My source is the NIH conference on melatonin and cancer—it was after the DMT book.  Melatonin has recently come to the forefront for cancer treatment.

Also the issue about milliseconds and perception is really a distraction since brain signaling works via quantum syncrhonization of the whole brain.  In other words when all the signals act together then the time period even bypasses the minimum standard for quantum decoherence.  Stuart Hameroff talks about this but so does Professor William H. Calvin in his book “The Ascent of Mind.”

All this discussion is just verification of results I’ve already achieved through physiology.  So to decrease sleep the adrenal gland needs to be sublimated via the vagus nerve.  I went a week just doing alchemy—no food, half a glass of water, and I needed less and less sleep while my energy got stronger and stronger.  I stopped because not only did people around me freak out but I did as well.  Fortunately I did heal my mom of a serious leg disability so she no longer needs surgical stockings.

I’ve posted my qigong training at http://taobums.com. where you’ll find plenty of discussion on these topics—it’s under spring forest qigong.

OK here’s a new study showing seasonal variation which makes sense:  http://www.level1diet.com/research/id/1148987

Another study I came across is that increase in elevation dramatically increases melatonin—hence the reason why mountains are sacred.  I, myself, had an amazing NDE vision where my whole life flashed before me—not chronologically—but psychologically with events linked through subtle resolution of inner tensions, played back without me having any choice:  I was in the Andes and was also in love.

My sister just got a tumor—probably from too much artificial lighting decreasing her melatonin levels:

http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/dec2005/niehs-19.htm

Well the past week I’ve averaged probably a dozen internal climaxes a day.  Yesterday my forehead was pulsating as I shot my yang shen out into yin jing around me (thereby creating a mutual climax).  I call this “O at a D.” You can maintain your health this way but to really create chi you need to send your own shen back into your jing—to create “prenatal vitality.” the microcosmic orbit is the foundational practice to open up the pineal gland for these abilites—it transforms the jing into chi but as the alchemists state, the process begins and ends with jing (because that enables creating another physical body).

See the book ‘Time Wars’ by Jeremy Rifkin. I believe it is from the 80s, and out of print… but if you can get a copy used or from the local library… its highly recommended in re: social construction of time.

My conviction is that time arose from our history making abilities. I feel that the rational reconstructions we are capable of making of the past are basically superimposed on the present to create the illusion of a phenomenon that is related more to how we apprehend the world than how the world is.

Time really “arose” from that, though? I’d agree that it heavily sculpts our perception, but it sure looks like other animals percieve time.

Am I mis-understanding you, or are you saying that the actual phenomenon of time is the result of human perceptual processes and biases?

This is very relevant—this morning I woke up at 4 a.m. while my new “WOMEN OF AFRICA” oxfam c.d. was playing on repeat all night.  It’s such an awesome c.d. I just sat in full-lotus and then danced a bit and then more full-lotus for the rest of the night.  In fact all past week I’ve been sleeping only 4 or 5 hours and then spending the rest of the night in full-lotus and then during the day I just sit in full-lotus going into r.e.m. and deep sleep.  The difference is that when you are in full-lotus the brain creates light when it goes into deep sleep and you maintain a sense of self-awareness.

This is basically similar to hibernation.  Your question about time and biology is well answered by the underground classic book by John Bleitreu—I’ll look up the title (Parable of the Beast) since I gave away my last copy—anyway he gives the examples of ticks.  Essentially their metabolism is frozen until activated by carbon-dioxide.

Consciousness as the source of time is non-existent in Western culture—yet with nonwestern harmonics we resonate with consciousness, thereby reversing time.  In quantum physics it’s recognized that there’s “advanced waves” from the future—but it’s just considered that such backward superliminal signals are spurious, containing only illusionary information.  But whether it’s Julian Barbour or Einstein—all that western math relies on symmetric-based bounded time as geometric space, whereas nonwestern harmonics relies on time as complementary opposites of pure number, resonating back to FORMLESS AWARENESS (which we can listen to but not see).

