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Opening the Cosmic Command Center Studies done at Harvard on long-time meditators also showed a degree of restfulness awareness. The key difference between the two studies was:

• 1. The amplitude of the brain waves was extremely high when tested on THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM, and even his disciples, during Kundalini energy activation.
• 2. All qEEG studies done at Dhyanapeetam during Kundalini awakening showed high-amplitude waves across the spectrum. In comparison, meditators across the world showed normal amplitude of the waves.
• 3. The sense of calmness, well-being and thought-less-ness happens when the emotional component of a thought or memory is separated from the memory itself, thereby allowing for a reduction in the number of thoughts. The limbic system is that part of the brain which is at the junction of the mechanical or involuntary system, and the highly evolved system which is the seat of the intellect, logic and cognitive processing (neo-cortex). Meditating on the Third Eye produces all the effects of calmness, well-being and thoughtlessness, while at the same time increasing awareness and cognition through unhampered processing by the cerebral cortex, which is no longer weighed down by emotions and random thoughts. This would allow us to conclude that the ajna chakra or the Third Eye consists of the entire complex of the limbic system, starting from the infero-medial pre-frontal cortex, and involving not only all the known structures of the limbic system like the hippocampus and amygdala, but also the pineal gland and the rest of the volitional brain involved in intuition, cognition, etc. Depending on the effects manifested, different parts of the cerebral cortex would presumably be involved at different times (for instance, in blindfolded reading, the primary visual cortex would be involved).

The process of activating the Third Eye as described by THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM includes:

This is the process of directly transmitting the bio-energy (Kundalini energy of the Avatar) into the area of the Third Eye, located between the two eyebrows of the recepient.

The meditation consists of visualizing a light or golden light within the third eye, which directly connects with THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM's third eye.

Timed meditation is performed alternatively, with eyes closed and eyes opened for three rounds.

The application of the blindfold completely cuts off any sensory inputs in the form of photons falling into the retina of the eye.

In the outer world, the maximum sensory input is through the visual system. Meditating in the darkness of the blindfold on the third eye allows one to focus with minimal distraction, while simultaneously activating the pineal gland (which produces melatonin in darkness).

Melatonin is responsible for re-adjusting the circadian rhythm of the body, and has significant anti-ageing benefits.

• ♦ Blindfolded reading
• ♦ Enhanced intuition
• ♦ Increased IQ
• ♦ Ability to use all aspects of the brain's potential
• ♦ Parakaya Pravesham the ability to enter and understand the other being.
• ♦ Many other siddhis (mystical powers) as well as health benefits

The traditional chakras are six in number, starting from the muladhara at the base of the sacrum to svadhisthana, manipuraka, anahata, visuddhi and ajna chakra along the length of the spine.

The sahasrara or brahmarandra is not a chakra, but a channel connecting the pindanda (microcosm) with the brahmanda (macrocosm).

Goraksanath has described additional chakras above the brahmarandra, and they are named as below.

7. Urdhava Randra (corresponding to the Pranamaya kosha)

8. Bhramaraguha (where prana and manas cease - corresponding to the Manomaya kosha)

9. Anukuntba Pita Punyagara (Causeless "I" Consciousness corresponding to the Vijnanamaya kosha)

10. Sikhara (Kailasa - corresponding to the Anandamaya kosha)

11. Vajra Danda (Maya Shankini Nadi)

12. Nirahara Paramahamsa Jyothista (Guru or Devi Meenakshi according to Sri Ramana Maharshi (dvadasanta)

(Reference: Goraksha Sathaka by Gorakshanath)

Adi Shankaracharya in Vivekachudamani describes the koshas or energy bodies as below:

These sheaths are something like peels of onion growing one over the other. Accordingly, the annamaya kosha is permeated by four koshas: the pranamaya and the rest. The pranamaya kosha is permeated by three koshas, the manomaya by two koshas and the vijnanamaya by one kosha. In this manner, each outer kosha is full of that which is within, i.e., the succeeding one being internal to the preceding. By resolving each kosha into that which immediately succeeds it, we are led to the knowledge of the Brahman, which is beyond cause, and effect and realize our oneness with it.

