AN INTRODUCTION TO METAtonin, THE PINEAL GLAND 
SECRETION THAT HELPS US ACCESS HIGHER UNDERSTANDING
  An Investigation into the
                              Out-of-Body/Near-Death/Enlightenment Experience                               
  - AND -
The Inception, Integration and Egress of Consciousness 
in the Human Experience 
      - AS WELL AS - 
An Inquiry into the nature of the Holographic Space-Time Continuum

        Further investigations are discussed by Anthony Peake in his sixth and latest book , The Infinite Mindfield ,  http://www.amazon.com/Infinite-Mindfield-Gateway-Higher-Consciousness/dp/178028571X/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1365591111&sr=1-7&keywords=Anthony+Peak which includes discoveries regarding entheogens, neurobiophotonic networks, and the Zero Point Field.

                                                                                                Microtubules in Cells  

      Both of the above discussions touch on the subject of intracellular communication via DNA-radiated biophotonic coherent light. Recently, Project ENCODE http://www.evolutionnews.org/2012/09/junk_no_more_en_1064001.html has determined that" junk" DNA actually contains the genome's hidden control circuitry. DNA is capable of performing thousands of different tasks, yet in the matrix of the body the DNA in each specific cell performs a discrete task. What informs the DNA as to it's specific function? How do 70 trillion DNA molecules communicate with each other? It seems that biophotonic light is the medium and if that is so, how is it transferred throughout the body? The answer to that question may be the  Bonghan duct network, a threadlike tissue  that permeates the body, envelopes every organ and even enters the lymphatic and blood vessels. These ducts can transfer DNA granules and may conduct coherent light signals. The distribution  of these ducts seems to mirror the classic acupuncture meridians. See: http://howthebodyreallyworks.com/p=167 and:  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15898080.

Healing with Biophotons

       Since it appears that DNA resonates in a collective field of biophotons, could a therapeutic light that resonates with the DNA emission be used to modify, to heal, DNA that may be out of coherence? That is what some contributors to the Journal of Photomedicine and Laser Surgery contend, for example: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2957070/. In addition, a number of practitioners have been developing systems of their own including Johan Boswinkle of https://www.biolithe.nl/biophoton-therapy and the American counterpart, Bionontology, https://www.biontologyarizona.com/ of Arizona. These practitioners use a device called the Chiren which they claim can detect and reharmonize biophotonic coherence. David Muehsam, PhD. of Consciousness Healing Initiative is another voice: https://www.chi.is/energy-heals-part-ii-biophoton-emissions-body-light/.  In the March 2017  Huffington Post article: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-medicine-of-the-future-is-light-recent-research_us_58d93c5ce4b06c3d3d3e701f biophotons have been endowed with a new acronym: UPE or Ultraweak Photon Emissions.

           Terrance and Dennis McKenna in The Invisible Landscape published in 1975 postulate that the pineal secreted tryptamine/harmine presence in the consciousness circuit of the brain generates an electron spin resonance that creates a holographic standing wave field that draws its information from DNA neural/genetic code and extends its range via a superconducting phenomenon to the quantum level that also resonates with human thought perception and memory retention. The McKenna brothers also surmise that memory itself is a holographic phenomenon, a theory  that recent brain research led by Dr. Carl Pribram  has further strengthened.

 The Popp 380, The discovery of intracellular light   

            In the 1920’s, Russian scientist Alexander Gurwitsch discovered that a healthy plant placed in a quartz jar could influence a diseased plant in a quartz jar next to it, he surmised that the plants were communicating via some wavelength of light. The communication stopped if the light was blocked or if the plants were transferred to glass jars indicating that ultraviolet light, which can’t pass through glass, was the most likely candidate. He called this light mitogenetic radiation. However at that time there was no equipment sensitive enough to detect this light. In 1970 Albert Fritz-Popp took up the lead using photomultiplier sensors that could detect individual photons. He had discovered that a certain known carcinogen, benzopyrene(e) – found in charred food and tobacco smoke - consistently scrambled 380 nanometer (30,000,000,000,000,000 Hertz) ultraviolet light to a different frequency. He further discovered that when living tissue was denied access to 380 nanometer light, it fell out of step with the body and eventually succumbed to cancer. Other compounds that exhibited the same scrambling effect at 380 nanometers turned out to be carcinogens as well. He further discovered that the body is continuously bathing every cell in the body with this frequency of light – it is a fortifying light that supports cellular health and, furthermore, is an essential form of cellular intercommunication.

          He determined that all living things emit light - plants and animals. Using his new sensitive equipment, Popp detected that humans generally emit 10 photons per second per square centimeters, about 300,000 photons/second for the total body. Unfortunately, photons are very weak and 380 nanometer ultraviolet light is at the extreme edge of visibility. In addition, light emitted throughout the human body was orchestrated in rhythmic patterns and was also coherent (flat and parallel).  When Popp first presented his findings, his peers were intrigued but noted one glaring omission: what is the source of this light that is continually bathing every cell in the body? Ultimately it was determined that the source was the 3 billion layered structure of DNA crystalline molecule. The corresponding field of orchestrated light created in unison by the 100 trillion plus DNA molecules in the body forms our body’s morphogenetic template that defines the details the placement and function of every cell,  and the architecture of this template is downloaded from the morphogenetic field embracing our planet via "morphic resonance". The main goal of many contemporary energy healing methods is to bring the human body into maximum resonance with this field, for the morphogenetic field is the repository of all human healing information and strategies; an example of one of these healing systems is Bodytalk:  https://www.bodytalksystem.com/. In fact, in one of his talks, Terrance McKenna speculated that the morphogenetic field may become visible in certain psychedelic states.

           Dr. Dan Winter and his team at the HeartMath Institute https://www.heartmath.org have recognized a correlation between the complex electromagnetic field of the heart and the spinal waveform of DNA. According to his theory, the DNA waveform varies in resonance with the heart field which determined by our emotional state of being. Winters has done a detailed geometric/angular analysis of the double helix and has determined the spacing of the DNA codon which corresponds with the wavelength of ultraviolet light that he calls the “blue flame”; perhaps the same 380 nanometer light that Fritz-Popp describes. For an introduction into Winter’s theory see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Rx35q-zJRk, Fractals, DNA and the Golden Mean.

           In another approach to DNA resonance, Terrance and Dennis McKenna in The Invisible Landscape, published in 1975, postulate that the pineal secreted tryptamine/harmine presence in the consciousness circuit of the brain generates an electron spin resonance that creates a holographic standing wave field that draws its information from DNA neural/genetic code and extends its range via a superconducting phenomenon to the quantum level that also resonates with human thought perception and memory retention. The McKenna brothers also surmise that memory itself is a holographic phenomenon, a theory  that recent brain research led by Dr. Carl Pribram  has further strengthened.

                                                                        Dr. Carl Pribram theorized that memory was Holographic

         According to "quantum activist" Dr. Amit Goswami, a recalled OBE or NDE only becomes real when one returns to physical body consciousness after the event; at that moment of waking the potential for the memory of the event "collapses" into a real memory. The actual "seeing" of the event is a non-local quantum phenomenon and the seeing is witnessed by all personal consciousness present at the time; being non-local, it is all-pervasive, unfocused, and as a form of virtual information it requires a conscious observer. When the patient awakens, the information is then observed, that is, remembered.  He explains this at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZgMYYSr5Lo . This may seem somewhat confusing for those of us who have experienced OBConsciousness: the experience feels very real and in the now when it is happening, at least that is how seemed during the experience.  Dreams are remembered, Out-of-Body Consciousness is unmistakably experienced.

           Another reason why there is so much interest in quantum phenomena is that memory is a basic factor of self-consciousness, and the brain with its 100 trillion synapses plus the additional storage potential of glial cells does not even come close to containing enough storage capacity to hold the memories of an entire lifetime. Under hypnosis most subjects can recall minute details of almost any lifetime event that they have experienced including colors, smells, and exact wording of conversations, According to Prof. Simon Berkovich of George Washington University (http://www.nderf.org/NDERF/Research/Berkovich.htm), the storage density of our brain would have to be 100,000 times denser than it is presently measured to be. In other words, our brain would have to be that much larger (100 thousand times larger) to store all the sensory, emotional and mental history of a lifetime. So where is it stored?  The answer may lie in a quantum connection to parallel holographic reality or to what is classically known as the akashic record, and this may be the same venue that is accessed by our consciousness when stimulated by METAtonin.  For a thorough introduction into the latest quantum possibilities and theories visit: http://www.near-death.com/experien ces/research08.html. Memory may also reside in the matrix of our DNA, see:  http://wyss.harvard.edu/viewpressrelease/93/writing-the-book-in-dna. Another approach may be that our memory is holographically stored in waveforms as Michael Talbot suggests in his book The Holographic Universe. This is further elucidated in the Unified Spacememory Network theory: http://holofractal.net/2015/02/20/the-fractal-holographic-field-of-life/ in which time is the memory of holographic space and space, in the fractal-holographic universe, is infinite.

         In chapters 11 through 14 in his book Consciousness Beyond Life, cardiologist Dr. Pim van Lommel makes a thorough study of quantum physics; endless, timeless, nonlocal all-pervasive consciousness and the human brain which  he sees as a transceiver that resonates with a discrete portion of the full spectrum of consciousness available.  Universal consciousness functions much like the internet “cloud” of information that now permeates our biosphere; an individual human brain is much like a personal computer that accesses certain limited fields within the cloud and stores personal memories that are used to  define one’s individuality.  He makes the point that when experiencing OBC or Near-Death Consciousness, one  is not actually transcending personal consciousness; that is because we are completely immersed in endless universal consciousness all  the time, we just can’t sense it. However, the blinders can be dissolved when the tuning of the brain encompasses  a  broader spectrum.  Dr. van Lommel suspects that junk DNA in conjunction with endogenous DMT secreted by the pineal gland can reconfigure the neural network of the brain to raise the scope of consciousness. 

 Molecular Nutation and Parallel Realities

      If  Van Lommel is correct, that we are submerged in Universal Consciousness at all times, but not able to tune in or resonate to it except at one specific level; how could this be so?  We know that that the amount of emptiness in an atom is extremely large: the size of  the nucleus of an atom is approximately 1/50,000th the size of the atom itself, or the size of a pea compared to the size of a baseball field (3/8" to 14,000 sq ft) and the electrons spinning about the nucleus are much smaller, 1/2000 the size of the nucleus (the same as a honeydew melon to a single pit). So it is really quite conceivable that two atoms could occupy the same space - even 3, 4 or 20 atoms. But how is it that they would not interfere with each other? One theory expressed in The Ultimate Frontier by Eklal Kueshana is that all the atoms and molecules of any one level of universe reality nutate at the same exact rate and do not interact with atoms that nutate at a different rate.
  
         The earth rotates every 24 hours and the axis of that rotation also slowly wobbles at an angle of 23.5 degrees. This wobble, or nutation, is 25,920 years long and is called the precession of the equinoxes. In fact, almost all celestial bodies have properties of rotation and nutation - sometimes with a secondary nutation within the primary nutation and so on... Atoms also exhibit this property, and at the atomic level is it theorized that atoms and molecules of different nutation can occupy the same space. According to Kueshana, we, on the at the lowest level of nutation, the physical plane, cannot perceive higher planes that nutate at a higher frequency.  However, the higher levels can perceive us; and, it is claimed that  there are at least 6 levels or octaves above us, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfHjkKmmz0A. If this is the case, it may be that when our consciousness is enhanced by DMT, we don't really leave the position we are in, we just perceive it at a higher nutational level and therefore it appears that we have traveled to some far-off universe, but this is not so.  We have not moved at all, we are perceiving the same universe, but at a higher nutational level. In which case our brainwave function has moved to the gamma or lambda state (100+ Hertz)

 
Scalar Holographic Reality and the Pineal Gland

          In order to investigate the pineal gland further, it is necessary to grasp the nature of reality that the pineal gland is proposed to access: the hidden side or dark side of reality, which Anthony Peake in his book Opening the Doors of Perception calls the Pleroma, a term used in Gnostic teachings. As most researchers have deduced, it is most probable that the Pleroma and our human memory field are both holographic in nature, so this is something we need to grasp. Holographic reality really makes no sense at first because energy as we know it  manifests in a very different manner in the holographic  realm than it does in ours. On the physical plane we are surrounded by radiated concentric electromagnetic waves, but holographic reality exists in the medium of scalar or parallel waves. These scalar waves are flat....unlike the electromagnetic waves of our physical reality which are always curved, i.e. dispersive, in nature.  Electromagnetic radiation, the energy of our reality, radiates in a curved wave from a point source such as a candle or a star.  The further a wave moves from the source, the dimmer it becomes.  This property of diminishment is not present in scalar reality in which the energy wave does not get weaker or flare out as it moves away from  the source.  Scalar energy intensity stays the same no matter how far away one is from the source. Scalar waves appear to be sourced from a flat plane, not a point, or the source is, technically, infinity. There is no entropy in scalar holographic reality, no heat, no light, no arrow of time, no radiation, zero. The wave energy of holographic reality is not electromagnetic and is not yet detectable. The physical plane energy is clocked by time, it is point-sourced, that is, it is local; holographic reality is all pervasive and eternally now, that is, non-local.  To us, holographic reality is a zero point - not zero degrees, zero heat; no thermodynamics. Holographic reality is information-rich, but it cannot support heat. We cannot physically experience holographic akashic reality, but consciousness can. Consciousness, having no physical attributes, and yet present in both realities, may be the bridge between these two worlds, consciousness may bind them, the yin and the yang, matter and dark matter, pervaded space and unpervaded space, real and virtual.

        In a room with a scalar candle in it, the light in the room would be equally the same everywhere, and when one approached the candle it would get no brighter.  But a candle, being a point source, is not a good example, if one were in a room where the whole wall was evenly lit up as the light source, that would be more like scalar situation; in addition, the energy from the wall would not increase as one moved closer to it.  In scalar reality, therefore, distance is of lesser significance, for it has no bearing on energy levels. In our radiation-based non-scalar world, distance and energy in a way define each other, and define time and entropy as well.

            In our non-scalar material reality, scalar waves do not occur naturally, but with specific technologies we are able to create scalar waves: laser light, for example, is scalar. The intensity of a laser light does not diminish with distance in a pure vacuum.  Nikolai Tesla also worked with scalar energy waves; his wave generators were designed to emit scalar waves. The US Navy also uses scalar technology in their HAARP program.  Scalar waves are perfectly flat and  they move ahead like a wall with each wave absolutely parallel to the wave before it. If these waves are to properly rebound from an edge or boundary, that boundary would have to be a perfectly flat plane as well. All wave phenomena require a medium for the wave to fluctuate in, and scalar waves are not supported by any measurable physical or electromagnetic medium. It is speculated that scalar waves interpenetrate the physical universe using what is known as the  Dirac sea as a medium. The Dirac sea was first postulated by Paul Dirac, the British mathematician.

 
                                                              HAARP antenna radiates scalar waves from a flat plane of antennas
 
      In a radiation-based reality  such as our physical plane, it takes time for light to travel from point to point - and it travels in a straight line. In a scalar reality, the source of the wave is not a point , but a flat plane, much like a flat screen TV.  Scalar energy waves travel as a moving wall or plane, not as an expanding circumference. In scalar reality two points far from each other but in the same plane experience the scalar wave generation at the same time, since a wave emerges forward from  the whole plane instantaneously.  Picture two mosquitos who are resting on a flat screen TV, this is a large TV, 100 ft wide, and the mosquitos are  90 feet apart.  The TV is flashing blue and white alternating colors. When it flashes blue, both mosquitos, though they are at a distance receive the blue message at the same exact instant, for they are entangled on the same plane and can be at a distance yet experience an event simultaneously.

