Transforming Dragons Newsletter

Transforming Dragons Newsletter - March - April 2008

2008-04-02T14:06:35Z

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Issue No. 12 March - April 2008

Dear Subscribers,

Our twelfth Transforming Dragons newsletter combines the months of March and April 2008. We continue to present articles on the science of prenatal re-imprinting (PNRI), and related subjects.

There are six articles in this newsletter:

Revolutionary Times
The Origins of PNRI
Therapy and Mind Control
Can You Fix Stupid?
Processing Thought
Outside The Matrix - Ozone Hole

In the first article, readers are invited to explore an emerging major revolution in science and technology that needs to be matched by a similar revolution in human behavior.

In the second article the origins of Prenatal Re-Imprinting (PNRI) by D. Joseph A. DiRuzzo are presented, and the use of PNRI to quickly and effectively help many troubled people is discussed.

In the last article, I risk of being called a "kook." This article is the fifth in a series of articles titled: Outside The Matrix..." Readers should be prepared to have their beliefs and environmental concerns about the ozone hole and also CO2 and global warming challenged and shaken up.

I hasten to add that I am deeply concerned about the environment, but about another ordering of priorities and concerns, with the flood of toxic chemicals at the top of my list. In the United States, over 4-billion pounds of toxic chemicals are released by industry into the environment each year, including 72 million pounds of recognized carcinogens. Some fish in our oceans are becoming too toxic to eat, and the continued contamination threatens not just the oceans, it threatens life as we know it in the entire ecosphere.

As always, we greatly appreciate your email and regular-mail messages.

Revolutionary Times
by Gerald Vind

In the last TD newsletter, readers were encouraged to explore a revolution in science called the Lattice Nested Hydrino (LNH) atomic model. Why should we be concerned about this in our TD personality transformation program? Please recognize that this revolutionary advancement in science needs to be paralleled by a rapid advancement in upgrading human behavior. The revolutionary changes in science and technology cry out for positive changes in individual and collective humanity. To this end, Transforming Dragons, and the science of Prenatal Re-Imprinting (PNRI) hold great promise for transforming maladaptive and dysfunctional patterns into positive and self-actualizing patterns.

Let us look for a moment at the revolution now in progress to gain a sense of urgency about how quickly we must move to transform the "dragons" of negativity. The new science is based on something called, quantum vacuum engineering, a term coined by Nobel Laureate T.D. Lee.

Quantum vacuum engineering is based on the new awareness that space is not the empty void that the prevailing "wisdom" assumes it to be. The vacuum of space is crammed full of an incredible flux of zero-point energy that extends well beyond hard gamma-ray frequencies of 10²²HZ, extending to the extremely high levels up to 10⁴⁴HZ. Above gamma-ray frequencies is the realm of Planck-limited frequencies that remain below the sub-quantum threshold and fill the quantum vacuum. This realm is a background fluctuation of an unimaginable potential energy, and it is the context for our observable universe.

Techniques are being developed to allow us to access the enormous energy potential in the quantum vacuum (zero-point field). Needless to say, this revolution will shake up established institutions, especially in energy. It also promises to drastically reduce carbon emissions and energy-related pollution.

Quantum vacuum engineering is the gateway to a profound revolution in all fields of science. Everything that is being taught today is wrong, and new text books will be written. This revolution to the Standard Model of physics promises to bring about such changes as:

Gravity and inertia control systems
Fuel-less power systems
Reactionless propulsion
Matter synthesis and conversion
Superluminal communication
Ultra strong materials

This revolution has been in progress for several years, but it is not well understood or reported. A good example of this revolution is found in the work of Dr. Randall Mills. Dr. Mills formed Blacklight Power, Inc. and they have been pushing forward with licensing of his organization's advances, such as hydrino-hydride compounds that promise to be light weight and 1,000 times stronger than steel; also the promise of 70-volt batteries the size of a suitcase that could power a high-performance electric car for 100,000 miles before recharging. (See, www.blacklightpower.com).

How do I know all of this when my background is in neurobiology? Earlier I served as president of a medical electronics company (EPI); and previously I was a member of the corporate new-technology staff of the once-great Hughes Aircraft Company at its peak in technological achievement just before its acquisition by General Motors. I represented Hughes in an industry-wide committee on technology forecasting, where I served as chairman. I have since then endeavored to keep up with innovations in many fields. Thus, I was drawn to PNRI some five-years ago, and recognized its innovative potential.

Humanity is on the threshold of achieving a leap forward to access enormous physical powers. With increased power comes increased responsibility. Help us to advance the lagging human condition forward through the science of PNRI, and techniques such as Transforming Dragons. I urge you to help us to create a major effort toward developing and advancing PNRI. Your support in most important. Please contact me with your thoughts and suggestions: ghvind@yahoo.com.

The Origins of PNRI
by Gerald Vind

Prenatal Re-Imprinting (PNRI) is the result of the work and creative insights of Dr. Joseph A. DiRuzzo. Dr. Joe, as most people call him, has integrated his studies in the fields of obstetric medicine, oriental medicine, hypnosis, psychoneuroimmunology, neurology, and neuro linguistic programming. He then molded these fields together on the foundation of his training and work as a doctor of chiropractic medicine.

Dr. Joe was greatly influenced in his development by the works of Milton Erickson, and Richard Bandler. Richard Bandler is co-founder of neuro linguistic programming (NLP), and Dr. Joe studied his work and became a master instructor of NLP. He has a great sensitivity and awareness of others, and this has helped him greatly in his efforts to guide people out of their problems.

Early in his work as a chiropractic physician, he noticed that some of his patients were creating patterns of illness in their lives. With his extensive studies of human behavior, Dr. Joe began to use this knowledge to help his patients find and release maladaptive patterns that were central to their physical-emotional problems.

One day about ten years ago, Dr Joe was working with a patient who was a business executive (let's call him Ted) who had a personality quirk. Every time Dr. Joe would say something positive, Ted would negate it with specific response pattern. For example, someone would say to Ted: "It looks like a beautiful day today." Ted would respond with his nervous tic, turning his head several clicks to the left, and invalidating what had just been said to him: "But it is not as nice as it was yesterday."

