i think it is VERY COOL to think of wild animal, pet and human as some kind of a 1st 2nd and 3rd degree manifestation of some energy.

what J. Donaldson calls the Owner factor. the dog becomes a different being who does COMPLETELY different behaviours, depending on the owner.

also, in regards to the Watcher-Watchee effect, (i.e. there are no double-blind experiments because the researcher’s expectations create mini-particles which will influence the experiment..) it seems as though my dogs give different behaviours, depending on which body part I am watching, whether my eyes are half closed or fully open etc.

i think surplus emotional energy gets stored in the body wherever there might be room.

hence the idea that you can let that all go in meditation, it comes from every nook and cranny in your body and gets pushed out through specific channels out to the extremities.

also with acupuncture, you can put a needle where you want and it will start moving stale (emotional) energy.

hey taoofblue, i think some dogs do not like the rain because they do not want to freeze to death.

i just saw this documentary on wolves, who do not chase an elk into the water in the winter, because they know it will be their death.

my little malamute is like that. i am trying to get her to understand that it is OK when it is hot outside. very difficult !!!!

i also do not like the rain which is why i live 500 miles inland from vancouver…
haha

Here’s Kevin’s reply (in italics):

The entire body/mind is the emotional battery, the positive terminal being the Big-Brain in the head, i.e. central nervous system, with the negative terminal being the little-brain in the gut, i.e. enteric nervous system.

It’s made of all physical and nervous energies, particularly, the hormones and sensations affiliated with stress. Then when these are released through naturally occurring opiates that are held in every tissue of the body (Dr. Candice Pert), stress becomes resolved into pleasure and the intestinal tract is characterized by smooth muscle action.

So the cathode is the brain and the anode is the solar plexus? I’m assuming that since this isn’t an actual battery, creating actual electricity out of chemical reactions through voltaic cells in the body, it’s more like a virtual battery, correct? You’re saying that the two poles ionize (latent?) emotions in the cells. Does that come from Candace Pert’s work?

What is your energetic definition of emotion? Where does it fit into the battery model?

In other places you’ve said that the big brain (in the head) is designed to produce intensity and the little brain (solar plexus) is designed to do what? (Steer? I forget.) You’ve also said that the big brain is where the system’s Fear of falling (balance circuits?) are located (true enough), and the gut is where the hunger circuits are situated (which I think is only partially true). I think you also called the connection between the big and little brains an auto-tuning feedback loop, with the big brain doing the tuning and the little brain providing feedback.

How do all those things relate to them being the cathode and anode of a system-wide battery, which if it’s a real battery, would be producing electricity, not emotional energy (which is more magnetic)? If the anode and cathode are connected by a virtual electrolyte (?), then what does that do to (or what happens within) the rest of the body, which is apparently one big battery? Does this electrify the body? Does it create an electromagnetic field? If so, how does a battery do that without having some other mechanism to create flux around the two poles? Are am I simply a dunce about all this?

I’m only asking these questions because while I think the main thrust of your theory goes beyond amazing, I still think some of the terminology isn’t as precise as it could be, primarily “fear of falling,” “hunger circuits,” and “emotional battery.” If it’s emotional it’s not running on electricity (in my view), it’s running on magnetism, which to me means it’s not a battery of any kind, real, virtual or imaginary. So what is it?

Mind you, I agree with everything else you’ve written above (except that Dr. Pert says that all cells in the body have opiate receptors, not that all the tissues in the body are holding opiates on a general basis, which is what one of your comments implies).

I hope you’re not taking any offense at my questions. I just have trouble wrapping my mind around this battery thing when it seems to me that what you’re really talking about is more like an emotional generator, with energy reserves stored in the muscle and organ tissue, not in either the big or the little brain. You even described the physical center of gravity as if it were the core of an emotional generator, not a static battery. From what I understand, batteries create very weak magnetic fields compared to those created by a generator. And aren’t emotions magnetic, not electric?

I look forward to your answers.

LCK

Since precipitation is generally measured in inches of liquid water and not in snowfall amounts, snow is usually converted into inches of water by dividing by 10. Thus, ten inches of snow is equivalent to one inch of rain!

I live on the West Coast of Vancouver Island, in Canada. Surfing, right now, is pretty chilly with the water temp at about a max of 40F.

