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Chapter 2: The Chemistry of Alchemy 89
a sexually “fluctuating” or suppressed/frustrated woman, including those who are
in one or another stage of menopause.
The next curious thing was the many notations of the onset of psi phenomena
after a severe trauma to the head or a strong electrical shock.
Then, there are both yogis and saints and practitioners of various “nature”
religions who, after certain ecstatic practices which have been shown to have an
effect on both the electric current in the body as well as the chemicals, including
hormones and neurotransmitters, can levitate, heal, bi-locate, manifest apparitions
for others to see, increase body heat, decrease heart-rate, slow or stop autonomic
functions and so on.
One thing is clear to me after all of these years of study: psi phenomena,
whether it is healing, manifestation of matter, bi-location or whatever, has almost
NO relation whatsoever to one’s state of spirituality. I encountered a family line
that could “stop the flow of blood” with the touch of a hand, yet nearly every
member was alcoholic, promiscuous, abusive to partners and children, and
generally what one would consider to be ethically deficient. Yet, certain members
of this line had this interesting “power” and were often called upon by neighbors
and friends to save lives - even if they had to be hauled out of a bar dead drunk!
So, we have a curious series of factors to contend with that all seem to point in
the direction of DNA being far more interesting and mysterious than we might
have supposed. On the one hand we have such naturally transmitted “powers”, and
on the other hand we have folks who can engage in some activity that either
temporarily or permanently changes something in their physiology - and the
apparent result is psi phenomena.
All of this, of course, indicates that our DNA is possibly the “interface” between
the ethereal world and the physical, thus suggesting that discovering natural
methods for the production of certain chemicals or energies in the body is the key
to perception. So, what are we to think? It all points to the fact that we have this
huge amount of DNA that nobody knows much about which can respond to these
activities - in other words, we have potentials hiding inside us, and it is the process
of the Quest that “unlocks” them by virtue of which approach we take - “faith”, or
what Fulcanelli calls “thinking with a hammer”. It is the process of separating the
cream from the milk, the process of “liberating light from the darkness”. And this
is where it gets very tricky.
The Analogy with Brain Physiology
The best way to explain this problem is to understand the process of ligands
binding to receptors. The human brain is probably the most complex structure in
the universe; in a sense, it might be thought of as a universe in itself. At birth, the
infant brain contains about 100 billion nerve cells, or neurons. This number is
comparable to the number of stars in the Milky Way galaxy, just to give you an
idea of what we are dealing with here.
But it is not the number we want to think about just now, but what these neurons
actually are doing in this microcosm of our head.
Unlike your average body cell, such as a cell in your stomach or pancreas or the
fat in your “love handles”, the neurons constantly carry on complex conversations