METATONIN RESEARCH

The pineal gland and the chemistry of consciousness

PANCHE BOZHIKOV
 Metatonin Research
 Consciousness to the 4th
 Entheological Paradigm

METAtonin Research
 
The Pineal Gland and the Chemistry of
Consciousness

AN INTRODUCTION TO METATONIN, THE PINEAL

GLAND 
SECRETION THAT HELPS US ACCESS
HIGHER UNDERSTANDING

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AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE NATURE
OF THE OBE/ENLIGHTENMENT
EXPERIENCE
AND CONSCIOUSNESS ITSELF

We All Have a secret passage within us that is part of the architecture of our brain.
We do have within us the capacity to consciously connect with Higher Intelligence.
This passage way is activated by the pineal gland when it secretes a hormone
similar to melatonin. We call this secretion METAtonin, a similar but Higher
Octave of melatonin. The chemically active ingredient in METAtonin is known as
DMT. We have attempted to compile all the relevant information on this subject
complete with internet references so that you can learn about this wondrous gift
that Each Of Us has been endowed with. 
                                    
                                                                                      METAtonin
Welcome to the METAtonin Research website. METAtonin is a close cousin of
melatonin.  Melatonin, as you probably already know, is a secretion of the pineal
gland that  encourages our consciousness to enter the sleeping state. METAtonin is
from the same chemical family as melatonin; it is produced by the same gland and it
also affects consciousness, but in a more pronounced way.  The METAtonin
messenger does not suppress waking self-consciousness the same way melatonin
does during sleep; instead it modifies the borders of consciousness by temporarily
reprogramming our brain circuitry in a unique way allowing self consciousness to
separate from body consciousness while remaining aware. The main psychoactive
ingredient in METAtonin is chemically known as DiMethyl Tryptamine or DMT.

Index :
Origin of the word METAtonin
METAtonin and the creation of neural pathways
Sleep paralysis and the hypnagogic state
The grip of the ego
METAtonin as a gateway to transcendent reality
Shaping the METAtonin experience
METAtonin and early childhood
Five types of METAtonin events
Incidence of METAtonin events

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 The Science of Out-of-Body Consciousness
Molecular Nutation and Parallel Realities
The Pineal Gland and the Seat of Consciousness
“Junk” DNA  and “junk” Neurons, the Glial network
Nonlocal astrocytic activity
The Second Visual Platform
Out-of-body Locales and Bandwidth
Setting, and the three phases of Mindset
Consciousness Flexibility
Mindvector
Mindoversight
Out-of-Body Conciousness and the Evolution of the
Human Race
Endogenous DMT and the establishment of Religion
Pineal Gland Research
Support Research
Environmental assaults on the pineal gland
Autism and pineal gland malfunction
Pineal Gland Healing and Activation
Physiology of the pineal gland
Internet Resources for further information
Supplemental Pages
Contact

Introduction: Consciousness and the Pineal Gland     

          The pineal gland has always held an elevated status in the records of most
ancient cultures. Today it is credited with its ability to secrete melatonin and regulate
our circadian cycles, but where is there mention of it being “the third eye” or “the
window of the soul”? Recent scientific discoveries have begun to reveal just how
significant the pineal gland really is. Each family of glands in the endocrine system
secrete hormones that stimulate certain aspects of bodily function:
reproduction, metabolism, growth, etc. The pineal gland secretes hormones that
modulate the state of consciousness. The hormone that stabilizes waking
consciousness is serotonin – which is produced by several glands in the body. The
pineal gland stores a high concentration of serotonin and converts it to melatonin,
the hormone that stabilizes our sleeping state which is produced every night on a
regular basis. Using a similar conversion process, the pineal gland can also produce a
more complex form of melatonin which we call METAtonin, a higher octave of
melatonin. Melatonin puts waking self-consciousness to sleep while the body
continues to function, rest and repair; METAtonin goes one step further by allowing
waking self-consciousness to remain awake but free from its connection to the resting
physical body. Melatonin functions on a daily basis, METAtonin is rarely, if ever,
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produced. Melatonin is easy to detect in the blood; METAtonin is not, for there is a
scavenger in the blood that readily destroys it. METAtonin is elusive, yet very
powerful and it plays a very important role in understanding the full potential of the
human experience.

          It has long been suspected that the pineal gland secrets some type of
neurochemical messenger and several famous authors have suspected that it was
DMT based. Recently several scientific discoveries have verified this suspicion. It has
been proven that the human pineal gland has a cellular structure that is capable of
producing DMT and furthermore it has been proven by the Cottonwood Research
Foundation of New Mexico that the pineal gland of rodents do indeed
produce endogenous DMT: http://www.cottonwoodresearch.org/wp-
content/uploads/2013/11/Pineal-DMT.pdf. Rodents and humans have a very similar
cellular structure and that is why they are used for endocrine research. It may be a
while before it is verified that elusive METAtonin, endogenous DMT, is produced by
the pineal gland for it is difficult to obtain samples of hormones produced in the
center of the brain, and furthermore this hormone is produced only rarely. Exact
details of research progress appear near the end of this paper.
  
         Pineal secreted METAtonin allows us to experience an enhanced dimension of
human consciousness.  The first dimension of consciousness, pure unfettered self
consciousness, was experienced in the womb from about the 49 th day of gestation
until  birth. Upon birth our self-consciousness is suddenly thrown  into the physical
world of the additional dimensions of space and time.  In this new dimension of
consciousness one is gifted with its new toolbox of the 5 physical senses, the flow of
time and the awareness of being a separate body. As we grow we become accustomed
to the parameters of this body and also develop an instinctive bodyguard awareness
of the ego. By the time we are 7 years old our self-ego-body identity consciousness is
well formed and it becomes our basic mode of existence and binding force of our
human physical existence until we die and again return to the
unfettered bodyless state of consciousness or Consciousness Beyond Life, that is,
beyond human life.

          However there is an additional dimension of human consciousness that can be

experienced during a lifetime, when, under the influence of METAtonin, the brain
circuitry is so modified that self consciousness is able to separate from ego/body
consciousness, and travel in the many levels of consciousness that exist in parallel to
the physical world including the world of dreams, archetypes, psychological imagery,
spiritual realities and parallel planes of consciousness.  The pathway to this enhanced
level of consciousness is available to all humans; it is hard-wired into our brain
architecture, like a homing circuit, although it is rarely activated. Those of us who
pursue creative/spiritual lifestyles usually learn to temporarily access or at least get a
glimpse of these alternate perspectives; this being one of the main sources of inner
inspiration, creation and illumination.  This dimension of illumination is accessed by
special stimulation of the pineal gland which then formulates the secretion,
METAtonin, whose main active ingredient, DMT allows one to enter this additional
dimension of human consciousness or OBC, Out-of-Body Consciousness.  An event of
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this nature rarely occurs in the course of a lifetime -maybe only once, but when it
does, it is not forgotten and in many cases it results in the development of a whole
new perspective on life.

          The potential for internally produced DMT-based METAtonin to influence the

circuitry of the brain has been an ever-present component of human existence
and throughout history the influence of its effect may have played a part in many of
our greatest discoveries and epiphanies. In fact, the Greek word for the pineal gland
is “epiphysis” from which the word epiphany is derived . The pineal gland is also
referred to as the “third eye” in many eastern
religions, www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_eye. The pineal gland is also referred to in
the King James Bible. Though misspelled as "peniel", many scholars believe that the
place "Peniel" where Jacob encountered the face of God after wrestling with an angel
is actually a reference to the pineal gland. Quote, Genesis 32:30 "And Jacob called the
name of the place Peneil: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved".
The importance of the pineal gland is also recognized by most of the advanced
ancient cultures:   Egyptian, Druidic, Hindu, Hasidic, Islamic, Taoist, Mayan, Tibetan
and Aboriginal cultures to mention a few. METAtonin is the active pineal gland
secretion that dissolves the borders of consciousness and can act as a portal to the
universe of the subconscious and hyper physical phenomena; one of these
phenomena is commonly known as an out-of-body or OBE experience; another is the
NDE or Near Death Experience, both of which will be discussed later on. The pineal
gland is so named due to its similarity in shape to the pine cone, a symbol that is used
in many religious themes including the giant pine cone statue at the Vatican, stolen
from Egypt, and the pine cone at the top of the pope's staff.

          Science has yet to confirm whether consciousness itself has a physical

component, and though several experiments in this area have been made, none are
conclusive. It is generally assumed that consciousness could not exist without the
framework of the brain, but again, this has yet to be proven. Consciousness appears
to be a form of software with a unique self-renewing, self- knowing feedback loop that
is cradled in the circuitry of the brain, that much is known. Discoveries in quantum
and theoretical physics have have further encouraged  inquiry into the phenomenon
of consciousness, for it appears to be one of the fundamental formative forces in the
universe, be sure to visit chapter two for further information.

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         Several researchers have also suggested that the pineal gland may prove to be
more than just a hormone production gland, it may also contribute visual imagery to
our visual cortex, a second visual platform. The pineal gland may be a third eye, but it
is not a third eyeball. It has no lens, pupil or iris, but it does have a retina. The
primary cell found within the structure of the pineal gland, the pinealocyte, is an
evolutionary derivative of the photoreceptor cells found in the retina of the eye, so it
is possible that the pineal gland is receptive to some wave spectrum via crystalline
particles found throughout the gland whose signal can then be converted into visual
imagery via the pinealocytes. This will be discussed later on.

          The contents of this research resource are derived mainly from observed
scientific phenomena as well as some well-founded speculation. We are attempting to
provide the general public with the broad spectrum of information available
regarding the pineal gland and its relationship with endogenous DMT. In some cases
we have simplified scientific concepts to make them more understandable and we
have used some sources that are not from the established scientific community but, in
our opinion, worthy of consideration. For scientifically legitimate melatonin research
please  visit:   http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1600-079X

         We will begin with a technical discussion of the consciousness portal chemical
itself: DMT. As mentioned earlier, synthetically produced DMT when it is sold on the
street is categorized as a class-one controlled illegal substance. The neurohormone
METAtonin contains this same chemical, but, as such, it is internally produced and is
an essential component of our neurological, psychological and spiritual makeup.
METAtonin performs an essential psychological function during gestation, early
childhood and during the death process and at times in the midst of our lives....a
function that we can all benefit from understanding.

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Origin of the word METAtonin 
          Presently, there is no way to differentiate the pure chemical DMT (an illegal
substance) from the internally produced, or endogenous, form.  The name
METAtonin is an attempt to differentiate these two: the natural source from the
synthetic: here is the logic> melatonin and METAtonin are both derivatives of
serotonin. Serotonin is of the tryptamine family; Melatonin is of
themethyltryptamine family and METAtonin is a of the dimethyltryptamine family.
Melatonin is a derivative of serotonin (serotonin + one methyl molecule),
METAtonin, in essence, is a derivative of Melatonin (melatonin + one methyl
molecule). Each of these is a higher octave of the previous one. Hence METAtonin, a
higher octave of melatonin.  Each of these hormonesneurochchemically shapes the
state of consciousness in a unique way.*

          Serotonin is an extremely versatile neurohormone that regulates digestion,

growth, reproduction, aging, bone metabolism, cardiovascular function and in the
brain it modulates learning, memory and psychological well-being and is therefore
the target of many anti-depressant drugs. Serotonin is principally produced by liver
and intestines and is delivered throughout the body via the cardiovascular system.
The pineal gland also produces serotonin and contains the most serotonin rich-tissue
in the human body. The serotonin in the pineal gland is stored, being kept in reserve
mainly for the production of the pineal hormones melatonin and METAtonin.

           Melatonin production is instigated by the pineal gland in periods of darkness

via indirect stimulation from the optic nerve, and this neurohormone modulates our
sleeping state. Melatonin allows waking self-consciousness to rest, so that our body
consciousness can focus on its work of repairing itself without the meddling
distractions of the ego/body consciousness and the various physical activities of the
body associated with the waking state. Melatonin silences self-consciousness,
METAtonin goes one step further. For a more detailed explanation of melatonin
production, the function of the suprachiasmatic nuclei and circadian rhythms, visit:
http://thebrain.mcgill.ca/flash/a/a_11/a_11_cr/a_11_cr_hor/a_11_cr_hor.html .
Melatonin may also increase light sensitivity in nocturnal environments,
see: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/08/040817082213.htm.

