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Is Psychiatry Ready for the Psychedelic Healing Paradigm?
How can the use of psychedelic and sacred plants help alleviate human suffering?
What are the barriers to such “plant medicines,” like ayahuasca, becoming part of mainstream psychiatry?
How does one design and conduct research on the therapeutic uses of such plants in a meaningful and ethical way?
What would treatment of mental disorders with plant medicines look like?
These are some of the primary questions I have been grappling with over the past three years while completing residency training in psychiatry and attempting to launch a career in psychedelic science and healing.
In this short piece, I attempt to sketch out some preliminary answers to the above questions by discussing the challenges of integrating different types of knowledge with the current biological paradigm in psychiatry.
I believe that adopting a complex multidimensional perspective of human suffering and tactfully drawing upon different ways of understanding psychedelic plants are key factors for the emerging psychedelic healing paradigm.
Different Perspectives on Psychedelic Plants
Psychoactive plants and fungi have been in relationship with humans for thousands of years,1 playing various roles in society, culture, religion, and medicine over time.
As a result of this complex historical relationship, there are numerous different lenses through which we can understand and talk about such plants.2
Taking ayahuasca as an example, an anthropological or indigenous perspective may view the brew as not only sacred, but as a “plant spirit” or “teacher” with which a person or shaman interacts to bring about a desired effect.3
This understanding is in stark contrast to a biomedical view of ayahuasca as a collection of alkaloids and other chemical compounds, primarily a serotonin 2A receptor agonist and MAO inhibitor, which alter brain network connectivity and neuroplasticity.4
Perhaps between these views are psychological perspectives of the brew as a “psychedelic” capable of eliciting non-ordinary states of consciousness that can bring about psychological insight and change.
There are multiple other ways of conceptualizing ayahuasca that continue to evolve as its use becomes more widespread.
Spiritual or religious perspectives may classify it as an “entheogen” or “sacrament,” capable of catalyzing profound spiritual or mystical experiences.5
More recent discourses consider ayahuasca as a “cognitive tool”6 or “evolutionary tool” that can enhance creativity and help our species evolve or live more harmoniously.
Finally, ayahuasca and other psychedelic plants are often endearingly called “plant medicine” by contemporary users wishing to highlight their profound healing effects.
Plant Medicine in the Era of Biological Psychiatry
While my training in psychiatry has emphasized a “biopsychosocial” approach to diagnosis and treatment,7 it seems clear that the field of psychiatry as a whole has, in recent decades, prioritized biological understandings of mental suffering.
In this paradigm, mental illnesses like depression and schizophrenia, as well as addictions, are considered brain diseases resulting from aberrant neural circuitry and chemical imbalances.
This view was intended to serve multiple purposes:
1) to help psychiatry take its place among other specialties of medicine grounded in the biological sciences;
2) to destigmatize mental illness and addictions by reframing them as chronic treatable illnesses, much like diabetes or heart disease, rather than as moral failings or resulting from weak character; and
3) as some critical audiences would argue, to help promote pharmaceuticals as the primary means of addressing mental illness and alleviating everyday suffering.8
(Skarekrow - I would say changing that paradigm in order to reframe mental illness has failed miserably here in the US - mostly because there is not treatment or access for people unless you are rich as hell)
While not denying that this biological paradigm has led to advances in our understanding of certain mental illnesses and can be a powerful explanatory lens for certain patients, I would like to highlight that a strict biological understanding of mental illness is inconsistent with my understanding of how psychedelic plants function to bring about healing.
The biological paradigm situates the sufferer as a relatively helpless victim of a diseased brain, obscures deeper social, psychological, and spiritual causes of suffering, and prescribes passive adherence to medication as the primary mode of healing.
In contrast, I believe that the experience of psychedelic plants powerfully confronts us with the reality that we exist as complex multidimensional beings, with brain-minds, bodies, hearts, and spirits, all of which are connected to each other and to our natural and social environments.
In this view, the source of suffering is certainly not just the brain; suffering may arise from disease in any of these layers of existence and can be propagated through them in complex ways.
This would explain, for instance, how social stressors become internalized as psychological and often physical symptoms.
The Challenge of Knowledge Integration
A primary therapeutic implication of viewing mental suffering in this multidimensional way is that proper treatments must now be capable of intervening on multiple layers of existence.
The primary argument I would like to put forth is that this kind of multidimensional healing a) requires the active engagement of the sufferer (much like in psychotherapy), and b) can be achieved through the use of psychedelic plant medicines by tactfully employing the different conceptual lenses described above.
Thus, as a clinician and academic researcher, I view the primary challenge of the emerging field of psychedelic science as integrating previously disconnected and conflicting modes of knowledge and approaches to healing.
Given the dominance of biological frameworks within academic psychiatry, significant challenges to integration manifest when conveying such ideas to colleagues and funding agencies, and when attempting to translate these ideas into clinical trials and treatment protocols.
How do we study and utilize a medicine with multiple active ingredients that works in a complex, multidimensional, and idiosyncratic way when modern science is inherently reductionist, looking for single molecules that have specific biological mechanisms of action to explain their therapeutic effects on disease processes that can be seen, known, and measured?
How can science account for the interaction between the physical properties of a medicine like ayahuasca and the metaphysical healing components that are complementary to its use, such as music, dieting, praying, and other aspects of shamanism?
I believe that overcoming these challenges of integration represents the greatest opportunity for the field of psychedelic science, and if successful, could revolutionize the way we think about and treat mental illness.
Knowledge Integration Past and Present
Fortunately, the process of integrating different types of knowledge about psychedelic plants has already been set in motion.
Indigenous peoples around the world hold centuries of knowledge on the use of psychoactive plants for spiritual, religious, and healing purposes.