In an effort to help Ted get rid of his personality quirk, Dr. Joe guided him back to search for its origins in his early childhood. Guiding Ted back to the time of his birth, and still not finding the root of the problem, Dr. Joe had Ted go back to the time he was in his mother's womb. They discovered that Ted's mother experienced such extreme stress during her pregnancy that is caused Ted (as a fetus) to defecate into the amniotic fluid. Dr. Joe realized that this prenatal experience had been imprinted in Ted, and was the cause of the personality quirk. Ted's nervous tic of his head was an imprinted fetal pattern of avoiding the fecal matter (called meconium) floating in his face.

Working with Ted to stimulate the use of creative imagination, Dr. Joe had him imagine that all of that irritating material floating near his face was now moved away, far away. This process removed Ted's nervous tic forever. It also started Dr. Joe's studies of prenatal imprinting, and led to the development of ever better techniques for reprogramming or re-imprinting, and thus removing negative prenatal imprints and the maladaptive patterns that are the result of such imprints.

One of the major developments in PNRI was Dr. Joe's discovery that imprinting begins very early in the embryonic stage, and that the foundations of personality are imprinted in a particular pattern of neurochemicals that are generated from extremely stressful events during prenatal development. He also found that he was practically alone in his realization of the importance of this embryonic period. Through several years of using PNRI techniques, Dr. Joe came to the realization that all of our maladaptive patterns, without exception, are the result of extremely stressful prenatal experiences. And he discovered that when the prenatal foundations of a problem are re-imprinted, the problem is gone forever.

Dr. Joe became aware that the architecture of the human brain, and its developmental process makes most psychotherapeutic methods ineffective, because these methods assume that feelings follow thoughts. In reality, feelings and thoughts are experienced in parallel in separate parts of the brain. Feelings and emotions are experienced in the first-forming part of the brain, called the paleocortex. The paleocortex includes the so-called reptilian brain (autonomic nervous system), and the so-called mammalian brain (emotional center). During fetal development the paleocortex is over grown by the massive cognitive-thinking parts of the brain that are collectively called the neocortex. The neocortex will grow to become some 80% of the total brain, and it is where language and cognitive processes develop after birth.

Psychotherapy is limited by the dominance of the neocortex, and thus the mental structures tend to limit access to core emotional problems, particularly to the foundational prenatal patterns. Dr. Joe gained insight to the solution of this therapeutic problem from his medical internship in obstetrics. He found that when he placed a person into a seated fetal position, with the upper neck curved forward, that the neocortex was taken out of dominance.

This posture produces a stimulus-response reflex that shifts dominance to the paleocortex, and opens it up to be re-imprinted with various methods. The neocortex is aware of what is happening, and is likely nattering in the background, "this isn't going to work." But, the neocortex does not block re-imprinting of the paleocortex.

Over a period of some eight years, Dr. Joe continued to develop improvements to the techniques of PNRI. He was assisted in his development of PNRI by a clinical psychologist named Ross Stewart. Dr. Stewart applied PNRI methods to his clinical practice with excellent results. Dr. Stewart found that PNRI was ten-times more effective than current psychotherapeutic methods.

I met Dr. Joe about five years ago, and have worked with him to transform my own maladaptive patterns, and to master the application of PNRI techniques of others. I was inspired by my work with PNRI to develop Transforming Dragons, with the help of Claire Papin.

The task ahead for PNRI is to move from a collection of anecdotal success stories, to scientific validation through controlled studies. This is necessary to produce change in the established system. Currently, Dr. Joe is seeking support from those interested in making PNRI more widely available.

Therapy and Mind Control
by Gerald Vind

The difference between "therapy" and "mind control" is simply this: therapeutic techniques work to your benefit, while mind control techniques serve to benefit someone else, and may be detrimental to you. Otherwise, the varied techniques used can be the same. Both applications change the way we perceive and relate to ourselves, those around us, and our world.

In 1948 Bernard Wolfe and Raymond Rosenthal collaborated on a book that surveyed the development of hypnotism as a therapeutic tool of modern medicine: Hypnotism Comes of Age. While the prolific and pioneering work with hypnosis of Milton H. Erickson, MD precedes Wolfe and Rosenthal, it was their book that stimulated the development of many self-improvement programs such as Mind Dynamics, Mind Control, EST, Life Spring, etc.

In this same time frame a science fiction writer named L. Ron Hubbard first published a book titled Dianetics in 1950. Dianetics says that mental and psychosomatic physical problems are caused by traumatic neurological recordings called "engrams." Then in 1952 Hubbard wrote and published the book titled, Scientology, and subsequently, he formed the Church of Scientology.

On a personal note, I read Dianetics when I was 18-years old (in 1951). Thirty-one years later I met Eve, the woman who would become my second wife, and through her insights I learned that it is possible for someone to program people and control their behavior. Her first husband had attained the highest level in Dianetics/Scientology (OT-8), and was able to program patterns to manipulate the behavior of others for his benefit. Together, Eve and I studied these techniques and other behavioral programming methods, not so much for using them on others, rather to recognize the techniques and protect ourselves from mind-controllers.

A good example of this is in the cult of Frederick Lenz, PhD. Lenz was a master of ancient occult Vedic knowledge and methods, and he taught an Americanized form of Buddhism. Curious, Eve and I attended some of his early meetings. We participated a few "enlightenment trainings." Trainees were lectured in the Vedic mysteries, and guided into a process of eyes-open meditation where they would stare at Fredrick Lenz (aka "Atmananda").

We saw that his followers were inducted into mystical experiences by sitting for hours staring at him in an eyes-open meditation. He managed to develop a devoted following of otherwise intelligent and capable people, along with a substantial revenue stream. He asked his devotees to call him "Rama," which means god in the Vedic traditions. Some years later, Fredrick Lenz (Rama) committed suicide because he was despondent over the loss of his beloved dog.

