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We still lack a complete scientific understanding of the pineal gland –
\nhowever, spiritual traditions can give us valuable knowledge about it.
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\n Located in nearly the direct center of the brain, the tiny pinecone-shaped pineal
\ngland, which habitually secretes the wondrous neurohormone melatonin while we sleep at night, was once thought to be a
\nvestigial leftover from a lower evolutionary state. <\/p>\n
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Indeed, according to recent research, we could be increasing our chances of
\ncontracting chronic illnesses like cancer by unnecessarily bathing on evenings in artificial light, working night shifts
\nor staying up too late. By disrupting the pineal gland and melatonin’s chronobiological connection to
\nEarth’s rotational 24-hour light and dark cycle, known as its circadian rhythm, we’re possibly opening the
\ndoors not to perception, but to disease and disorder. A recently published study from Vanderbilt University has found
\nassociations between circadian disruption and heart disease, diabetes and obesity.<\/p>\n
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By hacking what pinealophiles call our ‘third eye’ with an always-on
\ntechnoculture transmitting globally at light-speed, we may have disadvantaged our genetic ability to ward off all manner
\nof complicated nightmares. <\/p>\n
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“We still lack a complete understanding of the pineal gland,”
\nsaid University of Michigan professor of physiology and neurology Jimo Borjigin, a pioneer in medical visualization of
\nthe pineal gland’s melatonin secretion. “Numerous molecules are found in the pineal, many of which are
\nuniquely found at night, and we do not have a good idea of what their functions are. The only function that is
\nestablished beyond doubt is the melatonin synthesis and secretion at night, which is controlled by the central clock in
\nthe suprachiasmatic nucleus and modulated by light. All else is speculative.”<\/p>\n
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Discerning between the science and speculation of the pineal gland hasn’t been
\neasy since long before Rene Descartes called it the “principal seat of the soul” after studying it at length
\nnearly four centuries ago. So here’s a handy shortlist of aspects necessary to be known about the pineal
\ngland.<\/p>\n
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1. Third Eyes and Theosophistry<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The current scientific understanding is that the pineal gland probably started out as <\/p>\n Earth’s ancient cultural histories are filled with folklore featuring both <\/p>\n Theosophists, who have been studying what they perceive as hidden knowledge since the <\/p>\n While Homo sapiens’ subtle third eyes may have formed the physical pineal <\/p>\n 2. What Was Once Hidden Is Now Hi-Res<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Michigan University professor Borjigin and his team are hard at work on how the <\/p>\n These visualizations could go a long way toward understanding how to hack melatonin, <\/p>\n Pineal microdialysis allows us to monitor melatonin secretion closely under various <\/p>\n 3. Artificial Light = Dark Future<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n “We’ve proven beyond a doubt that it’s a risk <\/p>\n Kloog’s team published five studies altogether, including analyses at local and <\/p>\n Using kernel smoothing to create density maps showing light exposure and cancer <\/p>\n “For average light exposure per person, if you take an underdeveloped <\/p>\n “It’s something that’s easy to take out of the <\/p>\n 4. Occult Classic<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n This is not to say that late-night viewing itself isn’t good for the mind, <\/p>\n “My first exposure to the pineal gland came from Stuart Gordon’s <\/p>\n In From Beyond, a supernaturally activated pineal gland turns mad scientists into <\/p>\n “In The Middleman, we quickly discovered that because this most mysterious <\/p>\n This shows us once again that development of brain and human’s paranormal yogaesoteric<\/strong><\/p>\n September 8, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We still lack a complete scientific understanding of the pineal gland – however, spiritual traditions can give us valuable knowledge about it. Located in nearly the direct center of the brain, the tiny pinecone-shaped pineal gland, which habitually secretes the wondrous neurohormone melatonin while we sleep at night, was once thought […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parapsychology-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nan eye, and it receives signals from light and our retinas. Whether it was our only eye which shrunk into the brain once
\nits perceptive tasks were taken care of by our two newer eyes, or whether it was a third eye with a spiritual and
\nphysical connection to previous spiritual and evolutionary states, or both, has galvanized science and speculation for
\ncenturies.<\/p>\n
\none-eyed and three-eyed beings of great power, from SHIVA to Cyclops. In ancient Hindu spiritual tradition, SAHASARA is
\nexplained as a multilayered lotus that looks like the pineal gland’s pinecone, and whose primary function is to
\nperceive universal oneness, scientifically and spiritually speaking. <\/p>\n
\nGreeks and Romans ruled philosophical and scientific inquiry, have more recently claimed that the pineal gland is the
\nspiritual engine of our evolution into “embryo gods, beings of consciousness and matter.”<\/p>\n
\nglands in time, today we can still find animals with photoreceptive so-called ‘third eyes’, called parietal
\neyes, like New Zealand’s endangered tuatara. Fossils from other ancient creatures feature similar sockets in their
\nskulls, making our pineal gland a candidate for an ex-eye.<\/p>\n
\npineal gland and melatonin regulate our lives.
\n “The central circadian clock controls timing of almost all aspects of our
\nlife, including physiology and behavior, and melatonin is the best marker to decode the fingerprints of circadian timing
\nin both humans and animals” he said. “In the past, it was very difficult to study circadian
\nproperties of melatonin in animals due to technical limitations. My lab invented long-term pineal microdialysis, which
\npermits automated, computer-controlled and high-resolution analysis of melatonin secretion from rodent pineal gland from
\nfour to 10 weeks in the same animal.”<\/p>\n
\nwhich the pineal gland secretes when we sleep and helps the brain repair and sync our bodies to Earth’s rotation.