Anthropological and interdisciplinary accounts9 and direct engagement between scientists, practitioners, and indigenous peoples (for example, the World Ayahuasca Conferences) bring stakeholders with different perspectives and types of knowledge into dialogue with one another.
In the West, there are “psychedelic” and “psycholytic” models of using psychedelic substances alongside psychotherapy in order treat mood disorders and addictions dating back to the 1950s.10
These models have served as the foundation for recent clinical trials and can be modified and updated as more knowledge is gained and integrated.
The current wave of psychedelic research has been characterized by bringing advanced scientific tools and methods to bear on the study of psychedelic substances, including neuroimaging and molecular pharmacology,11 as well as robust double-blind placebo-controlled clinical trial methodology.12
To the credit of these investigators, this research has not only brought about new understandings of how psychedelics impact the brain but also have begun to elucidate how such biological changes correlate with psychological and spiritual experience.
For instance, Robin Carhart-Harris has demonstrated how psychedelic-induced changes in brain connectivity correlate to specific subjective mystical-type experiences.13
Undergoing such mystical-type experiences has been shown to correlate with therapeutic benefit in a number of recent trials with psilocybin, the active ingredient of “magic mushrooms” 14
The study of complementary and alternative medicines has followed a similar trajectory.
In recent years, increasingly sophisticated studies have started to shed light on how practices and modalities that used to be understood as spiritual or energetic, like meditation and acupuncture, have biological and psychological effects that contribute to their therapeutic potential.15
Towards “Critical Paradigm Integration”
While these recent developments bode well for the future of psychedelic research and healing, I would like to conclude by arguing for sustained focus among researchers and practitioners in this field on knowledge integration, interdisciplinary collaboration, and multimodal treatment approaches—what I call “critical paradigm integration.”
Current political, economic, and philosophical determinants will continue to pull psychedelic research and treatment in a biological direction.
It is thus critical in this early and resurgent time for psychedelic science that researchers aim to integrate different types of knowledge and design treatment protocols that reflect complex multidimensional understandings of how psychoactive plants bring about healing.
The latter is crucial because treatment guidelines are generally based on evidence produced by clinical trials.
Thus, the models we construct and study now stand to shape how plant medicines will be used in medicine for decades to come.
Will we treat psychedelic plant medicines like any other class of psychopharmaceutical, taken passively by patients while the medicine rewires their brains?
Will we seek to create formulations that minimize their psychoactive and somatic or purgative “side effects,” much like has been done with the psychiatric use of ketamine?
Or are these treatments of a radically different nature, interacting with our brain-mind-spirit-bodies in a complex fashion that requires active engagement, not only during the time of drug administration, but beforehand and afterwards?
I believe that the popular excitement behind psychedelic healing and the profound and long-lasting therapeutic benefits seen thus far in clinical trials argue for the latter.
Whether mainstream psychiatry and related social institutions will embrace such a paradigm still remains to be seen.
The author would like to acknowledge the intellectual contributions of Jeffrey Guss M.D., Ryan Wallace M.D., and Alexander Belser M.Phil., in developing the ideas presented here.
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A new inter-dimensional space race?
Scientists have successfully teleported an object from Earth to space for the first time, paving the way for more ambitious and futuristic breakthroughs.
A team of researchers in China sent a photon from the ground to an orbiting satellite more than 300 miles above through a process known as quantum entanglement, according to MIT Technology Review. It’s the farthest distance tested so far in teleportation experiments, the researchers said. Their work was published online on the open access site arXiv.
For about a month, the scientists beamed up millions of photons from their ground station in Tibet to the low-orbiting satellite. They were successful in more than 900 cases.
“This work establishes the first ground-to-satellite up-link for faithful and ultra-long-distance quantum teleportation, an essential step toward global-scale quantum Internet,” the team said in a statement, according to MIT Technology Review.
The MIT-owned magazine described quantum entanglement as a “strange phenomenon” that occurs “when two quantum objects, such as photons, form at the same instant and point in space and so share the same existence.” “In technical terms, they are described by the same wave function,” it said.
The latest development comes almost a year after physicists successfully conducted the world’s first quantum teleportation outside of a laboratory. Scientists at that time determined quantum teleportation, which is often depicted as a futuristic tool in science-fiction films, is in fact possible.
Scientists Just Teleported an Object Into Space for the First Time
Scientists have successfully teleported an object from Earth to space for the first time, paving the way for more ambitious and futuristic breakthroughs.
A team of researchers in China sent a photon from the ground to an orbiting satellite more than 300 miles above through a process known as quantum entanglement, according to MIT Technology Review. It’s the farthest distance tested so far in teleportation experiments, the researchers said. Their work was published online on the open access site arXiv.
For about a month, the scientists beamed up millions of photons from their ground station in Tibet to the low-orbiting satellite. They were successful in more than 900 cases.
“This work establishes the first ground-to-satellite up-link for faithful and ultra-long-distance quantum teleportation, an essential step toward global-scale quantum Internet,” the team said in a statement, according to MIT Technology Review.
The MIT-owned magazine described quantum entanglement as a “strange phenomenon” that occurs “when two quantum objects, such as photons, form at the same instant and point in space and so share the same existence.” “In technical terms, they are described by the same wave function,” it said.
The latest development comes almost a year after physicists successfully conducted the world’s first quantum teleportation outside of a laboratory. Scientists at that time determined quantum teleportation, which is often depicted as a futuristic tool in science-fiction films, is in fact possible.
But you get to live long enough to watch your life crumple and become homeless...
I don’t get the downside?
*eye roll*
According to a new study published in the American Journal of Medicine, 42% of new cancer patients lose their entire life savings in two years because of treatment.
The same study found that 62% of cancer patients are in debt because of their treatment.
In the US, the total medical costs for cancer are $80 billion.
