Introduction to Erowid – psychoactive drug, psychopharmaceutical or psychotropic

A psychoactive drug, psychopharmaceutical or psychotropic substance is a chemical substance that acts primarily upon the central nervous system where it alters brain function, resulting in changes in perception, mood, consciousness and behavior. These drugs may be used recreationally to purposefully alter one’s consciousness, as entheogens for ritual or spiritual purposes, as a tool for studying or augmenting the mind, or therapeutically as medication.

Because psychoactive substances bring about subjective changes in consciousness and mood that the user may find pleasant (e.g. euphoria) or advantageous (e.g. increased alertness), many psychoactive substances are abused, that is, used excessively, despite risks or negative consequences. With sustained use of some substances, physical dependence may develop, making the cycle of abuse even more difficult to interrupt. Drug rehabilitation can involve a combination of psychotherapy, support groups and even other psychoactive substances to break the cycle of dependency.
(Source : wiki )

About Erowid Mission
Erowid is a member-supported organization providing access to reliable, non-judgmental information about psychoactive plants, chemicals, and related issues. Erowid work with academic, medical, and experiential experts to develop and publish new resources, as well as to improve and increase access to already existing resources. Erowid also strive to ensure that these resources are maintained and preserved as a historical record for the future.

Vision
Erowid imagine a world where people treat psychoactives with respect and awareness; where people work together to collect and share knowledge in ways that strengthen their understanding of themselves and provide insight into the complex choices faced by individuals and societies alike. Erowid believe that truth, accuracy, and integrity in publishing information about psychoactives will lead to healthier and more balanced choices, behaviors, and policies around all psychoactive medications, entheogens, herbs, and recreational drugs. Erowid’s vision is to facilitate and create resources that are part of the evolution towards this goal.

What is Erowid.org?
Erowid.org is an online library of information about psychoactive plants, chemicals, and related topics. The site is cross between a library and a journal, both archiving older historical documents and information as well as publishing new articles.

Why was Erowid started?
Although the risks and problems of psychoactives are widely discussed, it’s also clear that psychoactive plants and chemicals have played a positive role in many people’s lives. Unfortunately, there is a serious lack of balance in the information provided by many resources. As our culture struggles with integrating the increasing variety and availability of these substances into its political and social structures, new educational models are clearly needed. Erowid is founded on the belief that a healthy relationship with psychoactives is one grounded in balance, where use is part of an active, intellectual, physical, and spiritual life. We believe that access to information is key to creating these healthier relationships with psychoactives.

How big is the site?
Erowid contains more than 50,000 documents related to psychoactives including high-quality images, research summaries & abstracts, media articles, experience reports, information on chemistry, dosage, effecs, law, health, drug testing, and traditional & spiritual use. This includes about 42,000 text documents and 7,000 archived images. It takes over 37 gigabytes of disk space.

Who runs Erowid?
Erowid was founded in October 1995 by Fire and Earth Erowid. The site was a part-time project until October 1999 when it became large enough for Fire to begin working on it full-time. Earth joined her working full-time in March 2000. The site was run as a non-commercial business through 2007. As of January 2008, operation of the site was taken over by the newly formed non-profit Erowid Center. Erowid Center now has four primary staff members, two part-time staff, and dozens of valuable volunteers who help process incoming data, seek out new resources, and/or help keep the site up-to-date.

Reference: www.erowid.org

What is Nootropic?

Nootropics, also referred to as smart drugs, memory enhancers, and cognitive enhancers, are drugs, supplements, nutraceuticals, and functional foods that are purported to improve mental functions such as cognition, memory, intelligence, motivation, attention, and concentration.[1][2] The word nootropic was coined in 1964 by the Romanian Dr. Corneliu E. Giurgea, derived from the Greek words noos, or “mind,” and tropein meaning “to bend/turn”. Nootropics are thought to work by altering the availability of the brain’s supply of neurochemicals (neurotransmitters, enzymes, and hormones) by improving the brain’s oxygen supply or by stimulating nerve growth. However the efficacy of nootropic substances in most cases has not been conclusively determined. This is complicated by the difficulty of defining and quantifying cognition and intelligence.
( source: wiki )

Sceptics about nootropics (“smart drugs”) are unwitting victims of the so-called Panglossian paradigm of evolution. They believe that our cognitive architecture has been so fine-honed by natural selection that any tinkering with such a wonderfully all-adaptive suite of mechanisms is bound to do more harm than good. Certainly the notion that merely popping a pill could make you brighter sounds implausible. It sounds like the sort of journalistic excess that sits more comfortably in the pages of Fortean Times than any scholarly journal of repute.
Yet as Dean, Morgenthaler and Fowkes’ (hereafter “DMF”) book attests, the debunkers are wrong. On the one hand, numerous agents with anticholinergic properties are essentially dumb drugs. They impair memory, alertness, verbal facility and creative thought. Conversely, a variety of cholinergic drugs and nutrients, which form a large part of the smart-chemist’s arsenal, can subtly but significantly enhance cognitive performance on a whole range of tests. This holds true for victims of Alzheimer’s Disease, who suffer in particular from a progressive and disproportionate loss of cholinergic neurons. Yet, potentially at least, cognitive enhancers can aid non-demented people too. Members of the “normally” ageing population can benefit from an increased availability of acetylcholine, improved blood-flow to the brain, increased ATP production and enhanced oxygen and glucose uptake. Most recently, research with ampakines, modulators of neurotrophin-regulating AMPA-type glutamate receptors, suggests that designer nootropics will soon deliver sharper intellectual performance even to healthy young adults.

