Dark Light Consciousness Melanin.pdf
Alethia Tiell
Spiritual discipline flows from this realization. An unshakable conviction flowers in this life. Do not confuse or limit existence and reality with its expressions in matter, space, and time. Reality, like matter itself, is ultimately transtemporal and transspatial. Even though the physical forces of nature may seem separate, they are truly unified in a higher dimensional space.
Just as we are embedded in multiple dimensions beyond those we can see, touch, or smell as currently posited in physics by different versions of string theory and holonomy, our consciousness is projected into and embedded in multiple dimensions beyond the three we physically know. This ancient idea has been rediscovered through the lens of post-modern disciplines. Space and time becomes a fluid dimension in our direct experience every time we dream. From our perspective it is a form of the fourth dimension or space-time subjectively experienced. Light in a real sense is a fifth-dimensional vibration. Both forces and Beings appear to us in the realm of light and it is our disposition that influences what we see.
Just as psychologists have studied the subconscious and the unconscious below the ego by means of slips of the tongue, free association, and dreams, we must now study the higher unfoldment of the superconscious that functions above and beyond the ego. The former requires we plunge into the fomenting waters of the body and mind, the latter requires we quiet it to reveal what then arises. Both require methodologies, but of radically different designs.
The energies of not only the brain but of the body, the Earth, and the wider cosmos are intimately related to our own consciousness as it extends into the unconscious and the superconscious realms of experience. We are not ultimately dissociated from God, from the realms of the spirit, or even from the dark interior of each other. Other ages and civilizations have explored and realized this in exacting detail. The texts of Western psychology must open their narrow doors to the wisdom and insight of the higher mind known to ancient Egypt, India, and Tibet.
The early chapters in part 1 will establish the basis of the work as it manifests in our bodies and the dynamic earth itself. Powerful forces within the Earth and our own bodies form the evolutionary matrix upon which the luminous transformation is woven. As the chapters continue to unfold and the realm of actual meditative practice is reached in parts 2 and 3, it will hopefully become clearer that the text is not written as speculative armchair philosophy, but rather as scientific meditative discipline based upon psychophysical and neurological foundations. This means that its methods can be replicated in disciplines that the practitioner can experience directly.
The three common spatial dimensions and the fourth of space-time are directly in the crucible of human experience; so are the fifth dimension of light and the sixth dimension of gravity in this scheme. There is even a living connection we sense between the expansive force of evolution in biological life as seen in the dense neural dynamics of the inner spinal line and brain, and the expansive force of dark energy that seems to stretch the structure of space itself. The methodology and disciplines referred to in the text will be rooted in the immediate and intimate experiences of these dimensions directly accessible to human consciousness. This is not only about faith and belief, but about knowledge, Gnostics, and inward revelation. Not Rome, Paris, and Europe, but Alexandria, Abydos, and Egypt.
We will make an explicit connection between spiritual practice and the physical world, particularly our bodies. Specifically when exploring the energetic aspects of practice we will show that while air and oxygen are not the subtle energy of prana or ki/chi, they are intimately related. Similarly the dark reality of neuromelanin is not identical to the psychospiritual dynamism of kundalini, the Ureaus, but they are intimately related. Harness one and you influence the other. This overt bridge and connection will provide a basis for clinical and scientific observation in our present-day understanding of spiritual unfoldment. This is crucial for our age. With so many gospels and scriptures being discovered, questioned, historically banished, and then reaccepted into the fold (e.g., the Gospel of Magdalene, the Gospel of Thomas), it is important to be guided by a gospel based on scientific replication and our own direct experience.