I don’t get the downside?
*eye roll*
Study:
Almost half of new cancer patients lose their entire life savings
Almost half of new cancer patients lose their entire life savings
According to a new study published in the American Journal of Medicine, 42% of new cancer patients lose their entire life savings in two years because of treatment.
The same study found that 62% of cancer patients are in debt because of their treatment.
In the US, the total medical costs for cancer are $80 billion.
Certainly lots of fear to feed on these days.
They must be getting quite fat.
Anxiety, depression, and fear ravage so many today, but few pause to consider that in addition to the material influences in our lives, we may be also under the influence of beings which exist in dimensions outside of our ordinary perception.
But there is much more to reality than what we can see, feel, hear, taste and touch.
In fact, an accounting of the matter that makes up the universe reveals that some 73% of it is made up of dark energy, and another 23% is made up of dark matter, neither of which can we see, nor understand.
Furthermore, the human eye is only capable of seeing around .0035% of the entire spectrum of electromagnetic (EM) radiation.
When we look into the heavens, 96% of it is invisible to us.
Include in this the spiritual realms and there is an entire universe of possibilities which exists beyond our five senses.
Very few scientists today are willing to explore metaphysics to examine life beyond ordinary perception in order to make a connection between the seen and the unseen.
Rudolf Steiner, though, one of the most prolific and gifted scientists, philosophers, and esotericists of his time, devoted much of his work to the task of peering behind the veil, sharing his insight into the deeper nature of life and of the world beyond.
Regarding anxiety and depression, Steiner spoke of hostile beings in the spiritual world which influence and feed off of human emotion; a concept flatly rejected by most today.
Yet this also analysis holds true for shamans and others who access the spiritual dimensions in order to alleviate mental suffering for their patients.
Many are familiar with the notion of energy vampires, or people who suck your energy and feed off your negative emotions.
On the existence of similar entities which exist in other dimensions, Steiner wrote:
Negative emotions are food for inimical spirits.
A concept such as this isn’t readily accepted into the everyday conversation steered by rigid skepticism and scientific materialism.
The traditions of today have sought to expel ancient metaphysical wisdom and its practical application from our lives, and though scientific inquiry is exceptionally valuable, spiritual perception has always been a part of our experience.
“And yet, despite the cynical skepticism, all of the ancient mystery schools, true shamanic insights, and esoteric teachings (much of which have been suppressed and/or distorted over thousands of years for obvious reasons) have conveyed this truth for ‘the ones with eyes to see and ears to hear’, using their own language and symbolism, be it “The General Law” (Esoteric Christianity), Archons (Gnostics), “Lords of Destiny” (Hermeticism), Predator/Fliers – “The topic of all topics” (Shamanism, Castaneda), “The Evil Magician” (Gurdjieff), The Shaitans (Sufism), The Jinn (Arabian mythology), Wetiko (Native American Spirituality), Occult Hostile Forces (Sri Aurobindo & The Mother, The Integral Yoga), etc.”
~ Bernhard Guenther
Dealings with extra-sensory or hyper-dimensional beings have long been a part of our history, and are directly accessible to any of us when proper practice and attention is given to the matter.
I know this to be true from my experiences with plant medicine shamanism where it is entirely possible to enter into states of consciousness where entire cosmologies of life exist and are available to interact with.
Finding oneself in the rut of spiraling negative self-talk, depression, crippling anxiety, or uncontrollable, irrational fear, is a sign, as Steiner points out, of a disconnection from our true spiritual nature, exacerbated by beings who operate in the spiritual realms.
This is why some consider disorders like this to be spiritual illnesses, and until the rift is healed with proper attention given to the development of spirit, the feelings tend to exacerbate and drive one further into distress.
They must be getting quite fat.
RUDOLF STEINER DESCRIBES THE
HOSTILE SPIRITUAL BEINGS WHO FEED OFF YOUR FEAR AND ANXIETY
HOSTILE SPIRITUAL BEINGS WHO FEED OFF YOUR FEAR AND ANXIETY
Anxiety, depression, and fear ravage so many today, but few pause to consider that in addition to the material influences in our lives, we may be also under the influence of beings which exist in dimensions outside of our ordinary perception.
But there is much more to reality than what we can see, feel, hear, taste and touch.
In fact, an accounting of the matter that makes up the universe reveals that some 73% of it is made up of dark energy, and another 23% is made up of dark matter, neither of which can we see, nor understand.
Furthermore, the human eye is only capable of seeing around .0035% of the entire spectrum of electromagnetic (EM) radiation.
When we look into the heavens, 96% of it is invisible to us.
Include in this the spiritual realms and there is an entire universe of possibilities which exists beyond our five senses.
Very few scientists today are willing to explore metaphysics to examine life beyond ordinary perception in order to make a connection between the seen and the unseen.
Rudolf Steiner, though, one of the most prolific and gifted scientists, philosophers, and esotericists of his time, devoted much of his work to the task of peering behind the veil, sharing his insight into the deeper nature of life and of the world beyond.
Regarding anxiety and depression, Steiner spoke of hostile beings in the spiritual world which influence and feed off of human emotion; a concept flatly rejected by most today.
Yet this also analysis holds true for shamans and others who access the spiritual dimensions in order to alleviate mental suffering for their patients.
Many are familiar with the notion of energy vampires, or people who suck your energy and feed off your negative emotions.
On the existence of similar entities which exist in other dimensions, Steiner wrote:
“There are beings in the spiritual realms for whom anxiety and fear emanating from human beings offer welcome food.
When humans have no anxiety and fear, then these creatures starve.
People not yet sufficiently convinced of this statement could understand it to be meant comparatively only.
But for those who are familiar with this phenomenon, it is a reality.
