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Have you ever had a lucid dream,
an out-of-body experience, or a mystical moment that caused you
to change your view about the world we live in?
Have you ever wondered how that happened
or even why it happened?
And have you ever had the desire to have
another similar experience?
It is that transcendental moment where we abandon everything
that we know and we begin to experience
the realm of the unknown, as if the mystery of the self
is being revealed to us.
I'm your host Dr. Joe Dispenza, and in the previous episode,
we compared the realms of space-time and time-space.
The material world, the realm of three-dimensional reality,
the world of the senses, where everything takes time
to happen, to the immaterial world,
the realm of the fifth dimension of reality and beyond.
The world beyond the senses, made of energy and frequency.
In the next two episodes I would like
to demystify the mystical by combining
the science of that lucid world that seems so real to us
in the moment with ancient wisdom
to show you latent systems in your brain and body
that once activated will take you to realms
beyond space and time.
It is in this place that ancient civilizations,
which thrived for thousands of years, were the most interested
in.
It is my hope that everything you learn in this episode
will demystify the mystical so that you
can begin to explore a transcendental world that
exists beyond your senses.
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Let's start with introducing you to the pineal gland and two
important neurotransmitters, serotonin and melatonin.
Let's start with the word pe-nial or pineal,
both pronunciations are correct.
Pineal or pe-nial meaning pinecone shape.
The pineal gland, it looks just like a pinecone.
There's no coincidence that it's called pinecone shaped.
Now, the pineal gland is a tiny little gland
a little bigger than the size of a grain of rice.
It's right between the back of your throat
and the back of your head.
And it's important to know exactly where it
is because when we begin to practice activating
the pineal gland, you're going to have
to become aware of where it exists and put
your attention on it.
And where you place your attention
is where you place your energy.
And the more you pay attention to it,
the more you become aware of it, the more you stay present
with it, the more you begin to put energy
to begin to activate it.
The pineal gland is very sensitive to visible light,
light that's coming from the sun or light that's
coming from lights that we have in our homes
or in our offices, that wavelength of light.
Once light is perceived when our eyes are open,
the frequency of light is picked up by the optic nerve.
And it sends a signal right to a nucleus in the brain called
the suprachiasmic nucleus.
That nucleus signals the sympathetic nervous system,
which signals the pineal gland.
And the pineal gland gets busy making a neurotransmitter
called serotonin.
And serotonin is the daytime neurotransmitter
that once activated begins to cause us to become aware
that we're local in space and time,
and we become conscious that we're our bodies
in an environment and in time.
And it produces a certain brainwave frequency called
beta brainwave frequencies.
It is beta brainwaves that causes
us to put most of our attention on the outer world.
Now, the release of serotonin then gets us up
and gets us busy during the day.
This graphic represents that small frequency
of visible light that exists in the entire electromagnetic
spectrum.
And it's that tiny little sliver of all of reality
that our eyes and our senses are the most sensitive to.
When there is an inhibition of light
or there's a lack of light, the lack of the wavelength of light
that usually hits the back of the eye, the optic nerve,
begins to diminish the release of serotonin in the brain.
And so the inhibition of light signals
the same nucleus in the brain called
the suprachiasmic nucleus, which then dampens down
the sympathetic nervous system.
And now the pineal gland begins to make
a chemical called melatonin.
And melatonin is the nighttime neurotransmitter.
And as melatonin levels begin to rise because of darkness
in the evening, then all of a sudden,
we begin to slow our brainwaves down
into alpha, and theta, and ultimately delta.
And its melatonin then that allows our body
to restore and regenerate.
So serotonin gets us up in the morning,
and melatonin puts us to bed at night.
And those are two important neurotransmitters
that function in a rhythm called the circadian rhythm.
And when you live in a certain environment in a certain place
in the world, and as the sun comes up and the sun goes down,
your brain chemistry becomes entrained to light.
There's an amino acid called L-tryptophan
that is the raw material or the building block of serotonin
and melatonin.
L-tryptophan is turned into 5-hydroxytryptophan,
which is called 5-HTP, which then another chemical cycle
takes place, and all of a sudden we have serotonin.
