"I am learning more about everything, including how to learn more."
Timothy Leary's 8-Circuit brain model
1st circuit: Survival/security
Things are okay or they're not, or somewhere in between. This is connected to the first source of these things: nursing at Mom's nipple. People who take an imprint that things aren't safe all the time may compensate by eating, especially sweet things, pudding, 'nursery food' that makes them feel better for a while. This imprint is taken very early, in nursing. It's what's known in developmental psychology as 'oral'.
2nd circuit: Territorial/Emotional
This is a very particular definition of 'emotional' - are you feeling up or down? Are you on top of the world or down in the dumps? This is related to basic primate pecking order stuff- who's the big tough dog and who's the little submissive dog? Later, when you get your own turf where you can be a little king, you can defend it against others by throwing shit at each other (in the form of words, lawsuits, horn honking, or however you prefer to 'dump on' people).
This corresponds to the 'anal' stage, and the first imprints are taken during toilet training - this develops greatly when the kid starts playing with other kids and finding out where they stand - big kids are always telling little kids what to do.
3rd circuit: Conceptual
This kicks in even before school- kids are hungry to learn. This circuit is the ability to make mental models of things, which help you 'figure things out' and 'be clever'. The imprint you take is whether you feel smart or stupid (which is different from BEING smart or stupid!) Sometimes people who have a bad time in other circuits compensate in 3rd circuit - actually, that can happen with any of them. Note also that there are different KINDS of intelligence- verbal, mathematical, visual/spatial, musical, etc, etc... but as Robert Anton Wilson says, "...the people with the verbal intelligence have control of thelanguage, so they call themselves THE intellectuals." My father, who is a clinical psychologist, always mentions a particular basketball player (I forget who) whom he claims is a genius in spatial/motor intelligence, regardless of the fact that the guy probably reads on a 7th grade level.
4th circuit: Social/Sexual
Whereas 2nd circuit deals with who bosses who, 4th deals with who is cool. What this comes down to is that depending on whether someone is cool or not, you'd let them get close to you or not, running a spectrum from not talking to someone at all (the snub) to having sex with them, with many subtle shades in between. It goes both ways- how cool are you? Are there people that you aren't cool enough to talk to? "Oh, I could never ask HER/HIM out..." The imprint you take here is how cool you feel, and how hard you have to work to feel that way.
Everyone has these circuits, but some people get stuck on one or another of them, usually because they've got some problem to work out in that area. Often one circuit gets to be a surrogate for another (especially if the other is underdeveloped) - the classic example is the pathetic (i.e. poor 2nd circuit imprint) nerd who tries to out-talk his buddies to show how smart he is (3rd circuit), in order to be an authority to them (2nd circuit dominance).
One of the ideas that came up in LSD research was the idea that you reach a state of flux in which new imprints can be taken. This is very much in agreement with ideas about set and setting, but as most people who have taken LSD agree, while everything seems to change after the experience, after a while you slip back into the old patterns (witness all the flower children who, unlike the few with real dedication, slipped back to become businessmen of the 80's).
Whether this slipback is really inherent in the function of the LSD trip is not certain, though - it may be caused by going back into one's regular environment, which has been shaped by everything one was before. Under the pressure of conformity to the old status quo, one slips back.
Leary felt that the goal was to work out the circuits so that one had imprints that led to a happy, healthy life, but without having to always have things one way - people who have to always be on top never learn about service, those who always have to feel secure never learn to take risks, etc. Ultimately, the circuits would be there to plug into and out of at Will, while one navigated through the upper circuits:
The upper circuits deal with mystical, psychic, or paranormal consciousness. They are built on the foundation of the lower circuits, almost as 'overdriven' versions of them. Interestingly, they correspond well with ideas from many spritual traditions.
5th circuit: Bliss/Healing, Neurosomatic Feedback
When 1st circuit security gets great enough, it becomes bliss, as one becomes aware of one's sensation of pleasure and learns to generate those sensations at the source. This is the SF brainbox that directly stimulates one's pleasure centers, only the box is also your brain! This feedback loop gets going, and one may remain in the state until kicked out for some reason (the world makes demands, or the chemical that boosted you into the state wears off). Ever seen a picture of a meditating yogi in bliss? In this state, you realize you can make yourself feel bliss just as easily as you can move your muscles or keep still. When this awareness is applied to others, the 5th circuit energy works to help their 1st circuit state - this is the principle of healing.