• ♦ Annamaya Kosha is the size of the body.
• ♦ Pranamaya Kosha is the size of Dvadasanta, that is

12 fingers' breadth – antar (internally and bahir (externally) – as described in Vijnana Bhairava Tantra.

• ♦ Manomaya Kosha is as much as the mind can expand
• ♦ Vijnanamaya Kosha is the expansion of cognition by awakening of the Third Eye. Distance varies from blindfolded reading to Parakaya Pravesham.
• ♦ Anandamaya Kosha is what connects Pindanda to Brahmanda (microcosm to macrocosm).

Goraksanath clearly describes the bifurcation of the sushumna nadi in the medulla oblongata (reticular activating system).

So, one line of sushumna nadi goes directly from the medulla through the brain into the brahmarandra.

The second line of the bifurcation of the susumna, along with the ida and pingala, goes directly to the middle of the forehead (bhrumadhya) with the ida and pingala opening into the right and left nostrils via the olfactory bulbs, which are part of the limbic system.

The sushumna takes a turn in the front corresponding to the medial prefrontal cortex and goes right up through the limbic system (ajna) to enter the brahmarandra.

This hollow is usually open unlike the first line, which is usually closed. During liberation, the two hollows are united opening into the tenth gate.

Thus, the expansion of the vijnanamaya kosha in Third Eye AwakeningSM leads to cognition via the entire limbic system, and involves the visual cortex in associated visual areas of the brain in blindfolded reading.

If the next dimension would be hearing without the ears, then the same system, along with the auditory cortex would be activated. Thus, different dimensions of Third Eye AwakeningSM would activate different parts of the brain, essentially leading to the potential ability to utilize 100% of the brain's functional capacity.

(From THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM's talks on the subtle truths of Third Eye AwakeningSM over the years)

One of the biggest misunderstandings which happenS in your life is, you trying to grasp you!

Listen: you cannot understand you - you can only experience you. So, if you try to grasp you through any conceptualization, intellectual understanding or in any way, it will always be a misunderstanding. If you are not comfortable with the vast, beautiful, amazing you, then you are not celebrating the extraordinary you. Even though you are not able to hold or grasp the vast you, don't try to create an image about you. If you see the vast you, you will be fearful.

The Upanishads beautifully teaches how to be loving and respectful towards the Avyakta - the Unknown. Much of you is Avyakta - unknown to you. When you are afraid of the Avyakta outside, surely you will be afraid of the Avyakta inside.

When you understand that your unknown is your own unknown, you will not have fear about your unknown. You will not be afraid of anything which is your own. You will get comfortable with you. You will explore, embrace and love those unknown parts of you.

If you can see something through the eyes, you can experience it with your physical body. If you can see something through your mind, you can experience it, understand it, with your mental body. If you can see something with your inner space, your consciousness, you can control it as the Lord of it. Even blind people continue to see in their inner space. Whether you are blind or have physical eyes, you continue to see through your inner eyes. Third Eye vision is nothing but 'Conscious Seeing'! It activates the nonmechanical parts of your brain. That is why you start experiencing extraordinary powers like telepathy, materialization, teleportation and clairvoyance.

Third Eye is like a door to Cosmos. You can receive anything from the Cosmos though the Third Eye. Same way, you can send any command to the Cosmos through the Third Eye. Anything sent through the Third Eye to the Cosmos is immediately, immediately experienced! Third Eye is not just the brow center; it is the Browsing Center also! Just like how you can upload or download anything through the Internet world through an internet browsing center, through the Third Eye you can download and upload anything in the Cosmos. It is the Cosmic browsing center. Any Akashic Records can be downloaded by you when you open your Third Eye.

Third Eye is the bridge between the physical world and psychic and cosmic space. All the extraordinary powers, psychic powers, are achieved through Third Eye AwakeningSM. All the extraordinary powers are lived when your Third Eye is completely awakened. Understand: whatever you are seeing with these two eyes is not reality and not enough. Third Eye makes you see the higher reality externally in your day-to-day life, and internally in your life and death journey. Third Eye AwakeningSM makes you immediately experience God.

