all aspects of mental ability, including memory, quickness, IQ and learning capacity." Win is the author 48 books, and his works are the source of many ideas in the accelerated learning field.

This review on Amazon.com says it very well:
"the thing about many of the book's techniques: they are incredibly subtle in their effects. ... The Einstein Factor has become a part of my life. Not only do the techniques accelerate your mind, but the book's a good read as well. It's written in a clear manner with informative diagrams, is well paced in its progression and has snippets of intriguing information on topics ranging from quantum physics and the 'ideal realm' to Mozart and the evolution of man's intelligence through the ages (memetic evolution). It's a quality product; a pleasure to spend time with. I'm getting it for my sister as a birthday present. Trust me, you want to get it too."

Some other sites dealing with accelerated learning:
Anakin's Brain
Project Renaissance - Win Wenger's home page.
Hot Rod Your Head!
Exploreit.net

The Einstein Factor details a technique he calls Image Streaming that everyone can use to increase the number of connections between your brain cells. Image streaming can be used to "improve your performance in virtually all aspects of mental ability, including memory, quickness, IQ and learning capacity." Win is the author 48 books, and his works are the source of many ideas in the accelerated learning field.

This review on Amazon.com says it very well:
"the thing about many of the book's techniques: they are incredibly subtle in their effects. ... The Einstein Factor has become a part of my life. Not only do the techniques accelerate your mind, but the book's a good read as well. It's written in a clear manner with informative diagrams, is well paced in its progression and has snippets of intriguing information on topics ranging from quantum physics and the 'ideal realm' to Mozart and the evolution of man's intelligence through the ages (memetic evolution). It's a quality product; a pleasure to spend time with. I'm getting it for my sister as a birthday present. Trust me, you want to get it too."

Some other sites dealing with accelerated learning:
Anakin's Brain
Project Renaissance - Win Wenger's home page.
Hot Rod Your Head!
Exploreit.net

The Einstein Factor details a technique he calls Image Streaming that everyone can use to increase the number of connections between your brain cells. Image streaming can be used to "improve your performance in virtually all aspects of mental ability, including memory, quickness, IQ and learning capacity." Win is the author 48 books, and his works are the source of many ideas in the accelerated learning field.

This review on Amazon.com says it very well:
"the thing about many of the book's techniques: they are incredibly subtle in their effects. ... The Einstein Factor has become a part of my life. Not only do the techniques accelerate your mind, but the book's a good read as well. It's written in a clear manner with informative diagrams, is well paced in its progression and has snippets of intriguing information on topics ranging from quantum physics and the 'ideal realm' to Mozart and the evolution of man's intelligence through the ages (memetic evolution). It's a quality product; a pleasure to spend time with. I'm getting it for my sister as a birthday present. Trust me, you want to get it too."

Some other sites dealing with accelerated learning:
Anakin's Brain
Project Renaissance - Win Wenger's home page.
Hot Rod Your Head!
Exploreit.net

An interesting field I've run across is that of accelerated learning. I've found Dr. Win Wenger's book, The Einstein Factor, an interesting read, covering many of the threads discussed on this news item. For example, in the book Wenger mentions a study of a group of Nuns (not sure where they are, I've lent my copy out to someone) who on live to age 90+. This group of people have had virtually no incidents of debilitating mental deterioration such as Alzheimer's disease. The premise of the book is that intelligence is not what you have, but what you make of it. The nuns don't get Alzheimer's because they use their brains constantly, keeping diaries and staying active well into their later years. Many interesting comments on how geniuses (Einstein & Tesla, among others) looked/thought about the world. Check out Win Wenger's Project Renaisance home page at http://www.winwenger.com/, or read about what Project Renainssance is.

An interesting field I've run across is that of accelerated learning. I've found Dr. Win Wenger's book, The Einstein Factor, an interesting read, covering many of the threads discussed on this news item. For example, in the book Wenger mentions a study of a group of Nuns (not sure where they are, I've lent my copy out to someone) who on live to age 90+. This group of people have had virtually no incidents of debilitating mental deterioration such as Alzheimer's disease. The premise of the book is that intelligence is not what you have, but what you make of it. The nuns don't get Alzheimer's because they use their brains constantly, keeping diaries and staying active well into their later years. Many interesting comments on how geniuses (Einstein & Tesla, among others) looked/thought about the world. Check out Win Wenger's Project Renaisance home page at http://www.winwenger.com/, or read about what Project Renainssance is.