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Originally posted by caitlinfae
Space_Ed...
Why are you talking about '___', and linking to a site that covers other illegal substances and trip reports? I know...because I have experienced it...that awareness of the Faery realm and others is not dependent on pharmaceuticals, legal or otherwise. Why do you feel the need to include this in what promises to be a really interesting thread that we could learn a lots from? The South American ayahuasca ceremonies are for advanced practitioners *only*...and I know from experience...not mine but people very close to me...that it will change you, and not for the better. Substances such a ayahuasca must not be seen as a shortcut. Nothing is a substitute for doing the work and making the ascension the old fashioned way.
Cait
Originally posted by grapeghost
Once a person realizes that the things they were told as child are not true and that reality is a lot bigger and stranger than they ever suspected, a person can easily lose their grasp on what is real.
Remember, that while the human mind can connect with the greater spiritual reality and transcend time and space, we are still flesh and blood creatures trapped in a physical existence where evolution and survival of the fittest still rule.
Originally posted by caitlinfae
I know...because I have experienced it...that awareness of the Faery realm and others...
Cait
Originally posted by UFOTECH
I think focus on the pineal gland does help to stimulate the release of the bodies natural '___' and also Anandamide. The meditation techniques are natural routes to the body's production of endogenous psycho-pharmaceuticals.
These chemicals also activate the light sensitive cells within the pineal gland from what I have come to understand. Most of the spiritual seekers I have met did not want to hear about some kind of chemical connection to the spiritual as if that would make it somehow artificial or unreal. The feeling of well being is a direct result of the production of Anandamide. The experiences of lights and patterns and colors or even trips to other dimensions is a direct result of the body's endogenous production of '___'. I would describe this effect as a form of natural bio-alchemy.
Originally posted by UFOTECH
It is not just from dropping into an alpha state that causes stimulation of the pineal gland. It is caused by a harmonic resonance at the high end of the alpha frequency spectrum intersecting from the 2 hemispheres at the point of the pineal gland that stimulated the release of Anandamide and '___'. This sets up a cavitation within the pineal gland that stimulates it.
The brain puts out several frequencies at once. People often experience the most profound states at alpha but specifically it is caused by entrainment of a wide band synchronization of the brain into a high alpha state. Starting at a frequency of about the Schumann resonance frequency of 7.82Hz and going up to about 12Hz. Right at about 13Hz and in whole brain resonance with integrated left and right hemispheres entrained.
Supplementing your body with the precursors for these endogenous chemicals is also helpful. Chocamine at about 200MG and Tyrosine at about 300MG based on a body weight of about 120 lbs. The Chocamine can be substituted with a cup of low fat chocolate, and the tyrosine can be substituted with a few slices of sharp cheddar if you do not have the concentrated forms. These will help the body in several ways to synthesize these chemicals and the Chocamine also contains a chemical that works as an anandamide re-uptake inhibitor so it makes the endogenous production last longer in the body. Blood flow is also important and this is one reason you see yoga practitioners standing on their heads. This can be substituted with the use of high dose ginseng and Ginko.
Originally posted by caitlinfae
Space_Ed...
I'm sure that different chemistries in the brain and other parts of the human body...(does it have to be the brain?)...will open doorways and facilitate the spiritual experience, but will it be identical for everyone? I doubt it. We have differences in our body chemistry and maybe this influences it. Personally, I think what we eat and drink also makes a huge difference, which is why I'm so strictly vegan, and I don't drink, smoke, do drugs...these are all toxins, and suppress the spiritual. Maybe we are immensely attuned and our lifestyles make us sluggish and slow in terms of sensitivity. Maybe it's more about what we leave out, than what we put in.
Cait
Originally posted by UFOTECH
I have studied a lot of brain chemistry and physiology mainly due to the strange things that have happened to me in my life. I wanted to understand what was happening to me so I became a very hard studier.
I have what is now days called Dyslexia and I am left handed which of course means right brain dominate. I have had imaging done on my brain to determine if there was a physiological reason and they found that the hemispheres of my brain are only physically connected at the thalamus. Most people have the left and right hemispheres of the corpus callosum physically connected at the mid point of the center point. In me this separation forces my brains electric pathways to course through the area of my pineal gland so I have a few strange differences that are physiological not mystical.
This has caused me to have the ability to see mental images fully overlaid over my normal visual input. It also has given me the ability to conceive very complex mental products in 3D. When I think of something for instance I can be looking at the ground in front of me and also see the image projected from my mind in the same space. What you would call a visual hallucination is a normal occurrence for me. When I was a child I had imaginary friends that I could see just like they were standing next to me. My parents thought I was pretty strange and had me tested to see if I had some mental defect. I was given several batteries of tests and they found that my IQ was at that time 151. When I was 9 my reading level was tested at junior in college so they determined I had no defect they could understand. This was in the late 60's so there was not any word for dyslexia at that time and not much understanding either.
Anyway all of this and a lot more weirdness in my childhood led me to study the brain the human physiology with a great deal of study on the mind and the chemical make up of the brain. I did a lot of study in mystical and martial science. Lately my focus is on quantum theory and the link to mystical states of awareness.
[edit on 9/1/2008 by UFOTECH]
Originally posted by UFOTECH
There is an abundance of material available on the internet for free that will provide you with this information. It is far too much information to fully disclose in this thread but I will link in some of the available data in order of its priority in my opinion. A good starter is this short essay on Quantum Consciousness
Once you have that material digested there is a more in depth paper on A neuron as a quantum-optical device I should still have a copy of that if I can dig it up. I have 12 different computers in my shop and I am sure it is on one of them or one of my back up drives.
I am kind of a hermit. I live alone most of the time and have an entire 3 bedroom 2 bath home with a big garage completely full of technology from electronics fabrication tools to machine shop equipment. I also have a number of different pieces of scientific measurement equipment and I have built a lot of my own tools that have no proper name.
I make my living fabricating prototypes of new technology for a few companies that out source their work to me. It lets me work my own hours and pretty much do as I please. My library is fully electronic and backed up off site so I never lose any data but some times it takes me a while to find things. Start with the first essay and that should keep you busy until I find more.