The Third Eye is a direct bridge to God. Third Eye is not just an eye; it is the very source of your Consciousness. If you align your thinking based on the principle of Advaita, Oneness, all your energy will become centered on Third Eye, all your energy will become stable in your Third Eye. The functioning of your Third Eye will enter into the next frequency.

The more you use the Third Eye, the more the patterns and engrams engraved in your brain will start getting completed, because you are continuously working with Consciousness. The more you use Consciousness, the more you become Consciousness. What we call karma is nothing but the deep-rooted unconscious patterns and incompletions which force you into a vicious cycle of fear,

greed and pain for lifetimes. When you start using the powers of your Consciousness freely, the unconscious parts of your mind are brought under the light of your Consciousness, and they automatically dissolve, clearing the karmas.

The word 'omnipresent' needs to be understood.

When your presence is loosened in your body, you become omnipresent. If you are caught inside one nervous system, your presence is limited to just what you feel as you - that one small body. If you start loosening yourself, if you practice getting in or out of that one system, two things happen to you: one, you start becoming omnipresent; two, you experience tremendous love and compassion, because you start feeling your presence everywhere. You start feeling yourself happening everywhere, so the tremendous love and compassion to the Whole happens.

Patanjali explains in Yoga Sutras:

kāyendriyasiddhiraśuddhikśayātḥ tapasaḥ (2.43)

When the body and sense organs are ripened by tapas (the purification process), all the impurities are eliminated from them, and extraordinary powers express because of the ripening of the bio-memory.

'Kaayendriya siddhi' is the process of the body and sense organs getting ripe. I don't want to translate the word siddhi as extraordinary powers; I want to translate it as 'getting ripe.' For example, if your eyes are ripe, you can see extraordinary things. When your senses are ripe, automatically the extraordinary powers happen in you.

Literally, the master's presence is cooking all of you intensely every day. Intense boiling is happening! Even this levitation is nothing but the method of ripening your senses.

When you make your senses ripe, you live with them joyfully!

Being a good human being is good, but it is not great! That is not the end of human possibilities. You are designed for extraordinary powers and capabilities. You cannot talk about the power of seeing to a born-blind man. How much ever you talk, he won't be able to understand what is going to happen when he gains his vision. In the same way, I can't talk about the Third Eye to you till your Third Eye is opened! When you awaken the Third Eye, your whole life will be different. What ordinary people call intuition will become your lifestyle. What people normally call spiritual powers will become your very lifestyle!

The miracles you see fall into five categories: magic tricks, black magic, white magic, ucchaadana and Happenings of the Presence. If you know these five categories clearly, whenever you see any extraordinary happening, you will know to which category it belongs, and whether you want to have it in your life.

1. Magic tricks – These are plain entertainment - they are not siddhis and nothing is wrong in them.

2. Black magic – Even if you do it for entertainment, it is dangerous and can have adverse effects on both you and the person on whom you are doing it.

3. Ucchaadana – if you use it rightly for the right purpose you will not have a problem, but if you use it wrongly for the right purpose (or rightly for wrong purpose) you will have a problem.

4. White magic – these are the siddhis. They may delay enlightenment, but will give you intelligence about when to perform them and when not to perform them.

5. Miracles which happen in the Presence - these are the leela of the Divine; they do only good all the time.

Narayana Swami, a siddha in my native town of Arunachala, used to say very beautifully, 'Extraordinary powers are given to you to show you that the ordinary life is not worth living.

For example, imagine how it would be if you could suddenly break this huge hall like a small bamboo stick and fold it and put it in your Consciousness? It is possible! This is an extraordinary power. This whole hall can be melted like a wax model and put into your Consciousness just through a sound vibration. When you can do this, it proves that the ordinary reality is a not a worthwhile reality; it is not the solid reality.

Whenever you break the ordinary rules, it is extraordinary. But the ability to break the ordinary rules and make yourself extraordinary is not supposed to bring extra ego; it is supposed to show you that the ordinariness itself is worthless, and that is why you are able to break it! It breaks your attachment to your current reality. And that is the exact lesson you need to learn.

One of the greatest gifts to mankind would be the ability to have Third Eye AwakeningSM, which, apart from leading to several manifest powers, using a very standardized protocol-based technique of initiation and training, all of which happens while being in the right space of Advaita.

In THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM's own words:

The software for the Third Eye AwakeningSM has been programmed to only work from the space of Advaita (the right context) and cannot be misused with the wrong space or intention, as the password to this power has been coded into the Advaitic space of consciousness.

When we do not understand the science behind a power or siddhi, we usually interpret it as something either magical or mystical, but in any case, definitely difficult. THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM has not only clearly demonstrated these powers Himself, but has actually made them accessible to all His devotees.

A simple concept like 'listening', which means paying attention and cognizing, not only with all the physical senses, but using the very energy of our being, is in itself, a simple yet powerful siddhi. In this way, THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM is making available at least 400 demonstrable, reproducible abilities to all His disciples. During the Simhasta Kumbha Mela in 2016, He intends to reveal at least 70 powers described in the Shivajnana Upanishad. At the time of compiling this volume, adults and children worldwide have been initiated into the science of Third Eye AwakeningSM

With His Holiness Sri Shankaracharya of Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham With (Late) Sri Ashok Singhal ji, International President of VHP

Student performing a demonstration for doctors at Pragya Hospital Oscar-winning actress Susan Sarandon introduces the demo in the USA

Demo by THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM Gurukul Demo by adult sangha member during Inner Awakening® SM student during Inner Awakening®

Location: France

Shivoham Inner Awakening participant, May 2015

After Swamiji's initiation, I am able to recognize shapes and letters.

I am a sketch artist, and I am enjoying drawing while blindfolded and seeing if all the elements are in the right place!

• Spiritual name: Ananda Komala
• Location: Canada

Shivoham Inner Awakening participant, May 2015

When Swamiji initiated us, I immediately noticed that with the children in the hall, it seemed like it just started happening on its own! Some of them were even reading complete sentences.

Children do not have the self-doubt that adults have, so it simply happens for them. Swamiji has opened up this science for everybody; now it is up to each of us to open ourselves and receive it fully.

It all started with a clear, intense sensation between the eyebrows that made the entire body feel light. A cool intense energy was experienced the moment Swamiji started the initiation, which got profound as the time passed.

It became a powerful experience, and what felt like a few minutes of an out-of-body experience (OBE) turned out to be a good 40 minutes. I never expected that this will happen!

Spiritual name: Ma Yogamata Age: 9

Student of THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM GurukulSM

When I do blindfold reading, it looks like everything is just coming like an image. It just pops up and goes. How I look at it is, just like an image - sometimes an image, or sometimes like how I look around, like with my normal two eyes. You should be first selfconfident when it comes, then with that confidence it will benefit you with everything.

For me, there is no difference between a wish and a will. For example, when I want a toy and I wish for it, then it just happens. I just wish, I want a Lego and it just happens.

Spiritual name: Ma Shivajnana (mother of Yogamata)

Location: USA

Yogamata is showing me every day what it means to believe in yourself and know that you can do anything.

Anything is really possible! The way she approaches life or tackles problems is so beautiful and inspiring. She expresses so much intelligence and maturity; she is able to learn new subjects so quickly after the initiation.

We knew that when we enrolled her in the Gurukul, Swamiji was going to teach her to be successful and a better human being - but we never expected this!

Spiritual name: Ma Prajnana Age: 13 Student of THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM GurukulSM

After Swamiji awakened my Third Eye, I am able to read comfortably even when blindfolded.

The most surprising thing is that I am able to read languages like Tamil and Gujarati, which I normally don't know how to read! After these experiences, I feel that I have transformed a lot.

Name: Sharanya Sridhar

Age: 16

Location: Bengaluru, Bharat

Student of THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM GurukulSM

After initiation from Swamiji, not only are the Balasants (Gurukul students) reading blindfolded in English, they have started reading in languages which they cannot read even with their eyes open – like German, Hindi, etc! Also, some of them are able to comfortably read off a sheet of paper which is kept elsewhere!

Also, a lot of fifth graders got promoted to tenth grade, and are now preparing for their Board exams! Due to Third Eye AwakeningSM, unimaginable intelligence has opened up in all Balasants.

