Thread by @ADalassio

Occult ritual thread. Final chapter. Atto sesto.
"There is a price to be paid for every increase in consciousness. We cannot be more sensible to pleasure without being more sensible to pain."
Alan Watts
There's a vast array of direct mind-control techniques available today.

following consistent investment from governments in projects such as the U.S. BRAIN project and Europe's counterpart the Human Brain Project, all told, billions of dollars are being spent to decode what makes us tick and how to change it. There are ways to create a brain-computer

interface, magnetic manipulation via "neural dust," high-powered lasers, using light beamed from outside the skull, the implanting and erasure of memories, and even the direct uploading of the contents of our brain. After all, you need only search Google for patented mind-control

to find a trove of Kafkaesque devices.
We have seen that by using chemical inhibitors, scientists are able to shut down a particular area of the brain. It is currently being used to treat chorea due to neurodegenerative diseases (such as Huntington chorea) or dyskinesias.

The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness. Lao Tzu
What happens to the brain during Spiritual Experiences?
The field of neurotheology uses science to try to understand the Divine Concept and vice versa.
Introducing Dr A Newberg

Newberg thinks it’s essential to examine how people experience spirituality in order to fully understand how their brains work. He is a pioneer in the field of neurotheology, the neurological study of religious and spiritual experiences. In the 1990s, he began his work in the

matter by scanning what happens in people’s brains when they meditate, because it is a spiritual practice that is relatively easy to monitor. Since then, he’s looked at around 150 brain scans, including those of Buddhists, nuns, atheists, Pentecostals speaking in tongues, etc.

As to what’s going on in their brains, Newberg says, “It depends to some degree on what the practice is.” Practices that involve concentrating on something over and over again, either through prayer or a mantra-based meditation, tend to activate the frontal lobes,

the areas chiefly responsible for directing attention, modulating behavior, and expressing language. In contrast, when practitioners surrender their will, such as when they speak in tongues or function as a medium, activity decreases in their frontal lobes and increases in their

thalamus, the tiny brain structure that regulates the flow of incoming sensory information to many parts of the brain. This suggests that their speech is being generated from some place other than the normal speech centers. Believers could say this proves that another entity is

speaking through the practitioner, while nonbelievers would look for a neurological explanation. Newberg believes everyone can benefit from some type of meditation practice. If one practice isn’t working, try a different one. Dr D. Hamer(the God Gene) discovered that research

subjects with a particular variation of a certain gene were more susceptible to self-transcendent, spiritual experiences.Hamer compares the effects of this variation to an enhanced capacity for natural highs. This spiritual tendency also depends on a person’s environment,

which can direct their innate spirituality to particular religious beliefs, and/or steer them away from religion altogether. He says that science will never replace spirituality because a reliance on facts will never have the same emotional appeal.
Here comes the connection...

According to Newberg, if the euphoria a person experiences during a meditation practice can’t be integrated into their preexisting belief system, these feelings may become disturbing. When meditation practices enhance a rigid, authoritarian belief system, Newberg said they can

lead to more intolerance and violence towards those of different beliefs. He writes that due to some overlap between spiritual beliefs and psychological disorders, patients with obsessive compulsive disorders often develop rigid religious beliefs.

To be continued. Good night.
Good vibrations.