Scientific Explanation Of Spiritual Practices

The Pineal Gland (also called the pineal body, epiphysis cerebri, epiphysis or the "third eye") is a small endocrine gland. It produces melatonin, a hormone that affects the modulation of wake/sleep patterns and photoperiodic (seasonal) functions. It is located near to the center of the brain between the two hemispheres, tucked in a groove where the two rounded thalamic bodies join. Unlike much of the rest of the brain, the pineal gland is not isolated from the body by the blood-brain barrier system. It is reddish-gray and about the size of a pea (8 mm in humans).

The emphasis on the Pine cone in various architecture from around the world:

IMAGES FROM TOP LEFT: Egyptian Pyramids, The Vatican, Lambeth Bridge London, Egyptian Solar God Osiris, Buddha, Caduceus Whitehall Building New York City, Angkor Wat Cambodia, Assyrian Deities, Bacchus Roman God.

Interesting Facts about the Pineal Gland:

* The pineal gland is formed at 49 days within the human embryo: the same time that Tibetans believe it takes for a soul to reincarnate. And the same amount of days that the human embryo becomes either male or female.

* In the ancient Vedic energy system of the chakras, the pineal gland is referred to as the ‘Ajna’ or ‘3rd Eye’ chakra. Modern studies reveal that the gland contains rods and cones – just like those found in the retina of your eyes! This is why when you visualize something strongly enough, you can literally see it “in your mind’s eye.”

*Your pineal gland receives more blood flow per cubic area than any other gland in your body. In other words, compared to all your other organs – including your lungs, your heart and your brain – this tiny little gland gets the highest concentration of energy. Hmm…

* Studies show your pineal gland secretes a substance called Dimethyltriptamine (DMT). The interesting thing about DMT is that it causes experiences which can take you well beyond common states of awareness. This is perhaps why the pineal gland is known in many cultures as the ‘Seat of the Soul’, the ‘Gateway to the Universe’, the ‘Mind’s Eye’ and the ‘Doorway to Higher Realms’.

* Your pineal gland is also important to your physical and mental health, and its well being has been linked to memory, creativity, intuition and critical thinking skills. It is also sensitive to light and plays an important role in your sleep and waking cycles. When light strikes the retina of your eyes, it travels through a tiny nerve system and into the gland. When the lights go off, it sends a signal to the pineal gland to begin secreting melatonin, which activates your nervous system to go into sleep mode.

The Sri Yantra means “holy instrument” and can also be known as the Sri Chakra or “holy wheel”.Yantras are geometrical designs based on the principles of sacred geometry and are used for meditation. Each yantra design contains a centre point or “dot” from which geometric shapes and designs radiate.

The Sri Yantra is a mathematically precise design and based upon Golden Proportion or Phi ratio. Everything that exists in nature, is constructed in a proportionately precise manner and this proportion is called the Golden/Phi ratio. It is a simple mathematical relationship found naturally and in many great works of art(Leonardo Di Vinci’s Vitruvian man and The Mona Lisa) and even architecture such as the positioning of the Pyramids of Giza.

In simple terms, the Golden Ratio suggests that everything, starting from the tiniest speck, expands and grows in proportions of 1.618, from a microscopic level to a macroscopic level for increased stability and beauty. Famous mathematicians, such as Pythagorus, also commented on the Golden Ratio and it being the blueprint applied to all of creation.

The image above shows how the Fibonacci sequence/Golden ratio plays a role in nature. Even sound and our hearing follows this same ratio. The image below shows our auditory system. Notice how the shape of the auditory canal follows the Golden Proportion

The Sri Yantra also looks strikingly similar to the Star of David or a star tetrahedron. Check out the image below:

This yantra is seen to have nine triangles that can be interlaced in such a way as to form 43 smaller triangles like a web; this web can be symbolic of the entire cosmos. It is closely associated with the Flower of Life which is also the blueprint for the creation of matter, sound and consciousness. Effectively everything is formed from this blueprint. Below is an example of how the Flower of Life plays a role in the formation of human beings at an embryonic stage, this pattern is repeated throughout nature:

Below you can see how the Flower of Life translates to the Sri Yantra:

Staring at the central dot or ‘bindu’ of the Sri Yantra is known and proven to create changes within the brain and the stimulation of the Pineal gland by focussing our attention on the ‘3rd eye’ area.

