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Post by Admin on Apr 28, 2015 17:20:33 GMT
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Post by Admin on Oct 25, 2015 10:34:09 GMT
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Post by snowstorm on Oct 30, 2015 21:45:22 GMT
Interesting that according to the first article, those with schizophrenia have a higher resistance to infection and allergies, not read that before. There is a lot of conjecture in the genetic argument for sz. It is curious that people who have it are less likely to have children but the prevalence in the population remains at about 1%. Maybe it means that more environmental factors are at play?
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Post by Admin on Oct 30, 2015 21:56:44 GMT
Interesting that according to the first article, those with schizophrenia have a higher resistance to infection and allergies, not read that before. There is a lot of conjecture in the genetic argument for sz. It is curious that people who have it are less likely to have children but the prevalence in the population remains at about 1%. Maybe it means that more environmental factors are at play? It's all very bizarre - & the field of knowledge/opinion changes all the time. i was reading this Wikipedia entry the other day - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_schizophreniai don't think that anyone does know. The aetiology (causes) isn't known. There are myriad theories & opinions, that cross biological, psychological, sociological & transpersonal ranges.
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Post by Admin on Oct 30, 2015 22:06:30 GMT
There is a lot of conjecture in the genetic argument for sz. It is curious that people who have it are less likely to have children but the prevalence in the population remains at about 1%. Maybe it means that more environmental factors are at play? Very interesting case with Nazi Germany as well - they killed all their mentally ill with the T4 Eugenics Program, which lead to the systematic extermination of the Jews & other groups of 'undesirables' - It didn't change the subsequent incidence of schizophrenia in the population. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_T4There are various theories to try & explain this paradox. Dr. Joseph Polimeni's work is interesting - www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJN3D8UhtGQ
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Post by snowstorm on Oct 30, 2015 23:32:51 GMT
Yes, that was an interesting video, even had a bit about a connection between psychosis and pop lyrics - and from an atheist doctor as well!
Seems ridiculous that the only treatment psychiatrists will entertain is drugs, when the sz "syndrome" could have so many different causes. I wonder what an ideal treatment for a transpersonal cause would be?
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Post by Admin on Oct 31, 2015 1:00:19 GMT
Seems ridiculous that the only treatment psychiatrists will entertain is drugs, when the sz "syndrome" could have so many different causes. I wonder what an ideal treatment for a transpersonal cause would be? i can see how we have arrived at the way everything currently is - But yes, it is ridiculous for the person experiencing all this. An ideal for me would be a comprehensive psychological/social/spiritual approach, as well as addressing anything physiological/biologic. I think it will take hundreds more years to get to such a treatment.
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Post by Admin on Oct 31, 2015 8:02:44 GMT
what implications does this have for mental health? www.wakingtimes.com/2013/12/16/scientists-finally-admit-second-secret-dna-code-controls-genes/The fascinating and recent discovery of a new, second DNA code last week further lends credence to what metaphysical scientists have been saying for millennia — the body speaks two different languages. Since the genetic code was deciphered in the 1960s, researchers have assumed that it was used exclusively to write information about proteins. But biologists have suspected for years that some kind of epigenetic inheritance occurs at the cellular level. The different kinds of cells in our bodies provide an example. Skin cells and brain cells have different forms and functions, despite having exactly the same DNA. No Such Thing As Junk DNA The human genome is packed with at least four million gene switches that reside in bits of DNA that once were dismissed as “junk” but it turns out that so-called junk DNA plays critical roles in controlling how cells, organs and other tissues behave. The discovery, considered a major medical and scientific breakthrough, has enormous implications for human health and consciousness because many complex diseases appear to be caused by tiny changes