         METAtonin allows self-consciousness to remain active and simultaneously

separate from the sleeping body. Unlike melatonin,  METAtonin, is not produced on a
regular daily basis in fact, it is very rarely produced except in crucial situations, also it

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is not primarily delivered to its target, the central brain, via the blood; for once DMT
enters the blood supply, it is immediately destroyed by the DMT scavenger
monoamineoxidaise, MAO. For this reason, unlike all other hormones, it is very
difficult to measure METAtonin, endogenous DMT, levels in the blood. Since it is
rarely produced and, furthermore, difficult to detect by standard methods,
METAtonin earns its first attribute of being elusive. Its second attribute is that it is
also extremely powerful: as in its chemical acronym DMT, which is very apt, it is the
DynaMiTe of hormones. Adrenaline empowers the body in crucial situations,
METAtonin similarly empowers consciousness by modulating the neural network of
the brain in crucial and enlightening conditions by allowing self-conscious to escape
the confines of the physical body. Hence, METAtonin is both powerful and at the
same time elusive.

         A simple analogy that I use is to compare the states of consciousness that the
pineal gland modulates is the analogy of a jet pilot. Considering the major
occupations of a pilot, who is either is landed on the ground (as in sleeping,
melatonin) or cruising in the air (flying, awake, serotonin) plus there is a third option
that may never be used but must always be accessible at all times, and that is the
emergency ejection seat. METAtonin is the escape option, it allows the self-aware
consciousness circuit to escape its normal task of overseeing the body. When
activated, which is rarely called for, METAtonin has a profound effect on
consciousness, booting it to the altogether unfamiliar realm of being outside the
body.
  
         The actual process of METAtonin production takes place when the pineal gland
internally secrets an enzyme calledmethyltransferase (INMT) that catalyzes two
methyl groups to combine with a serotonin molecule, thus resulting in  endogenous
DMT or METAtonin. When needed, the pineal gland can produce a surge of
METAtonin that is immediately delivered to the central brain via the cerebral spinal
fluid and possibly the blood if the heart is functioning at that time .  Endogenous or
internally secreted DMT is also produced by other organs such as the lungs, the
retina, the thyroid gland and many other body tissues in varying amounts. In normal
situations, endogenous DMT produced by these organs enters the blood stream
where it is quickly destroyed by MAO. Due to the presence of this scavenger,
METAtonin produced in the brain cannot be accurately detected by sampling blood
serum.

          Endogenous DMT in the blood, even in small amounts can have a subtle
debilitating effect on one’s normal state of consciousness and mental equilibrium, for
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this reason a common blood-borne  MonoAmine Oxidase, MAO, continually scours
the blood and destroys any trace amounts of endogenous DMT. When activated, the
pineal gland produces a surge of METAtonin that is quickly absorbed by the central
brain before MAO can destroy it; this surge is quick and intense enough for self
consciousness to make the quantum leap from an integrated state of combined
self/body consciousness to distinctly separated states of free-floating self
consciousness and auto pilot body maintenance consciousness. This quantum leap
can sometimes induce a great deal of psychological turmoil, particularly if the subject
is not prepared for the experience and naturally tries to resist it - which happens
quite often. 

 METAtonin and the creation of neural pathways

        The three pound human brain consumes 1/5th of the total electrical power
produced by the body or about 25 watts/hour. There is no doubt that the brain is
obviously a computer-like bioelectrical organ, but a closer look at the 85 billion
neutrons that comprise the circuitry of the brain will reveal that the surface skin of
each neuron is made up of thousands of "taste buds" or receptors. When these
receptors are stimulated, they alter the actual circuitry of the neuron. In a sense the
neurons provide the electrical framework of brain but it is neurohormones that
establish and modify the actual operating systems, that is, neurons and glial cells
comprise the hardware of the brain and neurochemicals are the software. Therefore
the brain should be seen as abioelectrochemical collaboration. 

        Like its sisters, METAtonin molecules lock into the receptors of a discrete family
of neurons in the brain (5-HT2A receptors). When these Sigma-1 neuron receptors of
the METAtonin-sensitive family are stimulated, they temporarily create a new neuron
pathway in the brain architecture, a new consciousness feedback loop, much like a
hyperlink in a computer program. In addition, DMT  stimulates TAARs (trace amine
associated receptors) that are also known to accelerate synaptic activity. This
temporary alteration results in a highly clarified and heightened self-directed
consciousness that is temporarily separated from its usual assignment: that of being
the ego caretaker of the body.

          When it receives the appropriate signal from another area of the brain, the
pineal gland can produce a surge of METAtonin that will saturate the cerebral spinal
fluid in the surrounding brain area for a short while.  By no strange coincidence, the
pineal gland is located in the very center of the brain at the junction of the main
ventricle through which cerebral spinal fluid flows throughout the brain and, in
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particular, which surrounds its nearest neighbor, the thalamus, which is the central
juncture for all incoming and outgoing cranial signals (see the Seat of Consciousness
section).  Suddenly the body enters an autonomous state much like auto-pilot, and
self consciousness is allowed to exit the confines of the brain/body circuitry via the
METAtonin pathway. Thus, one is entering Out-of-Body Consciousness. Usually
those who experience a sudden separation of self consciousness from host body
consciousness when they are unprepared for it, find the sensation to be extremely
frightening and disorienting. In many cases unprepared people who experience such
a sudden separation may think that they have temporarily gone insane, and, when the
experience has passed, do their best to erase it from their memory. Experiences that
have no memory tag or cultural reference become easily dissolved. The purpose of
this article and the many others like it is to bring the concept of the pineal gland and
the Out-of-Body Experience phenomenon into common vernacular.

  Sleep Paralysis and the hypnagogic state

 
         When an unprepared person first encounters the state of free-floating
consciousness brought on by a METAtonin release, the initial effect may seem like
total body paralysis, since self consciousness has been relieved of its association with,
and control of, the body. One of the most common forms of this paralysis is sleep
paralysis which is encountered at the borders of sleep.  Clinically, if one experiences
sleep paralysis upon waking, this is known as hypnopompic sleep paralysis
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis). If the sensation is felt when entering
a sleep state, then it is called a hypnagogic event. In this state, the body framework
and body over control have been placed in autopilot, similar to the sleeping state, i.e.
self consciousness is fully aware, but it has been relieved of its’ responsibility for the
host body. This can be a very frightening until the subject realizes that he/she has
been freed of the restraints of, and responsibility for, the body and is now able to
travel anywhere consciousness determines, just by using the vector of thought.
Personally, I experienced six sleep paralysis episodes before I overcame the panic an
fear associated with unexpected paralysis and allowed myself to fly free.                  
Paralysis is not the only precusor to a pineal-activated Metatonin OBE epiphany.
Sometimes the slightest gesture or touch can trigger it. This is usually the case when
one is under a great deal of emotional stress or expectation in which case it takes a
very slight push to trigger the event.
        Nor is the unfolding of an Out-of-Body experience always instantaneous, the
transition can sometimes be more gradual: one can slowly make the transition with
precisely tuned aid visual or auditory stimulation.  Recently, two Austrian scientists
psychologist Dr. Engelbert Winkler and Dr. Dirk Proeckl have developed a device
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known as the Lucia Light Simulator that uses specially timed flashing lights to
activate the hypnogogic state of mind via the optic nerve.  This device is described by
the two inventors in an interview with Anthony Peake:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ia-cCOl-fU.  This device is now being produced
and marketed in Europe: http://www.gesund-im-licht.at/en/die-hypnagoge-
lichterfahrung/einfuehrung.html and the US and is claimed to create a “hypnogogic
light experience” that may be used to encourage physical and psychological healing.

 The Grip of the Ego

         Our body creates a very strong bond with our self-consciousness through the
development of the ego, which is absolutely essential for physical survival. As we
mature, particularly in egocentric Western society, the ego and consciousness become
inseparable; to attempt the separation of the two is not an easily accomplished task.
Our ego does not want to encourage such a separation, and the ego will usually
musters up its full arsenal of fearful emotions at the onset of such a separation in
order to retain the bond between self consciousness and the physical host. The main
function of the ego is, after all, is to protect and encourage the integrity of body-
centered consciousness and body survival. The vanity fair ego doesn't want
consciousness to wander off from its appointed task. In a sense, the ego guards the
gates to the entrance of the portal, and it can do a very effective job. Martin Ball Ph.D.
does a very good job of describing this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfyGc9-jkaM.

          However, there are certain circumstances that can instigate a METAtonin

cascade. At the onset of a natural METAtonin event one may have to pass through a
curtain of ego-induced fear that may be accompanied by the additional sensation of
body paralysis. Preceding the sensation of this paralysis, there may be a pulsing
"whuffing" sound/pressure wave that seems to come from all sides. The immediate
sensation is that one is being trapped, trapped inside a paralyzed body, however this
is an emotional misinterpretation - actually, one is being released. The body is being
suspended and protected so that consciousness is free to roam.  This can amount to
an altogether frightening yet enlightening experience. Once past the gamut of the ego
fear grip, consciousness is suddenly free to roam beyond the body. Those who take
the synthetic path and partake of an appropriate dosage of synthetic DMT usually
experience an accelerated transition without any ego grip and are literally popped out
of their body instantly.

          It is important to make a distinction here: when one uses an outside source of

chemical stimulation to change the state of consciousness, one is entering a state
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of altered consciousness; when one is experiencing a higher state of consciousness
that is stimulated by a natural, internal, endogenous hormone, one has entered  state
of enhanced consciousness; a state of consciousness that is an important facet of
human experience, one that we are intended to experience during a lifetime and one
that we most certainly will at the time of death.

 METAtonin as a gateway to transcendent reality

         It is believed that METAtonin is found at high concentrations in the blood of

children during gestation, at birth and up to the age of three or more. The theory is
that METAtonin plays a very important role in the introduction of self consciousness
to the individual during early childhood and, also plays a very similar, yet reverse role
as we approach the separation of self consciousness from the body at death. In a
Federally sponsored study conducted by Dr. Rick Strassman, author of The Spirit
Molecule, at the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque, subjects were
intravenously fed synthetic METAtonin (DMT) at elevated levels
(www.rickstrassman.com). Many of these subjects described experiences very similar
to the near death experiences as reported by both Elisabeth Kubler-Ross in her
book, On Death and Dying, (www.near-death.com/experiences/experts02.html) and
Dutch cardiologist Dr. Pim Van Lommel in his book: Consciousness Beyond Life. 
Thus METAtonin may play the very important dual role of ushering our eternal
consciousness into our body during gestation, birth, and infantile stages, and the
reverse role of ushering the previously ego-bound consciousness back to its eternal
state when we die. Dr. Van Lommel also suspects that pineal secreted DMT,

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METAtonin, is responsible for facilitating this dual transition. It has been verified
that the level of endogenous DMT is elevated in newborns but elevated levels have
not yet been verified for gestation and early adolesence; nor has it been established to
be present in the central brain at the moment of death.   Verification is further
hampered due to the fact that the pineal gland most likely delivers METAtonin to the
surrounding brain tissue via the cerebral spinal fluid instead of easily measurable
blood. 

           METAtonin may also be released at other times during a lifetime to create an

epiphany, either spontaneously or by design. The experience sparked by a
METAtonin release contains two essential qualities: First, one is very calmly and truly
fully conscious, fully awake and sober; and, second, one also finds oneself in a place
that is totally unnatural and, yet, it may strangely feel very much like being at home
again, thus, OBC, Out-of-Body Consciousness. For example: one is fully awake and
finds oneself floating above their own body and is able to fly wherever their thoughts
take them, or they may be transported to a unique otherworldly culture; some
experience a tunnel of light leading to the center of the galaxy or to an angelic realm.
An extremely emotional or painful experience can trigger a METAtonin cascade:
suddenly one is swept above their immediate locality to see themselves and their
situation at a great distance and with a great understanding and awe. METAtonin
induced experiences are generally short lived, but they can have a very lasting, life-
altering effect. Furthermore, if the METAtonin release takes place while one is
sleeping, one will find themselves fully awake and in conscious control of their dream
state commonly known as "lucid dreaming".

           Higher intelligence and consciousness exists at the quantum-entangled time

transcendent infinitely intelligent universal macro-micro all-pervasive level. Humans
exist on a limited mental/physical single-track time-space level. DMT or METAtonin
can act as a consciousness quantum booster if properly ingested and prepared for.
This is a huge jump for our limited consciousness to take, so be warned.  Of course,
METAtonin is not ingested, it is naturally secreted by our body when such an event is
internally called for; DMT, on the other hand, can be purchased on the street.
Extreme care are should be taken if this artificial short cut approach is experimented
with. DMT is unlike any other mind-altering substance. It won't get you "high". In
fact, "you" won't even be there. According to the accounts of those who have partaken
of a full fledged synthetic DMT dosage, the traveler immediately passes out and
revives about 10 minutes later. During that 10 minutes one is booted to a parallel
plane of existence that can be exhilarating, nightmarish, extra-terrestrial,
inspirational or all of the above. Terrance Mckenna gives a good
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description: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eqn5FKISlTw . This is not a drug to
be experimented with lightly... it is a federally classified class one illegal substance for
good reason. Those who do use carefully prepared DMT-based brews in a religious
context, such as the shamans of Peru, go through years of extensive training. For
those who seek information on proper preparation and consumption of DMT-based
entheogens, consult:
 https://www.dmt-nexus.me/forum/, The Entheogenic University.

