Stalking the wild pendulum - on the mechanics of consciousness

213 Pages·1977·2.382 MB·English

by  Bentov, Itzhak

Popular interest in modern physics is grow-
ing: books such as Fritjof Capra’s TAO OF
PHYSICS and Bob Toben’s SPACE — TIME
AND BEYOND and television spectaculars
on the structure of matter and the origin of
the universe reach a wide audience.
The reason for this is that physics has
begun to explore areas much closer to the
concerns of everyone — the underlying
structure of reality, the nature of space and
time, and of consciousness itself. Much of
this probing is a ‘frontier’ activity — the
pioneering thinkers are asking questions and
suggesting ideas which many of their
colleagues still regard as unorthodox, even
wild.
Itzak Bentov is one of these probing, ex-
ploring and original thinkers. Among the
ideas he raises are:
• that each cell in our bodies carries all the
information required to make an
additional copy of our bodies
• all knowledge that ever existed is
potentially available to us
• the design of the universe is reflected in
the design of the human body
• time doesn’t ‘flow’ — it just ‘is’. It is
matter which moves along. With no
motion there is no time
• the brain is not a source of thought,
it is a thought amplifier
• the universe is a hologram. And so is the
brain — a hologram interpreting a holo-
graphic universe.
Continued on back flap
ISBN 0 7045 0332 8
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STALKING THE WILD PENDULUM

Stalking
The Wild
Pendulum
On the Mechanics of Consciousness
ITZHAK BENTOV
Destiny Books
Rochester, Vermont
Destiny Books
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Rochester, Vermont 05767
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First Quality Paperback edition 1988 by Destiny Books
Copyright © 1977 Itzak Bentov
Copyright © 1988 Mirtala Bentov
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by
any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any in-
formation storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bentov, Itzak.
Stalking the wild pendulum : on the mechanics of consciousness by Itzak
Bentov.
p. cm.
Originally published: New York: E.P. Dutton, ©1977.
Bibliography : p. 294
ISBN 978-089281202-8
1. Consciousness. 02. Cosmology. I. Title
BF311.B453 1988
126—dc19 87-36458
Printed and bound in the United States
20 19 18 17
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
During the time that this book was written, I conferred with
many people, mostly scientists who are specialists in their
respective fields, to check out the details of my ideas. This
fact does not imply in any way that all of them agree with
the material presented here.
First, I would like to express my gratitude to Professor
Mael Melvin, physicist at Temple University, for going over
the manuscript and straightening out my physics, which
was limping in places; and to Professor William W. Tiller,
Materials Sciences Department, Stanford University, for
our long discussions about the nature of the universe and
for his writing a preface to this book. To Tom Etter,
physicist, University of Minnesota, for our discussions of
the pre-quantum states.
Many thanks to all my friends, who kept urging me to
write this book, starting with Lee Sannella, M.D., who
arranged for the first public presentation of these ideas; to
Richard Ingrasci, M.D., Eddie Hauben, Bill and Tom
Hickey, and the rest of my friends at “Interface”, who kept
things moving. To my friends at Whitewood-Stamps, Jes-
sica Lipnack, Tom Nickel, Jeff Stamps, and Frank White,
all knowers of the relative and the absolute, who gave an
initial criticism of the manuscript; to Paul Nardella, the
electronics wizard, who designed and built the electronic
instruments used in our measurements and experiments; to
David Doner, M.D., who helped with the medical portion of
the appendix; to Robert L. Schwartz, chairman, Tarrytown
Conference Center, who arranged for the presentation of
these ideas for criticism to a panel of scientists; and finally,
to my wife Mirtala, who patiently edited, criticized, and
typed the manuscript.
Itzhak Bentov
Illustrated by the author, except for some of the better-
looking sketches, which were done by Rick Humesky of
Ann Arbor, Michigan.
PUBLISHER’S NOTE
An outstanding exponent of the new science of con-
sciousness, Itzhak Bentov touched all whom he encountered
with his insightfulness and genius of expression. His untimely
death in 1979 was an undeniable loss, but his vision—clearly
presented and accessible in his writings—continues to illumine
the forward path to higher consciousness.