I have explored other gurus, and have come to realize that in any large gathering (as a group meditation) there will be a small number of people who may have a profound mystical or spiritual experience, and from this they come to believe that their experience comes from their guru. The guru then acquires a following of people who believe that he (or she) is their spiritual source, and they form a dependency relationship. While this is a gross over simplification of mysticism and spirituality, it is intended to serve as a warning to observe with clarity path of the guru or similar leader. I do not intend this to be a negation of the profound spiritual and mystical experiences that are available to us with or without a guru.

Well what does this have to do with Transforming Dragons and Prenatal Re-Imprinting? "Mind control" is presented for your consideration because it is a force in the world. There are many "gurus" with programs to develop human potential, and they are beneficial, if benignly controlling. Psychotherapy is for the most part ethical and clients do not become stuck in dependency relationships with their therapist. Unfortunately, few psychotherapists use or are aware of the techniques of Prenatal Re-Imprinting (PNRI).

Readers of this newsletter are aware of PNRI, and have experienced it through Transforming Dragons. In the first year of training to be a professional psychologist, students are reminded that the word THERAPIST can be parsed into: THE RAPIST. Thus, you are urged to always be aware of your responsibility in using the valuable TD and PNRI tools with others.

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Can You Fix Stupid?
by Gerald Vind

Comedian Ron White has a humorous comedy routine where he uses the one-liner: "You can't fix stupid." This has raised the question in my thoughts: Perhaps it is possible to fix stupidity? And this also raises the question of the nature of stupidity.

Let us assume that there are two identical twins named: Pete and Repeat. Both have identical IQ scores. Let us further assume that both are suddenly placed separately into the middle of a new circumstance in downtown Dallas, and both are equally ignorant about the city, and the resources available. However, one adapts and learns "the ropes" and moves to improve his circumstances, while the other remains in a homeless shelter.

While both twins start out equally ignorant, one of them (Pete) does not remain ignorant and learns and adapts, while the other twin (Repeat) fails to learn and adapt. The twin named Repeat remains ignorant when presented with the opportunity to learn, and this can be seen as "stupid."

How can prenatal experiences have anything to do with differences in identical twins? Well, consider the possibility that the fetus that is later called Repeat had his umbilical cord wrapped around himself in such a way as to restrict the flow of nutrients. Such a condition could well produce prenatal imprinting that is later experienced as personality patterns of irritability and inadequacy. Such a prenatal experience can produce very different personalities in identical twins. (1.)

Let's examine the word, "stupid," and search for more understanding of post-natal factors that produce behavior called "stupid." Stupid is associated with difficulty in learning, and also with a limited knowledge base that results from such difficulty. Ignorance can be only a temporary condition that is corrected by learning. Failure to learn when confronted by important new information is stupid.

So the essence of stupidity involves both an inability and an unwillingness to learn.

INABILITY TO LEARN - Normal brains can develop an inability to learn through damage to the area of the brain involved in short-term memory, and with such damage there is a loss of ability to convert short-term memory into long term memory. This brain damage often comes from drug use, particularly from methamphetamine.

Brain damage also comes from a diet filled with excitotoxins, such as the flavor enhancer MSG found in fast foods, and the diet sweetener Aspartame.(2.) Excitotoxins overly stimulate neurons to cause them to uncontrollably swell, explode and die. The areas of the brain most damaged by excitotoxins are:

Hippocampus - This part of the brain is vital in memory; and if damaged, you will have difficulty learning, that is, difficulty converting short-term memory in the hippocampus into long-term memory. You may retain all long-term memories established before the damage, but have difficulty adding more long-term memory after the damage.
Hypothalamus - This inner part of the brain links the nervous system to the endocrine system. One of the important functions of the hypothalamus is weight regulation. So diet soft drinks with Aspartame can actually make you fat as well as stupid.

While brain damage seems to be able to condemn someone to being stupid, it ignores the great plasticity of the human brain, and our brain's ability to grow and adapt. Properly nurtured nutritionally, mentally, and emotionally the human brain can learn to overcome brain injury. (Also, see the companion article (below) titled: Processing Thought.)

UNWILLINGNESS TO LEARN - This is a behavioral problem, and the reasons vary with individuals. This can be from individual reasons, as with dysfunctional family influences while growing up; or it may be cultural, as with peergroup pressures to conform to attitudes and values that discourage education. One can become bound up in a cultural hypnosis of conforming to dysfunctional and "stupid" patterns of behavior (i.e., crime, drugs, etc).

Yet, an unwillingness to learn is primarily an adaptive or learned pattern of behavior. For learning to take place, there must be important things happening in the brain of the learner. Learning efficiency depends on awareness, attention, and motivation or the desire to learn. Awareness, attention, and the motivation to learn come from within the emotional center of the brain. A lack of awareness, lack of attention, and lack of motivation will reduce learning efficiency.

Thus, there can be prenatal patterns imprinted that will continue to operate after birth and produce high levels of chaos in the brain's emotional center (limbic system). Imprinting of prenatal chaotic patterns will make it more difficult for anyone to focus their awareness and attention, and thus, reduce their motivation to learn. Thus, there can be prenatal imprinting of "stupidity dragons."

FIXING STUPID - So, working with Prenatal Re-Imprinting (PNRI) and Transforming Dragons holds great promise for "fixing stupid." For readers who are new to PNRI, there is a fuller explanation on: www.pnri.net/

And to those professionals who continue to ignore the profound importance of the early prenatal period and the imprinted patterns that can influence us forever; and who also ignore proven PNRI techniques for re-imprinting and eliminating maladaptive patterns, I offer this observation: Your ignorance is in danger of becoming stupidity.

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(1.) How do we know this pattern of imprinting occurs? This is based on clinical observations of many hundreds of subjects in guiding their transderivational search, and then in their response to re-imprinting for irritability and inadequacy.

