The Mystery

The idea that the brain could be constantly busy is not new. An early proponent of that notion was Hans Berger, inventor of the familiar electroencephalogram, which records electrical activity in the brain with a set of wavy lines on a graph. In seminal papers on his findings, published in 1929, Berger deduced from the ceaseless electrical oscillations detected by the device that “we have to assume that the central nervous system is always, and not only during wakefulness, in a state of considerable activity". Over the years, however, others became curious about what was happening when someone was simply resting and just letting the mind wander. This interest arose from a set of hints from various studies that suggested the extent of this behind-the-scenes activity. One clue came from mere visual inspections of the images. The pictures showed that areas in many regions of the brain were quite busy in both the test and the control conditions. In part because of this shared backgrou

Because all of us are born into this life having available to us the experiences of humanity that has come so far. We typically are only able to paint with the patterns of thoughts and the ways of being that existed before. So if the piano and the way of playing it is a way of being, this is a way of being that didn’t exist for people 5,000 years ago. It was a colour in the 'Palette of Being' that you couldn’t paint with. Nowadays if you are born, you can actually learn the skill; you can learn to be a computer scientist, another colour that was not available just a couple hundred years ago. And our lives are really beautiful for the following reason. We’re born into this life. We have the ability to go make this unique painting with the colours of being that are around us at the point of our birth. But in the process of life, we also have the unique opportunity to create a new colour. And that might come from the invention of a new thing: A self-driving car; a piano; a compute

All scientific measuring instruments are extensions of human perception. The fact that no known human instrument has been able to ascertain what Dark Energy and Dark Matter are, is clear indication that these phenomena are currently beyond human perception. The fact that cosmology estimates that these two aspects of reality constitute 95% of all physical existence, implies that human consciousness is really only 5% known. What this implies is that almost all humans have an acutely limited perception of physical reality, and by extension, themselves. Hanyel Okolo is the Principal of XL2K Strategy Consult Ltd. located in the United Kingdom. He has spent over 25 years in private research into the phenomena of Organized Complexity in nature. This love and fascination of nature, was fueled as a young kid watching ants haul tiny amounts of food to their nest in what appeared to be a highly organized, though decentralized manner. This fascination translated into a life of science and research

The Dreamachine is a mind-bending light and sound extravaganza designed to be experienced with your eyes closed. Currently installed in Woolwich, London, the high-sensory experience invites members of the public into the Dreamachine, where kaleidoscopic visual hallucinations are generated by flashing lights and an immersive 360-degree soundscape. Dreamachine is inspired by an extraordinary but little-known 1959 invention by artist–inventor Brion Gysin. His experimental homemade device used flickering light to create vivid illusions, kaleidoscopic patterns and explosions of colour in the mind of the viewer. Designed to be the ‘first artwork to be experienced with your eyes closed’, Gysin had a pioneering vision for his invention to replace the television in every home in America. Instead of passive consumers of mass-produced media, viewers of his Dreamachine would create their own cinematic experiences. Gysin died before his vision could be realised, but his idea to use technology to re