DMF provide updates from Smart Drugs (1) on piracetam, acetyl-l-carnitine, vasopressin, and several vitamin therapies. Smart Drugs II offers profiles of agents such as selegiline (l-deprenyl), melatonin, pregnenolone, DHEA and ondansetron (Zofran). There is also a provocative question-and-answer section; a discussion of product sources; and a guide to further reading.
by
Ward Dean, John Morgenthaler and Steven Fowkes
(ISBN 0 9627418 7 6)

The Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics (CCLE)

CCLE is an organization who promote to protecting and advancing freedom of thought in the modern world of accelerating neurotechnologies. Normally such information is kept screct , being matter of National security but such information is very critical to have open channel.

Dr. Shulgin
After receiving his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from U.C. Berkeley 1954, Dr. Shulgin went on to work as a research director at BioRad Laboratories and a research chemist at the Dow Chemical Company. He is the author of approximately 200 scientific papers, 20 patents, and 20 book chapters. He has also authored four books: Controlled Substances (1988), PIHKAL (1991), and TIHKAL (1997), and Simple Isoquinolines (2002). Dr. Shulgin now works as a scientific consultant for such clients as the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the Drug Enforcement Administration, NASA, Bristol Laboratories, and the University of California.

He is also a member of the CCLE’s Board of Advisors.

Source:
http://www.cognitivelibert

The Lost Symbol – a novel by Dan Brown on neotic sciences

A new novel named “The Lost Symbol” is lanched recently. It is based on neotic sciences. It can be defined as below:
no•et•ic: From the Greek noēsis/ noētikos, meaning inner wisdom, direct knowing, or subjective understanding. As defined by the philosopher William James in 1902, noetic refers to “states of insight into depths of truth unplumbed by the discursive intellect. They are illuminations, revelations, full of significance and importance, all inarticulate though they remain; and as a rule they carry with them a curious sense of authority…”

sci•ence: Systems of acquiring knowledge that use observation, experimentation, and replication to describe and explain natural phenomena

no•et•ic sci•ences: A multidisciplinary field that brings objective scientific tools and techniques together with subjective inner knowing to study the full range of human experience.

In other words, there are several ways we can know the world around us. Science focuses on external observation and is grounded in objective evaluation, measurement, and experimentation. This is useful in increasing objectivity and reducing bias and inaccuracy as we interpret what we observe.

But another way of knowing is subjective — or internal — including gut feelings, intuition, hunches — the way you know you love your children, for example, or experiences you have that cannot be explained or proven, but feel absolutely real nonetheless. This way of knowing is what we call noetic.

From a purely materialist, mechanistic perspective, all subjective — noetic — experience arises from physical matter, and consciousness is simply a byproduct of brain and body processes. The noetic sciences focus on bringing a scientific lens to the study of subjective experience, and to ways that consciousness may influence the physical world.

Consciousness has been defined in many ways, but in this context, consciousness is awareness — how people perceive, interpret, and direct their attention and intention toward their environment. Collective consciousness is how a group (an institution, a society, a species) perceives, attends to, and makes meaning of the world. In its largest, most universal sense, consciousness has been referred to as a “milieu of potential,” the shared ground of being from which all experiences and phenomena arise and eventually return.

The Lost Symbol, developed under the working title The Solomon Key, is a 2009 novel by American writer Dan Brown.

Plot
The story takes place over a period of 12 hours in Washington, D.C., with a focus on Freemasonry.[8] Robert Langdon is summoned to give a lecture in National Statuary Hall at the United States Capitol, with the invitation apparently from his mentor, a 33rd degree Mason named Peter Solomon, who is the head of the Smithsonian Institution. However, instead of an audience for his lecture, Langdon finds the severed right hand of Peter Solomon tattooed into a symbolic ‘Hand of the Mysteries’ which seemingly points to the fresco The Apotheosis of Washington on the inside of the Capitol dome.
Mal’akh, Peter Solomon’s only son, a brilliant, tattooed villain who is in search of an ancient source of power [9] has taken Peter Solomon hostage and demands Langdon unlock the Ancient Mysteries in return for Peter’s life. In a fiery nighttime explosion, Mal’akh also destroys the Smithonsonian-sponsored laboratory of Dr. Katherine Solomon, Peter’s younger sister, where she conducted successful experiments in the ability of the human mind to affect subatomic particles. In addition, the CIA is pursuing Mal’akh in the interests of National Security.

