15-Expansão da Consciência

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15-Expansão da Consciência  A prática da meditação favorece o controlo do pensamento, o auto aperfeiçoamento e pode levar a uma expansão da consciência, em que os praticantes recepcionam o contexto envolvente e eles próprios de forma diferente. A expansão da consciência tem sido alvo de muitos estudos que ajudam a compreender como práticas que ampliam a consciência, tais como a meditação, a hipnose, o transe, podem impactar positivamente a saúde mental e a espiritualidade. Esta expansão da consciência pode permitir sintonizar com a harmonia universal e com a sabedoria universal, reconhecendo as interconexões entre todos, nas suas mais diversas formas, e com a natureza em geral, o que pode levar a atitudes mais compassivas e inclusivas, bem como estimular o envolvimento pessoal em questões sociais e ambientais, impulsionando movimentos coletivos para o bem comum.   25 ago. 2025

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00:00In the meditative traditions, basically all the meditative traditions,

00:10Sai comes along with meditation practice.

00:13So if there is a training in mindfulness and also awareness

00:18and in how you can bring those two together,

00:23then whether it's Buddhist or Hindu or other traditions,

00:28what is said in the text is that abilities like clairvoyance, clairaudition,

00:36psychokinetic abilities and others just naturally arise.

00:40There's some kind of byproduct of the mind becoming more settled,

00:46more focused, stronger, more pliable.

00:51Like if you live well and eat well and sleep well,

00:54your skin will be healthy and glow.

00:56So if you meditate well and are clear in your focus

01:00and able to bring things together in the mind in a stable way,

01:05then you will be able to hear from afar

01:09or have a little glimmer of the future.

01:14We are far away from having a comprehensive explanation,

01:21but all of that for me is part of the natural world.

01:25So to be able to think, well, we are somehow intercommunicated,

01:29affecting each other more than we think we are,

01:32is part of who we are, part of consciousness as it is.

01:36Consciousness is not bound by the senses if the intention to affect something

01:46is not bound just by the body or extensions of the body,

01:50then that makes consciousness be something far more interesting even

01:55than we ordinarily think it is.

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02:02Legenda Adriana Zanotto

02:32Legenda Adriana Zanotto

03:02Quem aprende a controlar o pensamento também pode aprender a controlar as suas palavras e os seus atos.

03:08Este exercício de auto-aperfeiçoamento favorece a expansão da consciência,

03:13que se pode sentir de uma forma progressiva ou de uma forma mais intensa em qualquer altura.

03:20Ou seja, a prática da meditação ajuda a um certo autocontrolo.

03:24A prática da meditação favorece o auto-aperfeiçoamento e a expansão da consciência.

03:32Quem medita vai sentindo de uma forma progressiva um acesso a determinada informação

03:40que normalmente não está disponível através dos cinco sentidos.

03:46Vai sentindo uma perspectiva das coisas mais abrangente, mais profunda,

03:54aproximando-se de uma perspectiva universal.

03:59E é natural que a pessoa também se sinta responsável por aquilo que pensa,

04:09por aquilo que diz, por aquilo que faz.

04:13E, em último caso, talvez mesmo até por tudo aquilo que lhe acontece.

04:17Essa expansão da consciência traz uma certa lucidez também.

04:23Quanto maior for o auto-aperfeiçoamento, maior a serenidade, maior a lucidez que se consegue.

04:31Desapegando-se da pessoa do seu ego e sintonizando-o de uma forma crescente

04:38com a harmonia universal, com a sabonia universal.

04:47Se você pensar em meditação, é uma prática incrível que trabalhamos com a mente.

04:59É como um exercício para a nossa musculação, se você for.

05:04É preciso praticar e consistência, mas com isso,

05:08nós podemos nos ensinar a mente a ser quieto e aberto,

05:13que não é o normal estado de todos os outros.

05:16Hoje, a mente é muito busy e bombardeada com informação externa.

05:22Então, essa prática de meditação,

05:24para aprender a instalar como instalar e quieta a mente,

05:27quando estamos em um lugar,

05:30muitas vezes, as pessoas percebem a consciência

05:34para expandir a consciência de um dos seus.

