Hypothesis: "Why serious frustration and despair cause shamanic awakening experiences" and its deep relationship to UFO/abduction phenomena

Preface
- I state my hypothesis as in the title in relation to the past article,

  Dave Scott : Experienced the greatest frustration and despair of my life in 2007 → Encountered the Angel of Death in 2011 (2022-03-21)  (japanese)


- Why might a serious setback or despair cause a shamanic awakening experience?

My Hypothesis
- Psychologists talk about the effects of psychological trauma, and recently brain physiologists have found that severe trauma and abuse can cause physical damage to the brain, but that may not be enough.

- Severe frustration and despair may cause permanent (i.e., irreversible) physical and physiological alterations in specific areas of the brain, which may trigger the surrounding environment to cause impairment of brain function (i.e., temporary disorientation).

- This disorientation may lead to continual and repeated sightings of UFOs and ETs. The findings of Dr. Kit Green of the CIA (*1) support this.

- Furthermore, this physical and physiological alteration of the brain may have the side effect of making it easier for poltergeist phenomena and tuning and resonance phenomena to develop at the same time.


- In other words, it seems to me that the scheme is as follows.

　　(A) Serious frustration and despair
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　　(B) Physiological or physical alterations in specific areas of the brain
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　　(C) triggering factors in the surrounding environment catalyze...
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　　(D1) Side effects of temporary disorientation and
　　(D2) cause the side effects of poltergeist and entrainment/resonance phenomena.



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- This side effect of D2 may have been regarded since ancient times as, for example, "the psychic ability of a practitioner who has achieved severe religious practice."

- This D1 side effect (temporary loss of consciousness) causes the following experiences:

　　- Abductee/contactee sees UFO/ET
　　- Religious practitioner meets God, Buddha, angel, bodhisattva
　　- An abductee/contactee downloads a telepathic message from an ET
　　- Religious practitioner realizes the innermost truths of the ethereal universe.


If so, then a prolonged devotion to a grueling religious asceticism, a Zen koan (*2), can be seen as an act of self-induced permanent (i.e., irreversible) physical and physiological transformation of a specific part of one's brain.


- In this aspect, the abductee/contactee and the harsh religious practitioner or Zen practitioner are in the same category.


- I tentatively name the above hypothesis the ESAB hypothesis (Esp/Echo/Enlightenment phenomenon caused by Side-effects of Altered Brain Hypothesis)." I think "Damaged Brain" would be more appropriate, but I will use the term "Altered Brain" to avoid any protests from those involved.


(*1)
- Dr. Kit Green of the CIA discovered that...

　　Michael W. Hall : CIA's Kit Green investigates abductee/contactee → identifies unique brainwave patterns (2022-03-16)  (Japanese)

(*2)
- For example, the following famous phrase is found at the beginning of "Mumonkan".


Use your three hundred sixty bones and joints and your eighty four thousand hair follicles throughout your body to start up a single mass of doubt to meet this single word “Not.” Daytime and nighttime lift up and tear. Do not establish an association between nothingness and “Not.” Do not establish an association between "Is" and “Not.”    Examine this as if you swallowed a single hot iron ball and vomiting and vomiting doesn’t get it out.


- If you seriously practice for years as this phrase suggests, it is quite predictable that your brain will be transformed as per the findings of cerebral physiology.



Zhaozhou's Puppy


            Venerable Zhaozhou: because a monk asked, "Is the puppy also Buddha Nature or not?"
            Zhou said, "Not."

Wumen (Gateless) Says:   To meet Zen, you must pass through the founders’ checkpoint. For the wonderful awakening you exhaust the road of the heart-mind to the finish. If you do not pass through the ancestor’s checkpoint, if you do not finish the road of the heart-mind, depletion indeed follows like a tree spirit attached to the grass.
            Just say, what is the founders’ checkpoint like? Simply this one single word "Not." That is indeed the one checkpoint of the lineage’s gate! Consequently, this is titled “The Gateless Checkpoint of the Zen Lineage.”
            After you are able to pass through this, you not only intimately come face to face with Zhaozhou, then you can take part in the successive generations of founders, walking together holding hands, your eyebrow hairs entangling, seeing with one and the same eye, hearing with one and the same ear. How could it be that you don’t celebrate quickly?
            Does it not happen to be essential to pass through this foundation [MM 9] checkpoint? Use your three hundred sixty bones and joints and your eighty four thousand hair follicles throughout your body to start up a single mass of doubt to meet this single word “Not.” Daytime and nighttime lift up and tear. Do not establish an association between nothingness and “Not.” Do not establish an association between "Is" and “Not.”    Examine this as if you swallowed a single hot iron ball and vomiting and vomiting doesn’t get it out. First clean and extinguish your foul knowledge and foul consciousness from long long ago, and when naturally mastered, inside and outside become one.    It’s as if the mute person gets a dream allowing only oneself to know. Suddenly and certainly one punches open to frighten heaven and shake the earth.   It’s as if you snatch and get General Guan's (Checkpoint) great sword into your hand, then if you chance to meet Buddha, you kill Buddha; if you chance to meet ancestors, you kill ancestors. At the top of the high sea-cliff of birth and death you stand ready with great natural ease, and in the midst of the six paths and four births your play is samadhi.

            How do you produce lifting up and tearing? Raising the single word "Not," exhaust the strength of your life spirit until leveled. If you do not interrupt for even an interval of space it’s completed, then one spark and you manifest like a Dharma candle.


ref: The Gateless Checkpoint - http://home.pon.net/wildrose/gateless-1.htm



(2022-03-21)