The Pineal gland is a small endocrine gland in the brain. It produces melatonin, a serotonin derived hormone, which affects the modulation of sleep patterns in both seasonal and circadian rhythms. Its shape resembles a tiny pine cone (hence its name), and it is located in the epithalamus, near the center of the brain, between the two hemispheres, tucked in a groove where the two halves of the thalamus join.

Sri Yantra Buddha Painting

“Everything in Life is Vibration” – Albert Einstein

The Universal Law states that everything in the universe moves and vibrates. Everything has its own vibrating frequency

Crystals are millions of years old, forged during the earliest parts of earth’s formation. They are the most orderly structure that exists in nature, meaning they have the lowest amount of entropy (a measurement for disorder). Crystals are structured in such a way that they respond to the inputs of all different energies around them, leading them to oscillate and emit specific vibratory frequencies. Because the crystal lattice is so balanced and orderly, the energy it emits is consistent, and when dissonant energy is inputted, it is balanced and transformed into a harmonic energy.

All crystals (or Crystalline Silica to be precise) are considered to be one of the building blocks of life. They are made from the 2 most abundant elements on the planet – Silicon and Oxygen. The atoms bond together, under pressure, after which they arrange, incredibly stably, into a three-dimensionally repeating pattern giving the ‘crystal’ its structure.

atomic pattern of crystal

Together, silicon and oxygen make up approximately 80% of the earths crust.Silicon is also an excellent conductor of electricity and, therefore, crystals are of great use in the technology industry. These properties have made Crystalline Silica an indispensable component of the natural and technological worlds.

Crystals are essential to the functioning of our modern technologies, because of the way their balanced, ordered structure emits consistent frequencies and allows them to store a tremendous amount of information.

Silicon is used in every single computer and cell phone processor, and liquid crystals comprise the display screens of these devices.
Quartz (a type of silicate mineral) is used in watches and clocks to help them tell time, because it helps stabilize and regulate the flow of energy. Earlier this year, The Mind Unleashed reported how a clear piece of Quartz crystal can be used to store data for up to 300 million years.
Galena and Pyrite can be used to make radio receivers that do not rely on batteries.
Ruby crystals were an important part of the first ever laser developed by Bell Laboratories in the 1960’s, and it is still used today for its abilities to focus and concentrate energy.

Each crystal vibrates in its own unique frequency. Crystal vibrations are routinely measured by infrared and Raman spectroscopy. Some have a very narrow spectrum and others have a far greater range.

“When we bring the crystal into our electromagnetic field, two things occur. The electromagnetic frequencies carried by the stone will vibrate with related frequencies in our own energy field through the physical law of resonance, creating a third larger vibration field. The nervous system is attuned to these shifts in energy and transmits this information to the brain. Here the frequencies stimulate biochemical shifts that affect the physical body and shift brain function to open the client / patient to emotional experiences.”

Quartz crystals possess a very unique property called piezoelectricity. A piezoelectric crystal converts mechanical pressure into electricity. That means that bending or stretching or compressing the crystal creates an electrical current. The reverse is also true; an electrical current causes the crystal to bend, stretch, or compress.

When a quartz crystal is cut, or struck together, the pressure applied to it generates an electrical charge. When an electric charge is applied to the quartz, the crystal distorts, and as the voltage is removed, the crystal creates an electric field…. it vibrates…sometimes 30,000 times per second! Considering our bodies are constantly producing electrical signals, the interaction between us and crystals is pretty clear

Crystals have the amazing ability to influence and interact with our energy fields. They are unique, in that they are conductors of light, sound and electricity, yet can absorb high intensity energy endlessly

In the Christian religion, holy water is water that has been blessed by a priest or bishop,Sprinkling with holy water is used as a sacramental that recalls baptism.

