title: Sensors, filters, and the source of reality.
abstract: The failure of contemporary scientific theory to correlate and explicate anomalous consciousness-related physical phenomena may trace to inadequate comprehension of the process of information exchange between the mind and its ultimate source. Elevation of the subjective capacities of consciousness to complementary status with the more objective physical senses, along with recognition of the bi-directional capabilities of both categories, allows establishment of resonant channels of communication between the mind and its source environment that can exceed conventional expectations. In this manner, order can be introduced into randomnicity, and self-consistent realities can be extracted from transcendent chaos. The key elements in tuning these channels to amplify such information creation are the physiological and psychological filters imposed upon them, some of which can be enhanced or altered by conscious or unconscious attention. Specifically, such attitudinal tactics as openness to alternative perspectives, utilization of transdisciplinary metaphors, self-sacrificial resonance, tolerance of uncertainty, and replacement of dualistic rigor by mental complementarity can enable experiential realities that are responsive to intention, desire, or need, to an extent consistent with prevailing empirical evidence.
authors.forename: R G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Jahn
authors.forename: B J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Dunne
mesh_terms: D001676:Biofeedback, Psychology; D035843:Biomedical Research; D006801:Humans; D008606:Mental Processes; D019222:Mind-Body Relations, Metaphysical; D008960:Models, Psychological; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D011789:Quantum Theory; D012107:Research Design; D014473:Unconscious, Psychology; D014481:United States