Neo-cortex or Phyto-cortex

Is our neo-cortex the product of our symbiotic relationship with the reproductive organs of the angiosperms?

Filmed at the Tyringham Hall Symposium on Entheogenic Plant Sentience September 2015

Treatments for the Human Condition

What's behind the Arcadian, shamanic and mystical traditions? Could they have been developed as treatments for the human condition? Fascinating interview with Tony Wright.

Taming the Left Brain with Tony Wright

The symbiotic relationship with fruit trees, the unique chemistry of fruit and more, this knowledge goes deep. "This stuff is full of all sorts of weird chemicals"
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Could we be looking the long way down the telescope?

Tony Wright has a long chat with Adam Lowery author of 'The Cognitive Rampage' Tony says audio is poor in places due to his 10 yr old laptop not having the processing power.

The biochemistry of Juvenility

Tony Wright on our relationship with the flowering plants,
impact on size of window of brain development which slows down at age of puberty, impact on longevity and more.

Neuroactive Nutrition at AV7 Conference

Holly at AV7

Practical application of the research encapsulated in Return to the Brain of Eden by Tony Wright http://www.edenicstates.com/product/return-to-the-brain-of-eden-tony-wright/
• Food, supplements and herbs that regenerate our neural systems, supply good fuel and modulate our existing biochemistry to give us the best experience of life possible....enhance our cognitive abilities, perception, capacity to feel and to feel good. ongoingly,sustainably, functional and productive in the world as well as ecstatically connected.
• The optimal biological diet of our species.

sex hormones amok ~ the biological origins of the fall from grace

Up to 200,000 years testosterone and other sex hormones unmodulated by the micronutrients and biochemicals in the optimal human biological diet. What effects might we expect to see? ...
Return to the Brain of Eden by Tony Wright.

http://www.edenicstates.com/product/return-to-the-brain-of-eden-tony-wright/

divine poetry in molecular motion

 

from Tony Wright http://beyond-belief.org.uk/node/25
 “watch this excerpt from a recent animation that provides just a hint of the unimaginable dynamic complexity that you are Do not buy into your perceptually limited mind telling you ‘this is just what happens in my cells’. Although near the cutting edge of biological animation and still a relatively crude representation of the molecular biology that you are in action, right now, it does begin to reveal what extraordinarily complex beings we are, divine poetry in molecular motion.”

non seasonal tropics

This topic caught my attention recently, as though living in the tropics (southern Mexico) at this time I am very aware of the change of seasons, and autumn is visable as the corn dies back and some of the leaves turn brown.  It has reminded me of Tony Wright's description of crucial human development in aseasonal forest where the highly active tropical fruits that nourish our brains in inextraordinary ways are available all year round.  He talks about this in his book The Brain of Eden.

Actually looking at the map he referred me to I realised that recently I went in the region of aseasonal forest in the Lacandon Jungle.

Aseasonal forest is marked here in dark blue.

from Tony Wright:

"Not a lot written about it [aseasonal tropical forest] and no exact boundaries as several factors involved. Also varies in time with changing climate, part of the Congo currently have little variation in rainfall etc.

Pulled this from an article (below), re perpetual fruiting you are mostly looking at equatorial (little variation in day-length) and significant rainfall fairly evenly distributed through year. Tend to be niches within more extensive rain forest.

'There are two major types of wet tropical forests: equatorial evergreen rainforests and moist forests, which includes monsoon forests and montane/cloud forests. Equatorial rainforests, often considered the "real rainforest," are characterized by more than 80 inches (2,000 mm) of rain annually spread evenly throughout the year. These forests have the highest biological diversity and have a well-developed canopy "tier" form of vegetation. Roughly two-thirds of the world's tropical wet forests can be considered the equatorial type. These forests are near the equator where there is very little seasonal variation and the solar day is a constant length all year round. The greatest expanses of equatorial rainforest are found in lowland Amazonia, the Congo Basin, the Southeast Asian islands of Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea."

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neocortex or phytocortex

Tony Wright speaks with the legends...Rupert Sheldrake, Dennis  McKenna, Graham Hancock, Jeremy Narby, Rick Strassman at Entheogenic Plant Sentience Symposium.