If fear and anxiety radiates from people and they break out in panic, then these creatures find welcome nutrition and they become more and more powerful.
These beings are hostile towards humanity.
Everything that feeds on negative feelings, on anxiety, fear and superstition, despair or doubt, are in reality hostile forces in supersensible worlds, launching cruel attacks on human beings, while they are being fed.
Therefore, it is above all necessary to begin with that the person who enters the spiritual world overcomes fear, feelings of helplessness, despair and anxiety.
But these are exactly the feelings that belong to contemporary culture and materialism; because it estranges people from the spiritual world, it is especially suited to evoke hopelessness and fear of the unknown in people, thereby calling up the above mentioned hostile forces against them.”
~ Rudolf Steiner
When humans have no anxiety and fear, then these creatures starve.
People not yet sufficiently convinced of this statement could understand it to be meant comparatively only.
But for those who are familiar with this phenomenon, it is a reality.
If fear and anxiety radiates from people and they break out in panic, then these creatures find welcome nutrition and they become more and more powerful.
These beings are hostile towards humanity.
Everything that feeds on negative feelings, on anxiety, fear and superstition, despair or doubt, are in reality hostile forces in supersensible worlds, launching cruel attacks on human beings, while they are being fed.
Therefore, it is above all necessary to begin with that the person who enters the spiritual world overcomes fear, feelings of helplessness, despair and anxiety.
But these are exactly the feelings that belong to contemporary culture and materialism; because it estranges people from the spiritual world, it is especially suited to evoke hopelessness and fear of the unknown in people, thereby calling up the above mentioned hostile forces against them.”
~ Rudolf Steiner
Negative emotions are food for inimical spirits.
A concept such as this isn’t readily accepted into the everyday conversation steered by rigid skepticism and scientific materialism.
The traditions of today have sought to expel ancient metaphysical wisdom and its practical application from our lives, and though scientific inquiry is exceptionally valuable, spiritual perception has always been a part of our experience.
“And yet, despite the cynical skepticism, all of the ancient mystery schools, true shamanic insights, and esoteric teachings (much of which have been suppressed and/or distorted over thousands of years for obvious reasons) have conveyed this truth for ‘the ones with eyes to see and ears to hear’, using their own language and symbolism, be it “The General Law” (Esoteric Christianity), Archons (Gnostics), “Lords of Destiny” (Hermeticism), Predator/Fliers – “The topic of all topics” (Shamanism, Castaneda), “The Evil Magician” (Gurdjieff), The Shaitans (Sufism), The Jinn (Arabian mythology), Wetiko (Native American Spirituality), Occult Hostile Forces (Sri Aurobindo & The Mother, The Integral Yoga), etc.”
~ Bernhard Guenther
Dealings with extra-sensory or hyper-dimensional beings have long been a part of our history, and are directly accessible to any of us when proper practice and attention is given to the matter.
I know this to be true from my experiences with plant medicine shamanism where it is entirely possible to enter into states of consciousness where entire cosmologies of life exist and are available to interact with.
Finding oneself in the rut of spiraling negative self-talk, depression, crippling anxiety, or uncontrollable, irrational fear, is a sign, as Steiner points out, of a disconnection from our true spiritual nature, exacerbated by beings who operate in the spiritual realms.
This is why some consider disorders like this to be spiritual illnesses, and until the rift is healed with proper attention given to the development of spirit, the feelings tend to exacerbate and drive one further into distress.
“When humans have no anxiety and fear, then these creatures starve.”
~Rudolph Steiner
~Rudolph Steiner
Last article for the night...
Enjoy!
Do you believe that there are ancient texts that help understand how humans function?
Several sciences are known for avoiding many parts they cannot comprehend or explain, is it possible that this is one of them?
Innumerable ancient books have been written in the past promising otherworldly powers to those who welcome its knowledge.
People in the past firmly believed that ancient scripts offered magical powers and ways of altering the consciousness of those who read it.
But from where does this mysterious knowledge come from?
In the distant past, not many people knew how to read or interpret ancient (sacred) writings, which could have inherently, categorized some texts as mysterious and powerful.
This ancient text can be traced back to the thirteenth century while some parts were written as early as the twelfth century.
While there were numerous ancient texts that promised otherworldly powers in the past, this one was different since it specifically focused on prayers, meditations and another oral exercise unlike other books, which focused exclusively on spells, potions, and rituals.
The oldest writings in the so-called Lesser Key of Solomon offer those who read and understand it, a silver tongue, perfect memory and unimaginable wisdom.
However, since there have been numerous ‘unauthorized’ revision through the ages, it is extremely difficult to evaluate its success and functionality.
The original texts were created in three different styles, including Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. It is said that King Solomon himself used the original writings of the Ars Notoria to become a wise, compassionate and talented ruler on Earth.
Among other who studied the powers of the Ars Notoria was John of Morigny, a fourteenth-century monk, who tried to achieve wisdom and academic mastery, became afflicted with otherworldly and demonic visions.
After his unsuccessful try, he went on and created his own grimoire called Libor Visonum, while stating that the Ars Notoria was real and worked. However, it came at an extremely high price to the reader.
Inside the ancient texts, there is a communication trick many readers will find beyond fascinating.
Referred to as the ‘magnetic experiment’, it details how to accurately use lodestone and to compass’ in order to communicate throughout great distances.
It is believed that if the two needles were rubbed against the exact lodestone, the needles would eventually become ‘entangled’ with each other. Consequently, if one needle moves, so would the other needle.
Furthermore, if one placed the needles in the center of a circle of letters and images, two persons could communicate across great distances by spelling out words.
Interestingly, the ancient text contains many ideas and notions that are considered to be way ahead of their time.