05:36E eu acho que é um caminho para ajudar a pessoas

05:39para abrir essas capacidades dentro de si.

05:48Tendemos a utilizar algumas metáforas que nos dão a ideia errada da mente.

05:54Há, provavelmente, alguns aspectos da mente que, sim,

05:56podem funcionar como um músculo.

05:59E, quando aprendemos alguma coisa,

06:02é muito mais fácil revisitar esse momento

06:06quando repetimos isso.

06:08Não é? Portanto, aprendemos um instrumento,

06:10não o tocamos durante dez anos,

06:14mas, se voltarmos a pegar nele,

06:16rapidamente recuperamos essa possibilidade.

06:19Portanto, está lá essa informação.

06:21Mas, maior parte do que se passa em termos de fenómenos mentais,

06:25não tem nada a ver com músculos.

06:27Provavelmente, as coisas mais importantes que se passam nas nossas vidas,

06:31em termos dos fenómenos da mente,

06:33não são de todo como músculos.

06:35São coisas bem mais subtis e complexas.

06:40Parte da meditação é uma aprendizagem de uma técnica.

06:45Nesse sentido, podemos pensar na metáfora do exercício.

06:48Contudo, a parte mais interessante da técnica de meditação

06:52é quando ela deixa de ser um exercício controlado

06:56e abre uma possibilidade ao imprevisto,

07:00àquilo que não é controlado.

07:01Isso é a mensagem comum de todas as tradições

07:04que utilizam técnicas de contemplação.

07:06Essas técnicas começam a serem interessantes

07:09num aspecto mais profundo

07:10quando deixam de ser utilizadas para controle pessoal

07:15e quando abrem portas ao imprevisto.

07:18O Dré Van Houtenhus dirige um núcleo de pesquisa científica

07:35na Universidade de Liège, na Bélgica,

07:37que se dedica ao estudo dos efeitos

07:39de ferramentas não-farmacológicas

07:41na melhoria da qualidade de vida de pacientes

07:44com doenças crónicas ou doenças oncológicas.

07:47Trabalha com dispositivos tais como musicoterapia,

07:50hipnose, transe e meditação

07:53que permitem o acesso a estados alterados de consciência.

07:57Nós temos no cérebro o cérebro do cérebro.

08:02Um conjunto de cérebros do cérebro

08:04que vão se ativar, se alcançar.

08:06Se eu pincel a mão, o cérebro do cérebro do cérebro.

08:09Mas com técnicas como hipnose,

08:11como meditação, como a transe,

08:13a um momento, vocês permitem de se desconnectar,

08:15de colocar o cérebro do cérebro de poucos minutos.

08:19Então, é como se fosse uma pequena pausa.

08:21E mais mais mais mais mais mais mais mais mais mais,

08:23você permitirá ao cérebro do cérebro do cérebro

08:26e apreender diferente a dor.

08:30A transe é um estado de consciência modificado

08:33que é induzido voluntariamente

08:35e que provoca uma modificação da consciência de si,

08:40que temos de nós mesmos,

08:41e uma modificação da consciência de nosso ambiente,

08:44da maneira como interagimos com o ambiente,

08:47das percepções que temos nos cinco sens.

08:49Então, as pessoas em transe

08:51dizem que percebam diferente todos os sons,

08:56as luzes,

08:58e também sentir as pessoas que são próximas.

09:01Então, é um estado de consciência modificado

09:03que vai mudar a forma que a gente interagiu com o que há em torno de nós.

09:09E uma vez que a transe foi induzido,

09:13então,

09:14então,

09:15é bastante fácil de se encontrar por si mesmo.

09:17É como se um caminho

09:18tinha sido aberto no cérebro.

09:21Para mim,

09:22é um estado de consciência modificado

09:24que me leva a ter um campo de percepção.

09:28Então,

09:29que modifica minha visão,

09:30que modifica minha visão,

09:31que modifica minha visão,

09:32que modifica minha visão,

09:33que me dá também acesso a informações

09:35que eu não tenho quando estou em consciência ordinaire

09:39ou percepção.

