--- In [email protected], "mark robert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > _____ > > From: akasha_108 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 2:41 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: New Vedic Translation? Euphedra > > > > > --- In [email protected], "mark robert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > _____ > > > > > One of the articles in the Journal of Vedic studies attempted > to > > prove, thru this detailed > > textual analysis, that soma was in fact the ephedra plant. The > > real reason that the Vedic > > rishis were so awake was because they were quaffing down > ephedra! > > The image was just > > hilarious of these dreadlocked rishis, speeding there brains > out > > like undergrads cramming > > for midterms. > > > > -V. > > > > > > ---------------- > > > > Ahhh, the real definition of "awakening". > > > ------------- > > > There is more than textual pointers that Euphedra (and cannabis) > were > used in ancient rites -- that involved lots of mixing, grinding > and > straining (echos of 9th mandala -- and many other things) . While > this > does not prove any link to soma, it is interesting. > > -------------- > > Akasha, > I can't tell if you are saying that these substances might play a > roll in the explanation of the mixing and straining as described > in the 9th mandala or not. If so, you are definitely suggesting > links to Soma. I mean, the Rig Veda is/was the origin of the > word. No other definition of Soma that came later could possibly > be more accurate. > > > > -mark
I am saying i was struck, in reading about the excavations, by the general similarities with 9th mandala. However, some general parallels do not a strong case (yet) make. Simply some pieces of the puzzle. And Vaj indicated some text based pointers to Euphedra. Any of these taken alone seem like straws in the wind. With more straws, perhaps a basket is formed (or at least a straining cloth) :) . And if there were just text pointers, I would laugh as Vaj did -- at the apparent narrow literal mindedness of the researchers in seeing Euphedra as a tool of awakening. However, given the ancient ritual site found with Euphedra, at a location and time where there was a branching off of migration to both India and Persia -- each with soma traditions -- it does make Euphedra an object of possibility. And it is consistent with, though of course does not in any way prove, my neuro-tranmitter cocktail hypothesis whereby the cocktail enables connections between various potential -- yet til now unactiveated -- pathways in the nervous system to "light up" in wonderous cosmic ways. (Euphedra being chock full of alkoloids and neuro-transmitter related material) Roughly, it is sort of like a CPU in a PC: an almost infinite set of potential patterns of circuits, some on, some off -- the combination makes for specific and unique states. Various software create various sequences of sets of circuit states. There undoubtedly could be some awesome, software -- yet to be coded perhaps, that could enable the CPU to do wonderous things we had not envisioned in its "normal" routine set of programs. Thats what the neuotransmitter cocktail would be -- software for the cicuits of the brain that make it fire up and run in new, powerful, profound and cosmic ways we don't normally experience using our daily software / neurotransmitter mixes. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