Serotonin goes through another biological process,
biochemical process, and it's turned
into N-acetylserotonin, which ultimately becomes melatonin.
So very simple chemical pathways in the pineal gland
that is the alchemist in the back of the brain that
facilitates this process based on the wavelength
or the frequency of visible light.
Melatonin levels are at their highest during a 24-hour cycle
between 1 AM and 4 AM.
And that's important for you to know
because when we do the meditation to activate
this ancient gland in the back of the brain,
it's always important to know that it's a good idea to wake
up early enough when the raw materials are at their height.
Melatonin levels tend to go down as stress hormone levels go up.
And that is a very, very adaptive function
over thousands of years of trial and error in environment.
So when there is a stressful event, a dangerous event,
when there's a perception of something threatening
in the environment, we turn on that stress hormones,
the fight-or-flight nervous system, the sympathetic nervous
system, and now we're prepared for danger.
So as long as we're perceiving a threat in the outer world,
it makes sense then it's not a good idea
to go to sleep because sleeping means you would be more
vulnerable and possibly prey.
So as melatonin levels go down as stress hormones go up,
our sleep patterns are interrupted
because the very raw material that causes us to sleep
is diminished.
Now, as stress levels go down and we're out of survival,
out of emergency mode, then melatonin levels go up,
and the body can restore, regenerate, and repair.
Now, melatonin, the research on it
has been profoundly interesting because there's
so many important biological processes
that melatonin is involved in.
Melatonin promotes DNA repair and replication.
It stops cortisol oversecretion in response to stress.
In other words, if your melatonin levels
begin to go up, your stress hormone levels go down.
And a little administration or a little addition of melatonin
sometimes is enough to jump start us
to move into restorative sleep.
It also improved carbohydrate metabolism.
Now, this is an interesting concept because in antiquity,
when we were stressed or living in survival, many times
it meant famine or the lack of food.
So when the survival gene is switched on,
all of a sudden, now the body's going
to take carbohydrates and store them
as fats so that we have a reserve of energy in the body.
So people who are constantly under stress always
are taking carbohydrates and storing them as fats.
Melatonin tends to break that cycle.
It lowers triglyceride levels.
It inhibited atherosclerosis or hardening of the arteries.
It heightens both cellular and metabolic immune responses.
It decreased certain tumor developments
in laboratory animals.
In certain laboratory animals, it increased lifespan by 25%.
It has a very important neuroprotective role
in the brain.
It increases REM sleep.
It is an important free radical scavenger, an antioxidant.
Now, antioxidant means anti-cancer, anti-aging,
anti-heart disease, anti-stroke, anti-neurodegenerative,
anti-inflammatory, anti-microbial.
And I want you to remember these important points
about melatonin because melatonin
is essential for our bodies to repair and regenerate.
This is the ancient symbol from the Egyptian culture called
the Eye of Horus.
Next to it, this is what's called a sagittal section
of the brain.
Now, if you took the two halves of the brain,
and you divided them right down the middle,
and you pulled them apart, you would be looking
at a side view of the brain.
And there's a very striking resemblance
between the limbic brain, the seat
of the autonomic nervous system, and the Eye of Horus.
And it's important for you to understand that this represents
some type of inner vision.
Pineal gland has been known to be called the third eye
because once it's stimulated and activated to the next level,
it gives us profound inner vision.
This is called Fibonacci's constant or the golden mean.
If you were to follow that golden mean right
around the circumference of the brain,
it would wind up at the exact spot of where the pineal gland
exists in the brain.
And many different things in nature,
from the universe to seashells to the inner shape of a flower
all represent this golden mean pattern.
Now, pineal gland has a simple vein, artery,
and nerve moving in and a vein, artery, and nerve moving out,
and it has a very rich and dense blood supply.
Take a look at this article that I discovered,
"Characterisation and Potential Role of Electromechanical
Transduction--
New Crystals in the Pineal Gland."
Now, the abstract says the pineal gland
is a neuroendocrine transducer secreting
melatonin, responsible for the physiological circadian rhythm
control.
A new form of biomineralization has been studied
in the human pineal gland.
