Andrew Newberg, a neuroscientist at the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, which is engaged in the neuroscience of religion, is already more ten years later, through a colleague, fond of Tibetan Buddhism, found eight experienced meditators who took part in an unusual experiment. As a result of a brain scan subjects using a single-photon emission computer tomography, which for an hour engaged in enhanced meditation, scientists have found an increase in the activity of brain regions that regulate attention, which, of course, required a special concentration in meditation time. However, during meditation, the upper back the parietal lobe of the brain was much less active than when the subjects simply sat and rested (take this data on weapons, they will still be useful to us when it comes to biological programs). Newberg concluded that it was this the cerebral lobe builds the mental boundary between the brain and the physical the world. In other words, this area in the left hemisphere of the brain corresponds for a person’s awareness of his own personality and for idea of the image of one’s own body (probably the stage of the mirror according to Lacan). The right hemisphere is responsible for the sense of time and the space in which the body resides. Strengthening During Meditation a sense of unity with the outside world, the subjects gradually blocked communication channels between these two areas of the parietal lobe brain, thereby suppressing the idea of the image of one’s own body. We see that for mystical (transpersonal) experiences need a certain reconfiguration of the brain, and even a “shutdown” some of its zones. However, it does not at all follow that the brain – central and sole hero of religious experience. About it and Newberg himself says: “We do not at all affirm that the brain creates God, we note that our brain naturally creates mechanisms that make religious experience possible. ” 
Photos from open sources Neurobiologist Michael Persinger develops a technique for stimulating certain areas of the brain to cause a variety of forms of surrealistic sensations in the most ordinary people. By trial and error, the scientist succeeded establish that weak magnetic radiation (1 microtesla – approximately this radiation gives your computer monitor) when you rotate a complex trajectory around the temporal lobes of the brain can cause human sensation of an otherworldly presence. What exactly sees a person processed in this way – depends on his personal beliefs and dispositions. It could be, for example, one of the recently deceased relatives. People are religious people tend to see the Lord God himself. Like us noted above, the same data can be interpreted in the opposite way. Of course we can agree with the point view that deep mystical experience, revelations, any religious feelings – only an epiphenomenon excited in specific areas of the brain. However, from a different point of view, effects on the brain may indicate something else – not that the brain in the response to external stimuli generates religious experience, and that that chemical and electromagnetic effects bring the brain out of habitual regime, which, in fact, allows consciousness to gain some freedom regarding physical reality and one’s own objectivization in it. The imprinting mechanism is generally applicable to any ritual and custom. Essentially any ritual represents a “rite of passage” (regardless psychoactive substances or not) and consists of three phases – preliminary (separation), laminar (gap) and postliminar (turning on). From a neurological point of view, the ritual represents reprogramming the brain. Why at the first stage people, one way or another, isolate, separate from the usual setting, i.e. habitat operating until now the moment of programs (a person becomes a novice, an intern, rookie, etc.); in the second stage there is a shutdown or erasing the previous program of behavior and perception (powerful stress: sensory and / or social deprivation, hunger, acts of violence, humiliation, etc.); at the final stage when the brain can no longer rely on previous programs and ready for new programming, “neophyte” is imprinted (programmed) according to its new status (solemn initiation into the “secret”, ideological processing or any other type of suggestion). Such a scheme can detect both in archaic societies and in societies modern, especially in such social rudimentary formations as an army and criminal environment. Pragmatic and rationalistic Western European civilization is, in entities, a social metaprogram whose purpose is the Inquisition (i.e. monitoring compliance with “norms”, “dogmas”) and protection of the official pictures of the world (i.e. holding a person within the first four bioprograms). Any means of changing consciousness (and therefore going beyond the authorized model of reality) cause panic fear and desire to get rid of the threat at any cost accepted lifestyle. Everything for one reason or another crosses the rigidly established boundaries of the accepted “norm”, declared heresy, obscurantism, madness and crime. That allowed to Hollywood, prohibitively real world. Here are the bright confirmations. In the middle of the XIX century between the continent and the Western Africa made trade contacts, and Europe met the first psychedelic is squeezing their iboga roots. This is a drug used by the West African fungus tribe (bwiti religion) as a means of communicating with spirits. In 1867, the iboga shrub (Tabernanthe iboga) was demonstrated at the Paris World exhibition. Messages began to appear that at high doses ibogaine, alkaloid ibogi, people began to see “shadows” and images bright, colored objects. Visions caused panic in people, as no different from real ones. And already in 1910 the use of ibogaine was not only forbidden, but also ceased and research on this psychedelic. 
