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【觉醒时间网站】斯科特﹒塞尔：关于第三眼的四件事—夜晚请在漆黑的室内睡眠！

【作    者】Scott Thill

【推    荐】法国希夷

【翻    译】shan-athana

【日    期】20140413

我们仍然缺乏对松果体的完全了解—但这并不阻碍我们的“投机”行为

位于大脑的中心附近，小的象松果形状的松果体，通常在夜晚睡觉时分泌神经激素褪黑素，它常被视为从最初发展状态退化的残渣。

确实，近期的研究发现，我们可以加快慢性病症比如癌症的改变，方法是避免在人造光源下沐浴、夜晚加班或者睡眠太迟。这会扰乱松果体和褪黑素的分泌，这些是生物钟连接着地球白天夜晚的运动周期，通常叫生理节律，我们可能没有对我们的觉知、而是对疾病和混乱打开了自己的大门。范德堡大学最新公布的研究显示，他们发现了生理节奏与心脏病、糖尿病和肥胖的关系。

通过第三眼和永远的科技文化以光速在全球传递，我们已经使自身的遗传能力处于不利境地，避开所有形式的复杂的梦魇。不用怀疑第三眼对充满梦幻和恐怖的影迷来说是科幻小说流行的文化，就象大量的神秘主义和算命者的粉丝。它的力量可以分裂或合并我们光与暗的生活，当我们认真对待时，它看起来又增长了不少。

“我们至今对松果体仍然缺乏完全的理解”，密西根大学的生理神经病学教授Jimo Borjigin说，医学上的形象化松果体的先锋告诉我：在松果体中发现了大分子，很多都是在晚上发现的非常独特的物质，我们不知道它们的作用是什么。我们知道的惟一功能是褪黑素是晚上合成的，由中心时钟在视交叉上核上控制，并由光进行调整。其他的都是推测。

在科学和推测之间界定松果体并不容易，人们早先研究了近4个世纪的，法国哲学家笛卡尔说“松果体是灵魂之载体”（虽然没有任何证据支持他这个论断）。因此，现在有一些手边的候选知识让大家知道。

一. 第三眼和Theosophistry
当前科学的理解是松果体可能就象一只眼睛，它接收光信号和视网膜。不管它是否是我们的惟一的收缩进大脑的眼睛，它被我们的二个新眼睛取代，或者它是具有精神物质连接的第三只眼睛，能够连接到早先的和进化状态，或者二者都有，它已经许多世纪以来被科学推测思索。

地球古代文化历史充满了民间特色—一眼和三眼的存有们充满了威力，从湿婆和独眼巨人库克罗普斯，到《贫民区》中一段经典片段“火星人站起来”（参看以下）。它们的关系可以从印度教中找到，第七主脉轮Sahasara是多层莲花，看起来象松果体，其主要功能按照科学和灵学上讲是觉察宇宙的一。自从希腊和罗马统治了哲学和科学探索后，通神学者研究了它们能觉察到隐藏的知识，最近说明松果体是我们进化到原始神的精神引擎，成为有意识和肉体的存在。

这个描述看起来很恰当，充满了天文力量，这是我们数百万年的演进的结果。当智人的第三眼沿路转化为松果体时，我们今天仍然发现动物身上具有对光敏感的第三眼，我们称为顶叶眼，就象新西兰的濒临灭绝的大蜥蜴。从古代动物特征类似的化石上看，类似插座插入了托座，让松果体成为我们多余眼睛的候选。

二.  那些隐藏的就是高分辨率的
中央生物钟几乎控制着我们生命体每个层面的时间，包括生理和行动上的，而褪黑素是最好的编码人类和动物生理节奏的标志。他告诉我“在过去，由于过去技术水平的限制，对褪黑素生理节奏特性的研究很难开展，仅限于动物。我的实验室发明了长期松果体微量渗析，它允许自动操作、计算机控制和高分辨率分析松果体褪黑素分泌，这个实验持续4-10周，可以在一个动物体上完成。”

这些直观化的实验可以延续很长时间，让我们知道如何控制松果体分泌的褪黑素，当我们睡眠时，它可以修复大脑，并使我们的身体频率调谐于地球频率。褪黑素是非常好的混合物，在植物、动物和微生物中都可以发现。强大的抗氧化剂，它的药用价值每年都有新的发现，当我们研究更多就会发现，它帮助人体修复免疫紊乱、慢性病和神经退行性变。

“微量渗析让我们近距离监督褪黑素在不同状况下的分泌，比如时差感、轮班工作、光污染、饮食控制，以及更多地定义生理节奏对外界的反应特征。”他说“还让我们发现属于睡眠类型的动物，比如早起的鸟儿和夜晚的猫头鹰，研究不同的睡眠类型的个体是如何调节生理节奏的，这些仍然是要继续的课题，但有一些研究结果今年有希望公布于众。”

