Infinite Mind
by Valerie Hunt
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Valerie Hunt was a professor of physiology at UCLA who, after 25 years of teaching, turned her attention to studying spirituality through a scientific lens. She employed a wide variety of scientific measuring tools and documented her results in this book. The book contains extensive philosophical, scientific, and anecdotal detail that cannot be fully captured in a summary. For those interested, the full text is well worth reading.
To believe without questioning or to dismiss without investigation is to comport oneself unscientifically.
Valerie Hunt is a mix between scientist and spiritualist. In her experiments she uses various instruments to capture physiological or electromagnetic changes specifically with people engaging in what would be considered spiritual states, whether it be energy healing or altered states of consciousness.
Scientific Experiments
The experiments she did are only a small portion of the book, her attention being more focused on their philosophical implications. Here's a list of the scientific tests done to measure the vibrations around different states of consciousness:
- Used electromyographic (EMG) recording electrodes, which measure energy output, on a dancer in an altered state of consciousness. During the study the EMG recordings dropped out, meaning it showed no energy output, despite the fact that the subject was still dancing. It registered activity beyond the scope of the machine at the top of her head. As the dancer was finishing, the EMG started recording again. The engineer involved in the study believed there was no equipment failure.
- A dancer performed for 30 minutes with no increase in heart rate or blood pressure. Her heart rate and blood pressure actually decreased.
- A study of chakras was done by using electronic field testing and aura reader reporting. The two were cross-examined and the aura readers reported consistently with data from the electronic field testing.
- The Santa Ana winds in California is saturated with positive ions. The auric field was measured in participants and the polarizing charge was correlated with smaller auric fields and psychological distress. Engaging with negatively charged ions increased the auric field again and eliminated the psychological distress.
- Energy healer's electromagnetic fields were measured during healing sessions and the type of healing correlated with specific colors based on electromagnetic output.
- Experimentation with auric fields showed electromagnetic changes with both the intensity of light vibrations and sounds above or below the human rate of perception.
- Experiments in a Mu room, a shielded room where the electromagnetic energy of the air can be changed without creating changes in gravitational force or oxygen content, showed that participants were dramatically impacted by the manipulation of electromagnetic fields. When the electrical aspect of the atmosphere was removed, the participants' auric field diminished greatly and they experienced high psychological distress for no apparent reason. When the electric atmosphere was increased above normal levels the participants reported an expansion of consciousness and their auras changed to white. When the magnetic energy was decreased the subjects became grossly uncoordinated. When it was increased they experienced dramatic increases in motor ability.
- Experiments showed that coherent energy fields could reorganize cardiac dysrhythmia.
- A person with abnormal brain waves, confirmed by UCLA's Neuropsychiatric Institute, experienced normal brain wave patterns through energy healing. The unscientific descriptions the shaman gave of what was happening were synchronized with the electrical activity recordings in the patient's body.
- A client's aura moved during a testing and it was found 8 feet from the participant. In the meantime "the electronic sensors recorded only a few microvolt vibrations (millionths of a volt), rather than the 20 to 80 millivolt range (thousandths of a volt) routinely recorded. These were lower levels than a person in a coma. She goes over many stories of helping people out of coma's by energetic means.
Another relevant example involves surgery. During surgery participants are given drugs to knock them out, a welcome solution to being conscious as they are systematically cut open. The drugs given are supposed to deter normal brain function and when participants are hooked up to machinery designed to monitor their brain function, their brains are shown to be inactive. Despite this, some participants are able to fully recount the details post-surgery of what occurred during the surgery or even the conversations of the doctors, something that shouldn't be possible based on their brain readings.
Consciousness Beyond the Brain
Hunt uses these results to question the underlying assumptions about consciousness as a product of the brain. She suggests that the source of consciousness is found outside of the body, a theory that accounts for the seeming anomalies of the studies above. She describes consciousness as a type of field that a person can access if they are able to tune into the vibrational levels necessary to do so, similar to the idea of tuning an old radio to the correct frequency. The frequencies are always there, we just may not know how to access them.
To illustrate this concept, Hunt described an experience in an anechoic chamber—a room that absorbs 99.5% of all sound. After some time in the chamber, all participants noticed three beats they had never heard before. Upon discussion, they determined these beats were the rhythms of their neurological, circulatory, and neuromuscular systems. If such subtle internal energies go unnoticed in daily life, it raises the question of what other capabilities the body may possess that remain unrecognized.
To some this may seem far-fetched, but this is the nature of science. Theories that seem unthinkable at the time have historically become accepted as scientific fact. Arnold Toynbee, a professor of international history at the London School of Economics, concluded that 26 lost civilizations all failed for the same reason; "they over-protected the tenets which first made them powerful. They eventually cracked from rigidity and sterility which accompanies a refusal to yield to an evolving world view." Hunt is proposing what may become the next model for understanding our reality.