         Some prefer the natural approach; start meditating and concentrate on the
pineal, if you can extend the periods of mind-silence, things will begin to happen. It
worked for me, although I had no particular goal in mind at the time. I was a serious
practitioner of meditation in the early 70's and, after a series of sleep paralysis
episodes, I had a major Shakti METAtonin breakthrough in 1973 that was totally
unexpected and completely life-transforming. At first I just accepted my experience,
but after a while the scientist in me began to inquire. It wasn't until the year 2000
that things came into focus and the result of my inquiries led to the development of
this web resource.

 Shaping the METAtonin experience

          In most cases the intensity of a METAtonin/DMT experience is influenced by

the original intent of the traveler, the traveler’s state of mind and the surrounding
physical environment . If the traveler has no intent or direction in mind, the event
may end up being euphoric or catastrophic. On the other hand, if the traveler is well-
informed, mentally prepared and has calmed and focused the mind with some form
of meditation, the results will be greatly enhanced; see the "Setting and Mindset"
section.

          One who is interested in this phenomenon may want to experience a service at

the church of Santo Daime that has several branches in the US and many more
worldwide. This syncretic (or reconciliatory) church originated in Brazil; as part of
the church ritual, the congregation partakes of a mild
natural daime (or ayahuasca, www.ayahuasca.com ) DMT- based tea, then the group
is led through an inspirational group meditation. The church setting provides a very
supportive, caring atmosphere. For info visit:http://www.santodaime.org Several
court cases objecting to the use of daime have been brought before the U.S. Supreme
Court, to date all these cases have been decided in favor of the church. 

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         There are also many forms of meditation that are oriented towards attaining a
natural METAtonin experience or Shakti kundalini, this is a slower, steadier path,
but, then again, the results usually prove be more lasting.

         In many indigenous cultures specially trained shamans use herbaceous

compounds to activate the METAtonin neural pathways, such as the Peruvian
shamans, www.deoxy.org/shaman.htm , who focus on the plant world to obtain
information on herbaceous healing compounds.  According to Dr. Jeremy Narby,
author of The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge, over 74% of
today's pharmacopoeia's plant-based formulas come from indigenous societies. The
rights to the formulation of these herbal mixtures are usually sold to major
pharmaceutical companies who then synthesize them. Other travelers, such as
ancient Mayan astronomers used their chemically induced trance states to glean
accurate information on the size, age and major cycles of our solar system, our galaxy
and nearby stars without telescopes. Australian archeologists have found cave
paintings made by aboriginal shamans that graphically illustrate gene duplication;
this is usually only observable through a high power electron microscope (see Jeremy
Nearby’s book).  All of these visionaries are raised in a culture that respects and
culturally accepts such travels. Shamans who engage in such explorations are trained
from childhood in the art of navigating the subconscious realm, which is no place for
the amateur. To do well in the uncharted realm of the unconscious one must be
psychologically balanced, true of heart and possess a clean conscience; no hidden
agendas here, thoughts themselves take shape and have great
power, www.erowid.org/experiences/subs/exp_DMT.shtml. 

METAtonin and early childhood 

          The things that young children sometime say contain gems of wisdom that show
that they have a profound awareness and connection with Higher Intelligence. That is
because our METAtonin levels are very high at this very early and wondrous age. So,
too, is the size of the pineal gland which is enlarged and steadily decreases until
puberty. The veil is slowly lowered and eventually all that remains is a shady memory
and a lost sense of wonder. Many child psychologists, philosophers, poets and artists
refer to these enchanting memories of lost childhood  in their works such as
the Magical Child series by Joseph Chilton Pearce and the works of William Blake to
mention a few.

          The pineal gland begins to function in the developing human fetus around the
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49th day after conception, and at first it is located in the back of the throat and then
gradually moves upward and inward during gestation to be finally located in the
center of the brain. This progression results in the creation a small duct known as
the crainalpharyngeal canal connecting the back of the throat to the
pituitary/hypothalmus/pineal complex. This duct is usually sealed by bone tissue in
early childhood, though in some cases it may persist into adulthood. This may explain
the acrid slightly metallic taste in the back of the throat that is sometimes associated
with a hormone release from the central brain. This "nectar" most likely originates
from the pituitary gland but may also involve a collaboration with the pineal gland.
Certain oriental texts refer to this secretion as the "nectar of sublime awareness" or
amrita that is produced by deep meditation focused on the highest chakra: the pineal
gland, or third eye, visit:http://biologyofkundalini.com/article.php?
story=TheCrystalPalace. This secretion is also referred to in the Druid culture of
British Isles as the "grail" itself. Isn't it ironic and really not so surprising that the
Holy Grail - an invaluable treasure sought after by thousands of deeply dedicated
souls throughout history - is actually a gift available to each and every one of us from
the very center of our brain?

          It is quite likely that most of us have had endogenous DMT experiences before
the age of 3, though this period of life grows more and more difficult to remember as
we mature.  Subjective experiences that stem from the unconscious, like dreams, are
quickly reabsorbed into the unconscious unless a determined effort is made to
remember them. It could the same with pineal gland METAtonin activated events,
usually these are unexpected and are difficult to describe, we have no common
vernacular to describe these events which makes it difficult to anchor them into our
memory. This could be even  more difficult when we are very young and are still in
are process of developing our language skills. This is one of the main purposes of this
article which is to familiarize us with one of our hidden gifts by giving it a name and a
logical framework, with this in place it makes it easier for us to recognize hyper-
consciousness experiences of our personal past and the experiences of others that we
may have heard of.

          However, one distinction that should be made, as pointed out by Eban

Alexander in his book, The Map of Heaven, is that when one experiences an NDE or
OBE, they are not experiencing a phenomenon of the unconscious such as a dream,
they are experiencing a phenomenon of the conscious. True NDEs or OBEs are
usually hard to forget, because they are realer than real  as was said in one
testament.

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 Five types of METAtonin events
   
         The pineal gland METAtonin induced experiences can be categorized in several
ways, basically differentiating intentional from spontaneous events. They have been
separated into 5 basic groups:

1) The first group (type 1) is based on mental focus and a desire for transformation: a
state of transcendent bliss, ecstasy or enlightenment that is consciously sought after
though focus of the mind or dedication to a spiritual discipline or with the aid of a
spiritual guide. 
    A) Nirvana, Satori, Samadhi, Shakti Kundalini or God awareness: a state of inner
peace and God connectedness attained through Buddhist, Hindu, Islamic, Yogic,
Christian and other practices aimed at elevated consciousness. Elizabeth Gilbert in
her book, Eat, Pray, Love, described her personal shakti kundalini experience quite
well. Certain forms of Tibetan Phowa meditation that result in
an OBE state: http://www.ithou.org/node/1958,  In this context the pineal gland is
functioning as the bardo bridge. Gopi Krishna, an advanced Indian yogi, maintains
that when the pineal gland is activated by kundalini energy, the door to universal
knowledge, evolution and genius is opened: http://kundaliniresearch.org/blog/
    B) Vision Quest: A Native American ritual involving fasting and prayer that results
in a profound life-altering vision. www.crystalinks.com/visionquest.html
    C) Dreamtime: A cultivated state of mind that allows Australian Aborigines to raise
themselves above the landscape and perceive the location of pathways and sources of
water and food in what appears to be nothing more than an endless desert
wilderness. Aborigines are true minimalists and pride themselves for using as few
tools as possible in order to survive, instead they rely on their carefully cultivated
ability to read the landscape with hyperconscious Dreamtime Ancestor awareness in
order to unveil the locations of food, water, shelter and other necessities. 
    D) Sufi enlightenment: An ecstatic transcendent spiritual discipline based on a
special form of swirling dance, alsoTrancedance.
    E) Rapture and other states of transcendent experience that are the result of
dedicated worship, prayer, devotion and/or abstinence. 
   F) Creative ecstasy: as experienced by many artists, as described in the books by
Rollo May.     
   G) Extreme sports and athletic ecstasy as described in the upcoming  book Alchemy
of Action by Doug Robinson and Norman Schaefer 
   H) Specialized brain stimulation. One device that uses light stimulation is the
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previously mentioned Lucia Light Simulator invented by Austrian researchers Dr.
Engelbert Winkler and Dr. Dirk Proecke creates a "hypnagogic light experience" by
using carefully timed flashing lights. You can visit one of the US distributors
at: http://vermontlucidlight.com/#lucia-no-03-neurostimulator and there are now
Lucia Light centers located in NYC (http://www.lucialightny.com/) and Boston
(www.facebook.com/bostonlucia). Another device is the Shakti Helmet that, when
used in conjunction with meditation, may help activate certain brain areas to initiate
a METAtonin episode. Website: www.shaktitechnology.com . There are several other
mind-enhancing aids available; many use subliminal sound frequencies to induce a
theta state of mental resonance that may also help trigger a METAtonin
or OBE release. 
    I) Remote viewing, a mental discipline ultimately used by the CIA and the US
Military to remotely view strategic targets. Russell Targ and others developed this
talent at under contract of the US Government at the Sanford Institute. Remote
viewers discovered the ring around Jupiter before it was verified by the
NASA Pioneer 10 satellite and were involved with locating the hiding place of
Saddam Hussein, website: http://www.espresearch.com/. Remote viewing has also
been verified by research conducted at the Princeton Engineering Anomalies
Research (PEAR) Institute,  www.princeton.edu/~pear/. Also: http://www.collective-
evolution.com/2015/11/27/how-to-do-what-the-cia-already-did-leave-your-body-
and-remote-view-something/

   

                                                                    
2) The second group (type 2) of phenomena that occur as a result of experiencing or
enduring physical, mental or emotional extremes that result in OBC, Out-of-
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Body Consciousness. 
   A) Rebirthing, now known as Holotropic Breathwork is a transcendent experience
that can be brought on by controlled hyperventilating with the help of an experienced
guide. This process may result in activating rarely used METAtonin-synthetic
pathways in the pineal gland or may in some way encourage the lungs to increase
DMT production beyond normal levels.
   B) An ecstatic transcendent collective OBExperience can be experienced by
members of an emotionally charged group, gathering, celebration, or revolutionary
movement. 
   C) An extremely intense personal emotional or intellectual challenge can sometimes
result in emotionally uplifting pivotal OBE, or epiphany. In his autobiography, R.
Buckminster Fuller describes such an uplifting experience at a point of deep
depression in his life; this experience completely changed his life; it gave him a new
perception of himself and revealed to him a vision of how he could make his unique
contribution to humanity. . Joseph Chilton Pearce in his Spiritual Initiation and the
Breakthrough of Consciousness, discusses these phenomena in the beginning
chapters of this book. Edward and Emily Kelly in their book The Irreducible Mind -
Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century devote a whole chapter to pivotal mystical
experiences and the many studies that have been made about this subject. The Kellys
recognize Strassman's work, but the book was published before the latest discoveries
in pineal gland DMT production were announced.
   D)  Out-of-body Consciousness can be induced as an escape mechanism  by
someone subjected to extreme pain, torture or dangerous emergency situation. In this
case METAtonin is secreted to allow an individual to escape from an excruciating
physical pain or trauma, as reported by many child abuse victims and victims of
combat trauma, torture, exhaustion or extreme pain during an emergency.
Hemingway in A Farewell to Arms  and Jack London in The Star Rover  describe
such a situation. In his autobiography Charles Lindbergh states that he experienced
OBC  during his trans Atlantic flight due to the effects of extreme exhaustion. This is
also discussed in chapter 3 of the book The Secrets of the Soul: Using Out-of-Body
Experiences to Understand Our True Nature, by William Buhlman, titled ”Combat
and Trauma induced out of body experiences”. Later on in this paper I mention an
incident where a friend of mine relied on and out-of-body experience to deliver her
from a life threatening situation. In this mode, the out-of –body phenomenon is
functioning as a survival mechanism. Soldiers being debriefed after serving in combat
situations are routinely warned not to discuss their combat OBExperiences after
release.
The military may have kept records on battle induced Out-of-Body incidents, but they
have not been released to the public. This topic has a tremendous potential for
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research. Out of Body Consciousness can occur both in the heat of battle and
resurface much later as a common dissociative symptom of PTSD,
see http://dps.missouri.edu/resources/Handbook/ptsd.pdf.
      E) An out-of-body experience sought by those who use self-inflicted pain as a
vehicle for transcendence, such as in the American Indian Sundance ceremony or
self-flagellation, as practiced by certain devout Christian sects.         
      F) An Out-of body experience can result from a deeply connected sexual
experience. Naiomi Wolf in her book Vagina describes the complex hormonal
orchestration that occurs during sexual arousal and orgasm and the profound
relationship between our brain and our sexual centers.  Several neurohormones are
secreted by the pituitary gland as a result of sexual activity include oxytocin (bonding,
nurturing, empowerment), dopamines (pleasure, reward) and norepinephrine. The
production of the latter neurohormone could possibly stimulate the production of
endogenous DMT by the pineal gland resulting in an OBE.  Wolf, however, does not
specifically mention the OBE phenomenon in her book.
visit: https://www.facebook.com/naomi.wolf.author. 
       Dr. Jenny Wade describes OBEs in her book Transcendent Sex,  which is based
on the narratives of 91 people who were not using drugs or practicing Tantric or other
sexual or meditative techniques to bring about an enhanced consciousness state
during sex. Apparently a special connection can exist between two partners that can
bring about a shared Out-of- Body Experience.  This unique connection appears to
occur at random; it doesn’t seem to pertain to devotion, commitment or intent. It
seems to be a form of resonance that is generated by some kind of subconscious
alignment.  Visit:  http://www.transcendentsex.org/  This subconscious form of
alignment is labelled as Macro Contact in the novel 2150 AD by Thea
Alexander, http://www.donalexander.com/macrosociety/pages/TheaA.html
     G) G-LOC or Gravity Induced Loss Of Conscious. Out-of-body events have been
experienced by pilots in high-G situations both during maneuvers and in high-G
simulators.
     H) There are many out-of-body epiphanies reported in the lives of many of our
greatest leaders, writers, artists and researchers, as well as every day people.
Sometimes these episodes are simply reported as being touched by the hand of God.
Usually the epiphany is the culmination of a long mental or emotional struggle and
results in a total realignment of perspective.
 

