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AIDS, GENETIC WAR AIDS (GENETIC WAR) Since some believe that the virus is man-made, specifically designed to attack the most important alternative to procreation (male homosexuality), we cannot see it as responding to psychic suggestions to change its habits. If it were a naturally occurring life-form, it would be automatically part of the evolutionary stream and quite attuned, even ready for "mental" implementation of punctuated morphogenesis. We are beginning to see that this is indeed a "war" and learning at the same time that war at every level derives from a basic misunderstanding of human social interaction and hardly occurs at all within the biosphere itself Evolution is neither a battle for the survival of the fittest, nor is it the chaotic result of random mutations. We now know that the origin of species proceeds in cooperation with and as part of the conscious continuum of all life. Evolution, when the time is right, moves by quantum leaps to sudden new stages, as if by common consent. It's only through human interference that some single, bizarre weed winds up choking everything else out. In the highly unnatural case of the HIV virus, what we are seeing is a device specifically designed to pollute all the streams of life at once (generation, nurture and maintenance). It is a quite human-like biological tyrant bent on specific genocide In studying Sheldrake's "punctuated evolution" we suddenly understand why our intuition has already told us that the HIV virus was man-made (or engineered). As a naturally-occurring genetic leap, HIV is too fantastic to consider. Even if abrupt evolutionary leaps were the rule, not the exception, and even if evolution itself is part of the omni-conscious sphere of synchronous reality-alternation, it's still too giant a biodic jump for a virus suddenly to decide to take up residence within the human DNA factory merely in order to bypass that annoying (to it!) "somatic individuation" phase. Viruses don't become that sophisticated that quickly. It's the equivalent of the next generation of the human race suddenly to be born with fully-functioning wings sprouting out of everyone's shoulder blades. The theory, or course, amongst bio-metaphysicians, is that the body is merely a highly practical mechanism for the housing and passing on of the genetic code. One of the body's more clever defenses is the brain, designed to repair itself, built to last at least twice as long as any other organ and encased in a hard, nearly impregnable shell (the skull). But the cerebrum isn't just a defender of the body. It has, so to speak, a mind of its own and its own goals preempt the instincts. What's more, cerebral goals conflict with the goals of the genes. AIDS and the whole contemporary world of the 90's - with its pollution, rain forest depletions, baby boom, etc. - constitute the casualties of a genetic war directed specifically against the cortex, occurring on a deeply subnatural level of the global collective unconscious As there are mental and spiritual planes, so there are various material planes. The "common consent" of the whole earth consciousness has been shattered in our time and the result is an insane interplanary (sic) war between the goals of the DNA and the goals of the human brain. Ideally, these goals should coincide, as with planned eugenics. Instead, we have mindless acquiescence to the genetic urge to procreate at any cost - regardless of the hideous consequences of overpopulation. Genetic consciousness knows only bodily success. It has no way of perceiving the larger context which is visible to the cortex: pollution, famine, despair, etc. (See also: AIDS, GENETIC WAR, Magick, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Body Mind and Soul, )
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Soma Soma (Sanskrit) In Hinduism, the moon astronomically; mystically, a sacred beverage of initiates, "made from a rare mountain plant by initiated Brahmans" (TG 304). As the moon, Soma is an occult mystery, for the moon as a symbol stands for both good and evil, yet more often a symbol of evil than of good. Astrologically, Soma is the regent of the invisible or occult moon, while Indu represents the physical moon. "Soma is the mystery god and presides over the mystic and occult nature in man and the Universe" (SD 2:45). Soma or lunar worship was once purely occult and its rites were based upon a minute and profound knowledge of nature. According to Hindu tradition, Soma as a sacred juice gave mystic visions and trance-revelations, the result of which union was Budha (esoteric wisdom). This sacred beverage was drunk by Brahmins and initiates during their mysteries and sacrificial rites. "The 'Soma' plant is the asclepias acida, which yields a juice from which that mystic beverage, the Soma drink, is made. Alone the descendants