However, given the available information, it is difficult to conclude whether or not such ancient texts were real and had any powers associated with it. Taking in count that in the distant past literacy was extremely low, it was easy to manipulate people making them believe something (like an ancient book) has magical powers associated with it.
Enjoy!
The Ars Notoria:
A rare ancient text said to teach superhuman abilities
The Ars Notoria is a rare ancient magical text that is said to perfect memory and master academia among other incredible things.
A rare ancient text said to teach superhuman abilities
The Ars Notoria is a rare ancient magical text that is said to perfect memory and master academia among other incredible things.
“…The Notory Art revealed by the Most High Creator to Solomon. In the Name of the Holy and undivided Trinity, beginneth this most Holy Art of Knowledge, revealed to Solomon, which the Most High Creator by his Holy Angels ministered to Solomon upon the Alter of the Temple; that thereby in short time he knew all Arts and Sciences, both Liberal and Mechanick, with all the Faculties and Properties thereof: He has suddenly infused into him, and also was filled with all wisdom, to utter the Sacred Mysteries of most Holy words…”
– The Notory Art of Solomon.
– The Notory Art of Solomon.
The Ars Notoria – An Ancient Magical Book to Perfect Memory and Master Academia
Do you believe that there are ancient texts that help understand how humans function?
Several sciences are known for avoiding many parts they cannot comprehend or explain, is it possible that this is one of them?
Innumerable ancient books have been written in the past promising otherworldly powers to those who welcome its knowledge.
People in the past firmly believed that ancient scripts offered magical powers and ways of altering the consciousness of those who read it.
But from where does this mysterious knowledge come from?
In the distant past, not many people knew how to read or interpret ancient (sacred) writings, which could have inherently, categorized some texts as mysterious and powerful.
“And know this; that if thou hast not the books in thy hands, or the faculty of looking into them is not given to thee; the effect of this work will not be the lesse therefore: but the Orations are twice then to be pronounced, where they were to be but once: And as to the knowledge of a vision, and the other virtues which these Holy Orations have; thou maist prove and try them, when and how thou wilt.” (source)
–Ars Notoria The Notory Art of Solomon.
In the famous grimoire —a textbook of magic, with instructions on how to create magical objects like talismans and amulets and perform magical spells—called Lesser Key of Solomon, there is an ancient text called the Ars Notoria, or the Notory Art of Solomon. –Ars Notoria The Notory Art of Solomon.
This ancient text can be traced back to the thirteenth century while some parts were written as early as the twelfth century.
While there were numerous ancient texts that promised otherworldly powers in the past, this one was different since it specifically focused on prayers, meditations and another oral exercise unlike other books, which focused exclusively on spells, potions, and rituals.
The oldest writings in the so-called Lesser Key of Solomon offer those who read and understand it, a silver tongue, perfect memory and unimaginable wisdom.
However, since there have been numerous ‘unauthorized’ revision through the ages, it is extremely difficult to evaluate its success and functionality.
The original texts were created in three different styles, including Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. It is said that King Solomon himself used the original writings of the Ars Notoria to become a wise, compassionate and talented ruler on Earth.
Among other who studied the powers of the Ars Notoria was John of Morigny, a fourteenth-century monk, who tried to achieve wisdom and academic mastery, became afflicted with otherworldly and demonic visions.
After his unsuccessful try, he went on and created his own grimoire called Libor Visonum, while stating that the Ars Notoria was real and worked. However, it came at an extremely high price to the reader.
Inside the ancient texts, there is a communication trick many readers will find beyond fascinating.
Referred to as the ‘magnetic experiment’, it details how to accurately use lodestone and to compass’ in order to communicate throughout great distances.
It is believed that if the two needles were rubbed against the exact lodestone, the needles would eventually become ‘entangled’ with each other. Consequently, if one needle moves, so would the other needle.
Furthermore, if one placed the needles in the center of a circle of letters and images, two persons could communicate across great distances by spelling out words.
Interestingly, the ancient text contains many ideas and notions that are considered to be way ahead of their time.
However, given the available information, it is difficult to conclude whether or not such ancient texts were real and had any powers associated with it. Taking in count that in the distant past literacy was extremely low, it was easy to manipulate people making them believe something (like an ancient book) has magical powers associated with it.
You can download a copy, translated from Latin into English by Robert Turner, 1657
here
(Transcribed and converted to Acrobat by Benjamin Rowe, July 1999 Foreword copyright 1999 by Benjamin Rowe)
Ars Notoria: The Notory Art of Solomon – Esoteric Archives. Available from: http://www.esotericarchives.com/notoria/notoria.htm
here
(Transcribed and converted to Acrobat by Benjamin Rowe, July 1999 Foreword copyright 1999 by Benjamin Rowe)
Ars Notoria: The Notory Art of Solomon – Esoteric Archives. Available from: http://www.esotericarchives.com/notoria/notoria.htm
I am definitely downloading the magic book since those are of immense interest - any thoughts on Robert Anton Wilson?
Like the linked subjects, thank you for posting - the cancer bit had me start a rant almost but realized that already happened last year with that specific example. But it's very much true.
Oh yes very familiar with that one. Have wondered about it a few times though more so going back about 15 years ago during a particular period in time.,
Last but not least
I hope you are doing well, it's good to see you pop up here
since those are of immense interest - any thoughts on Robert Anton Wilson?Like the linked subjects, thank you for posting - the cancer bit had me start a rant almost but realized that already happened last year with that specific example. But it's very much true.
Oh yes very familiar with that one. Have wondered about it a few times though more so going back about 15 years ago during a particular period in time.,
I felt like writing something similar just yesterday and was thinking about that general subject.
Last but not least
I hope you are doing well, it's good to see you pop up here
A death in vain.
Ugh. I can't.
I mean, did anything good come of it?