        Picture this: one is on a ledge that is perfectly straight as far as the eye can see  and it so happens that below the ledge is the ocean with approaching waves that are perfectly straight and parallel to the ledge, this begins to define a holographic situation. It also happens that the waves are approaching at a consistent rate, equally spaced, and they hit the ledge and bounce back all in parallel. This ledge is made of a soft material and the waves slowly and very evenly erode it. We have here scalar waves, or reference waves, consistently eroding a perfectly straight boundary - the ledge we are standing on. One day, a boat is securely anchored offshore; it is firmly anchored and cannot rotate or move.  As the reference waves come in some of them hit the boat and a new set, a curved set of waves, radiate from the boat towards the ledge where they interact with the incoming parallel ocean waves. The two sets of waves, curved and flat. converge at the ledge and  reinforce or deplete each other when they impact it.  After a while, the ledge, while still  perfectly a straight line, becomes irregularly eroded. This pattern of erosion is a holographic rendering.  Later on, when the boat is removed, incoming parallel waves will rebound off the irregular ledge pattern and some will focus exactly back to where the boat was and create the 2-dimensional shape of the boat.  In addition, one would not need the whole length of the ledge to create the boat image, just a small section of the holographic ledge would reveal the whole boat image. A parallel phenomenon takes place in a  photographic hologram that uses a 2-dimensional  medium (film) and 2-dimensional scalar light waves (laser) to create a 3-dimensional image. Two-dimensional waves on a 2D plate render a 3-dimensional image and even if one uses a small part of that plate, it will reveal the whole image, though not in as great detail. For a more thorough explanation read the "Resonating with the World" chapter of The Field by Lynne McTaggart.


                           50% of the flat laser light impacts the film while 50% radiates off the object as a curved wave,
                       after film is developed and illuminated by laser light, viewer can see a 3D virtual image of the object

       Now we have to make a jump. We'll take this phenomenon a step further: how would a 3-dimensional holographic medium support a 3-dimensional image? Why even consider this question?  What  would a 3D holographic  medium look like?  Instead of finding the interwoven concentric circles that we would find etched on a 2D holographic plate, we would find interwoven 3D concentric spheres occupying a 3D medium. This concept of a 3D hologram is what many theorists are contemplating as the framework for memory retention in the human brain, and, in fact, 3-dimensional holographic storage systems are already being considered for computers. It takes a vivid imagination to even visualize such a reality, but many theorists including Dr. Pribram are considering that our memories are stored holographically.  For example, when  humans lose large parts of their brains, they still retain all their memories though with less clarity, a quality that holograms exhibit, and there are other similarities as well, see abstract: The Brain as a Conscious System by Marcer and Schemp at:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03081079808962066?journalCode=ggen20. A 3D hologram does not reside in a plane, it resides in a plenum or space. It is a triaxial hologram. Just as the image impression stored on at 2-dimensional hologram plate appear as concentric circles, our memories are stored in a 3-dimensional holographic field as oscillating concentric spheres locked into a holographic matrix supported by scalar waveforms.  Visit: http://experiencer.org/the-quantum-hologram-and-the-nature-of-consciousness/


  
              Interference patterns on this 2D holographic plate will produce a 3D virtual image when illuminated by a laser

        According to Dr. Carl Pribram, memory is holographically stored as continually oscillating pulsations that endlessly resonate in the matrix dendritic pathways of neurons and glial cells that support a 3D holographic matrix of the brain. The fact that the DNA of brain cells can produce scalar or coherent light may further support this theory. This biophotonic light can generate and support a scalar wave environment. Individual memories may be coalesced out of the 3D oscillating holographic brain field by consciousness using a form of selective Fourier reduction. Fourier analysis was discovered by Joseph Fourier, the French mathematician. Take the final movement of Beethoven's 9th where the chorus and the orchestra are in full swing, if one were to isolate the total compound sound wave at any one moment, it would reveal a very complex waveform. Through Fourier analysis, one can isolate single waves, each separate voice, every single instrument. It may be through some form of neurological Fourier reduction that the brain, or the consciousness embedded in it, is able to access every memory from the holographic memory field.  Point-sourced, local realities tend to be hierarchical, holographic non-local realities are less so.

          Holographic organization may extend further than the brain, in fact, it has been surmised that the "dark" universe and the memory information stored therein is also a holographic reality, hence the holographic space-time theory, and it is further conjectured that the pineal gland may be able to access this holographic space-time reality via the unique properties of endogenous DMT in concert with corpora arenacea or "brain sand". Just as the term "junk" DNA is being revised by ENCODE scientists delving further into the properties of seemingly useless DNA, so to may the term "sand" be revised by future scientists who may discover that these randomly suspended multicrystalline particles that have been purposefully created as a component of our brain and particularly the pineal gland may actually function as an  amorphous crystalline transducing matrix. 

         With this in mind, one might take a second look at the new age fascination with crystals, there could a correlation here. Holographic/Akashic reality is a non-entropic perpetually resonating energy field or matrix. Perhaps physical plane crystals with their crystalline matrix may in some way resonate with this otherwise undetectable field. It may also prevail that the Pleroma holographic/Akashic "dark energy" reality predates our linear  space-time, and, in fact, may have given birth to our physical reality with the big bang for reasons explained in the second  section. This dark energy seems void to us, it is a form of energy that is not electromagnetic or radiative, quite possibly thermally void reality - a self-perpetuating, reverberating plasma matrix where consciousness itself may provide the template.  Consciousness may also inhabit life there as it does here, though it may be non-local or hive-based . Life there, however, would not involve combustion. Combustion: all thermal forms of life as we know it here are based on combustion, the conversion of hydrogen and oxygen into heat and water and then reverse combustion, or photosynthesis, which is the conversion of light, water and carbon dioxide into hydrocarbons and oxygen. If there is life in the Pleroma, it is most likely not based on combustion, heat or any kind of radiant energy. The relationship of matter and energy may be completely different, but for here, in our physical reality, whatever breathes or burns owes its' existence to light. In "dark"  reality/energy/life/consciousness , there seems to be little focus or concentrations of activity, it exists in a state of all pervasive coherence. It is a world almost impossible for us to conceive.  Water, too, holds a mystery of great proportion, it is the essence of our existence in unison with light and carbon.

           Perhaps someday when we are able to create a three-dimensional quantum computer-generated  hologram that resonates within a crystalline structure or matrix, we will gain more insight into the nature of dark energy holographic reality or perhaps communicate with it.  Another possibility would be in  the creation of holographic segue using specially tuned and oriented standing scalar waves in an environment devoid of thermal, material and even gravitational properties thus allowing for the emergence of holographic space-time reality.  We may someday learn how to fold space and navigate the infinite levels of holographic reality with our consciousness, who knows? For further information on the Universal Holographic Theory visit: http://academy.resonance.is/discovery-center/.

    Consciousness resonance may be the ultimate mode of travel, perhaps Dada is right: Consciousness is the Final Frontier.
                                                        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo0X2ZdElQ4

 A Possible Pineal Pathway 

            The pineal "eye" is not viewing an image that originates from without, it is tuning into an all-pervasive holographic information field that it is immersed within. Yes, it is "seeing", but not in the way the human eye sees. The pineal gland in the human context acts more like a television receiver that attunes to the holographic spacetime in order to detect and transfer information. Hence this pineal "eye" is of a different construction and operation when compared to an optical eye. The theory embraces several steps beginning with the antenna: a matrix of layered crystalline calcite molecules that can detect the holographic wave pattern. We’re discussing corpora arenacea, also known as" brain sand", grains composed of three types of layered  crystalline calcite that are distributed throughout the pineal gland.   The term "sand" is misleading, for at a macroscopic scale the grains appear as irregular lumps, but at a microscopic scale we find a very precise crystalline matrix comprised of magnetic and electrically charged molecules aligned in a planar fashion along rhombic isometric and hexoctahedral axes.  This crystalline amalgam is comprised of carefully layered of combinations of calcite, apatite and magnetite crystal. This crystal formation is known to exhibit birefringent properties and perhaps, collectively, may prove be multirefringent in nature.

            We are referring here to the process of how the direction of a wave is bent when it enters into a new medium at an angle - the phenomenon of refraction. Most waves bend at a consistent angle when they enter a new medium, hence the science of optics.  Multirefringent describes a multiple angle refraction. The theory is that certain layered combinations of planar calcite molecules can perform unique functions. One combination of layers could interpolate holographic information into a slight physical, electrical or quantum disturbance (based on resonance with calcium’s two excitable valence electrons), another layered formula of calcite could act as a planar matrix lens that would be able to concentrate the barely discernable planar disturbance into a point-source physical phenomenon. Thus, we have a scenario in which a planar (holographic, nonlocal) wave pattern can be translated into a (physical, local) detectable point source with no outward energy loss.

          To repeat: we have a normally undetectable holographic disturbance (parallel, scalar, nonlocal) that is both detected and then refracted at several converging angles by a specially layered calcite matrix that brings the disturbance into a focused physical or electrical single point-source perturbation, a barely perceptible one.   This is the first step in the pineal gland pathway.  

       The birefringent nature of corpora arenacea calcite crystals and the theory of attenuating and interpolating scalar holographic information into a barely detectable physical plane point-source signal was developed in the research of Dutch scientist Dr. Saskia Bosman, http://asmaracentrum.com/saskiabosman%20.html.

                                                                               Microscopic Calcite Crystals

        The next step of translation only takes place when these calcite crystals are enveloped in a fluid containing a suspension of  molecular DMT is present. As David Wilcox has revealed,  DMT exhibits  piezoluminescent properties meaning that when molecular DMT is disturbed, it creates light, even the slightest disturbance can result in the release of photons, and in some cases, electrons. Thus the  physical plane point-source disturbance created by the brain sand scalar wave focusing can stimulate DMT molecules in suspension to create photons and possibly electrons which can then stimulate the photo-receptive pinealocytes in the pineal gland. Pinealocytes exhibit properties very similar to the rods and cones in out retina. The  Pinealocytes convert these  photon emissions from the disturbed DMT molecules into neural signals that are then sent via the pineal/spinal/SCN/optic nerve pathway to the visual cortex via the optic nerve. Theoretically,  the brain sand calcite crystals are  the translation medium for scalar-based holographic information that is transmuted into a subtle physical equivalent then into a photic response and ultimately into a neural message sent to the visual cortex where it can then be interpolated. As for the piezoluminescent properties of DMT, it should be noted that of the 21 amino acids in the human body there are only three that exhibit fluorescent properties with tryptophan exhibiting the highest absorptivity and thus the most luminescent. This means the tryptophan shows the highest quantum field and resonance and resonance energy transfer capabilities of all the amino acids.  Fluorescent excitation in tryptophan normally occurs at 285nm but is known to exhibit wavelength shifts of up to 20nm depending on environmental conditions. Tryptophan is the core amino acid from which DMT and melatonin is derived.

     This is a possible visual pathway that allows us to view the parallel holographic reality that we are immersed in. It is important to remember that photon emissions are extremely weak, about as bright as a candle at 15 miles (24 km) distance. Not only is the pineal gland located in the center the brain for maximum protection and for the proximity of the thalamus, it is also quite possibly the darkest location in the body. Perhaps it will be discovered that there is light-absorbing pigmentation surrounding the gland that supports this theory.  Pineal glands in more primitive species are located near the surface of the skull in order to perceive exterior light, the human pineal gland is so placed in the darkest location in order to process minuscule internal light signals. The pineal has a dual role: ambient light information sent from the eyes via the optic nerve informs the pineal as to when it should produce melatonin and  internal light information from the octonia brain sand/DMT source which provides holographic scalar wave information to be sent to the optic nerve and the visual cortex. Unfortunately, at this point there is very little evidence to support the existence of reverse neural communication via the super cervical ganglion  from the pineal gland to the SCN/optic nerve, but this reversible form of communication is not uncommon in central nervous system neural pathways.


                                                                                      Crystalline Piezoluminescent DMT

       To sum it up, here is a theoretical pineal pathway:  the multi refractive amalgam of  calcite/apatite/magnetite octonia crystals is able to demodulate scalar universal holographic space-time information into a very subtle physical realm point source signal which is then converted into photons by the then present piezoluminescent suspension of DMT molecular crystals, these photons are then detected by light-sensitive pinealocytes of the pineal gland and are converted into a neural signal that is directed to the visual cortex via the same pathway that the retina sends circadian light information to the pineal gland to instigate melatonin production but in this case, it is in a reverse direction going from the pineal to the optic nerve.
Bosman research paper: https://www.scribd.com/doc/26772568/Bosman-Saskia-The-Role-of-the-Pineal-Gland-in-Mystical-Experiences
DMT photoluminescence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piezoluminescence
In the book The Pineal Organ, Its Hormone Melatonin, and the Photoneuroendocrine System By Werner Korf, Christof Schomerus, Jörg H. Stehle. Pg. 12  "Pinealocytes have photoreceptor-specific molecules", these are considered to be an atavistic trait with no determined function. 

 The Pineal Gland and the Substrate of Consciousness 
  
         Indeed, this brain sand/endogenous DMT collaboration may prove to be more than just a catalyst for OBE and NDE events and a window to holographic reality during childhood and adult life;  it may be a form of communication that provides  more to the brain than just visual imagery. Prior to birth, this pathway may also send structural instructions to the emerging brain during gestation thus  providing a seed template cradle for the acceptance of consciousness into the circuitry of the brain. When the template is properly established, the brain is able to cradle the initial spark of consciousness, and, as the embryonic brain develops, increasing levels consciousness are encouraged to evolve. This process continues after birth until full maturity is reached.   Thus the pineal gland may help to create and provide the substrate of consciousness as well as ushering consciousness to its full potential. This dovetails with the conclusion that Anthony Peake comes to in  his latest book: Opening the Doors of Perception. Brain sand is also found in other areas of the brain including the vermis of the cerebellum, the part of the human brain that controls body equilibrium, speech, eye and  body movement thus it may also contribute to body-consciousness integration.

          This may be just a coincidence, but a majority of DMT experimenters report that the first stage of a DMT voyage involves
travelling through a maze of geometric shapes of varying colors, much like travelling through a matrix of rhombic isometric hexoctahedral crystals. Could this crystalline structure imagery be a reflection of the brain sand geometric mechanism itself? 

           Verification of this multirefringent/pizeoluminescent theory: there are several experiments that could  begin to verify this proposal: does stimulating the human pineal gland pinealocytes with light create any kind of visual response in the visual cortex? This would verify the pinealocyte connection to the visual cortex via the superior ganglion and the superchiasmatic nucleus. Secondly, does a photomultiplier sensor placed in the vicinity of the pineal gland detect any photon emissions in the pineal gland when DMT is present and do they vary for different brainwave states, particularly gamma and lambda states? Also as a test for the demodulation properties of brain sand: do calcite/magnetite/apatite crystal combinations, similar to brain sand, immersed in a suspension DMT molecules create photons when excited by scalar waveforms? Video of typical brain sand spacing in pineal matrix: https://media.nature.com/original/nature-assets/srep/2012/121217/srep00984/extref/srep00984-s2.avi  

        Finally, in reference to the holographic spacetime theory, if, indeed, the Pleroma is a scalar holographic field then this suggests that the edges of the field  must most likely be planar and parallel, not curved, in order to support scalar resonance, as in a laser, or staser; this further suggests that the enveloping shape of the "dark energy" universe is a geometric polyhedron: a cube, hypercube, or a more complex polyhedron composed of faces that are paired, parallel, aligned, similar in shape and similar in orientation. Does such a polyhedron exist? Would each pair of parallel faces support a unique octave of scalar resonance? What would happen at the center of the polyhedron where all the scalars intersect? Or perhaps the boundaries of dark matter form some other geometric shape. This concept is discussed by A. A. Dolginov of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: http://www.astro.rug.nl/~weygaert/isvd09wey.ieee.pdf, Dark Matter in Universe as the Geometry of Empty Space. The large scale geometry observed on the north pole of Saturn comes to mind. What would be the ideal "antenna" sensitive to scalar holographic reality? Is there some form of attuning crystal lattice capable of converting scalar non-local waves into local perturbations? 