of the Rishis, the Agnihotri (the fire priests) of the great mysteries knew all its powers. But the real property of the true Soma was (and is) to make a new man of the Initiate, after he is reborn, namely once that he begins to live in his astral body . . .; for, his spiritual nature overcoming the physical, he would soon snap it off and part even from that etherealized form. . . . "The partaker of Soma finds himself both linked to his external body, and yet away from it in his spiritual form. The latter, freed from the former, soars for the time being in the ethereal higher regions, becoming virtually 'as one of the gods,' and yet preserving in his physical brain the memory of what he sees and learns. Plainly speaking, Soma is the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge forbidden by the jealous Elohim to Adam and Eve or Yah-ve, 'lest Man should become as one of us' " (SD 2:498-9&n). "A 'soma-drinker' attains the power of placing himself in direct rapport with the bright side of the moon, thus deriving inspiration from the concentrated intellectual energy of the blessed ancestors. . . . "This which seems one stream (to the ignorant) is of a dual nature -- one giving life and wisdom, the other being lethal. He who can separate the former from the latter, as Kalahamsa separated the milk from the water, which was mixed with it, thus showing great wisdom -- will have his reward" (BCW 12:203-4). "This Hindu sacred beverage answers to the Greek Ambrosia or nectar, drunk by the gods of Olympus. A cup of kykeon was also quaffed by the mysta at the Eleusinian initiation. He who drinks it easily reaches Brahma, or the place of splendor (Heaven). The soma-drink known to Europeans is not the genuine beverage, but its substitute; for the initiated priests alone can taste of the real soma; and even kings and rajas, when sacrificing, receive the substitute. . . . We were positively informed that the majority of the sacrificial priests of the Dekkan have lost the secret of the true soma. It can be found neither in the ritual books nor through oral information. The true followers of the primitive Vedic religion are very few; these are the alleged descendants from the Rishis, the real Agnihotris, the initiates of the great Mysteries. The soma-drink is also commemorated in the Hindu Pantheon, for it is called King-Soma. He who drinks of it is made to participate in the heavenly king, because he becomes filled with it, as the Christian apostles and their converts became filled with the Holy Ghost, and purified of their sins. The soma makes a new man of the initiate; he is reborn and transformed, and his spiritual nature overcomes the physical; it gives the divine power of inspiration, and develops the clairvoyant faculty to the utmost. According to the exoteric explanation the soma is a plant, but, at the same time it is an angel. It forcibly connects the inner, highest 'spirit' of man, which spirit is an angel like the mystical soma, with his 'irrational soul,' or astral body, and thus united by the power of the magic drink, they soar together above physical nature and participate during life in the beatitude and ineffable glories of Heaven. "Thus the Hindu soma is mystically, and in all respects the same that the Eucharist supper is to the Christian. The idea is similar. By means of the sacrificial prayers -- the mantras -- this liquor is supposed to be transformed on the spot into real soma -- or the angel, and even into Brahma himself" (IU 1:xl-xli). The mystical drink has been known in all ages and among all peoples. The ancient Teutonic tribes, whether of the Germanic or Anglo-Saxons, spoke of their divine mead, the drink of the gods. The Hindus spoke of Soma, the direct distillation from the moon and from the overseeing and guiding eye of the sun; the Greeks of the Homeric age spoke of ambrosia or nectar, a drink of the gods which renewed their understanding and gave them inspiration as well. Another branch of the Greeks belonging to the Dionysian and Orphic branches of mystical thought, spoke equally mystically of the mystic wine, and also of the mystic cereal, partaken of during the Mysteries, and it is from this last that the mystical wine and cereal or bread of the Christians was taken over almost completely from the Dionysian Eucharist, only among Christians even from quite early times it became degraded into actual blood and flesh of Jesus. The evident meaning must be connected with the old occult thought that wine, or the mead of the northern peoples where the grape and soma were unknown or uncultivated, all had the meaning of the inspiration of initiation, a kind of ecstasy of vision and knowledge brought about through initiation, of which the physical intoxication of wine, mead, or the soma juice has all the lower and materialized aspect, every spiritual thing having its material counterpart, every right-hand