This is What an EEG Measures When Bashar Starts to Channel

When most people think about channeling, they imagine it as something purely spiritual or metaphysical, something that exists beyond the realm of science. But what if we could actually measure what happens in the brain during a channeling session? What if we could see, in real time, the neurological changes that occur when someone like Darryl Anka channels the entity known as Bashar?

That’s exactly what researchers did, and the results are nothing short of extraordinary.

The Evolution of Channeling Capacity

Before we dive into the brain scans, it’s important to understand how Darryl’s channeling has evolved over the years. In the beginning, when he first established contact with Bashar, Darryl was only capable of holding or bringing through approximately 1.5 to 2% of Bashar’s total energy. This might sound like a small amount, but consider it like tuning into a radio frequency. You don’t need to capture the entire broadcast signal to receive a clear message.

Over the ensuing years, as Darryl’s body and nervous system adapted to this unique form of communication, his capacity increased to about 3% on average. Today, he can express roughly 5% of Bashar’s total energy during a channeling session. This gradual increase suggests that channeling is not just a mental or spiritual practice but involves actual physical adaptation and neurological changes in the channel’s body.

Establishing a Baseline

To understand what changes during channeling, researchers first needed to establish what Darryl’s brain looks like in its normal, resting state. They recorded his baseline EEG when he was not channeling, capturing the electrical activity across different regions of his brain.

What they found was reassuring. Darryl’s baseline EEG showed a very rounded and rhythmic dominant frequency in the posterior cortex, which is the back of the head. This is actually a positive finding because it indicates that his nervous system is stable and healthy. It also shows what neurologists call good thalamocortical functioning, meaning the communication between his thalamus and cortex is working optimally.

Think of this baseline as a before picture. Darryl’s brain in its normal state is healthy, stable, and functioning well. This is important because it means the changes we see during channeling aren’t happening in an already abnormal or unstable nervous system.

What Disconnects During Channeling

When Darryl begins to channel, something remarkable happens. Specific areas of his brain essentially go offline. The EEG scans show distinct blue areas, what researchers call functional Brodmann areas, that are not being used when he channels.

Most notably, Darryl appears to disconnect from his personal sense of self. The regions of the brain associated with ego identity and self-referential thinking become less active. Additionally, he disconnects from the experience of pain. This isn’t just metaphorical. The actual brain regions that process pain signals show decreased activity during the channeling state.

This disconnection might explain why channels often report feeling like they’re stepping aside or getting out of the way to allow another consciousness to come through. From a neurological perspective, the parts of the brain that create our sense of “I” and “me” are literally being powered down.

Processing Speed Goes Into Overdrive

While some areas of the brain quiet down, others ramp up significantly. One of the most fascinating findings is what happens to Darryl’s processing speed during channeling.

Processing speed is how quickly your brain can take in information, make sense of it, and respond. It’s a fundamental aspect of cognition that typically develops in early childhood. Most people reach their maximum processing speed by age five or six, certainly by nine or ten at the latest. Once you hit that set point, it usually doesn’t change much throughout your lifetime.

Except in Darryl’s case, it does.

When he begins to channel, his processing speed actually increases. Even more remarkably, the frequency of this processing speed becomes tuned to one exact frequency all over the brain. Imagine an orchestra where every instrument suddenly locks into perfect harmony, all playing at precisely the same tempo. That’s what’s happening in Darryl’s brain during channeling.

This unified frequency creates what researchers describe as a resonant holding environment. It’s like the brain is creating the perfect conditions, the ideal neurological setup, for peak performance or for the channeling to occur.

Gamma Frequencies and the Higher Mind

Perhaps the most intriguing finding comes from measurements of Darryl’s anterior cingulate cortex during channeling. This region showed strong gamma frequency activity, represented as red areas on the brain scans.

Gamma frequencies are the fastest brainwave patterns, typically ranging from 30 to 100 Hz or higher. They’re associated with higher-level cognitive processing, peak concentration, and what many researchers call “the higher mind.” These same gamma frequencies have been found in the brains of Tibetan monks during deep meditation and in people who maintain long-term meditation practices.

The anterior cingulate is involved in attention, emotion regulation, and cognitive flexibility. The presence of gamma frequencies in this area during channeling suggests that Darryl is able to shift gears rapidly, navigate between different thoughts and emotions with great flexibility, and interpret information from what the researchers described as “a higher perspective, from a more evolved place in his mind, much like from the highest mountain top.”

Right Brain Activation

The research also revealed significant energy being pumped into the right frontal cortex and the right auditory cortex during channeling. This is particularly interesting because the right hemisphere of the brain is generally associated with intuition, empathy, spatial awareness, and holistic thinking.

The increased activity in the right frontal cortex enhances empathic abilities, allowing Darryl to tune into and respond to the emotional states and needs of the audience. The amplification of the right auditory cortex means he can hear with exceptional clarity, picking up on nuances and subtleties in questions and communication.

This right-brain dominance during channeling stands in contrast to our typical waking state, where many people operate primarily from left-brain analytical thinking. It represents a fundamental shift in how information is being processed and communicated.

A Statistical Anomaly

When you look at all these findings together, what emerges is a picture of someone whose brain is doing something extraordinarily rare. The researchers noted that the changes Darryl experiences during channeling are so unusual that statistically less than 1% of the population would experience them.

He starts from a very stable resting state, which is important because it shows these aren’t the changes of an unstable or abnormal brain. Then he undergoes a series of specific neurological shifts that include disconnecting from ego and pain perception, dramatically increasing and harmonizing processing speed, generating gamma frequencies associated with higher consciousness, and amplifying right-brain activity for enhanced empathy and auditory processing.

What This Means

These findings don’t necessarily prove or disprove the metaphysical claims about Bashar being an extraterrestrial entity from the future. What they do show is that something measurable and profound is happening in Darryl’s brain during channeling. His nervous system is capable of entering a state that is both rare and highly specialized.

Whether you believe Bashar is a separate consciousness, an aspect of Darryl’s higher self, or something else entirely, the EEG data confirms that channeling involves real, quantifiable changes in brain function. It’s not imagination, performance, or fabrication. It’s a distinct neurological state that can be measured, studied, and verified.

For those interested in consciousness, meditation, peak performance, or the untapped potential of the human mind, these findings are remarkable. They suggest that our brains are capable of far more flexibility and unusual states than we typically experience in daily life. They hint at capacities within human consciousness that we’re only beginning to understand and measure.

The next time you watch a Bashar channeling session, you can know that beneath the words and the message, there’s a complex dance of neural activity creating the perfect conditions for something extraordinary to emerge. And that, regardless of your beliefs about the source of the channeling, is genuinely fascinating.