三. 人造光=毫无前途的未来
最近对褪黑素的研究取得了相当重要的进展，特别是那些胸部疾病和前列腺癌。哈佛大学公共卫生学院研究员Itai Kloog和他的研究团队最近几年公布了一系列研究报告—“现代城市睡眠环境”，这是激素荷尔蒙基础上的致癌风险。我们夜晚的人造光“让我们夜晚的天空完全隔绝”，地球之岛日报的Holly Hayworth写道，引用Kloog的研究结果，并提醒大家人造光有一半对人体有害无益。

“我们毫不怀疑地证实了这是一个危险因素”，Kloog告诉我，“晚上的光可以在很多方面得到证实，我们的团体和其他人，相当清楚，这会导致荷尔蒙癌”。

Kloog的团队公布了五项研究成果，包括在全球范围内和当地的分析，所有的分析的结论证实了人的生理节奏和褪黑素破坏可以导致癌症的高发病率。分析一下《NASA的防御气象卫星程序》档案（夜晚照亮地球的光）和从世界健康组织得到的数据，Kloog的团队发现“当妇女们在夜晚更多地暴露在光下，乳腺癌的得病率高发。在以色列研究发现从最小的到平均的夜晚的人造光沐导致36%人患有乳腺癌，从平均到最大值又增长了26%。”

用光滑的内壳制造出密度图，看一下光曝和癌症的比率，Kloog的团队发现了另一个研究课题，他们用不同高度密度布置了超过2万个光源，显示出非常清晰的关系。他们的二个世界研究结果，形成了一种算法，世界每个城市每个人的人口加权平均光曝，运用WHO的数据，再次发现了癌症发病率与夜晚光曝之间密切的关联。

“如果你在不发达国家比如尼泊尔，用平均光照给每个人，我们在说每平方厘米有0.02毫微瓦的光亮。” Kloog解释道。“相对美国，每人的平均的光曝则是57.5，直到大约120年前，人类每天大约有12小时的日光浴时间，12小时的夜晚，当然在季节和纬度许可的情况下。但自从灯泡发明后，我们人为地把白天延长了。晚上晚睡，在睡觉时也开着灯，缩短了真正的睡觉时间。有很多因素都在延长白日，都与我们在几百万年进化前经历的光有关。”

“这不是很容易用方程式来解决的问题，晚上请到没有光的房间睡觉，请不要用光，交上百叶窗，生理节奏的破坏是人类致癌的因素。” Kloog告诉我。

四.神秘学名著
这并不是说午夜对人类大脑不好，特别说到松果体和第三眼时。因为松果体和第三眼保持着大脑另一面的非常过去的奇异分量，它们刺激精神和超自然的可能性的探索。松果体生理节奏双重性与有威力的神秘术士例如恐惧小学之父洛夫克拉夫特有着特别的共振，他依次引发了新生代的投机才能，他们把它灵活地用作接受器来扩展其含义。

“我的第一个有关松果体的揭示来自于斯图炙特 戈登的电影，由洛夫克拉夫特的“From Beyond”（来自天外）改编，Javier Grillo-Marxuach是狂热的科幻小说电视经典《中介人》的创建者”，AlterNet说，“事实上，我知道的有关这个特别的内分泌体的知识来自于生殖体验，它解释了我为什么是一个电视作者而非脑外科医生。”

来自天外”中，超自然激活的松果体把这个疯狂的科学家变成了食脑蛇。最近再次发生的1957年的电影“她是魔鬼”描写的是一个女怪物，她有着超级活跃的松果体，让她成为一个妖怪，可怕的弯曲的灵魂！在这二部电影中，很多其它的有关三眼令人兴奋的经历，有性特征的器官，而非把它当成生理节奏的调节器。今天，一些人用褪黑素作为补品，从上世纪90年代开始兴起，用于治愈性功能障碍。但松果体久远的神话和科学历史可以得到广泛的应用，尤其作为民间传说和娱乐时使用。

“在《中介人》中，我们很快发现因为松果体如此神秘，它很难让人理解，虽然它特别的名字意味着某些科学精度和技术知识的不确定性。它是一个奇异的速记法，不管它是什么样的我们所需确定的他世界的品质”，Grillo-Marxuach说道。“在12个章节中，松果体成为灵媒能力的源泉，连接着平等次元、女妖、梦魇对普通人性欲的魔法般的影响，最终我们超级坏蛋源头的力量进行大决战。自从Stuart Gordon 和H.P. Lovecraft在我还是十几岁少年时赠给我们这样一个礼物，他们让我充满了想像和大脑解剖学的求知欲，我想我的兴趣会一直持续下去。”

【原文网址】http://www.wakingtimes.com/2014/04/13/4-things-know-third-eye/

4 Things You Should Know About Your ‘Third Eye’
April 13, 2014 | By WakingTimes | 6 Replies More
            

Scott Thill, AlterNet
Waking Times

We still lack a complete understanding of the pineal gland — but that doesn’t stop us from speculating.