In the Hindu Religion,At the end of the pooja or rituals water from the vessel water is sprayed all around as a form of blessing

Holy water is also sprinkled in Church as a form of blessing

water has memory

Molecular Structure of water

Today, many scholars admit that water is an amazing substance capable of efficient gathering of information from all things as soon as it comes in contact with them.
The theoretical physicist Emilio del Giudice at the University of Milano, Italy, could explain together with cooperators that water has the ability to store information over long periods of time.
Jacques Benveniste (1935 - 2004), a French immunologist discovered that water holds a "memory", and is able to digitally record and then digitally re-write other water, even when the substance has been removed from it.

Dr.Masuru Emoto of Japan demonstrated that water molecules are actually affected by sound and our intention.Intention, incidentally, is our thoughts, our feelings—it is the energy behind the sounds that we create.

Thoughts and words have unique magnetic code, which can interact with water; according to Dr Emoto.

Dr. Masaru Emoto very cleverly proved the power of thoughts and intention through his Water Crystal Experiment. In this experiment he proved that prayer, positive words and music had an impact on the structure of water crystals and gave them a more stable, geometric form. On the contrary, when the water was exposed to negative words, pictures or music, the form was distorted, irregular and lacking form. Bearing in mind, we are predominantly composed of water, the potential link between our thoughts and the impact on our bodies is clear to see. Seeing as we are all connected, our thoughts have the ability to affect everything and everyone around us on a subatomic level.

His experiments with water showed that the water reacts for our words and depending on what we say and what emotions accompany our words, it creates either beautiful and harmonious shapes or ugly and irregular ones. We learn from Dr. Emoto that water has a memory – a memory far longer than our transient lifetimes.

Dr.Emoto has photographs of polluted water, which at first look like mud. After a priest has chanted over this water, it is photographed again. This time, the water looks like a snowflake—the sound and intentionally has restored it to its natural pristine harmonious shape.

"Holy water has been scientifically determined to have a very stable/crystalline structure"

Everything vibrates. Every atom, every cell, everything is energy in motion.

This includes our THOUGHTS.

When we think, on a conscious or a subconscious level, physical changes are happening. Little electrical charges are firing through our neurones through to our bodies and impacting the cells and tissues. Thoughts (and in particular their offshoot – emotions) cause physical changes in our internal matter as well as our external surroundings.

It has been proven by science that long term thinking patterns can lead to changes within the brain.

Your Hypothalamus is the manager of your brain and the emotional hub of the body. It is the master controller of all of your hormones, your immune system, and your brain chemistry. All the signals from your body route through your thalamus to your cerebral cortex, where you do all your thinking. Similarly, all of your thoughtsroute through your thalamus before affecting other parts of your body.

Your thoughts will cause physical changes in the neuronal pathways within the hypothalamus and other aspects of your brain (known as Neuroplasticity). This leads to cycles of thinking and habitual thought patterns.

Serotonin is a hormone responsible for feeling good and calm – A ‘happy’ chemical. Not having enough of this neurotransmitter in the body can lead to symptoms such as moodiness, irritability and negative thinking as well as physical changes in the brain. If you regularly feel good, your brain will change to release more of these feel good chemicals. If you regularly feel bad, your brain will adapt to give you less feel good chemicals.

Your thoughts are VERY powerful

- Not only do they have the ability to physically change your body and the electromagnetic field around it…They also affect the electromagnetic fields of those who around you

-Whatever your consistent state of mind – your brain will ‘help you’ to enhance it! Whether it be positive or negative.

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Dr. Norman Doidge states plainly that the brain is a dynamic organ and therefore has the capacity to rewire itself and form new neural pathways. Regular ‘practice’ of positive thinking will enhance your brain’s capacity to feel good.

