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Acupuncture for Anxiety and Depression: Vagal Tone and Polyvagal Integration
Anxiety and depression are not merely "psychological" conditions. They are autonomic nervous system states — measurable, physiological configurations of the body's stress response system.
Transcranial Focused Ultrasound: The New Scalpel for Consciousness Research
For decades, consciousness researchers faced an engineering bottleneck that no amount of theoretical brilliance could solve: they could not precisely stimulate deep brain structures without cutting open the skull. Surface-level tools like transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and transcranial...
Ayurveda: The 5,000-Year-Old Science That Knew About Your Microbiome
Long before the word "microbiome" existed — before anyone had seen a bacterium under a microscope — physicians in the Indus Valley were teaching that all disease begins in the gut, that digestive fire determines health or illness, and that the body must be periodically cleansed to maintain...
Electromagnetic Fields, Anesthesia, and the Disappearance of Consciousness
General anesthesia is one of the most extraordinary and least understood phenomena in medicine. Every day, approximately 60,000 people in the United States alone are rendered unconscious by anesthetic agents — their consciousness extinguished, their ability to perceive, think, feel, and remember...
Shamanic Cartography: How Ancient Consciousness Maps Encode Neurological Reality
Every civilization creates maps. The question is: maps of what?
Functional Neurology: Rewiring the Brain Without Drugs
For most of the twentieth century, neuroscience carried a grim assumption: the adult brain is fixed. You get what you get.
The Functional Medicine Intake: Timeline, Matrix & GOTOIT
A conventional primary care visit averages seven minutes. Seven minutes to hear a complaint, match it to a diagnostic code, and write a prescription.
Prenatal Consciousness: The Awareness That Exists Before Birth
When does consciousness begin? The question is among the most fundamental in philosophy, neuroscience, and spirituality — and the answer has shifted dramatically as research has revealed that the fetus is not the blank slate that twentieth-century medicine assumed.
Sleep Paralysis and Entity Encounters: When Neurology Becomes Spiritual Experience
You wake in the middle of the night. You cannot move.
Perception and Reality Creation
You are hallucinating right now. Not in the clinical sense — in the neurological sense.
Pratyahara: Sensory Withdrawal in the Age of Digital Overwhelm
Of Patanjali's eight limbs, pratyahara — sensory withdrawal — is the least practiced, the least taught, and the least understood. It is also, for inhabitants of the 21st century, perhaps the most urgently needed.