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(from “Ayus,” life or life span, and “Veda,” knowledge or science; hence “knowledge of life or life span”), is one of the many branches of the Vedic tradition of India, a continuous tradition of knowledge and cul- ture that has been traced back 10,000 years. In attempting to chemically identify ojas based on clues in the classical Ayurvedic trea- tises and on our knowledge as biochemists, we indeed were able to pinpoint with consid- erable certainty the biochemical identities of the “principal” or “ordinary” ojas and of most of the eight “superior” types of ojas. Our re- search relied mainly on the English transla- tions of the Sanskrit treatises.
Six Ayurvedic treatises, three major and three minor, have survived to the present. Their dates of origin are not known, but one person considered a principal author appears to have lived some 2,800 years ago. The con- tents of the treatises were in all probability passed down orally for eons before being re- corded, as was done for the principal Vedas. The Ayurvedic treatises describe the symptoms, causes, and treatments of over a thousand diseases, along with hundreds of detailed surgical practices. Their emphasis, however, is on preventive methods on the levels of mind, body, behavior, and environ- ment.
From statements about the qualities, quantities, and functions of the different forms of ojas in the treatises, we arrived at uniquely suited biochemical identities. More- over, some of the information in the treatises was interpretable only in terms of the very latest understanding of the functional links between these biochemical substances and various states of disease and health. Discovering these links between ancient and modern knowledge in the area of bio- chemistry and health was for us, as for Dunn in his work, a “paradigm seismic event.” Our attitude toward ancient Vedic knowledge of health and disease took a major leap forward and continues to expand today. Our original study was published (Indian Journal of Phys- iology and Pharmacology 1995; vol 39, pp 3- 36), but advancing understanding may lead to new publications.
Ken Walton Fairfield, Iowa
Thoughts on the Big Bang
(Re: “Dark Matter’s Very Existence Ques- tioned,” A.R. #83) Chaos was an ongoing pos- sible everything and indeed preceded order. But one aspect of chaos, the possibility of its failure, rebelled against anarchy and decided to rule. This was the seed of all duality, which collapsed chaos into logic, which ex- ploded as the Big Bang whereby duality con- figured an order able to be ruled. But matter/ energy and antimatter/energy annihilation fueled a bigger bang, Inflation, which would leave no remainder, except that the ruler
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used some antimatter/energy to push all “unruly” possibilities beyond a barrier. Thus was the ether sequestered and thus was the remaining matter/energy a “usable” cosmos.
But the ruler wanted to top these explo- sions with a coerced and controlled demise in the space-time called devolution. So he used magick to breach the ether barrier and let out three dark ether effects: gravity, dark matter/energy, and black holes. These would ultimately “create” the Big Chill of acceler- ating expansion.
So, ironically, order is a death sentence. Nature is a food chain, and what “evolves” is the trend towards extreme states. Except, order itself is sentenced to thermodynami- cally devolve, so its empires crumble. Ironi- cally, the ruler is ruled, used as a necessary tester of reality’s perfection. Because before chaos was the plan that foresaw this universe as the one everything worthy of eternity.
Most of this everything is mathematical ether; most of the cosmos is dark matter en- ergy; most of matter/energy is not alive; and most of life has no soul. Thus soul is God’s message to its rare faring vessel: The anti- god is fated to fail; the cosmos is pro- grammed to reach eternity; and soul will be there to witness that success. Meanwhile, let conscience be your guide.
B. J. Street Paso Robles, CA Atlanteans Arise
Your journal is most interesting and in- formative on the subject of our real ancient and unacknowledged past history.
The article “Putting Atlantis in Its Place”
(A.R. #84) is fascinating and opens many questions on the Atlanteans and their world. The comment I would like to bring forward is based on the idea that large numbers of former Atlanteans are still on Earth, as rein- carnated people, and many of us still have vivid past-life memories that reappear in dreams and via other mind routes.
I can myself remember Atlantean lives over several million years of Earth time. Their civilization was on several large islands in the central Atlantic Ocean, where many psychics, old Atlantean, and New Age Paleo- archaeologists have placed the Atlantean na- tion. Based on past-life memories they where at least as advanced as we are today, in some ways, technologically further along.
It would be a valuable contribution to historical research if more former Atlanteans could come forward with their stories of their lives and times in Atlantis.
D.A. Dispenza Portland, OR
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