You can read my blogbook—http://mothershiplanding.blogspot.com for further details.

thirtyseven - 03 August 2008 11:33 AM

Time really “arose” from that, though? I’d agree that it heavily sculpts our perception, but it sure looks like other animals percieve time.

Am I mis-understanding you, or are you saying that the actual phenomenon of time is the result of human perceptual processes and biases?

This is my basic position. Our ability to structure the past into narratives, however basic, has to do with time. Time is a sort of basic narrative. They are both related to causation, or progression, or flow, or whathaveyou. But there sure is some flow. Why we should place emphasis on certain portions of this is interesting. We need to discriminate a portion, an individual… be it a second, a minute, or a ‘trip to the grocery store’. So how do we come to chop it up? Light dark light dark… winter summer, and so on. These individuals, so to speak, are arbitrary, no? The intuition is that they are natural. Animals ‘set their clock’ to them.

Here’s the catch for me. We, somewhat like time, somewhat unlike it, are individuals… perhaps with arbitrary boundaries… which also must be ‘cut out’ from this flow. The things we perceive must be TAKEN AS some sort of individual too. We treat things as particles, or waves.... but particles plus temporality are some sort of ‘tube’ thing. What we can figure out has to do with the numbers we put into our equations, but it also has to be the relational forms and schemas we devise to put the numbers into. This latter part, pre number, is important… and inherently related to the numbers and how they work. One half of that reciprocity is ignored often.

SO I think that the content of our stories, however basic (e.g. grunts), about the past AND the schema we put them onto have a lot to do with the schema we use to chop up the now.

I do recommend Rifkin’s book. Its not as inchoate as me and says totally different things. I need to read a lot more… But time and consciousness, in my opinion, are both related to this process of sensemaking about one’s actions, the past, and so on. Now, whatever phenomenon, physical electrical or otherwise, underlies that… is hard as shit to get at. Fields from which we fashion portions and of which we are made. Jeez. In Quantum theories, time and the scientist come bundled with the theory. Its a package deal. Jeez.

And there’s the ‘feel’ of time. Is it like feeling pain? Can we feel time? How? As for animals… we carve them out as individuals and treat them as a locus that has some sense of time. I think we may need to redraw the boundaries around ourselves and animals, or acknowledge we have arbitrary ones.

I am a realist about time, but I can’t really back it up in a non arbitrary way. Its bizarre.

The kicker would be that these narratives, however responsible we feel for their caretaking, are like a fancy version of the chemical in a fish that lets them know when to swim into the mud and wait for spring. Also, we have certain time biases - depending on the activity or whatever… Why? Can we say we have biases if we don’t have a normative ideal for the bias to deviate from? Is misremembering things from long ago related to the way time feels to us now, as it passes (sic)? Why does one hour speed by and the next crawl? When we are learning and young, why does time go slowly for us? And later, when we know everything we meet on a daily basis, time rips right along. How does knowing what a ‘door’ is, however basically (e.g. a grunt), make time go faster? We don’t have to inspect it to make sure its not just a funny piece of the wall, but time goes faster then. How is that?

Does it make a difference if one wears a 12 hr analogue watch or a digital, only now, watch?

Is time just like a piece of graph paper for over-systematizing something wild?

Thank you for fleshing that out.  You’re using language in ways I’m unfamiliar with so I’ll give this a few more passes to grasp it better.

I’ve had Rifkin recommended a few times, but never had any luck tracking it down.  Perhaps the larger tide of synchronicity I’m on right now will change that.

Wondershowzen is why TV was invented, in other news.

Used copies from thirty-nine cents:
http://www.amazon.com/Time-Wars-Primary-Conflict-Touchstone/dp/0671671588

Blaow.

thirtyseven - 03 August 2008 09:52 PM

You’re using language in ways I’m unfamiliar with so I’ll give this a few more passes to grasp it better.

