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| | The Pineal Gland |
 | | Such an approach is quite in keeping with the generally accepted concept that the pineal gland plays its physiological role through the modulation of the homeostatic and behavioral responses upon the changes in the living microambient. | | | The pineal organ of lower vertebrates is photosensory in nature and it may have been this, presumably ancient, function that caused the pineal organ to assume such a predominant role with circadian systems. | | | A. This was an emotion arising from the periods and the flow of emotion from the kundaline center, or the lyden [Leydig—Leydigian] gland, to the ones in the center and frontal portion of the head. |
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http://www.edgarcayce.org/th/tharchiv/research/pineal.html
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| | Ayurlight Articles- Pineal Gland - Lit from Within |
| | The human pineal is connected to the cerebellum, one of the most ancient parts of the human brain, responsible for coordination (McClay, 1976). | | | Perhaps by observing remnants of a third eye in local animals or by deep spiritual practices individuals and communities were able to evaluate their own bodies in an similar, accurate and meaningful way. | | | This chakra is understood to be the center of intuition, psychic awareness, siddhis, higher states of consciousness and connection to universal energies (Saraswati, 1973). |
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http://www.ayurlight.com/pages/pineal.htm
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| | Descartes and the Pineal Gland |
| | Descartes tried to explain most of our mental life in terms of processes involving the pineal gland, but the details remained unclear, even in his own eyes, and his enterprise was soon abandoned for both philosophical and scientific reasons. | | | These traces consist simply in the fact that the pores of the brain through which the spirits previously made their way owing to the presence of this object have thereby become more apt than the others to be opened in the same way when the spirits again flow towards them. | | | The slightest movements on the part of this gland may alter very greatly the course of these spirits, and conversely any change, however slight, taking place in the course of the spirits may do much to change the movements of the gland” (AT XI:351, CSM I:340). |
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http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pineal-gland
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| | In fact, precise comparison of the studies on relationship between the pineal neurohormones and neoplastic growth is very difficult due to the diversity of the experimental approaches i.e. | | | A study of rat pinealocytes after electrical stimulation of the SCG by Beuss in 1985 reviewed that some pinealocytes did not appear to be influenced by SCG stimulation, a second group responded with enhanced electrical activity and in a third group electrical activity was depressed. | | | In fact, according to quantitative studies in the rat, 91.1% of the nerve fibres have a perivascular location, the remainder lying between pinealocytes (A.Meyer and L. Vollrath 1985). |
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http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/local/projects/s_thipayang/bio.html
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| | The Pineal Gland |
| | A corollary notion was that calcification of the pineal caused psychiatric disease, a concept that provided support for those who considered psychotic behavior to be rampant; modern examination techniques have revealed that all pineal glands become more or less calcified. | | | Treatment consists of surgical relief of the increased intracranial pressure and X-ray therapy. | | | Several millennia ago it was thought to be a valve that controlled the flow of memories into consciousness. |
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http://www.becomehealthynow.com/article/bodyendocrine/737
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| | Pineal gland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | There are some who believe DMT has a role in dreaming and possibly near-death experiences and other mystical states, and, although not proven, it was hypothesized in 1988 by Jace Callaway that DMT is connected with visual dreaming. | | | ^ Moore RY, Heller A, Wurtman RJ, Axelrod J. Visual pathway mediating pineal response to environmental light. | | | Evidence for a role for opsin-related light-sensing compounds in the skin of mammals is presently controversial. |
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| | Lycaeum > Leda > The Pineal Gland, LSD, and Serotonin |
| | I hypothesize that performing various breathing techniques, while concentrating on the third eye (pineal pseudo-location), will inevitably and imperceptibly stimulate the pineal to produce less melatonin and serotonin which in turn brings about a change in consciousness, creating naturally the dynamic somatics of a truly religio-spiritual experience. | | | By redirecting consciousness, as it were, into the unimprinted areas of the cortex, one hypothetically experiences the world anew, hence the variety of interpretations which arise upon questioning psychedelic voyagers about their "trip". | | | [22] Morphologic and electrophysiologic studies have clearly established that the pineal can function as a photoreceptor, but its role as an endocrine organ is more obscure, despite the fact that circumstantial evidence strongly indicates that this is the case. |
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http://leda.lycaeum.org/?ID=9126
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| | Dioxin and the Pineal Gland |
| | This preliminary study would suggest that the concomitant administration of the pineal hormone MLT may overcome the clinical resistance to LHRH analogues and improve the clinical conditions in metastatic prostatic cancer patients. | | | The molecular mechanisms of how melatonin affects the proliferation of cancer cells under in vivo and in vitro conditions are mostly unknown and their elucidation will require further basic research to determine the therapeutic potential of melatonin. | | | The mechanisms involved in this depression are at present poorly understood but do not appear to be identical among species so that similar results in animal experiments are of limited applicability to humans. |
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http://www.bphata.com/AOPineal.htm
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| | Alice Bailey - The Soul and its Mechanism - II - The Pineal Gland |
| | As will be seen later, this historic case has a special interest in view of the conclusions of Oriental philosophers. | | | The Soul and its Mechanism - Glands and Human Behavior | | | Beyond these facts or conjectures, investigators frankly say they know nothing, and experiments have produced little information. |
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http://laluni.helloyou.ws/netnews/bk/soul/soul1010.html
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| | Pineal power |