"Neo-Cortex or Phyto-Cortex?
Tony Wright presents an illustrated exploration of evidence that supports the following proposal: The human neo-cortex is an emergent structure formed through our ancestral symbiotic association with the female reproductive organs of Angiosperms"

Angiosprems are flowering plants.

brain of eden and plant human symbiosis

In this interview Tony Wright  talks about how the hormone rich sex organs of plants and our symbiotic fruit based diet sustained the brain of Eden. On turning our backs on our natural biological living situation we experienced progressive neural degeneration with loss of perceptual and other abilities.  The mechanisms involved included progressive retardation of the left hemisphere of the brain.  Shamanic practices including natural biological diet and entheogens are part of a strategy to restore our connection with the plant world and regain the bliss of the brain of Eden.

Click here to read the fascinating paper, Consciousness and the Direction of Structure.

and this one about The Symbiotic Love Children of the Forest

tony wright on the human condition

Tony Wright talks to Joanne Harcourt-Smith about his research into the human condition including his symbiotic theory of human origins and also our species wide insanity.  The story begins with his own experiences after he switched to a raw food 'primate like' diet including a lot of tropical fruit.  He noticed that his perceptions including visual, began to change.  At one point he awoke in the night with a a very different although familiar sense of self also experiencing pins and needles in his right side, indicating that the left hemisphere was not fully operational.  After substantial research and shamanic exploration he concluded that  something has happened to the left hemisphere of the cerebral cortex which limits its function, whilst also causing it to be dominant (cerebral dominance) so that right hemisphere function is effectively restrained too.

He believes that humans have the innate capacity by their nature to live in a perpetual state of wonder and awe, in divine rapture.  The very fact that we, as humans, have devised techniques to access this state indicates this.  We have largely lost this on a day to day level, and living in fear, the most fearful (not the most illuminated) dominate.

Tony uses the analogy of lenses to describe the way the hemispheres of the brain facilitate conscious awareness.  At one time they worked together rather like lenses in binoculars but this is not longer the case and we live in a split sense of self.

Tony sees the steps we need to take as follows:

1. rebuild and restore the neural system

2. inhibit the sense of self from the lens that is not working so well i.e. left hemisphere through methods such as reducing speech and sleep deprivation

3.stimulate the right hemisphere with complex tasks such as music, singing and things that are too complicated for the left to deal with.

4, Compensate for loss of neurochemistry with neurochemical analogies including the plant medicine tradition.

We need a holistic approach. Our DNA is read optimally in the presence of tropical forest biochemistry.  We were plant-human hybrids.  We are now in a position to fly tropical forest foods around the globe.

Religion as we know it emerged as we shifted from the experiential to the conceptual and we began to run ourselves and our lives with belief systems.

We have a window of time to sort out our dilemma before the right hemisphere too degenerates.

Of all Tony's many recorded interviews this is the one I would currently recommend to anyone fairly new to his work as it covers the initial ground so clearly step by step.

what plants can teach you

Recognize how the beauty, intricacy and sentience of plants can be a guide to your own awakening and transformation.

A decade ago, the notion that plants respond to their environment in ways that look like conscious behavior, or at least reflect “intelligence,” would be dismissed as fringe. But today this approach is supported by solid science, and that changed perception is transforming how we understand and relate to all of Nature.

Legendary ethnopharmacologist Dennis McKenna has dedicated his life to exploring the intelligence of plants. He recognizes that the healing potential of plants is far greater than our materialist society acknowledges. In this unique live, interactive video course, Dennis will share with you the many ways we can learn from plants, and the wide range of wisdom they make available to us.

He has invited some of the leading experts in the emerging field of plant intelligence to help you understand, integrate and learn to use the most recent research from this exciting field. They include:


Chris Kilham - Author and educator, Chris is the FOX News Medicine Hunter, is on the Medical Advisory Board of the Dr. Oz Show, and is Explorer in Residence for Naturex, conducting medicinal plant research for the largest botanical extraction company in the world.

Stephen Harrod Buhner - Senior researcher for the Foundation for Gaian Studies, he is the award-winning author of 19 books, including, most recently, Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm.

Tony Wright -  Co-author of the underground sensation, Left in the Dark, now being released in a revised edition as Return to the Brain of Eden: Restoring the Connection between Neurochemistry and Consciousness.