My heart. =(
They have not died in vain, however. It is all part of a larger scheme. (Mainly the first few minutes.)
Certain horror movies but even those are inspired by life (or the novels behind them.) But.... we can always look to something positive coming out of what appears to be a dead-end or just bad situation. Somehow it often does. Unfortunately we can't do anything directly for those who lost their lives in the fight other than honor their memory.
Yes, it's exactly like that...
I am definitely downloading the magic book
Like the linked subjects, thank you for posting - the cancer bit had me start a rant almost but realized that already happened last year with that specific example. But it's very much true.
Oh yes very familiar with that one. Have wondered about it a few times though more so going back about 15 years ago during a particular period in time.,
I felt like writing something similar just yesterday and was thinking about that general subject.
Last but not least
I hope you are doing well, it's good to see you pop up here
Thanks man!
Yes, RA Wilson is an interesting guy.
I have requested that the public library order “The Illuminatus! Trilogy” 3 times now and have been ignored each time lol.
Guess I should just order a copy for myself....*sigh*
(This is why I have a kick ass library though...can’t find em anywhere else!)
As far as Discordianism, which Wilson was a proponent of (and the Pope)...I don’t agree with it all of course, and no one is actually even sure how much is parody and how much isn’t - it nonetheless has certain interesting thoughts and ideas that jive with me also.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discordianism
The stuff about the Illuminati I take with a smaller grain of salt.
Yes...sad but true.
Medical bills and medical debt has been the number one reason for filing bankruptcy in the US for over a decade now.
No one has done shit.
In that time - no prices have gone down.
It’s ever-inflating and is causing great harm and distress to our people and society at large.
Enough.
Thanks for linking that post!
Good stuff.
I am not sure about the spiritual type of energy vampires that unbeknownst to us - feed on us.
I don’t discount that they could easily exist either though....I certainly seemed to have my childhood run-in’s with such entities.
People who steal your energy - absolutely yes.
Look at the POTUS - prime example.
Glad to see you here too!
Thanks for stopping by and please don’t hesitate to contribute!
Much love!
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This is why we can’t have nice things.
Next time a random “Boomer”, “tells you a thing or two” about working harder and smarter and blah blah - show them this picture.
Good luck paying for that degree with that wage!
Good luck finding a job that pays well enough to pay for the education required to get it.
This is moronic.
Someone should be smacked...
America, fuck yeah!
Next time a random “Boomer”, “tells you a thing or two” about working harder and smarter and blah blah - show them this picture.
Good luck paying for that degree with that wage!
Good luck finding a job that pays well enough to pay for the education required to get it.
This is moronic.
Someone should be smacked...
America, fuck yeah!
You're very welcome!
Yeahhh agree, I have been ordering from abroad with some of the more rare items in my own library although mostly focused on astro seminars and the like. There are some gems out there you just can't get seem to get anywhere although it's nice to see our local libraries (have a large college campus one nearby though it was mostly helpful with programming books way back when) stock some of those items. Wilson... was introduced to me by someone who said I reminded them of him (birthday and all) so got reading a bit - it does sound like he is half-seriously trying to point stuff out half-joking half the time. But his works are definitely in a league of their own.
Very close encounters yes that I can't countenance to this day.
I think our system is rapidly inflating toward extreme unsustainability yes and it's only a matter of time. It's not just that it's broken but what will happen when people start realizing en masse.
Likewise to you as well
And then the Demogorgons escape...
Scientists are searching for a mirror universe.
It could be sitting right in front of you.
If the "mirrorverse" exists, upcoming experiments involving subatomic particles could reveal it.
A mirrorverse could be just as real as our own universe but almost completely cut off from it.
By Corey S. Powell
At Oak Ridge National Laboratory in eastern Tennessee, physicist Leah Broussard is trying to open a portal to a parallel universe.
She calls it an “oscillation” that would lead her to “mirror matter,” but the idea is fundamentally the same.
In a series of experiments she plans to run at Oak Ridge this summer, Broussard will send a beam of subatomic particles down a 50-foot tunnel, past a powerful magnet and into an impenetrable wall.
If the setup is just right — and if the universe cooperates — some of those particles will transform into mirror-image versions of themselves, allowing them to tunnel right through the wall.
And if that happens, Broussard will have uncovered the first evidence of a mirror world right alongside our own.
“It’s pretty wacky,” Broussard says of her mind-bending exploration.
The mirror world, assuming it exists, would have its own laws of mirror-physics and its own mirror-history.
You wouldn’t find a mirror version of yourself there (and no evil Spock with a goatee — sorry "Star Trek" fans).
But current theory allows that you might find mirror atoms and mirror rocks, maybe even mirror planets and stars.
Collectively, they could form an entire shadow world, just as real as our own but almost completely cut off from us.
Leah Broussard studies subatomic particles at Oak Ridge National Laboratory,
where she will be searching for mirror matter this summer.
Broussard says her initial search for the mirror world won’t be especially difficult.
“This is a pretty straightforward experiment that we cobbled together with parts we found lying around, using equipment and resources we already had available at Oak Ridge,” she says.
But if she unequivocally detects even a single mirror particle, it would prove that the visible universe is only half of what is out there — and that the known laws of physics are only half of a much broader set of rules.
“If you discover something new like that, the game totally changes,” Broussard says.
Ten seconds that rocked physics
As with many grand scientific quests, the hunt for mirror matter grew out of a small, seemingly esoteric mystery.
Starting in the 1990s, physicists developed high-precision experiments to study how neutrons — particles found in the nuclei of atoms — break down into protons, a process related to radioactivity.
But those experiments took a strange turn.
Researchers found that neutrons created in particle beams, similar to the one Broussard will use, last 14 minutes and 48 seconds, on average, before “decaying” into protons.