Author Dan Brown’s Official Website, http://www.danbrown.com

Official The Lost Symbol Website http://www.thelostsymbol.com

Institute of Noetic Sciences http://www.noetic.org

Introduction to www.psychointegrator.com

www.psychointegrator.com A similar idea as i started rational solution blog. We have some comman vision to explore for betterment of every ones life.Lets see how far can we reach….:)
 
Purpose of this website, is Psychedelic Medicine News, promoting the healthy use of psychedelics.

There are few very interesting news provided by this blog.

Best of luck Fernando.
“My intentions are not to be worldwide known or to lead any movement.” well said Fernando….
But i have some vision to attain via my blog titled “Rational solution”….

NITRC-NeuroImaging

NITRC,Funded by the National Institutes of Health Blueprint for Neuroscience Research, facilitates finding and comparing structural and functional neuroimaging tools and resources.

For more information…visit

http://www.nitrc.org/

Neuroimaging includes the use of various techniques to either directly or indirectly image the structure, function/pharmacology of the brain. It is a relatively new discipline within medicine and neuroscience/psychology.

Java Image Science Toolkit (JIST) provides a native Java-based imaging processing environment similar to the ITK/VTK paradigm. Initially developed as an extension to MIPAV (CIT, NIH, Bethesda, MD), the JIST processing infrastructure provides automated GUI generation for application plug-ins, graphical layout tools, and command line interfaces.

NIMH, National institute of mental health

When we apply neurogenesis to attain more productivity of mind by direct medicines or scaled humman automation, chances are you will get into some type of mental dis-order………

In USA, there is a national level institute to handle mental health issuses named as NIMH, National institute of mental health  http://www.nimh.nih.gov

Similar type of institutes are required in pakistan too.

visit http://www.nimh.nih.gov very informative and precise type of information is provided in this web site….

NeuroGenesis Inc

While googling about Neurogenesis, i found a interesting company having strong profile in neurogenesis products named neurogenesis Inc.
Below is a small profile about the company as:
————————————————————
The product history of NeuroGenesis Inc began in 1984 when Dr. Kenneth Blum formulated and patented a very targeted nutritional supplement regimen for substance abuse. Dr. Kenneth Blum discovered that through the use of select nutritional formulae, certain substance abuses, such as an alcoholic’s craving for alcohol, could be reduced or even overcome. This product line was marketed exclusively to rehabilitation hospitals and clinics.

As insurance companies progressively decided to exclude nutritional supplements from their coverage packages, NeuroGenesis expanded its marketing strategy to include retail to the general public. NeuroGenesis formed their retail division, which produced explosive growth for the company.

NeuroGenesis, Inc. has enjoyed an increase in production, rapid growth in the retail sales, expansion in the market and overall enhancement in benefits to the consumer over these years. The transition into the retail market also led the way expanding our products focused to help the neurochemical depletions from more common factors such as daily stress. As with most growing companies, NeuroGenesis has experienced the cycles in sales, changes in directors, executives, and even names over the years. The one constant through twenty plus years is a commitment to developing and providing products to help the brain and body achieve a natural balance and enhance the quality of life.

A strong staff of professionals and an innovative product line continue to help individuals in achieving a healthier, balanced neurochemistry. NeuroGenesis products work to support the natural replenishment of neurotransmitters depleted by stress, environment, external sources and chemical use. Our clinical division and our retail marketing division combine to offer NeuroGenesis products in countries throughout the world.

Our greatest reward is to see and hear how our products have helped individuals over a relatively short period feel back to their old selves, calmer, sleeping better, and enjoying life without depending on an external chemical source. They no longer feel the crippling pressures on the job, they can deal logically with life and manage life stressors in a realistic manner. Life returns to “normal” for them, and we at NeuroGenesis are ecstatic to have been instrumental in helping these individuals return to the intended balance of life.
NeuroGenesis and Neuroscience

NeuroGenesis is committed to helping you understanding neuroscience: How the human brain responds to situations around us. Stress, and our environment have a tremendous impact on the ability of our brains to produce the much needed neurotransmitters to maintain a chemical balance.

Stress and Neurotransmitters

Stress is an American epidemic. If we can understand the impact that stress has on our neurotransmitters and chemical balance of our brains, we could further understand how nutritional supplementation with amino acids can support the natural replenishment of these neurotransmitters, thereby helping us deal with stress. Studies by the American Medical Association have shown that stress is the primary factor in over 75% of all illnesses medically treated today. With a balanced diet, supplementation with amino acids can help to nutritionally support the neurotransmitters that help the mind and body deal with stress.

Neuroscience

The study of neurotransmitters, neuroscience, is fascinating. There is a logical progression to the neuroscience behind some of the feelings, actions and reactions that you experience. Specific neurotransmitters (chemical messengers used by nerve cells) are involved in controlling these thoughts, feelings, etc. Through increased knowledge of the various neurotransmitters, you will start to recognize the specific amino acids that affect these neurotransmitters and how they work to bring balance to your body and brain.

Amino Acids and Neurotransmitters

The brain is made of billions of nerve cells and makes up approximately 2% of the total body weight. Yet, it is a demanding organ that uses up to 30% of the day’s calories and nutrients!