in hundreds of gene switches. As scientists delved into the “junk” — parts of the DNA that are not actual genes containing instructions for proteins — they discovered a complex system that controls genes. At least 80 percent of this DNA is active and needed. Another 15-17 percent has higher functions scientists are still decoding. Recent findings in the journal Science may have big implications for how medical experts use the genomes of patients to interpret and diagnose diseases, researchers said. The genetic code uses a 64-letter alphabet called codons. Dr Stamatoyannopoulos with co-authors were stunned to discover that some codons, which they called duons, can have two meanings. One describes how proteins are made, and the other instructs the cell on how genes are controlled. The newfound genetic code within deoxyribonucleic acid, the hereditary material that exists in nearly every cell of the body, was written right on top of the DNA code scientists had already cracked. Controls Genes Rather than concerning itself with proteins, this one instructs the cells on how genes are controlled. Its discovery means DNA changes, or mutations that come with age or in response to vibrational changes within the DNA, may be doing more than what scientists previously thought. “For over 40 years we have assumed that DNA changes affecting the genetic code solely impact how proteins are made,” said lead author John Stamatoyannopoulos, University of Washington associate professor of genome sciences and of medicine. “Now we know that this basic assumption about reading the human genome missed half of the picture,” he said. “Many DNA changes that appear to alter protein sequences may actually cause disease by disrupting gene control programs or even both mechanisms simultaneously.” These two meanings seem to have evolved in concert with each other. The gene control instructions appear to help stabilize certain beneficial features of proteins and how they are made. The discovery was made as part of the international collaboration of research groups known as the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements Project, or ENCODE. DNA Responds To Frequency The Russian biophysicist and molecular biologist Pjotr Garjajev and his colleagues explored the vibrational behavior of the DNA. The bottom line was: “Living chromosomes function just like solitonic/holographic computers using the endogenous DNA laser radiation.” This means that they managed for example to modulate certain frequency patterns onto a laser ray and with it influenced the DNA frequency and thus the genetic information itself. Since the basic structure of DNA-alkaline pairs and of language (as explained earlier) are of the same structure, no DNA decoding is necessary. This finally and scientifically explains why affirmations, autogenous training, hypnosis and the like can have such strong effects on humans and their bodies. It is entirely normal and natural for our DNA to react to frequency. While western researchers cut single genes from the DNA strands and insert them elsewhere, the Russians enthusiastically worked on devices that can influence the cellular metabolism through suitable modulated radio and light frequencies and thus repair genetic defects. Garjajev’s research group succeeded in proving that with this method chromosomes damaged by x-rays for example can be repaired. They even captured information patterns of a particular DNA and transmitted it onto another, thus reprogramming cells to another genome. So they successfully transformed, for example, frog embryos to salamander embryos simply by transmitting the DNA information patterns! This way the entire information was transmitted without any of the side effects or disharmonies encountered when cutting out and re-introducing single genes from the DNA. This represents an unbelievable, world-transforming revolution and sensation! All this by simply applying vibration instead of the archaic cutting-out procedure! This experiment points to the immense power of wave genetics, which obviously has a greater influence on the formation of organisms than the biochemical processes of alkaline sequences.
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Post by snowstorm on Oct 31, 2015 8:38:23 GMT
I wonder what interesting 'devices' the Russians have got? It would be great to think that in future, people would have non invasive treatments that repaired, for example, genetic defects with waves. I suppose radionics is related to that?
Going back to the ideal treatment for transpersonal crisis, a team would be needed - psychologist, nurse, occupational therapist, social worker, psychiatrist and a priest from a tradition of your choice or maybe a shaman. That's only one more person than is on an Early Intervention team, but can you imagine it.
