RUJUKAN reference

Staring into somebody’s eyes for 10 minutes can cause you to have “out of body” experiences and hallucinations. ELIAS MARAT   ( TMU )   — You may have heard the term “piercing eyes,” but what if someone’s gaze was so penetrating that it managed to induce an altered state of consciousness? Well, according to one psychologist, staring into somebody’s eyes for about 10 straight minutes can cause you to have “out of body” experiences, hallucinations, and visions of loved ones who aren’t present. The experiment, conducted in 2015 by Dr. Giovanni Caputo of Italy’s University of Urbino, was conducted in a dimly lit room where 20 volunteers sat in pairs while staring intently into one another’s eyes for ten minutes. While the lighting was bright enough to clearly make out their counterparts’ facial features, the dimness was such that their overall perception of color was weakened,   according to   British Psychological Society journal   Research Dige...

Most of our suffering and confusion stems from a fundamental misunderstanding of the way our experience is actually happening.  Caitlin Johnstone ( CJ Opinion) — I talk about the power of self-enquiry a fair bit in my musings about enlightenment and human consciousness, so I thought it might be good to tap out a simple how-to on the subject in case anyone finds it useful. Self-enquiry, or self-inquiry, is a practice popularized in the west by the circulation of nondualist teachings from the renowned Indian sages Ramana Maharshi and Nisargadatta Maharaj . It requires no faith in any teacher, teaching or tradition, nor even in the practice itself. Self-enquiry is a method for inquiring for yourself into your own nature and discovering in your own firsthand experience what lies at the end of that investigation. Most of our suffering and confusion (which is what the propagandists I write about rely upon to manipulate us into believing establishment narratives) ...