Are there any proofs about tk?

[Kazbadan]

Where is the Indian stuff?

The 10% its not a myth: if you are drunk&sleepy you will use even less of 10% of your brain .

[Telos]

I don't see what the significance of the brain is anyways. Everyone's already saying that the brain is in the mind. Maybe spiritual masters really should be saying, "you only use 10 percent of your mind."

But then, if you have infinite potential, how can you use 10 percent of it?

[beavis]

If you dont use a certain neuron in your brain, it will die. The parts of your brain you dont use will die, and that is good because it leads to a more efficient network-shape of neurons. You use most or all of your brain.

Intelligence is not caused by number of neurons or size of your brain... its the contents of it and how it works. Thousands of people could dedicate their lives to calculating the digits of pi, but the one man who finds an equation that converges on digits exponentially faster beats them all with only the few neurons in his one brain.

[Smilodon29A]

But then, if you have infinite potential, how can you use 10 percent of it?

10% is what we use  out of our maximum currently (or so I thought), and that maximum can grow, especially in the new generations.

The capacity of the human race is limitless .

[Telos]

But then, if you have infinite potential, how can you use 10 percent of it?

10% is what we use  out of our maximum currently (or so I thought), and that maximum can grow, especially in the new generations.

The capacity of the human race is limitless ;).

Is there a limit to its incapacity? ;)

[beavis]

where do you get your info on human limits?

10%, from everything I know about biology, is an estimate of how many neurons can fire at one time. I dont know if thats accurate, but its much more likely than the other... where only the same 10% is ever used.

[patapouf]

Telos wrote:

Maybe spiritual masters really should be saying, "you only use 10 percent of your mind."

But then, if you have infinite potential, how can you use 10 percent of it?

This is another interesting contradiction that you bring. The brain is, as a matter of fact, a limited physical thing that our ''immaterial infinite'' soul is using to experience things in live. To differentiate what is being done by the brain vs. the mind is what many scientists are trying to find out (ex: scientist will argue that consciousness is chemical reactions). But to recover memory from past lives means that the memory wasn't ''made'' by the brain but added by the specific spiritual mind into the brain (a little bit like ''shadow memory download''). This is another highly debated area: the mind vs. ''the brain''. The problem is that science makes the equation that the brain makes the mind....

10% of the infinite is something that we can not really calculate, probably they want to show that we really do not use our potentiality which is infinite. But they have fallen into the trap of scientifically trying to measure such a thing because we know how our society is extremely materialistic.

[Smilodon29A]

Is there a limit to its incapacity?

I don't think so, but that was just my opinion .

[Kazbadan]

Are we flesh that was made into a spirit or a spirit maked in a fleshy form? I mean, maybe the spirit its a consequence of our biology (this is what Science says) or maybe its the opposite: first we are spirits and then, because of it, it will be created a fleshy body for us (reeincarnation theory).

There are also some people that our physicak brain may extend itself to the 4th dimension. This would explain some paranormal phenomenons, like astral projection or the telepaty.

For example (suppose that the theory its real): our brain has a 4th dimension "limb" now, what happens is that thoughts occur in the same dimenions where we find that "limb"/part of the brain. Because of that, other people could "grab" that thoughts (because they are in the same dimension) an then such information would be brought to the "normal" brain (thus occuring telepaty).

Another example related with telekinesis: the same part of the brain or maybe another part of our body that it is in the 4th dimension, it is able to move objects because the objects (normal objects) have an extension in the 4th dimension. So, when you move an object with the power of will, you are just making your 4thD body/mind  touch  in the 4D part of an object. Indeed, we are touching on it, but in an invisible dimension. For that reason we will have the sensation that the object as moved "alone" with no one touching it.

Maybe its that the reason for the fact that telekinesis its hard to lean: if someone has never used his legs  (because it is in a chair 99,9% of the time- someone crazy), such person would have difficult in walking. He would need to relearn that normal "skill". I think that the same happens with Ap or telekinesis.