Blog 2

Seeing how the last 3 chapters didn't go over so well with my brain, I was very skeptical as to reading chapters 4, 5, and 6. As I started chapter 4, I really had to get myself to 'try' to get into the reading. I guess it's hard for me to get into this kind of stuff because I'm not a big science person, so when they talk about protons and all that jazz, my attention goes elsewhere. The whole water and allergen idea got my attention because I have allergies and I was curious to see how water plays a role in that. However, as I was reaching towards the end of Chapter 4, the text was finally grabbing my attention. I found the topic of Benveniste's robots to be very interesting. It amazed me at how far this guy was willing to go to finally figure out what was going on with his experiments that other people were attempting to do. When I read the part towards the end of the chapter where a woman was conducting the same experiment as Benveniste and using his robot while doing so, I too was puzzled as to why she couldn't get the same results that everyone else was getting. Before I read on, I tried to figure out what the possibilities might be.. but since I am no scientist, I only pondered the thought for about 2 minutes and then figured the heck with it and read on to find out the conclusion to all of it. It really surprised me when I read that the reason why she wasn't getting the correct results was because she was emitting electromagnetic fields during the experiment. It blew my mind that something like that would be possible. It also blows my mind that Benveniste thought of this being a possible answer as to why the experiment wasn't working out for her. It's amazing how our 'bodies' can interfere with science sometimes.

Resonating with the World was an okay chapter for me. The part that really kept my attention was how Lashley used a curling iron over and over again to burn parts of the rats brains. No matter how much he burned or squashed their brains, the rats still new how to do the procedure correctly, even if they were disoriented and a little confused at first. With this experiment, I was wondering if this would have the same outcome on humans as well. Do our brains function just as theirs? If so, would we be able to remember certain tasks to their full extent when half of our brain has been fried and squashed? As he started going in to topics that involved certain parts of our brains, my attention was lost again. I found parts of this chapter hard to understand and to follow.

The Creative Observer was also a difficult chapter for me to comprehend, in some ways. However, I did find it interesting that they were trying to see if people could think of events and make them (basically) happen. I guess maybe this goes with the theory that you can will some things to happen. For example: one person may think that they have a fever and it ends up that they don't, simply by checking their temperature. However, that person is still convinced that they have a fever, so eventually.. they end up convincing their body as well and the fever is produced. That subject would be something I'd like to get more input on. On the last page of Chapter 6, two sentences really caught my attention. "The PEAR studies also suggest that reality is created by each of us only by our attention. At the lowest level of mind and matter, each of us creates the world." Those statements really got me thinking about the surroundings I 'create' for myself. Both of those sentences became realistic to me and I never really thought about that information on such a level of understanding. It makes me wonder what other people's input on that might be.