6th circuit: Psychic
This is awareness of the great information network in which we swim.
7th circuit: Mythical Intelligence
This is the realm of the shaman, of spirit animals, Gods and Goddesses. It is the Dreamtime. 3rd circuit draws models of specifics in the conscious world. 7th circuits draws models of the patterns of archetype that make up the unconscious world. It does this by telling stories that illustrate the patterns that arise from these archetypes. When 7th circuit awareness is working, one realizes how these patterns are being played out, and instead of just acting in the world, one is at the same time coming into direct contact with the archetypal.
8th circuit: Out-of-Body Experiences, Factor X, and ????
This is the far reaches, and not much is really understood about it. Since 4th circuit has to do with letting others get close and even (especially in the case of sexuality) merging with them, it makes sense that 8th might have to do with overcoming the obtacle of one's physical boundaries.
~http://fusionanomaly.net/8.html
1st circuit: Survival/security
Things are okay or they're not, or somewhere in between. This is connected to the first source of these things: nursing at Mom's nipple. People who take an imprint that things aren't safe all the time may compensate by eating, especially sweet things, pudding, 'nursery food' that makes them feel better for a while. This imprint is taken very early, in nursing. It's what's known in developmental psychology as 'oral'.
2nd circuit: Territorial/Emotional
This is a very particular definition of 'emotional' - are you feeling up or down? Are you on top of the world or down in the dumps? This is related to basic primate pecking order stuff- who's the big tough dog and who's the little submissive dog? Later, when you get your own turf where you can be a little king, you can defend it against others by throwing shit at each other (in the form of words, lawsuits, horn honking, or however you prefer to 'dump on' people).
This corresponds to the 'anal' stage, and the first imprints are taken during toilet training - this develops greatly when the kid starts playing with other kids and finding out where they stand - big kids are always telling little kids what to do.
3rd circuit: Conceptual
This kicks in even before school- kids are hungry to learn. This circuit is the ability to make mental models of things, which help you 'figure things out' and 'be clever'. The imprint you take is whether you feel smart or stupid (which is different from BEING smart or stupid!) Sometimes people who have a bad time in other circuits compensate in 3rd circuit - actually, that can happen with any of them. Note also that there are different KINDS of intelligence- verbal, mathematical, visual/spatial, musical, etc, etc... but as Robert Anton Wilson says, "...the people with the verbal intelligence have control of thelanguage, so they call themselves THE intellectuals." My father, who is a clinical psychologist, always mentions a particular basketball player (I forget who) whom he claims is a genius in spatial/motor intelligence, regardless of the fact that the guy probably reads on a 7th grade level.
4th circuit: Social/Sexual
Whereas 2nd circuit deals with who bosses who, 4th deals with who is cool. What this comes down to is that depending on whether someone is cool or not, you'd let them get close to you or not, running a spectrum from not talking to someone at all (the snub) to having sex with them, with many subtle shades in between. It goes both ways- how cool are you? Are there people that you aren't cool enough to talk to? "Oh, I could never ask HER/HIM out..." The imprint you take here is how cool you feel, and how hard you have to work to feel that way.
Everyone has these circuits, but some people get stuck on one or another of them, usually because they've got some problem to work out in that area. Often one circuit gets to be a surrogate for another (especially if the other is underdeveloped) - the classic example is the pathetic (i.e. poor 2nd circuit imprint) nerd who tries to out-talk his buddies to show how smart he is (3rd circuit), in order to be an authority to them (2nd circuit dominance).
One of the ideas that came up in LSD research was the idea that you reach a state of flux in which new imprints can be taken. This is very much in agreement with ideas about set and setting, but as most people who have taken LSD agree, while everything seems to change after the experience, after a while you slip back into the old patterns (witness all the flower children who, unlike the few with real dedication, slipped back to become businessmen of the 80's).
