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

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

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Altered States of Consciousness - Inmost Realm - Cosmatrix

"For sake of discussion i will term that inmost realm the cosmic matrix, or cosmatrix. However, the semantic necessity of coining a new word requires the understanding that, like the universal solvent of the alchemists, this state of being which remains when all physical sensations, emotional responses and mental constructs are eliminated, cannot be confined in any verbal receptacle.  It has no outlines, no boundaries and no limitation - indeed no form and no content except itself."
- Journeys into the Bright World by Marcia Moore & Howard Alltounian p 36

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

The Field - Dr Steven Hawkins

"The Field is invisible, all encompassing, without space and time, forever and always present, the infinite. The human mind cannot conceive it. It is exquisitely gentle and powerful. The field is infinitely powerful, like a giant electromagnetic field with no ending. The field is so powerful that it includes all potentialities. Within the field, potentiality is actualized by intention...If you continuously hold a thought, it will become happening. Otherwise no one would become enlightened.

As the potentiality begins to manifest, the ego instantly takes credit for it. There’s no inner, separate, personal self making anything happen. - Dr. Hawkins

Saturday, March 5, 2011

Perception in a Holographic Universe - Quote by Michael Talbot



"If we live in a universe that is organized holographically...it could be that I have the entire universe in every neuron, every cell, every atom, every electron in my head and you do also.  So when we can access that, we can access information that seems to be beyond our normal sensory reach"
 - Michael Talbot author of "The Holographic Universe"
The Holographic Universe - Michael Talbot