This Yogi Stopped His Heart To Tease Doctors | Swami Rama
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(00:00) In March 1970, an Indian yogi walked into a laboratory at the Meninger Foundation in Topikica, Kansas. Scientists attached electrodes to his body. They wanted to know whether the extraordinary claims made by yogis for centuries could actually be measured. The man sitting in front of them was Swami Rama.
(00:23) And then he made an outrageous proposal. He told the researchers that he could stop his own heart. The scientist tried to discourage him. Swami Rama insisted. According to researcher Elmer Green's account, Rama was even willing to sign papers saying that the Maninger Foundation would not be responsible if he died. The researchers finally agreed.
(00:49) They weared him to their instruments and Swami Rama began. The scientist expected that if he succeeded, the ECG would show his heartbeat slowing and perhaps briefly disappearing. Instead, something completely unexpected happened. His heart suddenly accelerated. The ECG showed an extremely rapid rhythm described by the researchers as a type of atrial flutter.
(01:14) For roughly 15 seconds, the rhythm became so rapid that his effective pulse disappeared. When the researchers told him that his heart had not technically stopped but had instead began beating at an extraordinary rate, Swami Rama explained that this fluttering was what he meant by stopping it. But the heart experiment was only one demonstration.
(01:36) Under laboratory observation, unusual voluntary control over the temperature of different parts of the same hand. He demonstrated control over different brain wave patterns and during experiments associated with yogic sleep. Researchers recorded deep sleeplike delta activity. While he later recalled events occurring around him for scientists studying bof feedback and the relationship between mind and body, Swami Rama was an extraordinary subject.
(02:06) But the strange man sitting inside that American laboratory had not learned these things in a university. His education had began thousands of kilometers away in the Himalayas. Swami Rama was born in northern India in 1925. According to the biographical tradition preserved by the Himalayan Institute, he was raised from early childhood by a Himalayan master known as Bengali Baba.
(02:31) This meant that his childhood was radically different from that of most children. He traveled among monasteries and spiritual teachers. He studied meditation, yoga, philosophy, scriptures and the disciplines preserved within the Himalayan tradition. Swami Rama later wrote about many of these encounters in his famous book living with the Himalayan masters.
(02:55) The Himalayas he described were not simply beautiful mountains. They were a training ground. He encountered monks, renunciates and yogis representing different approaches to spiritual practices. Some taught through words, others through discipline, some challenged his pride, others challenged his understanding of what the human mind and body were capable of doing.
(03:24) And through these experiences, Swami Rama developed an unusual relationship with spirituality. He was interested in mystical experiences. But he was also interested in testing it. He did not believe that spirituality had to remain hidden behind superstition. Eventually that attitude would take him from Himalayan caves into scientific laboratories.
(03:52) But before that happened, he was given one of the highest religious positions in Hindu monastic life. From 1949 to 1952, Swami Rama served as the Shankrara of Kurvir Pithham in South India. It was a prestigious position for many spiritual teachers. Reaching such a seat would represent the height of achievement. But Swami Rama left it.
(04:21) He returned to his teacher and continued his training. That decision tells us something important about him. Institutional authority was not what he was looking for. His search remained experiential. What can the mind actually do? What is meditation? How deeply can consciousness penetrate the body? Can functions considered automatic become conscious? And perhaps most importantly, can any of this be demonstrated without asking people simply to believe? These questions eventually brought him
(05:07) west. In 1969, Swami Rama arrived in the United States. At exactly this time, American researchers were becoming increasingly interested in something called BOF feedback. For a long time, many bodily processes were assumed to operate almost completely outside conscious control. Heart rate, blood pressure, skin temperature, certain patterns of brain activity.
(05:42) But researchers such as Almer and Ellis Green at the Mininger Foundation were investigating whether human beings could learn to influence some of these supposedly involuntary processes. Then they heard about an Indian yogi who claimed he had already been doing exactly that. Swami Rama arrived at their laboratory in 1970 and suddenly two worlds met.
(06:10) Ancient yogic training and modern measuring equipment. One of the simplest experiments involved his hand. Temperature sensors were attached to different areas of the same palm. Swami Rama claimed that he could make one area warmer while another remained cooler. Normally we do not consciously decide how much blood flows through one side of our hand.
(06:41) But during the experiment, researchers recorded a temperature difference of several degrees between nearby areas. Then came the brainwave experiments. Researchers recorded Swamiiama producing patterns associated with different states of consciousness alpha, theta, delta. Most interestingly during a state resembling deep sleep, he reportedly remained capable of letter recalling sounds and events occurring around him.
(07:18) This connected directly with the yogic idea of yogitra, a state in which the body may enter profound rest while some dimension of awareness remains. To the researchers, these were not stories from an ancient scripture. They were signals appearing on machines. And then came the demonstration everyone remembered the heart.
(07:45) Swami Rama appeared capable of voluntarily producing a dramatic cardiovascular change that the researchers had not expected and this was exactly why the experiment mattered. He was not demonstrating supernatural immortality. He was challenging assumptions about the boundary between voluntary and involuntary physiology.
