8. Transmutation
Let’s review the situation.  Most of the time, your brain is in ordinary experience mode, and is not open for reprogramming.  It’s business as usual.  Every once in a while, an intense experience comes along – a MERMER moment – and your brain is in open-for-reprogramming mode to take advantage of the experience, to integrate it into your inner representation of the world around you and your role in it.
Let’s look into the negative experiences in life a little more closely.  You’re cruising along fine, and then something comes up that impacts you negatively.  Now you’re experiencing some pain of one kind or another.  For the moment, let’s consider emotional pain.  Where does that come from?
Value, Power, and Safety
There are three fundamental aspects of life that all of us cherish and protect: value, safety, and power.  When any one of these three is threatened, the experience is negative and painful.  
Value is threatened when someone or something says or otherwise indicates something along the lines of “You’re stupid,” “You’re ugly,” “You’re worthless,” “You’re unimportant,” “You’re undesirable,” or whatever.  Safety is threatened when someone or something communicates, “I’m going to harm you.”  Power is threatened when someone or something says, “I’m going to prevent you from doing what you want, or getting what you want” or “I’m going to make you do something you don’t want to do.”
Every negative experience at essence is an attack on your value, power, or safety, or some combination of these.  These experiences are painful, and we all spend a considerable amount of time, effort, and energy trying to set up our lives to avoid them.
Now I’d like you to consider two working hypotheses: Consider the possibility that we each have an inner blueprint that says “I’m 70% valuable, and 30% valueless; I’m 50% safe, and 50% unsafe; I’m 80% powerful, and 20% powerless.”  Any of these numbers could vary from 0% to 100%, although percentages less than 10% or greater than 90% are rare.
Consider the possibility that we attract to ourselves what we resonate with.  (You undoubtedly already know that.)  If your blueprint says you’re 70% unsafe, then beginning early in life you attract experiences that resonate with that.  If your blueprint says you’re 70% valueless, then you attract experiences attacking your value.  If your blueprint says you’re 70% powerless, then you attract experiences that resonate with that.  
These experiences, beginning in early childhood, affirm and solidify your inner blueprint, and give you solid, objective, experienced-based reasons demonstrating the truth and accuracy of the blueprint.  They provide objective evidence that the blueprint is the truth about us.  By the time you have grown up, you have many years of experience that verify and solidify the blueprint.  If anything comes along to try to challenge the percentages you’ve lived with, you have a huge backlog of experience to prove such a challenge wrong.  This experience is ingrained on every level.  Not just emotionally but also intellectually, all of us have voluminous, solid evidence that we are indeed 40% valueless (or whatever).
Resonance: We Attract What We Resonate With
Everything that comes your way in life does so because it resonates with something inside you.  It resonates with a resonant frequency in you.  This truth has been known for a long time, and is a part of every spiritual tradition.  For example, there is an ancient Vedic saying that your karma will find you like a calf finds its mother in a herd of cattle.  What you have coming to you identifies you by something in you.  
This means that anything that threatens your value, safety, or power only comes your way if it resonates with something in you.  Your blueprint has it that you are X% valueless, or powerless, or unsafe.  
Moreover, anything coming at you only has an impact when it substantially resonates with something specific in you, something related to a specific issue that you have.  This is a specific resonant frequency.  For example, if you have dark brown hair, and someone comes along and says, “You have the ugliest blonde hair I have ever seen,” that won’t land in you at all.  It won’t bother you.  It won’t threaten you.  It won’t make you angry or defensive or upset or depressed.  If anything, you’ll just feel sorry for someone who is can’t tell one hair color from another.
If, on the other hand, you have an issue with your brown hair, and someone comes along and says, “You have the ugliest brown hair I have ever seen,” that will have an impact.  When something anyone does or says lands in you, that lets you know that you have an issue on that subject.  If you had no issue at all, then it would be like water off the back of a duck.
From early in life we have a blueprint that tells us that we are X% valueless, Y% unsafe, and Z% powerless.  We attract experiences that resonate with that throughout our lives.  We are impacted substantially by those experiences because of how they resonate with something in us.  Throughout life we accumulate more and more solid evidence that those perceptions of valuelessness, unsafety, and powerlessness are real.  
Is it any wonder that all kinds of techniques to try to change our thinking, feelings, and behavior have limited impact?
No matter what you try to think, feel, say, or do, Nature will create a life for you that resonates with the blueprint you are carrying around in you.  Just by inherently radiating a particular resonance, you will attract what you resonate with.  You will inevitably collaborate with Nature to create a life that matches your inner blueprint.  
This extremely powerful phenomenon can work either for you or against you.  The point of the Transmutation Trigger technique I’ll describe shortly and the other techniques we’ll be discussing later is to create a situation where your own inner resonance and the almighty power of Nature spontaneously work for you.
Have you ever had the experience of typing on a computer keyboard and then looking at the computer screen and seeing that nothing is happening?  The window that takes input is not activated.  You’re just pounding keys.  There is no input, no change in the computer’s inner workings or output.  
When you activate the window by selecting or highlighting it, then what you type into the keyboard gets to the central processing unit.  It has an impact.  It makes a difference.  It reprograms the computer.  Without first highlighting the connection to the central processing unit, you bang away on the keyboard, but nothing happens.  No input takes place.  The computer is not in input mode, not in reprogramming mode.  
If you’re like me, you’ve tried all kinds of affirmations and positive thinking techniques, and they’ve had very little impact if any.  Why?  Because the brain was not in reprogramming mode.  It’s like typing when the window isn’t highlighted.  Nothing much happens.
MERMER Moments Put Your Brain in Reprogramming Mode
Now let’s get to the interesting part.  What puts your brain in reprogramming mode?  MERMER moments.  Intense experiences.  Often these are negative experiences, just the thing you may have been trying to structure your life to avoid as much as possible.  
With a little understanding of the reality here, and a little bit of technique – what I call the Transmutation Trigger technique– we can completely turn this entire constellation of experiences around.  
First of all, realize that when someone bitches about your ugly brown hair, it has nothing whatsoever to do with you.  It only tells you that he has an issue about hair and how it should look.  
If his comment lands in you and has an impact, this does give you some information about yourself.  It tells you that you have some kind of issue about how you should look.  Usually that’s a value issue.  Something in you says that people who look a certain way are more valuable than people who look some other way, and maybe you don’t entirely look the valuable way.
So how do you take advantage of this situation to improve your experience of life?  First of all, don’t shoot the messenger.  Don’t waste your time and energy trying to change his opinion.  That’s his issue.  What he thinks of you is none of your business.  It’s all about him.  So dismiss him.  You can thank him for sharing, or not thank him, but in any case he’s not a part of the solution here.
I used to think that this kind of experience was something to be avoided.  It’s not, and here’s why.  What has this bozo who doesn’t know anything about hair done for you?  He has done two things: First, he let you know that you have a particular issue.  This gives you the opportunity to shine the light of your consciousness on that.  
Even more importantly, he has provided you with a MERMER moment.  He has given you the kind of experience that opens up the brain for reprogramming.  Seize the moment.  Now your brain is open for reorganization, your awareness is open for restructuring, you are in a unique and rare position to make a difference in your life.  When you know how to take advantage of it, every apparent attack on your value, safety, or power is something highly valuable, what I call a Transmutation trigger.
Transmutation
This is an opportunity for what I call Transmutation.  A lot has been written and said in personal development circles about change and about transformation.  Transformation means changing the form of something.  This can be valuable, but only to a limited degree.  We can transform our thinking, our emotions, our actions, but without a fundamental change in the level of consciousness, the transformation is of limited value.
Transmutation goes beyond change and transformation.  Transmutation means not just changing the form of something, but changing its fundamental essence.  The term “Transmutation” comes from alchemy, the attempt to change metals like lead or iron into gold.  You can take a pile of iron cannonballs, melt them down, and transform them into a nice statue, but fundamentally you still have something made of iron, not gold.
Transmutation goes beyond changing the way you think, feel, speak, and act.  It is a fundamental change in who is doing the thinking, feeling, speaking, and acting, a change in your being.  Or, more precisely, a fuller unfoldment of your true being.  You are already infinite, unbounded energy, intelligence, and happiness at your deepest and truest Nature, so you aren’t changing or transforming that.  You are unfolding what you truly are.
Transmutation in human life means enlivening a higher level of consciousness, shining light where there has been darkness, altering the fundamental structure of your experience, eliminating the blocks to consciousness, experiencing a heightened degree of enlightenment.
Transmutation Enlivens Your True Blueprint
Transmutation brings the blueprint you are carrying around in you, which is creating the life you are living, to be in tune with your true Self, the real you, the infinitely valuable, powerful, and safe you.  Equally important, it brings your blueprint in tune with your self (small “s”), with what resonates with the individual you.  