It consists of small crystals that are
less than 20 microns in length.
These crystals could be responsible
for an electromechanical biological transduction
mechanism in the pineal gland.
Due to their structure and their Piezoelectric properties.
Now, that's a mouthful of words, but there's
only two words that I want you to pay attention to--
Piezoelectric properties and transducer.
Just remember those.
Now, in the next page, it says the pineal gland microcrystals
appear as a stack of thin rhombohedrons
with their flat surfaces normal to the long axis
of the crystal.
If you were to visualize that, you
have these calcium carbonate or calcite crystals
that are rhombohedron in shape that
are stacked on top of each other in the pineal gland.
And when you apply a mechanical stress,
and you begin to compress those crystals,
the compression of those crystals
begins to produce an external electromagnetic field
or begins to take one form of energy, mechanical stress,
and turn it into another form of energy, an electrical charge.
These are those rhombohedron crystals that
were in the previous article.
And you have them in your pineal gland.
In fact, many vertebrates have the same crystals
in their pineal gland.
Homing pigeons, as an example, have these tiny crystals, just
like you, that are very sensitive
to electromagnetic energy.
And because the Earth has its own electromagnetic field,
the pigeons can actually tune into the strongest signal,
and they can navigate from one place to another place
because they're sensitive to electromagnetism.
And that's information they're picking up
that's transcendent of their senses.
I want to talk about Piezoelectric effects.
So Piezoelectric effect is the ability of certain materials
to generate an electrical charge in response
to an applied mechanical stress.
The word Piezoelectric is derived
from the Greek piezein, which means to squeeze or press,
and piezo in Greek, which means to push.
Now, one of the unique characteristics
of the Piezoelectric effect is that it is reversible,
meaning that the materials exhibiting
the direct Piezoelectric effect--
that's the generation of electricity
when stress is applied--
also exhibit a converse Piezoelectric effect,
the generation of stress when an electrical field is applied.
Stay with me because when Piezoelectric material is
placed under mechanical stress, a shifting
of positive and negative charges centers
in the material, which then results
in an external electrical field.
When reversed, the outer electrical field
either stretches or compresses the Piezoelectric material.
Now, that's a lot of words, but I
want you to hang in there with me now because I'm going
to demystify that process.
How is it then can we compress those crystals
inside our brain?
How can we apply mechanical stress.
If our brain is encased in this ivory cavern called our skull,
how are we going to get in there and compress those crystals?
Inside your skull, your spinal column,
and the bone at the base of your spine
called your sacrum is the most delicate system
in your body called the central nervous system.
In fact, without the aid of your nervous system,
you couldn't digest your food, you couldn't void your bladder,
you couldn't blink your eyes.
You couldn't move without the aid of your nervous system.
So think of your nervous system as the electrical wires
that run the machine.
Inside this closed system is fluid
called cerebrospinal fluid.
And cerebrospinal fluid has some basic functions.
It acts to create buoyancy in the central nervous system.
It acts to have a neuroprotective role for trauma
in case there's movement or deceleration.
It's the fluid that protects the brain and the spinal cord
against bony edges.
It acts to transport fluids and other chemicals and nutrients
to different parts of the brain in the nervous system.
And finally, it has an important role
to enhance conductivity or electrical charges
in the nervous system.
When you inhale, the sutures of your skull open up.
And when you exhale, the sutures of your skull close.
At the same time, at the base of your spine
where that sacrum bone exists, when you inhale,
that sacrum bone flexes back.
And when you exhale, that sacrum bone flexes forward.
So visualize this with me.
The inhalation causes the sutures to open up.
There's more volume in the skull.
And the sacrum bone flexing back causes
that cerebral spinal fluid to drain down in gravity.
When you exhale, and the sacrum bone flexes forward,
and the system closes down, and those sutures close,
it begins to propagate a wave to move the cerebral spinal fluid
up against gravity.
Now, if you were to charge one molecule
of cerebrospinal fluid, and tag it, and follow it
during the course of the day, that cerebral spinal fluid
would move from the base of your spine,
all the way up through four different chambers
called aqueducts or ventricles in the brain,
pass all the way through, and come all the way down.