If the brain receives improper or insufficient amounts of key nutrients from our daily diet, serious issues can develop with the neurotransmitters — and our health in general. In addition to poor eating habits, stress and trauma from any source, worry, illness, surgery, the use of any external chemical and even pollution can alter or deplete neurotransmitters. Nutritional supplementation is often the best way for our body and brain to receive the needed nutrition. And neuroscience shows us that amino acids can serve as precursors to these neurotransmitters.

NeuroGenesis Supplements with Amino Acids

NeuroGenesis has made understanding neuroscience its primary focus. This understanding of neuroscience and the effect amino acids have on neurotransmitters has given NeuroGenesis the knowlege to formulate products that can support healthy brain function. NeuroGenesis nutritional supplements are formulations of vitamins, minerals and amino acids that are designed to target the effected neurotransmitters and assist the brain in balancing and rebuilding these neurotransmitters to achieve and maintain a chemical balance. This chemical rebuilding process of neurotransmitters has brought relief and freedom to thousands.

Learn more about Neuroscience, Neurotransmitters and Amino Acids by clicking the links below:

http://www.neurogenesis.com

Google Tech Talks

Google Tech Talks November, 15 2007 ABSTRACT Neurocomputational models provide fundamental insights towards understanding the human brain circuits for learning new associations and organizing our

Google Tech Talks February, 28 2008 ABSTRACT Mindfulness meditation, one type of meditation technique, has been shown to enhance emotional awareness and psychological flexibility ……

Neurogenesis

Neurogenesis (birth of neurons) is the process by which neurons are generated. Most active during pre-natal development, neurogenesis is responsible for populating the growing brain.

New neurons are continually born throughout adulthood in predominantly two regions of the brain:

The subventricular zone (SVZ) lining the lateral ventricles, where the new cells migrate to the olfactory bulb via the rostral migratory stream
The subgranular zone (SGZ), part of the dentate gyrus of hippocampus.
Many of the newborn cells die shortly after they are born, but a number of them become functionally integrated into the surrounding brain tissue.

Adult neurogenesis is a recent example of a long-held scientific theory being overturned, with the first evidence of mammalian neurogenesis presented in 1992. Early neuroanatomists, including Santiago Ramon y Cajal, considered the nervous system fixed and incapable of regeneration. For many years afterward, only a handful of biologists (including Joseph Altman, Shirley Bayer, and Michael Kaplan) considered adult neurogenesis a possibility. In 1983, with the characterization of neurogenesis in birds and the use of confocal microscopy, has it become reasonably well-accepted that hippocampal neurogenesis does occur in mammals, including humans (Eriksson et al., 1998; Gould et al., 1999a). Some authors (particularly Elizabeth Gould) have suggested that adult neurogenesis may also occur in regions within the brain not generally associated with neurogenesis including the neocortex (e.g., Shankle et al. 1999, Gould et al., 1999b; Zhao et al., 2003), although others, including Rakic (2002), have questioned the scientific evidence of these findings; in the broad sense, they suggest that the new cells may be glia. A recent paper by Ponti, Peretto, and Bonfanti found evidence of neuronal neurogenesis in the cerebellum of adult rabbits.

Recent advances in the study of neural regeneration have prompted a significant shift in the way neurobiologists view brain repair. Assumptions regarding the inherent limitation of the mature central nervous system (CNS) in replacing lost neurons have given way to a perspective that focuses upon the local cellular and molecular microenvironment as the primary impediment to neural repair1.

Brain Enhancement

To prevent memory loss

Better TV’s Audra Lowe shows you ten easy ways to prevent memory loss and Alzheimer’s disease

Memory issuses

This PBS medical series explores illnesses one at a time and features a panel of physicians and other experts assessing individual cases.

—————–
Still i belief, this has been invented that how to increase memory size and processing power……But kept as hidden weapon…….:)

Universal Essence Of Existence-Mind & Matter & Morality/Marty Monteiro

Mind & Matter & Morality © Marty Monteiro

 PRESS ARTICLE

 

two brains are b etter than one

 

 

Universal Essence Of Existence

If you read articles, hear and see talks around you, the words as soul, spirit, consciousness, mind, body, good and evil are coming over you. Man is and was always intrigued by the mind and morality, making up an integral part of his existence. In the search to unseal this conundrum of how matter influences the mind and reverse how the mind influences matter, and how to live life in a decent moral way, several attempts are undertaken. What is striking in the mind-matter approach through time is that the human being is viewed as an individual without taking in ensemble another individual into consideration. Witness the two main schools of thinking in philosophy/science about this topic; the approach from the environment of how the mind emerges from matter (3^rd person as object in materialism, as for instance in brain research) or from the individual of how the environment is mentally constructed and experienced (1^st person as subject in mentalism). Is not the time coming to scrutinize the individual in relation with another individual as the object of study?

