I posted my views on Pineal Health in the "Sex in the phase" topic that was getting a bit irrelevant to sex, but certainly relevant in it's own right, so I decided to start this topic.
I have listed some views below and welcome any constructive comments or alternative views on this amazing little organ
The fact that everything we perceive and experience is just electrical signals interpreted by our brain is also science. I used to be super skeptic to religions and believes as well, but since then I have experienced some of these weird phenomena just as many other have.
But in this world "Nothing is true. only permitted"
Whatever we do, and whatever we experience it's still going to be an electrical signal interpreted by our brain! That fact drives me nuts. So right now I am standing in both camps:
skeptic-science - belief to something greater. perhaps more on the belief side..
The pineal gland is very interesting, but is just like the brain just interpreted.
I applaud you for that "where is my brain" link. It's mind-boggling, Chris! Btw, I recommend "DMT: The Spirit Molecule" by Rick Strassman. It is an interesting read. Those subjected to DMT doses in his study certainly had phase-like experiences.
THE PHASE = waking consciousness during sleep hybridisation at 40Hz of brainwave activity conducive to lucid dreaming and autoscopy.
* Calcification of the pineal gland will effect the ability to Visualise in the phase.
* The pineal gland excretes melatonin triggered by darkness and then sometime after that DMT is released.
It's quite a leap to say that visualization in the phase comes from Pineal cells. I am almost certain that this can't be true.
First of all, retinal cells work by transferring information about light - that is to say photons. These are not present in the brain. Even if the Pineal did somehow perceive photon wavelengths from other dimensions not perceived on Earth, as a physical structure it would be limited by the physical location of the brain (and pineal) and the ability to perceive would not "walk" around with you in the phase.
Visualization takes place in the brain. All of my phase entrances for the last several months have occurred from a perceived transition from imaged movements and visuals to the phase (or quick re-entrance from a phase). A transition from imagined images in the mind to the Pineal without any real perceived transfer doesn't seem to make much sense if the Pineal actually perceives something outside the brain.
I don't think the pineal gland has any use other than helping to regulate circadian rhythms and other seasonal bodily functions. Deposits of calcium there have been linked to ageing and it also has the potential to create psychedelic compounds. Whether these play a part in dreams, hallucinations or even providing some of the building blocks for waking perception is subject to debate.
Photowavelengths from other dimensions? Nope! I don't think so. Not even in the phase. When people experience what they call an OOBE, astral projection or even "quantum jumping" (one of the latter interpretations) they are lucid dreaming. This talk of visiting other worlds is just one of the many fantasies that can be experienced in that state. Like the desire to have sex with someone. Or the deliberate alien abduction and angel visitation simulations. It's not real.
THE PHASE = waking consciousness during sleep hybridisation at 40Hz of brainwave activity conducive to lucid dreaming and autoscopy.
I think the Pineal gland almost certainly produces DMT. Strassman theorized this based upon the fact that the pineal gland produces other tryptamines like melatonin, and that it also produces a beta carboline called Pinaline which would conveniently allow for the prolonged effects of DMT. All this being said, it was just a good guess at that point, not proven.
I believe it still remains unproven in humans due to the difficulty in obtaining and freezing a human brain immediately at death in order to look for DMT. However, one of the guys interviewed for The Spirit Molecule was a professor at LSU who was developing methods to look for DMT in the picogram range vs nanogram range, ie. about 1000 times more sensitive. I believe his group has now proven that the pineal glands of cows produce DMT. So, seems like to me a 99% chance that our pineal glands produce DMT. The other way we produce it is via an enzyme in the lungs capable of methylating tryptophan.