Your transmuted blueprint will then more fully reflect your true Nature.  This is your true blueprint.  Once you have enlivened your true blueprint, you will spontaneously attract experiences, events, things, and people that resonate with your true Nature.  You, in collaboration with the almighty power of Nature, will spontaneously and naturally create a life that reflects who you truly are.  
Your true blueprint is a blueprint for a 100% valuable, 100% powerful, and 100% safe you.  In fact, your true blueprint, the blueprint that fully and accurately reflects who you really are, is a blueprint for a being who is infinitely valuable, powerful, and safe – an infinite, cosmic being with a unique individual Nature.  That is who you really are.
Returning to our practical example, someone has expressed a negative opinion about your brown hair, and it has landed in you with some impact.  What to do?  It may appear that what needs to be changed here it to educate someone else about what hair should look like, or to knock his teeth out so he won’t share his opinion of your hair again.  
What is important for you, however, is your inner blueprint, the inner blueprint that resonated with and attracted this experience, the inner blueprint that has you at only 70% valuable.  It is this inner blueprint that so inevitably elicits from your environment some negative messages about your value, whether it’s your hair or something else.  
Now you have a chance to reprogram the inner blueprint, to reprogram your brain.  The window is highlighted on your computer screen, ready for input.  Your brain is in input mode, ready for reprogramming.  What are you going to input there that will fundamentally transmute your experience of life in the future from now on?
Again I draw your attention to the fact that at essence you are unbounded, infinite consciousness – infinitely valuable, infinitely powerful, infinitely safe.  Your Self is the infinite intelligence of the unified field that gives rise to all of life and all of creation.  You, at essence, are infinitely in tune with the Laws of Nature that structure all of life and all of creation.  Certainly at one time or another in your life, if only for brief moments, you have had a holographic sense of this.  At the same time, you are a unique individual, with your own individual sense of what resonates with the true you.
At this MERMER moment, you may not be particularly comfortable.  You may feel angry, or sad, or depressed, or fearful, or whatever.  What is important here is that this experience has opened up your awareness for Transmutation.  It has put your brain in reprogramming mode.  
Realize once again that the limited blueprint you are now carrying does not accurately reflect reality.  In reality, you are infinitely valuable, infinitely safe, infinitely powerful.  At essence you are totally in tune with all the Laws of Nature, the Conscious Unified Field, the whole universe.  All there is to do is to experience who you really are, your true Nature.  This will enliven your true blueprint.  
The blueprint you have been carrying falls far short of the real you.  Your task is to bring the blueprint you are carrying around in you into harmony with who you really are, to make it more accurate.  Seeing the flaws in the false blueprint is not enough.  You must also be in touch with who you really are.  You must transmute the false and inaccurate blueprint into a real and accurate one, your true blueprint.  
Whatever you try to do – or think or say or feel or be – Nature will create a life that reflects the blueprint you are carrying around inside you.  Your mission in this life, should you choose to accept it, is to transmute that mistaken blueprint into a true blueprint that accurately reflects who you really are – your own true blueprint.  This is the purpose of the Transmutation Trigger technique.
SuperPosition and the Transmutation Trigger Technique
Now that your whole system is open for input, you are ready to practice the Transmutation Trigger technique.  
Begin by bringing your attention to the highest essence of yourself.  You can call it what you like: “Hello, Higher Self / Hello, Cosmic Computer / Hello, Divine Essence.” Address the highest aspect of yourself in whatever way resonates with you.  
Then recognize the reality: “I am infinitely valuable, powerful, and safe.  I like myself.  I love myself.  Everything I think, do, and say is in accord with my highest Nature, with the enlightened being I truly am.”  
Now you are experiencing SuperPosition, or at least approaching that experience.  In SuperPosition, your consciousness fathoms all of the infinite possibilities available in the Conscious Unified Field.  You are consciously aware of who you really are, you are in tune with your commanding role in the universe.  
Then tune in to your true self (small “s”).  Feel what it’s like to be you.  Feel what it’s like to be in resonance with what resonates with the real you.  “My life is an expression of my self, the real me, the real [your name].  I spontaneously create a life where everything resonates with my true Nature.”  
Say it to yourself, resonate with the truth of it, repeat it, get it, enjoy it.  Let your awareness spontaneously encompass the whole, holographic reality of it.  
This is a holographic realization that you get as a whole.  You can approximate it in the early stages of practice with some simple words.  Feel free to modify the words in any way that resonates with you.  With practice, the experience will deepen, going far beyond the realm of words, beyond the realm of thoughts and feelings, to the realm of your true self.
Then, to solidify this reality in your life, do or say what is consistent with who you really are.  Ask yourself, 
“What would the real [your name] do?”  Then do it now.  It is important to take action consistent with who you really are to complete your Transmutation on all levels of life – being, intuition, feeling, thinking, perception, and action.  
Our essence is infinite and divine, and yet we live here on earth in the world of doing things and saying things.  It is important to establish your Transmutation in the practical world of speech and action.  The way to do this is to do and say what is consistent with the real you.  From the perspective of the brain, taking action consistent with who you truly are establishes these neural pathways and solidifies your Transmutation on the level of the brain.  
Transmutation is not just an insight.  Transmutation takes place at the most fundamental level of your being, and radiates throughout all levels of thinking, perceiving, feeling, and action.
This is the Transmutation Trigger technique.  Now you have created Transmutation in your life.  You have experienced and enlivened your true Nature.  You have brought the light of consciousness where there was darkness.  You have enhanced your level of enlightenment.  You have brought your true Nature more fully into your life.  You have expressed your Self and your self more fully in your life.  You have created a situation where you now spontaneously create in your environment what resonates with the true you.  And there is infinitely more where that came from.
Every Message Is a Blessing
Another thing you accomplish through the Transmutation Trigger Technique is to completely turn on its head the whole idea of negative experiences.  When a MERMER moment comes along, celebrate it.  Bring it on.  Thank the messenger (or don’t), and get on with the internal Transmutation that he/she has helped to make available to you.
When you get something that triggers you, this means that there is something in you that attracted it, and something in you that resonated with it – hence the strong emotional reaction.  That something is foreign to you.  It’s not the real you.  The real you is infinitely valuable, powerful, and safe.  
The message is a blessing.  It does two valuable things.  It points out something foreign in you, something that does not belong, something that is not you, something that is attracting to you things that do not resonate with the real you.  Moreover, it puts your cosmic computer in input mode.
We learn through trial and error.  Remember the hot burner.  Of all the items in the kitchen, touching which one changes the way you function?  The one that caused an intense experience.  
Anything or anyone that upsets you is pinpointing something you’re carrying that is foreign, and putting your cosmic computer in input mode.  Whoops! Something is out of balance here.  Please input a change in programming.
What do most people do?  One or more of several things: shoot the messenger; blame the messenger; try to manipulate the messenger to deliver a different message; or believe the messenger is delivering information about me, not about something foreign to me.  These lead respectively to anger, helpless blame, manipulative behavior, and depression.  They come from failing to recognize the truth.  They come from incorrect hypotheses regarding what is happening.  The damage is not done by lack of will power, or by not trying hard enough to change yourself.
You do not need to change.  You do not need to try to change.  You are already infinite energy, intelligence, and happiness.  You do not need to be fixed or to fix yourself.  All you need to do is recognize the truth, recognize who you really are, and internalize it – input the truth into your cosmic computer when you have a chance.  Everything else happens spontaneously.  This is not difficult.  It is simple, and it is easy.
Every triggering event is an opportunity.  Misunderstood, it triggers negative emotions and negative actions.  When you see it for what it is, it creates a MERMER moment.  You can treat this moment as a Transmutation Trigger.  The more the merrier.  Bring it on!  
From time to time, events come along that affect you and put you in a state of upset of one kind or another.  How to get back to a state of well-being?  If you can always generate a state of well-being, life is always a joy.  If you can’t, you are the victim of your environment and circumstances.  You are powerless.  Your life depends on other people and events that you cannot control.
Paradoxically, when you treat triggering events as a blessing, you’ll eliminate the power they have over you.  You’ll eliminate the foreign thing in you that attracted them, and you’ll find that the universe (including the people in it) treats you differently.  You will get different messages because you have transmuted what you resonate with.  You will have different experiences because you have transmuted how you interpret and respond to whatever happens.  
Paradoxically, if you try to control the universe and the people in it to never deliver triggering experiences, you will keep getting the same experiences that you don’t like.  If you see the reality of what is going on, you will spontaneously transmute yourself – effortlessly.  This doesn’t take work.  It only takes seeing and recognizing the truth.  The transmuted you will spontaneously attract all the things that the controlling you tried (and failed) to get by manipulating or shooting the messenger.