Dr. Fredrickson while doing research on Positive thinking,found that this changes the very fundamental rhythms of the heart, so that we see more heart rate variability. Positive thinking can lead to changes in gene expression in the immune system and increases in day to day levels of positive emotions predict physiological changes and psychological practical changes like resilience, social connection and so on.

Here's a video explaining Power of Thought

Chakras were first described in the Hindu Scriptures (The Vedas) thousands of years ago, and literally means ‘wheels‘ of energy. They predominantly deal with energy flow in the body and are said to be focused areas (or vortex) of high, expansive energy, within multiple locations in the body.

There are thought to be 114 Chakras within the body in total, but 7 main Chakras spanning from the base of the spine to the crown of the head, and are considered to follow the curvature of the spine. Connected to these Chakras, there are said to be Nadis . These Nadis are considered to be the vessels through which energy flows, from the chakras to the rest of the body.

‘Everything is Energy’. This is a widely accepted theory in Quantum Physics and a scientifically proven fact.Everything connects via magnetic energy and is electrical energy

The movement of energy is vital to life. When we think, breathe, function or even when we are resting, electrical energy is flowing through our bodies via our neurones and nerve pathways.

The position of the major chakras correspond to the major nerve plexus’ or nerve ‘bundles’.

the most energetic processes within our bodies are caused by our nerve tissues and specifically our nervous system. The nervous system is that part of our body, that coordinates its voluntary and involuntary actions, and transmits signals to and from different parts of the body and brain. The ‘communication‘ of the body, if you will.

The nervous system is composed of two main parts:

The Central Nervous System (CNS) within the brain and spinal cord, and

The Peripheral Nervous System (PNS) ,which connects the brain and spinal cord to the rest of the body, via little ‘river‘ like nerve fibres (Nadis!). This system is what correlates with the chakras.

There are different categories of nerve bundles within the PNS, but the most relevant to the Chakras is the AUTONOMIC nervous system of the PNS. This deals with the involuntary or automatic responses within the body. For example – digestion; our heart rate, sneezing, swallowing and breathing. All these processes are regulated by the hypothalamus

The Autonomic Nervous System is further divided into the Sympathetic Nervous System (activated in emergencies to move energy, the ‘fight and flight’ responses) and the Parasympathetic Nervous system (activated when ‘resting and digesting’).

It is the Parasympathetic Nervous System (part of the automatic nerve response system) which has the greatest relevance to the areas where the Chakras are thought to be located.

The diagram above shows where these major nerve plexus’ (or networks) of the Parasympathetic Nervous System lie. The brain actually connects to these parts of the body via the ‘big-dog’ of the nervous system – the big, fat, juicy, VAGUS nerve – the 10th cranial nerve (cranial meaning, out of the cranium/skull). The Vagus nerve is considered the ‘Holy Grail’ of all nerves. Where the major networks of nerves are, they correspond with the glands in our bodies

The diagram below shows the position of the various Chakras. Notice how they correlate to the above diagram:

As mentioned above, these nerve ‘bundles’ are associated with major GLANDS in our body. Glands secrete hormones into the bloodstream and are HUGELY important in the functioning of our bodies.

Hormones are critical players in the body’s chemistry and stimulated by the Vagus nerve.

They (as well as nerves) carry messages between cells and organs and affect many aspects of our bodily processes, from growth through childhood, sexual development, mood, to how well we sleep, how we manage stress, brain functioning and even how we break down food. In fact, the gradual decrease in hormone production over time, is what leads to the aging process

The Chakras are associated with the major nerve networks within the body, which connect from the brain/spine, via the major Vagus nerve, to the glands responsible for hormone production and the functioning of the body in general.

Scientific Explanation Of Spiritual Practices

“Everything in Life is Vibration” – Albert Einstein

The Universal Law states that everything in the universe moves and vibrates. Everything has its own vibrating frequency

Scientific Research

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