(2.) Excitotoxins: The Taste that Kills - by Russell L. Blaylock, MD. Published by Health Press, Santa Fe, New Mexico. In reviewing this book, Alternative Medicine's Reviews said: "...upsetting, yet it is responsibly researched and well argued. It opens a fresh view on the hazardous relarionship of food (in this case the wrong food) and brain health."

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Processing Thought
by Gerald Vind

We know that our reaction time is reduced by drinking alcohol. What most of us have not fully acknowledged is that our reaction time also declines with age, Yes, as we grow older our thinking process slows. Most people think at a speed of 300 milliseconds. Unfortunately, most Americans slow by 40 to 50 milliseconds per decade after age 40. If the human brain slows down to a processing speed of 400 milliseconds it can no longer process thought. Injury to the brain (severe stress, faulty nutrition, drugs, disease, etc.) can accelerate aging dementia. Fifty percent of Americans have dementia by age 80.

Who we are, our persona and identity are recorded in the long-term memory of our brain. If we loose brain function we loose our memory and our awareness of life. With thought slowed to 400 milliseconds, we loose who we are and we become unable to care for ourselves and we may require nursing home care.

So how can we use our brain to take care of our brain? What is it that slows the average reaction speed of the brain by four to five milliseconds every year after age 40? We must keep in mind that the brain is but one organ system among the many in our body, and that a healthy body is a necessary foundation for a healthy brain. Therefore, we begin with the general health considerations of proper diet, exercise, and sleep. There is also the factor of stress, and chronic stress can damage the brain; therefore, minimizing excessive stress is important.

Severe and chronic stress can produce the effects of aging, and accelerate the aging process. Neurons shrink in the hippocampus, and that impairs memory. Stress (and aging) also shrinks neurons in the orbital frontal cortex, and that area of the brain is crucial to attention, awareness, and decision-making. Also important in the stress and/or aging degeneration is the loss of function in our immune system.

However, our brain (and body) is very resilient, and if we receive enough of the right stuff, our brain will be able to repair itself. The "right stuff" includes adequate sleep and exercise, and eating a healthy diet, and positive mental activities.

Positive mental activities are most effective when they are not repressing some underlying negative patterns, patterns that have roots that go back to the prenatal period. Stress-seeking and negative life styles have prenatal patterns that were imprinted during prenatal development. So, PNRI and Transforming Dragons are very effective in establishing a clear foundation for healthy emotions, and a healthy brain.

In addition to the above, there are some very effective nutritional supplements that can help us keep our brain from aging. There are many beneficial nutritional supplements that can slow and even reverse loss of brain function. The top four on my list of 17 brain performance enhancing and life-extending supplements are:

Pregnenolone
Phosphatidylserine
Lipoic acid (as Alpha Lipoic Acid or R-Lipoic Acid)
Acetyl L-Carnatine

PREGNENOLONE - This is a natural steroid hormone that is produced in the body from cholesterol. It is the precursor to DHEA and some 150 other natural steroid hormones, and it is referred to as the "grandmother of all steroid hormones."

At age 75 there is a decline of some 60% in our pregnenolone from the levels produced in our mid-thirties. Accordingly, the measurement of our pregnenolone level is one of the important markers of biological aging.

Pregnenolone supplementation is associated with improvements in memory, mood, awareness, alertness, and reduction in the symptoms of stress. Pregnenolone has been found to be 100-times more effective for memory enhancement than other hormones or hormone precursors.

Pregnenolone enhances the ability to acquire knowledge and increases motivation. It not only makes people smarter, but it also makes them happier with heightened feelings of well-being. Pregnenolone also has the ability to reduce stress effects caused by fatigue; and it also improves immunity, and speeds the repair of neuronal myelin sheaths.

Pregnenolone is sold in most health food stores. The recommended dose is 25 to 50 mg per day. Pregnenolone is available in a sustained release form, and this form is preferable.

PHOSPHATIDYLSERINE - Brain tissues are especially rich in phosphatidylserine (PS), however, with aging there is a decline in the PS content of cells in our brain, and cells throughout the body. PS supplementation has been shown to dramatically slow the rate of brain cell aging. Tests have shown that it restored the mental functions of older animals to levels exceeding those in some younger animals. In humans with mild dementia, PS supplementation produced significant improvement in memory, cognitive and behavioral functioning.

Phosphatidylserine acts as a natural glutamate blocker, reducing the neuro-excitotoxic effects of MSG and Aspertame. In addition to improving neural function, PS enhances energy metabolism in all cells. In the brain, PS helps maintain cell membrane integrity and youthful synaptic plasticity, protecting brain cells against functional deterioration that occurs with aging.

Phosphatidylserine is a sold in most health food stores. The recommended daily dose is 100 mg once daily, with food.

LIPOIC ACID - Also called thiotic acid, lipoic acid is a natural substance found throughout the body. It is considered the ideal "universal antioxidant" with the ability to regenerate other expended antioxidants such as vitamins C and E, and it also enhances glucose transport into cells even without insulin. Lipoic acid is also a precursor to glutathione, and thus it supports the detoxifying processes in the liver. (One molecule of glutathione is expended in processing and removing one toxic molecule by the liver.)

Lipoic acid is widely available as Alpha-Lipoic Acid (ALA). ALA is an excellent heavy metal chelator, providing protection for the brain from the toxic effects of mercury and other toxic heavy metals. ALA also modulates nitric acid metabolite activity and promotes healthy microcirculation, and thus it serves to promote nerve cell health and performance.

In the manufacturing process of synthesizing ALA, both the right and left-handed versions of lipoic acid are produced in equal amounts. However, only the right-handed form (R-lipoic acid) is biologically effective. Unfortunately, R-lipoic acid may not be widely available, while ALA is available and at a more affordable price. However, R-lipoic acid is more than twice as effective than ALA.

ALA and R-Lipoic Acid are available in health food stores. A 100 mg dose of ALA taken daily with food is often recommended, however, a larger therapeutic dose of 600 mg daily may be required. Note: Biotin is depleted with large doses of ALA. Biotin is a water-soluble B-complex vitamin, and biotin supplementation is necessary, and should be included along with R-Lipoic, or ALA.