Whether this slipback is really inherent in the function of the LSD trip is not certain, though - it may be caused by going back into one's regular environment, which has been shaped by everything one was before. Under the pressure of conformity to the old status quo, one slips back.
Leary felt that the goal was to work out the circuits so that one had imprints that led to a happy, healthy life, but without having to always have things one way - people who have to always be on top never learn about service, those who always have to feel secure never learn to take risks, etc. Ultimately, the circuits would be there to plug into and out of at Will, while one navigated through the upper circuits:
The upper circuits deal with mystical, psychic, or paranormal consciousness. They are built on the foundation of the lower circuits, almost as 'overdriven' versions of them. Interestingly, they correspond well with ideas from many spritual traditions.
5th circuit: Bliss/Healing, Neurosomatic Feedback
When 1st circuit security gets great enough, it becomes bliss, as one becomes aware of one's sensation of pleasure and learns to generate those sensations at the source. This is the SF brainbox that directly stimulates one's pleasure centers, only the box is also your brain! This feedback loop gets going, and one may remain in the state until kicked out for some reason (the world makes demands, or the chemical that boosted you into the state wears off). Ever seen a picture of a meditating yogi in bliss? In this state, you realize you can make yourself feel bliss just as easily as you can move your muscles or keep still. When this awareness is applied to others, the 5th circuit energy works to help their 1st circuit state - this is the principle of healing.
6th circuit: Psychic
This is awareness of the great information network in which we swim.
7th circuit: Mythical Intelligence
This is the realm of the shaman, of spirit animals, Gods and Goddesses. It is the Dreamtime. 3rd circuit draws models of specifics in the conscious world. 7th circuits draws models of the patterns of archetype that make up the unconscious world. It does this by telling stories that illustrate the patterns that arise from these archetypes. When 7th circuit awareness is working, one realizes how these patterns are being played out, and instead of just acting in the world, one is at the same time coming into direct contact with the archetypal.
8th circuit: Out-of-Body Experiences, Factor X, and ????
This is the far reaches, and not much is really understood about it. Since 4th circuit has to do with letting others get close and even (especially in the case of sexuality) merging with them, it makes sense that 8th might have to do with overcoming the obtacle of one's physical boundaries.
~http://fusionanomaly.net/8.html
Memory-related brain network shrinks with aging: http://medx.cc/298881638
Brain regions associated with memory shrink as adults age, and this size decrease is more pronounced in those who go on to develop neurodegenerative disease, reports a new study published Sept. 18 in the Journal of Neuroscience (Vol. 33:38). The volume reduction is linked with an overall decline in cognitive ability and with increased genetic risk for Alzheimer's disease, the authors say. http://uanews.org/story/ua-study-your-brain-sees-things-you-don-t
A new study by UA doctoral student Jay Sanguinetti indicates that our brains perceive objects in everyday life of which we may never be aware. The finding challenges currently accepted models about how the brain processes visual information. (probably because the current models r shit) " 'Does the brain process those hidden shapes to the level of meaning, even when the subject doesn't consciously see them?" The answer, Sanguinetti's data indicates, is yes. " I was told via that down the rabbit hole what the bleep do we know documentary that the brain processes upward of 4 billion bits per second but we r only really aware of about 2000 of those. Institutional spazim and priori assumptions:
err priori assumption much? these people dont know what they're talking about O.o and these r leaders? medical setters? WTF. oh ffs its clear to see who really is mentally ill. That is to say self re-tarding, that is to say shithouse brain plasticity. http://theunboundedspirit.com/nonconformity-and-freethinking-now-considered-mental-illnesses/ "The rise in ADD, bipolar disorder, and depression in children has been largely because of the manual’s identifying certain behaviors as symptoms." ohyep identifying certain behaviours as symptoms, priori assumption much ? "New mental illnesses identified by the DSM-IV include arrogance, narcissism, above-average creativity, cynicism, and antisocial behavior. In the past, these were called “personality traits,” but now they’re diseases. And there are treatments available. All of this is a symptom of our over-diagnosing and overmedicating culture. In the last 50 years, the DSM-IV has gone from 130 to 357 mental illnesses." oh lord..why bother even analyzing the rest of this SHIT. Not even worth it, its just shit. Natalie Whitfield Ha, they're getting desperate now eh ? now that more people are waking up Ben Couwenberg not desperate all of a sudden, but yeh kinda, the ramping up of their agendas, its just another angle of that NWO kind of darkness (ways to cripple the populas), or the height of the old thinking, so many priori assumptions made into conclusions bleh heres something :D > http://www.swiha.edu/articles/194-psychology-indigo-exceptional-adhd-or-something-else.html Attention Dialed to Higher Dimensions -ADHD. http://www.spring.org.uk/2013/11/like-to-stay-up-late-different-neural-structures-found-in-the-brains-of-night-owls.php