Most people think that if only they could only get x, y, and z, then they would be happy.  The truth is if that you create a way of being in which you are happy from within, you’ll spontaneously attract x, y, and z because they resonate with the real you.  
Negative Experiences Resonate with Something Foreign in You
There are several other levels of the realizations here to explore.  When a negative experience comes along, it has found you because of something that resonates with it.  You are carrying a resonant frequency in you that matches the resonant frequency of the incoming event.  
I recall an episode of Arrow on TV where half a dozen of the main characters had infiltrated a stronghold of the bad guys.  They quickly realized that the place was being targeted by a drone armed with a Hellfire missile.  They made a hasty escape, only to discover that the Hellfire missile was following them.  
Just in time they realized that the missile was homing in on an electronic implant in one of them.  They cut out the implant, threw it out the back of the van, and sped away.  The missile followed the implant, and blew up an empty piece of road.  
Essentially the same thing happened in the movie The Bourne Legacy.  The protagonist saved his life by cutting an implant that was being tracked by a missile out of his side and feeding it to a wolf, so the incoming missile followed the wolf and blew it up instead of him.
Oncoming negative experiences are like that Hellfire missile.  They will find you no matter where you try to run.  The good news is that what they are targeting is something in you, but it is not you.  It is not the real you.  It is something foreign, like an implant.  Usually it’s something you are unaware of, something that needs to be healed.  The MERMER moment gives you the opportunity to shine the light of consciousness on whatever it is and see it for the foreign substance that it is.  
Consciousness has tremendous healing power.  Just bringing such foreign anomalies to light goes a long way toward healing them and eliminating the hidden power they used to have.
Don’t Shoot the Messenger
This understanding and this process can give you a whole new perspective and experience of anything apparently negative that comes at you.  Attacks on your value, power, or safety are no longer something to be upset about.  Each one is a Transmutation Trigger.  This can be fun.  
It’s important to get out of shooting the messenger, or even blaming the messenger.  All she has done is to bring your awareness to something in you, and to help you by opening up your brain for reprogramming.  She has provided you with a Transmutation Trigger.  Celebrate it, enjoy it.  She has fulfilled a valuable purpose for you.  What she thinks about you is a reflection of her issues, and has nothing to do with you.  
What has to do with you is the Transmutation Trigger that is now available for you.  Now you can transmute your blueprint to (or at least toward) 100% valuable, 100% powerful, and 100% safe.
Create Positive Opportunities for Transmutation
There’s another level of realization here as well, regarding negative and positive experiences.  Many of our intense experiences are negative, like touching the hot stove.  Lots of negativity in self-image comes from the fact that the experiences that were intense enough to create a MERMER moment, a moment that opened up our brain for reprogramming, were negative.  We learn by trial and error, not so much by ordinary experience.  
When you’re young, a dozen people can tell you you’re beautiful.  One tells you intensely that you’re ugly, and the ugly interaction may result in a deeper, more intense experience.  Your brain opens up for reprogramming due to the intensity, and the ugly one is what gets imprinted.  Then later when you’re told you’re beautiful it doesn’t make much impact, because the window is not open.  And the affirmations and positive thinking you may try later are like typing into a window that’s not highlighted on a computer screen.  
It almost seems as if the cards are stacked against us.  Not so.  There’s no law that says an intense experience, a MERMER moment, has to be negative.  MERMER moments can be intensely positive.  
Many people have had an experience where their life was dramatically changed in a negative way by an intense happening of some sort – an accident, a confrontation, a fight, a rejection, losing someone suddenly, etc.  It is commonly thought that negative changes can take place suddenly, and positive ones take a long time and a lot of work.  Not so.  The same mechanism in your brain that installs negativity in an instant can be used for Transmutation.  Transmutation Trigger can create a new style of functioning of your brain and a new life for you as quickly and certainly as any disaster, but in the opposite direction.
You probably remember, at least subconsciously, the first time you touched something hot enough to burn your fingers.  
You also remember the first time you touched a man or a woman in an intimate and delightful way.  Well, there’s another MERMER moment.  There’s another time your brain was open for reprogramming.  There’s another Transmutation Trigger.  
When you open the window of your mind, then you are open to an experience of heightened enlightenment, and the brain is ready and eager to be reprogrammed to make this permanent.  When Buddha reached nirvana, if we’d been there to measure the brain responses, I’ll bet we would have seen a huge P300-MERMER in his EEG patterns.  
I call this technique Transmutation Trigger because every intense experience provides a trigger for Transmutation.  Every MERMER moment opens up the brain for reprogramming, an opportunity for expanded consciousness.
You don’t have to wait for such opportunities for Transmutation to come along.  You can intentionally take advantage of this phenomenon.  You can intentionally create intense positive and delightful MERMER moments.  Then you get a double whammy.  You get to enjoy the delightful experience, and also you open up your mind for Transmutation.  You can actively seek positive MERMER moments, intensely positive experiences, peak experiences.  
Seeking out such positive intensity takes some courage, and it’s worth it.  Best case, you’ll get the best of both worlds – an intensely pleasurable, enjoyable peak experience, and a great Transmutation Trigger.  Worst case, you’ll fail spectacularly, and still get a great Transmutation Trigger.
You can intentionally create the opportunities for self-discovery that accompany Transmutational experiences as well.  You can learn that you resonate more with warm tropical beaches than with icy slopes by spending a winter on a mountainside north of the Arctic Circle, or by basking on the beach in Hawaii.  Either way, you get an intense experience, an opportunity to learn what resonates with you, and a Transmutation Trigger.  
Transmutation Guides and Guided Transmutation
You have everything you need to create Transmutation in your life.  That said, it can be extremely useful to have a guide who is trained and skilled in creating positive Transmutation Trigger moments to guide you through the process of Transmutation.  This can be done by a trained Transmutation Guide in person or remotely by phone or other communication technology.  
Such guidance is available through my Science of Creating Miracles Training courses and individual sessions.  
Gain Command of Your Experience of Life
A critical skill in life is to get from “this hurts” to “everything is delightful” at will.  To do that, you must gain command of your experience.  You cannot control the whole universe, although once you have command of your experience, you will find the universe is cooperating with you beyond what you ever dreamed possible.  You will have everything you ever wanted and more, but not by chasing after it harder.  You will have it by transmuting your experience of life.
The realization and practice of Transmutation gave me a whole new life, and in particular turned around my experience of “negative” experiences and happenings.  My life used to go something like this.  I’d be cruising along, and everything seemed pretty much OK.  Then a Hellfire missile would hit me out of the blue.  Someone would do or say something that really triggered me.  I’d be overshadowed by anger, or fear, or hurt, or some other negative emotion.  I would react out of that emotion – shoot the messenger, punish the messenger, counterattack, run away, try to manipulate the messenger to give me a different message, try to rearrange everything in the external world so this would not happen again, etc.  
In time these Hellfire missile events started to seem eerily familiar.  The villains in the scenario, whose fault I was always sure it was, kept changing.  Yet the same scenarios kept repeating.  The only common denominator was me.  I began to realize that I couldn’t honestly blame the villains, but blaming myself didn’t work either.  Self-blame is no more useful than blaming someone else, and it’s even less enjoyable, because it inevitably leads to guilt, shame, and more negativity in life.  
I tried changing my behavior, my thinking, my emotions, my circumstances.  The more I tried to change all this, the more it stayed the same.  I tried deeper changes, transformations.  I tried analyzing where this all came from, looking at my childhood experiences and how they presaged what was landing on me now.  The same Hellfire missiles kept landing on me, whatever I tried to do or say or think or feel.  Does this sound familiar?
This is because the reality of the situation remained in my blind spot.  I was addressing everything except the reality: The Hellfire missiles were targeting something in me, something I was blind to.  Something in me resonated with these experiences, and kept attracting them to me no matter what I did.
In fact, what I was doing to try to change the situation only solidified it.  By focusing on everything else other than the inner reality that was creating all this, I was inadvertently only enhancing my blindness to my blind spot, making the true reality more and more hidden.  Everything I was doing to try to end the cycle or Hellfire missiles was in fact strengthening the pattern that brought them to me.  That realization can either be depressing or liberating, depending on whether or not you see the light.  
For me, in the end it was liberating, as I’m sure it will be for you.  When I finally realized that the deliverers of the Hellfire missiles were messengers rather than villains, the process became an opportunity rather than an obstacle.  Once I discovered Transmutation, it became easier and easier to use the Hellfire missiles as fuel for self-discovery and evolution.  
Transmutation is an effective method to leave that whole pattern behind, to live in accord with who you really are, to unfold, express, and enjoy the real you.  
Keep in mind that it’s not you that they are targeting.  Realizing that the negative happenings in your life are resonating with something in you is not a reason to indulge in guilt, shame, or depression.  What is resonating with the Hellfire missiles is not you.  It is something you are carrying around that is foreign to you, something that is in fact entirely contrary to your true Nature.