ACETYL L-CARNATINE - Taking Acetyl L-Carnatine (ALC) benefits the brain and nervous system by enhancing the production of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine; and it directly acts like acetylcholine in facilitating nerve transmission (cholinomimetic).

ALC also protects brain nerve cells from degeneration through its stimulating effects on the cellular mitochondria (cellular power generators). However, some research has shown that ALC can increase oxidative stress. However, by combining ALC with Alpha Lipoic Acid (or R-Lipoic Acid) not only eliminates the concerns about oxidative stress, but also magnifies ALC's anti-aging effects.

ALC improves cerebral blood flow, and prevents free-radical damage by protein oxidation in the brain. ALC stimulates protein and membrane phospholipid synthesis, and enhances fatty acid transport for ATP production in the mitochondria within cells, especially in skeletal and heart muscle cells (improving function and also protecting from free-radical damage).

ALC reverses age-related declines of cardiolipin in the mitochondria of heart muscle. Acetyl L-Carnatine also protects the immune system by protecting CD4 lymphocytes (helper cells that are attacked by HIV).

Acetyl L-Carnatine (ALC) is widely available in most health food stores, and is available in combination with Alpha Lipoic Acid. Supplementation is typically recommended at 500 mg per day; and a therapeutic dose is usually 1,000 to 3,000 mg per day.

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Outside The Matrix - Ozone Hole
by Gerald Vind

This is the fifth in a series of articles about the "Matrix" in which we live. The concept of a "Matrix" was popularized by the 1999 Si-Fi motion picture titled THE MATRIX that was written and directed by Andy and Larry Wachowski. (Although, Sophia Stewart claims to be the "mother" of THE MATRIX, and is suing the Wachowskies.) Nonetheless, the idea of being enslaved by a manipulated reality field is gaining broader acceptance.

The manipulation of the public perception of the "ozone hole" brings into question our individual awareness and our human susceptibility to mind control. PNRI and Transforming Dragons are designed to give us greater awareness and control of our mind. If you don't control your mind, somebody else probably will. So, let us look at this ozone hole issue as a mind control project on a grand scale, and follow the money trail.

If you still believe in the "hole-in-the-ozone-layer" as a man-made crisis, you have been fooled by news media propaganda. Media propaganda is built upon a foundation of scientifically fraudulent data that was introduced into scientific reference data in 1976. How was this scientific fraud created and maintained, and who was behind the ozone-layer hole hoax? If we follow the money trail we may discover answers.

There is undeniable evidence that DuPont received 15-billion dollars from this ozone-hole fraud. DuPont held the patent on Freon, and their patent ran out, and they faced a serious decline in sales. So, in 1974 DuPont issued a false report about the amount of Freon being produced world-wide. At the same time reports about the "hole-in-the-ozone-layer" began to draw more media interest.

The media began to report on the "ozone hole crisis" as an impending ecological disaster. Yes, there is a periodic thinning out of the ozone layer. The ozone layer is formed in the lower portion of the stratosphere from high-energy solar radiation, and thus it protects the earth from that ionizing radiation (UV-C and above). But, few people were interested in evidence of natural ozone cycles where the "hole" disappears and reappears. Fewer still were interested in the scientific data showing chlorofluorcarbons (CFCs), and especially Freon, could not possibly reach altitudes necessary to influence the ozone layer.

The United Nations formed an international conference in Montreal in 1987 on substances that deplete the ozone. This conference established the "fact" that Freon was damaging the ozone layer. This "fact" was based on fraudulent science that had sufficient support from financial interests, the media, and government and academic "experts" to be accepted as fact. Subsequently, the Montreal Protocol was ratified as an international treaty two years later.

Freon was presumed to be the major chemical threat from a family of CFCs that were banned because of fraudulent science. The scientific cover up of this fraudulent data on CFCs and Freon has been reported by others, however, the following information pinpoints the foundation of the fraud, as presented by a former NASA scientist named Marshall Smith. Under a media bias that rejects challengers of fraudulent science as "conspiracy nuts," the protectors of the on-going fraud caused Marshall Smith to come under serious personal pressures and adversity after exposing the fraud in "global warming."

"The hoaxes of the "ozone hole" and "global warming" are both based on the same scientific hoax. In 1976 a new government reference manual was published called The US Standard Atmosphere 1976. That reference claims that all the gases in the lower atmosphere are mixed by the weather to a uniform mixture. That is false. In 1987, while working at United Technologies, I discovered several older government- sponsored reference books, showing that the atmosphere is mostly layered, with heavy gases near the earth's surface and the lighter gases rising to the top of the atmosphere. They are mixed a bit by the weather, but mostly are still light on top and heavy on the bottom near the earth.

Those older references cited thousands of university and government balloon surveys of the atmosphere going back to the 1920's. All of that older data was tossed out in 1976. The publication of the US Standard Atmosphere 1976 constitutes a scientific hoax which enabled the creation of the false theories of the "hole in the ozone" and the "global warming" theory. Without the false data in that reference manual, neither theory would be possible.

Without that false data, how could heavy Freon [be shown to] get up high in the atmosphere to the Ozone Layer to deplete the ozone? Also how could much heavier carbon dioxide get high in the atmosphere to become a "greenhouse gas layer?" Both theories are false and fraudulent, and based on the falsified U.S. Standard Atmosphere 1976 data." (Marshall Smith, Brother Jonathan Gazette, 2-20-2006)

The false data in the U.S. Standard Atmosphere 1976 was responsible for the Montreal Protocol that banned the manufacture of Freon. The Montreal Protocol led to an international assessment by treaty of $15-billion. This $15-billion was levied, and then was given to DuPont to develop a safe Freon replacement (and continue their global monopoly). Marshall Smith reports that DuPont already had their Freon replacement developed.