                                                               Microtomographic Image of Brain Sand in the Pineal Gland
                                                                  (Department of Biomedical Sciences, Korea University)

            The previously mentioned brain sand/DMT/pinealocyte sequence may not prove to be the pineal pathway, but it is a good candidate for explaining the visual aspects of the OBE experience.  But the OBE is usually more than just a visual experience, it normally involves a full-body awareness as well. A possible scenario for body consciousness shift could be  the DMT/orch-or tubulin /thalamus sequence where DMT-stimulated cellular brain tubulin encourages consciousness fluidity while the DMT-enhanced thalamus allows body identity to shift from the resident earthly body to the brain-sand-defined holographic visual context:  https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andrew_Gallimore/publication/277281153_ESSAY_Building_Alien_Worlds_The_Neuropsychological_and_Evolutionary_Implications_of_the_Astonishing_Psychoactive_Effects_of_NN-Dimethyltryptamine_DMT/links/5565af3808aec4b0f485b596.pdf.  Body-consciousness shift could be traced to the spinal cervical ganglion connection with the pineal gland. The first (pineal brain sand) scenario offers a mode for holographic space-time visual demodulation, which, seemingly, only the multirefringent brain sand can  offer and the second scenario (body consciousness shift via tubulin) provides for body consciousness transfer which may also involve calcite sand modules in the cerebellum.  Perhaps the pineal pathway  incorporates both of these possibilities - an orchestration of all of the above. Although, a great more research needs to be done on the tubulin/DMT consciousness shift phenomena as well as the thalamus body consciousness shift. So far, research in this area, if it has been done, is not yet available to the public. Andrew Gallimore (from the essay above) furthermore conjectures that this DMT-enhancement of consciousness is actually an atavistic mechanism that was exercised to a much greater degree by our ancient ancestors, as do the McKenna brothers. Perhaps, some day investigating the true meaning of "sand" in brain sand end up being as significant as investigating  the "junk" in junk DNA. For a start, see the brain sand research of Baconnier, Lang, Hilczer, Berkovic and Meshulam: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12224052
 To see a video of the above microtomographic image, visit: https://media.nature.com/original/nature-assets/srep/2012/121217/srep00984/extref/srep00984-s3.avi

        As for a DNA perspective, Dr. Bosman also suggests further possible antenna for scalar waves. A scalar "antenna" needs to be comprised of crystalline structure, a structure that is comprised of series fields or plates that are stacked on top of each other at equal spacing, that is, in parallel.  One such series of stacked fields are the 3,000,000,000 base pairs of human DNA. This long, very long, molecule is crystalline in nature and as such has been found to be able to produce scalar coherent laser, or biophotonic, light as discovered by Russian scientist Alexander Gurwitsch, developed by Italian and Australian researchers and then fully documented by Dr. Fritz-Albert Popp of Germany. Thus crystalline DNA can create coherent, laser, light and at the same time be responsive to scalar waveforms.  DNA molecules also support soliton waves, packets of free stand self-reinforcing energy that may  sustain biophoton production, see:  https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265019896_Solitons_in_DNA_and_Biological_Implications. Not only do the DNA ladder rungs define parallel equally spaced planes, but they also rotate. Thus we have the potential of responding to and creating  rotating scalar waves at the quantum level. This nanoscopic  spiral life pattern wave may pervade all space and may have already been detected in zero gravity experiments conducted by the Russian Academy of Science, as mentioned in the previous section on The Science of Out of Body Consciousness.

                                                       A Complex Rhombohedron illustrates the Geometry of Corpora Arenacea

Warm to the Touch 

         Before we leave the topic of holographic reality. It might prove worthwhile to dwell on the subject of radiative reality vs. holographic reality.  In holographic reality nothing is warm to the touch, or cold to the touch for that matter. In holographic reality one doesn’t get warmer as the fire is approached. There is life, intelligence, emotion, joy, pain and ecstasy on the other side, but there is no photosynthesis, no combustion, no heat, no fusion; a non-thermal reality. That doesn’t mean its cold on the other side either, that’s why the Z in Zero Point Field is misleading.  It tends to make one think of zero degrees.  There are no degrees in holographic reality, at least degrees of heat. It may be strange, even difficult to imagine an existence with intelligence but without heat or cold: such an exercise would help in understanding the holographic nature of the Pleroma, the 70 or 80% of the universe that we know exists, but cannot detect. A simple example of an existence without the sensation of heat is a fish in a constant temperature fish tank - it never experiences heat or cold.  In the holographic space-time field, reverberating intermeshing scalar waves define a highly concentrated information-rich reality - much more concentrated than anything in our reality, except, perhaps, in the center of our stars or black holes, where there  may be a concentration of both heat and information. The fact that holographic reality does not support thermal energy also indicates that may be devoid of entropy, that is, that decay may not an inevitable process in holographic reality.  This allows eternal realities to exist. It may be that entropy and eternity are mutually exclusive properties.

                    Eternal Beings sometimes dream of being Non-Eternal / Non Eternal beings dream of being Eternal

 The Pineal Gland and the Emergence of Consciousness 

      Drs. Anne Moir and David Jessel  in their book Brain Sex suggest that the evolution of a human male from a female human embryo is a carefully orchestrated program of testosterone exposure during critical periods of embryonic development. If this program is interrupted due to irregularities in the embryo or the mother or exposure to endocrine inhibitors such a bisphenol, the resulting child may end up being sexually conflicted. In the same way the pineal gland may usher consciousness into the embryo in a series of discrete stages during gestation.  It is theorized that a property of consciousness  is that it may be linked to the dark energy/holographic reality. The pineal gland with its brain sand/METAtonin connection to this realm and its arrival in the brain on the 49th day of gestation (it being the first endocrine  gland to appear) seems to make it a prime candidate for being the usher of consciousness.  Consciousness references itself to sensory input and at first there is very little sensation, but as the embryo develops and sensory portals develop, consciousness gains new territory in which to expand with the aid of the pineal gland basal DMT/brain sand phenomenon as mentioned earlier.

          An excellent novel that describes the evolutionary stages of consciousness from its simplest to its most profound level is The Complete Cosmicomics by Italo Covino. In this gradual process, the pineal gland provides the pathway and template for consciousness expansion. Consciousness itself does not reside in the pineal, it most likely reverberates in the cellular tubulin of various regions in the brain, particularly the thalamus, the claustrum and the prefrontal  lobe as Hammerhoff suggests. Furthermore, just as irregular exposure to  testosterone can result in a child of confused sexuality, so can an interruption of the pineal process during gestation create a person of irregular consciousness, usually resulting in a form hyper or hypo sensitivity such a schizophrenia or autism, as Andrea Axt suggests further on in this work. This process of consciousness growth may occur in all sentient beings to different degrees with the highest level being self-awareness. Self-awareness is determined by the "mirror test" developed by Dr. Gordon Gallup Jr. and animals that have passed it are elephants, cetaceans, apes. and magpies, see: http://www.animalcognition.org/2015/04/15/list-of-animals-that-have-passed-the-mirror-test/, as well as.... humans.

Consciousness and the Morphogenetic Planetary Geometry of Personality

         Consciousness evolves in the embryo as its portals become more defined, probably in the progression as described in the above-mentioned book by Italo Covino, in which he describes the progression of our senses as the embryo matures. Taste, perhaps, appears first, maybe hearing is next and then vision, but everything is blurred, muffled and,  though there may be a physical sense of being confined, the sense of touch and edge are softened by the fluid that embryos are immersed in. In the amniotic sac, there is no sense of being an isolated self; there is, however, a growing concentration of consciousness in the embryo that seems to be integrated into a seemingly infinite expanse. In addition to this slowly growing field of consciousness, a heightened level of endogenous DMT in the embryo allows early embryonic consciousness to phase in and out its’ embryonic consciousness to return to the pre-embryonic Akashic consciousness of origin. Furthermore, as body portals develop, and thus, as body consciousness increases, the ability to return to pre-embryonic consciousness gradually diminishes and the body consciousness gradually becomes comfortable in its new surroundings with its increased perceptions.

          The climax of this process takes place at birth when the fetus is shocked into the reality of becoming a separate human being - with a scream, the first scream where, for the first time, it becomes aware of a cold void filled with light and sound into which one can extend itself.  At this time, at this zero point, the theory suggests, the planetary geometry of the birth moment is stamped into the raw self-consciousness of the new being. The fully developed embryo with its’ physical traits and many lingering gestures and peculiarities inherited via the DNA of the parents is, at birth, infused with the unique self-aware personality traits provided by the morphogenetic planetary geometry present at the time of birth, thus we have a self-aware singular human being – a child whose personality is a reflection of the local planetary universe at the point in time that it emerged. Yes, we are talking about the stamp of astrology and how it fleshes out the field of conscious personality at birth. Lately, there have been some developments in the field of astrology that may help confirm this.

          Dr. Richard Tarnas, historian and cosmologist and author of Cosmos and Psyche has, through exhaustive statistical analysis, revealed that there is an irrefutable relationship between human events and planetary cycles. These cycles influence the flow of human history and individual personality as well. Many of the world's most prominent astrologers today were at one time in the past, some of its greatest critics. A professionally detailed and analyzed birth chart will prove to be very accurate at defining individual personality traits and tendencies. And this is the key to understanding the relationship of cosmic alignments and consciousness. One might surmise that most personality traits would be defined at the moment of conception when the DNA of the father and mother are combined in meiosis to form the new embryonic DNA, but there is no mature brain present at conception to cradle consciousness, it won’t be able to cradle itself until the child emerges at birth with a fully developed brain where consciousness can encradle itself. This is why astrologic charts made at conception time are nowhere near as accurate or revealing about personality as astrologic charts erected for the time of birth.

     One of the reasons why Dr. Tarnas considered astrology to have a legitimate influence on consciousness was discovered during trials held at Esalen Institute where he and Dr. Stanislas Grof were investigating the use of psychedelics as a healing therapy.  It seemed that clients would exhibit a typical response to the trial series, but every once in awhile there would be a definite deviation when the client experienced consciousness transition. These deviations were not predictable, nor could these researchers find any variant that caused this deviation. It wasn’t until Dr. Tarnas finally decided to look into the possibility of planetary influences, that he discovered that there was indeed a correlation between the planets and the quality of consciousness transition. We should note that it was determined that no single planet would have an effect, The planetary effects only take place when two planets are involved - when they are in a geometric relationship to each other. The two planets could be at the same place in the sky, called a conjunction, or be exactly opposite each other, in opposition; they could also have an effect at times when the two planets were in 90 degrees aspect, or square, to each other in relation to the earth – discrete angular relationships. The most common interaction took place when a planet orbiting in the sky entered the same location as a prominent planet in the birth chart, this is called a transit.

       With this revelation in mind, and over several decades Dr. Tarnas proceeded with his investigation and ended up writing several books on the subject, the latest being Cosmos and Psyche published in 2006.  Not only does the planetary geometry stamp the origin of personality, it also provides a timepiece for the unfolding of the personality in the flow of time. It turns out that personalities, groups of personalities, nations and the entirety of the planetary population are also subject to an influence provided by the timekeepers of the solar system. These combinations create an ever-evolving set of cyclic influences that have gently but inexorably shaped the evolution of the human race. We are an expression of our solar system. It is not dead….it is us.

       Dr. Tarnas does not claim that the planets affect human behavior directly, such as a gravitational or electromagnetic field would. Instead he claims that the planets embody archetypal fields that express the full spectrum of human consciousness unfolding in time. Furthermore, just as quantum physics describes the location of an electron by probabilities, the astrological archetypes influence planetary consciousness with varying cyclic probabilities via angular combinations of the planets.  The proof of this  effect is not achieved empirically, it is achieved statistically, and Dr. Tarnas has provided viable proof, at least in terms of collective human events, in his latest book and, it has been said, he is now investigating the veracity of the astrological effect at a personal level. As for this archetypal planetary effect being measured or detected? That is about as likely as the possibility of consciousness itself being measured.  And, that is likely, for many institutions are presently investigating the very nature consciousness itself, and perhaps, some day, we will know. It may even turn out that consciousness and the planetary effect on personality are of the same nature.

The pineal gland at the seat of consciousness

          A good understanding of the pineal gland’s placement in the brain will reveal its central location at the crossroads of consciousness. The drawing below is a view of the pineal gland from the side (from Gray’s Anatomy plate 715):

The pineal gland can be seen resting on top of the midbrain tucked in the fold between the two lobes at the rear of the thalamus. The thalamus and the pineal gland are surrounded by cerebral spinal fluid. The next view is the pineal gland as seen looking upwards from below (from Gray’s Anatomy plate 716):

The pineal gland is the round circle in the center nesting between the two lobes of the thalamus. All the cavities in this area of the brain are filled with cerebral spinal fluid and are known collectively as the third ventricle. 

       In his previously mentioned book, Dr. Pim Van Lommel states that several areas of the brain must be functioning in order for waking consciousness to occur: the frontal, temporal and parietal lobes of the cortex, the hippocampus, the brain stem and the thalamus. The thalamus which consists of two brazil nut-sized lobes is of essential importance because it is the messenger hub of the brain. All incoming stimuli from the body, the eyes, and the ears are processed and distributed to the cortex while, simultaneously, all messages sent from the cortex destined to be distributed throughout the body are also being processed. The thalamus is the command center of the brain. It is also known to regulate the level of awareness and is suspected to be the seat of consciousness working in conjunction with the cortex. If the thalamus is compromised to any degree, the patient becomes comatose and if the thalamus remains inoperable, the patient will never return to an awakened state. The Science News 2013 special article on consciousness details conditions in the brain that result in the disruption of consciousness, quote:  “Not only is the thalamus itself compromised, but also its connections — white-matter tracts that carry nerve signals — which seem to be dysfunctional in people who aren’t fully conscious, researchers reported last year in NeuroImage. “I can’t help but think there’s something fundamental about the functional circuitry,” says neuroscientist David Edelman of the Neurosciences Institute in San Diego. “There’s a fundamental loop between … the thalamus and the cortex. If those connections are cut or if you’ve damaged them, that individual will not be aware by any measure, forever.” It is quite possible that consciousness resides in this loop between the cortex and the thalamus and may somehow resonate with NPR (non-measurable physical reality, aka dark matter/energy) via DNA (Van Lommel, Narby, Garjajev) or microtubular (Hammerhoff & Penrose) resonance. Recent research also points to the claustrum nerve complex in the brain to be the "orchestra conductor" of consciousness - a theory proposed by Francis Crick shortly before his death as well as the insula cortex, see: http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2014/09/09/research-suggests-new-consciousness-hub/ and www.scientificamerican.com/article/neuronal-superhub-might-generate-consciousness/. Another factor that may contribute to consciousness is the presence of spindle neurons - which are only found in humans, large apes, elephants and cetaceans, see: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/brain-cells-for-socializing-133855450/?no-ist
For an excellent series of interviews with experts in this field visit:http://www.closertotruth.com/topics/consciousness/consciousness.
There is also the recent discovery of rosehip neurons that work in conjunction with the pyramidial neurons found predominantly in the neocortex, see: https://newatlas.com/rosehip-neuron/56093/


                                                 Claustrum: The Interneuron Tree of Consciousness Connectivity rooted in the Thalamus
           Since consciousness has no local signature, it may resonate in the collective heart-brain field. This concept is gaining ground due to recent research conducted by the Heart-Math Institute: https://www.heartmath.org/research/science-of-the-heart/
 and the Resonance Academy; http://holofractal.net/2013/05/30/the-singularity-of-the-heart/.


Van Lommel's Paradox 

       By comparing the descriptions and statistics of several hundred near-death experiences in Dr. Pim Van Lommel’s book with the reports from subjects in Dr. Rick Strassman’s book and other sources, it becomes quite evident that the entheogen responsible for the Near-Death Experience is DMT. Research has also begun to verify that the pineal gland is the most likely source of endogenous DMT or METAtonin, in the brain, and, not surprisingly, the pineal gland neighbors the thalamus which is most likely the orchestrator of consciousness. Now that we’ve isolated the principal players it is time to investigate the method of hormone delivery. The pineal gland secretes both melatonin and METAtonin, both modify the state of consciousness and the two most likely mediums for delivery of these hormones to the thalamus are blood flow and the cerebral spinal fluid. It is quite possible that the melatonin is transferred by blood flow. The pineal gland exhibits profuse blood flow characteristics; these two organs neighbor each other and the melatonin transfer occurs at a gradual pace, furthermore, there is no melatonin scavenger in the blood as there is in the case of METAtonin (monoamine oxidase -MAO).  The blood may be an excellent carrier for melatonin,  but for certain reasons, the blood may not be the most likely candidate for delivering METAtonin to the thalamus.