Even the blueprint that you have from early in this lifetime – the one that says you’re only 68% valuable, 74% safe, and 55% powerful, or whatever – is a false blueprint.  Your true blueprint is that you are in essence 100% valuable, 100% safe, and 100% powerful.  
You are more than that.  You are unbounded consciousness, unbounded intelligence, the essence and foundation of the universe; you are infinitely valuable, powerful, and safe.  You are also an individual, someone with your own individual Nature, and your birthright is a life in tune with your Nature.  Anything less than this enlightened realization is just an illusion.
Transmutation lets you bring your inner blueprint in accord with your true blueprint.  It lets you shine the light of consciousness spontaneously into the areas within that have been dark and hidden.  It lights up your life.
You don’t need to analyze where the negative implants that resonate with a particular Hellfire missile came from.  As your consciousness expands in a MERMER moment, however, you may spontaneously see prior events, particularly early childhood events, that first manifested this pattern and firmly imprinted it in your brain and your psyche.  
Shining the light of consciousness into these dark places dissolves the darkness.  Darkness cannot exist except in the absence of light.  You don’t have to do anything about it, you don’t even have to understand it.  Just allow the light of your consciousness to light up every area of your inner world that has been dark.
Transmutation Is Easy!
You may be asking, “Can it really be that simple?”  “Can it really be that easy?”  Yes, it can, and it is.  You can verify this for yourself.  You don’t have to believe it.  Just do it.  Follow the scientific method: Implement the Transmutation Trigger protocol, and observe the results.
Transmutation Trigger works spontaneously.  You don’t have to understand it or believe in it.  You don’t have to expend any effort.  You don’t have to try.
It is easy to be what you are.  It is difficult to be what you are not.  You are not the negative implants you have been carrying around that resonate with and attract Hellfire missiles.  You are a divine being of light.  You are infinitely worthy of your own love.  You are worthy of a life that truly resonates with your true self, your individuality as well as your cosmic Nature.  Let the light of your consciousness light you up from within, and spontaneously this becomes not only the ultimate reality but also your everyday experience.
SuperPosition is Easy!
Transmutation Trigger is a key to the spontaneous experience of SuperPosition, the conscious awareness of infinite possibilities in life and the experience of having command of which of those infinite possibilities manifest in your life.  SuperPosition is simply the experience of who you are, the real you, and your actual role in the universe as the creator of your life and the creator of your experience of the world around you.  SuperPosition is easy because it’s easy to be who you are, easy to experience who you are, and easy to express who you are.  
How to Love Yourself
Those who have been seeking truth and spiritual growth generally know that if you love yourself, everyone else will follow suit.  If you love yourself, you will find it easy to love others, and they will spontaneously love you back.  But how do you get to love yourself?  If you tell a 5-year-old, “Hey, remember to love yourself,” she’ll light up, and throw her arms around herself, and say “Oh, yes! I almost forgot.”  If you say the same thing to an adult, or even a 10-year-old, the response will be different, something along the lines of, “Huh?” or “I want to, but how?”
Transmutation provides an answer to that question.  To love yourself, all you have to do is know yourself.  To know you is to love you.  Transmutation takes advantage of the moments when you are open to Transmutation to put you in touch with your true Nature, and you can’t help falling in love with yourself.
Socrates was right: “Know thyself.”  This or a similar maxim can be found in the teachings of the founders and inspirations of every major spiritual and philosophical tradition.  
Transmutation is just a simple method to bring your awareness to who you truly are.  This is the key to enlightenment.  Spontaneously, as a byproduct, who you are not falls away.  Darkness cannot exist in the presence of light.
When a MERMER moment comes up, we experience the pain of not fully being who we truly are.  It appears that the pain is caused by something outside of us, and the initial temptation is to try to fix the environment – shoot the messenger, teach the messenger a lesson, change the external circumstances, etc.  
A little more enlightened response is to recognize that our response is the problem, and try to transform our thinking, feeling, speech, and actions.  We act, however, according to our nature, spontaneously.  A frog trying to think and speak and act like a prince is still a frog.  We spontaneously radiate who we are.  And what we radiate is what draws to us all the external events, circumstances, and people that we encounter.  
Changing your behavior and thinking does make a difference, but it does not change the fundamental situation because it doesn’t change the fundamental nature of who is thinking and acting.  You experience pain because something in you resonates with and draws to you a negative external event or circumstance or person that appears to cause the pain.  That foreign thing in yourself that drew the external negative event then resonates with it.  This makes you painfully aware of that in you which is out of tune with your true Nature.  Your true Nature is unbounded, infinitely happy, infinitely valuable, powerful, and safe.  At the moment, you are experiencing something else.  
This provides a Transmutation Trigger.  You have become aware of the pain of not fully expressing your true Self.  You have become aware of that foreign substance or pattern in you that is blocking and inhibiting your expression of our true self.  And, the situation has got your attention.  Your system is open to input.  You are ready for an “Aha!” experience.  
This provides you an opportunity to take advantage of the phenomenon to more fully unfold your true self.  The cosmic computer is open for input.  Implement the Transmutation Trigger technique.
The Transmutation Trigger technique will remind you of who you really are.  You will get a holographic sense of your true Nature.  You’ll experience it, feel it, enjoy it.  The pain will dissolve, because the light of your true Nature has eliminated the darkness that was obscuring your true Nature.  
It’s commonly thought that personal development is difficult, that it’s hard work, that it takes a lot of effort and a long time.  Not so.  Once again, it’s easy to be who you are.  What is difficult is being who you are not.  Transmutation Trigger is easy.  It’s effortless and spontaneous.  All you have to do is remind yourself of reality, the reality of who you are and your role in the universe, and the light of your infinitely powerful consciousness will take care of the rest.
When you first start practicing Transmutation Trigger, it may take you a while to wake up when a Hellfire missile lands.  You may find yourself overshadowed by anger, hurt, fear, or whatever.  You may find yourself reacting before you have a chance to transmute.  Don’t worry.  Relax.  Don’t blame yourself.  All is not lost – you’re awake now, right?  
When you do wake up, then do the Transmutation Trigger technique.  Thank the messenger, and shine the light of your consciousness within.  You may still be feeling something unpleasant.  You may have to begin by doing it by rote.  That doesn’t matter.  It still works, because on a fundamental level you already know the truth.  
I suggest you regularly review the Transmutation Trigger technique above to refresh your experience and realize again how effortless this process is.
As you practice regularly, you’ll find that you wake up more and more quickly, and you get to the experience of the holographic truth of who you are more and more quickly.
Transmutation, and Insight Too
In practicing the Transmutation techniques you may come to some realizations and insights regarding your reactions.  When you are angry, often that is an overlay for being hurt.  It’s not very socially acceptable to admit being hurt, especially for men.  Anger is more well accepted.  When you’re angry, you may become aware of a hurt that underlies the anger, and a need that underlies the hurt.  We’ll discuss this more later.  For now, just enjoy the insights.  The fundamental thing is to experience who you really are.  The details that may arise are unnecessary.  They can be useful as a secondary benefit of Transmutation Trigger, however, as we will discuss later.
If you practice it regularly, Transmutation Trigger can completely transmute your “bad” experiences.  An attack on your value, power, or safety doesn’t have to be a bad experience.  It doesn’t have to be something to be feared or even avoided.  Seen for what it is, it can be a Transmutation Trigger.  
When someone says, “You have the ugliest red hair I have ever seen,” and it gets to you a bit, you can immediately relish the opportunity, and even relish the experience.  The messenger has not told you anything about your value.  He’s revealed something about his issues.  Thank him.  The fact that the comment landed in you means he has also done you the favor of revealing something about your issues.  He’s done the even greater favor of inspiring a Transmutation Trigger.  He has provided you with a MERMER moment, where your brain is open for reprogramming.  
If you’d like, you can not only take advantage of the opportunity, you can celebrate the arrival of such an event.  You can go from “Eek!” or “Ouch!” or “Yuck” to “Bring it on!”
At this point I’d like to insert a bit of common sense that you have probably already realized.  Transmutation Trigger is an adjunct to, and not a substitute for, dealing with the practical physical world and the people in it.  Inner and outer realities must be balanced depending on the circumstances.  
When the attack on your safety is a building that is burning down around you, the first order of business is not to go inside, but to go outside.  Get out of the burning building.  Use your brain to operate your legs.  You can get to the Transmutations once you are physically safe.  It is obviously of paramount importance to take care of your own safety and well-being, in light of the real, physical circumstances.  
If you are dealing with someone who is a clear and present danger to your well-being on any level, it’s necessary as a first order of business to deal effectively with that external situation as common sense demands.  Once the immediately threatening situation is handled, then you can get to the inner Transmutations in a safe environment.
