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Chapter 2: The Chemistry of Alchemy 97
by virtue of the blocking of the re-uptake site. Again, we note that this prevents the
body’s own specific ligand from binding with the re-uptake sites which is very
likely also blocking a message intended to go deep into the cell. As it happens, this
produces dreadful consequences, as we will soon see.
Morphine and Heroin work in a slightly different way. They mimic endorphins
which trigger the release of the body’s own dopamine. So, instead of the sensation
occurring because the natural flow of dopamine is not reabsorbed, it occurs
because there is too much dopamine to be reabsorbed! But again, the fake
endorphin is undoubtedly not sending the proper signal deep into the cells it is
binding, and again, the excess of dopamine has significant consequences.
What are these consequences? With repeated use of cocaine, heroin or morphine
unbalancing the body’s own dopamine processes, the body reacts by reducing the
number of receptors! With fewer receptors, the effects of the drug - as well as the
body’s normal ability to bind dopamine that is naturally present - plummets.
Without the normal flow of dopamine into a normal number of receptors, the brain
experiences “withdrawal” which is interpreted quite literally as “pain”. It is the
agony of a mind that can feel no pleasure at all.
In strictly physical terms, one of the serious consequences of this process comes
from the fact that dopamine plays an important role in controlling movement,
emotion and cognition. Dopamine dysfunction has been implicated in
schizophrenia, mood disorders, attention-deficit disorder, Tourette’s syndrome,
substance dependency, tardive dyskinesia, Parkinson’s disease and so on. Of
course, the situation is a lot more complex because at least seven types of
dopamine receptors have been identified.
Now, the point of this diversion into brain chemistry as an exercise in
understanding the principle “as above, so below”, is this: “accepting” what is not
Truth is like taking a drug that binds to psychic receptors, so to say. So, this brings
us back to the beginning of this section where I said “gathering false knowledge is
worse than gathering no knowledge at all”. False knowledge, lies, are spiritual
drugs and are not the “natural chemical” of the soul’s own “light”, so to say. The
result is that it tends to create a condition of dependence by reducing the “psychic
receptors” which then reduces the capacity to “bind truth”. In short, a person may
be researching like crazy, but if he or she isn’t really, really utilizing perspicacity
— that is, challenging and taking apart what is being studied in a diligent way —
his or her acceptance based on “blind faith” amounts to getting your jollies with
drugs.
The end result is analogous to the skid row bum in spiritual terms.
What is more, we notice from studying ligands and receptors, that the body’s
own chemicals have qualities that the imitations — drugs — do not. Those
qualities, based on shape and atomic structure, can activate processes that the
synthetic ligand cannot. The body’s chemical can even turn on cascades of
processes within the cells that are blocked by the “artificial” ligand.
Truth works in the same way. The accumulation of “high probability”
information without prejudice amounts to the gathering of all the parts of a very
complex neuropeptide. When all the right pieces are finally together, it produces a
certain “shape” that “fits” the spiritual receptor like a key in a lock. At that point
— when the information block/unit is complete — it’s proximity causes the