Located in nearly the direct center of the brain, the tiny pinecone-shaped pineal gland, which habitually secretes the wondrous neurohormone melatonin while we sleep at night, was once thought to be a vestigial leftover from a lower evolutionary state.

Indeed, according to recent research, we could be increasing our chances of contracting chronic illnesses like cancer by unnecessarily bathing its evenings in artificial light, working night shifts or staying up too late. By disrupting the pineal gland and melatonin’s chronobiological connection to Earth’s rotational 24-hour light and dark cycle, known as its circadian rhythm, we’re possibly opening the doors not to perception, but to disease and disorder. A recently published study from Vanderbilt University has found associations between circadian disruption and heart disease, diabetes and obesity.

By hacking what pinealophiles call our mind’s third eye with an always-on technoculture transmitting globally at light-speed, we may have disadvantaged our genetic ability to ward off all manner of complicated nightmares. No wonder the pineal gland is a pop-culture staple for sci-fi, fantasy and horror fandom, as well as a mass attractor of mystics and mentalists. Its powers to divide and merge our light and dark lives only seems to grow the more we take it seriously.

“We still lack a complete understanding of the pineal gland,” University of Michigan professor of physiology and neurology Jimo Borjigin, a pioneer in medical visualization of the pineal gland’s melatonin secretion, told me. “Numerous molecules are found in the pineal, many of which are uniquely found at night, and we do not have a good idea of what their functions are. The only function that is established beyond doubt is the melatonin synthesis and secretion at night, which is controlled by the central clock in the suprachiasmatic nucleus and modulated by light. All else is speculative.”

Discerning between the science and speculation of the pineal gland hasn’t been easy since long before Rene Descartes called it the “principal seat of the soul” after studying it at length nearly four centuries ago. (Although “no evidence exists to support this,” clarified Borjigin.) So here’s a handy shortlist of things you should know about the pineal gland.

1. Third Eyes and Theosophistry
The current scientific understanding is that the pineal gland probably started out as an eye, and it receives signals from light and our retinas. Whether it was our only eye which shrunk into the brain once its perceptive tasks were taken care of by our two newer eyes, or whether it was a third eye with a spiritual and physical connection to previous spiritual and evolutionary states, or both, has galvanized science and speculation for centuries.

Earth’s ancient cultural histories are filled with folklore featuring both one-eyed and three-eyed beings of great power, from Shiva and Cyclops to that amiable fellow in The Twilight Zone‘s classic episode, “Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?” and beyond. (From Beyond even: See below.) Associations can be found in Hinduism, whose seventh primary chakra Sahasara is a multilayered lotus that looks like the pineal gland’s pinecone, and whose primary function is to perceive universal oneness, scientifically and spiritually speaking. Theosophists, who have been studying what they perceive as hidden knowledge since the Greeks and Romans ruled philosophical and scientific inquiry, have more recently claimed that the pineal gland is the spiritual engine of our evolution into “embryo gods, beings of consciousness and matter.”

That description seems apt, given the astronomical power we have achieved in a few million yeas of evolution. While Homo sapiens‘ third eyes likely transformed into pineal glands along the way, today we can still find animals with photoreceptive third eyes, now called parietal eyes, like New Zealand’s endangered tuatara. Fossils from other ancient creatures feature similar sockets in their skulls, making our pineal gland a candidate for an ex-eye.

2. What Was Once Hidden Is Now Hi-Res
Michigan University professor Borjigin and his team are hard at work on how the pineal gland and melatonin regulate our lives.

“The central circadian clock controls timing of almost all aspects of our life, including physiology and behavior, and melatonin is the best marker to decode the fingerprints of circadian timing in both humans and animals,” he told me. “In the past, it was very difficult to study circadian properties of melatonin in animals due to technical limitations. My lab invented long-term pineal microdialysis, which permits automated, computer-controlled and high-resolution analysis of melatonin secretion from rodent pineal gland from four to 10 weeks in the same animal.”

These visualizations could go a long way toward understanding how to hack melatonin, which the pineal gland secretes when we sleep and helps the brain repair and sync our bodies to Earth’s rotation. Melatonin is a stunning compound, found naturally in plants, animals and microbes. A powerful antioxidant, its list of its medicinal uses only seems to grow each year, as we learn more about its ability to help with immune disorders, chronic illnesses, and neurodegeneration.

