Olympic Mind Power

Attendees of the Vancouver Olympics can manipulate the lighting on Toronto’s CN Tower using their mind.
In 2007, the tallest freestanding structure in the Western hemisphere was outfitted with an computer-controlled LED illumination system capable of producing 16.7 million colors. Each LED fixture can be individually programmed, allowing for an endless variety of visual effects.
At the Ontario Pavilion in Vancouver, participants can control the tower’s lighting by means of electrodes monitoring their brainwaves.
“The lighting is controlled by two types of brain wave. Alpha waves – achieved by relaxation – bring the lights on the CN Tower closer to the observation deck, and beta waves – achieved by concentration – cause the lights to spread out and flicker so they appear to be spinning quickly around the tower.”
Image courtesy of La Tour CN.
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John your post on the control of the lights by brainwaves is fascinating.
The current attempts to harness the synapse of the brain to technology are on going in many areas. One of the most well publicized, of late, was the hook up of a comatose man to a computer. According to the latest press releases it turns out that it was not actually working but was under the control of the operator of the computer. Although this attempt was discredited the reasoning remains valid.
Many times when I sit down at this computer and begin to browse RS or anywhere else. It appears that there is an external guidance factor involved. This weekend, for example, falls on a time of both a full moon and my sun sign. I have learned to be more open minded during these times. Whether that enhances my ability to find verification to basic truths during these times, more than others is a possibility.
With out going into extreme detail I can assure you that I have experienced enough phenomena related to brain waves, electrical synapse and spirituality to have no doubt as to its existence.
My only hope is that there is a fast enough progession for it to be useful in the near future. eg. For socialization I attend a small writing class once a week. In the current class there is a 70 something lady who is attempting to do a memoir about her mother, without a computer or word processor a typewriter suffices. There is another gal that submits her writings in longhand. The leader of our group encourages them to use the local library which provides a free computer service.
Why am I going on about this? For your post -The Book In The Sky- you chose a photo of the end of a saw horse to depict the letter A. The type of saw horse you chose was one that is of a design that predates quite a few of the new and more modern versions. It is one that can be made with a hammer, a hand saw, a few nails, and few boards. No electricity is required. I have one in my garage of similar design constructed by my great uncle George. It is about 100 years old.
Where was our technology when it was constructed? Will our technology defeat us or will we figure out the relationships to it, our brainwaves and our spirituality in time? How much will we lose if we can not tap our sensory perceptions, not only to the lights on the tower, to one another prior to a possible upset of electricity as we know it?
In all honesty not much of what we have discovered, or learned, in the past thousands of years has been documented in stone, other than head stones. Not only are we leaving many behind with our unstopable rush onward into the fog, we are leaving behind a wealth of information, wisdom and knowledge. Perhaps we will always have the grid and the information will always be available. "Perhaps"
Possibly our descendants, in a few hundred years, will find it necessary to do mind enhancing drugs to find an avenue to our wisdom.
I do want to thank you for your posts. Through the reading and your visual prompt I was able to reflect on my great uncle George my grandfather, and their generation and wisdom on this important week end.
"I am the tree the tree is me, I am no more, no less, no better, no worse. I am a part of all, a part of all is a part of me."