                                                                             Dr. Pim Van Lommel,  NDE Research                                                                                     

      When it comes to near-death out-of-body consciousness, the situation is different. Dr. Van Lommel noted that all of the surgery patients who experienced vivid and accurate near-death experiences reported these incidents beginning at a point in time during surgery when the patient was undergoing a cardiac arrest.  That is, the out-of-body events were experienced when blood flow in the brain had ceased. When an NDE occurs at this time, the only possible medium of exchange between the pineal gland (the source of endogenous DMT) and the thalamus, the seat of consciousness, could only be the cerebral spinal fluid. These two glands are adjacent and possibly touch each other; the endogenous DMT must permeate from one gland to the other almost instantaneously, for there is a narrow window of time. According to Van Lommel, the brain doesn’t react to the interruption of blood flow until the first 6.5 seconds has elapsed and most cardiac arrest patients are usually resuscitated within 20 to 37 seconds of the initial arrest. If the patients are revived within 37 seconds, the EEG returns to normal although the patient remains unconscious. If there is an NDE incident, it is reported much later upon waking and verified with the surgery room record.  In most cases, it has been verified that the NDE initially occurs when the brain is flat-lined and blood flow is non-existent. Thus we have Van Lommel’s paradox: how can the brain be considered the vehicle for out-of-body consciousness during an NDE when the brain appears to be completely shut down during the incident? Is the memory of the incident witnessed then stored somewhere else and then downloaded into the brain when functionality returns as Goswami suggests or is METAtonin delivered to the thalamus via the third ventricle cerebral spinal fluid all the way to the Foramen of Monro thus immediately saturating the thalamus and modifying the state of consciousness in preparation for transition? Though the brain may be flatlined, the pineal and thalamus glands may be designed to function for an extended period after blood flow ceases and it is during this period that the Out of Body Consciousness is initiated. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avyUsPgIuQ0

        As mentioned earlier in this paper, maybe the answer is simpler.  When the brain dies, with the help of the surge of endogenous DMT, consciousness retreats back to its holographic spacetime origin, and if the brain reawakens,  consciousness returns to the physical cradle of the brain field. The reason why DMT users describe the same experience as the NDE subjects is because the same thing is happening, except in the case of DMT, the brain/body is put into autopilot mode, and consciousness, no longer lodged in the citadel of the mind , goes on the same or similar journey.
 
        It will take many years of research before any of these questions can be answered, but the first step has been achieved with the Cottonwood Research Foundation May 23, 2013, announcement of  the verification of METAtonin, endogenous DMT, production in the pineal gland of laboratory rodents. When will it be possible to verify that the human pineal gland also secretes endogenous DMT? Is it delivered to the surrounding area via the cerebral spinal fluid or the blood? How does METAtonin modify the activity of the thalamus to create out-of-body consciousness? How is it that the extremely high concentrations of nicotine, utilized by South American Tabaqueros, has the same effect as DMT?, does nicotine stimulate the pineal gland to produce METAtonin or does a massive stimulation of nicotine receptors create the same consciousness-displacing effect as endogenous DMT?   What is the physiological nature of consciousness, how is it embedded in the circuitry of the brain and how does consciousness span both baryonic (physical space/time) and non-baryonic realities or is it a pecursor to both and finally, two questions from the above: Can light excitation of the pineal gland be detected and imaged by the visual cortex? and by using photomultiplier sensors can any light or photon generation be detected in the pineal gland?

 

 “Junk” DNA  and “junk” Neurons, the Glial network.

          Just as indecipherable DNA sequences that constituted 95% of the DNA molecule were relegated to the status of “junk” DNA by early researchers, so, too, there are “junk “ neural cells, known as glial cells (in Greek: glue cells) that constitute 90% of the brain cellular structure. This neural conglomerate has been considered to be an insignificant structure by the neurological community since brain cellular makeup was first researched in the 1890's. 

        Just 30 years ago, most brain scientists believed that only neurons intercommunicated and were solely responsible for our thought patterns and that glial cells were a passive network of connective tissue that anchored and insulated neurons.  There are several types of glial cells, but recently scientists have begun to focus on the most complex type of glial cell called the "astrocyte".  These cells are abundant in the cortex, more abundant than neurons themselves.
 
        As one ascends the evolutionary ladder, astrocytes in the cortex increase in size and number, with humans having the greatest number astrocytes and also the most complex (dolphin astrocytes may not have been investigated yet).  Scientists have also discovered that astrocytes communicate with each other and with neurons in the cortex and are  capable of sending information through both networks, neural and glial. Finally, astrocytes are also the adult stem cell in the brain and control blood flow to regions of brain activity. Because of all these important properties, and since the cortex is believed responsible for higher thought, scientists have started to realize that astrocytes must contribute to the thought process and perhaps even consciousness.  
                                                                                                        Astrocytes

                                                                                         Mouse                        Human
  
          Early researchers  were so focused on neurons that they concluded that glial cells were worthless, in fact, glial experiments didn't begin until the 1960s. Dr. Stephen W. Kuffler at Harvard discovered that frog and the leech that astrocytes were influenced by neuronal ion exchange, a process long held to be the chemical counterpart to thought. Since then many researchers have completed experiments on the communicatory ability of glial cells with neurons. In the late 80s and early 90s, it was discovered glial cells respond to and release neurotransmitters, though their chemical means of communication differs from neurons. 

          Astrocytes have hundreds of 'endfeet' spreading out from their body. They look like mini octopi, and they link their endfeet with blood vessels, other astrocytes, and neuronal synapses.  Calcium is released from internal stores in astrocytes as they are stimulated, then calcium travels through their endfeet to other astrocytes. The term 'calcium waves' describes the calcium release and exchange between astrocytes and between astrocytes and neurons. Scientists at Yale, most notably Ann H. Cornell-Bell and Steven Finkbeiner, have shown that calcium waves can spread from the point of stimulation of one astrocyte to all other astrocytes in an area hundreds of times the size of the original astrocyte. Furthermore, calcium waves can also cause neurons to fire. Furthermore, it was recently shown that a molecule that stimulates the same receptors as THC can ignite astrocyte calcium release. There are no reports yet as to how other entheogens affect the status of the glial network or if they exhibit anything similar to Sigma-1 receptors. 

         According to the recent theory, neurons are tied to our muscular action and external senses. We know astrocytes monitor neurons for this information. Similarly, they can induce neurons to fire. Therefore, astrocytes modulate neuron behavior. Neuronal activity without astrocyte processing is a simple reflex; anything more complicated such as abstract thought might require astrocyte processing. The fact that humans have the most abundant and largest astrocytes of any animal and we are capable of creativity and imagination also lends credence to this speculation.   Basically, it is obvious that astrocytes are involved in brain processing in the cortex, but the main questions are, do our thoughts and imagination stem from astrocytes working together with neurons, or are our thoughts and imagination solely the domain of astrocytes?  It may be that the role of neurons is to support astrocyte activity.  From: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-root-of-thought-what

       A study, published in Cell Stem Cell, not only introduces a new tool to study the mechanisms of the human brain, it supports the hypothesis that glial cells — and not just neurons — play an important role in learning. "Glia are in a position to regulate the flow of information through the brain," says R. Douglas Fields, PhD., a neuroscientist at the National Institutes of Health. "This concept is missing from all our models." In addition,  astrocytes, have evolved as humans have evolved, while neurons have exhibited very little change.  A mouse neuron and a human neuron look so much alike that even experienced neuroscientists can't tell them apart.

         There is some conjecture that the more complex human glial cells have played a role in making humans smarter.  Steve Goldman,  M.D., PhD., a neuroscientist at the University of Rochester teamed up with this wife, Maiken Nedergaard, M.D. to test this idea. They injected some human glial cells into the brains of newborn mice.  As the mice grew,  the human glial cells thrived. These cells spread through the mouse brain, integrating perfectly with mouse neurons and, in some areas, outnumbering their mouse counterparts. All the while, Goldman observed, the glial cells maintained their human characteristics.

         Next came the intelligence tests. In terms of social behavior, the humanized mice displayed no noticeable difference, however, these mice are measurably smarter. In classic maze tests, they learn faster. "They  make many fewer errors, and it takes them less time to come to the appropriate answer," Goldman says. It might take a normal mouse four or five attempts to learn the correct route in a maze, but a mouse with human glial brain cells usually learned the correct route by  the second try. It appears that Glial cells somehow enhance learning. From: http://wabe.org/post/make-mice-smarter-add-few-human-brain-cells. Just as we planted human astrocytes in mice, what will the outcome be when whale and dolphin astrocytes are planted in humans? or vice-versa?

                                                                                     neurons surrounded by glial cells

 Nonlocal astrocytic activity 

         Asok Kumar Mukhopadhyay, MD believes that there are several reasons brain research merits a change of focus. He points out that the brain is the organ with the highest information density per unit volume and mass. In the brain, information is channeled through four cellular networks; neuron-neuron, neuron-astrocyte, astrocyte-neuron and astrocyte-astrocyte network.

         Astrocytic intervention in the flow of information through neuronal channels is primarily meant to prevent informational chaos which the extremely non-linear neuro-neuronal, glia-neuronal and neuron-glial channeling is prone to exhibit. Like information, the mind and often the ‘self’ behave in both local and nonlocal ways. The brain is the playground of such both local and nonlocal players. Local players means energy and  matter confined within defined space and time.  Nonlocal players are those which are not consistently confined to a specific space and/or adhered to a definitive time.  Therefore, with knowledge pertaining to only local players, explaining brain function with the help of local theories of science and adhering to use of local investigative tools, we are far from understanding the brain as a whole. There are preliminary data available in science on nonlocal behavior in the brain activities and we are hoping to find out how we can outreach this domain.

          Two titans, local science and nonlocal science meet within the science of the brain. This issue has not been adequately addressed so far. Like any cell, an organ which works locally and has the ability to communicate nonlocally can be responsive to evolutionary forces. Unlike kidneys and liver or lungs or spleen, the  brain with its constituents, neuron and glia belong to such group.

        How consciousness, mind, and self of individual neuron and glia make a unitary experience of consciousness, mind and ‘self’ as a whole within the brain is the issue. The binding element involved in this process of unification is suggested to be information. The closest approximation of the ‘abstract’ consciousness at the concrete plane, therefore, in most likelihood is the conformational geometry of information involving various groups of neuron-glia at different hierarchical levels operating in different contexts. It may be that the two different networks – the neuronal network and the glial network are separate phases of the brain that, like the tide, ebb and flow as the dominant paradigm depending on the activity and focus of the self. From: http//akmukhopadhyayconsciousness.com/pdf/LINK11.pdf

Glial Cells Hosting and Shielding Consciousness

     There are three basic classes of glial cells: astrocytes, oligodendrocytes and microglia. We have already discussed astrocytes, which may help orchestrate the hosting of consciousness: oligodendrocyte activity tends to be restricted to the central nervous system, and finally there are the microglia which may be involved in another important aspect of consciousness, that is the buffering or shielding consciousness from an excessive input. In many ways, consciousness defines itself by the parameters and intensity of its many forms of input. One of the most important functions of the brain is to modulate sensory input to an acceptable level. As infants grow they gradually develop workable levels of buffering for all the senses. Two major contributors to this process are GABA (a neuroactive amino acid) inhibition and microglial activity. The microglia are sometimes known as neuron pruners, they circulate throughout the brain removing inactive and diminishing neural connections, thus eliminating background static and unproductive sensitivity. If this process is not kept in proper balance, mental instability such as autism or schizophrenia may result. For information GABA significance, see: https://www.autismspeaks.org/science/grants/gabaergic-dysfunction-autism, for information on microglial activity, see: http://www.nature.com/news/microglia-the-constant-gardeners-1.10732

Cilia and neural communication

          Another factor that may contribute to brain function are neural cilia, these are small hairlike whiskers that grow from the surface of neurons. Cilia that appear on nostril nerves aid in detecting smells, cochlear cilia detect sound and cilia on photoreceptors enhance photosensitivity. Recently, scientists have been enquiring into the function of cilia in the brain and their contribution to intra neural communication. It has been speculated that ciliar communication may play a role in brain development and possibly learning and memory. Lack of proper cilia development may play a role in obesity and possibly depression. Visit: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5607811/

The Second Visual Platform

           As mentioned earlier, the pineal gland may prove to have a visual function also. The pineal glands of lower vertebrates do indeed have photoreceptor cells similar to those found in the retina. In the human pineal gland, the photoreceptor cells have evolved into “cone-like modified photoreceptor cells” known as pinealocytes. For information on this research visit:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0014483586900424 and  www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0306452286902885. These pineal receptors may be sensitive to a specific spectrum of light or electromagnetic stimulus and if this is so, what is the source of stimulation? It could be coherent biophotonic light produced by our own cells as discovered by Dr. Fritz-Albert Popp: http://www.worldscibooks.com/physics/1559.html, or it could be that coherent light-stimulated-DNA is resonating with the dark energy that permeates 72% of the universe (http://www.dapla.org/) as suggested by Dr, Garjajev or it could be light emanating from microtubules as suggested by Hammerhoff and Penrose. It could be luminous piezoelectric calcite crystals, or octonia, that are found to be present in the pineal gland, see:   http://2012thebigpicture.wordpress.com/2013/07/24/the-pineal-gland-crystal-transducer/and    http://fedgeno.com/documents/crystal-in-the-pineal-gland.pdf. These crystals are birefringent meaning that the have dual refractive indices, thus, according to Dr. Saskia Bosman, enabling them to send and receive scalar waves in the NMPR (Non-Material Physical Reality)  medium, see:https://www.scribd.com/doc/249841175/Research-Study-on-Pineal-Gland.  Another possible source of photons is crystalline DMT, which is reported to be piezoluminescent by David Wilcox. As far as anatomy reveals, there is an indirect neural pathway between the pineal gland and the optic nerve via the hypothalamus and the superior cervical ganglion which is classically considered the pathway by which the pineal is informed as to when it should step up melatonin production. In a reverse manner, this may be a pathway for the pineal gland to send imagery to the visual cortex via the optic nerve, or it may be that the pineal gland sends instructions to the visual cortex to access specific stored imagery.


      Not only is the source of visual imagery to be considered, be it primary or secondary input,  but also the nature of the storage of visual imagery.  The closest thing to the brain that we know is the computer, so it is natural to presume that the brain and the visual process in some way resemble the computer: where signals travel down discrete neuron pathways and access stored images and concepts that are stored in discrete locations in the memory storage areas in the brain. That's the way computers work, not brains. It is beginning to emerge that there is nothing discrete about the operation of the brain, there is no discrete storage area, no discrete circuits: the  organization of the brain is decentralized, non-local - it is holographic. Any one individual part of the brain contains access to all the information in the brain; the same, it appears, goes for the universe itself.  This is an extremely difficult phenomenon to comprehend from our linear  Newtonian point of view, but cutting-edge scientific research is heading in the direction of the holographic organization of intelligence, perception, and consciousness. See: http://www.wakingtimes.com/2015/01/09/nature-mind-holographic-brain/ and http://sciexplorer.blogspot.com/2012/04/holographic-univ. In addition, there is a great deal of research into the development of holographic memory systems for computers, because it is the most efficient form of memory storage, visit:   
http://www.dmphotonics.com/Femtosecond_Holography/Burr%20Holo%20Data%20Storage.pdf

       Research by Dr. Draulio de Araujo of the Brain Institute at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil has verified that the visual activity produced by DMT inspired imagery stimulates the exact same brain centers as does normal vision, though the imagery source is not from the optic nerve but from the frontal cortex which may be in turn stimulated by the DMT enhanced thalamus, visit:  http://www.researchgate.net/publication/51647290_Seeing_with_the_eyes_shut_Neural_basis_of_enhanced_imagery_following_ayahuasca_ingestion


Out-of-body Locales and Bandwidth

          Robert Monroe is one of the best documented out-of-body, or ecsomatic explorers. The term ecsomatic derived from the Latin: ec, outside, and soma, body, was coined by Anthony Peake in his book Out-of-Body Experience. Monroe’s gift came to him unbidden and he developed his theories gradually over the years after having hundreds of experiences. He wrote the book: Journeys out of the Body followed by two more and founded Monroe Mind Research Institute of Faber, Virginia where he developed the Gateway Voyage program using Hemi-Sync sound technology. He also developed a classification system to describe the destination environments of ecsomatic experience using the term “locales”. His YouTube series: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBii06UyWwY  is extremely interesting. Earlier in this article we discussed the various conditions that could instigate a METAtonin episode now we are discussing the various categories of destinations that these episodes can encounter, be they METAtonin, DMT or otherwise instigated.

