There are extraordinary individuals who anticipate and have the first iteration done so the early adopters have something to adopt.
Intuitive knowing and hands-on savvy is a rare combo but it’s what you need when you’re dropped into the Negev Desert before the age of twenty barely escaping the concentration camp where your parents died.
When people needed a source of calm and competence in impossible situations, Itzhak (‘he who laughs’) was that person. When Ben Gurion needed anti-tank defense, Itzhak designed one.
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Itzhak ‘Ben’ Bentov made it out of the desert and re-settled near Boston where he helped invent the field of bio-medical engineering.
That was his side gig. His main project was figuring out the mechanism of action in meditation and measuring it.
The hardest part of figuring out how meditation works is defining, ‘works.’ Reduced anxiety is a second order effect, not a mechanism of action.
Ben believed meditation synchronizes different micromotions in the body, a dynamic that could be observed and that could potentially account for some the other effects also being observed. Synchronization.
He saw his ideas about meditation as a way of describing the mechanics of consciousness and he published a book in 1977 with that strange subtitle. The title, “Stalking the Wild Pendulum,” is even stranger. “Stalking the Wild Asparagus,” Euell Gibbons’ canonical ecological eating book established that phrase, but wtf is the pendulum about?
The pendulum is an archetypal oscillating system. Back and forth, with a singular point at both the back and the forth that isn’t either. Being a moment of rest, not motion, is a big deal to Ben Bentov.
He says in his book that anyone, you and me in theory, can go anywhere and be at any time in that moment of rest. The opportunity occurs about 7 times per second. I’m not making this up.
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