Apparently I am having some first chakra issues. I am trying to get it under control. Apologies for the extra effort it requires of you. Its generally running amok. And I have been reading too many books recently of the ‘cut-up’ oeuvre, as well as descriptive accounts, those hostile to uninspected or implied normativity. One always need to criticize the normative frameworks we use, no? It strikes me that only through fragmentation can we carry on with such a wide array of discordant normative frameworks, some for use in daily life, some for science, some for ethics, and so on. So what’s going on?

Normativity has something to do with ‘registration’ (I’m thinking of screenprinting with like 10 colors. You have to register all ten layers well for your end result to pan out.). Its related to how we know things (how I register a second, say, or a doggy out in the street), but its also related to the physio-chemical infrastructure I am made out of and the things being registered are made out of. In this respect, knowledge and what exists must somehow both be pulled simultaneously from the ‘mud’ so-to-speak. They must come in toto, together. Time has something to do with registration, but its not as clear cut a case as seeing a doggy on the street. The sort of registration that is needed for a normativity of time is quite bizarre, IMO.

Source: REVERSAL OF AGING: RESETTING THE PINEAL CLOCK
Book Series: ANNALS OF THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Volume: 1057 Pages: 28-49 Published: 2006

Abstract: Evidence is accruing that a cognitive-behavioral regimen integrating cognitive techniques (meditation-based anti-stress, anti-inflammatory techniques, others), dietary modification ("dietary restriction” or modified dietary restriction), and certain forms of aerobic exercise, may prolong the healthy life span in humans. Recent research has identified some of the likely molecular mediators of these potentially broad-ranging, health-enhancing and anti-aging effects; these include DHEA, interleukins-10 and -4 (IL-10, IL-4), and especially melatonin. Relatedly, what some are calling a revolution in biology and medicine has been emerging from research on stem cells and regeneration processes more generally. Dogma regarding limitations on the regenerative capacities of adult vertebrates is being cautiously yet enthusiastically revised in the wake of rapidly accumulating discoveries of more types of adult stem cells in mammals, including humans. For example, a recent review by D. Krause of Yale concluded that “in the [adult] bone marrow, in addition to hematopoietic stem cells and supportive stromal cells, there are cells with the potential to differentiate into mature cells of the heart, liver, kidney, lungs, GI tract, skin, bone, muscle, cartilage, fat, endothelium and brain”. In addition, very recent studies have shown that DHEA, ILs-10 and -4, and melatonin all possess potential regenerative, including stem cell-activating, properties. More than a quarter of a century ago, Walter Pierpaoli initiated a series of extraordinary studies that demonstrated in experimental animals the potential for dramatic regeneration associated with changes in the pineal gland and bone marrow. This appeared to be not only retardation of aging, but also its reversal. Furthermore, as Pierpaoli was attempting to understand both anti-aging regeneration and oncogenesis, he was focusing on both pro- and anti-mitotic mechanisms: recent research now suggests that there is a nonpathologic, “healthy” form of regeneration that is actually antagonistic to oncogenesis, and that melatonin may be important in this form of regeneration. This paper explores Pierpaoli’s pioneering studies in light of recent developments in stem cell and regenerative biology, particularly as related to the regenerative potential associated with certain cognitive-behavioral practices, and includes evidence on this subject presented for the first time.

Document Type: Article
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Author Keywords: melatonin; pineal; bone marrow; regeneration; stem cells; aging reversal; longevity; transferrin; interleukin-10; negligible senescence; meditation; calorie restriction; exercise; yoga; cognitive-behavioral; anti-inflammatory; antioxidant; anti-stress; anticancer; peripheral nerve regeneration; Parkinson’s disease
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http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12253173

A strange case raises the question of what sleep is for

THE function of sleep, according to one school of thought, is to consolidate memory. Yet two Italians have no problems with their memory even though they never sleep. The woman and man, both in their 50s, are in the early stages of a neurodegenerative disease called multiple system atrophy. Their cases raise questions about the purpose of sleep.