Spiritual Name: Ma Nithya Swaroopapriyananda

Location: THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM Peetham, Bengaluru Aadheenam

Shivoham Inner Awakening participant, May 2015

As soon as I started gazing into Swamiji's Third Eye, I felt a pulsation, like a heartbeat, in the area of my own Third Eye.

When He instructed us to close our eyes, the pulse intensified, and I saw some swirling golden light in the center of my inner vision.

After the meditation, I was surprised to be able to immediately, accurately trace shapes on a page while blindfolded, and also my intuition increased a lot.

Also, since Swamiji awakened my Third Eye, I no longer need to turn on the lights to do things like get ready for bed or see where I'm going at night.

So if you're thinking of going to Inner Awakening®, just jump into it - these 21 days will be the best, most transformational, aweinspiring days of your life. Swamiji's presence is priceless - it has to be experienced!

A few days ago, I went to the Muruga temple near my house during my morning walk. One young lady around 27 or so sat near me and was talking to her husband about pain near her back/abdomen area for many days.

I just remembered Swamiji's initiation and scanned her with my third eye and was 1000% sure she had kidney stones. I could see the right kidney inflamed. I interrupted them and told her to go to a renal specialist at once as her right kidney was inflamed.

I gave my number and told them to get moving right away. Just a few minutes back the husband called me up and said they decided to head to A&E unit at Singapore General Hospital just in case what I said was true. After tests the doctors confirmed she had stones in the right kidney and a condition called Pyelonephritis due to which the kidney shows inflammation. The doctor told them had they delayed by some more days --she'd have to lose her right kidney!!!

The way Bhagwan THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM works is simply beyond words. The husband was like, "But how did you know???" I said, "I did not - but HE does & HE shows".

That whole family wants to see Swamiji and take his blessings once the treatment is done. Just an ordinary walk out can turn out to be life-saving for someone!

Name: Poornima

• Spiritual Name: Ma Nithya
• Mahayogananda
• Location: Singapore

Shivoham Inner Awakening® participant, May 2015

Debbie Chance PhD in Education School Administrator, Winston-Salem Forsyth County Schools North Carolina, USA

Gurukul students were mature and very respectful of the adults, of me and of each other.

They were highly attentive and conscious of the needs of other students, and were frequently observed dressing, helping, nurturing and problem-solving with each other. This was regardless of age; even young students assisted older ones and helped teachers as well.

There was no competition or comparison, and no aggression except for a few times, which was immediately solved by a selfappointed group of 'de-escalators' who intervened quickly, asking questions like, 'Are you in the space of Shivoham?' Or, 'How can you get in the space of Shivoham now?'

One young student was observed crying and hitting another older student multiple times. This older student just 'took the hits' and moved away. Within five minutes, he had 'completed' with the de-escalators, and moved on.

School Administrator Sridevi was presented with a student with a pain in the body. She asked the students, 'What is pain?' and 'Can you take care of it?' The student said yes and went away. Sridevi was observed allowing students to be self-directed in the classroom, assigning work with time limits that were flexible, and students could pace themselves - play or sleep, play with beads, and do whatever, so long as they finished the assignment according to the parameters.

Students clearly respected Sridevi and frequently asked questions and formed small groups to accomplish tasks. One student who "had a stick" in the back of the class for three different periods (and was clearly off task) was immediately re-directed by Sridevi to produce his work. He happily complied.

Basically the group functions as a WHOLE and they appear to be able to sit quietly for long periods of time in restful awareness. There is no picking-on, harassing, fighting, put-downs, as one would expect in a 'normal' school. On one occasion dinner was late, and they waited quietly for over an hour with no complaints.

A surprising incident that was brought to our notice was that the children's garden of the Gurukul had dropped their thorns after being counseled by the students, and assured them that there was no danger to them, and no need to keep their thorns to defend themselves.

I personally investigated this with my team, spending some time in the garden during the students' counseling session.

Students sat with their rose for approximately 20-30 minutes per day. Some caressed the leaves, some sat quietly, some talked to each other, yet they were sitting casually... not praying, speaking to the plant or exhibiting any obvious behavior... yet the majority of the plants had dropped their thorns.

