14 Apr 2005
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Nithyananda met with Dr. William Collins, a leading Researcher and a practicing Neurofeedback specialist at the latter’s office in St. Louis, USA. Dr. Collins requested to study the brain activity of Nithyananda along with that of a patient at the time he was healing the latter. The patient was in- jured in a car accident 10 years ear- lier consequently suffering from af- fected motor nerves. Nithyananda readily agreed to his request. The ex- periment was conducted and the re- sults recorded which are presented here in brief.
‘The world is not going to believe this!’ exclaimed Dr. Collins at seeing the as-tounding observations recorded.
There were 4 main states in which the brain readings of Nithyananda and the patient were recorded and compared: (a) both just sitting normally, (b) Nithyananda meditating, (c) Nithyananda healing the patient and (d) Nithyananda radiating healing energy, without directing it specifically towards the patient.
When Nithyananda was just sitting and his brain waves were recorded, Dr. Collins observed the following:
1. Nithyananda’s brain was unusually quiet (especially the right side of his brain). Brain metabolism was 1/20th of normal people – this is significantly lesser that what he has seen even in very calm persons.
• This implies there is an enormous conservation of energy.
• Oxygen and other chemicals consumed by the brain to process information is greatly con-served.
2. The activity was a minimum; only the energy required to run vital body functions were being consumed.
3. The readings of brain activity and metabolism were at such low levels that Dr. Collins changed electrodes to more sensitive ones and even adjusted them a few times to make sure he was getting the readings. Despite the adjustments, the readings continued to show unusually low levels! 4. The left and right sides of his brain were working simultaneously.
5. The strength of Alpha waves, which is generally high for people who are stressed, was signifi-cantly lower than normal.
Dr. Collins could not believe that Nithyananda was in his normal state with this level of activity in the brain. He remarked, ‘there is no such thing as normal state for you!’ And Nithyananda replied that he was right, because even during normal state he is really in Samadhi.
While Nithyananda was meditating:
1. Higher frequency brain waves increased. This was found only in people who had meditated for 20 yrs or so.
2. Lower frequency waves decreased in strength. This was the reverse of what is normally observed in average persons, where lower frequency waves become more prominent during meditation.
• The reason for this unusual reading is, as Nithyananda pointed out, that when average persons meditate they concentrate, but Nithyananda simply enters into pure awareness.
While Nithyananda healed David, Dr. Collins noted the following readings:
1. Nithyananda’s brain readings were dramatically different.
2. The right side of His brain became much more active. The difference between the right side and the left side was dramatic!
• Right hemisphere does global thinking and rapid processing.
• Whatever takes the left brain several minutes to process, the right brain will process in half a sec (i.e. the right is 100s of times faster than left brain)!
• His right brain was much more active compared to the left.
• The right brain was also in the timeless zone (no concept of time).
3. The strength of the waves implied a tremendous level of metabolic activity.
• Dr. Collins stated ‘If I had done this, I’d be fatigued and sleeping by the time its over!’
• But of course, Nithyananda felt refreshed after healing, and this was unbelievable for the doctor.
At the same time, from the patient’s brain readings:
1. Certain high frequencies that we don’t normally produce, were being produced by his brain.
• These high frequencies are generally produced when we integrate information, or an epiphany happens.
- If and when they are produced, they occur for a very short duration (about one second) and are easy to miss.
2. In the David’s brain, not only were these waves being produced, but they were maintained during the entire healing period!
3. Dr. Collins commented, ‘The world is not going to believe this! This is extremely unusual....it seems as if his brain was changing and 100s of 1000s of neurons/nerves in the brain was being re-wired!’
4. The sustained levels of high frequency waves also meant a very high metabolism of the brain.
- Dr. Collins described it as equivalent to running at your fastest speed for 20 minutes.
- Based on that, he concluded that the patient will be exhausted after the healing.
- On the contrary the patient didn’t feel tired, and instead he was refreshed and he wanted to walk!
In this phase, Swamiji created the same healing energy, but instead of directing it to one person, he radiated it. Dr. Collins once again recorded the brain activity in Swamiji and David, and found that:
1. The high freq. waves continued to occur in David’s brain (i.e. re-wiring of the brain continued to occur).
2. There was still a significant difference in the strength of the high frequency waves in David’s brain.
3. Both sides of David’s brain became like the right brain of Swamiji.
4. Swamiji’s brain activity was quite similar to the levels during one-to-one healing.
Swamiji explained, “In the normal state, myself, the person getting healed and the Cosmic Energy are all different, but during healing, all 3 get connected. That could be the reason why David’s brain behaved like Swamiji’s brain.”
David's brain activity map showing 40 Hz high frequency wave (in yellow)...
Dr. Collins interpretting Nithyanandas brain activity