Healthy people rotate between three states of vigilance: wakefulness, rapid eye-movement (REM) sleep and non-REM sleep. But all three are mixed together in the Italian patients. The pair were initially diagnosed by Roberto Vetrugno of the University of Bologna and his colleagues as suffering from REM behavioural disorder, in which the paralysis, or cataplexy, that normally prevents sleeping people from acting out their dreams is lost. This can cause people in REM sleep to twitch and groan, sometimes flailing about and injuring their bedmates. These patients, however, soon progressed from this state to an even odder one, according to a report in Sleep Medicine.

One of the principal ways to measure sleep is to monitor brainwave activity, which can be done by placing electrodes on the scalp in a technique known as electroencephalography (EEG). Non-REM sleep itself is divided into four stages defined purely by EEG patterns; the first two are collectively described as light sleep and the last two as deep or slow-wave sleep. When the Italian patients appeared to be asleep, their EEGs suggested that their brains were either simultaneously awake, in REM sleep and non-REM sleep, or switching rapidly between the three. Yet when subjected to a battery of neuropsychological tests, they showed no intellectual decline.

Mark Mahowald of the University of Minnesota Medical School, whose group first described REM behavioural disorder in 1986, thinks memory consolidation is still going on in the brains of the two Italian patients; hence their lack of cognitive impairment or dementia. What needs to be revised in light of their cases, he says, is the definition of sleep.

Dr Mahowald suspects that sleep can occur in the absence of the markers that currently define it, which means those markers are insufficient. What’s more, the Italian cases lend support to an idea that has been gathering steam in recent years: that wakefulness and sleep are not mutually exclusive. In other words, the human brain can be awake and asleep at the same time.

That evidence takes the form of a growing list of conditions in which wakefulness, REM and non-REM sleep appear to be mixed. An example is narcolepsy, in which emotionally laden events trigger sudden cataplexy. When the dreaming element of REM intrudes into wakefulness, which can happen with sleep-deprivation, the result is wakeful dreaming or hallucinations. Since such dreams can be highly compelling, Dr Mahowald thinks they might account for some reports of alien abduction.

But there is another possible explanation of the Italian puzzle: that sleep is not necessary for memory after all. Jerry Siegel of the University of California, Los Angeles, has studied the sleep habits of many animals and thinks that could well be the explanation. All of which gives researchers something new to keep them awake at night.

Yes I’ve been focused on sleep lately since during the last full moon I slept only 4 hours a night while relying on full-lotus trance during the day and have done this with the new moon now.  I read William Calvin’s Neil’s Brain book recently—he describes the paradoxical sleep well stating that during R.E.M. the serotonin levels are the lowest.  So what that study leaves out is the fully synchronized full-lotus trance state which is the opposite of “random” R.E.M. light sleep dreaming.  In other words you can have “wet dreams” while reading (at the same time)—while in full-lotus and this can take the place of R.E.M. sleep.

More Evidence for Those of us who Think Daylight Savings Time is Insanity

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/07/more-ammunition-for-people-who-hate-daylight-saving-time/

Even if you hate daylight saving time, you tell yourself: Hey, I shouldn’t be so selfish, it’s good for the economy, or for the environment, or for farmers, or something. Right?

Well, um, perhaps not. Consider a new working paper, “Does Daylight Saving Time Save Energy? Evidence From a Natural Experiment in Indiana,” by Matthew J. Kotchen and Laura E. Grant:

“The history of daylight saving time (D.S.T.) has been long and controversial. Throughout its implementation during World Wars I and II, the oil embargo of the 1970’s, consistent practice today, and recent extensions, the primary rationale for D.S.T. has always been to promote energy conservation.

Nevertheless, there is surprisingly little evidence that D.S.T. actually saves energy. This paper takes advantage of a natural experiment in the state of Indiana to provide the first empirical estimates of D.S.T. effects on electricity consumption in the United States since the mid-1970’s.

