The Cosmic Energy Bridge, Cellular Quantum Consciousness and Its Connections

Abstract

A conscious moment occurs when an individual is in a state of awareness of one’s self and the external environment. The human brain has been extensively studied to understand the phenomena of human thought and behaviour in the context of consciousness. Consciousness has always been linked to the nervous system but there are several studies that have recorded conscious behaviours in organisms without nerve cells. This paper hypothesises that quantum energy generated consciousness emerges in each and every living cell and traverses by means of electromagnetic radiation; an oldest form of energy that exist in the cosmos and which utilizes the cellular structures to flow by means of a coherent, invisible, powerful, recyclable process; a connection with the cosmic energy bridge.

Key Words:  Electromagnetic field, Cell, Consciousness, Quantum, Cosmic energy 

The cosmic energy bridge connects the body with the cosmos

Introduction

Electromagnetic force and gravitational force is some of the oldest forces of energy that exist. Cosmic energy is the cause of the universe, which is a form created from nothingness but its principle of action is expressed through change managed by entropy. At the level of a biological cell, entropy reduction arises from internal self organization, information storage and transfer, and the only way to support the laws of thermodynamics is by balancing these free energy changes with metabolic energy expenditures (Davies et al 2013) which might be true for all matter. The universe is a living, evolving, adapting universe, which utilizes information to organize itself and to create ever-increasing levels of complexity (Mitchell and Staretz 2011). Matter is an asymmetric form of light, which moulds and creates e.g. a living cell, with the capability to interact and capture energy from the cosmos.

The living cell is an organization of elementary particles, which requires a symmetric energy state, for it to come into existence. Cosmic energy obtained in the form of electromagnetic radiation is highly conserved in the universe and a confederation of these two forms can form a bridge which may hold the answer to consciousness. Information for the formation and progression of the universe is stored in atoms as charge and spin, with the electron providing low energy to support life and the nuclear constituents such as protons and neutrons providing high energy for the stars (Teilhard de Chardin 1959). Photons are stable, massless quantum objects that exhibit properties of both wave and particles with observable facts, such as diffraction and interference, on the length scale of its wavelength (Mead 2000; Okun 2006). Quantum tunnelling is a concept derived from quantum computing wherein photons travel through specialized cell organelles and elicits signalling by means of movement and interaction of photons within the cell (Hameroff 1998a; 1998b) a process more rapid than any biochemical or electrochemical process that exists in the cell and can be compared to quantum computing. This paper is a compilation of quantum based factors which hypothesises the existence of consciousness in every single living cell via the cosmic energy that resides in the cosmos.

Electromagnetic radiation and the formation of cosmic energy bridge

Phototrophic way of life in living systems is by means of trapping of electromagnetic radiation energy, converting it to chemical energy to use it for cellular maintenance and growth (Overmann and Garcia-Pichel 2006). The effect of electromagnetic radiations on biological systems depends on radiation strength and its frequency; these properties play an important role in energy transfer. Photon penetration was first demonstrated by Popo and Klimek by a process known as photon sucking, which involves active absorption and re-absorption of emitted radiation that supports biological regulation within the cells and tissue (Popp and Klimek 2007). Vogel et al demonstrated this phenomenon in bacteria, where some bacterial species suck up radiations from their nutrition medium (Vogel and Sübmuth 1998). Photons that interact with the cell, can be absorbed, scattered or reflected. The scattering behaviour of the cell is an important feature, because it determines the volume distribution of light intensity in the cell (Chung et al 2012; Tuchin 1997). Scattered photons are eventually absorbed or escape in the form of diffused reflection, but absorbed photons interact with organic molecules or photo molecules. Absorption of photons occurs, when a charged particle moves from a higher energy excited state to lower energy ground state i.e. hf = E2-E1, where h is the Plank’s constant, f is the frequency of the photon, E2 is the energy of the excited state and E1 is the energy of the ground state and brings about a release of a photon (Marston 1999) leading to an optical window effect in the cell.

