Zapping your brain military style

[drew hempel]

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1841108,00.html?xid=rss-topstories

[kinkaka]

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1841108,00.html?xid=rss-topstories

You've must of tried the Shakti or God helmet surely ?

[Isaiah Mpski]

...and do you think Krishna is hairy?:D

[drew hempel]

Well Persinger thinks highly of Andrija Puharich:

Well that's an excellent question but for one thing it's well known that anerobic bacteria feed on an acidic diet (from the sugar for one thing). Disease in general likes a more acidic environment while disease is killed by oxygen which is has a neutral p.h. Since the body is naturally slightly acidic then an alkaline diet helps bring more oxygen into the cells thereby killing disease.

The other more sublime reason is that the electromagnetic power of the brain relies on the electochemical power of potassium and salt. Potassium is the potential or stored energy of the neurons whereas salt is the activated energy released when the cerebral cortex is used. Meditation relies on the power of the thalamus in contrast to the conceptual thinking of the cerebral cortex so when we increase our potassium (as both Taoist Yoga: Alchemy and Immortality and Puharich recommend) then we increase the potential energy of the brain at the same time causing it harder for the day to day stress of civilization to activate the neurons. Both potassium and salt are alkaline but salt is necessary only when there's a diet strong in acidic food (meat and sugar and grain). So avoiding all salt (as Taoist Yoga recommends) also entails a diet without grain, meat, and sugar (plus lots of natural sodium sources like vegetables).

I'm just reading Tim Ward's excellent spiritual tantra travel book in South Asia, "Arousing the Goddess" and he attended a Buddhist conference where there was a bit of controversy over the meat served (relished by normally vegetarian monks, etc.). Also he mets a Westerner with receding gums eating only rice while he is doing mantra recitation as a retreat. Such are the give and takes of nutrition and energy.