I’m not saying it’s not pretty, otherwise I wouldn’t live here, but it’s a rainforest. We get about 150 inches of rain a year. Our winters are wet!
It’s not unusual for it to rain about 15 inches a day sometimes, and not see the sun for a few weeks.

At first my puppy hated the rain. I used the suggestions by Lee, either in one of the novels or his website. I got in my rain gear and went out and acted like I was 4; rolling around, jumping in puddles, screaming with joy!

Everyone thought I was nuts. Guess what, though? At just under six months, she doesn’t mind the rain that much at all.

As far as emotion = dark energy I would have to think about that.

I’m still puzzled, though, by why you say a dog’s first experience of any stimulus — say having its toes stepped on or getting its tail caught in a screen door — is experienced not as an actual physical event, but is first filtered through a physical memory that the dog doesn’t even have.

In order for this to make sense (to me, at least), the dog would have to experience the toes being stepped on and the tail being caught in the screen door as “types” of experiences, which would bring generalization, abstraction, and conceptualization into the picture (which is part of the problem with the “fear of falling” concept, at least for me). The other explanation is that the physical memory of the toes being stepped on or the tail being caught (before these things have actually, physically happened to a specific dog) would have to be contained in a data bank available to all dogs. (I have no problem with this idea, in theory at least.)

And I second Sang’s kudos and thanks about having this all distilled into one (fairly) cogent article.

LCK

PS: Valerie Hunt has measured human energy fields.

“Postulating that human bioenergy fields oscillate at significantly higher frequencies than EKG or EEG machines were designed to measure, Dr. Hunt developed a high frequency instrument which records the bioelectrical energy that emanates from the body’s surface. She proved that energy radiating from the body’s atoms give frequencies 1000 times faster than any other known electrical activity of the body.

“Using fractal mathematics Dr. Hunt’s energy field data produced the first dramatic chaos patterns ever found in human biological systems. Her research is continuing to uncover the dynamic transactions between humans and their environment that elucidate human behaviors, emotions, health, illness and disease.”

Rupert Sheldrake has done some testing on morphic fields too (http://www.sheldrake.org/papers/Morphic/morphic_intro.html), though the results are still controversial.

KB: Remember I’m not concerned with the brain and its higher functions as being an agency of sociability and cooperative learning and therefore the distinction between the neonatal and the adult brain isn’t particularly relevant to my theory other than the fact that in defiance of reinforcement theories of learning, as the adult brain becomes more developed, it becomes less socially flexible. I treat the Big-Brain-in-the-head first and foremost as a generator of energy and in this role; it serves as the counterbalance to little-brain in the gut as the equal and opposite terminal in the body/mind as an emotional battery. This fundamental role is the basis of physical memory and is consistent from day one to the end of life.