“Pineal microdialysis allows us to monitor melatonin secretion closely under various conditions to simulate jet lag, shiftwork, light pollution, diet manipulation and more to define the fingerprints of circadian response to environment, he added. “It also allows us to discover animals with extreme chronotypes, like early-birds or night-owls, to understand how individuals with different chronotype respond to circadian challenges differently. These are still ongoing studies, but hopefully some of the works will be published this year.”

3. Artificial Light = Dark Future
What has been recently published about melatonin is already pretty significant, especially for those looking to combat breast and prostate cancer. Harvard University School of Public Health researcher Itai Kloog and his group published a series of studies in the last few years explaining how our “modern urbanized sleeping habitat” (PDF) is a massive hormone-based cancer risk. “We have blotted out the night sky” with artificial light, wrote Earth Island Journal‘s Holly Hayworth,” citing Kloog’s research and noting that half that light is wasted anyway.

“We’ve proven beyond a doubt that it’s a risk factor,” Kloog told me. “Light at night has been proven on many levels, by our group and many others, to definitely contribute to higher risk of developing hormonal cancer.”

Kloog’s team published five studies altogether, including analyses at local and global levels, and all of them found firm correlations between circadian and melatonin disruption and higher risks of cancer. Analyzing NASA’s Defense Meteorological Satellite Program archive (to illuminate Earth’s light-at-night coverage) and data from the World Health Organization, Kloog’s group “found clearly that as women were more exposed to light at nighttime, their rates of breast cancer went up. Our Israel study found that going from minimum exposure to average exposure to light at night resulted in a 36 percent higher standard rate of breast cancer, and going from average to maximum was another 26 percent increase.”

Using kernel smoothing to create density maps showing light exposure and cancer rates, Kloog’s team found that another of its studies, which sourced more than 20,000 light sources by height and intensity, showed a clear association. For their two worldwide studies, they developed an algorithm to assign population weight average light exposure for every person in every city across the world, using WHO data, and again they found a clear association between cancer and light at night.

“For average light exposure per person, if you take an underdeveloped country like Nepal, we’re talking about 0.02 nanowatts per centimeter squared,” Kloog explained. “Compare that to the United States, where the average light exposure of a person is 57.5. Up until around 120 years ago, humans were basically exposed to 12 hours of sunlight and 12 hours of darkness on average, seasons and latitudes permitting of course. But since the invention of the lightbulb, we’ve artificially stretched the day. We go to sleep late at night, we have lights on while we sleep, we have a shorter sleep duration. We have a lot of factors stretching out our days, relative to the light period we experienced during millions of years of previous evolution.”

“It’s something that’s easy to take out of the equation,” Kloog told me. “Go to sleep in a dark room. Use less light. Close the shutters. Circadian disruption is carcinogenic to humans.”

4. Occult Classic
This is not to say that late-night viewing itself isn’t good for the mind, especially when it comes to pineal glands and third eyes. Because pineal glands and third eyes remain singular components of an otherwise binary brain with an extraordinary past, they have stimulated some stranger explorations of their spiritual and supernatural possibility. The pineal gland’s circadian dualism has achieved particular resonance with influential occultists like horror influential H.P. Lovecraft. Who, in turn, have spawned new generations of speculative talents that have used it as a quite flexible receptacle for expansive meaning.

“My first exposure to the pineal gland came from Stuart Gordon’s movie adaptation of Lovecraft’s From Beyond,” Javier Grillo-Marxuach, creator of the cult sci-fi television classic The Middleman, told AlterNet. “In truth, everything I know about that particular endocrine body probably derives from that seminal experience, which explains why I am a television writer and not a brain surgeon.”

In From Beyond, a supernaturally activated pineal gland turns mad scientists into brain-eating zombies. The recently reissued 1957 exploitation film She Devil features a “female monster” whose hyperstimulated pineal gland turns her into ”a demon, a devil, a creature with a warped soul!” In both films, and many other third-eye head-trips, functions as a sexualized organ, rather than a circadian regulator. Today, some use melatonin supplements, available since the ’90s, to aid with sexual dysfunction. But the pineal gland’s expansive mythic and scientific history has much broader applications when it comes to folklore and entertainment.

“In The Middleman, we quickly discovered that because this most mysterious of glands is so misunderstood, even though its very name connotes a certain frisson of scientific accuracy and technical understanding, it was a fantastic shorthand for whatever otherworldly qualities we needed to justify,” Grillo-Marxuach added. “Over the course of 12 episodes, the pineal gland became the source of psychic ability, communication between parallel dimensions, the magical influence of succubi and incubi over the libidos of ordinary mortals and, finally, the power source for our main supervillain’s armageddon device. Since Stuart Gordon and H.P. Lovecraft gave me such a gift in my teenage years by providing me with so fanciful an understanding of cerebral anatomy, I figured I’d pay the favor forward as many times as possible.”