Dayna Baumeister - Co-founder and Keystone of Biomimicry 3.8 and The Biomimicry Institute.

Simon G. Powell - Author of The Psilocybin Solution and Darwin’s Unfinished Business: The Self-Organizing Intelligence of Nature.


http://evolverlearninglab.com/collections/courses/products/what-plants-can-teach-you-consciousness-and-intelligence-in-nature

regaining our supernatural brain power

A chance to listen to Tony Wright, author of Return to the Brain of Eden:  Restoring the Connection between Neurochemistry and Consciousness.(formerly published as Left in the Dark).
 'Was our brain meant to evolve in a different way? More powerful?  Connected to the cosmos? Have we been led astray by religion, main stream media and the powers that be?  What will it take for us to return to our state of autonomy and enlightenment? Tony is a consciousness researcher who studied horticulture and plant biochemistry at the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh.  He lives in Cornwall, England.'

Regaining Our Supernatural Brain Power 06/11 by Supernatural Girlz Radio | Spirituality Podcasts

cerebral dominance and symbiosis

Tony Wright gives a brief introduction to his symbiotic theory of human evolution presented in 'Left in the Dark'.  He describes how the limitations of cerebral dominance (left hemisphere in charge) affect our capacity to see the problem.  He then describes our symbiotic relationship with plants and how this is a key factor in our cognitive capacity.

"A lot of our complex traits have been shaped and sculpted by the chemistry of the plants, it's not logged in our DNA, it's not something we can do so you end up with a situation where our consciousness system, our neural system and much of our physiology becomes entirely dependent on the plants particularly fruit."

Separated from our natural environment, the non-seasonal tropics, our unique traits which are to do with this unique symbiosis, including cognitive function, dwindle.

Fruit compounds such as flavonoids have a triple effect on the way our DNA is transcribed or read. They affect transcription directly, they also affect the steroids which are the major players in terms of transcription and they affect the hormonal output of the pineal principally pinoline and melatonin which also affect DNA transcription.  We are not talking about subtle changes here, with changes to the neural system, we are talking about the potential to effectively experience a different sense of self.

Forging a relationship with the hormone rich sex organs of plants, as if in the uterus of the plants, led to less differentiation and longer windows of development, less differentiation meant more fluid neocortex and less difference between the brains of men and women. Take that away by losing our relationship with the fruit forest and we revert to a simpler mammalian type  - good at survival but it's the symbiosis with the humans and the fruit chemistry that produces the amazing neural system with all its traits.

speech is a dumbed down form of singing

"speech is a dumbed down form of singing...we are all in a perpetual state of delusion...left hemisphere is in a perpetual state of delusion..right hemisphere can connect with reality which corroborates with objective data...left hemisphere is dominant...we are so deluded that we think we are advancing...most of us most of our waking hours are filled with chattering craziness that we wouldn't want to share with anyone else..."

the quest for the holy grail

Galahad receiving the Grail from the Grail maidens

So what would it take to see beyond the fallacy of current (rapidly becoming bygone) so-called norms and firmly commit to a path of sanity and happiness?
Tony Wright who has examined in depth our biological predicament ('the biological origins of the fall from from grace') observes our tendency to see the madness in others and wonders when we will see it in ourselves and realise it is ubiquitous and that there is actually something wrong with our brains.  We can then set out on a path of restoration of brain and body through a biologically appropriate diet, through use of plant medicines re-establish healthy endocrine system and brain chemistry, shift out of cerebral dominance of  the left hemisphere of the brain and function to a point where we can move into our full potential and live in 'a  perpetual state of wonder and awe'.  This he sees as the Holy Grail.
John  Lash. comparative mythologist and revealer of the Sophianic vision story of the Gnostics, has recently postulated (in his talk The Look of the Anthropos) that it might take for us to see the hideousness of the child abuse that is perpetrated across the planet and through shared empathy unite against the perpetrator
Through correction in three areas: 1. moving back into energetic connection with the planet we live n and engaging in a natural lifestyle, 2. deprogramming from cultural fear conditioning and 3. healing the rift between male and female, we can get back on track of our peak evolutionary potential, living lives of beauty and even cognitive ecstasy. Genial plant species help us on our way. Our peak experience is to behold the organic light, non-material animating light that permeates and emanates from all matter on Earth, the Holy Grail.