Neonatal puppies are almost pure expressions of Temperament and since Temperament is a universal process of turning energy into information, neonatal puppies are largely undifferentiated from each other. They have almost no physical memory because their emotional batteries are “unformatted” as they haven’t experienced much resistance. (Note how we say of people who have a lot of life experience, whether it be a sophisticated, highly educated world traveler, a combat veteran or a simple farmer, that they have “gravitas.” Likewise, the Quakers say that a good friend has “weight.”) Because young puppies have an unformatted battery is why they exhibit the so-called short attention span. However this is really a misnomer because they have no trouble paying attention to things that are innately emotionally conductive, such as nursing, food and simple play objects. It’s just that when the resistance value of something gets too intense, they have to tune it out because they have no emotional reserve (physical memory as energy) in a formatted battery that can be added to the energy mix in that moment and turn a state of emotional attraction into an intense expression of Drive and thereby get an object of resistance to move and become emotionally conductive. In other words, energy can’t become information. They must tune it out because it can’t square up with something that has been internalized and computed via the emotional battery comprised of physical memory.
Then as the puppies in a litter experience stress, they begin to differentiate according to their temperament’s “flaw” and their batteries become formatted as they acquire unresolved emotion as physical memories. (Each flaw in an individual’s temperament is a gap in Temperament as a circle {which the nervous system completes with its state of vibration}, and it dovetails into the other puppies’ flaws, like cardinal points on the face of a compass, so that with four pups, each one will be scored respectively at the North, South, East and West polarities. So a formatted battery is a synchronizing tuning device. In other words, genes aren’t disseminated throughout a litter by a random process, but in terms of this synchronizing scoring function which is why there is as much diversity within a litter as there is between breeds. No genetic model can account for this anomaly.)
Also note that even the undeveloped Big-Brain in the infant is still capable of generating neuro-chemical energy, which in my model is its central function, and which remains a fundamental feature even of the highly developed adult Brain. (These higher functions can be precipitated away when a dog interacts with another dog and dissolves from “particle” state to being part of a wave function with the other dog as its emotional counterbalance.)
Newborn puppies do in fact have one physical memory (not to mention what influence the mothers’ internal state has on pups in the womb), that of being unplugged from the weightless realm of life in the womb the instant they arrive in the weighted-ness and highly resistant world of planet earth. And for the rest of its life, every time there is a dramatic shift in circumstances, this deepest physical memory is revisited and the front-end-isn’t-connected-to-the-hind-end. The next deepest physical memory is nursing and orienting toward the smell of saliva on the mother’s nipple. It has been shown that lifelong memories of a citric acid can be created in a dog when this is put on the whelping mother’s nipples during the neonatal period.
I have only known a few puppies born by C-section, the most notable one being a Newfoundland because it was boarded in my kennel over the first years of its life on a regular basis so it was an interesting opportunity to study. As a young pup it was incredibly dull and sluggish, it struck me as unhealthy when in fact it was physically sound. Then as it matured, it acquired the normal amount of zip and interest in things around it. I interpreted its slow development to be due to having not been properly catalyzed by experiencing a normal birth which would have activated its temperamental flaw and begun to format its battery. Rather it took the stresses of life over many months to activate it as a point of orientation since it missed out on that first shock of defibrillation. In the wild of course a late start like this would have been a death sentence. For what this anecdote is worth, by 2 years of age it was completely normal and exuberant.

2) You talk about evolution creating “new energy.” But if matter and energy can neither be created nor destroyed (as Einstein said), where is this new energy coming from?

KB: You don’t actually need new energy to add energy to a system from the systems’ point of view. If energy becomes information then it is indeed new energy from that frame of reference. So I don’t actually have to account for new energy, just how to turn energy into information which from the network’s point of view is new energy, just as the release of a stress memory feels to us like an input of new energy.
However, perhaps there is a literal answer to this question; perhaps emotion is by its nature new energy. Apparently there isn’t enough mass in the universe to account for its highly structured form of solar systems, asteroid belts and galaxies. Therefore physicists theorize that there must be cold, dark matter (which we can’t measure) to account for these highly elaborate patterns of organization. There also isn’t enough energy in the universe to account for its constant expansion, and the latest mind boggling finding is that the edges of the universe are expanding faster than the interior, even faster than is considered to be possible. One physicist is proposing a new definition of gravity and throwing out Newton to account for this. But at any rate, physicists theorize that there must be cold, dark energy (which we also can’t measure) to account for this constant rate of acceleration and which can even be faster at the fringes. Since quantum weirdness means that no theory can be considered unspeakably outlandish, I’m wondering if perhaps emotion itself is cold, dark matter and cold, dark energy and that emotion becomes real mass and real energy as life evolves through the quantum aspects of consciousness.

This sent me reeling through old notes that I’d taken on consciousness. And maybe this will help answer Lee’s question about puppies?

Lee, who is to say, that puppies don’t arrive here with a certain consciousness already available to them from the ethers (or, infinite intelligence, if you will)?

I’m not saying that they arrive remembering their past lives, or even necessarily positing that we get into a debate on reincarnation. I’m just offering a suggestion that maybe because–and Kevin, correct me if I’m wrong–Dogs ARE pure consciousness, they have some patterns in the ‘quantum’ (or invisible consciousness realm) that are there when they arrive. Some people call this the akashic record. If you’re familiar with Jung then you’ll certainly have an idea what I’m talking about.

Here are some old notes I found from a channeled text, The Law of One, in the 1970s. Now, normally I don’t put too much stock in that stuff, but this was handed to me by a friend, who is a science wizard. For anyone looking for further reading it’s all available online at: http://www.lawofone.info/. In fact, most of the scientific data noted during these sessions is being proven now.

It’s been taken to a new level by a guy name David Wilcock. (divinecosmos.com). David Wilcock is a professional lecturer, filmmaker and researcher of ancient civilizations, consciousness science, and new paradigms of matter and energy. His upcoming Hollywood film CONVERGENCE unveils the proof that all life on Earth is united in a field of consciousness, which affects our minds in fascinating ways.