3)  The third group, (type 3) is the out-of-body experiences as described by those

who have undergone a near death experience, or NDE, as reported in the research of
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Dutch cardiologist Dr. Pim Van Lommel, Dr.
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Rick Strassman and many others. Dr. Van Lommels' book, Consciousness Beyond
Life: The Science of the Near Death Experience, is a scientific examination of real and
accurate conscious memories of brain dead patients who witnessed operating room
procedures that took place while their brains EEGs were flat lined. That is, their brain
was clinically silent, their eyes were taped shut and their ears plugged and yet,
repeatedly, after resuscitation the patients accurately recalled surgery room events
that they had observed from above the surgery theater in detail. A skeptic at first, the
intrigued cardiologist proceeded on a very scientific examination of the NDE
phenomena and came to the same conclusion the Dr. Strassman did: that most likely
candidate for such a phenomenon is DMT and its most likely source is none other
than the pineal gland.  This book follows a methodical scientific and medical
approach to a subject that has been long rejected by the scientific community and
comes to the scientific conclusion that consciousness can exist beyond the parameters
of the physical brain.  Of all the categories discussed in this paper, NDE evidence is
the most convincing because the OBE subject is being carefully monitored during
their experience and the subject can then verify their observations with the operation
records of the surgery.
  
          Van Lommels' book was published in 2007 ( www.pimvanlommel .nl/home_eng)
states that studies in the US and Germany suggest that 4.2% of the population has
experienced a NDE. Recently, Dr. Eban Alexander, Harvard neurologist, has written
several magazine articles and a book Proof of Heaven  that is based on profound
NDE he experienced when all of his higher brain functions were immobilized by a
severe case of meningitis, http://www.lifebeyonddeath.net. Be sure to visit the
extensive website of the International Association of Near-Death
Studies: http://www.iands.org.

         Then again, perhaps the simplest explanation may provide the answer.  The
NDE  is most likely a TDE, a True Death Experience or Temporary Death Experience. 
The body is dead, the brain is dead, the pineal gland is dead - everything is dead, so
consciousness heads back to where it came  from.  Basically we're talking about a
preview of death.  It may be that DMT provides the same experience, a death
preview,  to a person whose brain is still functioning as an NDE provides a death
preview to a person whose brain is temporarily nonfunctional. It may turn out that
NDEs have nothing to do with the pineal gland, though they both result in the same
experience.

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as those experiences that take place when one is asleep in a dream state. This is
commonly known as lucid dreaming or “night flight”, in which one becomes fully
awake, consious and in control while one is still in a dream state. This may be
a situation where both melatonin and METAtonin are working together. This
connection has not been verified scientifically, although many experienced subjects in
DMT injection sessions have noted that the DMT induced environment is very similar
to the lucid dream environment.

        The challenge of maintaining consciousness while in a dream state involves very

a delicate mental balancing act. If one becomes fully, assertively conscious in the
dream state, they will quickly wake up, but if one can remain in a passive state of
consciousness as a quiescent observer without making any assertive thoughts or
personal mental comments, the lucid dream experience will continue on. Meditation
practice is a most beneficial way to quiet the ego and the everyday chatterbox mind so
that one can maintain a state of quiet, observant, unobtrusive consciousness while
witnessing and quietly directing the dream environment. 

           There are many organizations that explain lucid dreaming in great detail and
provide exercises and even nutritional supplements that stimulate lucid dreaming
such as: http://howtolucid.com/lucid-dreaming-blog
 http://www.dreamyoga.com/ and http://www.world-of-lucid-dreaming.com/   as well
as the works of several authors such as Stephen LeBerge, author of: Exploring the
World of Lucid Dreaming, visit: http://www.lucidity.com/.

           There are some supplements that are known to encourage the lucid dreaming
experience: Calea zacatechichi, the Mexican dream herb, Silene Capsensis, the  South
African Dream herb, Mugwort, from the sage family, a Eurpoean dream
herb, Choline,  an amino acid that also promotes production of acetylcholine which
may stimulate the pineal gland, Galantamine, an alkaloid synthesized from a
combination of plants,  known as the “lucid dreaming pill.” and Huperzine-A - a
powerful ancient Asian  lucid dream supplement. In addition, there is the
supplement 5-HTP  that boosts serotonin levels at night and  accelerates the REM
cycle (or dream sleep) which amplifies the effect of the previously mentioned lucid
dream supplements.

5)  The fifth group (type 5) of phenomena is related to mental illness, which may
result when METAtonin is continually produced in higher than normal amounts, or
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when MAO (monoamineoxidaise the DMT scavenger) production is for some reason
inhibited and trace amounts of the METAtonin continually hamper thought and
perception patterns in the brain. Schizophrenia is a likely candidate for this
classification. It is a remarkably complex syndrome that has many symptoms that are
similar to weak and strong elevated METAtonin states and METAtonin is found at
higher than normal states in the urine of schizophrenic patients. The National
Institute of Mental Health made some preliminary investigations into this issue in the
1970’s but the research was curtailed for political reasons and no definite conclusions
were reached.
See: http://www.tripzine.com/pit/DMT_TA_anxiolyti and The Biological Basis of
Schizophrenia, published by: Springer Netherlands, Chapter 10: The Biological Basis
of Schizophrenia by J. A. Smith 1978 . For more recent research
visit: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1305641
 

          It is not uncommon for schizophrenia to develop during adulthood after living

very normal lives. Those who have experienced the sudden adult onset of this mental
disorder report the sensation of feeling out of focus with their mental placement in
the body and the sudden ability to pick the thoughts of people who are passing by. It
is a very disconcerting experience, especially when this sensation cannot be turned off
and if there is no explanation for it. These symptoms are very similar to a mild
METAtonin release that doesn’t result in a quantum jump of consciousness. This
could be a result of an inhibition of the secretion of monoamine oxidase, MAO, whose
job is to neutralize any trace amounts of METAtonin in the bloodstream, as
previously mentioned. Autism has also been linked to a malfunctioning pineal gland.
Please visit the autism section near the end this paper. 

       Its interesting to note that two of the most addictive habits of humanity are the
consumption of coffee and tobacco. Both of these contain mild beta carbolines which
weaken the cleansing effect of MAO, the blood scavenger of endogenous DMT. As
stated earlier, over 30 tissues in the body are capable of creating DMT and the
purpose of MAO is to keep the blood clear of this highly psychoactive secretion. The
ingestion of tobacco smoke and coffee subtly raise the default level of endogenous
DMT in the blood. Cigarette manufacturers were well aware of the effect of beta
carbolines and were sure to employ a beta carboline additive in their mixture. They
were taking advantage of the fact that humans seem to be naturally attracted to
substances that raise the level of the spirit molecule in their blood.

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at this end of this article

 Incidence of METAtonin events

          If any of you readers have had an experience similar to those mentioned above,
you are not alone. According to the Australian Institute of Para psychological
Research, www.aiprinc.org and the Journal for the Society of Psychical
Research,www.aspr.com, between 10% and 18% of the population have experienced
an Out Of Body experience at least once in their lifetime, these numbers may be
decreasing, though, due to the widespread use of flouride in public water systems.  
Another website, the OBE Research Foundation, www.oberf.org has collected data
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from thousands of recorded incidents and has cataloged information
on OBE research.  Another organization dedicated to "remote
viewing", www.learnremoteviewing.comoffers a systematic course on how most any
serious student can attain a disciplined Out of Body state of mind. This organization
prefers to describe this skill as remote viewing and claims that, in the past, the US
Military recognized the strategic importance of this skill and tried to develop it. (Spies
don’t usually do well in a realm of absolute transparency). To our knowledge, none of
the aforementioned organizations recognize the role of the pineal gland as the
instigator of an OBConsciousness, they are  interested in the development and results
of the phenomenon than in its origin.

  The Science of Out-of-Body Consciousness

      
           Presently, the scientific community is in the early stages of recognizing the OBC
phenomenon.  Pineal METAtonin-induced Out-of-Body-Consciousness events have
been experienced by many of us in different degrees of intensity, and they have
undoubtedly contributed to the inspiration of countless artists, researchers and
writers of the past. However, are these events real? and how is  "real" defined? Does
the brain fabricate the sensation of being out of the body by simply accessing past
recollections? Or, indeed, is the OBE subject actually observing present real-time
reality at a distance from the body?  Perhaps there are several types of
OBConsciousness, some being veridical (verifiably real) and some being
hallucinatory. British author Anthony Peake has written several books on this subject
and in his recent book, The Out of Body Experience he takes a very serious look at the
validity of OBExperiences and comes to the conclusion that OBConsciousness does
not actually take place out of the body but most likely take place within the realm of
the brain itself or in a holographic personal parallel reality which he describes as an
"intrasomatic" experience (experienced from within). This is the same conclusion
that researchers Andra Smith and Claude Messier of the University of Ottowa
department of neuroscience arrived at using f MRI imaging technology,
see:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00070/full. They
scanned the brain of a subject who claimed to be able to effect an OBE at will and
observed the brain activity changes after the subject entered a OBE state. They
conclude that the OBE is alteration of the brain's somatosensory (body placement)
circuitry that creates the illusion of being displaced from the body. However, since
consciousness cannot be measured or detected in any way, this conclusion may be
premature. The second section of this webpage (Consciousness to the Fourth) is an
inquiry into the nature of consciousness itself.
         From this point on speculation on OBC goes in many directions, mainly because
consciousness itself has not been quantified and the boundaries and definitions for
reality, time and space have become hazy due to discoveries in quantum and
theoretical physics, for example Peake suggests that the body, particularly every cell
in the body, is a repository for information that OBConsciousness can access. His
theory is that DNA molecules within cells intercommuicate to create a holographic
cloud of information and that within this cloud can be found micro Einstein-Rosen
wormholes that allow OBConsciousness to access distant parts of the universe and
parallel realities.  Furthermore,  this cloud may also resonate with the planetary
morphogenetic field via "morphic resonance" as described by Rupert Sheldrake in his
books, A New Science of Life and, recently Science Set Free. The morphogenetic field
is a repository of the DNA templates that resonate with each species and that evolve
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as each species evolves. Another force field or matrix that is thought to pervade space
is the elemental DNA template that encourages small particles to align themselves
into a double helix. First discovered by Dr. Ignacio Pachecco
(see:http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread600818/pg1)  and further
investigated by Professor Greg Morfill of the Max Planck Institute. In his experiment
nonorganic dust, when held in the form of a plasma in zero gravity, automatically
formed into helical structures similar to DNA,
see: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2241753.ece. It appears that
space may be programmed for life. Robert Lanza in his book Biocentrism comes to
the same conclusion, but by a different process. This  biocentric universal life
continuum encourages the spread of life throughout the universe and is a prime
example of counterentropic forces at work.  The universe maintains an existential
balance between entropic and counterentropic forces, and while a great deal of effort
has been expended the in understanding entropy, research into counterentropy has
just begun. Section 2 of this paper discusses this matter further.
          

