Stalking the Wild Pendulum: On the Mechanics of Consciousness

RIP Ben, the world was not ready for you. Thank you for your sacrifice.

One word summary for the book- Zip-Line.Itzhak invites us in innocently enough by talk of vibrations and frequency. Next thing you know he’s discussing frequency coherency and holograms. Suddenly, you’re strapped in and he’s pushed you off the edge and you are on a crazy Bentov Bender zip line through the consciousness of the cosmos. Hang on.Forty years after this was written, I believe this book still pushes the edge of what we think about our place in the Universe, ourselves as holograms, and how Consciousness interacts with the Universe.Just a few of the Free Toys inside this heavy box of Bentov Bran Flakes include:Everything comes down to frequency. Get the right frequency and you entrain with the cosmos. Your energy can travel around the world seven times a second.His own model of the Universe (even designed after a jelly doughnut) complete with Black Holes, White Holes, Matter, an Axis of Time, Light Escapement, the Universal Mind Hologram, Expansion and Informational Fields of Energy. You’ve never seen toys like this.Discussions on Relative Realities, Levels of Evolution and Consciousness Hierarchies.Ideas suggesting Poltergeists, ESP, Psychokinesis,Psychic Healing and other phenomena, Telepathy, and Mystical experiences are all just consciousness on a higher level.A real masterpiece of creativity and a plethora of crazy ideas, mixed with plenty of hand drawn graphs and doodles to exemplify his points.I believe you could kick back and randomly open the book and discuss any idea on a given page for hours with your buddies.Oh, by the way, it would really help if your buddies were also a stoned Hippie, an Astro-Physicist, and a Philosopher.

Well written. Easy to understand.

This book was published in 1977. It's an outdated classic. The first 6 chapters are still pretty solid; that is, Bentov does a great job of explaining quantum physics in layman's terms. (Everything in the Universe is vibration, including us. What we think of as solid reality is just our slow human brains trying to make sense of information that is moving at the speed of light.) By about chapter 7, the current science outpaces Bentov's explanations, and by chapter 8, his "Model of the Universe," we know that the material is outdated and some of it is incorrect. He discusses, for example, a Universe that expands and then eventually collapses back into itself, with time traveling backwards. In 2011, however, three scientists - Saul Perlmutter, Brian Schmidt, and Adam Riess - won the Nobel Prize for Physics for the discovery that our Universe is expanding forever outward and will NOT collapse back onto itself. This is just one of many of Bentov's theories that has been proven wrong, though I hope that some of his ideas prove correct in the future. Stalking the Wild Pendulum is still a very good review of what was considered the cutting edge of consciousness theory 40 years ago.

This book is a true masterpiece. Very few works contain this magnitude of insight into the realms of science that we have yet to begin unfolding. Bentov is on the same level as Einstein, if not higher, and this book proves it. The true reason I wrote this review though was to be a rebuttal to another review I saw, and there is no reply button. The first comment I could see was by someone named Laura who deservedly gave the book 5 stars. She said that the first 6 chapters are amazing but after that, they lag behind modern science because this book was written in the 70’s. Her point is that Bentov states the universe is expanding like a quasar and eventually collapses back on itself creating a sort of cosmic egg that is our universe. Laura states that the 2011 Nobel prize in physics went to men who ‘proved’ that the universe is always accelerating outwards and not into itself. This information, as amazing and valuable as it is, is not the ENTIRE UNIVERSE, just the OBSERVABLE UNIVERSE, which Bentov speaks about and distinctly separates. Bentov shows in this book that we are a teeny-tiny microscopic part of the cosmos, and what we study is just a tiny fraction of the real processes that govern our realm. The very stars that those Nobel laureates studied may not be deep enough in our universe to witness everything coming back on itself, maybe we will never visualize what Bentov proposed. What Bentov is saying is not dismissible by modern science because it is simply light years ahead of our capabilities to understand. Please read this book. I can’t say it enough.

I love this book. This books have changed my life!!If you are into the gateway process\experience check this book and also Robert Monroe's book series. All are beneficial

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Amazing book! Great explanation for complicated ideas. If you want to learn more about the nature of the universe this is a great book.

I haven't finished it yet but so far it's probably one of the best books on consciousness that I ever came across.

Merci pour votre envoi de ce livre non disponible a Paris dans les librairies classiques. Livraison dans les temps, super pratique. Merci

Es un libro antiguo, está estructurado como un puzzle, si lo lees con paciencia merece la pena , al final todas las piezas encajan.

Conciso, diretto, potentissimo. Premetto che non è da tutti. Bisogna essere completamente aperti a nuove visioni non solo del mondo ma della realtà intera, soprattutto se come me si approcciano le idee di Bentov con piglio scientifico e non filosofico. Ritengo che sia una teoria di tutto rispetto che non si limita ad impiegare la scienza come mera elaboratrice di dati ma come mezzo di espressione della vita. E' come sbirciare in un universo di non-località.

Written in the early 80s or late 70s, this book still holds ground and is very enlightening