According to Schrödinger, high level of organization in living cells can only be maintained because the cellular system within the cell continually obtains order from the environment, through sunlight (Chang et al 1998; Popp and Beloussov 2003). Herbert Fröhlich introduced the concept of coherence in a living system, where he considered absorbed light as an ultra weak radiation that is calm, with stable intensity and can superpose like a laser (Hyland 2000). He also postulated that biological systems exhibit coherent longitudinal vibrations of electrically polar structures (Fröhlich 1968; 1967). Most communications within or between cells occurs via chemical or electrical signalling. The first known cellular signalling was demonstrated by Alexander Gurwitsch, where he showed an increase in mitosis in a set of chemically isolated onion root cells present in a zone of actively dividing cells and called it “mitogenetic radiation “which was electromagnetic in nature (Gurwitsch 1923; 1924; Gurwitsch and Gurwitsch 1924). Low frequency electromagnetic force is known to affect various cell functions, including cell proliferation and differentiation, apoptosis, DNA synthesis, RNA transcription, protein expression, ATP synthesis and metabolic activity (Foletti et al 1999; Lisi et al 2006; 2008).

Biophotons or ultra weak photon emission is a well researched concept under the studies conducted by Popp and his group, where cells are known to emit one to thousands of photons/s cm². Biological cells are known to show increased intensity of these emissions, when they undergo physiological changes under chemical or physical stress (Slawinski 1990; 2003) or a “flash of death” when the cells get damaged beyond repair (Slawinski 2005). The cytoskeleton is expected to be a source of vibrations that generate cellular electromagnetic forces at kilohertz to gigahertz range, which is also connected to the metastatic growth of this network (Pokorný 2005; 2006; 2009). Cells obey the laws of physics, such as the first law of thermodynamics and hence can be viewed as a thermodynamic machine but simultaneously it locally acts against the second law of thermodynamics by creating structural and functional order i.e. it creates and maintains information by expending energy produced from nutrient in the form of ATP and GTP molecules. Living cells can therefore be viewed as both micro-factories with nano-machines performing individual tasks and biological computers whose nano-chips are the various proteins and peptides in addition to DNA and RNA (Davies et al 2013).

Every living cell is conscious….

At the first annual Francis Crick memorial conference on consciousness held on 7^th July, 2012, a group of scientists formally declared a document entitled “Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness in Non-Human Animals” which stated that the capacity of consciousness emerged very early in evolution and those processes that support consciousness in humans are likely characteristics of many living organisms (Low 2012). Lynn Margulis, in the endosymbiotic theory of organelle evolution, suggested that not only animals but every organized being is conscious (Margulis and Sagan 1995). Humberto Maturana was the first to propose that living systems though cognitive systems are applicable to all organisms with and without a nervous system (Maturana 1970). Consciousness is the ability to be aware of and to be able to perceive the relationship between one’s self and one’s environment. It is to be associated with the ability to process, store and act on information gathered from the external environment (Miller and Bassler 2001) while quantum consciousness proposes the existence and creation of a conscious moment through a computational event (Hameroff and Penrose 2013). The information of consciousness gained by the movement of the energy, resides in patterns of matter and energy, which are built up in the cell based on prior experiences with more interaction and knowledge.

The quantum hologram theory by Marcer proposes that, life at the most basic level such as primitive cells exchange information with the environment by utilizing quantum coherence of non-locality (Hameroff 1998a) which is an attribute demonstrated by the photon activity. The trapping of electromagnetic radiation and propagation of the energy in the cell wholly depends on the organization of matter, which makes up the cell, its components and biochemical systems. On disentanglement or release, the photons are released and it merges with the electromagnetic radiation in the cosmos, an involuntary cycle that cannot be changed or altered. . The photons interact within the cell, only if its structure and cellular processes are primed; in the absence of these structures, the propagation gets altered. Propagation by electromagnetic radiation can be demonstrated in processes like, photobiomodulation or low-power laser therapy, which is used to pump-up the cell when under stress, by generating ATP. During this process the cell membrane and cytoplasm act as the first barrier for penetration of electromagnetic radiation and protects the cell, by mechanisms such as selective absorption, scattering, reflection and re-absorption.

Cytoskeletal structures such as microtubules in the brain cells have demonstrated this message transfer via the Orch OR theory penned by Roger Penrose and Stuart Hameroff (Hameroff and Penrose 2013). The cytoskeleton is expected to be a source of vibrations that generate cellular electromagnetic forces at kilohertz to gigahertz range, which is also connected to the metastatic growth of this network (Sahu et al 2013a; 2013b). Penrose and Hameroff claim that constant formation and reformation of tubulin states in the cytoskeleton are governed by quantum mechanical effects within each tubulin interior and these effects function as a quantum computer using "quantum bits" that interact non-locally with other tubulins and with quantum holograms. When enough tubulins are entangled long enough to reach a certain threshold, a "conscious event" occurs (Hameroff 1998a; 1998b). Evolutionary comparison of the cytoskeleton and its structures suggests that consciousness existed from the very beginning and has been propagating by means of the cytoskeletal network of the cell by means of quantum computing (Pereira 2015).