Transmutation serves as a means to improve your communication and relationships with other human beings.  It is not a substitute for engaging in that communication and those relationships as appropriate in human life on earth.  It’s not a way of checking out; it’s a way of checking in on every level.  Deal appropriately with the human beings in your life as a first order of business, on the level of speech and action in the real world.  Transmutation is a means to that end, not a way of avoiding human interactions or other life events.
Creating Transmutation Moments: How to Put Your Brain in Reprogramming Mode
When an experience comes along that really gets your attention, something that wakes you up so you are fully present, that experience puts your brain in reprogramming mode.  You’re walking through the forest, minding your own business, enjoying the scenery, and a saber-toothed tiger leaps out at you.  Now you’re fully present.  You’re alert.  Your brain is primed to learn something critical.  This is a Transmutation moment.
Today, saber-toothed tiger confrontations and the like are relatively rare.  We still encounter Transmutation moments.  When your friend or lover or boss says or does something really striking -- either positive or negative – this also gets your attention, brings you into the present moment, and puts your brain in reprogramming mode.
Why wait for Transmutation moments to come along randomly?  We can create this experience consciously, and make Transmutation a regular practice in life.  Here are some suggestions for creating Transmutation Trigger moments.
Jump out of an airplane without a parachute.
Here’s how this works.  First you throw a parachute pack out of an airplane with a small parachute attached to it to slow it down to approximately the terminal velocity of a human in skydiving position.  Then you jump out of the airplane without a parachute.  You fly skillfully to intercept the parachute pack, put it on, and pull the ripcord in time for your parachute to open before you hit the ground.  You may have seen videos of someone practicing this technique.  This procedure is absolutely guaranteed to get your attention and bring you into the present moment.
This method has some disadvantages, however.  It’s illegal in the United States.  It’s expensive and time consuming.  And you really have to get it exactly right the first time.  It’s not the kind of thing you can keep practicing until you get it right.
The following techniques are much more practical, and still highly effective.  All of them are free, readily and conveniently available, and you don’t have to try to get them right the first time – or any time.  You can practice them again and again, experiencing Transmutation and learning every time.
Tell the truth.  The truth will set you free.
When I suggest this, most people respond with “I already tell the truth.  I’m an honest person.  I don’t lie to people.  When I’m asked a question, I answer truthfully.”
If you’re like me and most of my Science of Creating Miracles Training clients, however, you do indeed tell the truth – but not always “the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.”  The key here is usually “the whole truth.”
Yes, you tell the truth.  There’s one little thing that you don’t say, however.  (Hint: It’s not really a little thing.)  That’s the thing that you withhold because if you said that, people would think all kinds of terrible things about you, or in some cases about themselves.  It’s sort of relevant, but you can get by with telling the truth without revealing it.
If you say that one little thing, the story goes, people will go away, or will reject you, or won’t like you, or won’t admire you, or will be hurt or upset or angry.
I’ve found that whenever I say that thing, and then brace myself for the onslaught of negativity I fear, that onslaught never comes.  What comes instead is that whomever I’m finally being really truthful with responds with appreciation and understanding.  People get intuitively that now I’m being real, and they appreciate it.
Telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth brings you flying into the present moment.  It makes you and others acutely aware of the actual reality here and now.  This can be an intense experience.  Now you are really awake, really paying attention, and you have something real at stake.  This creates a Transmutation Trigger moment for you.  You have transformed an ordinary, pretty much honest conversation into an opportunity for Transmutation.  
Telling the truth will also deepen and strengthen your relationship with anyone who’s interested in the truth.  With anyone who enjoys the truth, telling the truth creates intimacy.  
Telling the truth is an excellent way to surround yourself with people who are committed to and enjoy the truth, and filter out people who are committed to avoiding the truth.  If you tell the truth to someone who is heavily invested in avoiding the truth, the result will probably be that that person will become less and less involved in your life.  Those are people you are better appreciating from a distance, if at all.
“The truth will set you free,” free from the artificial constraints of attempting to control your behavior to meet others’ expectations or opinions, and free from people who do not resonate with you or with the truth.
Be Genuine
Throughout my life, I have spent considerable time and energy in what I call image management: doing and saying what I think will impress other people, manipulating my words and actions in an attempt to impact others’ opinions and thoughts about me.  It’s exhausting, and it doesn’t work very well.  
Doing and saying what you think, feel, and intuit to be best for all concerned under the circumstances is pretty simple and straightforward.  On the other hand, it takes a tremendous amount of energy to try to figure out how someone else will interpret and respond to what you’re saying and doing, what they will think of you, and then to control your words and actions to manipulate what they’re thinking of you.  And it doesn’t work anyway.  I’ve found that people, even people who aren’t very smart or very intuitive, respond to who I really am being and what I’m really up to, rather than being fooled by what I’m pretending.  Reality rules.  I think you’ll find the same thing, and probably you have discovered this already.
Being genuine means saying to others the same things you are saying internally to yourself, acting congruently with who you know yourself to be, rather than with someone you are pretending to be.  
This involves a certain amount of risk.  If you reveal the real you, what if people don’t like you?  What if they go away?
That’s why being genuine provides an opportunity or Transmutation.  Being true to yourself, letting others see the real you, brings you flying into the present moment, and now you have something at stake.  This puts your brain in reprogramming mode.  This is a Transmutation moment, an opportunity for Transmutation.
Here again, the truth will set you free.
Be Invulnerable
There is a lot of talk these days in personal development circles about being vulnerable.  Acting and speaking openly and honestly, as I’ve described above in “Tell the Truth” and “Be Genuine,” is commonly considered to involve being vulnerable.  The thinking goes like this: If you’re truthful, and reveal who you really are and what you are really up to, you’re vulnerable because when people see the real you they may reject you, or ridicule you, or be angry, disdainful, fearful, repulsed, offended, or whatever.  So by being genuine, you are making yourself vulnerable to other people and their reactions.
Not so.
Let’s look at the reality.  As long as you are faking it, hiding out, not revealing the real you, disguising your intentions, and otherwise not telling the truth or being genuine, you are in fact highly vulnerable.  You are always at the effect of other peoples’ opinions and responses.  If you fail to convince them or impress them with whatever you are trying to pretend, you’ll experience pain.  You are not in control of your life.  Your life is controlled, knowingly or not, by the people around you.  You have given the power in your life to everyone else.  That’s about as vulnerable as one can be.
When you tell the truth, be yourself, be wholly genuine, and let the chips fall where they may, you have the power in your life.  You are free to take what you see as the best course of action, to do and say what resonates with the truth as you experience it.  You are in command of your own life.  
Some people will like the real you, and will enjoy the truth.  These people will be attracted to you.  You’ll find them becoming more intimately and genuinely involved in your life.  Some people won’t resonate with the real you, and/or won’t resonate with the truth.  These people will sooner or later – usually sooner – be out of your life.  That’s a good thing for you, and likely a good thing for them.  
Now you are truly invulnerable.  You can live the life you love, do and say what resonates with the truth as you see it, regardless of what anyone else says or does or thinks.  You are no longer vulnerable to the opinions and words of those around you.  
When you are genuine and truthful, the reality is that you are invulnerable, not vulnerable.  
Whenever you display your invulnerability in an environment where it makes a difference, once again you are brought into the present moment with something at stake.  Once again, you have created a Transmutation moment, an opportunity for Transmutation.
Be Yourself
“To thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.” 
There has been considerable discussion regarding the degree to which Polonius actually followed (or not) his own sage advice to Laertes in Hamlet.  Shakespeare’s words, nonetheless, are wise.
“Be Yourself,” is another way of saying “Tell the Truth,” “Be Genuine,” and “Be Invulnerable.”
To this Shakespeare adds that being true to yourself is also an effective formula for being true to others.  Being false to another man (or woman) always involves not telling the whole of what is true for you, not being genuine, not expressing the truth as you experience it; in short, not being true to yourself.
Being true to yourself provides ample opportunities for Transmutation, through the same mechanics we considered in the previous sections.
Tell on Yourself
If you are like me and my Science of Creating Miracles Training clients, you don’t always live up to your own highest ideals.  We don’t always tell the truth.  We aren’t always genuine.  We aren’t always true to ourselves.  
What to do when you become aware that you have fallen short of the truth?  A really effective way to get back on track – and to open up your brain for reprogramming and create an opportunity for Transmutation – is to tell on yourself.  Be genuine and truthful about the ways you have not been genuine and truthful.
Once again, this brings you flying into the present moment, where you have something at stake.  Now you’re revealing that thing that you had been hiding, the thing you didn’t want anyone else to see and probably didn’t want to look at yourself.
You’re Only as Sick as Your Secrets
When you fall short of being your highest self, when you’re not behaving consistently with the person you’d like others to think you are, what do you do?  If you’re like me and my Science of Creating Miracles Training clients, at first you have an impulse to try to hide it.  
