Under normal circumstances the Daemon and the Eidolon sit watching the film in total darkness. They sit next to each other but only the Daemon knows what is going to happen. On top of that the Eidolon is totally unaware that its silent neighbour is even there. However, under certain circumstances the Daemon can communicate with its lower partner. T

The implication here is that the human brain actively filters external sensory stimulation and presents to consciousness a watered-down version of reality. The French psychologist Henri Bergson was convinced that the brain’s function was eliminative and not productive.

Nature’s solution to this is that each eye has two visual fields – right and left. The right visual field of the left eye feeds one hemisphere and the left field feeds the other. This is then reversed for the right eye. In this way both hemispheres receive stereo vision. Sperry realized that by showing patients an object in the left or right visual

For most people the Daemon can only communicate via images or hunches. The images are shown in dreams and the hunches are those ill-defined sensations that suggest that one course of action is a good or a bad thing.

I argue that ‘reality’ is exactly how Bohm and Pribram suggest that it is. It is a huge hologram. However, where I differ from them is I that I believe that the hologram is internally generated by the brain itself. It is not ‘out there’ at all. Reality is, in a very real sense, an illusion. My Bohmian IMAX is a technological Maya – the Advaita Veda

Modern physics teaches us that reality at the quantum level is so bizarre and strange that normal causality and logic simply breaks down. Subatomic particles are brought into being by the observation of a conscious observer, and atoms, the basic building blocks of reality, are part of this charade. Put simply, we create reality by observing it – ev

Mesmer believed that the universe is full of ‘magnetism’. His magnetic force was similar to that of electrical magnetism, the effects and potentials of which were being discovered at the time. He considered his magnetism to be an invisible fluid that influenced all living things. To differentiate his version from ferromagnetism he termed his force

For the ancient Greeks the Eidolon was exactly as I use it in my first book – the lower, everyday ‘self’. By implication this means that there is a Higher Self that is a reflection of the gods. This being was called the ‘Daemon’ and I have continued to use this term to describe the part of us that knows that we have lived this life before.

Under normal circumstances the Daemon exists in isolation within the non-dominant hemisphere (usually the right). As the major speech centres of the brain are located in the dominant (usually left) hemisphere the Daemon simply cannot access the mechanisms that will allow it any form of verbal communication with the outside world.