Ken Wilber Stops His Brain Waves

You already knew that Ken has no heart, now we find out that he has no brain, either!

That's right, Ken can stop his brainwaves on demand. Actually—and in a more serious vein—this is the famous EEG machine recording where Ken enters various meditative states, one of which is a type of "thoughtless," "image-less," or "formless" state, whose correlate is that his brainwaves come to an almost complete stop, as clearly recorded on this portable electroencephalograph (EEG) machine. (This video is discussed in One Taste, April 10 entry.)

We asked Ken to do a short 10-minute commentary on these various meditative states and the corresponding brain-wave patterns that are shown on the EEG machine in the video. Ken enters four meditative states (nirvikalpa closed eyes, nirvikalpa open eyes, sahaj, and mantra-savikalpa), each of which has a very distinctive brain-wave pattern. In his commentary, Ken emphasizes that the patterns shown on this machine may or may not be typical, but they do emphasize that profound consciousness states can be evoked at will, and these show immediate correlation in brain-wave patterns.

If nothing else, seeing somebody's brainwaves flatline in about 4 seconds is a sight not easily forgotten! It also explains why we once heard Ken's girlfriend say, upon delivering news that she thought might not be happily received, "Now, um, honey, make your brain waves go to zero...."

More seriously, as Ken often says, "If you want to know God, you've got to get your brain out of the way first. It's just one big stupid filter...."

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• Integral
• Naked
• Ken
• Wilber
• Meditation
• Brain
• Waves
• Spirituality
• EEG
• consciousness

[MrSupaplex]

I stoped my brainwaves watching high school musical...

[armchairastronaut78]

I would like to see this done on an actual EEG machine with the standard 32 channel free running trace on a laptop screen. Then, I would be truly impressed.

[grisgrisy]

i enjoyed this vid

[Blacklemon67a]

@colourfulwithaU *facepalm*

[holekyo]

w3hat it shows is that I'm a fuckin clown. impressive, really impressive ken. are you waiting for standing ovation ?? now listen what I wanan say. sign me out from any fuckin organisations or groups. ask faggotable pall from gompa, mister "only a grades in school", mister fuckin "favorite one" which sits on masters knee like a fuckin kid on santas knees. ask him about me. "some people just love to have enemies". so I love to tell you to fuck off. why ?? cause I have got law to do it to uninvited

[colourfulwithaU]

"If you want to know God, you've got to get your brain out of the way first."

Truer words have never been spoken.

[ximenamenendez]

@ChrisjayH1 gee, best sellers are for conformists

[Bassmystic]

@presentlightoftruth grow up kid!

[alliant]

@presentlightoftruth

why are people like you so motivated to spread hateful generalization and idiotic moral judgement.

[chipmunkspunk]

@presentlightoftruth what does being childless and 'diseased' have to do with it?

[cosmicjazzer]

@presentlightoftruth Who says Ken Wilber believes he is more evolved? Has he EVER said that?

[ChrisjayH1]

@Hapirott I don't recall seeing you on the best seller list...