Psychic Phenomena, Synchronicity, and Travel

“We are not alone in forecasting the future, all humans do it to some degree. Just a quick search of the internet will provide dozens of forms of future forecasting. Some use astrology, some use other methods.”
-Cliff High, halfpasthuman.com

Halfpasthuman.com is home to the infamous “web-bot project” - a future predicting ‘machine’ built on linguistic patterns released in our language over the internet. By employing data mining techniques based on radical linguistic patterns which reduce extracts from readings of dynamic postings on the internet into an archetypical database; Half Past Human calculates the rate of change in language. Calculations are based on a system of associations between words and numeric values for emotional responses from those words. Forecasts of the future are derived from these calculations.

The results? The team accurately predicted Hurricane Katrina, The Columbia Space Shuttle Disaster, the recent economic unraveling, among others…(http://urbansurvival.com/simplebots.htm)
(http://socioecohistory.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/webbot-project-predictio...)

As MapMakers, we believe that every person displays or experiences some degree of psychic power, although most of these experiences are often dismissed as pure “coincidence”. In fact, poets and artists commonly express concepts before they are discovered in science, suggesting that their unconscious mind is in touch with a deeper reality. In her book, “The ESP Enigma”, Diane Hennacy Powell, M.D. describes what she calls the Mobius Mind - an explanation for consciousness that pulls together psychic phenomena and science. She explains consciousness as the “relationship between our inner and outer worlds, how we access information about times and places other than the here and now, and where information is stored.”

Thus, the unconscious mind can be explained as the place that stores information from our past and present that isn’t relevant to what we are currently doing. It may also store things that we don’t want to face or admit to ourselves. We now know that the unconscious mind contains far more information than our conscious mind. “It is estimated to take in more than a billion pieces of information per second.” The unconscious mind plays the largest role in determining behavior.

“The eyes only see what the mind is prepared to comprehend” –Henri Bergson

Our conscious mind does not naturally see how interconnected the world really is. However, sometimes, we do experience this interconnection through “coincidences”. A simple shift in language illustrates the power of these events: Jung coined that “coincidences” ARE “synchronicities” – a manifestation of the world’s underlying interconnectivity.
Synchronicities increase when our limbic systems are highly activated. The limbic system, which is responsible for assigning emotion and meaning to people, numbers, colors, events…etc…is connected with our temporal lobes. Thus, when the limbic system is turned up, the world around us becomes more symbolic and meaningful! This illustrates an intriguing interconnection – between our inner reality (thoughts) and our outer reality (experiences).
When we travel to new places, our limbic systems are in a heightened state, and our thoughts seem to increase the likelihood of experiencing synchronicity. As synchronous events unfold around the traveler, we are shown the immense power that thought has on creating reality.

Likewise, while traveling, we are revealed stunning insights about the power of unconscious thought. At times we are out of touch with the interconnected nature of our inner reality and our outer experiences. By observing and exploring our physical reality, we are capable of re-connecting with the unconscious mind.

Why is it important to connect with the unconscious mind? Well, that’s simple - to control behavior.

If we desire to “see” change in the world around us – we must accept responsibility for what we are unconsciously creating. Currently our collective behavior reflects a world that is largely unconscious. That is why sites like Cliff’s are so astounding – it points to the collective power of thought. We may very well be responsible for manifesting our own realities, and by placing entirely too much value on “fear based” media memes, we are manifesting some pretty sketchy stuff.

By stepping outside of our current reality, we are capable of seeing how much our environment creates unconscious thoughts of fear, worry and despair. For example, one of the first things I noticed when returning to The United States after our last trip was the amount of propaganda warning against a laundry list of impending threats – “Get checked for colon cancer NOW”, “Is your family safe in case of disaster?”

The MapMaker’s film team travels the globe documenting an external reality within the framework of our own evolving internal awareness. Our films explore how our own personal unconscious thoughts contribute to what we collectively experience as external “reality”.

As MapMakers, we desire to build a new collective reality. Like metal attracts magnet, MapMaker’s everywhere are uniting and building new realities based on positive thought, and consciousness expanding principles. The more aware we become aware of the interconnected nature of thought and reality, the more we are capable of stepping in and changing what we perceive as reality. This is how we authentically change our perceptions.

By tapping into the unconscious nature of “who we are,” and “what is” we can begin the process of unraveling our behavior and manifesting change.