When you find yourself hiding something, congratulations!  You have discovered an area of life where Transmutation is lacking and would make a difference.  Consider practicing any of the above techniques to bring light into this dark area.
It’s Not All About You
It’s important to do all of the above with balance, common sense, courtesy, finesse, and consideration for those around you.  It’s wise to keep in mind that it’s not all about you.  
Communicating honestly and genuinely is a blessing for you and a gift to those around you.  Bending everyone’s ear with every little thing you have been thinking about yourself, however, can be a bit much for those around you.  To the extent that these practices involve talking about yourself, it’s wise to use the practices sparingly, with awareness of how interested or open others are to hearing what you have to say, and only when it’s something that makes a difference in the life of whomever you’re communicating with.

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9. The Brain
Having learned Transmutation Trigger and Transmutation moments, touched on Guided Transmutation, and considered various ways of telling the truth, we’re ready to go on to several other techniques for optimizing brain function to enliven happiness, success, and fulfillment in life.  
Optimal brain functioning involves a balanced and integrated functioning of the whole brain, including synergistic functioning of multiple different structures and systems.  Understanding how and why such techniques work requires first a brief discussion of how the brain works.  I’ll discuss of some of my favorite parts of the brain, how they function, and how we can effortlessly transmute that functioning.  
Neurons and Neurotransmitters
Neurons are the active cells in the brain.  Neurons have three basic parts: the cell body, dendrites, and an axon.  Almost all of the neurons in the central nervous system have one axon and multiple dendrites.  Neurons receive information from other neurons through dendrites.  They communicate to other neurons through the axon.  The cell body contains the nucleus, which exerts chemical control over the activities of the cell.
Neurons are of four basic types.  Sensory neurons transmit information from the environment to the brain.  Motor neurons and other output neurons transmit commands from the brain.  Motor neurons transmit movement-related commands to the muscles.  Some other output neurons transmit signals to other organs and glands.  Communication neurons transmit signals from one part of the brain to another.  Computation neurons process information.  The vast majority of the neurons in the human brain are computation neurons.  They process incoming information from the senses, store and process memories, and plan and execute behavior.
Neurons fire electrically (or electrochemically) and communicate with other neurons chemically through chemical messengers.  When a neuron fires, an electrical potential moves swiftly down the axon until it reaches the synapse, the gap between two neurons.  Neurotransmitters are chemical messengers that float across the synapse and affect the adjacent neuron.  
Each neuron and its corresponding neurotransmitter has one of two effects on the adjacent neuron.  Either it excites the adjacent neuron, making it more prone to fire, or it inhibits it, making it less prone to fire.  When a neuron reaches a critical level of excitation, it fires.  The electrical potential travels down the axon to a synapse with another neuron, where its neurotransmitters float across and affect that neuron in turn.
Neurotransmitters are chemical messengers that affect an adjacent neuron.  Hormones are chemical messengers that are released into the blood, and affect neurons at a distance.  Some chemical messengers can be used either as neurotransmitters or as hormones, depending on where they are released and where they have their effect.  When chemical messengers are released into the environment and affect the nervous system of others of the same species, they are known as pheromones.  
Different neurotransmitters are associated with different, albeit often overlapping and synergistic, structures and functions.  Some of the major neurotransmitters are norepinephrine, dopamine, serotonin, epinephrine, and acetylcholine.
The Peripheral Nervous System
The nervous system has two major divisions.  The central nervous system consists of the brain and the spinal cord.  The peripheral nervous system connects the central nervous system to the rest of the body.  Output through motor neurons controls the movements of the muscles.  Input through sensory neurons provides information to the central nervous system.  
The peripheral nervous system produces various activating, deactivating, and regulatory input for the heart, the digestive tract, the muscles, and all the various organs, and also receives information from these organs.
The somatic nervous system is the part of the peripheral nervous system that controls voluntary motions of the body through the skeletal muscles.  The autonomic nervous system is that part of the peripheral nervous system that modulates visceral functions such as heart rate, digestion, perspiration, and sexual arousal.  Its effects are generally not under explicit voluntary or conscious control.
The autonomic nervous system has two major parts.  The sympathetic nervous system mobilizes the body for action through the fight-or-flight response.  It prepares the body for the strenuous activity of fighting or fleeing in response to a real or imagined threat.  
The parasympathetic nervous system modulates the body in the opposite direction.  It facilitates activities that take place primarily when the body is at rest, such as digestion.  It is also active in sexual arousal.  
The Central Nervous System
The central nervous system consists of the brain and the spinal cord.  The brain can be understood in terms of structure and/or in terms of function.  Brain structures have been identified in excruciating detail.  Function is much more complex.  The functions of the simplest structures, such as sensory and motor neurons, are relatively well mapped out.  All of the higher structures of the brain, however, have multiple functions and interact with other structures in complex ways.
On the upper surface of the brain is the cerebral cortex, where many of the higher functions take place.  The cortex is divided into four main lobes: the frontal lobe, the parietal lobe, the occipital lobe, and the temporal lobe.  These lobes have different but overlapping and interactive functions.
In the peripheral nervous system, neurons often communicate linearly and sequentially.  For example, a sensory neuron communicates with another neuron, which passes the message on to yet another neuron, which delivers the message to the central nervous system.
In the brain, communication between neurons is far more complex, particularly for the higher information-processing functions.  Functional systems of neurons communicate synergistically in a way that is far from linear and sequential.  Neurons communicate with other neurons through highly complex, multifaceted, interactive feedback loops.  
Brainwaves (EEG)
When the brain engages in a particular information-processing task, ensembles of neurons fire synchronously.  The resulting electrical activity summates to produce measurable electrical voltage patterns at the scalp.  
My specialty in neuroscience is measuring these voltage patterns through electroencephalography (EEG).  Through EEG, we can study the living, active brain as it is functioning in real life and in real time.
The voltages measurable at the scalp are small, on the order of a few microvolts, a few millionths of a volt.  An EEG system includes sensors to pick up these tiny voltage patterns, amplifiers to amplify them, a digitizer or digital signal processor to convert these voltages to numbers, and a computer to analyze the patterns.
Due to the multiple, synchronously functioning feedback loops and other complex interactions among ensembles of neurons in multiple synergistically functioning structures, the activity of the brain is largely oscillatory.  This results in oscillating positive and negative patterns of electrical voltage at the scalp that constitute “neural oscillations” or “brainwaves.”  
Brainwaves can be characterized to some degree by a combination of sine-wave patterns oscillating at different frequencies.  Brainwaves have been described in terms of the dominant frequency of the oscillations.  Alpha waves, for example, are oscillations at approximately 8  - 12 cycles per second (Hz).  Beta waves are approximately 13 – 30 Hz.  Delta waves (0.1 – 3 Hz) and theta waves (4 – 7 Hz) are slower.  Gamma waves (31 – 100 Hz) are faster.  Generally (but not always), slower waves are associated with a less activated state, and faster waves are associated with a more activated state.
Brainwaves measurable at the scalp are, of course, vastly less complex than the oscillatory activity inside the brain itself.  What we see at the scalp is a summation of many vastly more complex interactions taking place within and between all the various structures of the brain.  
The Brain Functions as an Integrated Whole
The brain is highly integrated, and also highly differentiated and specialized.  I will discuss some of the functions of the brain in terms of the specific brain structures that are primary in these functions, but it is important to realize that the brain always functions as an integrated whole.  
This is like the body.  When you throw a baseball, you could say that your hand throws it, because your hand is the only part of the body that touches the ball.  But a disembodied hand could not throw a ball.  Your hand depends on the arm for the throwing motion.  The shoulder is also involved.  So is the entire torso, and the legs, and the neck, and the head, and the eyes.  The whole body throws the ball, with the hand specializing in that aspect that involves direct contact with the ball.  
The brain functions in this same way.  The brain always functions as an integrated whole, with every part participating in every experience.  Later when I specify the prefrontal cortex or the pineal gland as having a specific function, understand that this specialized function is integrated with the whole brain.
The brain is not like a computer.  Computers work linearly, one thing at a time.  You can have 1000 parallel processors, but this still is just 1000 linear processes.  The brain works as an integrated whole.  It is not only massively parallel; it contains multiple bidirectional connections and feedback loops to and from multiple structures that spontaneously work together synergistically to provide a whole experience.  In a later chapter we’ll examine the quantum-mechanical nature of the functioning of the human brain as well.
How the Brain Learns
After birth, neurons in humans very rarely divide to produce new neurons, yet the brain grows and develops dramatically.  First, the brain makes a vast multitude of connections, far more than we need for functioning.  Then those connections that are used are maintained and strengthened, and those that are not used atrophy.  This process takes place throughout life.  
