Feel Good Factors

I have a big piece on this topic here and I cannot remember when.

Here it is just a summary.

Three activities promote endogenous production of these chemicals.

1. Physical exercise

2. Meditation

3. Social engagement with family, friends and helping the disease and disabled fellow beings.

Growth hormone tops the list of endorphins.

By the way, dietary components like tryptamine also boost feel good hormones.

Mind and Matter

Mind and Matter

 

I have many books published at Amazons.
I wish to be anonymous in my blog pieces. 

Only my friends know who this guy is.

My interest are many but I have spent lot of time on Mind related to Dhamma (Buddhism).

Only the speculative facts I post here but not in my books.

I have high regard for the readers of my books.

Here, I  wish to make a few comments about higher achievements of mind.

I consider mind as a form of energy.

It has an intrinsic tendency to be tagged to the brain.

The highest devas (Arala Kalama, Uddhakarama and the likes) also are bound to subtle mind form and are not delivered from bandage or emancipated.

But I believe mind can exist on its own.

Buddha who attained Nirvana and all those Arhath, after passing away, enter into subtle energy wave form that cannot be detected, for example by EEG wave.

The reason being, there is no Form or Bhava in this state of existence of mind.

So Nirvana is not Null and Void but its existence is subtle and not perceptible to human mind.

But Sovan, Sakuradagami and Anagami have subtle body forms until they reach the state of Arhath state.

The above is my attempt to explain and should not be taken as sacrosanct.

I have a simple classification of various levels of mental states.

1. Sleep is essential for living beings, a minimum of 8 to 9 hours for adults.

Children need more.

2. Normal Wakeful state.

3. Euphoria
 

That is after, consumption of alcohol at level 2 intoxication.

Alcohol has 6 levels of effects.
1 is no effect.
6 is death.

Level 2 is Euphoria.

4. Ecstasy
This state is induced by drugs
LSD is the first to be discovered.
All pain killing substances have this side effect especially morphine.

I have never tried them. They are classified as Level 1 addictive drugs.

Even Voltaren has this effect on me.
 

I took them to relieve severe renal colic.

One of my batch mates was given morphine after appendectomy and he was demanding a second dose. 

We sat with him but did not give him a second injection.

Addiction is the next stage which is irreversible.

5. Esotericism

 
Magic mushroom or Ayahuasca induces this state.

Out of the world experience, alien visitation and spiritualism are a few of its manifestations.

This delusional state is dangerous to the individual (if not to his peers who do not consume this stuff).

This is similar to Near Death Syndrome where individuals who has come back from death become unusually spiritual moral beings and god abiding.

There is a dangerous precedence that guys with underlying psychiatric problems consume them in desperation.

By the way, some psychiatrists themselves become addicted to these drugs to prevent suicidal tendencies.

Psychiatrist are known to commit suicide.

Paediatricians come second in the list and radiologist the least.

Pathologists are above radiologists by statistical analysis.

Sumerians are an example known to use mood elevating drugs. 

Sumerian history is about 8000 years old.

My bone of contention is even prehistoric man, 13,000 years ago was addicted to mushroom like substances.

I think Cardinals in the Vatican are known to use these substances.
 

The priests tell us NOT to take them but they have secret ceremonies where they indulge in ecstasy.

6. Trance States
There are 4 Trance States.
These guys are born after death in 4 realms.
They consider themselves as heavenly aboard and live a long life.

At the end they are reborn again in animal and even lower realms, having expended their credit merits.

So never think of going there.

To me simple human domain is good enough.

Please note, I have not gone beyond Euphoria (simple wine) and all the other levels are speculative but I have delved into Pali Dictionary for reference.

My current hypothesis is that almost all religions have arisen after indulgence in these Mood Altering Drugs.

The other rival theory is that having seen REAL alien visitations the visitors were elevated to Godly realm.

Hindu Vimana story is a good example of possible alien visitation.

Not one type but several types of conflicting aliens.

In Hindu Gods probably reflect various aliens who may have visited earth on their galactic expeditions.

Russian cosmologist have postulated 7 seven probable civilizations.

Unfortunately human records are sketchy.

Assuming Roswell Incident is true, the CIA attempt to keep it under classified information is  a case in point.

But my understanding of "Alien Saga" is that Americans wanted to hide the development of Stealth Aircraft from the Russians.

This experimental aircraft was projected as an alien crafts.

We are well into the World War III and Rockets and Robots are the next level of warfare and industry.

AI will soon take over the mankind and its 6th extinction.

Vatican interest in global warming speaks of their understanding of global affairs and warfare industry.