thought or rule in occultism having its left-hand or sorcerer perversion or counterpart. Thus in the highest initiation, even today and from immemorial time, the holy drink or potation was entirely mystical, and had a dozen of these significances, all bound up together; yet despite this fact, for some of the lower initiations where a student found difficulty in throwing off the physical and astral influences, a harmless -- when administered rightly -- drug or drink was given which temporarily stupefied the lower quaternary; but it is to be noted that this substitute of the physical drink came about when neophytes began to find it very difficult to do what their more spiritual forerunners had done: raising themselves solely by inner aspiration up to inspiration, by inner insight up to the epopteia or vision. Thus the question whether the mystical drink was an actual drink, or merely a mystical one, cannot be answered by a simple yes or no. Originally it was entirely mystical, later it remained as mystical as ever, but the body with its grossness, and the astral influences with their terrible power over the men and women of the time, were temporarily reduced to quiescence by a preparation known to initiates to have the power of bringing about the condition required, without any permanent or even long after-effect, very much as a sedative will be given by a physician today. It is of course true that if this drink, however relatively innocent in a single instance, were to be constantly repeated, it would have developed into a drug habit. Some of the later peoples in their initiations actually did use a kind of physical soma which had the effect of bringing about a dulling of the restless brain-mind for the time being, so that the inner powers were temporarily freed from the clogging influences of the astral light and the body. The use of drugs in initiatory ceremonies of any kind, however, is a relatively late and degenerate practice, and has never at any time been, nor will it ever be, introduced by the Mother-Lodge coming down to us even from the middle of the third root-race. With it the old tradition burns more brightly than ever that the true soma, the true mead of the gods or wine of the spirit, is the raising of the human into the spiritual by aspiration, training, and strict following of the traditional laws of discipleship, so that finally the neophyte feels the sunlight from above stealing through the moon of his mind. So strongly is this the case, that even today in theosophical occult studies, drug taking of any kind is strictly forbidden, including alcohol, for alcohol is a drug, a product of natural decay and decomposition, and while less spectacular and violent as a rule than drugs such as opium and its derivatives, it is far more easily procurable and is therefore more specifically pointed to as objectionable. The idea of the occult student is to have the body absolutely normal, healthy, clean, and functioning in the smoothness of health, so that even overeating is seen to be a harmful thing, because it clogs the body, dulls the mind, and could even actually lead to physical disability. There is and has been a great deal of confusion, not only at present but throughout the ages, about these matters, and several mystical schools have even chosen the language of the tavern and drinking house as the cloak for conveying occult or semi-occult teaching. A noted example is the Sufi school with its poems lauding the flowing bowl and the joys of the tavern and the bosom friends therein, and the beloved's breast. Here the tavern was the universe, the flowing cup or wine was the wine of the spirit bringing inner ecstasy, the bosom of the beloved was the raising oneself into inner communion with the god within, of which the Jewish bosom of Abraham is a feeble correspondence. The friends of the tavern are those perfect human relations brought about by a community of spiritual and intellectual interests, and the associations of the tavern are the mysteries of the world around us with their marvels and arcana. Nevertheless in various countries as the fourth root-race ran toward its evil culmination, the mystic became translated into the material, the spiritual degenerated into the teaching of matter, so that indeed in later Atlantean times the drugging of initiates was common, and the results always disastrous, this being one of the sorceries for which the Atlanteans in occult history have remained infamous. Yet even in the fifth root-race, due to the heavy Atlantean karma still weighing on us, many nations as late as historic times employed more or less harmless potations to bring about a temporary dulling or stupefying of the brain and nervous system -- a procedure always vigorously opposed by the theosophic occult school which has never at any time allowed it. (See also: Soma, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary)