Hunt uses Chaos theory to determine patterns from the informational chaos of her studies. Chaos theory is famous for the butterfly effect, the idea that the energy created from a butterfly's wings on one end of the world could eventually result in a hurricane on the opposite side of the world. While that particular idea seems unlikely, the main point of the theory is to state that the interplay between cause and effect on a global scale is not well understood. Chaos theory has been used to successfully derive weather patterns from 40 years of weather information, creating patterns from the chaos. Likewise, things that don't make sense to us now may be part of a larger pattern that we don't have the know-how to recognize.
Interesting Patterns
- Bob Beck, a scientist studying nuclear medicine, found that mystics brain waves were consistently 7.8 cycles per second. This is odd as that frequency is shared with "hot spots" and mystical sites around the world as well as the Schumann resonance, the "heartbeat" of the world. Frequency patterns of healing generators and healers are also close to this frequency.
- Trees are able to communicate with one another. "When particular bugs or beetles begin to massively destroy one type of tree, other trees become immune before they are attacked. They develop a chemical which expels insects. Apparently, either the insect vibrations alert the trees, or the already contaminated trees send out field warnings to other trees."
- Hunt went to Antarctica and took field readings of 80 other travelers both before and after. She found that while all field readings were typical before going, stronger in some areas and weaker in others, they were all perfectly even after the trip. Some passengers reported staying on the Antarctic cruise during the summer months because it was the only time they felt physically healthy. She attributed this to the magnetic properties associated with the South pole and hypothesized there might be different health benefits associated with the North pole.
- Hunt was able to correctly guess who children would go to when placed in a group of strangers based off of their frequency readings.
Frequency may play a far larger role than commonly acknowledged in both science and spirituality, including health. Hunt found that the frequency of energy fields in a grounded state is 350–600 cycles per second, while altered states reach up to 200,000 cycles per second. In her studies, individuals in high-frequency states experienced transcendent altered states. She uses this information to hypothesize that psychosis may result from individuals becoming stuck in high-frequency states, rendering them unable to function within conventional reality. Conversely, individuals in comas may be locked in very low frequencies. Hunt reports that through frequency healing, she helped several people emerge from comas. The graph below illustrates how frequency relates to states of being.
Frequency can also impact us negatively. Exposure to electromagnetic fields have been linked to cancer, children born with deformity, miscarriage, and stillbirths. The book BioGeometry Symbols discusses this concept as well.
Hunt proposes that spiritual enlightenment is the next step in human evolution, but spiritual enlightenment includes science, it doesn't operate outside of it.
Reincarnation Research
Reincarnation is something that has been extensively studied by the University of Virginia (UVA) and they've stated that 90% of past life recall in children was verifiable. "The Journal of the American Medical Association [stated that] we now have 'on record a large amount of data that cannot be ignored' which is 'difficult to understand on any other grounds but reincarnation.'" There are many anecdotal accounts of people experiencing past lives that were also verified by experts, one such example in the book being a woman who experienced a ritual sacrifice in a past life that was later identified by an expert of cultural history as a Tripoli ritual in 400 BC. Reincarnation is not only scientifically becoming more popular, but also socially more acceptable. "A recent survey from the National Opinion Research Center in Chicago reported that 29% of all Americans now believe in past lives."
What religions believe in past lives?
- Hindus based on the Bhagavad Gita.
- Buddhists.
- Islam in the Koran (although it's not a primary teaching). The Koran states "God generated beings and sent them back over and over again until they returned to him."
- Judaism.
- "The Kabbala, the mystical system of interpreting the scriptures." "The Kabbala presented the idea of attaining perfection through repeated rebirths."
- The Orthodox branch of Hasidic Judaism teaches it openly. "The Talmud expressed the necessity to cast a veil over the whole question of survival beyond the grave in an attempt to wean people from the idolatrous cults of the dead which preceded Judaism in the Near East." That's why it's not taught openly in other Jewish groups. "Today there are many Kabbalistic rabbis, but generally it is considered dangerous and out of reach for the average Jew because of its mystical nature."
- Early Christianity. "The mystical religions and philosophical doctrines of early Christian sects, combining Greek, Jewish, and Oriental beliefs, embraced reincarnation. The Coptic copies of the original papyrus Gnostic texts documented this. But as early as 180 AD the Roman Church with all its power branded Gnosticism as heresy."
- Not a religion but early great philosophers believed in reincarnation including Pythagorus, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.
Reincarnation is but one example of possible spiritual enlightenment, frequency obviously being the main focus of this book. A scientific finding that incorporates both is a finding by Janusz Slawinski which you can read about here. "All living organisms emit low-intensity light; at the time of death, that radiation is ten to 1,000 times stronger than that emitted under normal conditions. This "deathflash" is independent of the cause of death, and reflects in intensity and duration the rate of dying. The vision of intense light reported in near-death experiences may be related to this deathflash, which may hold an immense amount of information. The electromagnetic field produced by necrotic radiation, containing energy, internal structure, and information, may permit continuation of consciousness beyond the death of the body."
There appears to be much that remains poorly understood about frequency and its relationship to the perception of reality. Hunt proposes a shift from a chemical model of reality to an electrical one. Based on her studies, this line of inquiry warrants further scientific exploration.