Icelander said:

johnm214 said:

MarkostheGnostic said:

I wrote a 222 page dissertation on chakras 30 years ago

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That would be boring to read.

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Boring you say? How droll. Doubtful you could get through it. That's OK, most of the doctoral committee didn't get through it, but they granted me the degree anyway.

teknix said:

MarkostheGnostic said:

I wrote a 222 page dissertation on chakras 30 years ago, and believe me, I've never come upon a rare condition of frying chakras with cannabis or anything else.   In the first place, chakra phenomena is like a rainbow. A rainbow does not exist independently as a 'thing.' The subjective factor is integral to even perceiving a rainbow.  Chakras may refer to centers of nerve ganglia on the physical plane, and to foci of specific motive forces of the psychic plane (my thesis), and to centers of experience on the subtle body or astral plane, or to aspects of transcendental identity on the causal plane - at least according to classic Yoga.

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Do you know who first correlated chakras to ganglia/organs?

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K.T. Behanan did scientific work on this at Yale in the 1930s. I don't think he was the first historically to associate subtle physiology with anatomical physiology.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B000855VYC/ref=tmm_hrd_used_olp_0?ie=UTF8&condition=used&qid=1374556967&sr=8-3-fkmr1

MarkostheGnostic said:

Boring you say? How droll. Doubtful you could get through it. That's OK, most of the doctoral committee didn't get through it, but they granted me the degree anyway.

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teknix said:

johnm214 said:

MarkostheGnostic said:

I wrote a 222 page dissertation on chakras 30 years ago

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That would be cool to read.

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Maybe you could read it to Icelander. I wrote it to be re-published but I gave up after Sam Weiser and Llewlyn Books turned it down for being "to scholarly" for their audience. I did get royalties for 5 whole copies - paper and microfiche. Long-ass name. It was six words, but the committee made me lengthen it to typical dissertation style: A Phenomenological Adaptation of the Tibetan Buddhist Doctrine of Psychic Centers to a Metatheoretical Hierarchy of Human Motivation. 

MarkostheGnostic said:

teknix said:

johnm214 said:

MarkostheGnostic said:

I wrote a 222 page dissertation on chakras 30 years ago

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That would be cool to read.

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Maybe you could read it to Icelander. I wrote it to be re-published but I gave up after Sam Weiser and Llewlyn Books turned it down for being "to scholarly" for their audience. I did get royalties for 5 whole copies - paper and microfiche. Long-ass name. It was six words, but the committee made me lengthen it to typical dissertation style: A Phenomenological Adaptation of the Tibetan Buddhist Doctrine of Psychic Centers to a Metatheoretical Hierarchy of Human Motivation. 

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MarkostheGnostic said:

teknix said:

MarkostheGnostic said:

I wrote a 222 page dissertation on chakras 30 years ago, and believe me, I've never come upon a rare condition of frying chakras with cannabis or anything else.   In the first place, chakra phenomena is like a rainbow. A rainbow does not exist independently as a 'thing.' The subjective factor is integral to even perceiving a rainbow.  Chakras may refer to centers of nerve ganglia on the physical plane, and to foci of specific motive forces of the psychic plane (my thesis), and to centers of experience on the subtle body or astral plane, or to aspects of transcendental identity on the causal plane - at least according to classic Yoga.

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Do you know who first correlated chakras to ganglia/organs?

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K.T. Behanan did scientific work on this at Yale in the 1930s. I don't think he was the first historically to associate subtle physiology with anatomical physiology.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B000855VYC/ref=tmm_hrd_used_olp_0?ie=UTF8&condition=used&qid=1374556967&sr=8-3-fkmr1

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MarkostheGnostic said:

teknix said:

johnm214 said:

MarkostheGnostic said:

I wrote a 222 page dissertation on chakras 30 years ago

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That would be cool to read.

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Maybe you could read it to Icelander. I wrote it to be re-published but I gave up after Sam Weiser and Llewlyn Books turned it down for being "to scholarly" for their audience. I did get royalties for 5 whole copies - paper and microfiche. Long-ass name. It was six words, but the committee made me lengthen it to typical dissertation style: A Phenomenological Adaptation of the Tibetan Buddhist Doctrine of Psychic Centers to a Metatheoretical Hierarchy of Human Motivation. 

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