Pop and Klimek have shown the principle of photon sucking by which radiation becomes partially re-absorbed as soon as it is emitted by the tissue or cell (Popp and Klimek 2007). As per the laws of physics, a molecule cannot absorb low energy photons to emit high energy photons, but this can be overcome by the cell through the property of multi-photon excitation, which results in emission of a higher energy photon, if two low energy photons are absorbed (Sun et al 2010).Transmission of photons is ultra fast in comparison to any of the cellular biochemical processes, where searching, processing and retrieval of stored information from previous experiences are analyzed and then used to activate the processes required by the cell, which advances consciousness in the cell. Upon death, biological cells are known to show increased intensity of biophoton emissions, when they undergo physiological changes under chemical or physical stress (Slawinski 1990; 2003) or a “flash of death” when the cells get damaged beyond repair (Slawinski 2005) which concludes the involuntary cycle of the flow of electromagnetic radiation within the cellular structures and merges with the cosmos.

Quantum based consciousness traverses within every cell and therefore can be hypothesised a support mechanism for important cellular functions such as cell proliferation and differentiation, apoptosis, DNA synthesis, RNA transcription, protein expression, ATP synthesis and metabolic activity. Quantum consciousness therefore enables the cell to understand and judge perceptions, which gives the cell a prospect to behave as per will which is released into the cosmos. The relationship between the universe and consciousness can therefore be explained by the concept of cosmic-symmetry wherein a cell comes to know the real world (King 2011) through the uninterrupted flow of radiation that prevails in the universe.  

We are all wired and so is the universe!!

Conclusion

Single celled organisms demonstrate the presence of intelligence in its lowest form, which has evolved to a higher state as a form of adaptation by means of cell division and cell differentiation in higher organisms depicted by similarity in social behaviours (Marijuán et al 2013). Every single biological cell is conscious and goes through the voluntary and involuntary cycles of consciousness generated by means of the quantum processes within the cells. Consciousness emerges in each and every living cell and traverses by means of electromagnetic radiation; an oldest form of energy that exist in the cosmos and which utilizes the cellular structures to flow by means of a coherent, invisible, powerful, recyclable process; a connection with the cosmic energy bridge. Quantum consciousness though present within a cell becomes much more complex with multicellularity and cell diversity. Cellular functioning can be accomplished when the flow of consciousness is smooth, alert and expansive, but gets deformed when consciousness is taut, disordered and apart.

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Medical Utility of Ayahuasca as a Viable Therapeutic Protocol

By: Dr. Ron Shane and Dr. Joe Tafur

Assisted by: Justin Tang, Akshay Hingorani, and Alva LiangQ: Is DNA actually an aspect of what has been denoted throughout literary history as well as in many cultural traditions as a seat of the soul?

Dr. Tafur: I think that it is real interesting responsibility and it is a question of the gene blue print like a particular signature that seems to be the key to some kind of a body conscious life. Want you to have a blue print and signature that is functional and set right about like the rubber hits the road as far as the whole experience of coming into individual life. To me it is something that needs to be addressed and the key to that happening.

Dr. Shane: In my view, even epigenetics and the actual genetic signature of each human genotype does not represent the nature of the soul. Moreover, after studying this phenomenon in philosophy, literary history, it appears to me that there is a distinctive quintessence in the body which Immanuel Kant refers to as the Numinous Essence. This does not necessarily connote the actual permutations of nucleotide sequences of the physical body; and this nature of soul can somehow be contentious or in harmony with the machinations of the physical body with the corporal sphere. There was a major dialogue between Aristotle and Plato on this issue. Recently, in neuroscience, these scientists have now hypothesized that the billions of neurons and astrocytes constitutes consciousness as well as the soul or spiritual body. I have written a paper on the distinction between these two phenomena. In my opinion, the utilization of plant medicine needs to be addressed on the ineffable and edifying aspect of self, which does not necessarily correlate with the body’s physicality. I did in my post-doctoral studies at UCLA on Renaissance Mysticism; and my graduate studies dealt with how the deeper essence of self is being suppressed or mitigated as well as severely thwarted within the numinous body. The western medical model does not want to recognize the etheric body. In my opinion, there is an interesting epigenetic interface between the spiritual body and its corporal physicality.

