Jean Piaget (1896–1980) to refer to the failure of young children to differentiate
themselves from their environments or objects from one another. This subjective-
fusion with manifestation is similar to an infant’s magical uroboric perspective;
a state of oceanic indissociation or egocentric fusion, which is undifferentiated
or “one with” local environs. This infantile indissociation also lies at the root of
mythic religion as the following quote from Joseph Campbell illustrates.
“We have noted that in the world of the infant the solicitude of the parent conduces
to a belief that the universe is oriented to the child’s own interest and ready to respond
to every thought and desire. This flattering circumstance not only reinforces the
primary indissociation between inside and out, but also adds to it a further habit of
command, linked to an experience of immediate effect. The resultant impression of
an omnipotence of thought—the power of thought, desire, a mere nod or shriek, to
bring the world to heel—Freud identified as the psychological base of magic, and the
researches of Piaget and his school support this view. The child’s world is alert and
alive, governed by rules of response and command, not by physical laws: a portentous
continuum of consciousness endowed with purpose and intent, either resistant or
responsive to the child itself. And, as we know, this infantile notion (or something
much like it) of a world governed rather by moral than by physical laws, kept under
control by a super-ordinated parental personality instead of impersonal physical
forces, and oriented to the weal and woe of man, is an illusion that dominates men’s
thought in most parts of the world—to the very present. We are dealing here with
a spontaneous assumption, antecedent to all teaching, which has given rise to, and
now supports, certain religious and magical beliefs, and when reinforced in turn by
these remains as an absolutely ineradicable conviction, which no amount of rational
thought or empirical science can quite erase.” Joseph Campbell, The Masks of
God, Volume 1: Primitive Mythology
Schizophrenia maybe a hypo-glutamatergic illness: excessive glutamate
metabolism leading to the damage of receptors and exhaustion of glutamate
as a neurotransmitter. Studies found that high levels of glutamate antagonists
were present, and glutamate levels decreased in the prefrontal and hippocampal
regions of schizophrenics. The limbic regions especially the hippocampus contain
high concentrations of NMDA and AMPA glutamate receptors, however in
schizophrenia these are reduced. Some researchers speculate that over activity of
the brain’s cannabinoid system may contribute to schizophrenic symptoms
Glycine is essential at the NMDA receptor site, it was found that there were an
increase in glycine receptors possibly as compensation for the reduced glutamate
activity. Increasing NMDA function with glycine agonists maybe a potential new
strategy for the management of schizophrenia. High doses of glycine at 30 g/day
gave significant antipsychotic results. Schizophrenia and Glutamate, B. G. Bunney,
PhD., http://www.acnp.org/g4/GN401000116/CH114.html
Some of the schizophrenic type symptoms of kundalini awakenings could be
due to hypertonality of the nerves activating the release of Ca2+ thereby killing off
neurons, axons and reducing the number of NMDA glutamate receptors. That is
during the peak kundalini stage first there is an abnormally high concentration of