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| | |  Right Brain Learning: How do various drugs/nutritional components influence dreaming? Dream FAQ Dictionary: How do various drugs/nutritional components influence dreaming? How do various drugs/nutritional components influence dreaming? [Section compiled from answers by various people] [By turner@remarque.berkeley.edu (Michael Turner)]AMINO ACIDS & SUPPLEMENTSSaw some mention of Taurine recently. B vitamins (6 and 12)? I'veused Choline+Inositol combo w/some success.Inositol is a B-vitamin (12? ) that aids in the uptake of Choline,which is a precursor to the neurotransmitter acetylcholine. Cholineis present in lecithin, which is itself present in egg whites, soyproducts, and other sources of protein. One would have to constantlyglut oneself with tofu in order to get the equivalent of 500mg tabletof Choline+ Inositol, however. FOODSFish contains some substance that also helps, forget what it's called,though. Cheese (esp. cheddar, for some reason) and bananas to alesser extent, contain some stuff that can cause wild dreams. Soy,eggs, etc., as mentioned above. TEAS and HERBSHave tried various teas and herbs, but most were either ineffective orunspeakably vile. (DON'T like vivid dreams of large bugs burrowingthrough my head, thank you very much.) Would be willing to try againwith some guidance, though. PRESCRIPTION DRUGSPrescription drugs of various kinds can have dream effects; so much sothat most sleep/dream labs have some kind of funding from pharm.companies, if they aren't owned and operated by them outright. Never-theless, prescription drug labels seldom warn of "nightmares"; perhapsthat all falls under "sleep disturbances."Barbiturates can suppress REM. Don't know about tranqs & anti-depressants, though. New Wave antidepressions (Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil)are serotonin- effecting, so some effect might be expected. LEGAL PSYCHOACTIVE DRUGSBoth caffeine and alcohol can suppress REM - odd, since one is a CNSstimulant, the other a CNS depressant. Nicotine? Don't know. ILLEGAL PSYCHOACTIVE DRUGSControlled/illegal substances have been studied vis-a-vis dreams, buthazy on the details I learned. (Was high at the time, I guess....)THC can suppress REM somewhat. Various psychedelics effect aspects ofserotonin metabolism. Speed keeps you from sleeping; amphetaminepsychosis might be drug-induced-anxiety + REM deprivation. Newerstuff, such as illegal/controlled "smart drugs", "designer drugs",etc. I don't know about, but it would be surprising if they had nodream effects. [By pryan@prairienet.org (Pamela Ryan)]Someone posted a while back that a combination of Choline (600 mg,equals 1429 mg Choline Bitartrate) and Pantothenic Acid (Vitamin B5,500 mg) boosts dream recall. [By pzinken@mswe.dnet.ms.philips.nl (P. ZINKEN)]Point is i am at one side a notorious coffee-addict, and on the otherside one who smokes a joint or a hookah from time to time. I'lldescribe my states of dreaming for both, because they are ratherdifferent. Caffeine:Under influence of caffeine (and i mean rather much, after drinking,for example, 10 to 15 0.25l cups), i tend to sleep very light. If iget to dream it usually is a lucid dream. Thus, it seems caffeinechanges the conciousness while sleeping. Also, i tend to have morenightmares if i drink too much coffee. Hasjiesj:There are times when i like to smoke some weed or hasjiesj and then goto bed stoned (on these days i usually smoke between 0.5 and 0.75grams) It does influence the dream state very heavy. Hasjiesj has thetendency of relaxing you, and also has a tendency to make emotionsstronger. While dreaming this results in very real-feeling dreams.Last night i smoked about a half gram of Noorderlicht, a kind of weedgrown here in Eindhoven, and after going to bed and falling to sleep(almost instantly) i dreamt something rather silly, but i couldn'thelp thinking it was the real-world instead of a dream.Thus, hasjiesj makes the dream stronger, more deep. Problem is, anightmare will seem more real too. Also, it seems to make it moredifficult to dream lucid (i am able to dream lucid). Combination:Well, this one is the one i get at the most. After a long day ofworking and coffee-drinking, i sometimes let myself go and make ablow. This results in a combination of an up-drug and adown-drug. And, strangest of things, this combination does neverresult in no-drug.The caffeine still leaves the property of easily getting into a luciddream, while the hasjiesj makes the sleep very deep and the dreamsvery intense. I've yet to wake up from getting into lucidity whileunder influence of hasjiesj.Overal conclusion from my side thus is, drugs do have a certain effecton dreaming. And there is quite a big difference between uppers anddowners. [By bsbyun@uswnvg.uucp (Bryan Byun)] My method isn't the healthiest, so it's not something I want