| | The spiritual/instinctual life force was seen as a serpent, due to its physical structure extending from the genitals, through the spine and up into its single all-seeing eye in the pineal gland. | | | Here at the turning of the millennia, in the apocalyptic year of 1999, never has the potential for the state of mind which has been the goal of yogic sages, and psychedelic voyagers alike been so possible to attain for humanity as a whole. | | | These spiritual systems focussed around the raising of this primordial serpentine energy, based in the genitals and at the core of the pro-creative process. |
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| | Fluoride & the Pineal Gland |
| | I do not intend to discuss the relative merits of the claims made by the anti-fluoridationists that chronic ingestion of low levels of fluoride has harmful effects on human health, i.e., increases the risk of cancer, affects the immune system, and hastens the aging process. | | | The results from this study suggest that the pinealocytes may be as susceptible to fluoride as the developing enamel organ." | | | Therefore, it may be a mitochondrial enzyme that is sensitive to the effects of fluoride, e.g., tryptophan-5-hydroxylase. |
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| | Third Eye -- Pineal Gland |
| | Research on infants who died from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) found that the babies had underdeveloped pineal glands, which lowered melatonin levels and weakened the brain's ability to deal with free radicals (molecules with an unpaired electron), thus making the brain vulnerable to free radical damage. | | | The Effect of Melatonin on the Human Body | | | Another study on children and adult hypochondria suggests that the melatonin levels of psychiatric patients are lower than those of healthy people. |
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| | Pineal Gland Cyst |
| | I do not sleep well (if at all), i have tension in my neck and shoulders all the time(from constant headaches)fuzzy, blurry vision, my eyes and ears are in constant pain, i am always lightheaded and dizzy. | | | My Dr seems to think that this has nothing to do with my headaches, however, they can not identify why i am having these headaches. | | | I also recently found out that I had sinusitis, and that an MRI I had years earlier revealed cysts and in my maxillary sinus (also on the left side) which my doctor never even told me about because it supposedly wasn't anything to worry over. |
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| | Fluoride & the Pineal Gland: Study Published in Caries Research |
| | Pineal, muscle and bone were dissected from 11 aged cadavers and assayed for F using the HMDS-facilitated diffusion, F-ion-specific electrode method. | | | She found that melatonin production (as measured by the concentration of a melatonin metabolite in the urine) was lower in the animals treated with high fluoride levels compared with those treated with low levels. | | | When Luke found out that the pineal gland - a little gland in the center of the brain, responsible for a very large range of regulating activities (it produces serotonin and melatonin) -was also a calcifying tissue, like the teeth and the bones, she hypothesized it would concentrate fluoride to very high levels. |
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| | pineal gland. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | Long considered vestigial in humans, the structure, which is also called the pineal body or the epiphysis, is present in most vertebrates. | | | The pineal gland and melatonin are now being studied for their roles in sleep, reproduction, aging, and seasonal affective disorder. | | | Besides influencing daily, or circadian, rhythms such those of as sleep and temperature, the pineal gland and melatonin appear to direct annual rhythms and seasonal changes in animals. |
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| | Theory May Increase Understanding of Eye Disease, Sleep Disorders, August 12, 2004 Press Release - National Institutes ... |
| | Klein explained that, in the ancestor of today's higher animals, the conversion of serotonin to melatonin increased at night, as a way to make vision more sensitive to low light conditions. | | | "Dr. Klein's theory extends our understanding of the pineal gland as a factor controlling the body's daily rhythms," said Duane Alexander, M.D., Director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. | | | Pineal Gland Evolved To Improve Vision, According To Theory By NICHD Scientist |
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| | Pineal gland |
| | It is a part of the system controlling adaptive reactions of organism on various conditions of environment. | | | Consequently, this organ is highly sensitive to macromolecular biologically active substances circulating with the cerebral blood flow. | | | Pineal indolamine and peptide hormones influence immune functions. |
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| | NEL, Pineal Gland and Cancer: An Old Concept with Potential for the Future |
| | At this time also other clinicians attempted a therapeutic use of pineal substances in cancer patients: Sander Schmid (1952) gave subcutaneous implants of fresh pig pineal glands and observed control of the malignant process and Altieri and Sorrentino (1956) successfully treated prostate cancer patients with pineal extracts. | | | Epiglandol (Hoffmann-La Roche) or Epiphysan (Richter, Budapest), and were used not only in oncology but for a number of other diseases. | | | Pineal Gland and Cancer: An Old Concept with Potential for the Future |
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| | The Pineal Gland |
| | Rene Descartes beleived that the Pineal Gland was the connection between the spiritual mind and the physical body. | | | The Pineal Gland is located at the very front of the brain, in the center of the forehead, and is often refered to as the "Third Eye." For some reason, even people who have lost an eye refere to it as the Third Eye. | | | Well, probably you do have one, and it's unfortunate because lopsided Pineal Glands have perverted the Free Spirit of Man, and subverted Life into a frustrating, unhappy and hopeless mess. |
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| | Pineal Gland |
| | The pineal body is an endocrine organ of neuroectodermal origin and is attached to the roof of the third ventricle of the brain. | | | This gland is one of the more easier structures to identify because of the presence of Brain Sands, which are the large purple structures the red arrows are pointing to. | | | The pinealocytes produce melatonin, a serotonin derivative which suppresses gonadotroph secretion, and as such, may prevent the precocious onset of puberty. |
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| | Pineal Gland and SIDS |
| | At this time, the validity of these theories is still unclear but the research in progress is important and may yet yield important information. | | | You're not dumb, because even the "experts" aren't sure what it is. What we do know is that it is a structure in the brain, and it may secrete melatonin. | | | Other ways to help can be found here. |
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| | Melatonin and the Pineal Gland |
| | The pineal gland is a tiny structure located at the base of the brain. | | | Link to graphic showing the location of the pineal and other endocrine glands (92K). |
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| | AskOxford: pineal gland |
| | • noun a small gland situated at the back of the skull within the brain, secreting a hormone-like substance in some mammals. | | | from Latin pinea ‘pine cone’ (with reference to its shape). |
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