                                                                        Robert A. Monroe founder of the Monroe Institute

Monroe described the locales of the OBE as follows:

Locale I – are local ecsomatic experiences where one travels about the physical plane not too far from the body which can be seen below (bi-location) and observes the environment usually from above. Most mild NDE (Near-Death) experiences and most ecsomatic experiences launched from a waking state, such as a METAtonin episode, tend to hover near the body and the general surroundings.  Most likely, the secondary visual platform is being used to translate visual information scanned from the physical plane memories and used to create a virtual image of the surroundings, if one actually tries to touch an object during an OBE, they may be surprised. The image of the body has been placed where the body is in relation to disembodied consciousness, but disembodied consciousness may not be able to interact with  physical reality.

Locale II – would be viewed as the “dream world” environment, a fantasy world peopled with archetypal characters as well as persons known to the traveler. It is possible to interact with these astral beings and to be guided or misled by them. All the while, one is in a lucid, seemingly fully conscious, self-knowing and self-directed state, that is, the lucid dream state. In this state, one can become aware of their second (astral) body also known as the subtle body or etheric double. Some of the more powerful NDE and DMT induced episodes lead to this locale. One can manipulate the environmental parameters with the power of thought since the environment in Local II is a product of one’s own personal psyche.

Locale III – while Locale II is primarily generated by the subject’s personal memory, Locale III environments are actual parallel dimensions that have their own discrete unchangeable definition. One is a visitor here; one can travel about at will, but cannot change the definition of the environment and in many cases must make many return visits to learn how to navigate themselves to preferred destinations.  South American shamans, ayahuasceros and tabaqueros (who use highly concentrated amazonian tobacco) must receive extensive life-long training and guidance to learn how to navigate the realm of natural primal archetypal levels in order to obtain information on specific herbal healing combinations. Entheonauts who smoke synthetic DMT sometimes end up in parallel intelligent realms – extensive futuristic geometric cities peopled by alien beings who have highly advanced technology and who are eager to communicate with us. (This is one interpretation of Locale III)

       Those of us who have had Locale II and III experiences have some great stories to tell, but unless we can somehow verify these experiences, they remain resident in the realm of extremely significant personal experience, the certainty of which cannot be verified. People who have accompanied an ayahuasca guide into the herbal realm can verify their shared Locale III experience with their guide. Proof of the “reality” of this type of experience is also evident in the shaman-revealed herbal combinations that are either divulged or sold to pharmaceutical manufacturers who then synthesize, refine, test and manufacture the product.  As stated earlier 74% of today’s pharmacopeia originates from this source. Visit Joe Rogan podcast #1133 with Dennis McKenna for details on enthnobiologic research in the Amazon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OQ6wFocx9M

        For the majority of us who have had an ecsomatic experience in Locale I, the real time “real” world, the  one question always remains: “was it real?” It certainly felt real, unmistakably real, even though we were floating about separated from our body.  As mentioned earlier, author Anthony Peake after an exhaustive investigation has, to his surprise and disappointment, concluded that the ecsomatic Locale I experience is not actually a perception of true physical reality.  Peake finds anomalies in every proof indicating that what is “seen” is an internally generated hologram that closely, but not completely, parallels the real world. Thus he concludes that the “mind’s eye” is always turned inward, which is not surprising, for, despite hundreds of research studies undertaken in university and hospital environments by dedicated scientists, no conclusive scientific evidence has yet to emerge. This could be a disappointment to those of us who have had very meaningful life-changing ecsomatic experiences. Disappointment because we have experienced a change, and this personal transformation would be seemingly more “certified” if what we had witnessed from above was scientifically verifiable.

         Let’s take a technical look at some of the assumptions that led Mr. Peake to this conclusion.  For example, we’ll observe the famous remote viewer Mr. Ingo Swann who worked with Professor Harold Putoff and Russel Targ of the Sanford Research Institute. Suppose Mr. Swann is remote-viewing an object 100 feet from his body that he is trying to verbally describe. One could assume that Swann’s consciousness has detached itself from the host body and has located itself 100 ft. away, above the object. What is the exact nature of the connection by which consciousness transfers visual information to the secondary visual platform of the physical brain through space, be it feet or light years away? This cord could be a multi-stranded mini-wormhole phantom DNA field that folds space via quantum entanglement as detected by Dr. Garjajev of the Russian Academy of Science, and as also suggested by Stephen Hawking. This could be the "silver thread" that is often referred to by many psychics, or could it be some other space-traversing phenomenon such as Penrose/Hammerhoff microtubular coherent light proposition? Whatever the connection is, the question remains: can this non-physical, non-electromagnetic connection transmit (or “stream”) as much visual data to the viewer’s brain as the human optic nerve is able to? most probably not. This is simply a matter of bandwidth, most likely the image definition sent to the second visual platform of the brain is of poorer resolution. Furthermore, since the temporary remote viewing DMT-defined neural pathways are not as resilient as established mainstream pathways, they may be more vulnerable and subject to peripheral neural interference. 

 
                                                                                    Remote viewing and the rings of Jupiter

           Next, we have to consider just what exactly is the makeup of this "mind’s eye" that gathers and encodes the visual image? This is even more of a challenge. This viewing-at-a-distance-consciousness  has to convert the scene being witnessed into some type of signal. Based on what we know about optic transmission, this remote viewing individualized self-consciousness (which has no detectable physical presence) should also feature some kind of focusing apparatus consisting of a NonMaterialPhysicalReality lens and an NMPR cornea or similar data receiver that converts a focused image into a signal. Of course, there may be some alternative image processing phenomenon at work here as well, such as the previously mentioned Pineal Rosetta theory. One explanation given is that the remote viewer is viewing the distant object using their “subtle” or astral body complete with subtle optical apparatus.  However, information still has to be transferred back to the host’s physical brain or is everything being processed in the subtle brain? If so, how does the subtle brain download to the physical brain?  most likely this is accomplished via the secondary visual platform which may already have its own mental imagery agenda.  A remote viewer has to be very discerning in eliminating unwelcome mental imagery that may have been added the physical plane image information.

          These visual image pathways may exist, and if they do, it would be most likely that once one had opened their ecsomatic visual channel, it could require a considerable learning process to become familiar with the operation of it. This could require a great deal of practice, concentration and trial and error; just as it does with newborns when they first learn to navigate their new primary visual apparatus; just as it took Robert Monroe several years to become familiar with his gift. Michael Talbot on pg. 235+ of The Holographic Universe discusses this same problem from a holographic perspective. As  previously mentioned, it may also  be that the intensity, direction and clarity of a DMT or METAtonin ecosomatic experience is determined by the particular  formula of the DMT mixture that enters the brain environment. Just recently Dr. Charles Tart has published an article in the Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research documenting the progress in training a subject to enter out-of-body consciousness to the point where she is able to read a 5 digit number during an "OOB" session and report it after waking. This is one of the first examples of a scientifically verified veridical experience. In addition, Dr. Tart recorded brain wave activity during the session. See: http://www.near-death.com/tart.html

          Thus the Locale I visual experience could almost be considered a handicapped or easily misconstrued form of vision, and it should not be surprising to find anomalies and aberrations in reported images in test cases. Furthermore, the brain is quite “plastic” and it has been shown that receptor site arrangements are subject to change. It is possible that there are several types of DMT-activated neural pathways that may result in both intrasomatic (within the realm of the body) and ecsomatic (beyond the confines of the body) visual phenomena or a combination of the two.

       There is one OBE incident I heard of that did involve remote-viewing the real-time physical world as a means of survival. It happened several years ago to a friend of mine, Laura C., and it saved her life. At the time she was putting up with her "second, soon-to-be ex -husband, but it wasn't easy. He had a habit of beating her. In the middle of a bad session, she was laying on her side with her head covered as he was raining blows down on her. She thought she was about to die. All of a sudden she found herself up in the corner of the ceiling looking down on the situation. She looked about desperately and suddenly she saw what it was that she was looking for. It was something solid, something nearby she could grab on to that she could do damage with, like a hammer or a flashlight. She immediately returned to her body, reached out for the object defended herself and made it to safety. To this day she doesn't remember what it was that she grabbed, but it saved her life. This is an example of how setting and mindset can determine the nature and goal of a transcendent out-of-body experience. The DMT-based neurohormone that her pineal secreted had a specific directive: this was to be a Locale I experience with no interference. There is no doubt that many a battle-hardened soldier and many a victim of torture has had such an experience as well. It could be said that the pineal/OBE mechanism is, among many things, one of our tools for survival.

     A further variable to consider that may determine locale is the particular modes of the DMT brain penetration process, including the topographical DMT delivery pattern, the concentration of the DMT infusion, and the speed of the DMT cascade. Rick Strassman’s volunteers experienced a rush of chemically pure DMT delivered directly to the bloodstream with MAO present; ayahuasca, on the other hand, gradually delivers an organic DMT/MAO inhibitor infusion that enters the bloodstream gradually via the digestive system. There are also smoked and snorted forms ayahuasca that have their own distinct delivery characteristics. The method of ingestion can affect the nature of the experience as detailed in chapter 4 The DMT Diaries by Steven Turner.

           Last, but not least, there is the internally induced METAtonin/pineal gland pathway - which is responsible for the great majority of the spontaneous OBE experiences experienced by the general public, artists and spiritual practitioners. METAtonin may be just pure unadulterated DMT, but additional enzymes and co-hormones that are byproducts of the DMT methylation process may be present also. These modifiers may be generated according to specific instructions received by the pineal gland to enhance or direct the out-of-body experience in a specific direction or at a selective sensitivity. In addition, glutamate production can further modify the outcome. It may also be discovered that out-of-body consciousness is not just limited to a modification of the brain circuitry; it may involve several centers in the body. Another possibility is the shifting of consciousness from the left hemisphere of the brain to the right or the two functioning in unison.

        Bear in mind that there are two basic forms of DMT; the predominant one is N,N-DMT , a rarer form, 5MeO-DMT also occurs in nature but is not endogenous to the humans and is considered to be more powerful. it is also described in the aforementioned The DMT Diaries, chapter 6 and is the main subject of James Oroc's Tryptamine Palace.  Visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH1bfZ1p6sg for a description of 5MeO effects or visit Section 3 which describes the work of Dr. Martin Ball who uses it for his therapy.

Peake’s Quantum Peak 
             Anthony Peake, author of The Infinite Mindfield, has long pursued the concept of micro-wormholes created by the brain while under the influence of DMT, basically it is his theory that the mind can access certain locales such as parallel realities via the holographic memory field that exists as a dark matter phenomena which is accessed by quantum level micro-wormholes, a concept supported by Stephen Hawking and scientifically known as Einstein-Rosen wormholes. These wormholes create a segue to the Zero Point Field. The Zero Point Field is a thermally null energy field where entropic realities cease to exist, where space and time as defined by entropy have no meaning.  Since there is no space, there is no distance and since distance is required to measure velocity and acceleration, there is no time. Since it is a point with no other object to compare it to, it has no size and within it there resides a spaceless field, a holographic field  that when accessed gives access to everything at once, the akashic record. This is  the realm of the Bose-Einstein Condensates where all the physical laws of our realm are turned upside down and inside out.
 
          The one problem in this theory that needs to contend with is “thermal decoherence” as described by Stuart Hammerhoff. How can a phenomenon that requires absolute zero conditions take place in the warm moist environment of the brain? The answer is that it takes place at a quantum level in the micro trabecular lattice of microtubules. This lattice is made up of dipoles that are 7 to 9 nanometers in diameter. In 1968 Dr. Herbert Frolich discovered that these nanoscopic dipoles could achieve a Zero Point coherence at temperatures way above absolute zero known as "Frohlich coherence". A full explanation of this theory is in Mr. Peake’s aforementioned  publication. Further information is available at the website of Dr. Bernard Haisch  www.calphysics.org. The Zero Point Field and quantum holographic reality are more than a theory, functional MRI, or fMRI was developed by Dr. Walter Schempp and is based on this phenomenon.

  Setting, and the three phases of Mindset

         When Dr. Rick Strassman set up his DMT testing procedure it was necessary for him to follow the rigorous guidelines of the National Institute of Health in all his procedures due to the controversial nature of his experiment and in doing so he had to ignore the classic entheogenic launch guidelines of “set (mindset) and setting” first described by Timothy Leary and endorsed by most experienced entheonauts, the same guidelines Strassman described in his own book,  Inner Paths to Outer Space. Strassman had little latitude when it came to providing a supportive setting, but, as one of the participants in the movie DMT, The Spirit Molecule, Susan Blumenthal, stated: "the DMT rush was so incredibly sudden that set and setting were unnecessary considerations." The “setting” of a typical hospital room and the presence of two or three onlookers with clipboards in their hands was hardly the relaxed, loving, supportive, protective, restive environment that is usually desired. Perhaps someday the same experiment can be launched from a proper supportive setting, it would be interesting to see if the tone and texture of the DMT experiences become more stabilized and focused. James Oroc in his book Tryptamine Palace also supports the theory that even with the DMT experience (in this case 5-MeO-DMT) which is essentially an out of body experience, setting is still a relevant concern. The body left behind needs to be attended to, especially in the event that there are signs of anxiety. Also, proper setting also buffers the return to the realm of normalcy. 

          Dr. Strassman did have some control over the mindset of his participants, though, in that he specifically chose participants who exhibited consciousness flexibility, that is, they had previously experienced altered states of consciousness and were more accustomed to the sometimes unnerving sensation of consciousness transition. It should be noted that the complete concept of mindset involves more than just consciousness flexibility; it also includes the factors of mindvector and mindoversight.

  Consciousness Flexibility

        This is not an endorsement for people to experiment with consciousness-altering substances, but it is a fact that psychoactive drugs, preferably called entheogens, can help open the mind to new levels of awareness and mental function. This unique property is being utilized by present day therapists to help unlock the grip of depression, addiction and the existential distress of approaching death as described by author Michael Pollan: https://massivesci.com/articles/pollan-lsd-psychedelics-review/. When used wisely and respectfully, one can unlock the grip of past trauma and furthermore experience heightened levels of visual, auditory, intuitive, creative, mental and empathetic sensitivity resulting in a shift in consciousness, spiritual connectivity, and self identity. In the wrong hands or with the wrong intention in mind, these drugs can be viciously destructive – and in a great majority of situations, they are. Like any other very powerful tool, psychoactive drugs need to be handled and used very respectfully - preferably in the company of a guide or loving protector in a secure, stable environment. There is no doubt that the spiritual expansion of the 1970’s was mainly a result of the doors of perception that were opened to many an experimenter. Note: DMT is labeled an illegal psychedelic drug but is really not a mind-altering drug – it doesn’t alter consciousness- it reboots it... temporarily. It is a consciousness displacer, displacing consciousness from its habitual environment to another palpable reality. Furthermore, some of these other realities are intelligent, interactive and not necessarily human. Having originally experienced these altered mental states brought on by external chemical stimuli, many consciousness adventurers have sought natural, traditional methods of mental and physical discipline that would result in the same or similar state of heightened awareness. Thus came many sages west.

