Thursday, March 31, 2011

Quan Yin, Guanyin, Avalokitasvara, Guānshìyīn

From Wikipedia:
Etymology 
Guānyīn is a translation from the Sanskrit Avalokitasvara, referring to the Mahāyāna bodhisattva of the same name.
...according to recent research, the original form was indeed Avalokitasvara with the ending a-svara ("sound, noise"), which means "sound perceiver", literally "he who looks down upon sound" (i.e., the cries of sentient beings who need his help; a-svara can be glossed as ahr-svara, "sound of lamentation"). This is the exact equivalent of the Chinese translation Guānyīn
(Ishvara is a philosophical concept in Hinduism, meaning controller or the Supreme controller (i.e. God) in a monotheistic school of thought or the Supreme Being,)
In China Guanshiyin, changed to Guanyin
The Lotus Sūtra (Skt. Saddharma Puṇḍarīka Sūtra) describes Avalokiteśvara as a bodhisattva who can take the form of any type of male or female, adult or child, human or non-human being, in order to teach the Dharma to sentient beings.This text and its thirty-three manifestations of Guanyin, of which seven are female manifestations... it does not matter whether Guanyin is male, female, or asexual, as the ultimate reality is in emptiness
From Wikipedia (Avalokitesvara)
According to Mahāyāna doctrine, Avalokiteśvara is the bodhisattva who has made a great vow to assist sentient beings in times of difficulty, and to postpone his own Buddhahood until he has assisted every being on Earth in achieving Nirvāṇa.

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Third Eye, Ventricles and Thalamus

from youtube

Circulation of Cerebral Spinal Fluid
from: Umea University

Structures of the Brain

Thalamus (caudacus and Tree of life)
Third ventricle

The third ventricle (ventriculus tertius) is one of four connected fluid-filled cavities comprising the ventricular system within the human brain. It is a median cleft between the two thalami, and is filled with cerebrospinal fluid (CSF).
It is in the midline, between the left and right lateral ventricles.
In casts of the ventricular system, a small 'hole' may be seen in the body of the third ventricle. This is formed where the two thalami are joined together at the interthalamic adhesion (not seen in all people).



 
Cerebrospinal Fluid
from: wikipedia
The CSF is produced at a rate of 500 ml/day. Since the brain can contain only 135 to 150 ml, large amounts are drained primarily into the blood through arachnoid granulations in the superior sagittal sinus. Thus the CSF turns over about 3.7 times a day. This continuous flow into the venous system dilutes the concentration of larger, lipoinsoluble molecules penetrating the brain and CSF.

Reference ranges in CSF
SubstanceLower limitUpper limitUnit
Glucose50[3]80[3]mg/dL
Protein15[3]40[4]–45[3]mg/dL
RBCsn/a[3]0[3] / negativecells/µL
WBCs0[3]3[3]cells/µ



Thalamus
from Wikipedia
"every sensory system (with the exception of the olfactory system) includes a thalamic nucleus that receives sensory signals and sends them to the associated primary cortical area.

... For the visual system, for example, inputs from the retina are sent to the lateral geniculate nucleus of the thalamus, which in turn projects to the primary visual cortex (area V1) in the occipital lobe. The thalamus is believed to both process sensory information as well as relaying it...

 Thalamic nuclei have strong reciprocal connections with the cerebral cortex, forming thalamo-cortico-thalamic circuits that are believed to be involved with consciousness. The thalamus plays a major role in regulating arousal, the level of awareness, and activity. Damage to the thalamus can lead to permanent coma.
I was later pleased to find that Mavromatis, the author of the book, Hypnagogia (no doubt the most extensive work on the subject) states his opinion "that the Thalamus is the centre of consciousness and is the source of hypnagogic phenomena".

Intermediate Mass of the Thalamus
  1. not found in all brains
  2. apparently not an essential structure
  3. a connection between the right and left thalamic portions
  4. found crossing the third ventricle

Monday, March 28, 2011

Solfeggio Frquencies





The 9 Solfeggio frequencies are first played separately and then all together

Solfeggio Arpeggio is Ambient Electro Trance; that has been done in the Ancient Solfeggio Scale.

18 Solfeggio Tone Arrangement

Friday, March 18, 2011

Sacred Temples and Architecture

from:garyosborn.webs.com
When we overlay the side-view of the human head onto many sacred places we discover a remarkable thing. The centre of the brain, the eyes, the mouth, the seventh Chakra at the bregma or crown of the head, and its centre, the bindu above the head, all seem to match up with important elements of the architectural or archaeological site. 


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from:  nithyananda.org
Nithyananda idol worship 

CLAY images have been used in many tribal cultures to infuse health and illness, even death and life, into animate and inanimate beings. This is not a voodoo myth, but documented by eminent scholars, who studied these phenomena without bias...
In our Vedic culture we do not worship idols, we worship the universal energy through idols. If clay images of men and material can have so much power as demonstrated by the tribal societies, how much energy would there be in images of the Divine? Vedic seers created temples as repositories of truth and energy. They are batteries of cosmic energy that radiate this energy for thousands of years. This requires intelligence to understand, not intellectual knowledge.

... our sacred scriptures need understanding at different levels of energy, actually seven. Very few are able to understand beyond the gross physical energy level. It is not a matter of learning Sanskrit words....

...Most of our great temples are built upon or created by enlightened Masters who imbued them with their own energy. When you pray in an energy field like that, your prayers do come true. It is like a projector that magnifies a slide onto a screen. The same way your prayers are projected into reality through the energy of the temples and the energised idols. The energy enables your body, mind and spirit to be focused on what you sincerely wish for resulting in fulfilment "

Sunday, March 13, 2011

Quote Kahil Gibran


"Your children are not your children... They are the sons and daughters of life's longing for itself."

--The Prophet, Kahil Gibran