\nMelatonin is a stunning compound, found naturally in plants, animals and microbes. A powerful antioxidant, its list of
\nits medicinal uses only seems to grow each year, as we learn more about its ability to help with immune disorders,
\nchronic illnesses, and neurodegeneration.<\/p>\n
\nconditions to simulate jet lag, shiftwork, light pollution, diet manipulation and more to define the fingerprints of
\ncircadian response to environment, he added. “It also allows us to discover animals with extreme chronotypes,
\nlike early-birds or night-owls, to understand how individuals with different chronotype respond to circadian challenges
\ndifferently. These are still ongoing studies, but hopefully some of the works will be published soon.”<\/p>\n
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\n What has been recently published about melatonin is already significant, especially
\nfor those looking to combat breast and prostate cancer. Harvard University School of Public Health researcher Itai Kloog
\nand his group published a series of studies in the last few years explaining how our “modern urbanized
\nsleeping habitat” is a massive hormone-based cancer risk. “We have blotted out the night
\nsky” with artificial light, wrote Earth Island Journal’s Holly Hayworth, citing Kloog’s research
\nand noting that half that light is wasted anyway. <\/p>\n
\nfactor,” Kloog told. “Light at night has been proven on many levels, by our group and many others,
\nto definitely contribute to higher risk of developing hormonal cancer.”<\/p>\n
\nglobal levels, and all of them found firm correlations between circadian and melatonin disruption and higher risks of
\ncancer. Analyzing NASA’s Defense Meteorological Satellite Program archive (to illuminate Earth’s light-at-
\nnight coverage) and data from the World Health Organization, Kloog’s group “found clearly that as women
\nwere more exposed to light at nighttime, their rates of breast cancer went up. Our Israel study found that going from
\nminimum exposure to average exposure to light at night resulted in a 36 percent higher standard rate of breast cancer,
\nand going from average to maximum was another 26 percent increase.”<\/p>\n
\nrates, Kloog’s team found that another of its studies, which sourced more than 20,000 light sources by height and
\nintensity, showed a clear association. For their two worldwide studies, they developed an algorithm to assign population
\nweight average light exposure for every person in every city across the world, using WHO data, and again they found a
\nclear association between cancer and light at night.<\/p>\n
\ncountry like Nepal, we’re talking about 0.02 nanowatts per centimeter squared,” Kloog explained.
\n“Compare that to the United States, where the average light exposure of a person is 57.5. Up until around 120
\nyears ago, humans were basically exposed to 12 hours of sunlight and 12 hours of darkness on average, seasons and
\nlatitudes permitting of course. But since the invention of the lightbulb, we’ve artificially stretched the day. We
\ngo to sleep late at night, we have lights on while we sleep, we have a shorter sleep duration. We have a lot of factors
\nstretching out our days, relative to the light period we experienced during millions of years of previous
\nevolution.”<\/p>\n
\nequation,” Kloog told. “Go to sleep in a dark room. Use less light. Close the shutters. Circadian
\ndisruption is carcinogenic to humans.”<\/p>\n
\nespecially when it comes to pineal glands and third eyes. Because pineal glands and third eyes remain singular
\ncomponents of an otherwise binary brain with an extraordinary past, they have stimulated some stranger explorations of
\ntheir spiritual and supernatural possibility. The pineal gland’s circadian dualism has achieved particular
\nresonance with influential occultists like horror influential H.P. Lovecraft. Who, in turn, have spawned new generations
\nof speculative talents that have used it as a quite flexible receptacle for expansive meaning.<\/p>\n
\nmovie adaptation of Lovecraft’s From Beyond,” Javier Grillo-Marxuach, creator of the cult sci-fi
\ntelevision classic The Middleman, told AlterNet. “In truth, everything I know about that particular endocrine
\nbody probably derives from that seminal experience, which explains why I am a television writer and not a brain
\nsurgeon.”<\/p>\n
\nbrain-eating zombies. The recently reissued 1957 exploitation film She Devil features a “female monster”
\nwhose hyperstimulated pineal gland turns her into “a demon, a devil, a creature with a warped soul!” In both
\nfilms, and many other third-eye head-trips, functions as a sexualized organ, rather than a circadian
\nregulator.
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\n Today, some use melatonin supplements, available since the ’90s, to aid with
\nsexual dysfunction. But the pineal gland’s expansive mythic and scientific history has much broader applications
\nwhen it comes to folklore and entertainment.<\/p>\n
\nof glands is so misunderstood, even though its very name connotes a certain frisson of scientific accuracy and technical
\nunderstanding, it was a fantastic shorthand for whatever otherworldly qualities we needed to justify,” Grillo-
\nMarxuach added. “Over the course of 12 episodes, the pineal gland became the source of psychic ability,
\ncommunication between parallel dimensions, the magical malefic influence of succubi and incubi over the libidos of
\nordinary mortals and, finally, the power source for our main supervillain’s armageddon device. Since Stuart Gordon
\nand H.P. Lovecraft gave me a gift in my teenage years by providing me with an understanding of cerebral anatomy, I
\nfigured I’d pay the favor forward as many times as possible.”<\/p>\n
\nabilities can cause immense harm if it is not accompanied by a proper spiritual understanding and conscious
\ntransformation.<\/p>\n
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