        This connection between collective DNA and consciousness may seem a

bit over the top, but recent discoveries at theRussian Academy of
Sciences may actually verify the above and furthermore expand our
comprehension of how DNA shapes our reality in more ways than just
providing a genetic code. It all has to do with what our scientists call "junk"
DNA; that 95% of DNA that seems to be useless repetitive information, The
Russians under the leadership of biophysicist and molecular
biologistPjtor Garjajev have  pursued a much more wholistic approach and
have come up with some surprising results: 
(http://www.scribd.cometwww.rexresearch.com/gajarev/gajarev.htm).

         The human genome project was a massive undertaking, it was essentially an

examination and tabulation of molecular makeup of the human gene, no small feat in
itself. However, it was basically a biological identification process and a very
important first step. Dr. Garjajev, on the hand, assembled a team of biologists,
physicists and linguistic experts and pursued a more "wide angle" approach to
understanding DNA from a biophotonic (coherent light intercommunication) and
linguistic perspective. Garjajev's linguistic experts detected the basic elements of a
language structure in the sequences of "junk" DNA that mirrors and may prove to be
the origin of basic human speech patterns (which was theorized by Noam Chomsky as
early as the late 1950s). In a reverse manner, it was discovered and verified, human
speech, under certain conditions, can actually modify the sequence pattern of
DNA! Furthemore, DNA is actually a crystalline structure capable of supporting and
producing coherent light (discovered by Dr. Alfred Fritz-Popp) which in turn
provides a mode of synchronous communication for all the cells of the body as
suggested by Dr.  Jeremy Narby. The collective crystalline structure of the body can
also resonate and respond to the larger human morphogenetic field of evolving
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collective human consciousness.  In addition, coherent light stimulated DNA creates
a magnetic disturbance in the space it occupies. If the DNA is removed, the magnetic
disturbance field remains in the vacuum space that the DNA molecule once occupied!
This is known as the "DNA phantom effect". It is possible that this lingering
magnetic field is actually a micro magnetic wormhole, indicating the the vibratory
energy of DNA may also intermingle with small amounts of "dark energy" and
provide a segue to parallel realities. Adherents of Out-of-Body Consciousness claim
that the METAtonin-activated neural consciousness circuit is able to access parallel
realities via the biophotonic cloud of information created by the cumulative presence
and intercommunication of the 70 trillion DNA molecules in our
body. Visit: http://www.emergentmind.org/gariaev06.htm ,
 http://www.fractal.org/Life-Science-Technology/Peter-Gariaev.htm
 http://www.scribd.com/doc/47283165/DNA-Decipher-Journal-Inaugural-Issue-Is-
Published,  and http://www.scribd.com/doc/31618631/DNA-Monthly-Vol-5-No-7

        Another theory of consciousness and consciousness travel based on

intracellular biophotonic coherent light transmission has been developed by
American anesthesiologist Professor Stuart Hammerhoff and British theoretical
physicist Professor Roger Penrose. Known as the Orch OR theory, it is based on the
microscopic tubular structures that support communication within the cellular
structure. Microtubules are made from tubulin molecules that arrange themselves
into a helical tube with 13 molecules in the circumference. These microscopic tubes
can be of varying length, up to a meter long in some instances. Known
as microtubules , these tubular molecules define and create the structure of the
cytoplasm of cells; they are crystalline molecule and can support coherent light pulses
as small a single light proton. It has also been detected that in this microscopic
environment that light as a wave form has been quantum reduced to a become a
particle – which is exactly what happens in the macro world when light as a wave
form is “observed” (by a conscious being)  and thus reduced to a particle form.
Whenmicrotubules perform quantum reduction in a collective or orchestrated
manner, a state of quantum coherence, or superradiance,  is established, this, they
conclude is the fundamental building block of consciousness and may constitute the
field from which OBConsciousness is launched. The main reason why these scientists
focused on microtubules is because interference with microtubule function can
reduce a human into a sleeping unconscious state and is the basis for many anesthetic
procedures. Visit: http://www.quantumconsciousness.org/ or see interview with
Hammerhoff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEATDhaZyVA. A 2014 review and
update of this controversial 20-year-old theory of consciousness was recently published
in Physics of Life Reviews. It claims that consciousness derives from  a deeper level, a
finer scale of  activities within the brain neurons (and perhaps the astrocytes). Read
more at: http://phys.org/news/2014-01-discovery-quantum-vibrations-microtubules-
corroborates.html#jCp. 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.

        Both of the above discussions touch on the subject of intracellular

communication via coherent light. Recently Project
ENCODE http://www.evolutionnews.org/2012/09/junk_no_more_en_1064001.ht
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ml 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 the the 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/pubme
d/15898080.

            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
conclusion that recent brain research has since verified. 

         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 and unfocused, but it is a potential - to be actualized when
the experiencer returns to self consciousness. 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

because 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. According to Prof. Simon Berkovich of George Washington University
(http://www.nderf.org/NDERF/Research/Berkovich.htm), the storage capacity 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 akashik record, and this may be the same venue
that is exercised by our consciousness when stimulated by METAtonin.  For a

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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

         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 brain is retuned to a  broader
spectrum.  Dr. vanLommel suspects that junk DNA in conjunction with endogenous
DMT secreted by the pineal gland may be one of the agents that can configure
this retuning of the brain. 

 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 a 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. 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 travelled 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 different
nutational level. It may turn out that pineal-secreted DMT may catalyze the thalamus
and pinealocytes to perceive parallel universe realities via this nutation phenomenon.
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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):

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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 a wakened state.
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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/ andwww.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

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.

       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
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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,  consciousness heads back to where it came from, and if the brain reawakens,
consciousness returns.  Furthermore, 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 is put into auto-pilot mode, and consciousness, no longer
engaged with the brain, is free to head home for a short while.

         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
production in 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 high concentrations of nicotine have the same effect as DMT?, does nicotine
stimulate the pineal gland to produce METAtonin or does a massive stimulaion of
nicotine receptors create the same consciousness displacing effect as endogenous
DMT?   Finally, what is the bio-physical nature of consciousness, how is it embedded
in the circuitry of the brain and does consciousness span both baryonic (physical
space/time) and non-baryonicrealities?  

 “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 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
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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 a 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

                                                                                   A -human          B - mouse

           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 these endfeetwith 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 of if they exhibit anything
similar to Sigma-1 receptors. 

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         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, 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 visa-versa?

                                                                                  neurons surrounded by glial cells

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 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 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 play-ground 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 tool, 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 group 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

 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.sci
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encedirect.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 Alfred
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, or it
could be luminous piezoelectric calcite crystals, oroctonia, that are found to be
present in 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 , or light may not be involved at all. 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 to send imagery
to the visual cortex via the optic nerve.

          Several researchers, including David Wilcock in his book: The Source Field

Investigations, have suggested that there is a second visual platform in the brain in
addition to the eyes, an inner view screen, so to speak, that can augment and at times
even replace our optical visual circuitry. Further research by
Dr. Draulio de Araujoof 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 originates in the frontal cortex.
Visit:  http://www.researchgate.net/publication/51647290_Seeing_with_the_eyes_s
hut_Neural_basis_of_enhanced_imagery_following_ayahuasca_ingestion

 Out-of-body Locales and Bandwidth

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          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 or DMT instigated.

          Monroe described the locales 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. The
secondary visual platform is a mental phenomenon and is sensitive to the mental plane
imagery as well. This can result in a meshing of imagery from both planes.

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
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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.

        For the majority of us who have had an ecsomatic experience in Locale I, the real time
“real” world, the question has 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 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 tuned 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 verifiably, absolutely real.

         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

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many psychics, or could it be some other space-traversing phenomenon such as
Penrose/Hammerhoffmicrotubular 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. 

            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 a 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. 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. 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 and "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

 
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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 extrasomatic (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, to soon 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/obemechanism 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 class of DMT 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, ayahuascagradually delivers an organic DMT/MAO
inhibitor infusion that enters the bloodstream gradually via the digestive system.
There is also smoked and snorted forms ayahuasca that have their own distinct
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
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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 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. 

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 just that: it
exists at close to absolute 0 degrees (-273.15 degree Centigrade) and it exists as a
single point that contains no space, since all atoms collapse at zero degrees and even
light slows down to a stop.  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, 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 be overcome is that of
“thermal decoherence” as described by StuartHammerhoff. 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 microtrabecular 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 "Frohlic 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.

        Who knows, there could be a myriad of different categories of out-of-body

destinations, particularly when one considers the wide range of Locale III
destinations that have been reported: from unpleasant alien abductions to super-
futuristic techno worlds  on to heavenly worlds of wise angelic beings, the throne of
God and everything in between.

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  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 standard 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. Strassmen 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 Blumental, 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 experience
becomes 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

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        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.  When used
wisely and respectfully, one can experience heightened levels of visual, auditory,
intuitive, creative, mental and empathetic sensitivity. In the wrong hands or with the
wrong intention in mind, 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 carefully 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 change 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 bought on by external chemical stimuli, many
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
unfamilar territory that one has not experienced before. 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. Readers who have personally experienced the presence of the Divine during a
entheogenic experience might consider taking part in the Johns Hopkins spiritual
experience survey: http://flyer.psychedelicencounteringthedivine.org/

  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 even a 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.. etc. is
a very, very big place.

          This is like saying “Oh, just drop me off on Earth” – you could end up in Borneo,
Siberia, the Sahara or downtown Missoula. Heaven, too, is a vast place 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
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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. 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 byJurgen Ziewe, or
visit: http://www.multidimensionalman.com.  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.

 Mindoversight
           Thousands of people have written about their hyperphysical adventures and in
doing so many have also commented on how difficult it was to maintain the delicate
balance of being conscious of events while not becoming too conscious – whereupon
the excursion would end 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. 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.”

            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 you 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. That’s it. How long can you
stop a new thought from entering your mind? ten seconds? The problem is… that the
harder you try, the worse it gets! Welcome to the seemingly ridiculous practice of
meditation.
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           Why would anyone want to stop their mind? Don’t we spend our waking lives
travelling 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 stopping thinking, if that makes any
sense. However, it can be done and 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 slowly develops control of the thought process – of thought speed
and thought progression…. and, more importantly, one also gains control of the non-
thought process. The process of meditation encourages the development of a "quiet
zone" neural environment in the brain structure and the cultivation of unstructured
time. Once suitably developed, the consciousness feedback loop can be encouraged to
circulate within this neural zone. In this calmed neural state the ego is quieted and
consciousness is able to access background information here to fore inaccessible.

       Mantras are a useful mindoversight tool as well.  Just as

the mindvector destination image enhances the direction of the hyperphysical launch,
mantras can also prove to be an effective stabilizing tool once one has arrived at a
higher level of consciousness.  Mantras are also one of the basic tools of meditation as
well. Take care in choosing a mantra, in fact it is best to be given one by a sage and
experienced practitioner. There are hundreds of musical and theta vibrational sound
meditation CDs available also, but they should not be played too loud. It is important
to silence the mind, this silence does not need to be filled with external sound, it
needs to manifest on its own. It is out of this silence that the first whispers will be
heard.   
 
         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 expands 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.  The breath
slows and takes on greater significance as well; the cool air reaching into the upper
passages of the nasal cavity energize the base of the brain much in the way a gentle
puff of air on an ember causes it to glow. This in many ways describes the beginning
phases of Tibetan maitri meditation that focuses on space consciousness and
universal compassion, http://www.shambhala.org/maitri.php. Meditation is the
palace of 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."

        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). 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

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wave is a temporary perturbation and then it is gone. Space is the background 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 forefront by writers such as Ervin Laszlo, Bernard Haisch and many
others, for further information visithttp://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 next 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 theConversations
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 of 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 synchronizees 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 5th 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.

          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. This is beautifully described not by a Zen monk, but by brain anatomist
Jill Bolte Taylor who was forced to retreat to her right brain as her left brain died,

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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

       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 group, even global, synchronized meditation
including: www.1giantmind.org, http://globalmeditation.chopra.com/,
and http://gabbyb.tv/.

       There may be other methods of developing mindoversight besides meditation, but

they all involve mental discipline of some sort. If you plan to engage in a DMT based
voyage, it would  serve you well to make one of these preparations, but do not become
enamored with your accomplishment. Please don't think that by being a long time
meditator that you have accomplished anything - only the ego keeps these kind of
scores. If the METAtonin is going to do all that it can, the ego must begone - gently.