Students assume responsibility for adult-type behaviors like redirecting, advising, questioning and actively listening to each other. One 7-year-old after finishing his report, spelling and printing correctly, got up walked over to another student and helped him to write and spell for his report. Another 11-year-old frequently directed the whole class, "Everyone be in the space of listening". Of course, everyone listened, and the re-direction happened easily.

Students also take responsibility for helping one another 'complete' themselves by asking relevant questions to facilitate each other's understanding of the completion process. Students would not allow themselves or others to be in the space of powerlessness. Completion happened constantly. They appeared

to be a self-correcting, inter-woven network of completion.

Students challenge each other to grow into higher states of social and emotional functioning by actively facilitating the thinking/understanding of the common goal: Living in the state of Enlightenment. Students used a common language that was based on the common goal of living in a state of balanced emotional maturity.

Where else would you find over 100 students of all ages in one big room, sitting together, eating together, just being together, in such silence?

Students enjoy mangoes from the mango tree in the Gurukul garden which gave a multifold yield upon their request

Ma Yogamata, aged 9, was the first Gurukul student to read in the complete dark with a triple blindfold. She was not only able to read the letters, but was also able to identify the color of the letters.

My assistants and I guided a student by name Brahmasukha Maharaj into a completely dark room for blindfolded reading.

At first, he appeared concerned that he

may not be able to read in the complete dark. He was encouraged and reminded of his possibility by another student.

Then immediately, after we turned out the lights, he started telling what was happening in the picture book, saying, 'There is a cat or tiger, gold color with white, coming down the stairs with his head up.' I turned on the lights, and to my amazement, this is exactly what was in the book!

Soon he started reading so fast, it was as if the picture popped into his head as soon as the light was off, even while I was still handing him the book to read! He then continued to read three more pages in total dark, describing the pictures in the book and reading the captions under the pictures as well. I think that he was as shocked as I was, that he could read in total darkness! He was not only reading in the dark, he was triple blind-folded.

It is interesting note that the student initially expressed hesitation about reading in the dark, since on an earlier occasion, he was able to read at dusk, with very minimal natural light, with a triple blindfold. He had just grabbed the book, put it on the top of his head, and started reading correctly as well as identifying the pictures.

I took Kalpalatha, aged 10, to be tested with triple blindfold in the dark.

Kalpalatha asked to be blindfolded 7 times, and appeared to be confident that she could read in the total darkness. When we turned off the lights, she immediately started reading without hesitation, and identified all words and pictures correctly. She in fact read the whole book fast and fluently, as if she was reading normally, with eyes open and lights on.

It is interesting to note that on an earlier occasion, she also had a cognition that she would be unable to read in the dark. But this time around, she was very confident that she would be able to read perfectly in the dark, due two main reasons:

• 1. Ma Yogamata and Brahmasukha Maharaj had already done it
• 2. She had already read Swamiji's mind in the interim (she said that if she can read His mind, then this should come very easily)

As we continued to test more children, the amazing thing we found is that each one's success was based in the success of the others... a kind of ripple effect!

THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM described this phenomenon as the individual's muscle-memory 'learning' the extraordinary possibility.

In the first phase or 'copy phase', students are first asked to copy 12 images of various complexities. This 'copy phase' reflects the students' visual motor intelligence and maturity. In the second phase or 'recall phase', students need to remember all of the images previously drawn without seeing them. The recall phase reflects the students' visual recall intelligence. The recall image is scored based on the level of recall ability. Of the 75 students who have taken the Bender Gestalt II test so far, the average percentile rank of Copy Phase is 95.07 and Recall Phase is 86.91.

Note: These extremely high scores are indicative of above average results compared to other students who were used to norm this test.

As a result of utilizing the Bender Gestalt II, observations of the process of students responding to each test card were recorded. Observations included: Idiosyncratic personality style, needs, conflicts and defenses, level of maturation, coping methods, psychological strengths and weaknesses, openness to new varieties of learning experiences, and the ability to profit from them.

It Is very important to document the way in which the student approaches this test, because (according to the testing protocol) it reflects the way the student approaches life itself.