 

You & I

In everyday life, people hold that the flow of consciousness is not only bound to a single person. It is general believed that physical energy, like emotion and motivation, and mental energy as in mental contact and communication, surpass the border of the skin. One speaks in terms of physics of ‘radiation’ and ‘transmission’ of energies. The body in solid physical state also function at energy level between persons. An example of wireless mental-material energy transfer between persons are the phenomena of ‘mind-reading’, the perception of other’s mind-set, and ‘empathy’, the sharing of other’s feelings. Though not visible, mental energy transfer is not so mysterious as one think; it is hypothesized to be reflected by observable activity of mirror neurons in the brains. In the framework of a social perspective, the fundamental questions are therefore how matter®mind and mind®matter transitions are connected with each other, thereby crossing ‘thresholds’. What happens within and between the thresholds and under what conditions?

Everything Is Relative

Through incorporating the social framework into the mind-matter architecture, implies a 1^st and 2^nd person dependency on each other in their mental and behavioural functions. The interpersonal domain mirrors and measures off the personal domain. If the phenomena of mental contact, communication and entanglement are plausible and are assumed to exist, then the mind cannot be linked only to experience of pain or pleasure or moral good or bad. In mental contact, a fast speed sudden mental click of for example falling in love, a primary active mind flows and is always prior to experiencing. People are only aware of contact afterwards. The mind as an energy force towards and from the environment has therefore a active function, called cognition, and a passive function, called perception. The mind, however, is ‘partly’ concomitant with matter, they flow at distinctive level, otherwise in case of a 100% mind and matter correspondence, no distinction would exist. It is therefore claimed that the mind flows faster then light (speed of light = ± 300.000 m/s), relative to physical energy or matter, travelling equal to or below the speed of light.

 

Material- Versus Mental Growth

The advantage of “You – I” approach concerns the transparency to that what happens in the individual private domain. Contrary to the invisible mind, the social realm of mutual behaviour and transactions of matter are observable. But the question is focussed on how behaviour, behavioural products and material energy are connected to mental energy. If physical energy is partly attendant by the mental energy flow and in case of mental contact, then one can assume behaviour to take place; apparently mental contact generates feedback to be transformed into matter or behaviour. How is this possible? It is a physical fact that at particle level, appearing and disappearing of elements occurs. This could mean that in case of mind®matter, mental energy becomes ‘partly’ visible within matter. The invisible mental part function to bind matter, as the ‘strong force’. In the matter®mind transition, matter disappears to be broken apart (e.g. black hole in the cosmos), but in between the invisible crashed energies additional mental structures are generated.

The mind-matter transformations in the distinctive thresholds of appearing mental- and disappearing material energy are connected with each other on the basis of which material development on the one hand and the individual mental growth on the other take place. The evolution of matter is not only bound to human culture, but also to nature with   increasing matter in the cosmos to the advent of species culminating in the human being. Although man’s mental development is hidden in direct sense, it is for example manifest in higher-order abstract language and generalization. If the mind-matter make up in man reflects the whole universe, one can claim that material evolution is in the way back attendent by mental evolution. The mind then is not only an affair of humans and less complex organisms, but is present from the beginning as a universal phenomenon.

God, To Be Or Not To Be?

If the material- and mental evolution is valid, the question arises whether an ‘intelligent design’ can be postulated. Is the human being able to provide evidence for a supra-individual being, a creator of which he is in mind and body a part of? Can he take a position beyond himself outside the universe? The answer is simple, no he cannot. A direct proof or arguments of the existence or non-existence of a God is impossible. The statement of where all beings come from pointing to a higher-order being is for many obvious, but who is then the creator of the creator, etc., thereby trapping into a butterfly effect. The statement that the human being is longing to existential certainty and therefore is looking for a supra-individual being and that his faith in a God is a projection, however, is not an argument against God’s non-existence. It is true that the human being cannot escape his mind and body, and even in the so-called ‘out of body experience’, leaving energy from his body belongs to his split-body, is a special case of mind-reading of oneself.

The question arises whether man can never give evidence of an intelligent designer or that a supra-individual force can be assumed to exist on basis of reality. Is therefore a cosmic outlook prerequisite to conclude to an intelligent design? It is taken for granted that mental development occurs in the unconscious domain beyond subjective experience. Mentalization, however, is an event back in time compared to the forward time flow in materialization. Higher-order mentalization is, however, not a linear event, but occurs through discontinuous transitions (gaps). When a child learns the words mom and dad, a 2®1 merging event occurs into one term of parents. In the backward event, stored environmental energy is through the gravitational force annihilated in the ‘black hole’, to generate a mentalized higher-order concept. If for example one takes a piece of paper and tear it in halves again and again, then every time between the halves of paper, added mental relation is established. Does the resulting exponential rise of mental connections resulting in mental synergy, an occurrence beyond perception, points to a hidden force?

Within the gap of mentalization, material energy is annihilated, but not lost. The other side of the coin is that  based on annihilated energy, transformed new higher-order mental-material energy appears. The genesis of new energy, appearing in thoughts and values is again transformed before perception. In the mind®matter transition, the mental is partly embodied to appear and the invisible part as the strong force binds physical energy. In mind®matter merging transformation of two personal minds into matter, result in material synergy. Although the 2®1 matter®mind and 2®1 mind®matter merging transformations are equal, a huge difference exists. In matter®mind transformation, ‘new’ material-mental energy is built up, emerging as preformed energies. In mind®matter transformation, the new energies are only mentally transformed partly to visible matter. The hidden mental binding force in matter makes that things and people can be perceived and is the basis of mentalization. Does this imply that the creation of the pre-conscious event of new thoughts and values points to a supra-individual being?