It would take 12 hours for a healthy person
to begin to move that cerebrospinal fluid all the way
through that system.
So in a sense, we flush our brains twice a day.
What would happen if you were to contract the intrinsic muscles
in your body, the muscles you use for elimination,
the muscles you use for intercourse, you
were to contract your lower abdomen,
pull your belly button in towards your spine,
and contract your upper abdomen?
The act of contracting these intrinsic muscles
in the ancient yoga tradition called the Bandhas.
As you squeeze these muscles, you
begin to push that cerebral spinal fluid up.
Now, what if you were to take one slow, steady breath.
And as you slowly follow your breath,
and you contract those intrinsic muscles,
as you follow your breath, and you bring that breath
all the way up to that pineal gland,
and you hold your breath, and you keep your attention
on that pineal gland.
That's your target.
The act of contracting those muscles along
with the holding of your breath would
begin to push cerebrospinal fluid right up into your brain.
And as you begin to hold your breath,
you're pushing that cerebrospinal fluid right up
against the crystals of the pineal gland
and applying a mechanical stress.
And then the mechanical stress begins to electrically activate
those crystals.
And when those crystals become electrically activated,
we are turning on the radio receiver in the brain.
Now, take a look at the ventricles in your brain.
You have a fourth ventricle that sits close to the brain stem.
Take a look at the third ventricle.
That place right there, that corner right there
is where the pineal gland sits in the dead end.
And then you have two lateral ventricles.
Now take a look at this.
This is the ventricles, and it looks a lot
like that Eye of Horus that we were talking about.
Here's the movement of that fluid.
You can see that it comes up from the body to the brain.
It passes through all of those aqueducts.
It travels along the surface of the top of the neocortex,
and it drains all the way back down.
So then when you inhale, and take a slow, steady breath,
and coordinate that breath with a contraction of muscles, what
you're doing now is you're delivering energy
into the brain by electrically activating it.
This is a magnet.
A magnet has a north pole and a south pole.
And the stronger the polarity between the north pole
and the south pole, the stronger there
is an invisible electromagnetic field
that exists around the magnet.
You can't see that field with your senses, but it exists.
And, in fact, if you were to take a magnet
and place it on top of metal shavings,
those metal shavings would begin to organize themselves
right in the patterns of the electromagnetic field--
energy having an effect on matter.
Your body is also a magnet.
It has a north pole and a south pole,
and Asian cultures have known about this
for thousands of years.
Some of the research that was done
at Yale University in the '40s and studying eggs
of different vertebrates.
When they studied those eggs, they
found that 100% of the time that the positive charge was always
at the head, and the negative charge was always at the tail,
meaning that there is an invisible electromagnetic field
that is actually in the shape of the egg.
Well, the body has the same mechanisms.
We know that by the time we're 35 years old,
most of our energy is stored in the body subconsciously
and 5% is stored in the brain and the mind.
Why?
Because if you're thinking certain thoughts that
are producing certain chemicals that
make you feel a certain way, and those thoughts are connected
to anger, or aggression, or fear, or guilt,
or suffering shame, you're taking thought and beginning
to store it as energy by feeling the same emotion in these lower
centers of the body.
So then, by the same means, the more
we live by these first three centers in our body,
the more we are drawing from this invisible field
of light and information and turning it into chemistry.
We're causing the very field around our body to shrink.
And now we're becoming more matter and less energy,
more particle and less wave.
These first three centers are energy consumers,
so we're drawing from the field and turning it into chemistry.
We're squandering our very life force.
So now we're like a piece of metal
that no longer has an electromagnetic field
or a piece of metal that's no longer a magnet.
And now we have all this energy stored
in the body and a very little bit amount
of energy stored in the brain.
So then there's gotta be a way to pull the mind out
of the body, and to deliver that energy right back in the brain,
and take all the energy that you use
for making a baby, all the energy that you use to digest
a meal, all the energy that you use to react to someone
or something, and instead of releasing it out,
we want to draw it up into the brain.
So then the breath is the way that we deliver energy back
to the brain.
Cerebrospinal fluid is made of proteins and salts
and solution.