We produce extremely few neurons later in life, but we produce many new connections between neurons.  Also, we strengthen those connections that are used.  The more a connection is used, the more it is strengthened.  The less it is used, the less it has a tendency to be activated in the future.
From the perspective of brain physiology, we learn and grow by strengthening connections between neurons.  Every experience in life corresponds to a particular, highly complex and interactive, vibratory or oscillatory pattern of activity throughout the brain.  This is the summation of many neurons firing synchronously and interactively to produce an overall vibratory pattern.  When we engage in a particular experience, the entire complex, interactive pattern of neuronal activity that is associated with that experience is strengthened.  Having had an experience once, the propensity to have the same experience is enhanced.  This is how we learn.
This is also how memory functions.  Unlike a computer, the brain does not store memory in a particular location.  Memories are stored in a distributed fashion throughout the brain.  A memory is a propensity for the whole brain to vibrate in a particular pattern.  When we experience something reminiscent of this experience, then this pattern is activated.  This triggers the experience of a particular memory and everything associated with it.
Resonance in the Brain
The vibratory activity of the brain when engaging in a particular experience can be compared to the much simpler vibratory activity of a string on a guitar or a piano.  If we pluck the string, it vibrates at its resonant frequency.  It also vibrates in a complex pattern of harmonics – higher resonant frequencies that are mathematically related to the base frequency.  
Different musical instruments playing the same base note will sound different because the harmonics at higher frequencies are different.  A guitar playing E will sound different from a piano playing the same note.  A violin will sound still different.  In the wind instruments, a column of air vibrates in the instrument, producing yet another ensemble of resonant frequencies and another quality of sound.  
We can produce a note on a guitar by plucking a string with a finger.  The string can also be caused to vibrate by simply introducing the same vibration in the environment.  If we play a note on one guitar, and one of the strings on a second guitar is tuned to the same resonant frequency of vibration, then that string on the initially silent guitar will begin to vibrate in resonance with the vibrations produced by the guitar we pluck (provided that the initial guitar is loud enough).  The same effect can be produced in principle in all of the instruments through the same mechanism.
This phenomenon depends entirely on resonance.  If one guitar is out of tune with another, then the resonant frequencies will not match, there will be no resonance, and the silent guitar will not be activated or enlivened.
Each instrument can be thought of as an ensemble of many small tuning forks, one tuned to the dominant resonant frequency of a string (or of the air in the hollow tube of a wind or brass instrument), and each of the others tuned to one of the higher harmonics.  Each of the tuning forks naturally vibrates at its resonant frequency.  Together, they produce the characteristic sound and tone of the instrument.  
In principle, all the instruments of an orchestra could be activated to blossom forth in sound by the input of a complex sound pattern that corresponded to all of the resonant frequencies in all of the instruments that could play that sound.  This phenomenon does not work perfectly as a practical matter, of course, because it would also depend on people placing their fingers on the right strings, valves, etc., and other things that would be impractical to control.  Nevertheless it serves as an illustration that will be useful in considering how the brain works, and specifically in considering vibratory, oscillatory processes, resonance, and resonant frequencies in the brain.
If we could replace the orchestra with a few thousand tuning forks for each instrument, as described above, in principle we could input any chord into the room, and our orchestra would be enlivened to the same rich ensemble of sounds.  Our tuning-fork orchestra would resonate with the incoming sound at its collective resonant frequency, and reproduce and amplify it.
What does that have to do with the brain?  The brain is like an orchestra.  For the brain, every experience is the brain vibrating in a rich, complex pattern of oscillatory activities mediated by all the neurons firing in interactive patterns.  The brain has a tendency to vibrate at certain highly complex resonant frequencies.  
When a pattern comes along from somewhere outside that resonates with a resonant frequency of the brain – a pattern the brain has a propensity to play – this same pattern of activity is enlivened in the brain.  The brain responds, resonates, and amplifies the pattern, just as our guitar did with a note that resonated with one of its strings.  If the resonance is not there, then the brain is not enlivened by the pattern, just as our guitar was not activated by a note that was not in tune with it.
The brain is much more complex than any orchestra, of course, or than anything else we humans have ever produced.  The human brain has about 100 billion neurons.  Each single neuron is vastly more complex than the most sophisticated supercomputer we have ever built.  Many individual neurons are each connected to ten thousand other neurons.  All of the neurons in the brain are directly or indirectly connected to one another.  The brain includes thousands of sophisticated, specialized neural structures that function synergistically and interactively.  
We can build an EEG amplifier – I have done that myself.  We can build a supercomputer.  We can build a superconducting supercollider.  We have some pretty sophisticated secondary instruments to apply in our empirical investigation of the world.  We can’t now build a single neuron, however, let alone an integrated network of 100 billion neurons.  
The human brain is by far the most sophisticated instrument we have for empirical investigation of the universe.  With the human brain we can empirically investigate not only the manifest forms and phenomena of the obvious physical universe, but also all the subtler aspects of living things that we don’t yet have secondary instruments to measure.  With the brain we can even directly experience and consciously explore the Conscious Unified Field from which all this arises.  
If we had to understand and individually control all our brain structures, functions, and neurons in order to optimize brain functioning, it would be a daunting task.  We would not be likely to accomplish this in an hour or a day or a week or a lifetime.  
Fortunately, that is not necessary.  We can understand the fundamental way the brain works, the principle of resonance, the concept of resonant frequencies, and some of the fundamental functions that the brain provides for us.  We can apply that understanding in life.  We can take advantage of the principle of resonance to optimize brain functioning based on what we can readily understand and experience.  
If an eagle can soar through the sky without first obtaining a PhD in aeronautical engineering, you can learn to optimize your brain functioning without knowing everything there is to know about neuroscience and quantum physics.  
Using your brain to create miracles and success in life turns out to be easy.  
How We Attract What We Resonate With
An orchestra doesn’t physically attract trombones and violins, but it does attract people who enjoy listening to symphonies.  A rock band attracts people who enjoy listening to rock music, and a blues band attracts people who like blues.  
On an even deeper level, you spontaneously attract experiences – people, events, things, places – that resonate with something in you, in your current style of functioning.  Some things resonate with your own internal resonant frequencies.  When they show up, you are activated by them, like a guitar string by a note it resonates with.  When something comes along that resonates with a resonant frequency in you, you imbibe and amplify that resonance.  Transmutation Trigger allows you to spontaneously transmute your inner resonance, to tune your resonant frequencies, and therefore to change what you will resonate with and attract into your life.  
Your brain can do some things that your guitar cannot, and can resonate in some ways that your guitar cannot.  Your guitar, or even a million precisely tuned tuning forks, can only resonate with a single chord at a time.  Your brain can experience, remember, recognize, and resonate with complex patterns of experience that take place over a period of time.  You not only recognize and resonate with a single chord in a song or a symphony, but with a short riff or phrase, and with the song or symphony as a whole.  The same is true with all kinds of experiences in life.

10.  Applied Neuroscience and the Brain
Multifaceted Electroencephalographic Responses and EEG
Brainwaves reflect this ability of the brain to experience and resonate with patterns of inner and outer experience over time.  The various brainwaves – alpha waves, beta waves, etc.  – described above comprise ongoing, steady-state activity of the brain.  Your brain also produces patterns in brain activity that change over time, reflecting an experience or an information-processing event that takes place over time – sometimes over a very short period of time, less than a second.  
Simple, short-term patterns in EEG activity that correspond to specific information-processing brain events and experiences are known as event-related brain potentials (ERPs).  ERPs are generally measured by presenting a particular stimulus, such as a word or picture on a computer screen, many times and averaging the EEG activity elicited shortly after the stimulus is presented.  
The brain, of course, is doing lots of other things at the time that it is engaging in the particular information-processing activity of interest in a particular experiment.  To isolate and study the brain activity related to a specific information-processing functions, scientists use the technique of signal averaging.  A stimulus, such as a word or picture flashed on a computer screen, is presented many times.  The brain responses to these multiple events are averaged.  All of the brain activity that is not specifically time-locked to the event of interest averages out to zero.  This leaves an event-related pattern or event-related brain potential in the brain activity as measured by EEG.
Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) are of two basic kinds.  Exogenous ERPs reflect purely sensory processing.  For example, when a sharp sound such as a click is heard, it elicits multiple recognizable positive and negative peaks in the brain activity in the first few milliseconds after the stimulus.  Different peaks reflect the brain activity as the information arrives at specific structures in the auditory system.  
Exogenous ERPs are elicited by the sensory processing alone.  They do not change depending on how the person processes the input on the cognitive or emotional level, or how he responds to it.  Exogenous ERPs are useful for assessing the functioning of sensory systems, and for detecting deficits in the sensory apparatus of the nervous system.