Dr. Tafur: I think there is this interface between the earthly realm and some higher dimensional phenomenon or whatever you want to call it, actually the basic is part of the genetics really, but they are what represent an interface between the manifestations of the energy. When I say the “seat of the soul” I am trying to suggest the interface where it touches down into the flesh. In other words, where is the biochemical machinery that actually responds to consciousness? At that level, they talk about neurons, but ultimately there is some kind of mechanism that is responding to this energetic phenomenon. One area where we have some evidence is the way epigenetics are responding to things like medication and things like strong emotional experiences from traumatic moments that become imprinted in the system and are passed on from generation such as that from a war.

Dr. Shane: The human phenotype, in most instances is regarded as an enigmatic relationship between the environmental milieu that includes exercise, food, medication, as well as permutations in the atmospheric milieu; and most importantly, the machinations of the numinous body. This aspect of the body does exist in an analogous manner to how gravity impacts physical entities. Epigenetics must be comprehended as an interface between different forces operating on the molecular dynamics of cellular translation and transcription. Western medical theorists do not want to incorporate the epigenetics of the etheric body on cellular molecular processes. Dr. Tafur, you have discussed in a recent lecture how the spiritual body becomes pathogenic and this could lead to allostatic dysregulation, especially in the central nervous system’s mesolimbic regions. Carl Jung did speak about aspects of the body’s ineffable realm, but he did not have the scientific protocol to understand epigenetics. An important issue in psychiatry or neuroscience is whether outward consciousness is actually modulating behavior. Nietzsche regards Apollonian consciousness as the principle factor regulating modern human behavior. This is very distinctive from what Kant is referring to as the numinous body. Whatever is governing consciousness of the biological entity, dictates the focus of the entire outward gestalt. It is important for practitioners leading Ayahuasca sessions to direct consciousness to the predominance of the etheric body rather than aspects of cortical circuitry. We both concur that phenotypical remodeling involves the interface between the sex of the etheric body and the environmental milieu which includes the actual corporal physicality and the outward realm. This complex model of epigenetics explicates the particular nature of proteins which will be translated by the body’s one trillion cells.  

Dr. Tafur: The reason that I like to explore emotionality is that it also provides evidence of this energetic exchange. In other words if some would say love is affecting the epigenetic system, then as a simpler example that maybe is easier for a lot of different people to relate to and the evidence for, such as the forces that are acting on the system, then we can recognize that the system is centered to those forces. The emotion just the way you see, emotional trauma for example, there is a point that there is a stress response or stress adaptation. To me it is more important because it is something more people can relate to and is more tangible.

Dr. Shane: I recently experienced something with plant medicine and it would have only been possible if my cortical processes were less provocative. When the volitional cortical processes are tempered, the individual is more readily able to utilize the medicinal factors of plant medicine to enable the numinous body towards a higher level of mystical genesis. In my view, facilitators of plant medicine must be able to  mitigate the obstructions of their contrived cortical processes.  

Q: Is it necessary to experience hallucinogenic visions for Ayahuasca to be efficacious in terms of activating the etheric body?

Dr. Tafur: No, not necessarily. Maybe, it is not clear but there are people who made it that would probably say that once the etheric body is more activated, than visions are more likely.

Dr. Shane: I disagree 100% with that. In my view, hallucinogenic visions may not be necessarily related to actualizing the etheric body.

Dr. Tafur: In other words if we just have a bunch of follow up, a lot of people are going to have healing without the visions and healing does not depend on the patient at all. However, when people are more clear and more healthy, sometimes they have greater access to visual experience the same way that similarly to someone who does not remember their dreams, will start remembering the dream. The visionary aspect of the person might open up more third eye, open up more as much hallucination like a third eye opening.

Dr. Shane: It is important to open the third eye before participating with plant medicine. Pablo Amaringo’s book entitled Ayahuasca Visions  is an interesting pictorial narrative of his experiences with plant medicine. But he really never focuses his mystical sessions with a phenomenon of ontological genesis. It was not a clear focus towards genesis of the etheric body. In general, he does not have a clear focus towards the genesis of the etheric body. Pablo Amaringo became lost in visions and not directed towards ways to actualize the dimensions of the etheric body. Dr. Luna’s dissertation leads me to believe that modern shamanism is not related to deeper genesis of the numinous body but rather the extraction of virulent energy that thwarts chi follow. Placing acupuncture needles into a highly perturbed patient can induce chi circulation. There are many methodologies for removing problematic toxicity in the inner body. In my opinion, it is necessary for modern humans, with exacting clarity, to remove pathogenicity in the numinous body. It is not necessary for energy practitioners, if they have developed their third eye, to use plant medicine in order to see and remove vitriolic energy from the inner body.  