God’s Hand?

A well-known controversy concerns the evolution to be ascribed to an ‘intelligent designer’ as the creator of the cosmos and all beings, known as ‘creationism’, versus the development of culture and nature for which humans to atoms are accountable, known as ‘evolutionism’. Material physical-biological and social-cultural evolution finds general favour, because it is based on evidence of environmental adaptability of the fittest accounting for survival (e.g. Darwin); an intelligent designer is therefore superfluous and unnecessary. This concerns the border between belief (faith) and knowledge (science) and raises the question whether any evidence exists to sustain belief as plausible. How can evolutionism as well as creationism be compatible with each other? Trying to tackle this issue, materialization and mentalization are both relevant. It is claimed that hierarchical mentalization and subsequent mental-material genesis of new thoughts and values is on account of a unifying-creating force (UCF). An example of the compatibility between evolutionism as well as creationism is as follows (BOX):

BOX. A baby is biophysical decoupled from his mother by cutting the umbilical cord at the moment of birth. The baby is now physically an independent being, but through the love bond with him, they are mentally coupled to each other. Thus the child’s physical independency keeps its mental dependency on both parents. Between the parents and the child there exist a ‘material disconnection’ and ‘mental connection’.

By nature partners are equipped with cells to procreate and to take a child as a basic value in the trail of evolution. However, they are not obliged to bring a new being into the world, it is their free decision. Thus, on the one hand, one is bound to one’s own preformed body, but on the other, one is mentally free to use in loan the body. Therefore, material dependency on and mental decoupling with UCF is assumed, claiming a ‘mental disconnection’ and ‘material connection’.

 

Life After Death?

An issue bothering many people, concerns the conundrum whether life after death exists to reincarnate in the next life. Direct evidence can of course not obtained, regardless many people are disappointed going back from tunnelling to earthen life in ‘near-death-experience’. The material-mental energy input-output cycle and especially the ‘higher-order’ mentalization serves as the spring-board on basis of which ‘life-after-death’ can be claimed. In mentalization, matter-in-mind transformation takes place through annihilation, the ‘death’ of material energy. In the black hole disappeared invisible matter is not lost, but reappears mentally restructured. This principle applied, implies that the mind or soul escapes the dying body to emerge in a reborn mental-material format. The minute-to-minute perception-behaviour cycle also holds for the eternal cycle. Don’t be afraid when time has come, as the body falls in decay, the escaping indestructible mind or soul embodies itself in the next life cycle, to enjoy an eternal life; a pretty prospect.

Is-Ought

Mind and matter is closely linked to morality of good and evil as the most profound mental experience. The ‘is-ought’ statement denotes that moral good or bad justification or judgment of a person or a group is inferred from (past) behaviour or behavioural products and/or its (future) consequences; what one has done, does or will do. A person’s morality is, however, not only based on behaviour, but also on someone’s energy state or mind-set, to be read and judged by other’s intuition (perception), as for example honesty, nasty, etc. A person’s mind-set can be perceived by others, called ‘mind-reading’, and only through feedback the person is able to know his morality afterwards (self-concept). Thus to perceive other’s or one’s own morality is interpersonally based. This implies that the flow of the primary mind “I”, called ‘cognition’, is linked to perception of others. The source of morality is therefore personally and pre-conscious seated in the “I” of cognition. Thus basically, confirmation of morality takes place in the mental flow between 1^st person’s morality and 2^nd person’s morality testing.

 

Mental- And Moral Growth

Morality is in principle a mental affair between persons, sustained by the mind-set and/or behaviour. The mentality of morality raises the question whether moral development keeps pace with mental development. Furthermore one could question whether mental development is specifically a human affair or that it is already nested hidden in evolution. Is mentalization, an event ‘backward in time’, only culminating in human beings? However, time reversal is also inferred through observation of light travelling from distant stars. If on basis of time reversal, mental evolution reflects the whole universal existence, it is questionable whether morality is only bound to humans. However, material evolution is interlarded with gaps between elements and species. This implies that morality does not hold between species built for the kill to survive. If only a horizontal morality within species is claimed, then the evolutionary mental growth, interrupted by the gaps, is attendant by a ‘layered’ morality.

The evolutionary gaps, reflected in the ‘missing link’ and ‘quantum leap’, forbids to draw a causal connection in the tree of material- as well as mental development. The claim that man is a direct descendent from apes, despite he is a look alike, is therefore questionable. The mental-material evolutionary gaps and the layered morality, raises an ethical problem. Especially in the domain of the consequences of human behaviour affecting the (far) future. Through the evolutionary upgrading of ‘mental degrees of freedom’, man bears a higher responsibility. If natural resources are exploited and the natural balance is disturbed, the borders of ethics, as a reference frame, are surpassed. Although a vertical morality between species and elements is not claimed, an ethical framework is applicable to maintain a balanced state. Universal layered morality and the feedback of ethics by crossing borders, is ultimately aimed at individual, interpersonal and collective utility.