“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 in a
way that can 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 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 next thought is emerging from.  It can be done. Trace each thought as it
emerges and create 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
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practiced: http://www.aypsite.org/108.html. A drop of niacin or other enhancer on
the third eye location will also help with stimulation. There are also many multimedia
pineal stimulation presentations on YouTube as well as sound presentations using
the Solfreggio scale: http://www.somaenergetics.com/forgotten_in_time.php

Om to Ong
      By simply modifying the ancient chant of "Om" it is possible to send sound
vibratons more directly into the base of the brain. The chant is the same except that
closing off the mouth chamber with the back of 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 until it peaks at
the end, reverbrating at the very top of the nasal cavity just below the
pituitary/thalamus/pineal complex.

        Please consider donating to pineal gland research, see research section

at this end of this article

  Out-of-Body Conciousness 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 conscientology, and the study of 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 Intlernational Institute ofProjectiology 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
   
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      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 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 will evolve to a higher level.

           Dr. Vieira does not believe that there is 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. 

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 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 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 Frontierby Eklal Kueshana
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          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.

 Endogenous DMT and the establishment of

Religion
     
        Dr. Steve Barker of Louisiana State University and member of the Cottonwood
Research  Foundation (http://www.lsureveille.com/legacy/article_4a851c42-036d-
11e2-b3fb-0019bb30f31a.html) has been investigating theneurotheological 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, which is found everywhere in the
human body -  in every bodily fluid: blood, spinal fluid, urine 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 religion in society and the study of this
phenomenon is known as neurotheology, a term that first appeared in the
novel Island by Aldous Huxley. 

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         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, which means when these drugs act on
them they increase production of serotonin in the brain, and this
gross overstimulation of the 5-HT2A receptors leads to what are interpreted as
religious, i.e. neurotheologic, experiences.
       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 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 shape 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 God with the
sensitivity of their mind in each moment, they will be lead 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
completely misunderstood and decimated in a short time. One such group are the
Australian Aborigines and there are many others long gone. (see page 4). Of Water
and the Spirit by Malidoma Patrice Some, is a excellent attempt of an indigenous
African tribesman to describe just what is lost when modern Western mankind
imposes its concept of reality on a richly spiritual indigenous culture.
            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
investigates the the various pathways that God has endowed  humans with so that
they may mentally (neurologically) experience their creator. One of the most
profound forms of God communication is through prophesy and one of the most
detailed accounts of prophesy is the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament.
             Dr. Strassman’s research reveals parallels between prophetic events recorded
in biblical times and the experiences revealed by volunteers in his 1978 federally
sponsored research project that delved into the phenomenon of DMT, the Spirit
Molecule. The theory is that a certain signal from the brain instructs the pineal gland
to quickly convert its reserve of serotonin into DMT, which is the great grandfather of
serotonin, the Spirit Molecule.
           Historians have noted that many of the same inventions and cultural
innovations have appeared on the worldwide landscape simultaneously throughout
history. It seems as if there is a timetable for discoveries. Many of these discoverers
and inventors get their vision in its entirety and usually in a flashing stroke of
genius or insight.  Beethoven "understood" complete symphonies in their entirety in
one moment. How is such an intense vision transferred to these great minds in 
such a short time? It flows from the subconscious via a suspected neurochemical
delivery system that is hard-wired into humans. This is accomplished with
a neurochemical that our retinas, lungs and pineal glands create: the DMT
messenger. Thus DMT may very well be a major facilitator to the evolution of
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and women used Syrian Rue as a ritual aromatic and as a tea. Syrian Rue
also contains a chemical (MAO inhibitor) that can raise the default level of DMT in
the blood thus encouraging a state of transcendent coherence.
          Dr. Strassman has jumped ahead of his past frame of formal scientific inquiry
into historical investigation of our cultural evolution and is presenting the argument
that, as strange as it seems, there seems to be a somewhat of a plan for the unfolding
of the human race. This plan could be born of the mind of God and/or the destiny
mankind long ago preordained. What gives us jolts forward towards our destiny are
discoveries on the horizon that are destined to be born…insights that find their way
into the mind of man via the neurochemical messenger DMT.  This could encourage
historians to view human history in a new and different light. The Hebrew Bible is
just one source of history that can be used to illustrate how DMT-inspired insights
have helped shape the destiny of the human race.  Francis Crick called it Panspermia,
some call it the Paradise Universal Intelligence, others call it God.  Theoneurology
tries to explain how universal intelligence is continually reaching us throughout
history via the Spirit Molecule originating in the pineal gland – that an intelligence
has been guiding our evolution for 4.5 billion years. Yes, we may be individuals - that
is what we have volunteered to experience -  but, we are not alone.

          Now that we've delved into the innate tendency for humans, particularly our
less scientifically informed forebearers, 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 the extreme factions.  Religion has been
essential for the evolution of human society for the past twenty thousand plus years.
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 thrive on their ability to keep man separate from God and
separate from 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).  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 have personal religious epiphany.
This is a gift that our maker has endowed us with. 

                                                                                We are makers in the making.

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       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 submersed 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.

         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.

       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 continuous 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 permanent state
of cosmic consciousness.

 Pineal Gland Research

           A concerted effort is being made by researchers in the U.S. to verify that the
pineal gland can and does produce DMT. The Cottonwood Research Foundation is
playing a key role in this research. The foundation came into existence in 2007 and is
presided over by Dr. Rick Strassman, MD with the help of Steve Barker PhD. and
Andrew C. Stone.  Dr. Barker’s lab at Louisiana State University has developed a new
super-sensitive and super–specific means of measuring  endogenous psychedelics,
critical to the pineal research effort:

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         Verificaton of DMT production in DNA pineal  tissue: Nicholas Cozzi
PhD’s research group at the University of Wisconsin in Madison has been
investigating the gene that codes for the enzyme critical to the synthesis of
endogenous DMT, and has discovered high levels of activity in rhesus macaque
retina, spinal cord, and pineal gland.  There appears a close association between the
DMT synthesizing machinery and the sigma-1 receptor.  The sigma-1 receptor may be
involved in pain mechanisms as well as the psychedelic effects of ketamine and PCP.
          At first INMT RNA was not detectable in the rhesus pineal using standard
Northern Blot Analysis (this protocol is used to detect the presence of RNA) so it was
suspected that the INMT RNA in the pineal gland is inducible.  This means that it is a
dormant gene whose expression is either responsive to environmental changes or a
specific signal.  Shifting subsequent immunohistochemistry work in their lab revealed
a pronounced but erratic presence of presence of INMT RNA in these tissues. Thus
the potential for pineal DMT production was verified.
Visit: http://www.neurophys.wisc.edu/~cozzi/Indolethylamine%20N-
methyltransferase%20expression%20in%20primate%20nervous%20tissue.pdf     

          Advances in analysis of DMT metabolism have taken place as a result of

collaboration between Jordi Riba, PhD at the Drug Research Center, Hospital de Sant
Pau, in Barcelona Spain and Dr. Barker.  While not directly related to DMT pineal
synthesis, such research advances our ability to assess DMT dynamics in the body
overall, and will make the determination of pineal DMT synthesizing potential more
effective.  For example, it turns out that a major metabolite of DMT, the
psychologically inert DMT-N-oxide is excreted in the urine at levels 10-20 times
greater than DMT itself after ayahuasca administration. Similarly, N-oxide levels in
blood were four times greater than DMT. This is the first time this metabolite has
been reported in humans following DMT administration by any route. Detection of
DMT-N-oxide as an indicator has greatly increased our ability to understand  how the
body deals with DMT.

           Sampling pineal gland secretions in living subjects: Jimo Borjigin’s

laboratory at the University of Michigan Medical School is sampling the pineal
environment in the brain of living rats  using brain microdialysis probes. The samples
they gather will be sent to Dr. Barker’s lab at LSU to be analyzed for endogenous
psychoactive materials. As previously mentioned, Dr. Barker is member of the
Cottonwood Research team.

           Verification of the presence of DMT in pineal gland of the living

mammal brain:  May 23, 2013 the Cottonwood Foundation of New Mexico
announced the acceptance for publication of a paper documenting the presence of
DMT in the pineal glands of live rodents based on the efforts of Dr. Borjigin and Dr
Barker. The paper will appear in the journal Biomedical Chromatography:
see: http://www.cottonwoodresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Pineal-
DMT.pdf.Congratulations Cottonwood! a new chapter in the science of consciousness
and the human experience begins.

           Future Research: As stated on the Cottonwood Website: "The next step is to

determine the presence of DMT in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), the fluid that bathes the
brain and pineal. CSF is a possible route for pineal-synthesized DMT to effect
changes in brain function. Successfully establishing DMT’s presence in this gland

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adds another link in the chain between the pineal and consciousness and opens new
avenues for research."  Perhaps advanced imaging technology combined with
selective dyes will help reveal the presence of endogenous DMT, thus eliminating the
need for using probes. When this is accomplished it will be possible to monitor the
environs of the pineal gland in real time.  We will then be able to monitor the pineal
gland when transcendent states are being experienced; during the death process, as
well as during gestation.

  
Support Research 
              These are important developments and your help is needed to
continue this groundbreaking work to fruition.  Please consider
supporting Dr. Barker’s and Dr. Borjigin’s research by donating
to their cause. You can donate directly to the Cottonwood Research
Foundation by going to:                
                                             http://www.cottonwoodresearch.org/donate

                                                    YOUR CONTRIBUTION IS DEEPLY APPRECIATED!

   Environmental assaults on the pineal gland

         Calcification: The pineal gland typically shows increased calcification with
ageing which can manifest as early as age 5 and slowly build up. Calcification occurs
with the proliferation of hydroxyapatite crystals also known as “brain sand". If the
calcification level reaches a high saturation level, this can diminish melatonin
production. Calcification may have an effect on ones “sense of direction” as related in
the report: “Pineal gland calcification and defective sense of
direction.”(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1419179/); this may be a
result of magnetite crystals becoming locked into the calcification lattice
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1419179/)
Furthermore, calcification may affect on sleep patterns:
(www.unboundmedicine.com/.../Degree_of_pineal_calcification).Pineal calcification
definitely immobilizes pinealocyte function, thus decreasing overall melatonin (and,
most likely, metatonin) production,
see: http://www.nature.com/npp/journal/v21/n6/full/1395393a.html which also
describes a method for determining the degree of pineal calcification. Pineal gland
calcification has also been linked to a higher incidence of breast cancer,
see: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/81365. For research on the physical and
chemical properties of pineal
calcification: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF02008213

             Melatonin production is important because recent discoveries have shown

that melatonin is vital for the immune system, decreased levels of melatonin are
associated with prostate and breast cancer
(www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8320637) two major causes of premature death. It
also regulates blood sugar metabolism. Studies show that night-shift workers seem
more likely to develop Type II diabetes than their day-shift counterparts. Seasonal
Affect Disorder (SAD) is also linked to deficient levels of melatonin and serotonin,

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although the mechanism is not fully understood. Melatonin production has been
implicated in a variety of health functions:
(http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2008/aug2008_Beyond-Sleep-New-Medical-
Applications-for-Melatonin_01.htm). If melatonin production is diminished at
adolescence, premature puberty can result.

            The actual cause of calcification has not been determined, however once it is
present, it becomes a repository for fluoride. Several research papers report a
correlation between the presence of flouride and calcification.  There are also several
websites devoted to pineal gland decalcification such
as: http://decalcifypinealgland.com/  and http://www.mypinealgland.com/ and
there are many more. While there is no doubt that the advice in these and similar
articles may possibly inhibit further calcification, there appears to be no set protocol
for measuring the level of calcification and there is no research available in pub
med or google scholar that verifies that the pineal calcification can be reversed.

             Fluoride effects: Until the 1990s, no research had ever been conducted to
determine the impact of fluoride on the pineal gland. Fluoride is a routinely (and
sometimes mandatory) additive to almost all municipal drinking water, allegedly to
prevent tooth decay. Its use has always been highly controversial and research on the
side effects is often discouraged. Increase fluoride presence does not necessarily
result in calcification.

             Melatonin, created in the pineal gland and other body tissues as well, not only
helps regulate the onset of puberty but also helps protect the body from cell damage
caused by free radicals. It is now known -- thanks to the meticulous research of Dr.
Jennifer Luke from the University of Surrey in England -- that the pineal gland is the
primary target of fluoride accumulation within the human body.

            The soft tissue of the adult pineal gland contains more fluoride than any other
soft tissue in the body -- a level of fluoride (~300 ppm) which is more than capable of
inhibiting enzymes. The pineal gland also contains varying amounts hard tissue
(hyroxyapatite crystals), and this hard tissue accumulates more fluoride (up to
21,000 ppm) than any other hard tissue in the body (even the teeth, which it is
supposed to protect).