(08:11) How much control can a trained human being developed over his own body? Yoga had been asking that question for centuries. Now machines were watching. But Swami Rama did not want yoga reduced to tricks. Stopping a pulse was not enlightenment. Changing the temperature of your hand was not liberation. producing a particular brain wave was not the ultimate purpose of meditation.
(08:42) These demonstrations were useful because western science understood measurement. So Swami Rama met science in its own language. If you say meditation changes the body, measure it. If you say consciousness can influence physiology, attach the instruments. Don't believe because a yogi says so. Observe. This became an important part of his work.
(09:13) Swami Rama wanted to build a bridge between the inner traditions of the east and the scientific mindset of the west. And he did not stop with laboratory demonstrations. He established the Himalayan Institute in the United States. He taught meditation and yoga. He wrote extensively. His books explored meditation, psychology, philosophy, the upnishads and the experiences he attributed to his years among him teachers.
(09:45) Later his work also expanded towards humanitarian and medical institutions in India. But perhaps his most enduring contribution was not any single experiment. It was the question those experiments forced people to ask. What if the limits we place on the human body are partly limits of training? It showed that at least some physiological processes thought to be largely automatic could be influenced to an unusual degree by a highly trained individual and that was enough to make scientists pay attention.
(10:26) Swami Rama died in 1996. By then the world of yoga had changed enormously. Meditation was increasingly entering universities, hospitals, psychology, neuroscience laboratories. Researchers were beginning to seriously investigate practices that previous generations might simply have dismissed as mystical. Swami Rama had entered that conversation unusually early.
(10:59) A boy raised around Himalayan masters became a shankara, walked away from the position, returned to spiritual practices, traveled to America, and eventually sat inside a laboratory covered in electrodes, telling scientists that he could control things they believed were involuntary. Perhaps that is why the heart experiment remains so memorable.
(11:29) Not because Swami Rama wanted people to worship him for a miracle, but because he was willing to put a yogic claim in front of a machine. And for a few extraordinary seconds inside a laboratory in Kansas, an ancient question became a modern scientific experiment. How much control can consciousness really have over the human body?
Author Name:Mystics of India
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Title: This Yogi Stopped His Heart To Tease Doctors | Swami Rama
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1)This video has no negative impact on the original works (It would actually be positive for them).
2)This video is also for teaching purposes.
3)It is not transformative in nature.
4)I only used bits and pieces of videos to get the point across where necessary.
Mystics of India does not own the rights to these video clips.
We take clips from various sources to help create an atmospheric feeling that will help and inspire people in their life.
These clips and extracts are of a minimal nature and the use is not intended to interfere in any manner with their commercial exploitation of the complete work by the owners of the copyright.
They have, in accordance with fair use, been repurposed with the intent of educating and inspiring others. However, if any content owners would like their images removed, please contact us by email.
__________________________________________________________
Thank you for watching - We really appreciate it :)
TEAM MOI
Transcript:
(00:00) In March 1970, an Indian yogi walked into a laboratory at the Meninger Foundation in Topikica, Kansas. Scientists attached electrodes to his body. They wanted to know whether the extraordinary claims made by yogis for centuries could actually be measured. The man sitting in front of them was Swami Rama.
(00:23) And then he made an outrageous proposal. He told the researchers that he could stop his own heart. The scientist tried to discourage him. Swami Rama insisted. According to researcher Elmer Green's account, Rama was even willing to sign papers saying that the Maninger Foundation would not be responsible if he died. The researchers finally agreed.
(00:49) They weared him to their instruments and Swami Rama began. The scientist expected that if he succeeded, the ECG would show his heartbeat slowing and perhaps briefly disappearing. Instead, something completely unexpected happened. His heart suddenly accelerated. The ECG showed an extremely rapid rhythm described by the researchers as a type of atrial flutter.
(01:14) For roughly 15 seconds, the rhythm became so rapid that his effective pulse disappeared. When the researchers told him that his heart had not technically stopped but had instead began beating at an extraordinary rate, Swami Rama explained that this fluttering was what he meant by stopping it. But the heart experiment was only one demonstration.
(01:36) Under laboratory observation, unusual voluntary control over the temperature of different parts of the same hand. He demonstrated control over different brain wave patterns and during experiments associated with yogic sleep. Researchers recorded deep sleeplike delta activity. While he later recalled events occurring around him for scientists studying bof feedback and the relationship between mind and body, Swami Rama was an extraordinary subject.
(02:06) But the strange man sitting inside that American laboratory had not learned these things in a university. His education had began thousands of kilometers away in the Himalayas. Swami Rama was born in northern India in 1925. According to the biographical tradition preserved by the Himalayan Institute, he was raised from early childhood by a Himalayan master known as Bengali Baba.
(02:31) This meant that his childhood was radically different from that of most children. He traveled among monasteries and spiritual teachers. He studied meditation, yoga, philosophy, scriptures and the disciplines preserved within the Himalayan tradition. Swami Rama later wrote about many of these encounters in his famous book living with the Himalayan masters.