Review

The above treatise in the framework of a social point of view, throws a new light on mind-matter-morality issue. The “You” and “I” small-scale set up, serves as the framework for a large-scale perspective. The most fundamental claim is posted: the existence of a supra-individual pull-push energy source, called ‘unifying-creating force’ (cf. 0-point energy, big bang, big birth, god), as the beating hart of the whole universe. The UCF, as a top democratic force, leaves man mentally free to bear his own moral responsibility to challenge life. In the eternal space-time cycle back and forth, the journey turning around the 0-point of UCF, evolution of materialization and mentalization always takes place. On basis of this picture, the eternal mind escapes and supervenes the dying body, ranging from persons to cosmos, to restart life again and again; a perpetuum mobile.

 

In this abridged, popularized and peer-reviewed article it is tried to unveil basic life questions many people are occupied with. The relativity of reality has to be emphasized; seeing with two eyes in depth and two sides of a coin; everybody is right under specific condition, nobody can claim the absolute truth, manifest for example in the relativity of morality, not only a human affair, but also in the framework of the mind a universal matter, stretching out in the far past and far future.

The book version is a treatise with a handful of well-known observables (stimulus-need, norm-value) and postulates (cognition-perception), sustained on theories and experiments in physics, biology and psychology. The model is designed from the perspective of interaction between things and between persons in the relative framework of finality (goal) as well as causality (cause-effect). The mind-matter model serves as the framework for a model of mind-morality.

 

Monteiro, Marty (2009), Model Of Man: Mind & Matter – Mind & Morality.

AEG Publishing Group, New York-London-Frankfurt.

­200 p. ISBN      Price $  29.50? Hardcover

Correspondence: marty.monteiro@yahoo.com

 

The mind-matter model is poster and orally presented on the conferences: Dynamic Ontology (Trento, 2004), Consciousness and Experiencing Psychology (Oxford, 2005), Models of Brain and Mind: Physical, Computational and Psychological Approaches (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, 2006) and Quantum Mind (Salzburg, 2007).

To discuss more with Monteiro, Marty about this case study and his book, join Yahoo group at:
Rational Solution

CIA MIND CONTROL EXPERIMENTS

 Short documentary on mind control experiments on the humain brain by the CIA.

PCP Introduction

What is PCP?

What are the street names/slang terms for PCP? Angel Dust, Embalming Fluid, Killer Weed, Rocket Fuel, Supergrass. What is PCP? PCP, or phencyclidine, is a dissociative anesthetic that was developed in the 1950s as a surgical anesthetic. Its sedative and anesthetic effects are trance-like, and patients experience a feeling of being “out of body” and detached from their environment. Use of PCP in humans was discontinued in 1965, because it was found that patients often became agitated, delusional, and irrational while recovering from its anesthetic effects.

What does it look like? PCP is a white crystalline powder that is readily soluble in water or alcohol. It has a distinctive bitter chemical taste. How is it used? PCP turns up on the illicit drug market in a variety of tablets, capsules, and colored powders. It is normally used in one of three ways — snorted, smoked, or eaten. When it is smoked, PCP is often applied to a leafy material such as mint, parsley, oregano, tobacco or marijuana. Many people who use PCP may do it unknowingly because PCP is often used as an additive and can be found in marijuana, LSD, or methamphetamine. What are its short-term effects? PCP: At low to moderate doses, PCP can cause distinct changes in body awareness, similar to those associated with alcohol intoxication. Other effects can include shallow breathing, flushing, profuse sweating, generalized numbness of the extremities and poor muscular coordination. Use of PCP among adolescents may interfere with hormones related to normal growth and development as well as with the learning process. At high doses, PCP can cause hallucinations as well as seizures, coma, and death (though death more often results from accidental injury or suicide during PCP intoxication). Other effects that can occur at high doses are nausea, vomiting, blurred vision, flicking up and down of the eyes, drooling, loss of balance, and dizziness. High doses can also cause effects similar to symptoms of schizophrenia, such as delusions, paranoia, disordered thinking, a sensation of distance from one’s environment, and catatonia. Speech is often sparse and garbled. PCP has sedative effects, and interactions with other central nervous system depressants, such as alcohol and benzodiazepines, can lead to coma or accidental overdose. Many PCP users are brought to emergency rooms because of PCP’s unpleasant psychological effects or because of overdoses. In a hospital or detention setting, they often become violent or suicidal, and are very dangerous to themselves and to others. They should be kept in a calm setting and should not be left alone. Formaldehyde (the chemical used in embalming, not in PCP): Short-term exposure to formaldehyde can be fatal; however, the odor threshold is low enough that irritation of the eyes and mucous membranes will occur before these levels are achieved. What are its long-term effects? PCP: PCP is addicting; that is, its use often leads to psychological dependence, craving, and compulsive PCP-seeking behavior. People who use PCP for long periods report memory loss, difficulties with speech and thinking, depression, and weight loss. These symptoms can persist up to a year after cessation of PCP use. Mood disorders also have been reported. Formaldehyde (the chemical used in embalming, not in PCP): Long-term exposure to low levels of formaldehyde may cause respiratory difficulty, eczema, and sensitization. Formaldehyde is classified as a human carcinogen and has been linked to nasal and lung cancer, and with possible links to brain cancer and leukemia. What is its federal classification? Schedule II Source National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), Community Epidemiology Work Group (CEWG), Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)

Common Radius Films – Kevin P. Miller

Again while googling on net here i found a organization working on Drugs related Production & Distribution of documentary vidoes.
They provide CDs at minmimum cost to get more information.