       What is also gained from being experienced with psychoactive drugs is a familiarity with the transition experience, that is, the ability to sense the onslaught of a consciousness shift without developing mental panic. This is especially acute for individuals who like to be in absolute control of their world, for one has to be open, trusting and willing to be relieved of their familiar state of normal consciousness when the doors of perception begin to shift to a more insightful and at the same time unfamiliar territory - a territory that  one has not experienced before. In most cases, one must willingly yield control, in order to enter into a state of helplessness, before new ground appears.  If the transition is not embraced, it can quickly degrade into panic and paranoia. Those who wish to experiment might take some advice from Dr. Albert Hoffman who on page 338 of The Spirit Molecule explains his fondness of enjoying the subtle effects of very small doses; a practice called microdosing, see James Fadiman's video: https://youtu.be/6AfFM8pfy4s . Those who have personally experienced the presence of the Divine during an entheogenic experience might consider taking part in the Johns Hopkins spiritual experience survey:  http://flyer.psychedelicencounteringthedivine.org/   
      Entheogens are now experiencing a rebirth as a therapeutic tool for dealing with PTSD, depression and addiction, for information regarding this development read Michael Pollen’s How to Change Your Mind and be sure to visit the website of the Beckley Foundation: https://beckleyfoundation.org/about/the-foundation/

Mindvector  

        If one is going to psycho-launch their mind into an uncharted territory with DMT, ayahuasca or some DMT derivative, it would behoove them to create in their mind an actual destination: the mindvector. The more destination-focused one is, the greater the chance of success. It’s quite probable that a synthetic DMT launch, as explosive as it is, would benefit from some guidance. The question is how can one determine a destination when entering a realm that one has never been to? One of the most obvious destinations could be Heaven. Why not? That’s our basic concept of where we go to when we die. Unfortunately, Heaven or Hyperphysical Reality, The Mansion Worlds.. etc. is a rather extensive reality.

          This is like saying “Oh, just drop me off on Earth” – you could end up in Borneo, Siberia, the Sahara or downtown Missoula. Heaven, the Beyond, too, is a vast reality peopled with tens of thousands of tribes and localities – many of which have been described by artists, mystics and fantasy and science fiction writers throughout the ages. The question remains, where does one choose to go? The answer may lie in the concept of the Extraphysical Hometown, as developed by Dr. Waldo Vieira who is mentioned later in this article

           The concept is quite simple: each of us has arrived here at boot camp Earth from a specific hyperphysical home base that is peopled by a specific hyperphysical root race and it is this hyperphysical homeplace that we will return to when we have finished our tour  here. Basically its hOMe, it’s where we come from. Many individuals who have returned from OBE’s and NDE’s describe how they had felt” at home” in an extremely profound level never experienced before. This can happen to eternal beings locked into a temporary timescape, or to those who have struggled with being out of place all their lives and suddenly find themselves at home, like Nina Simone in Liberia. Perhaps you have seen an illustration of a place that you felt extremely familiar with, such as a painting by Maxfield Parrish or have met someone that you immediately resonated with effortlessly at a very deep level, keep these impressions of place and personality in mind and cultivate them for they will help you construct the concept of your very own Extraphysical Homeground, Campo Spiritual, or Place of Eternal Origin. It may be a destination that has been experienced in a lucid dream.

          Concentrate on this locale; maybe even give it a name,  Avalon, for example. For visual inspiration there hundreds of heavenly and fantasy landscape images and meditation videos available. If you need inspiration on a mental/logical level you can read the descriptions of the Mansion Worlds, Havona, The Sea of Glass, Life on a neighboring Planet or Paradise in the Urantia Book. If you seek inspirational thought imagery, you can read The Final Frontiers section (p.189+) of Multidimensional Man by Jurgen Ziewe, visit: http://www.multidimensionalman.com , the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors:  http://cosm.org/, The City of Light as described in The Eternal Journey by Dr. Craig Lundahl or Afterlife a Guided Tour of Heaven and Its Wonders by Emanuel Swedenborg.  Any and all of these will help you build your very own concept of your Heavenly Homeplace. Perhaps someday someone will publish a book portraying various spiritual homegrounds or perhaps Waldo Vieira's academy (IAC) already has.


                                                                                              Waking in Heaven

 Mindoversight - Meditation 

           Thousands of people have written about their hyperphysical experiences and many have commented on how difficult it is during an experience to maintain the delicate balance of being conscious of events while not becoming too conscious – whereupon the excursion ends with a sudden return to the physical body. Just as an athlete must repeatedly practice to perfect physical performance, the entheonaut must develop a mental over-coach who observes the play of mental activity and moderates the intensity of the thought process while remaining anchored in hyperphysical awareness.  For when one moves above the physical plane they enter the mental plane where conscious thoughts have the power to mold reality. As Ziewe says “one is moving from the level of matter-over-mind to the level of mind-over-matter.” In one way, it involves the development of an additional sense: the sense of space.

            Just like taming a wild horse, taming the mind/thought process takes patience and persistence, there are no short-cuts and no one other than one's self can do the work it requires. We are not born with the overseer, we have to consciously make the effort to claim it – and it may be one of the most important challenges of a lifetime. The mental muscle that needs to be developed doesn’t even exist when one first starts trying, but it develops with effort. The exercise is not complicated – yet it lasts a lifetime. The exercise is deceptively simple: stop thinking, better yet, learn how to distance the thought process - to diminish its distracting power, actually, to encourage the thinking process to sleep, while at the same time consciousness manifests beingness.  How long can you stop a new thought from entering your mind? ten seconds? The problem is… that the harder one tries, the worse it gets! Welcome to the seemingly ridiculous practice of meditation.  It's no longer: "I think, therefore I am", not quite..slowly it becomes "I think and  I Am" - meditation makes this distinction. 

           Why would anyone want to step outside their thought process? Don’t we spend our waking lives traveling down an endless river of thoughts and sensations? Why would anyone want to control the flow? And how is it done?  One has to mentally think the words “stop thinking” in order to begin the process of halting the thinking process, if that makes any sense. However, it can be done and it has been practiced for thousands of years and is actually the keystone of the Buddhist practice of meditation. There is a way to do it and many methods available. One can read about meditation, even conceptualize it, but this is worthless; basically, it just has to be done and then it begins to work. The result is that one gently removes the thought process from center stage. Thinking is a natural brain process; it really can't be stopped, but central focus can be realigned by developing visceral space awareness: actually, it is not that thoughts are set aside but more that awareness develops a new anchor. One is shifting awareness from the realm of the march of time to an awareness of centralized space. In this calm state of spatial centeredness the ego is quieted, thoughts are muted and consciousness is able to access background information here-to-fore inaccessible.

         Meditation sessions usually last 35 to 55 minutes while sitting with a straight back, hips rolled forward.  Within 15 minutes the experienced practitioner begins to experience a vertical energy field that is centered in the third eye area and extends upward and downward. In time the field begins to coalesce and a sensation of inner space begins to prevail. This is not a visual or auditory sense; it is an entirely new and different sense: space is felt as having its own beingness. In a way space becomes visceral and one becomes part of that solidity that is bonded in stillness. Just as a potter forms a shapeless mass of clay into a tall slender pillar, directed awareness creates a vertical spinal column anchored in space and centered around the spine - being so well defined that one can feel resistance to it when the body moves: visceral space awareness, a central core of silent being. Thoughts are still present but have moved to the periphery like the wind in the trees in the corner of the eye.  Cool air reaching into the upper passages of the nasal cavity energizes the base of the brain much in the way a gentle puff of air on an ember causes it to glow and as it travels down the windpipe it empowers and solidifies the central core. This in many ways describes the beginning phases of Tibetan  maitri meditation with a focus on space consciousness and universal compassion,  http://www.shambhala.org/maitri.php. Meditation is the palace of manifest silence and space. As Jack Kerouac describes it: "The silence is so intense that you can hear your own blood  roar in your ears but louder than that by far is the mysterious roar which I always identify with the roaring of the diamond wisdom, the mysterious roar of silence itself, which is the great Shhhh reminding you of something you've seemed to have forgotten in the stress of your days since birth."

Our consciousness is embedded in a physical/radiative reality but

the Silence of Meditation gives it access to Holographic perception

Where every object becomes a mirror of the entire Universe,

And Every now is filled with Eternity

Visceral Space Consciousness   
            Space Awareness is slowly formed by the focused and quiet mind in the environment of the stilled body. Breath control, including the diminishment the breath,  can encourage awareness stability and growth. Visceral space is tactile. The organ that actually perceives it is consciousness itself. Visceral space starts as a pillar that occupies the spinal cord and can be sensed within the body core during meditation. This is the beginning of the process where consciousness begins to define its placement. The pillar resists movement. Consciousness stilled in the core of the mind gently anchors it to the holographic background.  The experience of visceral space awareness cannot be detected on the physical level, only consciousness can experience it in a way that may seem physical, but this is a physicality rooted in holographic vectors. From the central core, visceral space expands outward to envelop the surrounding environment, and space becomes manifest to infinity. Unlike the original 5 senses, we are not born with this sensitivity – it must be cultivated. And yet when the other 5 senses fade, it remains. It is our anchor, it is the canvas that the other five senses fill. It is the core of meditation. It is the space consciousness and timeless transcendent presence that Hospice workers refer to when dealing with the destiny of death:  https://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10315/10011/CJS0005.pdf?sequence=1 It is the timeless core of space that our other senses fulfill in our physical life which, according to Eckhart Tolle, http://communicate.eckharttolle.com/news/2014/09/12/inner-space-consciousness/….is consciousness finding itself.

Visceral spacetime meditation 

        Gen Kelsang Nyema in her Youtube presentation: Happiness is all in your mind (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnLoToJVQH4), says that there are 2 types of meditation: the one that monks do in monasteries and meditation done by regular active people. The goal is to bring the profound centered stillness developed in monastery discipline into daily motion through a series of steps. Starting with Yoga > Posture > Chanting > Breathing > Thought Displacement > Visceral Space Perception > Embodied movement > and finally: Entering the world of time while embracing space. Following is a suggested program:

5+ minutes of yoga to stimulate the chakras including the plank for 2 minutes.

Assume a straight-backed sitting posture so the spine can assume a rested, balanced state.

Perform 21 Om Chants slowly rising from the stomach starting at as low a pitch as possible then gently rising.

10 minutes: pranayama breathing through the nose. The in-breath stimulates the back of the upper nasal cavity and energizes the brain, the pineal gland and the spinal cord. The out-breath, expelled through nose is an uplifting thrust that raises the body gently upward. While breathing, exercise the thought displacement process.

Thought displacement: do not try to stop the thinking process but try to displace thoughts to the sidelines; thoughts are still perceived as part of the consciousness process but no longer at the center of consciousness focus. Of course, one can’t think this; consciousness has to gently move the thought nexus to a side space.

35+  minutes: Visceral space awareness: as prana energy enters the head direct it down the backbone and remaining still as possible, begin to quiet the breathing process, slow it to a minimum and let stillness enter from above, like a gentle drizzling mist of falling droplets so small that they can barely be detected. The stilling effect of the mist  induces space tacticity, a sense of firming up and gentle solidification along the core of the backbone column which will begin to feel slightly immovable, slightly frozen in place, rigid and at the same time sensitive to the slightest movement. Eyes still closed.

Strengthen the column and slowly let the spatial core expand – it can fill the whole room and more….breathing will keep the sense of space strong, yet it is delicate.

Then: maintaining the breath, open the eyes slowly, keep the centered space core strong.

With the breath steady, raise the hands and arms to horizontal, then vertical then in all directions. Slowly embrace movement; space is centered and movement has begun.

Breathe steady, slowly rise to standing, as in Zen walking meditation, and slowly walk around the room three times with small steps in cadence with the breath. 

Then walk out of the room.............                                                                                                                                                                

       Contrary to conventional thought, space is not empty.  The FedEx motto is: “The World on Time”, well, the motto for meditation is:" The World on Space".  From the quantum perspective, space is absolutely full (zero point field or ZPF). Space is like the ocean and physical reality is a wave that travels on it. When a wave is moving across the ocean surface, nothing is really moving, the water molecules are not moving forward or backward, they just momentarily rise and fall back to their original state – the wave is a temporary perturbation and then it is gone. Space is the background (ocean) and physical reality is the foreground that ripples on it. This concept is extremely hard to grasp and yet it is one of the fundamental cornerstones of quantum theory that is being brought to the forefront by writers such as Ervin Laszlo, Bernard Haisch, and many others, for further information visit http://www.mindmattermapping.org/, a project sponsored by Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Institute.
The grounding in space that meditation promotes is what provides grounding for our consciousness - a consciousness of consciousness.

       In light of this perspective, one might consider the  question: what creates the ripples on the surface of space? The animating principle seems to be consciousness itself; the breath of life that gives form to the physical plane. This universal animating field of life consciousness was fully potentialized before the "big bang" and then reverberated through space in the great selective subtraction that was actually an implosion of organization, a disassembly. Before the big bang, or big deconstruction, every potential future was present; after the big bang, only primal matter and energy remained to recombine again down the tube of time. This raw material is destined to evolve through time into the many futures that were fully present before the big subtraction. These futures are being molded by the unfolding of the ever-pervasive field of universal life intelligence rippling through space – which some might call God or universal consciousness restricted to linear time. The concept of the universal field of life consciousness intelligence is being promoted by Robert Lanza his book, Biocentrism (http://www.robertlanza.com/), and by David Wilcox and his Source Field Investigations (http://divinecosmos.com/), Rupert Sheldrake and many others. The big subtraction is a concept promoted by Dr. Bernard Haisch in his book The God Theory (http://www.thegodtheory.com/). The inspiration for his conception may have evolved from a passage in the second book of the Conversations with God by Neal Donald Walsch (http://www.nealedonaldwalsch.com/) series in which God explains why it created the physical universe: a platform for existential reflectivity evolving through time.

          Further evidence or the benefits of meditation has been verified by British Scientist, Maxwell Cade (http://www.mindmirroreeg.com/w/MaxwellCade.htm) who developed mindmirror biofeedback technology and the resulting brainwave therapy (http://www.brainwavetraining.com/brainwave.htm). Dr. Cade discovered that in addition to the four standard brainwave patterns there was what he called the "5th state" or awakened state of mind that synchronizes both sides of the brain.  This state of consciousness synchronicity can be attained through meditation. Recently, it was reported in the Scientific American Nov. 2014 issue that experienced meditators sustain  an EEG pattern of 25-42 hertz, which may be this 5^th state. The article also mentions that meditation increases the volume of gray matter in particular parts of the prefrontal cortices and decreases the volume of the amygdala, an area of the brain involved in fear processing. A further benefit appears to be increased longevity; at the cellular level meditation tends to lengthen the telomere segment at the end of a DNA strand, thus increasing its ability to further replicate.

         This concept of the 5^th state refers to the classic designation of 4 brainwave states encountered during the normal waking state, in ascending order: Delta, Theta, Alpha, Beta; going from 0 to 32 cycles per second. Gamma brain waves  (the fifth level) takes off from where Beta ends from 32 to 100 cycles per sec. Contemporary researchers have since  added more discrete levels of activity (Mu, Epsilon, Lambda, etc.) so that the full spectrum now includes up to 12 levels. Gamma still defines the state of 32 – 100 hertz and is generally described as an elevated level of consciousness that is attained in meditation, hypnosis, moments of insight and epiphanies and also in sessions  involving entheogenic awareness, as in ayahuasca ceremonies where DMT is the active agent of illumination. Gamma level spikes have also been detected in the brains of dying rodents: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23940340, as well as larger mammals and humans. It has been suggested that pineal secreted endogenous DMT,  METAtonin, may also elevate dominant brainwave frequency to the gamma level as well during Out-of-Body and lucid dreaming experiences. It is also important to note that brainwave activity may be detected in just one or several regions of the brain. In the study involving two volunteers on ayahuasca, the gamma brainwave presence was global. See: http://q4lt.com/the-mystery-of-gamma-waves  for further discussion.

          For further scientific meditation research, Siddhartha’s Brain by James Kingland and Altered Traits by Daniel Coleman and Richard J. Davidson give a historical view of meditation research from the 1970’s to date and ongoing scientific studies into the benefits of meditation are being pursued at the Mind and Life Institute in Boston: https://www.mindandlife.org/ and at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Science, Leipzig, Germany:  https://www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/en/search/apachesolr_search/mindfulness.