So before I post from my old notes, there is talk of densities, in what follows. Quickly: Humans are 3rd density.

Anyway, without further ado, here is some more food for thought–metaphor intended.

“Ra: I am Ra. The second density is the density of the higher plant life and animal life which exists without the upward drive towards the infinite. These second-density beings are of an octave of consciousness just as you find various orientations of consciousness among the conscious entities of your vibration.

Questioner: Let’s take the point at which an individualized entity of second density is ready for transition to third. Is this second-density being what we would call animal?

Ra: I am Ra. There are three types of second-density entities which become, shall we say, enspirited. The first is the animal. This is the most predominant. The second is the vegetable, most especially that which you call, sound vibration complex, “tree.” These entities are capable of giving and receiving enough love to become individualized. The third is mineral. Occasionally a certain location/place, as you may call it, becomes energized to individuality through the love it receives and gives in relationship to a third-density entity which is in relationship to it. This is the least common transition.

Questioner: When this transition from second to third density takes place, how does the entity, whether it be animal, [vegetable] tree, or mineral, become enspirited?

Ra: I am Ra. Entities do not become enspirited. They become aware of the intelligent energy within each portion, cell, or atom, as you may call it, of its beingness.

This awareness is that which is awareness of that already given. From the infinite come all densities. The self-awareness comes from within given the catalyst of certain experiences understanding, as we may call this particular energy, the upward spiraling of the cell or atom or consciousness.

You may then see that there is an inevitable pull toward the, what you may call, eventual realization of self.

Questioner: So more and more second-density entities are making it into third density. Can you give me an example of a second-density entity coming into the third density in the recent past?
Ra: I am Ra. Perhaps the most common occurrence of second-density graduation during third-density cycle is the so-called pet.

For the animal which is exposed to the individualizing influences of the bond between animal and third-density entity, this individuation causes a sharp rise in the potential of the second density entity so that upon the cessation of physical complex the mind/body complex does not return into the undifferentiated consciousness of that species, if you will.”

Law of One: the Ra material

That being said here are a few more that might help give some catalyst for the second question.

“The gate to intelligent infinity can only be opened when an understanding of the in-streamings of intelligent energy are opened…These are the so-called Natural Laws of your local space/time continuum and its web of electromagnetic sources or nexi of in-streaming energy.

Know then, first, the mind and the body. Then as the spirit is integrated and synthesized, these are harmonized into a mind/body/spirit complex which can move among the dimensions and can open the gateway to intelligent infinity, thus healing self by light and sharing that light with others.

True healing is simply the radiance of the self causing an environment in which a catalyst may occur which initiates the recognition of self, by self, of the self -healing properties of the self.” Law of One: Ra Material

In my view, there is always energy, so it’s not a matter of getting ‘new energy’, but tapping into the energy already there, thus, making it ‘new’ to those who are using/playing with it.

I’ve been reading about NDT for a year now. But having just acquired my first puppy, all these ideas are taking awhile to integrate with knowledge gained in other areas. I love Kevin’s model for this. You can throw the template on almost everything and see what types of results you get. I enjoyed the talk about wave energy a few weeks back. As a ’surfer’, and someone who looks at the ocean daily, I often use that analogy to explain NDT to people who see me ‘Whooping and Yahooing’ and running away and ‘Pushing’, on the beach. And I do have a few more ideas, but they are still in the beginning stages of understanding. So, until I’m able to get a better grasp, I’ll have to wait to share.

Thanks again, Kevin, Lee and everyone for the always enlightening discussions on this website. And, to close on a somewhat lighter note, the beach is no place to train a puppy; I don’t know if the smells, or the expansiveness of the horizon, but it’s seems to be like a drug, and is usually a free for all. I affectionately call it ‘Puppy Crack’.

1) You say dogs are designed to relate to new experiences through how they resonanate with their physical memory, and that this is a key piece of the theory. What about brand new puppies? (You’ve also said that adult dogs retain or “remember” their earliest experiences, and filter reality through them, even thought the neonatal brain is as different from the adult brain as, say, the heart is from the liver.)

2) You talk about evolution creating “new energy.” But if matter and energy can neither be created nor destroyed (as Einstein said), where is this new energy coming from?

LCK