Take an afternoon walk through any large, multiracial, polyglot city. Stroll the different ethnic neighborhoods. Pungent smells, different food vendors, attractive exotic faces greet you around every corner. Diverse hairstyles, customs, melodic and interesting languages attract your eyes, your ears, your sense of physical closeness and space. The religious diversity is no less astounding. Robes, scarves, odd and occult headwear wrap the life of men and women each with an intoxicating vision and cultural romance with God. A universal wellspring lives at the bottom of this. In each neighborhood you see children, hear babies cry, know there is a wedding and somewhere someone has died. We are all Homo sapiens sapiens, descendents and permutations of the ancient ones who arose in Africa and spread their progeny around the Earth. In evolution we have a common origin; in our DNA we share a common heritage. In neurobiology we have a common neural network upon which our spiritual music has learned to play. Our brains, organ systems, spinal cords, and our subtle nervous systems bind us each together in an intimate mysterious way. This book will take advantage of this common gateway between our innermost regions and the stars to suggest an outline in our perennial science of spirituality.
Different schools use a selected body of techniques from a wealth of possible techniques to craft a melody consonant with the age and historical-cultural context. Ours is an age of free seekers. Using what we know of neuroscience and psychophysiology and our common inheritance, we will present a methodology that is empirical, evidence based, contemporary, and organic to our times. Given many of the observations and experiments cited in the text, especially those associated with neuromelanin, neurogenesis, and the subtle activation of specific regions in the brain in the awakening of the Ureaus, hopefully it is only a matter of time before the mainstream professional scientific organizations of our era begin to look at these phenomena with an empirical eye. Specifically interested should be those organizations that deal with the interface of the brain and consciousness, such as the American Psychological Association, the American Psychiatric Association, and the American Academy of Neurology. Future generations will no doubt have a more sophisticated basis in neuroscience than we do to understand the mechanisms of this science, but the mechanisms themselves are timeless.
The living interconnected web of life on Earth or Gaia is real. Almost forgotten in recent centuries, in the eternal recurrence, it is now reemerging. Gaia enfolds the Earth and also extends into the vast darkness of interstellar space where visible light is but 7 percent of luminous matter and the other 93 percent is unseen. This unseen reality is apparently composed of a mysterious darkness that, together with space-folding gravity, surrounds our galaxy and holds the constellations together. The stellar darkness calls to us in this dynamic. We will also suggest why this dark matter may in some sense interact with consciousness itself.
In terrestrial and biological evolution we glimpse how our carbon-based life-forms are expressed through the universal dark biochemical processes of melanin and neuromelanin. Both are crucial and strategically located in the body and nervous systems of all the higher mammals on our planet. Its increasing presence mirrors the unfoldment of evolution. Neuromelanin in our own species is literally a form of biolight intricately enfolded and interwoven into the loom of our organs and nervous system.
Melanin and neuromelanin reach their zenith of concentration and activity in the brain and nervous system of our own species, regardless of surface or purported racial differentiation. The biological significance of surface or mere skin racial typing within the human species is presently a minor scientific fact but a politically painful dynamic. From the global human perspective it is a phenotypic permutation of small consequence in the ocean of genetic and biological similarity. However, deeper down we share this subtle bioluminescence and bioelectrical aspect of our nervous systems. Our brains and internal organ systems, regardless of ethnicity, are covered with light-sensitive melanin. The inner core of our spinal line is composed of densely packed pigmented neural tissue. We share a residence and a resonance with each other in this cosmos of light and living darkness.
A closer look at the molecular structure of melanin and neuromelanin reveals that it stores and conducts energy to and through our living biological system. It is intimately associated with the classical descriptions of a subtle energy in the body. Ancient but timeless methodologies for harnessing this deeper evolutionary force, arising paradoxically in a dark primordial consciousness, give birth to an unspeakable light and luminosity. Its form in us is the Ureaus, the curled-up and coiled kundalini, the shining serpent. Usually asleep, it can be seen outlined in the spinal line up into the brain core and beyond. It is the evolutionary force that leads beyond man and beyond the Earth.
This close and holy darkness of the evolutionary process in melanin and DNA is intimately connected to our own inner darkness and to the vast darkness of the cosmos. We realize more than metaphorically that the lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light. This is how the darkness above meets and reflects the living darkness below; how the darkness within interfaces with the darkness without; literally, how the darkness enfolds the light.
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