Is Humanity Experiencing a Consciousness Revolution?

Darat said:
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Oh... (mumble, mumble, mumble.)

A study about the psychopharmacology of methylxanthines in chocolate. Do these psychoactive agents help to explain mysterious chocolate preferences?

Chocolate: Food or Drug? It may be addictive...


Experiments with chocolate-fed mice suggest that flavanol-rich cocoa stimulates neurovascular activity, enhancing memory and alertness. (Okay, this research was partly funded by Mars, Inc. Well,somebody had to come up with the money for it!)

Chocolate contains many psychoactive compounds, particularly anandamide, an endogenous cannabinoid, tryptophan, phenylethylamine, and especially the methylxanthines such as caffeine and theobromine.

Can we assume that chocolate is incapable of altering consciousness? In all seriousness, I think that the answer has to be no. For most people, the effect is probably mostly a combination of placebo and comfort food, but that first study does provide intriguing hints about the possibly long-term addictive effects of methylxanthines, especially when it comes to preferences for dark chocolate over milk chocolate (which otherwise doesn't make sense in terms of people preferring more fat and sugar.)

For someone like me, who has extremely sensitive brain chemistry (per my neurologist), I really think that the effect is a lot more pronounced. (Actually, I have to be careful with chocolate, because some evidence suggests that in VERY large amounts, methylxanthines can lower the seizure threshold. This would not be good. :eye-poppi ) I do experience altered consciousness when I eat chocolate, and no other food has this effect.


The Most Nutritious Chocolate In the World. I may try this and report back...
 
dafydd said:
The concept is meaningless so the words have to be meaningless too.Big words impress new agers no end though,they can't get enough of them.I recently found a woo-influenced neighbour of mine reading a book entitled "Heal Yourself With Quantum Biology". That was full of big words too.
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Chiun: Why must everything in your country be covered in monosidi... monosudi...

Remo Williams: Monosodium glutimate. You can't even say it!

Chiun: I can say 'rat droppings'. It does not mean I want to eat them.
 
I wuz edjukayted real good --gradjuayted frum colij an evrythin' and I still don unnerstan' noffin' the OP sayd.:boggled: Guess I'm just provincial.
 
paximperium said:
Don't be silly, the transubstantion of the luminal field of meta-physical reality does not lead to the Master projecting but trans-meditating to forward the third karmic eye.
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I think you are on to something there - and if the intrinsic resonance of the kundalini pathways are in harmony with the geo-psychic pulsations of the ley-lines then how could we not be experiencing a consciousness revolution
 
Nankay said:
I wuz edjukayted real good --gradjuayted frum colij an evrythin' and I still don unnerstan' noffin' the OP sayd.:boggled: Guess I'm just provincial.
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It's "edumicated" and "gradjiated". Get it wrong, fellah! :mad:
 
Indigos, ages of Aquarian tarts and whatnots. I'm going to join the less enlightened and ask the bartender for another brewsky, and tell the hairy Hells Angels biker across the bar, once again, not to bogart the peanuts.
 
Hokulele said:
By actualizing your essence, silly man. Didn't you read the OP?
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Women sense my power and they seek the life essence. I do not avoid women, Hokulele.
But I do deny them my essence.
( General Jack D. Ripper in Dr. Strangelove)

Perhaps an annalysis of General Ripper's dialogue could clarify the OP.
 
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yomero said:
I do not avoid women, Hokulele.
( General Jack D. Ripper in Dr. Strangelove)

Perhaps an annalysis of General Ripper's dialogue could clarify the OP.
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The quote was "... I do not avoid women, Mandrake. ...". Referring to the Group Capt Lionel Mandrake character. Perhaps an analysis of your freudian slip could eludidate the issue.
P-O-E, O-P-E .. Hokulele never stop even when ...
 
stevea said:
The quote was "... I do not avoid women, Mandrake. ...". Referring to the Group Capt Lionel Mandrake character. Perhaps an analysis of your freudian slip could eludidate the issue.
P-O-E, O-P-E .. Hokulele never stop even when ...
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You are correct. I should have made it clear that I was paraphrasing.
My freudian slip isn't my only issue that needs elucidating.
 
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