Proof of Heaven

different frequencies in each ear) to induce synchronized brain wave
activity. These “binaural beats” are generated at a frequency that is the
arithmetic difference between the two signal frequencies. By using an
ancient but highly accurate timing system in the brainstem that normally
enables localization of sound sources in the horizontal plane around the
head, these binaural beats can entrain the adjacent Reticular Activating
System, which provides steady timing signals to the thalamus and cortex
enabling consciousness. These signals generate brain wave synchrony in
the range of 1 to 25 hertz (Hz, or cycles per second), including the crucial
region below the normal threshold for human hearing (20 Hz). This
lowest range is associated with brain waves in the delta (< 4 Hz, normally
found in deep dreamless sleep), theta (4 to 7 Hz, seen in deep meditation
and relaxation, and in non-REM sleep), and alpha ranges (7 to 13 Hz,
characteristic of REM or dream sleep, drowsiness at the borders of sleep,
and awakened relaxation).
In my journey of understanding after my coma, Hemi-Sync potentially
offered a means of inactivating the filtering function of the physical brain
by globally synchronizing my neocortical electrical activity, just as my
meningitis might have done, to liberate my out-of-body consciousness. I
believe Hemi-Sync has enabled me to return to a realm similar to that
which I visited deep in coma, but without having to be deathly ill. But
just as in my dreams of flying as a child, this is very much a process of
allowing the journey to unfold—if I try to force it, to over-think it, or
embrace the process too much, it doesn’t work.
To use the word all-knowing feels inappropriate, because the awe and
creative power I witnessed was beyond naming. I realized that the
proscriptions of some religions against naming God or depicting divine
prophets did indeed have an intuitive correctness to them, because God’s
reality is in truth so completely beyond any of our human attempts at
capturing God in words or pictures while here on earth.
Just as my awareness was both individual yet at the same time
completely unified with the universe, so also did the boundaries of what I
experienced as my “self” at times contract, and at other times expand to
include all that exists throughout eternity. The blurring of the boundary