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Post by Admin on Oct 31, 2015 9:06:44 GMT
I wonder what interesting 'devices' the Russians have got? It would be great to think that in future, people would have non invasive treatments that repaired, for example, genetic defects with waves. I suppose radionics is related to that? There has been & is a lot of research into more fringe scientific areas - parapsychology, transpersonal psychology, consciousness research etc. i think the materialist world view is wrong. The wise have always discussed a Universal life force energy/subtle energies & there being far far more to reality than the 5 sense/physical World. Mainstream science & paradigms i think will shift to the more open acknowledgement & study of the non-physical at some stage, although i think it will be some decades yet for that to happen in a more mainstream sense. All the roles & knowledge already exists, areas already cover biological/psychological/sociological & transpersonal. i've worked with alternative healers for the past 14 years. i think what is missing is far more integral views/roles/approaches - Why can't all those roles be combined - or at least a training that takes into account a far more integral view. My opinion is that things cross biological/psychological/social/spiritual ranges - that there is No either/or - & it has to be taken in an integral sense. Currently there is a lot of polemics & politics within all this. People have a lot invested in their different roles/jobs, status & power. Generally a geneticist argues genetics, a psychologist argues psychology, a social worker sociology, a psychiatrist psychiatry, an alternative healer spirituality etc. Really it's all daft & mad - it's like the 5 blind men examining an elephant & all describing different things.
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Post by snowstorm on Oct 31, 2015 10:19:37 GMT
It's very true, people have a lot invested in their different roles - and even greater specialisation is getting more common and even lauded.
As regards the non-physical, it's like that quote from Hamlet; "There are more things in heaven and earth...than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
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Post by Admin on Oct 31, 2015 11:44:25 GMT
It's very true, people have a lot invested in their different roles - and even greater specialisation is getting more common and even lauded. Yea -it's Mad. So many people have totally lost sight of bigger, more integral & holistic pictures of life & reality. Yea, good quote. Humanity is like a baby crawling across the floor of the Universe - This society/civilisation is very Dark, backward, uncivilised, inhumane, unadvanced & barbaric - & if we make it as a species to greater Evolution - people will look back & see all 'this' as a horror story/nightmare. We're really Not long crawled out from the slime.
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Post by Admin on Oct 31, 2015 11:49:27 GMT
"The childishness of the average adult is so unsuspected you would collapse in horror if you saw it all at once. Say something flatter- ing to a man and he likes you. Say something critical and he hates you. That is all there is to him, but in his lunacy he calls him- self intelligent and self-controlled. His delusion is his madness. When his inner hell breaks out into the open you have monstrous war and crime."
Freedom from a Life of Hell, p. 4
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Post by snowstorm on Oct 31, 2015 13:27:49 GMT
That 'childishness' quote sounds like some of the psychiatrists I've met! It's easy to get rather despairing about it all, the black and white thinking. I've no doubt they'll look back and say 'how could we have treated these people in such an inhumane way.'
As an aside, Shakespeare has a lot to say about madness, would be quite possible to do a PHD on it, someone probably has. Found this piece, link may work or may have to google it.
SHAKESPEARE and MADNESS - JCA
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Post by Admin on Oct 31, 2015 13:46:39 GMT
That 'childishness' quote sounds like some of the psychiatrists I've met! It's easy to get rather despairing about it all, the black and white thinking. I've no doubt they'll look back and say 'how could we have treated these people in such an inhumane way.' Yes - it will be seen as barbaric. Yes - very interesting - jca.asn.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/2009ShakespeareandMadness.pdftheshakespeareblog.com/2012/03/shakespeares-minds-diseased-mental-illness-and-its-treatment/Shakespeare was clearly fascinated by mental illness, many characters displaying a variety of symptoms from Lear’s madness, Jaques’ melancholy, Timon’s bitter cursing, Macbeth’s visions and Lady Macbeth’s sleepwalking, to the obsessiveness of Leontes. It’s usually accepted that Shakespeare was influenced in medical matters by his son in law, the renowned doctor John Hall. Some of his patients suffer from a kind of mental illness which he calls “hypochondriac melancholy”, combined with physical symptoms such as fever. According to his Casebook, patients were offered his usual combinations of bloodletting and purgatives, as if curing the physical symptoms would also cure the mental ones.
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