Stalking the Wild Pendulum: On the Mechanics of Consciousness

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Bentov was fascinated by consciousness, in particular how it related to physiology. In his 1977 book, Stalking the Wild Pendulum: On the Mechanics of Consciousness, he wrote that "consciousness permeates everything".

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The physical universe is entirely composed of consciousness and all living and non-living beings contain consciousness (it is just a matter of what degree). He narrowly escaped being sent to the camps and moved to British Palestine, first living on the Shoval kibbutz in the Negev. [3] His many inventions, including the steerable cardiac catheter, helped pioneer the biomedical engineering industry. Bentov was born in Humenné, Czechoslovakia (in present-day Slovakia), in 1923. During World War II, his parents, his younger brother and sister were killed in Nazi concentration camps. [2] He relates reincarnation to the newtons second law (conservation of energy). Our metaphysical energy is conserved when we die.If you leaf through this book, you will see a lot of diagrams, and you may have the impression that this is a technical or even a scientific book. Well, don’t worry about that. I myself am a fairly stupid fellow who could not learn any mathematics at all. In fact, my brush with academia was a rather short one: I was expelled from the kindergarten at the age of four for some alleged subversive activities and have never managed to resume normal studies since, not to mention graduating from anyplace. So my mind has remained blank and unspoiled by higher learning. Everything comes down to frequency. Get the right frequency and you entrain with the cosmos. Your energy can travel around the world seven times a second. With a Forward by the world class physicist, Dr. William A. Tiller, Professor Emeritus of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University, Stalking The Wild Pendulum is a must read! I read this book as a teenager, after seeing it on my father's shelf since I was a kid. We'd discussed science, and my father had tried to explain quantum science to me, or at least the little be understood. So when I started reading this book I was excited.

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The biggest disservice this book does, and what makes it dangerous is that it is somewhat entertaining and in parts feels like it gives an intuitive understanding and teaching of what quantum mechanics is, and insight into the world hidden or not understood by in general life. It does neither. I'm about half-way or more though this book. I just put that I've read it so I could leave a review. I thought several of the underlying points in this book were illogical conclusions. And most of the rest of it I just don't buy. It's not because I'm a physicalist or scientistic (I'm not), as this is a very spiritual book, just his strange take on things. What the author lays out is perfectly congruent with all the other material known to me on this topic - Too many different authors and theorems to list them all here without breaching the scope of this book alone, but they're all talking about the same basic conception while merely giving it different names. Those who have also studied this particular and closely associated topics in-depth over the years will probably be able to guess which other theoretical frameworks i'm refering to here precisely. Our physical science does not necessarily deal with reality, whatever that is. Rather, it has merely generated a set of consistency relationships to explain our common ground of experience, which is determined, of course, by the capacity and capabilities of our physical sensory-perception mechanisms. We have developed these mathematical laws based ultimately on a set of definitions of mass, charge, space, and time. We don’t really know what these quantities are, but we have defined them to have certain unchanging properties and have thus constructed our edifice of knowledge on these pillars. The edifice will be stable so long as the pillars are unchanging. However, we appear to be entering a period of human evolvement in which certain qualities of the human being appear to be able to change, or deform, these basic quantities. Thus, our set of laws or consistency relationships will have to change to embrace this new experience. It isn’t as if the old laws are wrong and need to be thrown out—no more than Newton was wrong when Einstein came along and showed that the laws of gravitation had to be altered when one adopted a frame of reference for observation that moved at velocities approaching the velocity of light. At this time, we are beginning to adopt new states of consciousness as reference frames for observing Nature, and thus the old laws will need to be altered to conform with the new experience, when the experiential sensing is sufficiently widespread as to constitute a common ground of experience. Along this path, humankind’s view of itself, of the universe, and of the synergistic interrelationship of both is in for great changes: Most of us see the universe through a tiny window, which allows us to see just a single color, or reality, out of the endless spectrum of realities. Viewing our universe through this tiny window forces us to see the world in a sequential form, that is, as events that follow each other in time. This is not necessarily so.

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Forty years after this was written, I believe this book still pushes the edge of what we think about our place in the Universe, ourselves as holograms, and how Consciousness interacts with the Universe. An excellent book for those who are into quantum mechanics & cosmology on the one hand and/or yoga, kundalini and altered states of consciousness on the other hand, and who feel the need to find a common ground between hard science and hippie stuff. About Us: History". Boston Scientific. Archived from the original on January 20, 2015 . Retrieved January 17, 2015. Sharona Ben-Tov Muir, The Book of Telling: Tracing the Secrets of My Father's Lives. Bison, 2008. ISBN 978-0803216488. You can read this as a complete novice on the matter (if such a person exist) and get a good introduction, or come to this as a Phd cosmologist and still find a new and interesting viewpoint.