These are two parallel ways of describing at the same situation, that of the story of humanity, where we are at this time and what we might do to experience life on this planet as we would really like to.

What strikes me is that the longer we put something off the bigger the more difficult a task it seems, until we actually get round to tackling it and then there is often less to it than we thought.  Kind of  opposite to the situation when an idea pops in our head and we think it'll be done in a couple of hours but maybe takes weeks.  I think the steps to getting back on track are now quite clearly defined, we know what we need to do at least to get started.  As we proceed further steps will become clear.  We need to clear our perception through actually doing what it takes at physical level in order for this to happen.  Then the journey can unfold.

There are two grail questions:
1. What is wrong with humanity?
2. How can I serve the Grail?

return to the brain of eden:

"our state of mind is central to everything we do and the culture and civilisation that we manifest"

Tony Wright – Return to the Brain of Eden: Part One

Tony Wright discusses his forthcoming book Return to the Brain of Eden: Restoring the Connection Between Neurochemistry and Consciousness.
This is a two part interview. Part two will follow shortly.
Over a period of a million years the human brain expanded at an increasingly rapid rate, but suddenly, around 200,000 years ago, this expansion stopped. Modern science has overlooked this in order to maintain the illusion that humans are at the pinnacle of evolution. However, it is extremely significant that the abrupt end to brain expansion explains not only recently uncovered anomalies within the human brain, but also the universal mythic traditions of a lost earthly paradise and of humanity’s degeneration from our original state of perpetual wonder and joy.
Drawing on more than 20 years of research, Return to the Brain of Eden explores how our modern brains are performing far below their true potential and how we can unlock our higher abilities and return to the euphoria of our distant past. It explains how for millions of years early forest-dwelling humans were primarily consuming the hormone-rich sex organs of plants – otherwise known as fruit – which contains a highly complex biochemical cocktail evolved to influence DNA transcription, rapid brain development, and elevated neural and pineal gland activity.
Recent neurological and psychological studies suggest that the loss of our symbiotic fruit-based diet led to a progressive neuro-degenerative condition characterized by aggressive behaviour, a fearful perception of the world, and the suppression of higher artistic, mathematical, and spiritual abilities. Return to the Brain of Eden shows how many shamanic and spiritual traditions were developed to counteract our decline, and outlines a strategy to reverse our degeneration, restore our connection with the plant world, and regain the bliss and peace that is the natural human condition.
www.leftinthedark.org.uk
www.beyond-belief.org.uk

laying my cards on the table

I have decided to lay my cards on the table.

Personally I have got to the point now where it just doesn't seem possible to dance around any longer the central issues that face us as humans.  The issues we face in the world now are just too big and complicated to unravel or deal with by previously known methods.  And the little issues too seem unresolvable unless we look deeper to the root causes.I sometimes remark to friends that what shocks me and hurts me the most is not the ecological crises - like many others - I saw them coming; not the epidemic of health problems - like many others, I saw them coming, not the wars - I saw them coming; what shocks me is that rather than facing them harmoniously and together, there is bickering even between people who are close or even claim to hold to the same ideals, in fact the bickering is sometimes the most intense between these people.  So, what to do?

From what I can make out, from experience of living and listening to people who have thought and researched deeply and make sense to me, that along the way, in some way humans have  (hopefully temporarily) lost much of their innate capacity for feeling i.e. for being energetically aware of what is going on in real time.  This manifests as loss of sense of connection to each other, the Earth, other species and beings, our intuition, divine intelligence and so on.  Deprived of these innate faculties we attempt to cobble our way through life with a set of rules and dogmas as an approximation to the guidance we would otherwise receive from the source of our lives.  Inevitably these rules clash, but as we perceive them as our lifeline to divinity we are willing to fall out with real other humans over them.

I still dream that we will regain our innate faculties, natural capabilities that have come to be seen as supernatural and I think there is a lot that can be done to start to re-establish them, that is what 'food for consciousness' is about.  Meanwhile we somehow need to get along in the understanding that we will, in our current state, inevitably tread on each others toes.  One of the most painful things we can experience is disconnection between human hearts especially, with a dearly loved one, and it is one of the things that interferes with our functioning and happiness the most.  One of the most empowering things we experience is the love and acceptance of another human being.  I am trying, as fas I can with my own limited abilities, to accept the human situation and the inevitability of us treading on each others toes and am endeavouring to learn the art of not taking offence.  The main thing is this: let's get over it together.