09:41de uma visão

09:43que é a vida mais que não tenha um campo.

09:45Então,

09:47a primeira pesquisa,

09:48a 27 pessoas que fizeram essa EG como a Virginie fez hoje.

09:50Então,

09:51a 1ª pesquisa,

09:52que é uma área de análise.

09:53A 1ª pesquisa,

09:54a 27 pessoas que fizeram essa EG como a Virgínia fez hoje.

09:56Na primeira étude, há 27 pessoas que fizeram esse EEG, como Virgínia fez hoje.

10:00Nós colocamos todos os EEG juntos, e fazemos de análise estatística,

10:05graças à l'aide de engenheiros.

10:07E temos resultados préliminários que mostram que podemos modificar alguns ritmos.

10:11Então, o cérebro funciona em alguns ritmos que se chama α, θ, γ.

10:15E nós vemos que, em trans, em resultados préliminários,

10:19então isso deve ser confirmado,

10:20nós vemos que alguns ritmos são modificados durante a trans.

10:22Como nós vemos na hypnose, como nós vemos na meditação.

10:25Isso leva a objectivar o ressentimento das pessoas.

10:28Tanto nós estamos apenas com o ressentimento das pessoas,

10:34nós já se expomos a muitas críticas,

10:36de dizer que é subjetivo,

10:39e talvez a pessoa virgínia faz semblante,

10:42ela faz apenas para nos divertir,

10:44é uma espécie de pequeno espectáculo.

10:46Ou então há também o impacto placebo.

10:48Nós queremos fazer porque o experimentador me deu,

10:51nós queremos que isso funcione.

10:53Nós precisamos de marcadores objetivos,

10:55para ver se realmente algo que acontece no cérebro.

10:59É uma espécie de pesquisa de signature,

11:01se que há uma pesquisa de trans.

11:03E então, depois, isso permite dizer,

11:05que esses estados modificados de consciência,

11:09tels que as pessoas nos testemunham,

11:11são marcados por coisas objetivas.

11:14Então, o cérebro vai funcionar diferente.

11:16E então, nós podemos utilizar

11:18para diminuir a dor,

11:20para aumentar a força,

11:23para aumentar as performances de esportivos,

11:26como vemos no hypnose.

11:28Se visualizamos um movimento,

11:30os esportivos vão ter mais saudades para realizar esse movimento.

11:34Então, isso é realmente uma translação

11:36entre a pesquisa e a aplicação da realidade clínica.

11:40na realidade clínica.

11:42da sua intenção.

12:00Meditações, as escolas,

12:01alguns filósofos disseram que,

12:03talvez nos outros estados podemos ter

12:06formas de experimentar,

12:08de saber coisas sobre a realidade

12:10that we miss in our ordinary waking state.

12:13We may become more sensitive

12:15at aspects that we miss when we are in waking state.

12:21So, if you take that position, for instance,

12:25what is the best way to try to affect your physiology?

12:30Typically, in a waking state, you say,

12:31no, there's no way,

12:34unless I take some medication, there's nothing I can do.

12:37But if you get into a fakir tradition

12:41where they start meditating for a long, long time

12:45and trying to become very preciously aware

12:48of different aspects of their body,

12:50they may be able to affect, for example, their metabolism

12:53so that they end up requiring a lot less oxygen

12:58than they would ordinarily need.

13:00Or, in the case of hypnosis, I may hypnotize you,

13:03and in your waking state, if I tell you,

13:05well, I'm going to do a tooth extraction,

13:08and you are allergic to anesthesia,

13:11in your waking state, you probably are going to scream

13:13and say that you're going to sue me.

13:15But if you are a person who's responsive to hypnosis,

13:18I may give a hypnotic induction

13:20and then do the same extraction,

13:23and you will be experiencing mostly

13:26that you are in the beach in Lisboa

13:30or some place that you like

13:32and not feel that much.

13:39What we know is that other states may have advantages

13:43over the ordinary state.

