I have long felt that the digital and film camera model as a metaphor for the way the eye works is wrongly based. For one thing the light receiving planar method of pixelation, as per the ccd camera and video tubes in no way reflects the intense amout of processing that is going on even at the retinal layers.

There is much work to yet be done in the domain of “after images” and “sponteaneous retinal waves”. While much more study has been given to the sponteaneous retinal wave very little attention has been paid to the after image, and even less to the mere little ole fact that by conscious effort and with practice one can retain or as I like to call it maintain an after effect and “grow” it so that it covers your whole field of vision. Perhaps the most fascinating thing to me is that this consciously maintained, and consciously controlled and manipulated after image can even be morphed or transformed into an entire full color scene that one can “walk” into, or rather project one’s “self” forward into.

Such occurances and practices will produce an out of body experience. And my couple of experiences with what I have termed “Consciously Controlled After Image Maintenance and Manipulation” (CCAIMM) evolved into what I call fully “mundane plane” out of body experience, one that could only be described as “remote viewing”. Except in my experience audition, olfactory, and even tactial were fully engaged as well. That this “effect” of “travel” could be produced by some how manipulating one’s after images is to me an area that is wide open for investigation. One that also leads to entire fields of questions about people “having visions”, and “going on walkabouts”, or “spirit travel”.

I have wondered if there is not a feedback path between the frontal lobes, the temporal lobes, the tempo-spatial cortex, the hypocampus, and the cerebellum, back into the intermediate layers of the retina, or maybe even the rod and cone cells themselves. It may be electrical, it may be chemical (neural peptides and neural transmitters), or it could be “spooky acton at a distance” quantum wave effects.

Where the Spontaneous Retinal Waves come into play, is that after one has learned how to control and manipulate an after image to retain and control them, one can then start really paying attention to those spontaneous retinal waves, and grabbing ahold of a few of the more promisiing “clouds” attempt to control and manipulate them and freeze them as it were, and do the same thing with them that one has learned to do with the after images. In such a fashion there is some promise of conciously induced “astral projection” or OBE by use of a certain mental technique of controlling one’s after images.

I really wish I knew how to explain this. simulations and animations would be much better at discribing what I am talking about.

I would wonder if having this “vision at a distance” is something that is deeper in the brain like the temporal lobes that is directly stimulating the rods and cones themselves.

If one is interested in further exploring this, start with trying to make your after images last longer and longer, and changing their color, and making the top half blue and the bottom half green, for instance. See how long you can keep the after image going (of course it fades in and out but with practice it can be made to get even brighter than the original after image.) The technique show promise in working with both positive and negative after images. It is a technique that I stumbled across in the early 1970’s.

I have been working on trying to install some computer software so I can develop some computer software that will help me create “movies” of what I a talking about.

Has anyone looked into or developed any techniques or theories of techniques for scanning the photon emission of the retina? Do you know or to your knowledge has anyone every recorded the real spontaneous retina wave as it moves across the retinal layers? I am working on some program like the Lissom, Genesis and Neuron programs to see if I can produce a movie that will deomstrate to other people so they can attempt to duplicate the results of my technique.

As to the light wave phase modualtion, and the amplitude modulation, and yes, even the frequency modulation, it is as if the retina is performing a spectral analysis using FFT, or DFT, or HFT, or some such transform and extracting all sorts of information from the light scene as it changes that goes way beyond the information density of the mere frequency domain. I suspect there is a good degree of holographic encoding going on as well. Having gotten a vague awareness with And Ltd. Co. of Canada, in the early 1990’s, their encoding technique for their neural networks makes use of a holographic encoding that allows a single “neuron” (neurode in my terms) to contain a somewhat fuzzy 1 billion bits of information space. It may well be that the rods and cones are doing somethig similar with all this information they are receiving.

Keep up your work, I feel that yours is a pioneering approach to blazing new trails in vision research. And I will continue my efforts on the CCAIMM method studies.

Chris Flamig