Endogenous ERPs are much more interesting.  They reflect cognitive processing.  The same stimulus – such as a word or picture flashed on a computer screen – will elicit different endogenous ERPs depending on how the information is processed cognitively and emotionally.  For example, if a series of male and female names are flashed on a screen, and a subject is given a task of counting the female names, the female names will be more noteworthy, and will elicit a different ERP response than the male names.  The P300 is a well-known (at least to neuroscientists) ERP that takes place when one notices something significant in context, as in the male/female names experiment.
My colleagues and I have discovered that ERPs are only a small part of the rich, complex patterns of change that take place when the brain processes information.  The averaging procedure that reveals ERPs is useful for detecting simple patterns, like positive and negative voltage peaks and slopes.  It eliminates all complex patterns of brain activity, however, including complex short-term patterns of change in the various frequencies at which the various structures of the brain are oscillating.  It also eliminates changes in the dimensionality of the signal and other complex changes.  
My colleagues and I have coined the term “multifaceted electroencephalographic response (MER)” to describe the multifaceted constellations of electrical brain activity that take place over a period of time when the brain engages in certain information-processing events.  
I think it is highly likely that most if not all of the commonly known ERPs, when analyzed in a more sophisticated way, will turn out to be multifaceted responses – MERs – with rich patterns of change in the frequency, dimensionality, and other features of the brainwaves.  Measuring these additional features will, I believe, provide a more comprehensive and accurate description of the phenomenon than that provided by measuring only the simple positive and negative peaks that characterize the ERP.  In other words, it is my conviction that the conventionally measured ERPs are simply MERs that have been characterized only by a small subset of their multifaceted features.
The P300-MERMER – Memory and Encoding Related Multifaceted Electroencephalographic Response – is the first MER to be discovered.  I discovered it when I used more sophisticated mathematical techniques to look at the data in experiments originally designed to elicit a P300.  The P300-MERMER is elicited when a person takes note of something significant, something that I call an “Aha!” experience.  
The P300-MERMER is the pattern that shows up in the brainwaves when the brain engages in Transmutation.  
The P300-MERMER was first published in a peer-reviewed journal by FBI scientist Sharon Smith and myself in a study we conducted on FBI agents.  Analyzed in the simplest way, including only the positive and negative voltage peaks (one of each), the P300-MERMER can be considered to be simply an ERP.  The more sophisticated analysis methods provide a more comprehensive characterization of the brain activity involved in a MER, and also serve to detect this brain activity more accurately and precisely.
Detecting Criminals and Freeing Innocents with Brainwaves
Accurate and precise detection of brain patterns is important for practical applications of neuroscience, such as Brain Fingerprinting, a technique that I invented.  FBI scientists Drew Richardson and Sharon Smith, Drew’s son Graham Richardson, renowned psychophysiologist John Furedy, and I have applied Brain Fingerprinting to detect concealed information in the brain in a number of studies as well as real-world criminal cases.  
One of the first studies we did was on FBI agents.  We tested subjects, some of whom were FBI agents.  On a computer screen we flashed words and phrases containing information that would be known only to FBI agents, due to their unique training.  These FBI-relevant stimuli were presented in a series with other, non-FBI-related stimuli.  When the FBI agents saw the FBI stimuli, their brains lit up with a P300-MERMER brain response.  The non-FBI agents did not recognize the FBI-relevant words and phrases, so their brain responses lacked a P300-MERMER.  In this way, we could accurately detect who the FBI agents were in the group.  
We also applied Brain Fingerprinting in a study with the CIA to detect US Navy military medical experts by detecting the unique knowledge they have stored in their brains.  In another study, we used Brain Fingerprinting to detect bomb makers, people with knowledge and expertise in explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs).  Similarly, Brain Fingerprinting can detect an Al-Qaeda-trained terrorist or a member of a specific terrorist cell based on the unique information they have stored in their brains.
We have used Brain Fingerprinting to solve crimes.  In the vast majority of cases, an individual who has committed a crime knows information about the crime scene that is unknown to the public or to an innocent suspect.  We apply Brain Fingerprinting to detect this incriminating information stored in the brain, or to exonerate innocent suspects who do not know the details about a crime of which they are accused.  
One of the first crimes I solved with Brain Fingerprinting was the case of J.  B.  Grinder.  He was at the time a suspect in the rape and murder of Julie Helton.  A Brain Fingerprinting test showed that he had the major details of that crime stored in his brain.  Faced with certain conviction and almost certain death sentence, Grinder pled guilty to the murder in exchange for a sentence of life in prison.  He also confessed to the murders of three other young women.  
This is a case where a serial killer had literally gotten away with murder for 15 years until Brain Fingerprinting detected the record of a crime stored in his brain.  At that point, his crime spree as a serial killer ended.
In the case of Terry Harrington, Brain Fingerprinting helped to exonerate an innocent man.  Harrington was convicted and imprisoned for 23 years for a murder, always claiming innocence.  I ran a Brain Fingerprinting test on Harrington.  The test showed that some of the most salient features of the crime – details that the perpetrator would have experienced but Harrington was never told after the crime – were not stored in his brain.  Brain Fingerprinting was ruled admissible as scientific evidence in court.  Harrington was ultimately exonerated and released, due to a constitutional rights violation in his original trial.  Now he is a free man, his innocence recognized in the eyes of the law.
Steven Avery is another man convicted of murder who has been exonerated by Brain Fingerprinting, although he has not yet been freed from prison.  Avery is the subject of the Netflix documentary series Making a Murderer.  I conducted a Brain Fingerprinting test on Avery that is featured in Season 2 (“Part 2”), Episode 2.  
At the time of Avery’s trial, no one knew what had actually happened when someone attacked and killed Teresa Halbach.  Avery was one of the last people to see her alive.  He was convicted of committing the murder along with his nephew Brendan Dassey.  The prosecution presented two completely different and contradictory scenarios in the respective trials of Avery and Dassey in convicting the two of the same crime.
Recently Avery’s attorney Kathleen Avery engaged bloodstain pattern analysis expert Stuart H.  James to analyze the blood spatter patterns in Teresa’s car in order to determine what actually took place when the murderer first attacked her.  This forensic science analysis demonstrated definitively that what actually took place when the perpetrator first attacked Teresa was entirely different from what had been presented at trial.  This new forensic science test provided new evidence that was instrumental in constructing a definitive Brain Fingerprinting test on Avery.  
The perpetrator knows what he did when he first attacked Teresa.  An innocent suspect would have no way of knowing what actually happened, because the scenarios presented at trial and in the press bore very little resemblance to the specific details of the actual crime.  No one except the perpetrator knew these details until they were discovered later by blood spatter analysis.
Brain Fingerprinting scientifically detects the record of a crime (or lack of that record) stored in the brain of a suspect.  I conducted a Brain Fingerprinting test on Steven Avery to determine scientifically if the record stored in his brain matched the actual crime, in other words, if Avery knew what happened when the perpetrator first attacked Teresa, or not.  Obviously, this is something that the actual perpetrator knew.   
Brain Fingerprinting proved that Avery did not know what took place when the perpetrator first attacked Teresa.  There was no record stored in Avery’s brain of the events that took place during that crime.  When a judge and jury hear this evidence, if they think that the perpetrator knows who he is and what he did when he first attacked Teresa, then they must conclude that Avery is not the perpetrator.  
As of the time of the writing of this book, Avery’s case is still in the appeals process.  
Brain Fingerprinting has proved to be effective in counterterrorism.  In many terrorist crimes, the end perpetrators are dead by the end of the operation.  The masterminds and handlers, however, remain at large.  They have the record of the details of the terrorist crime stored in their brains because they planned it.  Brain Fingerprinting can detect that record.  
In conjunction with counterterrorism experts in the Middle East, I have developed Brain Fingerprinting tests to detect the masterminds and handlers behind a terrorist mass shooting, a terrorist hijacking, and multiple suicide bombings.
For the purposes of forensic neuroscience, the important feature of this phenomenon is the P300-MERMER pattern in the brain response.  It is the P300-MERMER that allows forensic scientists to detect the presence or absence of incriminating information in cases like those of Avery, Harrington, and Grinder.  
For the purposes of this book, however, we’re primarily interested in applying knowledge of the brain and how it works in the Transmutation of human life, in particular your life.  For our purpose here, the primary value of the “Aha!” experience is that it opens your brain up for Transmutation.  You can take advantage of this phenomenon to transmute your experience of life.
From the perspective of the brain, every experience you have had in your life comprises a rich, complex constellation of vibratory, oscillatory activity that shifts and changes in a particular pattern over the time encompassed in the experience.  This pattern takes place in multiple interacting brain structures functioning synergistically to produce the whole experience over time.  The techniques in this book are methods to harness this phenomenon in the brain to create Transmutation of the experience of life.

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