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The morphopsychic fields are at a higher quantum energy potential (synergistic) than morphogenetic fields. The recent explorations into the morphopsychic fields are as under : (a) Electroencephalograph (EEG) recordings during medi
tation and psychotechnologies give concrete evidence of physical changes : higher levels of integration in the brain itself, more efficient processing different 'harmonics' of the brain electrical rhythms, shifts in perceptual ability. When one is thinking, there is beta rhythm which implies that one is more attentive to the external world than to inner experience. When thinking is replaced by quiet contemplation, there is alpha rhythm which suggests a relaxed state.
Obviously alpha rhythm is synergistic to beta rhythm. (b) When thinking is going on, the brain cells discharge
their potential asynchronously-not together but haphazardly, in conflict. Thought itself is a form of conflict and therefore it lowers the amplitude of the brain waves. So thinking is not the highest form of activity. The production of alpha waves is an indication that there is synchronous discharge of energy from the brain cells--they are all discharging this
electrical potential at more or less the same time, (c) State of observation and state of attention suggest
right brain coupling with the left brain, Roger Sperry has shown that the whole brain's knowing is far more than the sum of its parts and different from either. This is possible when the whole brain expresses itself at a higher quantum energy potential than the poten
tial of its parts. (d) The researches on meditation, biofeedback, relaxation
techniques, energies, rest-and-renewal response suggest shifts in the parasympathetic reactions. The ability to shift the body into a parasympathetic phase-the new state of mind is called 'restful alterness'-decreases the long-range stresses.
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