The ozone fraud is but one of many in a matrix of false and misleading information. This same fraud is behind the global warming fraud. Yes there is global warming, but the science relating it to human carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions is built on fraudulent data. All of the planets in our solar system are warming. Yet the fraud is being perpetrated to justify a "carbon tax" and severe limitations on CO2 emissions. (1.)

The payoffs for the perpetrators of this fraud are:

Drastic reductions in industrialization, and thus the infrastructure that supports 6.5-billion humans on planet earth. This means a drastic reduction in the human population through starvation, disease, and wars. (2.)
Treaty limitations on CO2 emissions by nation will bring about a system of "carbon credits" to be sold by less developed nations to the industrialized nations. Thus, a market for trading these credits will develop, and great financial gains will be realized by traders and financial institutions.
Public awareness focused on the misdirecting issue of the ozone hole and global warming, causes a misdirection of the environmental efforts of concerned people. And thus, efforts to reduce toxic chemical exposure are sidetracked. The increasing volume of toxic chemical releases is a vitally important issue that is relatively ignored. By some estimates, in just a few decades, the oceans could become too toxic to support life as we know it.

So what to do now? To get out of THE MATRIX of you must grow bigger than its limitations. Break out of your comfort zone, and work to develop and expand your awareness. Share your growing awareness with other, and network to seek a greater truth. Drastically reduce your exposure to television, because television programming reinforces the cultural hypnosis of the MATRIX, and is at best just a waste of time.

I am interested in reader comments on this article. Please send your thoughts to: ghvind@yahoo.com.

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(1) The Kyoto Protocol calls for drastic reductions in CO2 emissions under the U.N. Convention on Climate Change. Prior to the industrial revolution, CO2 concentrations were fairly stable at 280 ppm. Today, they measure around 370 ppm, an increase of some 30%. There is a natural cycle in the production and absorption of CO2 that is achieved through the terrestrial biosphere and the oceans. However, this CO2 increase and its effects have not been properly modeled with U.S. Standard Atmosphere 1976 data, and with other green house gasses, such as water vapor, methane, oxides of nitrogen and sulfur. The public is being duped into supporting a carbon tax that will not reduce CO2, but will make billions of dollars for those backing the carbon tax. (There is a better solution that will be presented in the next TD newsletter.)

(2) Britain's Lord Bertrand Russell authored the Malthusian policy of wiping out the darker-skinned people of the world ("useless eaters"), even by means of bacteriological warfare. This hideous world view was codified when Henry Kissinger promulgated a new United States National Security Study Memorandum (NSSM-200) in 1974, a document not declassified until 1989. See article by Jeffery Steinberg titled, "The War and Genocide Lobby Go Haywire in Washington;" in Executive Intelligence Review, August 2, 2002.

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Transforming Dragons Newsletter - January - February 2008

2008-01-21T17:07:03Z

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In this Issue

Issue No. 11 January - February 2008

Dear Subscribers,

Our eleventh Transforming Dragons newsletter combines the months of January and February 2008. We continue to present articles on the science of prenatal re-imprinting (PNRI), and related subjects.

We take the occasion of the New Year 2008 to acknowledge our subscribers and listeners to Transforming Dragons. We truly value our TD listener's experiences and the feedback that we receive from you; and we try to present some of this to you through our TD newsletters.

In our last newsletter (# 10) we discussed the rising level of human suffering and some of the main reasons. The prospect for 2008 and beyond appears bleak for the collective human population, primarily because of the increasing competition for limited petroleum resources, and also what appears to be an on-going collapse of the entire international banking system.

In our previous newsletter there was an article titled, "Outside The Matrix - ENERGY" that presented three new energy technologies that could solve the current energy squeeze, and thus drastically reduce CO2 and other polluting emissions. These new technologies have been repressed by the powers behind the status-quo energy establishment. Two of these three new technologies are based on an emerging revolution in science that are partially explained in terms of what is called the Lattice Nested Hydrino (LNH) atomic model. See: http://www.lnhatom.com/

This new knowledge goes beyond current physics, and will be important for our personal development. This is a revolution of great importance because it promises to totally transform our human existence. The seeming miraculous may become commonplace. This promises to transform us from our present dark-age based on energy inadequacy, to a new paradigm based on new science that can provide abundant "free energy" that does not consume limited resources. For those technically inclined, there is a 51-page briefing paper on the emerging science by Tom Bearden at: http://cheniere.org/articles/index.html

Old structures and institutions must adapt or die, and the year 2008 will be a time of great change. The challenge and the need to transform human maladaptive and dysfunctional behavior will be greater than it has ever been.

We have the potential to be midwives to a new renaissance in science and creative expression, or we can be helpless victims of the corrupted order. Move forward into the New Year of 2008 with a commitment to personal growth, and seek out and find ways that you can assist in improving the world. If you are interested in knowing more about alternative perspectives on the New Year, send an email to: ghvind@transformingdragons.com

And, please pass this along to others.

Prenatal What?
by Gerald Vind

So you tell a new acquaintance that you are into Prenatal Re-Imprinting, and they look at you strangely, and they ask:" Are you pregnant? Yes, we know the "Prenatal What?" reaction that many of you receive when you attempt to explain PNRI and Transforming Dragons. In order to help you explain what PNRI is all about, the following is something that you may copy and send to your friends and loved ones. PNRI is great, but it is new and still largely unknown.

Take heart, the world is slow to accept innovation. Remember, the first flight of the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk just a little over a century ago was met with skepticism from Scientific American and other publications (circa 1904) that questioned the Wright Brother's achievement, and it was ignored or underappreciated by scientists and the general public.

Are we saying that PNRI is on the order of the Wright Brothers achievement? We will let you make such judgments. What we are saying is that PNRI can be remarkably safe and effective when compared to the current state-of-the-art in helping humans through their mental and emotional problems. Properly administered PNRI can be ten-times as effective as most current methods for helping emotional challenges, and 10% of the cost.

Most PNRI practitioners are located in the greater Dallas, Texas area. Many who are seeking help through a PNRI practitioner have contacted me from around the United States. Unfortunately, these distant needs cannot yet be met.