Dr. Tafur: How long ago… is a visionary artist. That is what the artist are about, trying to share some of the world visions that he sees. There is a big mythology among that stuff that is kind of local. But, if someone did some mild healing, and these people are not really like the sages of spiritual search, they are healers, doctors of sorts and so it is rare to meet actual masters … but I bet there are many people who are skilled. The visions for them is like an inspiration and it is also, there are things that can be done in different ways and different people have different ways of doing them, and in this idea to studying the past, using these plants as an ally to help you do these things. A lot of it, and mythology is kind of like a journey toward developing relationships with the plant where your experience is kind of dependent on the plant in terms of the vision they are going to have into somebody else’s etheric body, you are going to be depending on Ayahuasca without these individuals and how they train from drinking it and it is really going to open up. That relationship that is developed with Ayahuasca, or a traditional way with a plant show you what is wrong with them, they are guiding you to an idea as well as an experience what is wrong with the person and what you need to clean up and what you need to heal in that person and creating that problem. I think ultimately the vision is about the travel, the realms are more of an inspiration. Ultimately there are about connecting, the spirits or energy that are going to help them learn how to affect the etheric body of someone else ultimately through song or a ceremony.

Dr. Shane: I think that what you are saying is quite inspirational. Something you mentioned that is really important in both of your Power Points is that of the translational nature of energy blockage in the etheric body and how it eventually manifests into what we call in western medicine idiopathic diseases. Western medical practitioners do not understand the impetus for many pathologies and vitriolic energy of the etheric body will eventually cause changes in the molecular dynamics of cell lines which are most amiable to allostatic pathogenesis.

Dr. Tafur: IRA recognizes it, Chinese medicine recognizes it, and so it is just a matter of time. and it is also kind of bringing out the arbitrary western science that we can not see but we acknowledge them and we repeatedly measure them and that is a big standard. This standard of repetitive measurements, the scientific method that really limits the discussion and a mass denial which is what I kind of get tired with and exhausted with as a doctor because you can come for instance to the lab a mutation and you can tell someone I feel this lump in my throat or blockage in my throat, or however they phrase it. And then you go to the doctor, and you are dismissed and denied as whatever.

Dr. Shane: You mentioned the third eye and you understand that it is a symbol of western medicine. However, most practitioners do not experientially comprehend this symbolism. In the best case scenario, licensed medical doctors should have been able to actualize the mental eye in order to see furtive malaises of the numinous body. The pharmacological therapies are the last resort in terms of treating escalated energy perturbations that have manifested into physical pathologies.  

Dr. Tafur: The quote for example it seems to be the case that in large part that the quote represents the takeover of pharmaceuticals in medicine or is being restricted to, where all these bright minds who are interested in healing and helping people are directed to this medical training program which has been reduced to pharmaceuticals and then surgery. So then those are the only options that the insurance based health care system is offering. It is all about money and costs and what is available and who is going to pay for it. It is caught up in that, the corporate-ness.

Dr. Shane: In one of our conversations a few years ago, you are learning to do this, and your intuitive perceptions have become very developed. In an ideal situation, it would be judicious to teach western doctors how to remove energy perturbations before they turn into a physiological morbidity. If someone were to walk into the room and you could now observe gastrointestinal issues like Crohn’s disease, however, the impetus for that pathology is being induced from severe energy blockage in the lower dantien. That patient needs to be treated with alternative methodologies as there is not a current pharmacological strategy to mollify this diseases and it eventually is ameliorated by the re-sectioning of the colon.

Dr. Tafur: That also is going to be simultaneously encouraged, this kind of training across culture. The patients are becoming increasingly frustrated as they are also becoming saturated as they are seeing this is how you do it and this is where it goes. Even the doctors themselves they have to look into their own lives and this denial factor…

Dr. Shane: Their energy is blocked too.

Dr. Tafur: Yeah, their energy is blocked, exactly. So they are just staying in that mode, but then people, there are more and more waking up and there are more and more options. There are people that are having healing from what is considered to be chronic illness. As that happens, then people are going to what to look down the pair of time

Q: How does the traditional use of Ayahuasca affect epigenetics, or is it impacting aspects of the body that may not be regulated by cellular molecular dynamics?