In the new research on 59 participants, those who were confirmed night owls (preferring late to bed and late to rise) had lower integrity of the white matter in various areas of the brain (Rosenberg et al., 2014). http://mail.sciencealert.com.au/features/20132411-25037.html
Addiction and the brain: how the immune system takes over "Now, of course dopamine is still the key reward neurotransmitter of the brain. But the immune system that surrounds the dopamine systems of the brain also seem to be very sensitive to drugs of abuse. So much so, that in preclinical studies it is possible to make rats like alcohol, opioids and methamphetamine a lot more, just by turning on the immune cells in specific brain regions." This has significant drug addiction treatment implications. It means that treating drug addicts from a “brain” perspective might only solve part of the problem. The “other brain”, the brain immune cells, might need a little love and attention as well. (the other brain- glia cells immune cells ; "what about all the cool videos flying through the brain with all the wiring sparking and sending messages everywhere? There weren’t any immune cells there. Well, despite the common perception, no one has that much air in their heads! That space is filled with immune cells, called glia. They actually outnumber the neuronal wiring ten to one. These immune cells are critical to the health and well-being of our brains. They also help translate the immune messages for our brain to tell us that we are sick.") "But think about it; if your brain immunology is telling your brain you need your next fix, you have an uphill battle on your hands: ten immune cells to every neuron. " (ED_Very interesting.. also a tip from me on how to think, so here i began thinking about universiality, so what may be a glia cell correlate in the cosmos for instance, and int he context of evolution, (noticing the last sentence brought these thoughts) ) |
ADHD:
more on.. A long psychiatry that he see the plume . There are so many diseases and disorders described in their manuals that today it is rare to have nothing . After making off alarms to include in the final tantrums Pediatrics Manual DSM ( the bible of psychiatrists ) and after seeing how the U.S. government stated in a report that 1 in 5 children has a mental health disorder , figures seem an insult to the common sense of the people , it is impossible that so many children are mentally ill , are a statement of Leon Eisenberg , the psychiatrist who "discovered " ADHD, do not leave anyone indifferent living or working with children . The German weekly Der Spiegel , in an article in which put in relief the rise of mental illness in the German population , said Eisenberg said , seven months before his death, when he was already 87, that " ADHD is an example of factitious illness " . The beginnings of ADHD The first attempts to try to explain that children with ADHD had happened in 1935. At that time , doctors had tried for the first time in primary school children with a restless and difficulty concentrating on what they are called, under the diagnosis of post -encephalitic syndrome . It was an attempt that did not work because of course , most of these children have never had encephalitis. In the sixties appeared the protagonist of our story , Leon Eisenberg , who returned to talk about the disease , but this time with a different name, " hyperkinetic reaction of childhood" . Under this diagnosis could treat difficult students , trying different psychotropic drugs with them . It started with dextroamphetamine and then used methylphenidate drug that achieved its goal and that prevails today as a treatment of choice : spirited children turned into docile children . In the year 1968 included the " hyperkinetic reaction of childhood" in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual ( DSM ) and is now part of the manual , only now receives the familiar name Attention Deficit Disorder and Hyperactivity Disorder ( ADHD ) . nino- jugando1.jpg Achieving Eisenberg and his colleagues was to get people to believe that ADHD has genetic causes , a disease with which you are born . He himself said , along with the words they said it was a disease invented the idea that a child has ADHD (meaning the idea that a child is very busy and be a disruptive student ) from birth was overrated . However, to get this to sink in population and parents , the guilt disappears , parents are relieved because an infant is born that way and treatment is less questionable. In 1993 were sold in German pharmacies 34 kg of methylphenidate . In 2011 it sold 1,760 kg . The well-known psychiatrist , who came to take over the management of psychiatric services at the prestigious Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston , where he was recognized as one of the most famous practitioners of neurology and psychiatry in the world, decided to confess the truth months before his death suffering from prostate cancer , adding that it should make a child psychiatrist is trying to determine the psychosocial reasons that can cause behavioral problems. See if there are problems with parents, if family discussions , if the parents are together or apart , if there are problems with the school, if the child has trouble adapting why it costs , etc. . To all this he added that , of course , this takes time , work and accompanied by a sigh concluded : " prescribe a pill for ADHD is much faster " (to which I would add " and more advantageous for business psychiatry " ) . The business of psychiatry As I said at the beginning of the entry seems that psychiatry is a monster able to get past anything with a ravenous hunger , that will not stop and will do everything possible to try to get it all finished taking a healthy person or other medication to treat their (non ) disease. They see the plume , and further proof of this is that there is already the next disease to be spread across the childhood bipolar disorder or manic-depressive illness . Until the nineties was a condition unknown in children. Now it is one of the most common diagnoses in child psychiatry , to the point that visits by this disorder have increased 40 in less than ten years, with many of the " sick" children two to three years. One of those responsible for the arrival of U.S. bipolar disorder is the psychiatrist Joseph Biederman , who has been doing studies and conferences on the subject and received $ 1.6 million between 2000 and 2007 , from the pharmaceutical manufactured medication for the disorder , apparently to devote to further investigate the disease. But that's not all . To know the real extent of the business of psychiatry , to see to what extent they invent diseases and then to give existing drugs , a study by the American psychologist Lisa Cosgrove revealed that of the 170 members of the working group DSM ( diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ) , ie those who do manual global reference psychiatry , 95 (56% ) had one or more financial relationships with companies in the pharmaceutical industry . Does ADHD? nino- hiperactivo.jpg I do not know if it exists or not (and I invented that says no ) , nor my turn to answer this question , however I am sure that many children diagnosed whose only sin was being too moved, or be too pushy when their parents demand a little more attention. For over two years I offered two tickets in explaining how ADHD is diagnosed , for you to see that there is no diagnostic test for any determined that a child has the disorder mentioned . Everything is done on the basis of observation and based on compliance or not criteria or parameters that normal children should do. But what is normal ? Krishnamurti said " not a sign of good health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society " , so who knows, maybe the kids who rebel against the attempt to tame them , those who can not stand to sit hearing things that are not interested , those who would prefer to decide what to do in their lives at all times , those who want to try everything and not get anything , they may be the end of the most sane. I'm not saying that none of these children have nothing . I'm not saying they need help , because it is very likely that many of them have many problems, but I have never believed in the existence of a condition that affects 10% of children and much less I believed in the miracle cure of methylphenidate , because although children change their behavior, the problems that caused the child worked in a non accepted remain. Via | World Public Union Photos | Leon Eisenberg at Harvard, StormyDog , Architopher on Flickr http://www.bebesymas.com/salud-infantil/el-psiquiatra-que-descubrio-el-tdah-confeso-antes-de-morir-que-es-una-enfermedad-ficticia I like the word facticious, i get it.. an not the best article, not in depth no concluding just throwing more at u about it.. Have you ever walked into a room and forgotten what you came in for? While you may blame a faulty memory, research from Notre Dame suggests it may be the simple act of passing through a doorway that’s to blame. Your brain compartmentalizes information so efficiently that going through a physical doorway can signal your brain that you’ve moved on to another task. While this phenomenon can be frustrating, it’s the sign of a focused mind -- not a forgetful one! Share this post with friends and let us know if you’re relieved to learn about this research in the comments.
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