Given what we know about the reticular activating system’s role in attention filtering and control, and that slowing down the mental processes occurs with meditation disciplines, perhaps Alpha or Delta frequencies. Could it be that the slower brain frequency synchronizes with the reticular activation system triggering an energy flow through the spinal nerve ganglia that activates the pineal gland at the Crown chakra? With pineal gland activation via a kundalini energy release, coincident with a blinding white light associated with reaching Samadhi or an equivalently termed blissful state, it is hypothesized that the pineal gland is triggered by either internal or external stimuli causing the gland to release DMT, the spirit molecule which has been shown to be present during mystical and euphoric states of mind [1].
In general it is interesting to consider the effects of brain wave frequency changes on various parts of the body, and the general effects they may have upon the nervous system, and in particular on the pineal gland and its DMT production as it relates to consciousness.
The Pineal Gland
Another area of biology that the Anunnaki were focused on was the human pineal gland. Various rituals that were being performed by the Anunnaki targeted the activation of the pineal gland. The question is, why were they interested in this gland and did it have to do with slave control or biological longevity?
Many spiritual disciplines describe psychedelic accounts of the transformative experiences, whose attainment motivate their practice. Blinding white light, encounters with demonic and angelic entities, ecstatic emotions, timelessness, heavenly sounds, feelings of having died and being reborn, contacting a powerful and loving presence underlying all of reality-these experiences cut across all denominations. They also are characteristic of a fully psychedelic DMT experience [1, pg. 73]. Could meditation trigger the pineal DMT response? Yogic traditions often practice breathing techniques designed to bring about an intense fine-tuning of attention and awareness. The brain’s electrical activity, as measured by the EEG, depicts this correlated breath and brain wave activity.
Religious and spiritual traditions from around the world are replete with descriptions of a blinding white light that accompanies deep spiritual realization. This “Enlightenment” usually is the result of a progression of consciousness though quantized steps, testing the individual’s psychological, and ethical development. Most mystical traditions describe the process and its stages. It is interesting that in the Yogic tradition, the energy levels at each Chakra establish the consciousness attainable, equating energy and consciousness: a common connection in ancient cultures [1, pg. 58]
In Judaism, for example, consciousness moved through the senior, or Kabbalistic centers of spiritual development, the highest being Kester, or Crown. In the Eastern Ayurveda tradition, these centers are called Chakras, and particular experiences likewise accompany the movement of energy through them. The highest Chakra is also called the Crown, or the Thousand-petaled Lotus. In both traditions, the location of this Crown sefira or chakra is the center and top of the skull, anatomically corresponding to the human pineal gland. Note that the third eye is believed to more closely correspond with the pituitary gland [1, pg. 59].
We first read about the physical pineal gland in the writings of Herophilus, a third-century B.C. Greek physician from the time of Alexander the Great. Its name comes from the Latin pineus, relating to the pine, pinus. This little organ is thus piniform, or shaped like a pinecone, no bigger than the nail of your little finger.
The pineal gland is unique in its solitary status within the brain. All other brain sites are paired, meaning that they have left and right counterparts. As the only unpaired organ deep within the brain, the pineal gland remained an anatomical curiosity for nearly two thousand years. No one in the West had any idea what the pineal gland’s function was.
Interest in the pineal grew once attracting the attention of Rene Descartes. This famous seventeenth-century French philosopher and mathematician, who said, “I think therefore I am,” needed a divine origin for those thoughts. Introspection showed him that it was possible to think only one thought at a time. From where in the brain might these unpaired, solitary thoughts arise? Descartes proposed that the pineal, the only singleton organ of the brain, generated thoughts. In addition, Descartes believed the pineal’s location, directly above one of the crucial byways for the cerebrospinal fluid, made this function even more likely.
Hollow cavities deep within the brain termed the ventricles, produce clear, salty, protein-rich cerebrospinal fluid. This fluid protects the brain by cushioning it from sudden jolts and bumps. It also carries nutrients to, and waste products away from deep brain tissue.
In Descartes’s view, the ebb and flow of the cerebrospinal fluid through the ventricles seemed logical as the origin of thoughts. If the pineal gland “secreted” thoughts into the cerebrospinal fluid, what better means for the “stream of consciousness” to make its way to the rest of the brain [1, pg. 59]
Descartes also had a deeply spiritual side believing that thinking was basically a spiritual phenomenon made possible by our divine nature shared with the Creator. That is, our thoughts are expressions of, and proof for the existence of, our soul. Descartes believed that the pineal gland played an essential role in the expression of the soul.
Descartes thus proposed that the pineal gland somehow was the “seat of the soul.” The intermediary between the spiritual and physical. The body and the spirit met there, each affecting the other, and the repercussions extended in both directions [1, pg. 60].
Could Descartes be right? What do we know about the biology of the pineal gland and does it relate to the nature of spirit/energy? The pineal gland of evolutionarily older animals, such as lizards and amphibians, is also called the “third” eye. Just like the two seeing eyes, the third eye possesses a lens, cornea, and retina and is light-sensitive. The pineal gland helps regulate body temperature and skin coloration-two basic reptilian survival functions intimately related to environmental light. Melatonin, the primary pineal hormone, is present in primitive pineal glands.
As animals climbed the evolutionary ladder, the pineal moved inward, deeper into the brain, more hidden and removed from outside influences. While the bird pineal no longer sits on top of the skull, it remains sensitive to outside light because of the paper-thin surrounding bones. The mammalian, including human, pineal is buried even deeper in the brain’s recesses and is not directly sensitive to light, at least in adults. It is interesting to speculate that as the pineal assumes a more “spiritual” role, it needs the greater protection from the environment afforded by such deep placement in the skull.
The human pineal gland becomes visible in the developing fetus at seven weeks, or forty-nine days, after conception. Of great interest is the fact that coincident with this time is exactly the time at which sexual differentiation is clearly detectable. Before this time the sex of the fetus is indeterminate, or unknown. Thus, the pineal gland and the most important differentiation of humanity, male and female gender, appear at the same time [1, pg. 61].