In fact, it may not matter what method is used to achieve a meditative state.  Be it Zen, Vipassana, Taoist,  Mahavishnu, or Benedictine, it may make no difference.  The only thing that counts is dedication. If one makes a concerted effort to sit still with a straight back, to listen to the breath, to give the mind a rest or a diversion with a mantra….it will manifest. Just keep doing it. The meditative state arrives despite the mind, and perhaps, despite the methodology. It’s the effort that counts….the willingness to discipline oneself to continue….this is it what  encourages the meditative state of inner peace  to eventually manifest, and it may take many long hours, but it will come. And.... It's not so much the method that counts....It's the Process. Just do it

      Since consciousness itself is proving to be a fundamental building block of the universe and meditation is an exercise in focused clear consciousness, it may be that combined or synchronized meditation may prove to be a formative power in the development and evolution of our reality. Several groups are attempting to research the phenomenon of collective, even global, synchronized meditation, including www.1giantmind.org, http://globalmeditation.chopra.com/, http://gabbyb.tv/   and http://theintentionexperiment.com/the-experiments. 

        Through the lens of Christian perspective, concept of consciousness, based on the ancient holy trinity of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost, would be seen as follows: The Holy Ghost is the non-local holographic spacetime, the akasha, the information-dense repository field of all information regardless of time and space. It has no thermodyamics, there is no arrow of time. It contains all the information the universe will ever have, its waveform is flat and parallel. There are no centers of reference, it is all-pervasive, all information is accessible from everywhere equally and its' appearance on the physical plane, of which there is barely any at all,  may be somewhat ghost-like. The Son is the physical plane: local, time-locked, thermodynamic, entropic, individuated, radiative reality, its waveform is curved. It is here that selective information of the holy ghost reality is collapsed along the line of time according to internalized mathematical formulas for fractals and the golden mean embedded in DNA, thus creating life as we know it.  It is here that consciousness can occur individuated in life forms. And the Father is consciousness itself, the knowing, the I that is am, and it can access both the Son and the Ghost as a particle or as a wave. It is the bond between them, that mirrors them, the creator of this great division of totality, and the segue between them. This trinity can also be viewed through the lens of Islam, Buddhism and Taoism: The Creator, The Radiative Manifest and the Holographic Akasha.

Left Brain Dominance 

          During meditation one is focusing on increasing awareness of consciousness and shifting that consciousness from the domain of the past/future logical self-centered left brain hemisphere to the cosmic all-enveloping here-and-now intuitive right brain non-local spatial environment. This is beautifully described not by a Zen monk, but by brain anatomist Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor who was forced to retreat to her right brain as her left brain died, slowly losing its blood supply due to a stroke. Luckily, she was able to survive and recover her language skills. Her testimony is most moving:  http://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight?language=en. Her book is My Stroke of Insight. Additional insight into the result of left brain dominance is discussed by Tony Wright and Graham Gynn authors of Return of the Brain of Eden. Perhaps there was a time when humans were not as adversarial as they are now, at least that is their presumption. Simply put, our fruitarian arboreal ancestors who lived approx 200,000 years ago were non-confrontational peace-loving beings with brains 10% larger than ours today (this much has been verified). Presumably, that additional 10% was the crowning touch that bought out the best that humanity has to offer although modern-day anthropologists claim just the opposite. Climates and ecosystems change and as they do, so does the diet of those who must survive. As the human race "evolved" from an arboreal fruitarian diet to a savannah grain-based meat-eating diet, it lost the endocrine support of flavonoids and beta carbolines provided by fruits. According to Graham and Gynn the new diet accentuated the increase of testosterone and steroids that shortened the development time of the adolescent brain and altered the timing of melatonin secretion decay as well as the performance of the pineal gland. The ultimate result of this shift was the emergence of the dominant left brain. According to Wright and Gynn, there was a time when our logical and intuitive/creative sides were in balance, but we have since lost this balance due to this subtle nutritional shift - almost impossible to recognize. Their book provides a number of anthropological, biological and historical references to support their thesis as well as an in-depth investigation into the function of the two sides of our bicameral brain. Visit:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnEom7OjXvo. Perhaps researchers will be able to focus tCDS (transcranial direct current stimulation) and other therapies to temporarily calm the left half of the brain so that individuals can experience the normally recessive right brain consciousness. 
        The concept of the bicameral lateral shift of consciousness is also the subject of Anthony Peake's Opening the Doors of Perception in which he compares the effects of several brain disorders: migraine aura, temporal lobe epilepsy, schizophrenia and Alzheimers which he categorizes as a Huxleyan Spectrum of symptoms that are related to various degrees of temporary and sometimes permanent bicameral brain consciousness shift. Perhaps this is a description of our shift into the kali yuga.

        Some of us don’t have to meditate, in some cases the lessons of mindfulness can be woven into the progression of life’s circumstances.  Dr. Milton Erickson, eminent psychiatrist, encountered many ordeals in his lifetime that honed his humanistic perceptions. He had a severe case of polio at age 17 and at age 51, a relapse, and at another time he almost died from anaphylactic shock. While trapped in a body 95% paralyzed, he was forced to spend a great deal of time observing humankind and he began to discern the great divide in human behavior between what we say and what we are. When we are conversing in thought forms, ie words and figures, there is always another conversation in gestures, postures, and eye movements, a conscious message and an unconscious message. Though we think we are mainly conscious most of the waking time, the unconscious is always present – listening and processing. Dr. Ericson was able to perceive and to speak to both of these aspects of a person.  Perhaps we’re talking right/left hand brain. He was usually able to treat most mental ailments in two or three visits, sometimes just one. Usually, most of his “prescriptions” involved giving patients very specific tasks to complete, and, in almost every case, it was the very task needed to bring about a complete healing. Visit:  https://www.wizardofthedesertmovie.com/. Most of the solutions to our specific problems emerge from our unconscious, our core or true self, and, in many ways, meditation is a way to arrive at that same place. In meditation one is gently reminding oneself that the chatterbox is a member of the orchestra, not the conductor.

       An interesting insight into left/right brain dominance is discussed in the book The Orchid and the Dandelion. The author, pediatrician Dr. Thomas Boyce, has observed that roughly 20% of the child population exhibits Differential Susceptibility, DS, which is a noticeable overall increased sensory susceptibility regardless of all differentiating factors such as economic, social and hereditary backgrounds. In order to delve deeper into possible causes, he took his search to the National Primate Research Center in Portland Oregon. Working with macaques, found a correlation between the occurrence of DS and disparities in R/L tympanic, ear, temperatures. Those macaques who exhibited a noticeably higher temperature in the right ear were also the group that exhibited DS. This relationship also extended to human children. Since the relative blood flow to the right or left ear is indicative of relative blood flow to the right and left hemisphere of the brain, it was deduced that children with greater blood flow to the right side developed a dominant right brain physiological makeup.  This results in a more sensitive, subjective and intuitive mindset which is less logical and objective.  Dr. Boyce's research:  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4677150/.

“Ember” meditation for the pineal gland

        As mentioned earlier, one method of meditation enhancement is to focus on the upper nasal cavity while meditating. As cool fresh air enters the innermost cavity of the upper nasal cavity, there is a cooling sensation. Though the effect is cooling; it can also be felt as energizing – as in a gentle puff of air on an ember. As the air blows the ember glows. Keeping this image/sensation in mind, one can direct this energy to energize visceral space awareness and it can also be directed to energize the pineal gland, but first the pineal gland needs to be located so that there is a directive for the ember energy.

       It is very difficult to “feel” the pineal or feel where it is, in fact, there may be no sensation nerves in the central brain at all. However the pineal gland is located just below and central to the paired lobes of the thalamus, and something centered there can possibly be “felt”. We’re talking about “feeling” consciousness, for it is quite likely that the thalamus is the main resting place for the core of consciousness. So how does one go about feeling consciousness? It is a slow process but not so difficult once one begins to try it. While meditating just concentrate on the body and search for the thinking process. Where exactly are thoughts coming from in the body?  In the head, of course, but go one step further – try to pinpoint the exact location in the brain as to where each next thought is emerging from.  It can be done. Trace each thought as it emerges and sense  a location in the matrix space of the brain. “Feeling” thoughts seems, indeed, a strange concept, but it can be practiced until one can “feel” the origination point of thoughts in the geography of the brain space. With practice, it will become easier to locate this exact point. Just below this locus of consciousness rests the pineal gland.  This is pineal space point where the “ember” energy needs to be projected.

     There are further aids as well. The ”baragan” stick can be used to support the arms while the fingertips point to each temple  The yoga posture of Khecari Mudra can be practiced: http://www.aypsite.org/108.html.  Continual repetition of a mantra can help calm the mind. One general purpose mantra is the word “consciousness” itself - for it is the very word we use to describe the meat of  what we are dealing with during meditation: consciousness in of itself, consciousness beyond the distraction of our physical portals, consciousness that has an essence of its own, an essence that reveals itself in the concentrated silence of awareness. Descartes was right to declare “I think, therefore I am” at that period of human consciousness development, however, ultimately, thinking is not being.  Thinking is an aspect of being. Being is the core of the thing. And that is the goal of meditation: in which thinking doesn’t cease, it just becomes part of the background. Thinking slices space, Being is manifest in space.
Another meditation enhancer could be a drop of niacin or similar stimulant placed on the third eye location will also help with stimulation. There are also many multimedia pineal stimulation presentations on YouTube Virtual reality as well as sound presentations using the Solfeggio scale: http://www.somaenergetics.com/forgotten_in_time.ph

Virtual reality technology is also being explored as a venue as well, Dr. Deepak Chopra has begun with his first production, see:
https://melmagazine.com/is-virtual-reality-the-medium-that-buddhism-has-been-waiting-for-7a0f9c2a5169#.uo2mn3wxm

Quantum Aspects of Meditation

         Meditation in its deepest state may depersonalize the meditator to such a degree that there is no longer an observer present. As we know from quantum physics, it takes an observer to collapse probability waveforms into a particle. Without the observer, locality is null, non-locality begins to prevail and matter begins to dissolve into a waveform holographic field.

         When we observe the world as a point-source consciousness we interfere with the scalar based holographic universe; this interference between scalar and point reality results in the appearance of a point-sourced image that we experience as physical reality – though there is nothing “physical” about it at all – it is just a form of rearranged energy. In meditation the point dissolves, and pointlessness or non-local consciousness begins to prevail thus revealing holographic space-time and the presence of its binding force: Consciousness, the final frontier https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo0X2ZdElQ4

Om to Ong

      By simply modifying the ancient chant of "Om" it is possible to send sound vibrations more directly into the base of the brain. The chant is the same except that closing off the mouth chamber with the back of the tongue as in saying "Ong" the sound becomes concentrated at the top of the nasal cavity.  Starting with the lowest sound possible in the lungs as the chant moves up the throat the note rises in pitch until it peaks at the end, reverberating at the very top of the nasal cavity just below the pituitary/thalamus/pineal complex.

                        Remember who you are: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjItnZ-NSlk&feature=related

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  Out-of-Body Consciousness and the Evolution of the Human Race 

           Can the phenomenon of the Out-of-Body Consciousness be a contributing factor to the evolution of the human race? According to Brazilian researcher and writer Dr. Waldo Vieira, the experience of lucid consciousness projection is absolutely essential, and he speaks with some authority for he has experienced and documented several thousand OBE’s since the age of nine and has made a thorough study of consciousness in and beyond the body. He calls the study of consciousness in all its manifestations conscientiology, and the study of  lucid consciousness projection projectiology. In his massive book, Projectiology,  he draws on over 2000 references and creates his own vocabulary to describe the many aspects of his knowledge. In 1981 he founded the Center for Continuing Consciousness which later evolved into the International Institute of Projectiology and Conscientiology (IIPC) in 1988. There are now 58 offices of IIPC throughout the world with their Center for Higher Studies of the Consciousness at Iguassu Falls, Brazil and the International Academy of Consciousness (IAC) in Portugal. The IIPC has over 74 research projects, over 100,000 members, several education centers and it has printed over 43 books and periodicals. Visit: http://www.iacworld.org
   
      Conscientiology is not a dogma, in fact, Dr.Vieira exhorts: “ Don’t believe in anyone or anything, including the information you receive here at the Institute. Experience. Have your own experiences”

        Among the many topics Dr.Vieira covers, he talks about thanatology which is the study of the psychological, social, cultural and religious impact of the inevitability of death. Most certainly our attitude towards death plays a major role in how we view the meaning of life.  However, when one has experienced the continuity of consciousness and its indestructibility….when one has consciously traveled beyond the confines of the physical body and returns to their extraphysical hometown which is the original hyper-physical residence of fundamental personal consciousness, their understanding of the significance of our conduct here in this physical lifetime and how it affects our future lifetimes will enrich our experience of every moment here and now in this physical lifetime. As more individuals become familiar with this knowledge and experience, it is Dr. Vieira’s firm belief that human society and the human race can evolve collectively to a higher level. Consolidation of the Human Race may result from the challenge of facing a common enemy or, better yet, it may evolve collectively pursuing a common goal - such as the one suggested by this organization.

           Dr. Vieira does not concern himself with the existence of any kind of physical mechanism related to consciousness projection, that it is a purely energetic phenomenon. He does not recognize the role of the pineal gland as part of the support mechanism of  OBC.

          As Captain Picard, in one of the Star Trek series, said, when commenting on human existence: “Our very life is defined by our mortality”. It looks like Dr. Vieira is trying to change that definition and galvanize the direction of the human race.

The Pineal Gland and Reincarnation 



           The pineal gland's higher function indirectly supports the existence of reincarnation in several ways.  The METAtonin secretion at time of death escorts our individual/eternal consciousness as it separates from our transient ego/body consciousness on its return higher consciousness and in a reverse manner  during gestation and early childhood it eases the introduction  of our eternal being to the material world and human society at a gentle pace all the way up to age 8. Why would such an endogenous neurochemical segue exist if there was not a higher consciousness to revert to? One must also consider the similar life after death insights reported in Near-Death-Experience studies. Reincarnation pioneer Dr. Ian Stevenson of the University of Virginia Department of Psychiatry, Division of Personality Studies interviewed over 2000 individuals who had accurate verifiable memories of  past lives. Not surprisingly, the subjects who had the clearest memories were those between the ages of 3 and 8; see:  http://reluctant-messenger.com/reincarnation-proof.htm or read Life Before Life by Jim Tucker M.D. who worked with Dr.Stevenson. Author Deepak Chopra, in his book Life After Death: The Burden of Proof is an inspiring book about the afterworld and David Wilcock in his latest book The Synchronicity Key provides several arguments for reincarnation. The Judeo-Christian culture does not generally accept reincarnation although Jesus was never known to directly denounce it, in fact, some of his references supporting reincarnation can still  be found in the New Testament.  It is believed that biblical scholars deliberately obliterated any reference to reincarnation, and especially ignored the writings of Greek philosopher Origen, due to political pressure from the church for obvious reasons. A good explanation of reincarnation begins on page 28 of The Ultimate Frontier, by Eklal Kueshana.

          Beginning with Emperor Constantine at the Council of Nicea in 325 AD any references to reincarnation were thoroughly expunged during the finalizing of the New Testament. Furthermore at the Second Council of Constantinople  in 533 AD the Roman government officially outlawed the concept of reincarnation on pain of excommunication, even death; this was reaffirmed twice again at Councils in Lyons and Florence in 1274 and 1439. There is no doubt that the Christian church chose to thoroughly expunge the concept of reincarnation from Western consciousness to keep firm control over the gates that lead to  Heaven or Hell - the supposedly only possible destination for the afterlife. Due to this bias, it is quite possible that acceptance of the implications of the higher functions of the pineal gland may meet with some resistance. Coming to terms with reincarnation is coming to terms with the ecology of spirit; nothing is wasted.