In order to respond to these unmet needs, a PNRI-based audio program was developed that is called: Transforming Dragons (http://www.transformingdragons.com). The image of dragons is used to represent the maladaptive patterns that were created in the emotional core of our brain while we were in our mother's womb. These are patterns that can keep us from achieving our full potential.

Thus, while we may invoke wonderfully positive images in the large cognitive-verbal-thinking part of our brain (our neocortex), there is a more primary emotional center (our limbic system) that may be in conflict with our conscious positive desires. And that primary emotional programming is imprinted in a neurochemical language, and is generally hidden from our conscious awareness.

For example, you are visualizing a new blue Lexus that you really want to own, however, you have a prenatal dragon of unworthiness that sabotages your affirmations of "really deserving a new blue Lexus." Thus, you create situations that cause you to fail in your quest for the new car, and instead you produce frustration, disappointment, and feelings of self-doubt in order to create the emotional "juices" to feed your unworthiness dragon.

In addition to unworthiness, there may be numerous other "dragons," such as inferiority, inadequacy, uncertainty, insecurity, etc. Thus, for example, we may think we are self-confident, or we may present an outward appearance of confidence. But, lurking in our inner core may be a prenatal dragon of uncertainty that was imprinted in our fetal brain.

This maladaptive imprinting of uncertainty creates personality patterns of indecisiveness and procrastination. The prenatal imprinting of uncertainty occurs because of the mother's experience of not being properly bonded to the father while she was carrying her baby in her womb.

As with PNRI, Transforming Dragons stimulates transformational experiences in our brain's emotional center, and this can transform (re-imprint) our dragons into lifeless shadows. Our brain has great neural plasticity, and the capacity to change by growing new neurons, as well as new neuronal interconnections.

The major breakthrough that makes PNRI work so effectively are techniques for taking our brain's cognitive neocortex out of dominance, and bringing the core emotional center (limbic system) into dominance.

Based on PNRI, and the science behind prenatal imprinting, Transforming Dragons is an audio program that enables listeners to re-experience their developmental period of negative imprinting they received while in their mother's womb. Then, listeners are able to re-imprint alternative prenatal memories and create positive response patterns as their basic personality.

Transformational re-imprinting replaces maladaptive patterns with positive patterns, creating more congruence between the neurochemically-programmed (imprinted) emotional center of the brain, and the brain's cognitive neocortex.

When our prenatal negative personality patterns are changed to positive patterns, then The Law of Attraction will work far more beneficially in our life.

There is a free mp3 audio explanation of the science behind PNRI and Transforming Dragons available on: http://www.transformingdragons.com/audio/td-cd-intro.mp3

Gateway to Higher Consciousness
by Gerald Vind

I have had a keen interest in human consciousness since the late 1960s when I began to break out of my agnostic skepticism. At that time I worked on the corporate staff in a new technology planning organization for one of the great aerospace companies of that time (Hughes). For many years, I was open and accepting of evidence that was outside what I now see as the "religion of modern science." I use "religion" in a pejorative sense, that is, science too has its limiting dogma. However, the scientific method (and competition) doesn't allow erroneous dogma to exist for very long. Nonetheless, there is still an underlying reductionism-materialist mind-set that is the prevailing "wisdom" for most scientists.

While I had been open, and I was able to allow science and spirituality to co-exist within my thinking, for many years, I was unable to integrate them. Recently, however, some advanced thinking by scientists such as Frank Wilczek. Nikolai Kozyrev, and Tom Bearden have caused a profound shift to begin forming in our concepts of physics. This shift is moving us rapidly toward free energy, anti-gravity, and a whole new class of materials technology based on the new Lattice Nested Hydrino (LNH) atomic model ( http://www.lnhatom.com ). These revolutions in physics are also producing changes in human awareness and consciousness; and also changes in our concept of, and relationship with reality.

Bear with me as we continue, because this revolution in physics is of profound importance to our understanding of human consciousness, and the human body/mind. These new developments are exciting and empowering to me, and I want to share them with you.

Recent scientific discoveries have begun to integrate the two seemingly separate fields of science with spiritual (and paranormal) phenomenon. These recent discoveries join modern science with ancient concepts of aether (or ether) such as:

Vedic Prana and Akashic energy
Tebitan Tummo energy
Chinese/Japanese Chi or Ki energy
Norse god Odin's fire

While seemingly ignorant, these ancient practices and concepts seem to be more congruent with the emerging new scientific discoveries about aether (or ether) than is most of main-stream science is today.

The concept of ether has a long history and has been largely ignored until recently. However, Nobel Prize winning physicist Frank Wilczek says that ether has been re-introduced into physics with the name: quantum fields. Today science talks about ether by using such synonyms as: quantum fields, sub-quantum kinetics, or zero-point fields.

Now it is becoming more widely accepted that the vacuum of space is far from empty. The void of space is now being viewed as filled with an unimaginably large energy potential. David Wilcock is a spiritually gifted investigator of consciousness and the new paradigms of physics. In his book titled Divine Cosmos, he writes:

"Dramatic scientific evidence that all of physical matter is formed by an "aether" of invisible, conscious energy has existed since at least the 1950s.

Renowned Russian astrophysicist Dr. Nikolai A. Kozyrev (1908-1983, pronounced Ko-zir-ev,) proved beyond any doubt that such an energy source had to exist, and as a result he became one of the most controversial figures in the history of the Russian scientific community.

The awesome implications of his work, and of all those who followed him, were almost entirely concealed by the former Soviet Union, but with the fall of the Iron Curtain and the advent of the Internet we are finally gaining access to "Russia's Best-Kept Secret."

Two generations of remarkable research by thousands of Ph.D. level specialists have emerged from Kozyrev's seed findings, which completely change our understanding of the Universe. With our prominent mention of him in this book, we hope to permanently establish his historical importance and impact to our colleagues and readers."

Astrophysicist Bernard Haisch also advocates this radical new theory of the nature of matter that he says could ultimately allow humans to harness the forces of gravity and inertia, bringing an age of space travel and a limitless source of clean energy.