toexperiment on often, although reading your FAQ reminded me of it, andI might try it again sometime.Anyway, this is the exact method I use:1. Stay up late, past your normal sleeping time, until you are very,very tired. Do not get into bed until you are ready to sleep.2. Just before getting into bed, take from 2-4 caffeine tablets of thedosage included in Vivarin brand stimulants (I don't know the exactdosage), depending on your tolerance for caffeine. It's my personal theory that what happens is that your body fallsasleep and begins the REM cycle...then, the caffeine stimulates yourbrain (or at least irritates it) so that your conscious mind awakens.Normally, so would your body, but if you sleep late enough, your bodywill be so fatigued that the fact of your brain awakening won't beenough to rouse it; and, if you take the right amount of caffeine, thestimulant effect will be just enough to wake up your mind, withoutforcing it completely awake. Anyway, I don't know if I would recommend this as a method ofattaining lucid dreaming, but it has worked for me. [By ot] The Kava Kava root, a traditional drug from the Polynesian islands, islittle known but highly recommendable. It is said to take away stressand tension, very mildly tranquilizing while clearing and sharpeningthoughts. Also told to help dreaming, especially for lucid dreamingexercises. From my own experience, it causes a deeper but shorter(!)sleep with more intense dreams. [The following holds for Germany, I don't think other countries aremuch different.] Kava Kava root is available from pharmacies, althoughnot a "standard" drug and sometimes it takes time for the pharmacistto obtain supply. At least one company makes capsules with Kava Kavaroot extracts ("Kava ratiopharm"). They are sold as a stress reliever.Though not as effective as the whole root, perhaps the method ofchoice for many - the traditional way of chewing the roots for a longtime does not suit Western people, who typically find the taste ratherbad. Attention: do not combine with alcohol, it increases theundesired effects of the latter (same with barbiturates, etc.) Source: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/dreams-faq (See also: Drugs and Dreaming, Dream Interpretation FAQ, Dream Interpretation, Dream Dictionary, Meaning of Dreams)
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| | |  Right Brain Learning: Tarot and the Conscious and Subconscious MindThe symbolic images on the Tarot cards activate and speak to a deep intuitive part of ourselves which the logical, conscious mind cannot understand or control. This part of ourselves is known as the subconscious. This subconscious aspect of being represents our inner self, those deep, highly personal feelings and qualities which provide the foundation for our entire being and give us the motivation behind our behavior, thoughts, emotions, etc. This is the realm of instinct, gut reactions, innate knowing, and personal potential. It is the home of our psyche. Read more here: » Tarot
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| | |  Right Brain Learning: Encyclopedia II - Human brain - AnatomyThe normal adult human brain typically weighs between 1 and 1.5 kg (three pounds) and has an average volume of 1,600 cm³ (98 in³). The male brain has approximately 4% more brain cells and 100 grams more brain tissue than the equivalent female brain. During infancy, adolescence and adulthood, females have a higher brain weight to body weight ratio than males.[1] The mature brain consumes some 20% of the energy used by the body, while the developing b ...
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| | | | Right Brain Learning: Encyclopedia II - Human brain - Study of the brain Although folklore about putatively 90% dormant human brain has proven scientifically unfounded, researchers until the mid 1990s focused on only a small portion of the brain in efforts to understand its computational capacity.
Grey matter, the thin layer of cells covering the cerebrum, was believed by most scholars to be the primary center of cognitive and conscious processing. White matter, the mass of glial cells that support the cerebral grey matter, was assumed to primarily provide nourishment, physical support and connective pathw ...
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| | | | Right Brain Learning: Encyclopedia II - Basal ganglia - Anatomical subdivisions The five individual nuclei that make up the primate basal ganglia are the striatum, external segment of the globus pallidus (GPe), internal segment of the globus pallidus (GPi), subthalamic nucleus (STN), and substantia nigra. Some of these nuclei may be further subdivided: for example, the striatum is separated into the putamen, caudate nucleus, and nucleus accumbens; the substantia nigra is generally divided into the pars compact ...
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