13:46It is not that the ordinary state is bad.

13:49It is good for certain things, but not so good for others.

13:52It is very good for perceptual stimuli that change,

13:55not for constant stimuli, for example.

14:03Different forms of meditation have different goals.

14:07One form of meditation might have the goal of transcendence,

14:11meaning that you are no longer locked in

14:14into this individual, time-limited, embodied self.

14:18But you recognize yourself as a much larger being

14:22that may be taking a temporary human form.

14:25And by connecting with that larger aspect of one's being,

14:31they are healthier and happier,

14:33and they're also kinder and better people.

14:37You know, kinder to other people, better people.

14:39When people meditate,

14:44they sometimes can perceive element of reality

14:49or a layer of reality

14:51that is outside of space and time

14:53or not constrained by the typical limitations of space and time.

14:59Many meditators will report having this experience of

15:02I felt like there was no time.

15:04I felt like there was no boundaries to,

15:08no edges to my body or to my awareness.

15:11And this experience of oneness or non-duality,

15:15we thought, well, maybe they will have more paranormal experiences.

15:21And when I say that, I just mean

15:23things that seem to be outside of reality,

15:25like connecting with someone who's deceased

15:28or knowing something that they had no way of knowing.

15:31And so we did this study where we looked at the meditators

15:35and we compared them to a group who weren't meditating.

15:38And we did find, in fact, that we,

15:41what we expected, of course, their stress reduced

15:44and the normal things that we find when people meditate,

15:47we found that they had greater reports

15:51of paranormal experiences subjectively.

15:54Welcome to the IONS Discovery Lab

16:03and thank you for your participation.

16:06The survey is a list of questions

16:08and the instructions on the screen are easy to follow.

16:12Please use the mouse to navigate around the screen

16:15and to click on the sliding bars or to scroll down the screen.

16:19Unfortunately, we didn't see any differences

16:21on the tasks that we put together.

16:24But we showed that you can study it

16:26and you can use tasks, what we call psi tasks,

16:30things like precognition or pre-sentiment

16:34or being able to count the number of balls in a jar

16:41but only when it's flashed very, very quickly.

16:43So we would call that intuitive knowing

16:44and various other kinds of tasks

16:46that people shouldn't be able to do.

16:48The trick is, you know, it's either not true,

16:51it doesn't affect the tasks

16:53or is there a different way we need to do the tasks?

16:56So we did it before an eight-week meditation course

16:59and after, maybe we want to do it

17:01right before they meditate and right after.

17:04You know, there's a lot of different possibilities now.

17:08But the fact that we were able to create a protocol

17:11so that they could do the study was also helpful.

17:14Take your time.

17:16Don't you say cancer first?

17:17We did a survey of meditators from around the world

17:30and asked them if they had experienced

17:33any channeling phenomenon during their meditation practices

17:37and the majority of them said yes.

17:39I use a really broad definition of channeling,

17:42which is the process of accessing information and energy

17:48that's not limited by our conventional notions of time and space.

17:53So meditation is very conducive to channeling.

17:57It's like meditation creates this physical and mental state

18:03of stillness and openness

18:05which allows the information and energy to come through.

18:09But if we're so busy, we're so externally focused,

18:17even though that information and energy may always be there available to us,

18:22we don't access it because our minds are elsewhere.

18:26But when we become quiet and still and grounded

18:31and in this kind of more expanded state,

18:34then all of a sudden you find that you have access

18:37to all this information and energy that you didn't have before.

18:40The mental state you achieve is more a state of pure consciousness

18:48in the sense that you just are.

18:52Just strong feeling of being here now.

18:56You're just here now and you enjoy the present moment

19:01and you feel more alive than you've ever been.

19:03Difficulty is to do that more often

19:09so it actually becomes second nature.

19:13It's like you become angry at someone.

19:15It's like, oh, it's just something in my heart.

19:18It just translates to your life.

19:20And that's the part that's hard.

19:22And that's the part that requires practice.

19:25And that's the part that even expert meditators

19:29who meditate in caves for years,

19:32you never master, I don't think they master it perfectly.