           Realizing that the pineal gland was the target of so much fluoride, Dr. Luke
conducted animal experiments to determine if the accumulated fluoride could
negatively impact the regulation of melatonin, reference:
(http://www.icnr.com/articles/fluoride-deposition.html). She found that animals
treated with fluoride had lower levels of circulating melatonin. This reduced level of
melatonin was accompanied by an earlier onset of puberty in the fluoride treated
female animals. 

Luke summarized her human and animal findings as follows:

"...the human pineal gland contains the highest concentration of fluoride in the body.
Fluoride is associated with depressed pineal melatonin synthesis by prepubertal
gerbils and accelerated onset of sexual maturation in the female gerbil. The results
strengthen the hypothesis that the pineal has a role in the timing of the onset of
puberty ....                                                                                                                                                
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         The levels of pineal gland fluoride examined in the study were high enough to
inhibit enzyme production. When enzymes are damaged, it can lead to collagen
breakdown, eczema, tissue damage, skin wrinkling, genetic damage, and immune
suppression.  One enzyme mentioned earlier, methyltransferase, is necessary for the
pineal gland to produce METAtonin. If this enzyme is inhibited, then DMT
production is inhibited as well.      For a complete bibliography of articles on flouride
research visit: http://www.slweb.org/bibliography.html

           The Terrible Two of the Twenty First Century: Bisphenol and

Glyphosate.  One of the major contributors to the fall of the Roman civilization was
environmental lead, particularly concentrated in the environs of the Roman
aristocracy. In our case the toxins are more subtle, but just as pervasive; they may
change the very norm of what it means to be human in terms of sexual and social
identity in a few generations. Bisphenol, used in plastics, is an estrogen mimic that
disrupts the normal sexual maturity of the human embryo and glyphosate, the
agricultural toxin that clears fields of weeds so GMO crops can freely grow, disturbs
our gut bacteria balance resulting in the production of a toxin that directly affects the
pineal gland resulting in sleep disorders linked to autism, depression, dementia,
anxiety disorder and Parkinson's disease,
see: http://www.scirp.org/Journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=53106
Glyphosate information:  http://naturalsociety.com/dr-stephanie-seneff-mit-
scientist-explains-synergistic-effect-aluminum-glyphosate-poisoning-cause-
skyrocketing-autism/ 
Bisphenol information: http://www.nrdc.org/living/chemicalindex/bisphenol-a.asp?
gclid=CjwKEAjw8oSoBRCss4qDrP3Y7yUSJACKumZ9nwyaqVxBu9U4FB7_o-
FBQIiExExkf82--NgQ61TWGxoCldrw_wcB

           Electromagnetic Wave Deterioration: Studies with hamsters showed that

exposure to GSM-900 (cell phone microwave) signal significantly reduced the pineal
glands ability to generate melatonin during night cycles, reference:
(http:// www.irpa11.irpa.net/pdfs/8e6.pdf). "...the acute magnetic field exposure was
again found to blunt the increase and suppress the duration of the nighttime
melatonin rise.”

         Studies with human subjects who were exposed to 60Hz magnetic fields also
showed this anomaly, reference:
(http:/www.aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/150/1/27). This is distressing to learn,
since we are all literally surrounded by 60Hz electrical fields in our homes, at work
and outside where power lines tower over almost every street. There is no escape
from this type of radiation except to flee to remote, unpopulated areas. 

          However, research done by Italian scientists comparing serum melatonin

concentration of kestrel embryos nurtured in strong magnetic fields (kestrels whose
habitat included high voltage lines) compared with embryos raised in natural
surrounding revealed  no significant variation,
see: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1532045609001306 

         Blue light and impaired melatonin production.  Since 2001 it has been

discovered that cool blue light between the wavelength of 415 to 445 nanometers
interferes with melatonin production, this kind of light is prevalent in flat screen
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monitors and compact flourescent bulbs,
see: http://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/blue-light-has-a-dark-side.

Autism and Pineal Gland Malfunction 

Abstract Title: Autism Viewed as a Consequence of Pineal Gland Malfunction - An
Apothesis

from: http://www.securenet.net/members/aaxt/html/AndreaPaperNewFormat(2).p
df

     The aforementioned environmental factors may have had an increased effect on

the general population  due to the heightened use of wireless communications during
this decade and accumulated effect of fluoridation in public water supplies over
several generations. Flouridation was introduced into U.S. Public Health policy in
1951 and had reached 50 million people by 1960. The author of this abstract
recognizes the deteriorating effect of electromagnetic fields and trauma on the pineal
gland, but does not mention fluoridation as a possible agent of infant pineal gland
malfunction since calcification occurs later in life.

 Author: Andrea Axt, PhD, RPP, FQM

Craniosacral/Polarity Associates of Montreal

First published (in English) in the Polish scientific journal

"Farmakoterapia w Psychiatrii i Neurologii," Number 98, 1, pages 112-134

 A synopsis of the abstract:

         In the annals of pineal research there is some speculation that the occurrence of
schizophrenia is due to low, but still debilitating, levels of endogenous DMT in the
body.  However this is one of the first investigations to theorize that the cause of
autism is due to a similar condition: the presence of unwelcome neurotransmitters
possibly contributed by a malfunctioning pineal gland.

          Dr. Andrea Axt has studied the connection between autism and the pineal gland
for 20 years and concludes: “autistic individuals manifest all of the characteristics
that are associated with a malfunctioning pineal gland”.  Autism is defined as a
lifelong inability to properly process sensory input and the resulting inability to learn,
communicate or to understand human emotional signals. Her research indicates that
this condition is a result of: erratic melatonin secretion, the secretion of improperly
modified melatonin derivatives, the destruction of melatonin-
producing pinealocytes which do not regenerate after birth and/or the influence of
environmental factors including electromagnetic fields and chemical pollutants.
Pineal gland malfunction can also result from the destruction or improper fetal
development of the gland itself or of the neuronal pathway that connects the optic
nerve with the pineal gland via the spinal cord and the superior cervical ganglion. 

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Proper pineal gland function is also essential for the health of the cerebral spinal fluid
which must maintain a delicate balance of several essential neurotransmitters.

           The pineal gland is the first gland to be formed in the emerging embryo; if for
some reason it begins to malfunction at the fetal stage, it could have a profound effect
on all the endocrine glands that develop later on since they tend to influence each
other, possibly creating a major systemic imbalance. Melatonin is found throughout
the natural world and in living organisms as far back as 3 billion years and is one of
the fundamental hormones essential for establishing and maintaining homeostasis.
In conjunction with the optic nerve, the pineal gland synchronizes melatonin
production with the daily cycle of sunlight to establish the circadian rhythm which is
the default operating cycle for the human body.  If this essential time link to the
outside world is not established it can result into a form of psychological vertigo
where the victim can find no anchor and thus lack a basic framework for a healthy
ego to form in. Without a stable ego, one has no reference from which to make
decisions, to form a personality or to recognize other personalities. The pineal gland
helps the individual transduce the physical world.

         There is a further area of malfunction, and that is the possibility for abnormally
generated melatonin to chemically evolve into consciousness-
enhancing indoleamines at a stage in life when such enhancements prevent the
individual from experiencing normal development. Melatonin can undergo cyclic
dehydration to form 10-methoxyharmalan, a powerful hallucinogenic substance and,
as stated earlier on this webpage, melatonin can ĵalso be modified to form
METAtonin, endogenous DMT, also a very powerful enhancer.

        Dr. Axt fully develops the above concepts in her abstract; she then presents a
summary table that itemizes the possible links between the common symptoms of
autism and a malfunctioning of the pineal gland. Dr. Axt has had extensive
therapeutic experience with five hundred autistic children for over 20 years; she then
describes 7 case histories where the patient’s condition was markedly improved with
melatonin supplementation and bodywork. Dr. Axt recognizes that a great deal more
research is needed to validate her hypothesis and provides suggestions as to how this
research could proceed. See glyphosate link in the previous Envorinmental Assaults
section.

        It could be pointed out that several of  Dr. Axt’s arguments for autism could be
used to describe the onset of schizophrenia with the difference being that one
disorder evolves at a prenatal stage and the other after puberty; since the brain is at a
different stage of development, the  symptoms of the disorder will also differ. In fact
Dr. Axt mentioned that in the early days autism was called "infantile schizophrenia".

 Pineal Gland Healing and Activation

       There are several articles and practices that suggest the pineal gland can be
cleansed and/or activated.  To date there is no scientific evidence that verifies the
validity of these practices. These include: cleansing diets, herbal supplements
(tamarind, borax, zeolite and iodine)multimedia (sound and imagery) stimulation,
acupuncture, yoga postures, holotropic breathwork:
(http://holotropicbreathworkla.com, http://www.globalhealingcenter.com/natural-
health/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-the-pineal-gland/and www.paradigms
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hiftmagazine.com/Issue29sample.pdf )also: 
flashing light sequences (Lucia Light) and light itself as nutrition/medication or
sungazing: 
(http://charbelmaklouf.wordpress.com/2013/06/08/nasa-confirms-super-human-
abilities-gained-through-sungazing/) .
 All of these are worthy of investigation and perhaps someday selected frequencies of
light and sound combined with meditation, breathing technique, acupressure,
acupuncture, magnetic fields and nutritional supplements may yield results. Please
keep us posted if you hear of any developments or scientific studies related to healing
or activation of the pineal gland. The two main acupressure points are GV20 at the
top of the head an a bit towards the posterior and the third eye spot between the
eyebrows. A discussion of the pineal gland and sensitivity to geomagnetic fields can
be found at: http://www.psi-researchcentre.co.uk/article_10.htm

         Focused breathwork is a simple yet exceedingly powerful healing tool.

Heretofore, it was believed that the autonomic nervous system could not be
manipulated by the conscious mind. The phenomenal Dutchman,  Wim Hof
(http://www.icemanwimhof.com/vice-documentary#vice-video ) using his directed
breathwork is on his way to prove that we can consciously control the focus of our
immune system, the rate of metabolism, adrenal production and hypothalamus
function. Perhaps, some day, focused breathwork therapy will enable us to unlock the
power of the pineal gland.  Go Dutchman!

       In terms of activities that encourage the pineal gland to grow in size, there is one
study of note. NASA has been studying the potential of human photosynthesis for
space travel. They have been studying the HMS sungazing method and among the
results it has been observed that the pineal gland of volunteers have grown in size.
There are only a few volunteers, so at this point, this is only an observation. Pineal
gland measurement has been part of the procedure because it is indirectly linked to
the optic nerve - necessary for melatonin production. See the above link for further
information. Hopefully NASA will release more information in the near future.
Recently a young German film maker Peter Scorcher released a full length movie Eat
The Sun on this topic as well as the documentary In The Beginning There Was
Light at: http://www.lightdocumentary.com/. The blog:
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2012/04/27/eat-the-sun-sun-worshiping-
fantasy-versu/ questions the validity of such claims

       As mentioned earlier, there may be a connection between lucid dreaming and
pineal gland METAtonin secretion during REM sleep. If this is the case, then it is
most likely that supplements that are known to encourage lucid dreams are also
stimulating the pineal gland to secrete METAtonin. Here is a list of some of the better
known supplements, which also appears in the lucid dreaming article: Calea
zacatechichi, the Mexican dream herb, Silene Capsensis, the  South African Dream
herb, Mugwort, from the sage family, an Eurpoean dream herb, Choline,  an amino
acid that also promotes production of acetylcholine which may stimulate the pineal
gland, Galantamine, an alkaloid synthesized from a combination of plants,  known as
the “lucid dreaming pill.” Huperzine-A - a powerful ancient Asian  lucid dream
supplement. Also, there is the supplement 5-HTP  that boosts  serotonin levels at
night and  accelerates the REM cycle (or dream sleep), this theoretically amplifies the
effect of the previously mentioned lucid dream supplements.

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      Dr. Walter Pierpaoli, http://www.drpierpaoli.com/ENG/Melatonin-Prolongs-
Your-Life-e91bc700, suggests that daily intake of natural melatonin can be of great
benefit to the pineal gland: "Melatonin supplementation prevents aging-related
diseases, delays your aging, and automatically prolongs your life by impeding and
diminishing the progressive hypothalamic alteration of  feedback hormonal
regulation, as described  by Dilman. This is not a direct process, none the less  it
effectively maintains youthful pineal function! The nocturnal administration of
melatonin prevents the aging pineal gland from initiating this alteration process. The
presence of exogenous supplemental melatonin in the blood sends a  "do not work"
signal to the pineal and  not only protects the "central hormonal director", it also
encourages a recovery of its regulatory capacity to modulate hormonal cycles. As a
result,  the pineal gland is rejuvenated. 

