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Enlightenment by ~jonathanjames:iconjonathanjames:

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Enlightenment
2' x 3'
Ink and Matte Ground on Mylar

Enlightenment is my experience so far focusing on the Pineal gland. The pineal to my knowledge is a Semi Hemispherical shaped gland that spontaneously occurs 49 days after conception of birth. The buddhists say it takes 49 days after death to pass on to the next life, be it reincarnation, or evolution, or heaven or what ever it is you believe. The pineal gland is a light sensitive organ that has a cornea a lens and a retinal. Scientists believe it is the precursor to the eye in mammals. Rene Descartes believed the pineal gland was the seat of the human soul. The pineal gland secretes melatonin and Dimethyltryptamine. DMT is an alkaloid very akin of lsd or psyloscibin. Scientists have yet to uncover the reason for any organism to produce alkaloids. They have no evolutionary reason and they take plants up to two years of extreme hard work to even make.

Im still really in the dark at what I am getting at, but this is where I am right now.

If you have any thign to add to maybe point me in a good direction in this subject please do.

Until then.

-Jonathan

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=MademoiselleGrief Feb 2, 2008, 3:18:26 PM
I like that number 49 you put in there.
Interesting concept though. About the gland and all. What made you do this on the Pineal gland?

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~jonathanjames Feb 2, 2008, 3:21:45 PM
Its just what I have been recently obscessing myself over. It's so interesting to me all these coincidences...and I was always told a coincidence just means you are on the right path.
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=MademoiselleGrief Feb 2, 2008, 3:24:42 PM
Ahh interesting. :D

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Her Face Veiled White, Her Heart Painted Black She Digs Her Dirty Finger Into Your Heart

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=MademoiselleGrief Feb 2, 2008, 4:33:34 PM
:bulletred: You have been featured here [link] in my journal :aww:

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Her Face Veiled White, Her Heart Painted Black She Digs Her Dirty Finger Into Your Heart

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~jonathanjames Feb 2, 2008, 6:56:46 PM
thank you very much for considering me.
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~martygniech Feb 2, 2008, 8:54:13 PM
i love the style of this painting and the concept is very interesting, the only thing that i can think of is perhaps it will not help us to evolve more but maybe it is something we will use in the future, humans only use about 10 % of their brain, or at least that is what i am told so perhaps it has to do with creativity, dreams, or perhaps it is something we will learn to tap into later on

something else which might interest u is the movie the number 23 or try searching about divine numbers, there are some really wierd coincidences with that
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~jonathanjames Feb 2, 2008, 10:24:23 PM
it does deal with dreams, when we sleep the light that usually passes through our eyes no longer reaches the pineal gland and it stops producing so many mao's and the dmt doesnt get synthesized completley which produces dreams, its like a mini "trip"

i hear sleep is pretty important to humans, but i think it is bigger than that.
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~jonathanjames Feb 2, 2008, 10:25:40 PM
im in a class about the golden section this semester actually.
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~flesh-was-sweet Feb 3, 2008, 2:26:32 AM
I love this - great job!!

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~jonathanjames Feb 3, 2008, 10:43:39 AM
thank you very much.
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