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Photos from open sources Therefore, up to the present day the psychoactive properties of ibogi have not been studied. Most common of all the sacred plants of South America – forest liana, known in botany like Banisteriopsis caapi. Harmalin and harmine alkaloids, contained in the vine, stimulate extrasensory perception, why they used to be called telepathine. Indians from the tribe living near the Ucayali River in eastern Peru, on a psychedelic journey after taking ayahuasca, they even “visited” the cities of Europeans, in which they never happened to be physically. South American anthropologist Thomas Rössner describes their journey as follows: “Indians, who often practice ayahuasca from time to time gather and, drinking this potion, offer each other to see everyone together one thing. For example: “Let’s see the cities!” Indians then they asked the pale-faced what strange things (aparatos) so quickly rush through the streets of cities. They watched in their visions cars with which in real life were not familiar. “Ayahuascu used to find out the cause of the disease, search for souls of patients and various magic operations. But I would like to emphasize one circumstance that clearly indicates a link between ecstatic travels with imprints, BPM and archetypal layers of consciousness. Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff, describing shamanic visions, notes: “For the Indians, the hallucinogenic experience, in essence, is sexual. Sublimate it, go from erotic and sensual to mystical unity with the mythical era, with intrauterine stage – this is the final goal, which reach one, but long for everything. Most clearly this goal formulated by one Indian, who was taught literacy by missionaries. is he said: “The acceptance of yage is a spiritual intercourse. It is that spiritual the sacrament of which the priests speak. “This testimony reveals to us the mechanism of action of this psychedelic. It turns out just taking a psychoactive substance is not enough. Active work needed with your mind. The ability to go deeper without seducing bioprograms lying on the “surface” of the unconscious and transpersonal, this is one of the conditions for transcending and expanding vision. For some shamans, the “ceiling” is collective unconscious. But only a few “doors” open in the “Holy of Holies.” Working with psychedelics is always working with subconscious. With peyote – a small spherical cactus, in botany called Lophophora (Lophophora williamsii), Europe met in 1577 during the conquest in Central America. According to one Spaniard who was in New at that time Sveta, Indians “eat the root, which is called Peyotl and which worshiped as if it were a deity. ” 
Photos from open sources For Mesoamerican Indians Huichol peyote – a divine plant that grows in Blessed the country of Virikute. Peyote is the Divine Deer, Master of all deer. Riding on the holy Deer you can reach the highest levels of space. Until now, Huichols call themselves “deer people.” Interesting a document of the history of the use of psychedelics can serve the famous “sixtieth vessel” of the late classical period from Naranjo (Guatemala). It depicts scenes dedicated to the rite priest’s initiation, a rite apparently associated with the governed dreams and the use of psychedelics. One of the figures composition, probably a deity, depicted leaning to the side skeleton. In his right hand is an enema of impressive size. Such enemas with psychedelics were used in divination. With his right hand the character holds a syringe for an unusually long tip. To make the potion, the ingredients are originally chewed (still Huichi Indians chew peyote for rubbing joints during long crossings in the mountains). An enema can also be a drug based on Nymphfacea ampla, varieties of lilies growing in the Mayan mountain region. This medication contains aporphin, similar in structure to apomorphine, which in the first moment causes severe vomiting. To avoid prolonged vomiting during oral administration, psychedelic drug from the root of a water lily was administered pranally, which provided a quick effect. Syringe made from a bladder of a large animal (for example, a jaguar), to which connected the tube – a removable tip. Deity with an enema in the hand is also found on other vessels of the classical period. The fight against the psychedelic religion began yet holy inquisition. The rivers of blood of the Indians were spilled. But achieve your the inquisitors could not. Indians who were unable to physical resistance to the conquest, in their own way accepted Christianity. For example, modern Huichol assimilated Christian images and now consider the spirit of peyote