- 30 - decay of the physical body. But if this is the case and if our memory survives death as a part of our consciousness, we cannot recognise this because we are in the same situation as the blind person at the airport’s security control. We do not have a sensory organ, neither eyes nor ears, that allow us to perceive consciousness or memory. And as we are incapable of creating such a sensory organ, we only have one singular opportunity: We must transform memory and consciousness into one form of manifestation that is perceivable to our normal sensory organs. This is exactly what Jean Jacques Delpasse wanted to do. He wanted to mark a tiny part of our memory with the Grey-Walter-Experiment - to make it visible as a switch-on signal on the monitor. When we think “switch-on” and call upon the corresponding memory content from our brain, a switch-on signal appears on the monitor. This is how it works whilst we are alive, but what happens the moment we die? • If memory and consciousness do not perish but actually leave our body after death, the memory content marked by the Grey-Walter-Experiment would also have to leave with them. And if they go - they must produce a switch-on signal on the monitor the moment it happens. Van Amsynck was impressed by Delpasse’ conclusions and declared that he was ready to adopt the Grey-Walter-Experiment in his biofeedback program. His hypertension patients now learned to switch a monitor on by producing stand-by waves. The patients readily accepted the change to their training program to begin with. The ability to make the monitor come alive through an act of will gave them a sense of accomplishment. This in turn benefitted the other blood pressure reducing feedback experiments. But the patient go used to the new game a lot faster than expected. The success figures went into decline. This was nothing new to van Amsynck, but Delpasse on the other hand was disappointed. Because of the rather short training opportunities pro patient, it was feared that the switch-on signal could not be transformed into their memory content. It would instead be lost with the extinguishment of the short-term memory. Van Amsynck therefore decided, as he had in earlier experiments, to utilise supporting radiation sources. The results were generally the same. Whilst some of the radiation sources had a hemming effect on the stand-by waves, there were others that showed a supporting effect here also. • Individual patients developed an almost artistic aptness to make the television screen come to live on command. The emergency van Amsynck and Delpasse had rehearsed for happened when a 67-year-old woman suffered a hypertonic mass bleeding. To monitor her brain functions, the patent had been connected to an EEC monitor and a Grey-Walter test arrangement. In spite of immediate measures, the patient displayed an increase in intracranial pressure that eventually led to the failure of all cerebral functions. The encephalogram showed the characteristic flatlines that indicated that the brainwaves had become extinct. The patient had been lying in a coma for some time before her death. She had therefore no longer been in a position to produce stand-by waves either consciously or willingly. But in spite of the appearance of all the symptoms of the final demise of the brain, the switch-on signal appeared on the monitor of the Grey-Walter apparatus.
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