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Holistic University Network

Locality: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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14.01.2022 The HEN (Holistic Education Network) and HUN (Holistic University Network) are Golden Ant Enterprises http://romeshsenewiratne-alagaratnam.com/golden-ant-enterp/

12.01.2022 How I Got Rid of My Fear of Wasps and Bees From the age of 6, when I was baiting wasps with jam in England, I had been terrified by wasps and bees. The reason w...as that a wasp flew up my trouser leg and stung me. I deserved it - I was trying to trap them with sticky jam. My morbid fear of wasps and bees continued through my teens and twenties and into my thirties. I could not stay in the same room as a bee or wasp. However, today a large wasp settled on my leg, didn't sting me, and did not alarm me in the least. This is because my attitude to wasps and bees has changed profoundly. I now think they are beautiful and wish them well. There is a school of psychology that advocates "flooding" as a treatment for phobias (irrational or morbid fears). I did not get rid of my wasp phobia by flooding. I did, however, progressively and consciously challenge my fear by going closer and closer to bees and resisting my urge to run out of the room. This increased this year when I started the HUB Irrigation Project (HIP) which attracted many bees and wasps (as well as dragonflies, beetles, moths and butterflies). I am now, at the age of 60 completely free of fear of wasps and bees. It's taken a while!

11.01.2022 Improvement in my vision and hearing A few months ago I systematised a collection of techniques to improve my hearing and vision. These include yoga exercises, ...looking at the sun, what I have termed 'therapeutic blinking', observing birds and insects in flight, listening to my own music through excellent Audio-Technica headphones and through Logitech speakers as well as playing my Yamaha E403 and E443 keyboards. I have noted a dramatic improvement in my eyesight, as I mentioned a couple of weeks ago. This improvement has been sustained. I have also noticed improvement in my hearing, which has always been good, unlike my vision, which deteriorated when I was habitually wearing sunglasses in my twenties. I abandoned sunglasses and started training myself to look directly at the sun back in 1995. I did it cautiously and with some trepidation due to my indoctrination at medical school that looking even briefly at the sun damages the retina, supposedly because of ultraviolet (UV) radiation. In the 1990s I discovered that it was known to underwater photographers that UV light is essential to bring out the colours of corals and fish in underwater photography. It is also known that many other animals see into the UV spectrum. It is also known that birds have better vision than humans and navigate partly by looking at the sun (also through a magnetic sense involving their pineal organs which are located at the top of their brains). In the 1990s I also learned that the pineal is connected with the visual system and secretion of the hormones serotonin and melatonin are influenced by day length and light entering the eye. I also discovered that information about the pineal and melatonin had been suppressed in Australian science textbooks, coinciding with the development and manufacture of Prozac and other SSRI (selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitor) drugs for the treatment of 'depression'. Among the suppressed information was the fact that serotonin is concentrated in the pineal and converted, during the night, into melatonin. I had known since the 1970s that birds use their pineals for their migratory behaviour and sense of direction. This was thought to be part of their magnetic sense, which also involved structures in the back of their eyes. In 1995 I hypothesised that the pineal is also magnetosensory in humans and responds to magnetic fields created by electrical impulses in the nervous system. This hypothesis was "diagnosed" as a "delusion" and "psychotic" and I was locked up and drugged, first in Melbourne and then in Brisbane. Over the years since then I have persisted in my research, while the importance of magnetic fields in neuroscience has become common knowledge. My theories were developed before Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scans and TMS (Transcutaneous Magnetic Stimulation). I also researched the pineal in some depth as well as the visual and auditory systems. During this time I developed neuroscience and psychology models intended to provide a framework for using what we see and hear to improve health. I will post more on the recent strategies I have developed, including 'therapeutic blinking' soon. I am working on diagrams to explain the technique, impeded by saliva drooling onto the paper due to these infernal Indian shrinks poisoning me.

09.01.2022 The Lateral Habenula and Depression After watching disturbing footage of mice with electrodes in their heads being drowned on CGTN I have been looking at the re...cently-promoted theory that the Lateral Habenula (LHb) is involved in depression. The CGTN segment featured a Chinese scientist who was comparing the time it took for mice to give up struggling/swimming and drown when she injected Ketamine directly into what she thought was the "lateral habenula" which she reckoned could explain the "antidepressant effect" of ketamine. Ketamine is a glutamate receptor-blocking drug that was developed by Parke Davis in 1962 and marketed as an anaesthetic drug (it causes dissociation). It was widely used by the US Military during the Vietnam War and was also the main anaesthetic drug used by the Tamil Tigers (LTTE) in what they called "field hospitals" during the long war in Sri Lanka. What surprised me when I read the Chinese and American papers about the Lateral Habenula was their failure to mention that the nucleus is closely connected to the pineal body and evolved in close association with it. In fact, the habenula used to be called the "pineal stalk" (the pineal and habenula together are called the epiphysis). The theory that "burst firing" of neurones in the habenula cause "depression" seems to have come from neuroscientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) at Bethesda, Maryland, including the US Armed Services Hospital. They are claiming that Ketamine prevents this "burst firing" of the Lateral Habenula, explaining the drug's "antidepressant effect". The habenula, or pineal stalk, is an phylogenically conserved organ that is divided into asymmetrical left and right nuclei. The structure has extensive afferent and efferent connections. Notably, the medial habenula receives nerve fibres from the Limbic System and the lateral habenula from the Basal Ganglia. It also has reciprocal connections with these structures. The limbic system is involved in emotional reactions and the basal ganglia with movement, both stimulated by the catecholamine neurotransmitter dopamine (DA). Dopamine receptors are blocked by so-called "antipsychotic drugs" which is why they cause suppression of both emotional reactions (resulting in 'flattening of affect' and anhedonia) and movement. Long term damage to the basal ganglia from these drugs causes tardive dyskinesia (TD), a horribly crippling and stigmatising iatrogenic condition of involuntary spasms, writhing movements of the limbs and facial grimacing. The condition is often permanent and is untreatable. The cruel experiments I saw on CGTN involved two mice with needles sticking out of their brains being dropped into beakers of water to see how long it took them to drown. One had been "treated" with an injection of ketamine directly into the habenula. This mouse kept swimming while the other mouse drowned within seconds. This was interpreted as "giving up" and a sign of "depression". They call this a "mouse model of depression". These people are quite mad! If they want to stop people from being depressed they need to start by giving people land and a home, an income, education and opportunities. Their model of depression is laughably reductionist and ignorant of the fact that the habenula is closely connected with the pineal, where serotonin is concentrated and converted to melatonin. There is more to the story. I'm working on it...

06.01.2022 There has been a noticeable increase in butterfly numbers and diversity in Moorooka this summer. This is a Small Green-banded Blue (Psychonotis caelius). It is one of the numerous species of Australian lycaenid whose larvae are attended by ants.

04.01.2022 More reasons to ban dopamine-blocking drugs

02.01.2022 Some facts about AstraZeneca

02.01.2022 A scientific first!

02.01.2022 Gondwana Dreaming by Dr. Romesh Arya Chakravarti