0brain in the head up to date with what is happening in the brain in the stomach.
Such communication is mostly one way, with 90 percent traveling from the gut
to the head. Serotonin is perhaps the major neurotransmitter responsible for
communication between the enteric and the head brain. Information from our
enteric brain, “gut intuition,” is no doubt re-collected via the serotonin, relaxation,
meditation and contemplation of the theta brainwave state. Thus we might say
that gnosis is a two-brain phenomena working in sync.
The twilight zone of hypnogogia produces brief, fleeting visions, feelings
that the bed is moving, rocking, floating or sinking, electric buzzing sensations
and inner voices. Typically meditation promotes a slowing down of the brain
waves to alpha, with intermittent theta waves—which usually appear only during
light sleep. During meditation released tensions increase skin resistance, lower
blood lactate, reduce heart rate and slow down breathing. Taken as a whole, the
entire metabolism slows down, with the person remaining in a state of peaceful
relaxation.
Kenneth Blum et al proposed that serotonin is the neurotransmitter which
initiates the reward cascade. The reward cascade begins in the hypothalamus,
which is a principle site for emotion and reward. Neurons in the hypothalamus
release serotonin (5HT) which activates the opioid enkephalin. The hypothalamus
controls the border zone between the conscious and supra-conscious levels of
awareness. The biochemical process through which this is accomplished involves
serotonin, one of the two primary hormones released by the pineal gland. As
levels of serotonin to the hypothalamus are increased, certain neurons fire more
easily, enabling sensory information that was previously being processed at a supra-
conscious level to be shifted into the domain of our conscious awareness.
Studies on the phenomena of memory, emotion, plasticity, sleep, meditation
and hypnosis all draw connections between theta waves. At the localized level,
theta wave seems to be involved in short-term memory—individual memories are
refreshed in gamma (40Hz) while the whole salient refresh cycle occurs in theta
(6Hz). The links between theta frequency memory, emotion and local neural
plasticity point to why hypnogogic visualizations in theta involve such intense
subjectivity and create a lasting vivid impression. Indeed theta phenomenology
can create lasting changes in the brain, spiritual perception and our sense of self—
tuned as it were to the music of the Earth’s sphere.
mozart’s brain must have been quite different from the ordinary humanoid.
How many of us can say that we receive instantaneously whole symphonies and
operas in our head. Therefore one would assume that Mozart had a great deal of
Theta wave as a normal living state. Thus producing the kind of wholism and
synthesis of consciousness known to all geniuses. Remember that focused (digital)
remembering of individual facets of consciousness are refreshed in gamma (40Hz)
while the whole salient refresh cycle occurs in theta (6Hz). Theta therefore must
represent a large component of what I call the “Quantum-mind.” Which is a
gestalt of gnosis comprised of the entirety of a theory, idea or art form, which then
needs to be “unpacked” temporally with the digital focused mind.