            Not only is the pineal our central daily "life clock", it also actively influences
our aging in the course of  life with an aging and death "program" (14). Clearly
genetically and evolutionary originated mechanisms in the pineal gland modulate the
course of our life and also generate the signals to initiate the end of our life program.
This is shown in the experiments we reported in a recent work (15). Therefore, the
basic mechanisms for our aging must be sought in our pineal gland and also its links
to the entire neuroendocrine network (16). We age because our "pineal network" is
"programmed" to deteriorate (12) and therefore we must use exogenous night
melatonin in order to maintain its integrity and thus prevent the typical course of the
aging syndrome inside the pineal gland. Only natural melatonin can protect the
pineal gland from programmed aging!" The links to the above footnotes can be found
on his webpage. The many benefits of maintaining a healthy level of melatonin are
fully discussed in Dr. Pierpaoli's book The Melatonin Miracle. Recently the sale of
melatonin has been banned in several European countries and Canada, for reasons
that are not entirely clear,
see:  http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/melatonin-banned/

 Verification
      Pineal calcification levels can easily be determined by present-day imaging
techniques, so it would be very easy to verify if a particular pineal cleansing technique
was actually effective in reducing calcification. Detection of pineal METAtonin
activation is a much more demanding challenge. Presently the only way to detect the
presence of endogenous DMT or METAtonin in the proximity of the pineal gland is
by using invasive brain probes - which could prove to be very problematic.  Hopefully
advanced imaging technology combined with special dyes will enable scientists to
verify that the pineal gland secretes METAtonin into the cerebral spinal fluid
surrounding the thalamus at a point in time when a volunteer has naturally achieved
a state of enhanced consciousness - an event that may happen only once in a lifetime.

  Physiology of the pineal

gland: Visit: http://www.neuroradiology.ws/pinealomasphysiology.
 Internet Resources for further information 
PINEAL GLAND/METAtonin, Endogenous DMT CONNECTION 

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www.rickstrassman.com Author of the groundbreaking book The Spirit Molecule which
now been made into a movie
www.thespiritmolecule.com The official website of the movie version of The Spirit
Molecule 
http://www.cottonwoodresearch.org, Dr. Strassmans foundation that is sponsoring
research in the Pineal/EDMT, Metatonin connection
http://www.anthonypeake.com Anthony Peake is one of today’s foremost writers on the
subject of hyperphysical phenomenon, consciousness and the out-of-body phenomenon.
http://www.dmtsite.com/  James Oroc's Tryptamine Palace highly informative website
on DMT and 5-MeO-DMT,
http://neurotheology.50megs.com/whats_new.html An excellent article on DMT.
http://www.realitysandwich.com/meditations_pineal_gland An article about
verification of link between meditation and pineal gland activity as determined by real
time MRI brain scans.
https://www.dmt-nexus.me/forum An excellent forum on all aspects of DMT including
speculation on the pineal gland connection 
www.lysergia.com/LamaWorkshop/lamaEndohuasca.htm A website devoted
to Endohuasca, another term to describe endogenous DMT and experiences related to it.
http://rashidaanurse.blogspot.com/2011/01/pineal-gland-third-eye.html An Islamic
perspective of the pineal gland, considered to be a "meta" organ.
http://www.ayurvedacollege.com/print/articles/students/pineal_gland The Mysterious
Pineal Gland (by Michael Anderson C.A.S.), a very readable history of the pineal gland.
http://ajitvadakayil.blogspot.com/2010/05/pineal-gland-third-eye-capt-ajit.html  A
beautifully illustrated website dedicated to the pineal/dmt/pinoline  connection
http://www.aton432hz.info/Blog/Entries/2013/10/28_Ananda_Bosman_Pineal_Power_Scienc
e.html. Ananda Bosman discusses her work with
Dark Room Retreats which encourage the production of pinoline, an essential adjunct to
DMT function.

OUT-OF-BODY CONSCIOUSNESS/LUCID DREAMING RESOURCES

http://www.multidimensionalman.com, Jurgen Ziewe’s website describes the many

dimensions of consciousness as discovered in his mayOBE explorations as well as a
gallery of his art which depicts many of the realms he has experienced. He is the author
of The Multidimensional Man
www.astralinfo.org/, William Buhlman’s website. He is the author of Adventures Beyond
the Body and The Secret of the Soul  and is a veteran of many OBE travels.
www.oberf.org/: Website of the Out of Body Experience Research Foundation (OBERF)
http://www.gesund-im-licht.at/en/the-hypnagogic-light-experience/introduction.html,
The Lucia Light Simulator webpage that describes a specialized light generator that
stimulates a shift in consciousness similar to a mild METAtonin event.
http://howtolucid.com/lucid-dreaming-blog a very informative and inspiring website
about lucid dreaming.
http://www.dreamyoga.com/a website devoted to a specialized form of yoga exercise and
lifestyle that promotes lucid dreaming.
www.spiritualtravel.org An extensive resource for information on both OBEs and NDEs.
www.obe4u.com/ An extensive resource for information on both OBEs including
instructions on how to direct OBE travel to different destinations as well as the free
download book: School of Out-Of- Body Travel – A Practical Guide.
www.robertpeterson.org/obebook.html Robert Peterson is the author of Out of Body
Experiences, How to have them and What to Expect. This book can be read in its entirety
on this website.
http://www.baytallaah.com/bookspdf/132.pdf : is an online book by

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William Buhlman, Adventures Beyond the Body - HOW TO EXPERIENCE
OUT-OF-BODY TRAVEL
http://www.lucidity.com/ Stephen LeBerge’s website for the Lucidity
Institute that offers training workshops for OBEs 
www.drbrucegoldberg.com/newlart3.htm Website of  Dr. Bruce Goldberg, author
of Exploring The Fifth Dimension: Parallel Universes, Teleportation and Out-of-Body
Travel
www.world-of-lucid-dreaming.com Rebecca Turner’s extensive NDE website. Ms. Turner
has beed lucid dreaming since she  was 14 years old.

NEAR DEATH CONSCIOUSNESS RESOURCES

http://www.near-death.com/ An extensive website devoted to Near Death Experiences

and the Afterlife that is fully documented and approaches the NDE from almost every
possible perspective.
http://www.nderf.org/ Website of the Near Death Experience Research Foundation, the
worlds largest NDE website now published in 23 languages.Underline
www.pimvanlommel.nl Cardiologist Dr. Pim van Lommel's NDE website, a very scientific
approach.
http://pmhatwater.com/ PMH Atwater, Phd.  has written six books on NDEs including
those experienced by children.
http://iands.org/home.html Neurosurgeon Dr. Alexander Eban’s well-
documented website devoted to NDEs, based on his own personal life-
changing NDE experiences.
http://aleroy.com/   Ken Katin’s educational website dedicated to explaining NDEs.      

MEDITATION/CONSCIOUSNESS RESOURCES

http://www.ithou.org/node/1958  Shows a video of the Dalai Lama and his comments

on phowa meditation which is a means of separating consciousness from the body and
entering a state of bardo consciousness.
http://www.iacworld.org  Waldo Vieira's International Academy of Consciousness based in
Brasil.
http://icrl.org/basic-research/ ICRL is an international, interdisciplinary, and inter-generational
consortium of some 75 members, most of whom have been associated with the Princeton
Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR). Presently about 5 consciousness related research
projects are underway.\
http://www.closertotruth.com/topics/consciousness/consciousness Is an excellent series of
interviews with today's leading pioneers of consciousness research.
http://www.freemeditations.com/benefits-of-meditation-increased-telomerase.html. A study
done by the Shamatha Project has shown that intensive meditation can lead to increases
in telomerase, an enzyme important for the long-term health of cells in the body and
longevity.
http://journals.lww.com/neurologynow/Fulltext/2012/08040/Meditation_as_Medicine.9.aspx  
Neurology Nowmagazine article by AmyPaturel describes how meditation stabilizes the
brains default mode network, DMN, or default waking consciousness, also noted is a
thickening of gray and white brain matter.
http://www.noetic.org/library/book-reviews/irreducible-mind/ a review of the book The
Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century a scholarly investigation
into the the significance of unexplainable consciousness experiences such as NDEs,
paranormal abilities observed in meditators and yogis and mystical experiences.
http://www.amrityoga.org/more-teachings/thirdeye-meditation.html  An
article by Yogi
Amrit Desai about the significance of Pineal Gland focused meditation.
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http://www.livingwordsofwisdom.com/third-eye-meditation.html A webpage devoted to Pineal
awareness meditation
http://www.mythaphi.com/#/ a website devoted to an anticipated evolutionary shift in
consciousness in its many manifestations
http://www.eman8.net/human-evolution-who-are-we-becoming/ describes the 8 stage
consciousness evolution process as developed by Professor Clare W.  Graves of Union College, Go
Dutchmen!

                                       Conclusion
         We hope we have inspired you, dear reader, to do further research yourself.
Probably the first place to start is by reading Dr. Rick Strassman’s book, The Spirit
Molecule. This book is fully documented with an extensive bibliography.  Dr. Jeremy
Narby's book, The Cosmic Serpent, DNA, and the Origins of Knowledge, may prove
interesting also as well as the work of Dr. Pim vanLommel, Anthony Peake, and
Dr. Eban Alexander. A simple search on the Internet using terms such as: OBE, DMT,
Pineal gland, DNA morphogenetic consciousness, remote viewing, Shakti Kundalini,
nonlocal quantum communication, the eight circuits of the brain theory  etc. will
provide further information. Each of us has been endowed with this gift and each of
us will discover it in our own way. 

       Any serious scholars, writers or scientists who are interested in pursuing this
phenomenon have our full support.  If you are engaged in a project that involves the
pineal gland and have a question about any of the concepts presented in this paper or
need any further information, please contact us and we will do our best to support
you in any way we can. If we can't provide the answer, we can probably put you in
touch with someone who can.
 
      This internet-based pineal gland research resource was created as a result of a life-
changing METAtonin event that occured to me in 1974 in Pownal, Vermont. It wasn't
until the year 2000 that this writer was encouraged to inquire into the origin of the
experience, brought on by a series of seemingly spontaneous events. Please excuse
any errors that you may have encountered and inform us so that we may correct
them. 

         Thank you, dear reader, and thank you, too, all who have knowingly and
unknowingly helped me gather  and assemble
this information; may it be of use to you. Very few of these words are originally mine,
almost all have been gleaned and polished from the writings of others. So, too, for the
majority of the images which came from Google images. MBS provided the drawings.
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        *Melatonin is actually a misnomer. It is based on the Greek term "mela" meaning
black and "tonin" which may have been borrowed from the word serotonin or
perhaps may mean "to shrink" as Strassman suggests . When melatonin was first
discovered as a secretion of the pineal gland in 1958, it was observed that it could
lighten dark discolorations of the skin. Later on the neurological function of
melatonin was discovered, but the name remained.  The term "serotonin" is
something of a misnomer as well and is based on the English terms "ser" as in serum
and "tone" as in "to firm". The name reflects the circumstances of the compound's
discovery: serotonin was first identified as a substance in blood serum that
constricted or toned blood vessels; its neurological significance was identified later
on.
         The term METAtonin originated as a typographical error on my word processor,
however at that very time I was searching for a generic term that would describe the
endogenous DMT-based secretion of the pineal gland, a secretion very similar to
melatonin that functions at a higher octave, and the name seemed to fit perfectly. Ten
years later I found this term in the book The Invisible Landscape, pg. 65, by Terrance
and Dennis McKenna - apparently a typo as well.  The first four letters are capitalized
so as to differentiate its similarity to melatonin with which it is easily confused. Other
appropriate terms for this endogenous pineal secretion could be the
acronym EDMT  (EndogenousDMT), Spiritonin (as in Spirit
Molecule), Anavatonin(from the Greek: ascension), Peratonin (from the Greek:
beyond) or perhaps the term Endohuasca that was suggested by Jonathan
Ott, enthobotanist and author of Ayahuasca Analogues Pangean Entheogens, which
is probably the first book that ever exposed me to the concept of the spirit molecule.
 
Supplemental Pages:
       There are two more pages following Metatonin Research that are germane to the
pineal gland, METAtonin and the study of consciousness.

 Page 2: Consciousness to the Fourth Power. An investigation into four levels of

universe reality: all bound together and perhaps preceded by consciousness itself. GO
TO PAGE 2 

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 PAGE 3: The Entheological Paradigm: Is a discussion of the work of Dr. Martin Ball who
maintains that the proper use of entheogens can bring about a positive development in our
society and culture by expanding the borders of our consciousness and our relationship with
Higher Intelligence. GO TO PAGE 3 

  Contact the author, email: chemistryofconsciousness@gmail.com. We

welcome any comments or suggestions.

Drawings "Vitae" and "Pineal Power" compliments of Martha Barrett Schwerdtle,

Roxbury, CT, copyright 2012

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