          Quite probably there are many future and past lifetimes awaiting us as well as parallel universes and the holographic space-time reality, but let us not forget how privileged we are to live here and now on this uniquely beautiful planet. Each one of us is extremely precious as is all life; hopefully, each of us will someday learn to appreciate the special gift bestowed us each and learn how to express respect and gratitude for this planet and all the beauty we have been blessed with as well as the beauty of every passing moment. We are precious beings in a precious reality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjItnZ-NSlk&feature=related

At the same time, let us not forget that there is something behind DNA and its myriad of fractal protein productions, something behind all things that we call “life”, from paramecium to homo erectus to the tall redwoods: there is a grand intelligence, far greater than anything we humans can fathom and far older than any of our wisdom takes us…at least 4.5 billion years. We are something, and we are nothing… but amoebas under a microscope.

        When a student of Tibetan teacher Chogyam Trungpa was discussing reincarnation and asked his teacher, what is it we bring with us when reincarnating into the next life? Trungpa answered: “our neuroses”.

Reincarnation on a Short Stick

GOD, The First CPA.

The being who we conveniently call omnipresent God, is also an accountant.

Like any large operation, the administrator on top does not follow the minute actions of every member of the organization. The organization has established rules that keep it running smoothly, time-worn rules and protocols that are easy to understand by every member of the organization.

It is based on the four human virtues of Kindness, Integrity, Patience and Humility.

Every individual in the organization makes decisions every day, and these decisions are measured and recorded in the individuals’ memory record, known as the karma account.

Kindness, Fairness and Lovingness is the best way to treat others.

Integrity has to do with honesty and keeping ones’ word.

Patience usually helps in most situations.

And Humility, remembering that we are part of a much greater organization, even though we may not be able to witness the grandeur of it except for ,perhaps, in our dreams, epiphanies, or in the art of others.

When this lifetime is over, we return to our source.

One of the first things we do after we move on, is to have a life review.

The life review event has been recorded by thousands of patients who have experienced

a near-death experience, or NDE.

During the review, one also considers their credit rating.

Not the credit rating of their financial life -

But the credit rating in the Bank of Love.

Balancing out our actions in terms of love given and received and the opposite.

Maybe we’ll find that things have gone well and that we’v e made a concerted effort to exercise love whenever possible, as most sages suggest. The Golden Rule is not an option....It's a Rule.

Or, we may a find that our index is wanting, and that we may need some more fine-tuning and, thus, volunteer to sometime return to the refinery, the battlefield, boot camp earth or a similar proving ground. Re Incarnation.

The wheel turns, and as it turns it grinds our karmic information, which is stored in the Akashic record.

Which has been organized…..

 by the being

                           we

                                  call

                                           God

DMT and the Transition of Death 

        Since the fifteenth Century when the Catholic Church published the book Ars Morendi Western culture has been concerned with the easing and enhancing of the inevitable death process.  There is extensive Oriental literature on the subject as well including the Egyptian and Tibetan Book of the Dead (8th century) that describe the death process and ascension into the afterlife in great detail. With the emergence of entheogens in the 1960s researchers such as Aldous Huxley and Dr. Richard Alpert considered the use of properly administered entheogens at the moment of death to ease and clarify the transition process. Henry Luce, the founder of TIME Inc, was known to use LSD to transition his death and there are many others. At the same time, researchers such as Dr. James Fadiman began to investigate the practice of (previously mentioned) microdosing, that is, using fractional amounts of a full dose of an entheogen to enhance subconscious perspective especially in creative pursuits, see: http//www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/psychedelic-microdosing-research_us .  Perhaps the combination of these two practices using DMT (with a MAO inhibitor) to support the natural  transition process would prove to be an effective therapy.  Theoretically, the pineal gland secretes a dose of METAtonin, endogenous DMT, at the moment of death to aid in the separation  of conscious awareness from the body.  DMT is the only entheogen known to facilitate this separation process, though there may be others. But DMT is unique in that it is a natural byproduct of human biochemistry and found throughout the natural world. Microdosing DMT would support and encourage the end-of-life  pineal process, especially if the pineal gland has been compromised in some way.
 
           Several institutions such as Hospice, The Living/Dying Project, Upaya Zen Center and Mettainstitute  have developed
protocols for establishing a supportive atmosphere and a progressive treatment procedure for those who are dying.  Since a full dose of DMT works rapidly and the experience usually lasts less than 15 minutes it would prove problematic to try to administer a full dose of DMT at the moment of death, however  it could be administered continually at a fraction of full dosage so that it would be in effect at the moment of death. With microdosing administration, the DMT would be working at below perceptual levels but would still enhance the transition process especially if the pineal gland is compromised due to calcification from heavy exposure to public water supply fluoride or other pollutants. The goal in mind is to remain conscious throughout the death process so that the experience becomes a graduation instead of a termination. Microdosing a neurological enhancer such as DMT (or 5-MeO-DMT, preferred by James Oroc and Dr. Martin Ball) might be an option to consider in attaining this goal.. Visit: http://www.livingdying.org/, https://www.upaya.org/being-with-dying, www.mettainstitute.org/, and www.hospicefoundation.org.

           It's interesting to note that one of the most widely recognized stages of the death process is the life review. If you ever think that you are being watched, you probably are - you are being watched by your future self in the process of returning to your eternal self. See: http://www.near-death.com/science/research/life-review.html#a01. Not only will you experience every act and emotion of your earthly existence; the life review is "panoramic" meaning that it includes all Akashic information: not only will you experience all your emotions, but also the ramifications of all your actions and the emotions on all of those whom you have interacted with, i. e, your emotional wake. Surprisingly, seemingly small acts of unconditional spontaneous love and generosity that may not even be remembered will sometimes be noted as some of the most significant acts of a person's life as well actions and decisions that contribute to spiritual evolution; embodying truth, beauty and goodness. The implications of the life review are discussed in The Eternal Journey by Dr. Craig Lundahl and in great detail at the website: https://www.near-death.com/science/research/life-review.html .  Saint Patrick is on the payroll of the church, he can now be retired; we are each our own Saint Patrick and will be given the chance to judge ourselves using our own consciousness, consciousness itself being a gift of God, or God itself.

The Concept of Lifetime Partners: several religions and philosophies suggest that we have a lifetime etheric partner with whom we are entangled. A partner who we journey with during this lifetime and with whom we are destined to fuse with at a later date. This is discussed as the "sense presence" of an accompanying guide as suggested by Anthony Peake in his Opening the Doors of Perception, the concept of the fravashis in Zoroastrianism, the concept of parakletos in Christianity, and the concept of the Mystery Monitor or Thought Adjuster in the Urantia Book.  Healer Dr. Gary Holz has written several books on the concept of personal guides. These life-long silent partners lovingly (and patiently) accompany us during our lives. Furthermore, he suggests that if this guide is given permission, it can also channel healing energy to all those whom we meet throughout our lives, but it is upon us to grant them permission.

If you don’t have an Out-of-Body Experience before you Die

You definitely will, when you Do

And if you have an OBE before you Die,

You’ll have a much better Idea

Of what Death is

And What it

Isn’t

Endogenous DMT and the establishment of Religion 

           Dr. Steve Barker of Louisiana State University and a member of the Cottonwood Research  Foundation (http://www.lsureveille.com/legacy/article_4a851c42-036d-11e2-b3fb-0019bb30f31a.html) has been investigating the neurotheological paradigm.  He recognizes, as most of us do, that the tendency to be religious is an innate human trait, but he takes this supposition one step further, he sees a reason behind it – a neurochemical reason. Most religions  are founded upon and are continually supported by founders and members who have witnessed a religious experience.  Religious ecstasy, rapture, and religious revelation are part of the common vernacular, and sometimes the stated goal of many religious sects.  Once a member has had such an experience, they graduate from being a “believer” to becoming a living endorsement.  Dr. Barker suspects that the source of this experience is not due to some outside religious avatar as most religious belief systems would ascribe it to, instead, he points to endogenous DMT,  METAtonin, small amounts of which can be detected every bodily fluid: blood, spinal fluid, lymph etc.


         This ubiquitous psychedelic or enthoegen is created in many organs and glands including the lungs, kidneys, the retina and, as is suggested in this paper and is being verified by recent research, the pineal gland. A likely societal consequence of  this phenomenon is the emergence of the religious experience and the study of this phenomenon is known as neurotheology, a term that first appeared in the novel Island by Aldous Huxley. 

         According to Johnathan Parajasingham (http://nirmukta.com/2011/10/26/the-god-of-mind-exploring-the-implications-of-neurotheological-research/), psychopharmacological research has investigated the effect of DMT and other serotonin-based neurochemicals that  act on one specific type of neuroreceptor called serotonin 2A (or 5-HT2A) receptors, which are found all over the cortical surface of the brain. 5-HT2A receptors are stimulatory; that activated receptors  increase production of serotonin in the brain, and that this gross overstimulation can lead to what is interpreted as a neurotheologic religious experience.
  
       In terms of neurotheologic activity; religions that perceive God-as-without tend to encourage their members to converse or appeal to God as an outside being, such as in the act of praying, are known as mildly neurotheologic institutions. Religions that perceive God-as-within such as Buddhism or Sufism pursue active mental (meditation) or physical  (dancing) exercises to awaken the God-within  are more neurotheologically active for they intentionally modify their mental/physical state in such a way as to stimulate neurotheologic perceptions. Then there are societies that live each moment in a constant religious state, waking each day to a wholly uncertain future but faithful that if they read the signs of their creator with focused sensitivity in each moment, they will be led to safety each night. Many aboriginal tribes lived in this manner - embracing a fully neurotheologic reality.  These societies were easy prey to their less neurotheologic brethren and were usually disdainfully misunderstood and decimated in a short time. One such group are the Australian Aborigines and there are many more long gone and forgotten. The book Of Water and the Spirit, by Malidoma Patrice Some, is an excellent attempt of an indigenous African tribesman to describe just what is lost when modern Western mankind imposes its concept of reality on an innately spiritual indigenous culture.


                                                               Malidoma Patrice Some, author of Of Water and Spirit

 Several other authors including Laurence O. McKinney, Dr. Andrew B. Newberg, and Eugen Drewermann have published books on neurotheology.   

            There is also the theoneurological approach, which is the subject of Dr. Rick Strassman's latest book The Soul of Prophesy. The theoneurological perspective assumes that higher intelligence exists and may manifest in human experience in many ways, usually through enhanced neurologically induced states of consciousness, the DMT-activated state being one of the most probable ones since it is found in many organs throughout the body including the pineal gland, and is one of the few compounds that are welcome to transverse the blood brain barrier.  In the DMT survey he performed at the University of New Mexico, Strassman observed that at the peak of the short-lived DMT experience, most of his subjects encountered interactive intelligent beings who attempted to communicated or reveal information.

         This interactive encounter is one of many possible scenarios, but a predominant one, since DMT is one of the major endogenous entheogens produce by the human body, though there are others, such as ketamine. If DMT predominates, then there must be evidence of these inspired encounters, and there is plenty – in the writings and prophesies of religious mystics and savants. Dr. Strassman chose the Old Testament as a focus of his investigation and found a great deal of evidence. A thorough discussion of his exploration can be found in Episode 40 of The Human Experience Podcast as well as his two podcasts related to this book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udLuN__F5OI&t=60s . A further investigation into the Jewish wisdom of the Talmud and the Kabbala by Rabbi Joel Bakst is his book The Jerusalem Stone of Consciousness which explores the pineal gland connection as well.

         Now that we've delved into the innate tendency for humans, particularly our less scientifically informed forbearers, to found and participate in religious organizations, it may be time for us to recognize some of the drawbacks of organized religion. For all that religions have contributed to the formation of present society and culture, mankind may soon need to embrace the fact that religions have served their purpose and are now inhibiting the peaceful  progression of human society due to the inability of the moderates to control their extreme factions (http://www.samharris.org/the-end-of-faith).  Religion has been essential for the evolution of human society for the past five thousand plus years. Most religions extol the virtues of kindness, integrity, patience and humility, however,  organized religions are just that: an organization. In reality, religions are also political entities and are structured much like a corporation that market and sell a product- hopefully, to an expanding captive audience.  Posing as a necessary intermediary between man and God, religions have found a firm footing.   More simply put: most religions, posing as an intermediary with God, prosper by their ability to keep man separate from God and intolerant of other religions.  Now in the 21st century, we have two sides, each side devoted to serving the same God and  simultaneously dedicated to the destruction of  each other.  It may have come time for individuals to become less dependent on an organization and learn to develop a personal connection with God; perhaps understanding the segue of the pineal gland may help in this way. It is also hoped that the existing religions now in conflict can calm their extremes and find common ground in healing our planet and people.

            Many ancient cultures/religions used DMT-rich plants in their initiations, Acacia Nilotica (tree of life) is found in Egyptian, Sumerian, Jewish, Islamic, Greek and  Masonic traditions ( see: http://www.collective-evolution.com/2014/05/31/the-tree-of-life-acacia-nilotica).  Much the same can be said for previously mentioned Syrian Rue. Perhaps a greater understanding of the endogenous DMT potential of the pineal gland will help us realize that we are all entitled to experience a personal religious epiphany. This is a gift that our maker has endowed us with. 

                                                                              We are Makers in the Making

We are Participants in the Creation of our own Creation

Dr. John Archibald Wheeler

Participatory Anthropic Principle
(PAP)

     In a sense, we live in an ocean beneath the surface of the atmosphere - which contains the cloud of knowing. Occasionally one of us will rise so high as to break the surface and behold the brilliance and clarity of the realm of air and light and the cloud of knowing – but only momentarily. Most humans remain submerged in the ocean all their lives, but every once in a while, sometimes due to intention, sometimes not, one will break through to the surface. If this breakthrough occurs in the context of a religion then the breakthrough experience becomes a verification of that religion, whichever religion it is. In fact,there is a University program devoted to collecting reports of religious experiences: https://www.uwtsd.ac.uk/library/alister-hardy-religious-experience-research-centre/

         It is inevitable that a certain number of people will experience this breakthrough at random – an inevitable condition of the human experience. There’s no telling who it could be - and that person will be burdened with trying to explain what they have experienced to others. But experiences, especially ones that are out of the ordinary scope of normal existence, are very difficult, almost impossible, to transfer. In some cases, the breakthrough experience will be slowly dismissed other times it may serve as an inspiration and in some cases, if the experience was powerful enough, it may result in the birth of a new religion, philosophy, political movement or scientific discovery. There are points in time when small wheels of the lives of individuals, sometimes groups of individuals, become enmeshed with the big wheel of human evolution, thus human history is created. One historian, Dr. Richard Tarnas, has made an effort to make sense of the unfolding of Western Civilization in his book Cosmos and Psyche.

        In his first book The Passion of the Western Mind, Pub. 1991, Dr. Parnas Tarnas presents a history of thought with a level of insight and understanding that reaches depths previously not considered possible for an introductory work. Not only does the reader get the particular ideas of each philosophy and era of thought, but also the cultural influence and the context out of which each philosophy arose. What fueled each thinker? What particular convictions influenced philosophy of the era? What pressing concerns building in history of thought motivated each thinker to construct their particular system? His book has been well received and is used in many universities to familiarize students with the evolution of Western thought to this day. He then spent 6 years writing Cosmos and Psyche  where he a describes  distinct and irrefutable correlation between major human events and the angular relationships of the four outer planets of our solar system. He believes and verifies that the unfolding of our evolution is directly related to the unfolding of our solar system and can be understood in the context of what he calls Archetypal Astrology. Visit: https://cosmosandpsyche.com/ If Tranas is right, then we have "fleshed out" the morphogenetic field with a full spectrum of archetypes and their relationship to the flow of time

       Is it possible to attain a permanent state of connection with higher intelligence? Enlightenment, Satori? There are those among us who have had a momentary breakthrough experience, maybe one or two, but is it possible to attain a continuous permanent state of heightened awareness as in the many realized gurus who came west in the 1960’s and 70’s mainly from India? Many of these beings were truly gifted with remarkable levels of continuously heightened awareness. Perhaps, it may be that if one can maintain a pineal gland elevated state for a long enough period or for enough repetitions,  the elevated brain circuitry becomes fused, resulting in a permanent state of cosmic consciousness.

 Pineal Gland Research