But neutrons stored in a laboratory bottle seem to break down a bit faster, in 14 minutes and 38 seconds.
Ten seconds might not sound like much, but the actual difference should be zero: All neutrons are exactly the same, and their behavior should depend not one bit on where or how they are examined.
“I take discrepancy very seriously,” says Benjamin Grinstein, a particle-physics expert at the University of California, San Diego. “It’s not just between two experiments. It is a collection of many experiments done independently by several groups. The newest experiments, conceived in part to resolve the disagreement, have “only made it worse,” he adds.
Grinstein has explored the possibility that some neutrons are unexpectedly breaking down into particles other than protons but has found nothing so far. Mirror matter offers a more elegant, if somewhat bizarre, explanation.
A decade ago, Anatoli Serebrov of Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute in Russia introduced the idea that ordinary neutrons sometimes cross over into the mirror world and transform into mirror neutrons.
At that point, we could no longer detect them — it would be as if some of the neutrons simply vanished.
“That would make the neutron lifetime look wrong,” Broussard explains, because some of the neutrons would have been disappearing from the test equipment while the researchers were studying them.
Connect the dots, and you reach a far-out conclusion: The neutron experiments might look screwy because physicists unwittingly opened a portal to the mirror world.
Through the looking glass
Broussard’s goal is to find out if that portal really exists and, if so, to open it in a methodical way.
That’s where her neutron beam and impenetrable wall come in.
Oak Ridge has an 85-megawatt nuclear reactor that can shoot out billions of neutrons on demand, so getting enough raw material to work with isn’t an issue.
The hard part is figuring out how to make some of the neutrons cross over into the mirror world, and then prove to her skeptical colleagues (and to her skeptical self) that it really happened.
Leah Broussard at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Running the experiment will take about one day.
Collecting the data and weeding out every possible source of error might then take a few weeks more.
Broussard is looking for any telltale neutrons that managed to get past the barrier by turning into mirror neutrons, then turning back.
“It all comes down to: Are we able to shine neutrons through a wall?” she says. “We should see no neutrons” according to conventional physics theory.
If some of them show up anyway, that would suggest that conventional physics is wrong, and the mirror world is real.
Meanwhile, Klaus Kirch is working on a complementary experiment at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Zurich.
His plan is to capture slow-moving neutrons, hit them with a magnetic field and then count to see if all the particles are still there.
“If some neutrons oscillated into mirror-neutrons, they would disappear from our apparatus,” he says. Kirch's team has already run the experiment and hopes to have their results analyzed later in the summer.
Life on the far side
Despite their conceptual simplicity, both Broussard’s and Kirch’s experiments are extremely delicate undertakings, dependent on assessing the strange behavior of a few subatomic particles within a crowd of billions.
Other researchers have proposed that there might be more blatant signs of a mirror world.
We might be seeing it everywhere in the sky.
Since the 1970s, astronomers have deduced that the universe is packed full of “dark matter,” a substance that cannot be observed directly but whose powerful gravitational pull helps keep galaxies from flying apart.
The latest analyses indicate that dark matter outweighs visible matter by a factor of five.
Yet dozens of intensive searches by astronomers around the world have failed to identify what dark matter is made of.
Zurab Berezhiani, a physicist at the University of L’Aquila in Italy who has conducted his own mirror neutron searches, offers an intriguing explanation: Dark matter has been hard to find because it is hidden away in the mirror world.
In this view, dark matter and mirror matter are one and the same.
If so, the mirror world is not just ubiquitous, it is far more massive than our own.
At a recent physics conference, Berezhiani expanded on the idea, outlining a possible parallel reality full of mirror stars, mirror galaxies and mirror black holes.
Maybe even dark life?
“Dark people is probably a bit farfetched,” says Broussard, who confesses that these ideas push her right to the edge of her comfort zone.
“But dark matter is very likely as rich as our own matter. This kind of thing needs to be explored.”
If she can open a passage to the mirror world at Oak Ridge, that will be one heck of a start.
(Skarekrow - If our universe we live in/experience is only roughly 5% of the total - then why in the hell couldn’t there be so-called “dark people”?
At the very least, some other forms of life we couldn’t imagine?
This entire concept of a “mirror universe” representing the “dark" matter/energy we cannot see or detect - absolutely makes the idea of PSI, subtle energies, precognition, paranormal phenomena, etc. squarely into the realm of - why not?
If not even more in the the realm of - that probably explains it.
Perhaps time will tell...)
Scientists are searching for a mirror universe.
It could be sitting right in front of you.
If the "mirrorverse" exists, upcoming experiments involving subatomic particles could reveal it.
A mirrorverse could be just as real as our own universe but almost completely cut off from it.
By Corey S. Powell
At Oak Ridge National Laboratory in eastern Tennessee, physicist Leah Broussard is trying to open a portal to a parallel universe.
She calls it an “oscillation” that would lead her to “mirror matter,” but the idea is fundamentally the same.
In a series of experiments she plans to run at Oak Ridge this summer, Broussard will send a beam of subatomic particles down a 50-foot tunnel, past a powerful magnet and into an impenetrable wall.
If the setup is just right — and if the universe cooperates — some of those particles will transform into mirror-image versions of themselves, allowing them to tunnel right through the wall.
And if that happens, Broussard will have uncovered the first evidence of a mirror world right alongside our own.
“It’s pretty wacky,” Broussard says of her mind-bending exploration.
The mirror world, assuming it exists, would have its own laws of mirror-physics and its own mirror-history.
You wouldn’t find a mirror version of yourself there (and no evil Spock with a goatee — sorry "Star Trek" fans).
But current theory allows that you might find mirror atoms and mirror rocks, maybe even mirror planets and stars.
Collectively, they could form an entire shadow world, just as real as our own but almost completely cut off from us.