There is so much that could be said on this subject.  For now I just want to voice my perspective on this central issue which is basically this.  As humans have lost their feeling capacity, they have lost some of their capacity to actually feel good, so are now trying to 'be good', i.e. to 'be right' as defined by mental programs.

In some recent audios John Lash has been discussing the 'righteousness' virus and how it has infected us all. He comes from a mythological and metahistorical perspective.  There is a link to a recent audio below. My other favourite resource is Tony Wright's research on the biological aspects of our loss of faculties outlined but not fully explained in his book 'Left in the Dark'. I think we've got to the point now where the roots of the problems have been pretty well identified, at least enough for us to start to engage in solutions. As we do this the nature of the problem will also inevitably become clearer and yet more aspects of the solution will emerge.

http://gaiaspora.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Nav-Briefing-104-Pristine-and-Copacetic-Part-Two-14-January-2014.mp3

earthing - a missing link to health and sanity

Earthing, sometimes known as grounding, is one of the most significant yet simplest steps you can take, living in civilisation in a modern life, to improve your health and enhance your well-being, mental function and everyday experience of life. Of all the healthy lifestyle practices you can engage in,  earthing requires the least effort and time commitment yet it maximises results.

Here is our interview with Dr John Kelsey explaining in wonderful depth about the use of earthing devices and their benefits.



Personally I feel an intense desire to live as immersed in nature and as close to the Earth as possible. For the moment the things I need to do to fulfil my purpose keep me living and working in a house much of the time and I am immensely grateful for this very simple technology.  It does not replace getting out into nature and going barefoot on the Earth rather it fills in the gaps when we can't do this.

Putting it in basic terms, our body metabolism , by its very nature produces free radicals.  These need to be counteracted by antioxidants or electrons, which we get to some degree from foods such as fruit and vegetables and also the hormone melatonin.  However we were designed to run in physical connection with the earth, without any insulating materials between us, such as rubber soles, carpets and floorboards.  From the Earth comes a flow of electrons which naturally balance the effects of metabolism.

Earthing sheets are cotton sheets with silver threads running through them. You just put one on the bed on top of your normal sheet and plug into the socket.  The plug does not make a connection with the live part of the mains, just the earthing connection which runs down into the ground.  So the socket does not need to be on and an earthing sheet is not an electrical device in the sense that we normally understand. Through  the moisture that comes out of our bodies we connect electrically to the sheet and through that to the Earth.

The change to sleeping on an earthing sheet was a profound experience for us.  For the first week we actually felt fuzzy headed and found that difficult to deal with.  After those effects had waned we noticed how well we were sleeping and how refreshed we felt when we woke up. I think it has made us feel closer too.  One of the effects of grounding is to increase melatonin levels and even this by itself is known to increase the levels of harmony between people. The more of the time we are earthed the better. As Dr John Kelsey explains in our recent interview with him, even if we are earthed at night, we will get more benefit if we are also earthed before we go to bed. In the day we regularly use earthing throws and mats as well as walking barefoot in nature.  Users report that earthing for two hours before bed helps them sleep.  It is possible that the Earth is able to communicate to us the rhythms we need to function optimally.

Earthing also tends to balance brain hemisphere function.  Speaking to Tony Wright on the subject he hypothesises that what is actually happening is the right hemisphere has the capacity to respond to the improved conditions and becomes more active thus ameliorating to some degree cerebral dominance of the left hemisphere.

Recently I have got to the point of recommending earthing in nature and through earthing devices above any other health practice so it made sense to stock these products for sale.  We chose the convenient half sheet, the mat and grounding rod as the most popular products and the ones we have found most useful.  It's a one off investment which can last for years.  You could think of it as a device to harvest electrons.  Generations of humans  preceding the industrial revolution were conceived , born and grew up, worked and played in direct physical connection with the Earth. I personally think that beginning to re-establish this vital connection to our life source is fundamental to turning us into the sane and harmonious humans of the future.