(02:55) The Himalayas he described were not simply beautiful mountains. They were a training ground. He encountered monks, renunciates and yogis representing different approaches to spiritual practices. Some taught through words, others through discipline, some challenged his pride, others challenged his understanding of what the human mind and body were capable of doing.
(03:24) And through these experiences, Swami Rama developed an unusual relationship with spirituality. He was interested in mystical experiences. But he was also interested in testing it. He did not believe that spirituality had to remain hidden behind superstition. Eventually that attitude would take him from Himalayan caves into scientific laboratories.
(03:52) But before that happened, he was given one of the highest religious positions in Hindu monastic life. From 1949 to 1952, Swami Rama served as the Shankrara of Kurvir Pithham in South India. It was a prestigious position for many spiritual teachers. Reaching such a seat would represent the height of achievement. But Swami Rama left it.
(04:21) He returned to his teacher and continued his training. That decision tells us something important about him. Institutional authority was not what he was looking for. His search remained experiential. What can the mind actually do? What is meditation? How deeply can consciousness penetrate the body? Can functions considered automatic become conscious? And perhaps most importantly, can any of this be demonstrated without asking people simply to believe? These questions eventually brought him
(05:07) west. In 1969, Swami Rama arrived in the United States. At exactly this time, American researchers were becoming increasingly interested in something called BOF feedback. For a long time, many bodily processes were assumed to operate almost completely outside conscious control. Heart rate, blood pressure, skin temperature, certain patterns of brain activity.
(05:42) But researchers such as Almer and Ellis Green at the Mininger Foundation were investigating whether human beings could learn to influence some of these supposedly involuntary processes. Then they heard about an Indian yogi who claimed he had already been doing exactly that. Swami Rama arrived at their laboratory in 1970 and suddenly two worlds met.
(06:10) Ancient yogic training and modern measuring equipment. One of the simplest experiments involved his hand. Temperature sensors were attached to different areas of the same palm. Swami Rama claimed that he could make one area warmer while another remained cooler. Normally we do not consciously decide how much blood flows through one side of our hand.
(06:41) But during the experiment, researchers recorded a temperature difference of several degrees between nearby areas. Then came the brainwave experiments. Researchers recorded Swamiiama producing patterns associated with different states of consciousness alpha, theta, delta. Most interestingly during a state resembling deep sleep, he reportedly remained capable of letter recalling sounds and events occurring around him.
(07:18) This connected directly with the yogic idea of yogitra, a state in which the body may enter profound rest while some dimension of awareness remains. To the researchers, these were not stories from an ancient scripture. They were signals appearing on machines. And then came the demonstration everyone remembered the heart.
(07:45) Swami Rama appeared capable of voluntarily producing a dramatic cardiovascular change that the researchers had not expected and this was exactly why the experiment mattered. He was not demonstrating supernatural immortality. He was challenging assumptions about the boundary between voluntary and involuntary physiology.
(08:11) How much control can a trained human being developed over his own body? Yoga had been asking that question for centuries. Now machines were watching. But Swami Rama did not want yoga reduced to tricks. Stopping a pulse was not enlightenment. Changing the temperature of your hand was not liberation. producing a particular brain wave was not the ultimate purpose of meditation.
(08:42) These demonstrations were useful because western science understood measurement. So Swami Rama met science in its own language. If you say meditation changes the body, measure it. If you say consciousness can influence physiology, attach the instruments. Don't believe because a yogi says so. Observe. This became an important part of his work.
(09:13) Swami Rama wanted to build a bridge between the inner traditions of the east and the scientific mindset of the west. And he did not stop with laboratory demonstrations. He established the Himalayan Institute in the United States. He taught meditation and yoga. He wrote extensively. His books explored meditation, psychology, philosophy, the upnishads and the experiences he attributed to his years among him teachers.
(09:45) Later his work also expanded towards humanitarian and medical institutions in India. But perhaps his most enduring contribution was not any single experiment. It was the question those experiments forced people to ask. What if the limits we place on the human body are partly limits of training? It showed that at least some physiological processes thought to be largely automatic could be influenced to an unusual degree by a highly trained individual and that was enough to make scientists pay attention.
(10:26) Swami Rama died in 1996. By then the world of yoga had changed enormously. Meditation was increasingly entering universities, hospitals, psychology, neuroscience laboratories. Researchers were beginning to seriously investigate practices that previous generations might simply have dismissed as mystical. Swami Rama had entered that conversation unusually early.
(10:59) A boy raised around Himalayan masters became a shankara, walked away from the position, returned to spiritual practices, traveled to America, and eventually sat inside a laboratory covered in electrodes, telling scientists that he could control things they believed were involuntary. Perhaps that is why the heart experiment remains so memorable.
(11:29) Not because Swami Rama wanted people to worship him for a miracle, but because he was willing to put a yogic claim in front of a machine. And for a few extraordinary seconds inside a laboratory in Kansas, an ancient question became a modern scientific experiment. How much control can consciousness really have over the human body?
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