Dr. Tafur: It seems that, there is the visceral and peripheral and physicality to it, but energetically in the right situation and right care seems to facilitate some epigenetic flexibility. Kind of like opening up the possibilities again for things to shift. By opening up this portal into the energetic which is the higher realms of numinous, all these things, is opening the door to that and when that door is open then it is possible for things to shift a little bit and there, it will probably be more effective in the long term with meditation, or some kind of spiritual practice or some kind of training over time, you need to solidify it and integrate it. But there is a possibility that any kind of a strong experience or series of some experiences that you would allow things to shift more rapidly, whether or not that shift sticks depends on a lot of things in the person’s lives and other variables. There can be a shift facilitated by the access and the higher energies.

Dr. Shane: This issue affects four hundred thousand licensed medical practitioners here in the U.S. as they do not possess the intuitive inclination to experience higher energies to where there is an awakening of the etheric body; and the tempering of the cortical processes of the central nervous system. Most practitioners of alternative medicine are at extremely nascent stages in terms of their understanding of the interface between the numinous body and its physical sphere.

Dr. Tafur: The thing is like what happens, like now, no real competitive medical school they all have to have an integrated program, for the young medical student, the young college student coming out, if they do not have it and they want to go to a top tier school it is just not good enough. As those programs exist, than we are going to have more people practicing yoga, and in those situations a lot more people are going to have their own journey beyond what others and PhD’s are going to tell them about yoga, and they are going to get curious about yoga and some of them are really going to learn about the deeper teachings of yoga. The doors are opening that way.

Dr. Shane: The use of plant medicine could accelerate licensed clinicians’ deeper intuitions to where they could begin to experientially understand the machinations of the etheric body. If they are on plant medicine, they would be more readily able to experience or to feel the body’s mystical proclivities.  

Dr. Tafur: We will see how it fits into everything, but meanwhile, I am doing that to a point, to a degree at the center in a sense that we have had many medical students the issue with why … like you are saying the culture of the individuals coming through are so flawed that you need something fast and dramatic to open them up or else become psychedelics. At the center there are medical students coming through, not that many of them, but there are definitely some and more and more of them are getting access to some of these experiences.

Dr. Shane: It would be great if we could induce a paradigm revolution in terms of understanding that these are facilitators; and that anyone who is practicing medicine needs to feel the body’s cryptic factors that we cannot empirically, at this moment, measure. Pathologies of the etheric body have immense effects on outward pathophysiology. The quintessential issue is how we can educate a culture concerning lifestyle epigenetics and how it relates to humans becoming fatter, dumber, sicker, and lethargic. How are we going to move beyond this phenomenon to higher mystical issues? Currently, our lifestyle is epigenetically engendering overall bodily pathophysiology.

Q: There is strong reason to believe that the cortical processes of the brain are distinctive from the machinations of the etheric body.

Dr. Tafur: Yes, I think they are in the sense that they, again, are related to it, connected to it. But, they can be different from what might be optimal.

Dr. Shane: We should focus 100%, when we meet, in terms of being able to more readily experience the arcane machinations of the deeper body.

Dr. Tafur: I am interested, I am curious about what it is.

Dr. Shane: This needs to be brought into fruition in our future collaborations.

Dr. Tafur: It depends; I might have a job in Phoenix. If I have a job in Phoenix, I will have three day weekends.

Dr. Shane: This is the major issue in western culture since our social evolution is so delimited; humans have a very opulent resplendent realm which is being abnegated from consciousness.

Dr. Tafur: I agree with that.

Q: Advanced practices of the use of Ayahuasca bypass the cortical circuitry of the brain where consciousness is translocated; and there is no utility to continue to harvest emotional pathology in terms of experiencing deeper mystical edification.

Dr. Shane: We need to establish a paradigm shift as to how individuals are utilizing the therapeutic aspects of plant medicine. Many individuals have been exposed to plant medicine for decades, and they still do not know how to temper their cortical processes. This is necessary to be able to execute in order for higher forms of sentience to be experienced.

Dr. Tafur: This is kind of related to this other topic. In San Francisco and there is this one Erie conference or seminar. The second part is where I get into this paper about … network and the information of psychedelics of this network and the brain and how this culture, the ego driven materialistic seems to be strengthening and that is shutting off.

Dr. Shane: Have you ever been exposed to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs? Modern society is at the lowest level, where we are plagued by the stress system’s fight or flight response. The mesolimbic rewards network is downregulated when the stress system is over activated.

This concludes the first part of the Ayahuasca dialogues between Dr. Ron Shane and Dr. joe Tafur.

 
Ron Shane ND PhD OMD MFA   Dr. Shane is a world-leading authority in body mind consciousness studies. See Bio section for more information about Dr. Shane.