Reference: http://generationrxfilm.com

Enjoy reading………….as…………………..
—————————————————-
Common Radius Films
Production & Distribution

Common Radius Films is a private documentary and media development company based in Vancouver, British Columbia. This production entity draws on the experience of an internationally recognized team of writers, producers, directors, and executives, led by International award winning and Emmy nominated Kevin P. Miller.

Common Radius Films
#240-196 West 3rd Avenue
Vancouver, B.C. V5Y 1E9
T. +1 604 639 3337
F. +1 604 876 6649
E. info@commonradius.com

Kevin P. Miller
Director/Producer

In the 1990s, Kevin P. Miller began producing documentaries about the great social issues of our time. His film The Promised Land both won international accolades and helped raise $500,000 in donations to benefit the homeless, proving to Miller that documentary films could affect social change. He went on to produce The War Within, a film about race relations and Let Truth Be The Bias, which tackled the loss of civil liberties and featued a guns-drawn raid at the clinic of a revered holistic doctor. In 2005, Miller produced We Become Silent, a film about Codex Alimentarius and “free trade,” which was narrated by British actress Dame Judi Dench.

With his new film, Generation RX, Miller investigates collusion between pharmaceutical manufacturers and their regulatory watchdogs at the FDA, and also questions whether we have forced millions of children onto pharmaceutical drugs for commercial rather than scientific reasons. “It began when I saw a video of people testifying before the FDA in 1991 about Prozac,” he said. “I was so moved by their personal stories, moved to tears, really. But apparently the FDA was not. It was then that I knew that someday I would produce a film like Generation RX.”

Drug Free World – www.drugfreeworld.org

While googling about Mind sciences, i found another organzation active to promise a drug free world, named www.drugfreeworld.org
Feel free to request infomational booklets and CD.
……………………………………………………………………….
It is a nonprofit public benefit organization headquartered in Los Angeles, California that makes available educational materials in dozens of languages across 125 countries so youth and adults can make informed decisions to be drug-free. Through our international drug prevention network we work with youth, parents, educators, volunteer organizations and government agencies, providing information, advice and coordination. In short, we work with anyone interested in helping people lead lives free from drug abuse.

Through a worldwide network of volunteers 50 million educational handouts have been distributed, tens of thousands of drug awareness events have been held in some 60 countries and Truth About Drugs educational films have been aired on some 180 TV stations and in more than 170 public venues. These materials and activities have enabled people around the world to learn the destructive effects of drugs and decide for themselves not to use them.

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR)

While  googling on net, i came across an interested organization who is doing good work on Mind sciences. Join their newsletter and register for free informational CD/ Booklets related to CCHR. Below is a small intro to CCHR from their web site at http://www.cchrint.org .

—————————————————————

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) is a non-profit
mental health watchdog, responsible for helping to enact more
than 150 laws protecting individuals from abusive or coercive
practices. CCHR has long fought to restore basic unalienable
human rights to the field of mental health, including, but not
limited to, full informed consent regarding the medical
legitimacy of psychiatric diagnosis, the risks of psychiatric
treatments, the right to all available medical alternatives,
and the right to refuse any treatment considered harmful.
CCHR was co-founded in 1969 by the Church of Scientology
and Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus Dr. Thomas Szasz
at a time when patients were being warehoused in institutions
and stripped of all constitutional, civil and human rights.

 

CCHR functions solely as a mental health watchdog, working
alongside many medical professionals including doctors, scientists,
nurses and those few psychiatrists who have taken a stance against the
biological/drug model of “disease” that is continually promoted by the
psychiatric/pharmaceutical industry as a way to sell drugs. It is a non political,
non-religious, non-profit organization dedicated solely to eradicating mental health abuse and enacting patient and consumer protections. CCHR’s Board of Advisers, called Commissioners, include doctors, scientists, psychologists, lawyers, legislators,educators, business professionals, artists and civil and human rights representatives.

People frequently ask if CCHR is of the opinion that no one should ever take psychiatric drugs, but this website is not dedicated to opinion. It is dedicated to providing information that a multi-billion dollar psycho/pharmaceutical industry does not want people to see or to know. The real question therefore is this; Do people have a right to have all the information about A) the known risks of the drugs and/or treatment from unbiased, non-conflicted medical review, B) the medical validity of the diagnosis for which drugs are being prescribed, C) all non-drug options (essentially informed consent) and D) the right to refuse any treatment they consider harmful.

CCHR has worked for more than 40 years for full informed consent in the field of mental health, and the right to all the information regarding psychiatric diagnoses and treatment, not just the information coming from those with a vested interest in keeping them in the dark.