• ♦ Students consistently avoided complaining and approached each event with composure and alertness.
• ♦ They exhibited extremely meticulous precision in transposing the Gestalt forms.
• ♦ They consistently took much more than the average amount of time to transpose the Gestalt. On the average it took a total of two hours per student: one hour to copy all twelve Gestalt forms, and one hour to recall them.
• ♦ If an examinee takes a large amount of time to complete the geometric figures, it demonstrates a methodical approach to tasks, low compulsive tendencies, and low symptoms of depression. In the modern world, delayed gratification is considered one of the highest assets of an employee. The observed ability of delayed gratification was the most impressive result of the Bender Gestalt II test.
• ♦ The other outstanding attribute in Bender Gestalt II results was the superior memory ability of students. It is very unusual for students to remember such a high number of Gestalt forms. Each gurukul student attended to the test card carefully, and persistently transposed the Gestalt form; remaining calm, cool and collected. They initially approached each Gestalt form with a keen observation and analysis of the form, and then exhibited a steady perseverance, attending to minute details.
• ♦ The students appeared to be in the deep state of restful awareness as they performed the memory recall aspect. They showed no signs of confusion, neither were they conflicted nor agitated. They consistently exhibited presence of mind. Because of their deep ease, the clarity of their memory was obvious. These impressions indicate strong mental stability, persistence, attention to detail, high motivation and emotional maturity.

The superior level of precision is evident in the high percentile ranking scores listed in the tables.

As a result of Whole-Brain Activation, THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM GurukulSM students regularly demonstrate an astonishing range of abilities spontaneously, with hardly any formal training, including advanced yoga postures, traditional music and dance, sculpture, clay modeling, jewelry making and crochet, among others.

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The Slosson Intelligence (IQ) Test is a well-respected and highly validated intelligence test worldwide. It measures the following categories: general information, similarities and differences, vocabulary, comprehension, digit span, arithmetic, visual motor capacity, and auditory memory. After all testing is completed, the examiner will do an item analysis on consistently missed items and categories in order to provide feedback for future instructional strategies.

Since the Slosson is a highly verbal test, the test administrator observed that many of the IQ scores were not accurate because of lack of English language immersion. The results pertaining to students with total English immersion have been reproduced here. (Note: The number of years each student has practiced English has been recorded.)

50% of the students with total English immersion fell into the category of Genius and Very Superior Intelligence (IQ Score of 120 and above).

The average difference between the chronological age and the intellectual age is 2.7 years ahead.

Note: The MAE (Mean Age Equivalent) of Nithyananda GurukulSM students is much higher than their peers who were used to norm this test.

83% of the students are intellectually 1 to 6 year(s) ahead of their actual age (as of students tested so far)

53% of the students are intellectually 2 to 6 year(s) ahead of their actual age (as of students tested so far)

1. One student, Brahmasukha, IQ 144, who was very proficient in blindfolded reading, correctly answered the question, 'Who was Longfellow and what did he do to become famous?' When the examiner asked him, 'How did you get this answer?', he said it came spontaneously to him. This 'spontaneous knowledge' acquisition needs to be studied further. There could be a correlation between blindfolded reading and spontaneous knowledge acquisition.

2. Another proficient blindfold reader, Lopamudra, IQ 123, after getting question number 181 incorrect, asked me if she could read the answer through the examiner's mind. The question was, 'Who wrote the following: Much Ado About Nothing?' She blurted out the letters S H A K E S and S P E A R, then she said M A I L L I W (William), which is of course the correct answer. This student has been studied doing blindfolded reading on many occasions, and it has been observed that many times she reads the letters backwards.

3. Sharanya IQ 119, who was also a proficient blindfold reader, after getting question number 181 incorrect, asked me if she could read the answer through the examiner's mind. For the question, 'Who wrote the following book: A Tale of Two Cities?', she read the letters C H A R L E S D I C K E N S, and she was able to get the answer for two other authors as well.

4. Sharanya and Lopamudra were asked the question number 153: 'What is a panorama?' Neither student knew the definition, so the item was marked incorrect. The examiner then visualized a panoramic scene on top of Mount Everest. Both of these students described the scene in detail, including snow, mountains and sky.