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June 01, 2004

Two Ways to Profoundly Increase Your Intelligence

I cannot attest to the validity of these methods, but Wen Werger says you can increase your IQ from 20-40 points over a 2 or 3 month period. That sounds like a lot. An intelligence increase of that magnitude would change my whole life utterly. I have longed believed that all of our worlds problems could be solved with a sufficient level of individual and collective intelligence. Raw increases in intelligence would be helpful, but perhaps not enough if their are genetic roots to certain reasoning errors in the human species. In either case an increase of this magnitude if widely adopted could be astounding.

One of the exercises involves holding your breath underwater as long as you can repeatedly. From my experiences with long duration underwater diving, I can say my ability to think seems enhanced after a lot of diving. When I was in high school this guy taught me how to hold my breath underwater for 3-4 minutes without strain. The trick is to oxygenate your blood and tissues by deep and rapid breathing right before you go in. The other trick is to move your mouth and jaw around a lot when you come towards what seems like the end of your oxygen supply. This movement release pockets of oxygen trapped in different corners of your mouth and throat.

From the website:

1. For accumulating 20 hours of held-breath underwater swimming within 3 weeks from start to finish-- 10 or more points I.Q. gain; better span of attention; better span of awareness; better awareness of the interrelatedness of things and of ideas and/or perceptions; finding yourself way better at winning arguments or disputes! (20 or so seconds to 3 minutes at a time underwater, stretching the time a little each dip but remaining well within the bounds of comfort and safety - be sure someone with you there is aware of what you are doing. By the procedure we describe herein, you must be truly underwater, not just dipping your face in or just holding your breath, because the brain-circulation enhancement induced by the marine diving response - common to all mammals - is unexpectedly powerful in this combination of effects.)

The other procedure--

2. Accumulate at least 30 hours, 5-20 minutes at a time, of true Image Streaming as directed herein, and you will gain at least 20 points "I.Q." Your language skills will jump noticeably, contributing to 100 points or greater gain overall in such standardized tests as the G.R.E. (assuming you aren't already close to the test's ceiling -- see below). Your gain in more numinous aspects will be even more striking. This must be - or rapidly become - true Image Streaming as described herein, using a tape recorder or a live person listening.

At this time we do not know whether the gains from following both procedures together would be merely additive, or whether they will be positively synergistic. Pending formal measurement studies, our expectation is the latter. At least we know that either program by itself will, by itself, provide the benefits cited for it, apparently permanently.

Of course we realize that the dollar-value refund on this booklet means little to you compared with the value of your time, effort and attention in pursuing either of these procedures. There is no way we could refund those greater values. Happily, no refund will be needed - instead, you will find yourself soon able to accomplish far more of what you've been doing, far better, faster and further. Your investment in time, effort and attention will be quickly repaid many times over and then go on as a "dividend income" for the rest of your life.

Posted by paul at June 1, 2004 11:32 PM | TrackBack
Comments

I don't know if you know about http://www.winwenger.com/, lots of stuff about increasing intelligence and creativity, genius, etc.

There is also www.learningstrategies.com : lots of nice products, with plenty on the discussion board.

Posted by: Mike Wong at June 2, 2004 01:57 PM

Makes me wish I had some sort of water-filled sensory depravation tank... it would be cool if I could do my thinking and creating while floating suspended in water... ...sort of restrict the input to my brain only to what I want it to be thinking about...

Posted by: Phil at June 3, 2004 09:45 AM

Warning:

DO NOT HYPERVENTILATE before underwater breathing!!! This may cause a SUDDEN blackout, WITHOUT WARNING and has caused death in numerous people, including swimteam athletes and military personnel. Do a web search on "SHALLOW WATER BLACKOUT" and you'll see what I'm talking about.

Posted by: Steven Rayle at July 12, 2004 02:17 PM