Focusing on residential electricity demand, we conduct the first-ever study that uses micro-data on households to estimate an overall D.S.T. effect. The dataset consists of more than 7 million observations on monthly billing data for the vast majority of households in southern Indiana for three years.

Our main finding is that — contrary to the policy’s intent — D.S.T. increases residential electricity demand.

Estimates of the overall increase are approximately 1 percent, but we find that the effect is not constant throughout the D.S.T. period. D.S.T. causes the greatest increase in electricity consumption in the fall, when estimates range between 2 and 4 percent.

These findings are consistent with simulation results that point to a tradeoff between reducing demand for lighting and increasing demand for heating and cooling. We estimate a cost of increased electricity bills to Indiana households of $9 million per year. We also estimate social costs of increased pollution emissions that range from $1.7 to $5.5 million per year. Finally, we argue that the effect is likely to be even stronger in other regions of the United States.”

On the bright side, if President-elect Obama is looking for some quick hits on energy conservation, here’s one that’s all teed up and ready to go: Kill D.S.T.!

Actually I was just reading Colin Wilson’s Mind Parasites some more. As I said he identifies the problem correctly but he is wrong about the solution since he focuses on mind yoga (just like Gooch, and so many other Westerners).

In the Mind Parasites the protagonist knows about the parasites taking control because he gets the shivers—which is EXACTLY when I know that the “mind parasites” are taking over. haha.

But then he blames the moon by misunderstanding Gurdjieff (as do most readers of Gurdjieff).

Plus all the racism stuff—promoting the “racial consciousness” of Jung—and stating how earlier cultures relied on instinct and that the mind parasites liked it that way but now that people are getting civilized they realize they are under control of the mind parasites and therefore are committing suicide or just getting sick from neglect, etc. They can’t handle the split of civilized intellectual consciousness with the mind parasite instinctual control.

It’s really bad social darwinism—I agree with Dwight McDonald when he called Colin Wilson a philistine. There’s this crude worship of science as technospirituality—which it is. So the book is excellent parody material.

Then I was reading the Genius of Mathematics book which was full of golden ratio propaganda, repeating the lies about the quadratic equation proof defining the golden ratio as A = B + C so that A:B::B:C instead of stating A:B::B:A + B. By using “C” then A + B is switched to A - B, reversing the order, so that frequency is switched to amplitude.

This isn’t considered important as long as zero is used and you ignore the music connection which I discovered 1:5/4::8/5:2. This book had a new twist in harmonic and arithmetic mean stating that the secret formula Archytas used was A is to the arithmetic mean as the harmonic mean is to B. So that AM x HM = GM squared, as I had noted in my “Against Archytas” article on the issue. But the arithmetic mean is 9 and the harmonic mean is 8 with the proportion usually being 6:8::9:12. This book had it turned around as 6:9::8:12. Then I realized that it doesn’t matter since one is 2:3 and the other is 3:4 and therefore it can be justified that frequency as 8:9 is the same as amplitude as 9:8, ignoring that 2:3 and 3:4 are complementary opposites. So this is another new insight into the “bait and switch” lie at the foundation of Western science—with the understanding that A is to B as B is to C with a one-to-one correspondence of letter and number:

FREEMASONRY based on mass ritual sacrifice.

Exactly what the Mind Parasites are promoting. Wilson’s whole shiver thing is spot-on but he’s got it turned around because he starts the book off with the main protoganists as heavy drinkers, and cynical materialists and then when they discover the mind parasites they switch into health food fanatics and meditators—but maintain their neofascist mind-set. In fact what caused their revelation of the mind parasites was that they stopped drinking—not that they had some intellectual breakthrough. The reason they ostensible stopped drinking was because of the intellectual breakthrough though. haha.

It’s another case of mind over matter - which is just promoting NeoPlatonism in disguise. And soon the powers of psychokinesis are demonstrated and everything else—but on the bogus pretense of simply mind yoga which is dependent on the same mind parasites of Freemasonry, etc.

Nice propaganda though despite the horrendous prose-style.