Leah Broussard studies subatomic particles at Oak Ridge National Laboratory,
where she will be searching for mirror matter this summer.
Broussard says her initial search for the mirror world won’t be especially difficult.
“This is a pretty straightforward experiment that we cobbled together with parts we found lying around, using equipment and resources we already had available at Oak Ridge,” she says.
But if she unequivocally detects even a single mirror particle, it would prove that the visible universe is only half of what is out there — and that the known laws of physics are only half of a much broader set of rules.
“If you discover something new like that, the game totally changes,” Broussard says.
Ten seconds that rocked physics
As with many grand scientific quests, the hunt for mirror matter grew out of a small, seemingly esoteric mystery.
Starting in the 1990s, physicists developed high-precision experiments to study how neutrons — particles found in the nuclei of atoms — break down into protons, a process related to radioactivity.
But those experiments took a strange turn.
Researchers found that neutrons created in particle beams, similar to the one Broussard will use, last 14 minutes and 48 seconds, on average, before “decaying” into protons.
But neutrons stored in a laboratory bottle seem to break down a bit faster, in 14 minutes and 38 seconds.
Ten seconds might not sound like much, but the actual difference should be zero: All neutrons are exactly the same, and their behavior should depend not one bit on where or how they are examined.
“I take discrepancy very seriously,” says Benjamin Grinstein, a particle-physics expert at the University of California, San Diego. “It’s not just between two experiments. It is a collection of many experiments done independently by several groups. The newest experiments, conceived in part to resolve the disagreement, have “only made it worse,” he adds.
Grinstein has explored the possibility that some neutrons are unexpectedly breaking down into particles other than protons but has found nothing so far. Mirror matter offers a more elegant, if somewhat bizarre, explanation.
A decade ago, Anatoli Serebrov of Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute in Russia introduced the idea that ordinary neutrons sometimes cross over into the mirror world and transform into mirror neutrons.
At that point, we could no longer detect them — it would be as if some of the neutrons simply vanished.
“That would make the neutron lifetime look wrong,” Broussard explains, because some of the neutrons would have been disappearing from the test equipment while the researchers were studying them.
Connect the dots, and you reach a far-out conclusion: The neutron experiments might look screwy because physicists unwittingly opened a portal to the mirror world.
Through the looking glass
Broussard’s goal is to find out if that portal really exists and, if so, to open it in a methodical way.
That’s where her neutron beam and impenetrable wall come in.
Oak Ridge has an 85-megawatt nuclear reactor that can shoot out billions of neutrons on demand, so getting enough raw material to work with isn’t an issue.
The hard part is figuring out how to make some of the neutrons cross over into the mirror world, and then prove to her skeptical colleagues (and to her skeptical self) that it really happened.
Leah Broussard at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Running the experiment will take about one day.
Collecting the data and weeding out every possible source of error might then take a few weeks more.
Broussard is looking for any telltale neutrons that managed to get past the barrier by turning into mirror neutrons, then turning back.
“It all comes down to: Are we able to shine neutrons through a wall?” she says. “We should see no neutrons” according to conventional physics theory.
If some of them show up anyway, that would suggest that conventional physics is wrong, and the mirror world is real.
Meanwhile, Klaus Kirch is working on a complementary experiment at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Zurich.
His plan is to capture slow-moving neutrons, hit them with a magnetic field and then count to see if all the particles are still there.
“If some neutrons oscillated into mirror-neutrons, they would disappear from our apparatus,” he says. Kirch's team has already run the experiment and hopes to have their results analyzed later in the summer.
Life on the far side
Despite their conceptual simplicity, both Broussard’s and Kirch’s experiments are extremely delicate undertakings, dependent on assessing the strange behavior of a few subatomic particles within a crowd of billions.
Other researchers have proposed that there might be more blatant signs of a mirror world.
We might be seeing it everywhere in the sky.
Since the 1970s, astronomers have deduced that the universe is packed full of “dark matter,” a substance that cannot be observed directly but whose powerful gravitational pull helps keep galaxies from flying apart.
The latest analyses indicate that dark matter outweighs visible matter by a factor of five.
Yet dozens of intensive searches by astronomers around the world have failed to identify what dark matter is made of.
Zurab Berezhiani, a physicist at the University of L’Aquila in Italy who has conducted his own mirror neutron searches, offers an intriguing explanation: Dark matter has been hard to find because it is hidden away in the mirror world.
In this view, dark matter and mirror matter are one and the same.
If so, the mirror world is not just ubiquitous, it is far more massive than our own.
At a recent physics conference, Berezhiani expanded on the idea, outlining a possible parallel reality full of mirror stars, mirror galaxies and mirror black holes.
Maybe even dark life?
“Dark people is probably a bit farfetched,” says Broussard, who confesses that these ideas push her right to the edge of her comfort zone.
“But dark matter is very likely as rich as our own matter. This kind of thing needs to be explored.”
If she can open a passage to the mirror world at Oak Ridge, that will be one heck of a start.
(Skarekrow - If our universe we live in/experience is only roughly 5% of the total - then why in the hell couldn’t there be so-called “dark people”?
At the very least, some other forms of life we couldn’t imagine?
This entire concept of a “mirror universe” representing the “dark" matter/energy we cannot see or detect - absolutely makes the idea of PSI, subtle energies, precognition, paranormal phenomena, etc. squarely into the realm of - why not?
If not even more in the the realm of - that probably explains it.
Perhaps time will tell...)
Curious for sure and curious name for the phenomenon as well - the fact we have the "relatively well known" laws of quantum mechanics on the one hand and things like dark matter (which fail to be explained in any satisfactory way by any theory) strongly suggest we don't have the whole picture quite yet and the universe may end up looking quite different when/if ever we do.