Conversations With Eric

Sitting in my computer room with Eric Allen Vincet- artist, musician Eric: Didja ever lay outside in the sun looking at the sky, doing slow yoga natural breathing and all of a sudden you can see this pulsating beam of some sort coming out of your forehead and beaming up into the sky? It's actually that energy that one can see visually that dissapates the clouds in a certain state of non-verbal consciousness. The inner dialog is quiet, subsided, you're just breathing and watching it. Rather than looking too hard, you just let it eminate into the field of vision. Neil: Yah, a lot of people seem to confuse all the verbal junk that is going through their mind with "intelligence". It's not necessarily true that the highest functioning intelligence in your brain can be put into verbal terms. I think, in historical times going back thousands of years, this concept eventually became that religious notion that you can't actually say the name of "God", or that real truth can not be described (a zen notion). I think this is what you are refering to when you talk about observing apart from verbal inernal dialog- do that, and then you start to really see some unusual things.... Eric: The form of light, it's molecular structure is spinning at a higher rate of speed than regular light. Neil: Does a more conventional thinking/verbalization process somehow "de-tune" your light perception, so you can't see this more subtle form of light energy? Eric: Yes! Ah...... It's in the breathing, and in the observing, rather than being the doer....in letting the doer do it's thing all around you. Neil: And you reflect what's OUT THERE rather than whats INSIDE YOUR OWN HEAD ONLY. Eric: I think it's like a bio-spiritual thing---it's just a higher form of light. Neil: don't get to hokey on me...this brain stuff tries to limit itself to demonstratable things. Spirit alone, is hard to demonstrate, and people give me hell for it. Eric:But there is a scientific explanation for it as well.... Neil: For what? There's a scientific explanation for what? Eric: For viewing this pulsating light. Neil: I see , so you're not talking about just something in your imagination, you're talking about something we have a material explanatio for.. Eric: Yes. The oxygen ... Neil: Wait- what oxygen? Eric: The oxygen that you're breathing in during your total relaxation and observation is stimulating the higher cortex and firing electro-signals in the brain. It's fueling the synapses in the brain to stimulate the higher visual cortex. Neil: Normally, through the day, you just don't breath that deep, right? Eric: But that's one thing about the eastern culture where yoga is practiced traditionally, and religiously from childhood along with their eastern religious lifestyle. C, one could say that the "eastern folk" are actually in a more enlightened state of mind- which would be, to put it another way "no mind". Neil: But religion doesn't have anything to do with it, unless it's somehow causing the individual to physically cause a change in the brain- i.e. increased oxygen use. Eric: But religion can lead us to that particular state of mind- which is necessary as well. Neil: I don't know that a view on any particular deity can enhance brain function until someone has shown that Jesus sends more oxygen to the brain than does Moses, Buddha, or Mohammed. Back to The Amazing Music Adventure