And if you take proteins and salts,
and you drop them in solution, they
develop a charge, either a positive charge
or a negative charge.
They gain or lose electrons.
So now, when you do this breath, and you begin to inhale,
and you squeeze those muscles, the act
of squeezing those muscles, and breathing, and coordinating
that act begins to move that cerebrospinal fluid
towards your brain.
Well, if you take a charged molecule and you accelerate it,
you are going to produce an external field called
an inductance field.
If you move several charged molecules,
you'll create a bigger inductance field.
And once you begin to move energy like that, just
like a magnet, you begin to produce
what's called a torus field.
And many things in nature, from the shape
of an apple to a universe to an egg resemble this torus field.
Most people have most of their energy stored
in their first three centers.
And just like drawing fluid up a straw,
we are pulling that energy with one slow, steady breath
through our nose in the attempt to deliver that energy
right up to the pineal gland.
And once that energy moves from the body to the brain,
and it begins to produce more energy in the brain,
we should begin to see the same effect like a magnet.
And it's the intrinsic breath, the contraction
of those muscles along with the slow, steady breath
and having our attention on the target
that once that energy begins to move,
something amazing happens.
There is a activation of the sympathetic nervous system.
And when the sympathetic nervous system is activated,
now it's taking all that energy that's normally
stored in those first three centers, the energy
that it takes to make a baby, the energy
to digest a meal, the energy to run from a predator
or to react to someone or something,
and now that energy is traveling up to the brain.
And the sympathetic nervous system switches on.
And once it's switched on, there's
an arousal that takes place.
And that energy moves right up to the brain.
And once it reaches the brain, it
begins to produce an external electromagnetic field.
The energy at the base of the spine is a lot slower.
As it moves up, the energy gets faster.
And once that energy moves from the base of the spine
all the way up to the brain, just like a magnet,
we're going to begin to produce an ambient electromagnetic
field.
The pineal gland has tiny little cilia, hair-like extensions all
around it.
When you hold your breath and you finally
let your breath out, and you allow that cerebrospinal fluid
to accelerate, the acceleration of that cerebrospinal fluid
begins to stimulate and tickle those little cilia.
And as it begins to become stimulated,
the pineal gland begins to release
very sacred chemicals, which we'll
talk about in the next episode.
So as you inhale and draw that energy up,
once the sympathetic nervous system switches on and merges
with the parasympathetic nervous system,
the person is going to release an enormous amount of energy
up into the brain.
Now, there's a gate at the brainstem
called the thalamic gate.
And that gate typically is closed.
And it participates with a system called the Reticular
Activating System, or the RAS.
Now, the RAS is responsible for levels of awareness.
If your cat is in the kitchen and knocks something over
or you hear somebody outside in the middle of the night,
it's the reticular activating system
that brings you to a greater level of awareness.
But the majority of the time, the stimulation
is coming from our senses, what we're hearing
or what we're seeing.
Now, when the arousal of the sympathetic nervous system
happens this way, once that energy moves up
and that gate opens up, it moves right up into the brain.
And now the brain goes into a super conscious or super aware
state, and the brainwave patterns that are created
are called gamma brainwave patterns.
And gamma brainwave patterns are associated
with super consciousness or super awareness.
And now the person has an activation in their brain,
and they're super conscious, super aware,
but the feelings and the arousal is more like bliss,
more like ecstasy.
And the person is having a tremendous release
of energy into the brain.
And in a sense then, they're almost
having an orgasm in their brain.
And that is the release of the Kundalini.
Now that you have an understanding of pineal gland
and how to activate it, in the next episode,
we'll talk about how the pineal gland once switched
on acts as a radio receiver to pick up information
beyond the senses into meaningful, lucid imagery,
the same way that a TV antenna picks up frequency and decodes
it into pictures.
In other words, we'll uncover the science
behind bridging the physics of frequency and energy
with our biology and our brain.
Stay tuned because I'll be showing you actual brain
scans in real time to prove to you that it's possible.
I'm your host, Dr. Joe Dispenza for "Rewired."
And I hope to see you in the next episode, where
we go beyond the ordinary into the extraordinary.
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