19:36I mean, you might have some hours where, okay,

19:39you're really, yeah, you're really detached from your thoughts

19:43and just basically happy.

19:45But I don't think even for them,

19:48it doesn't last forever

19:51and they come back to the reactive pattern.

19:55Edgar Mitchell, o astronauta que ficou para a história

20:02como o sexto homem a pisar a Lua,

20:04criou, em 1973, o IANS,

20:07um instituto dedicado a conjugar pesquisa científica

20:10com experiência humana profunda.

20:12One study that we did looked at electrocortical activity

20:17in meditators versus non-meditators.

20:20We were going to play a very loud sound

20:25or a very bright light flash.

20:28So you imagine you have people sitting with headphones on

20:31and sitting with sunglasses on that have lights

20:35that can go on on the inside.

20:36They also have EEG all over their head

20:39that's measuring their brain waves.

20:41So what you should see is after a very loud sound is played,

20:47there's activity in the auditory cortex.

20:50When a light flash comes on,

20:53there is activity in the visual cortex.

20:56What we looked at instead is,

20:59did these meditators have a little bit of activity

21:02in their auditory or visual cortex

21:04before the light was shown or the sound was played?

21:10In other words, was there some aspect of them

21:12that could see what was coming before it happened?

21:16And what we showed is that the people

21:17who had been meditating quite a lot

21:19were more able to distinguish

21:22between the activity in their visual and auditory cortex

21:26prior to the sound or the light flashing than others,

21:29which gives us this little idea

21:32that maybe they just have a little bit more expanded

21:35sense of consciousness, perhaps even in time.

21:45In the past, to learn meditation,

21:48you needed to have a very vigilant, long practice

21:55over many, many years

21:57to be able to achieve states called samadhi

22:00or these oneness states, the transcendent states.

22:04With our current technology

22:06and what we know about meditative states today,

22:09we can use something called neurofeedback.

22:12And I think that's really where the next step

22:16in meditation research should be.

22:19How do we take what we've learned

22:22from the meditation research that has come thus far

22:27to support people to get into these transcendent meditative states

22:32without needing to practice for 20 years?

22:34How do we support them to access those states more quickly

22:39and thus reap the benefits of being in that transcendent state?

22:45Because if people have a direct experience of their consciousness

22:50not being confined to their physical brain,

22:54that'll increase the number of people who have felt that

22:57and support the paradigm to shift more easily.

23:01Meditative traditions, they acknowledge that many people have inherent abilities,

23:09just like some athletes are better than others.

23:12But that we all can have access to these abilities

23:16if we train the mind.

23:18So some may have a stronger ability than others,

23:25but that in principle it's accessible to each one of us

23:28because that's what it is to be a human, to have this kind of ability.

23:40People have a sort of inherent concern or fear

23:45of these states of consciousness.

23:49I don't know if that was always there.

23:51I have a feeling, and what I've learned about indigenous cultures

23:54and the ones that survive to this day, let's say, aboriginal Australians,

24:00that these altered states of consciousness are just as real

24:03as this state of consciousness,

24:05and they are considered to be as important

24:08in terms of being sources of information.

24:11Whereas the modern world,

24:12I think there was a period of time in the Dark Ages

24:15where society got very, very superstitious.

24:18It was all about demons and possession and there was the Inquisition

24:23and hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people were killed

24:26based on religious beliefs and that and the Crusades.

24:29And I think there was finally all of modern society said,

24:34you know what, forget all of that.

24:36It's hurting us.

24:37We're hurting each other.

24:39Now it's going to be about the facts and about science

24:42and rationalism and left brain.

24:45Let's get rid of all this other stuff.

24:47And that was probably good when it happened

24:50because we were in a sort of not a good place.

24:53But now we may have swung too far in the other direction.

24:57And so now it's time to bring the power of science and rationality

25:02together with the power of inner knowing, intuition,

25:08these states of consciousness.

25:10And I think if we can create a rapprochement between these two,

25:14that is what's going to help humanity move into the future.

25:18per se,

25:23what's going to help?

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