not someone and … Francis of Assisi. For this reason, images of the saint are extremely popular, and the hymns of Francis of Assisi considered important spells. Peyotist takes peyote sacrament just as a white Christian eats the sacrament-wine and the sacrament-bread, and he does this to get the power of apa (Khan) – the equivalent New Testament Holy Spirit. Peyote is used to obtain spiritual knowledge. One Comanche once said, “White man talks about Jesus. We speak with Jesus. “The peyotistic principle: “the only way to learn from peyote is to accept it yourself.” how writes an anthropologist and an active member of the Native American Church, J. S. Slotkin (1913 – 1958): “The idea of saving knowledge received through revelation (in this case, through peyote), and not through verbal or written knowledge similar to doctrine Middle East Gnosticism. Simple absorption of peyote by knowledge does not bring itself. In order to gain knowledge through peyote, you must observe proper ritual behavior. Human must be clean physically, washed in a bath, and wear clean clothes. Spiritually, he must get rid of all evil. Psychologically, a person must be aware of his personal inconsistency, modesty, sincerity – then he will receive the blessing of peyote and focus on him. “Peyote teaches in various ways: opens the gift of speaking and understanding other languages, opens sacred vision (visual, auditory, or a combination thereof), or gives mystical knowledge (this way, or the way of teaching peyote is rare and available to only a few advanced church members; they rarely receive visions and tend to look at them as entertainment). However, such an action of peyote, notes J. S. Slotkin, refers to those who accept the sacred cactus as a sacrament in the conditions ritual. Reception of peyote by a white man is not for sacred purposes, but for the sake of entertainment, it can even lead to psychological trauma. IN US and Europe government-wide fear of psychedelics grew so much that in the second half of the 60s of the twentieth century research and use of LSD and psilocybin was completely prohibited. Closed whole laboratories and research centers. The reason for the prohibition of psychedelics in all cases was quite far-fetched. What psychoactive drugs used by non-specialists, or more simply, people from the street, could not serve as a compelling and sufficient basis for prohibition clinical trials, which, by the way, often gave surprisingly positive results. Until the phenomenon is studied in fully, it should not be avoided, but studied. “Witch Hunt” (in in this case – psychedelics), which swept the western society – a vivid proof of the programmed European civilization to ostracism and the destruction of everything that the brain displays, and meaning consciousness, from the usual mode of struggle for existence in physical world. As Robert Anton Wilson noted, authorities consider experiments with psychedelics are dangerous, and at the same time not consider nuclear tests dangerous. All this, as we have seen, has direct relation to the brain. The brain itself is only a means to ensure survival in the world of earthly life. On the genetic level the brain is programmed to include four main bioprograms whose task is to continue physical existence. But if the brain undergoes a specific impact, old programs are disabled or completely erased and consciousness is in a completely new reality. Impact some psychoactive substances and other “switches” first four bioprograms causes a feeling of expansion of consciousness, exit beyond the boundaries of flawed ordinary reality, and understanding also comes and the inexpressibility of their “psychedelic” experience on sensually rational level. As Neville Drury notes, with from ancient times, man went to sacred psychedelic travels not to “escape” into the world of “fantasies”, but to “see” and “know” the secrets of being hidden from the uninitiated sight. So we can say that the brain can protrude both in the role of the jailer of human consciousness, and in the role of the starting a platform for the transition to another being. Of course, the state of the brain closely related to the state of consciousness. Otherwise, the impact to the brain of alcohol, drugs, psychedelics, etc. would not be so significant. In any case, as long as the soul is connected with the body, impact on the body leads to changes in consciousness. Therefore, the conclusions in Descartes manner of independence of thinking from the body, seem, by at least hasty. However, the “claims” of the brain for the role the last resort in religious experience, as we have shown, is just as insolvent. Vladimir Zmeelov
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