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Buddy:
--- Quote from: hottcherri on August 20, 2009, 02:22:39 PM ---floride hardens , crystalizes the pineal gland.
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Are you referring to the calcification process?
Dr. Jennifer Luke's 298 page PhD. Thesis, is an often cited work on the relationship between flouride and the pineal gland. There is a forum discussion here and here with discussion related excerpts.
Here's a portion that addresses the mineralization (calcification) issue:
--- Quote from: Thesis excerpt ---
Summation - Fluoride & Pineal Gland:
Up until the 1990s, no research had ever been conducted to determine the impact of fluoride on the pineal gland - a small gland located between the two hemispheres of the brain that regulates the production of the hormone melatonin. Melatonin is a hormone that helps regulate the onset of puberty and helps protect the body from cell damage caused by free radicals.
It is now known - thanks to the meticulous research of Dr. Jennifer Luke from the University of Surrey in England - that the pineal gland is the primary target of fluoride accumulation within the body.
The soft tissue of the adult pineal gland contains more fluoride than any other soft tissue in the body - a level of fluoride (~300 ppm) capable of inhibiting enzymes.
The pineal gland also contains hard tissue (hyroxyapatite crystals), and this hard tissue accumulates more fluoride (up to 21,000 ppm) than any other hard tissue in the body (e.g. teeth and bone).
After finding that the pineal gland is a major target for fluoride accumulation in humans, Dr. Luke conducted animal experiments to determine if the accumulated fluoride could impact the functioning of the gland - particulalry the gland's regulation of melatonin.
Luke found that animals treated with fluoride had lower levels of circulating melatonin, as reflected by reduced levels of melatonin metabolites in the animals' urine. This reduced level of circulating melatonin was accompanied - as might be expected - by an earlier onset of puberty in the fluoride-treated female animals.
Accumulation of Fluoride in Calcified Tissue of Pineal Gland:
"In terms of mineralized tissue, the mean fluoride concentration in the pineal calcification was equivalent to that in severely fluorosed bone and more than four times higher than in corresponding bone ash, i.e., 8,900 ± 7,700 vs. 2,040 ± 1,100 mg/kg, respectively. The calcification in two of the 11 pineals analysed in this study contained extremely high levels of fluoride: 21,800 and 20,500 mg/kg."
Accumulation of Fluoride in Soft Tissue of Pineal Gland:
"After half a century of the prophylactic use of fluorides in dentistry, we now know that fluoride readily accumulates in the human pineal gland. In fact, the aged pineal contains more fluoride than any other normal soft tissue. The concentration of fluoride in the pineal was significantly higher (p <0.001) than in corresponding muscle, i.e., 296 ± 257 vs. 0.5± 0.4 mg/kg (wet weight) respectively."
Mechanism of Action:
"The most plausible hypothesis for the observed significant decrease in the rate of urinary aMT6s excretion by the HF (High-Fluoride) group is that fluoride affects the pineal's ability to synthesize melatonin during pubertal development in the gerbil. Fluoride may affect the enzymatic conversion of tryptophan to melatonin. Although melatonin was the hormone investigated in this project, fluoride may also affect the synthesis of melatonin precursors, (e.g., serotonin), or other pineal products, (e.g., 5-methoxytryptamine). This would depend on the position(s) of the susceptible enzyme(s). For some unknown reason, pineal calcification starts intracellularly. Calcium has been demonstrated in pinealocyte mitochondria. Therefore, it may be a mitochondrial enzyme that is sensitive to the effects of fluoride, e.g., tryptophan-5-hydroxylase. Alternatively, fluoride may affect pinealocyte enzymes which require a divalent co-enzyme because such enzymes are particularly sensitive to fluoride."
SOURCE: Luke J. (1997). The Effect of Fluoride on the Physiology of the Pineal Gland. Ph.D. Thesis. University of Surrey, Guildford. p. 172-173.
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_http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/pineal/
_http://fluoridealert.org/luke-1997.pdf (298 pgs., 31.9mb)
GotoGo:
Thank you, Johnno for creating this thread! :)
I was studying on a 'private' page on my pukiwiki site.
(I was mainly gathering the links discussed on Session 20 June 2009 thread but I would like to develop more as my study goes...)
I though it might be useful to others also so I made the page 'public'.
_http://www.platonicwave.com/pukiwiki/index.php?%BA%B2%A4%CE%B5%A7%A4%EA%20%28the%20Prayer%20of%20the%20Soul%20by%20Laura%20Knight-Jadczyk%29
(If you click 'English' on the top-right conner "Japanese/English" function, then you see the English also :))
Jerry:
For a performing artist, memorizing material quickly is vital. I thought I'd share some knowledge from my own experience as it may be of help to some.
Most people start out memorizing text from the particular to the whole. A few words from the beginning of a passage are learned by rote then a few more are added like links on a chain. Each time something is added, the new 'enlarged segment' is then repeated to assure that it is learned. Not only is this tedious, especially regarding large amounts of text, but actually contributes to reinforcing distrust in one's ability to memorize.
It will become rapidly evident to many that the brain is quite equipped for memorization, if from the onset the taken approach is from the whole to the particular. Instead of progressing from words to sentences to paragraphs to the whole, try reciting the entire passage from memory right away. Only certain things will be remembered, with many gaps. Just skip to what can be remembered without concern until the end. Then carefully reread the entire passage and again recite the whole from memory. The brain will fill in the gaps with the particulars. Depending upon the length of the passage, surprizingly few times are necessary to put it into short term memory. Repetition of the whole then transfers it to long term memory.
Sounds simple? It is. Requires work? Yes, but far less than before, and it will ultimately reinforce confidence rather than inhibition.
GotoGo:
I would like to 'link' to the Buddy's method for "Learning the Prayer of the Soul" here as well. The post is this one.
I think his first approach somehow related to Mountain Crown's "from the whole to the particular" approach.
--- Quote ---In the first approach, look at each word. Instead of seeing it as a thing (even if it is not a noun), try seeing it as a verb. Try to understand what the word means in terms of process, motions, relationships. The Universe is full of movement and patterns and interacting energies, so try and explain to yourself what the word means in terms that actually relate to what the Universe is doing. If you can do this, then by the time you get to the end of the prayer, you should have a unified energy pattern whose end blends back in with the beginning (notice the similarities between the first and last lines).
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For me, by trying this approach I kind of grasp the 'whole' picture of the movement of The Universe.
And with his second approach, you can go to as much as deeper level of each 'particular' as you wish. :)
GotoGo:
I linked each line to a 'dynamic' link by the tip described in this post.
I thought this kind of information gathering could be useful for "Learning the Prayer of the Soul" also (at least I found it useful for myself so....). :)
Prayer of the Soul
Oh Divine Cosmic Mind
Holy Awareness in All Creation
Carried in the heart
Ruler of the mind
Savior of the Soul
Live in me today
Be my Daily Bread
As I give bread to others
Help me grow in knowledge
Of All Creation
Clear my eyes
That I may See
Clear my ears
That I may hear
Cleanse my heart
That I may know and love
The Holiness of True Existence
Divine Cosmic Mind
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