Scientists David Thomson and Jim Bourassa have formed the Quantum Ether Dynamics Institute, http://www.quantumaetherdynamics.com/ They are independently developing an ether-based model that integrates quantum mechanics, relativity theory and string theory. The model describes all matter as a sub-atomic whirlpool, tornado or vortex in the ether or vacuum of space..

Torsion field physics is the new science of the twisting dynamics of the sub-quantum ether (torsion fields in the so-called vacuum of space). We are beginning to see that torsion fields respond to human conscious intention. We now see clearly that our body/mind influences physical reality. Communication by means of torsion fields (ESP) is virtually instantaneous, so that even the vast interstellar far reaches of the universe, we are not separated by physical distance measured in millions of light-years.

This is the gateway to a new era where our personal (and collective) potential to transform our Planet Earth can permit us to achieve the miraculous and accomplish remarkable things. This is a consciousness gateway in each of us, and we must pass through the emotional center of our brain. If that passage is filled with "dragons" our ability to achieve is diminished and we waste our energy producing emotional juices to feed our prenatal dragons; and also wasting each other and our planet in our insane folly.

To this end, I believe that the science of Prenatal Re-Imprinting (PNRI) needs your support to bring more people into the experience of transforming their dragons. We are all in a collective crisis, and we do not have time for individuals to go through years of psychotherapy. Please email this newsletter to your friends and loved ones and help us to spread the word about Transforming Dragons, and PNRI.

Karma
by Gerald Vind

The concept of a "law of karma" can be traced back to the early Upanishads Sanskrit literature, and many thousands of years earlier as an oral tradition in the region in-and-around what is now India. The karma concept is basically this: All living creatures are responsible for (and accumulate) a karmic debt for their actions and the effects of their actions. There are numerous variations of the concept of karma that often confuse its meaning.

For our discussion within the science of Prenatal Re-Imprinting (PNRI), karma may be seen as the accumulation of the results of our experiences, and these experiences shape our reality. The very primary accumulation, however, begins before we are born, and is the result of our adaptation to the emotional life of our mother while she was pregnant and carrying us in her womb.

Thus, the foundations of our "karmic reality" are formed before we are born; formed in a neurochemical "emotional soup" created by our mother's experiences. Our mother's emotional neurochemicals pass through the placenta, and this imprints our developing brain, and establishes personality patterns in us before we are born. These patterns influence our attention, awareness, and emotional response; they create our perceptual filters. Accordingly, we experience our life as a projection through the "lens" of our perceptual filters. In other words, our "karma" is a projected reality that we create as a result of our life experience that began before we are born.

For example, a pregnant young woman named Jane is poor, and she does not have enough resources during the pregnancy. This expectant mother's emotional experience typically generates a characteristic pattern of neurochemicals that will imprint on her developing baby a foundational personality pattern of inadequacy. In our example, Jane's experience of a generalized pattern of inadequacy transmits a prenatal pattern to her developing baby by creating the same neurochemical response patterns in the developing brain..

This pattern, seemingly karmic, is passed from mother to child as surely as if it were in the genetic code. The "inadequacy karma" imprints before birth; then after birth the imprinted pattern distorts perception so that the experience of inadequacy becomes the foundational emotional state. Accordingly, we manipulate our reality field so that the dominant life experience will be inadequacy.

Now however, we have a powerful tool to change the maladaptive patterns (such as inadequacy, insecurity, uncertainty, inferiority, irritability, etc.) through prenatal re-imprinting (PNRI). And, while not as powerful as the one-to-one sessions of PNRI, Transforming Dragons can bring about significant improvements when the listener invests their full intention and attention in the four modules.

Matryoshka
by Gerald Vind

The art of making Russian nesting dolls began a little over one century ago. These nesting dolls are called "Matroyshka," a word for mother. These dolls were brightly painted with traditional Russian designs, and constructed so that the completed doll had many similar but smaller dolls that nest inside of each other. Today, a Matryoshka set can have as many as twenty dolls nested together inside the largest doll of the set.

Matryoshka: Russian Nesting Dolls

The Russian nesting doll offers us a useful symbolic or metaphorical reference in Prenatal Re-Imprinting (PNRI) in two ways.

First, we can let the outer doll represent our dominant persona or personality, and successively smaller dolls represent other more hidden aspects of personality. The problem that many face is that their smaller dolls are not nested, and stand separate from each other.

The process of PNRI is, at its most fundamental level, a process of expanding self-awareness. By exploring one's prenatal "dragons" from the vantage point of present-day problems and concerns, we can not only re-imprint maladaptive patterns and discharge negative emotions; we can also more fully integrate the disconnected and disowned aspects of who we are. Using our Matryoshka metaphor: we round up our separated nesting dolls and bring them into their proper place; a process that reduces our inner neurological chaos, and creates increases neurological coherence.

Second, we can let the outer doll represent the social pressures of others in our friends, family, and larger groups, organizations, and community. In this case, we experience obligations, expectations, and pressures to conform. This is relevant to the growth and adaptation that takes place after experiencing several PNRI sessions. In this second metaphorical example, we are the smallest doll nested way inside, and it wants to be released from confinement.

We live within a network of relationships, and when we change we may put pressure on some of our relationships. Also, those close to us may put pressure on us to respond and behave as we did before our PNRI experience. We are fortunate when we find those around us who can grow and adapt with us. Unfortunately, far too many are resistant to change, and thus some relationships may be strained or broken. However, if you can get them to listen to Transforming Dragons in a non-judgmental way, they may become more accepting of change.

The first Matryoshka metaphor represents a convergence of self (i.e., integration); while in the second metaphor it represents constraint and the desire for divergent thoughts and activities (i.e., creative expression).

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The New Biology
by Gerald Vind

Bruce Lipton, PhD., is a pioneer in a new field called epigenetics, and a leader in a scientific revolution referred to as: "The New Biology." Lipton's recent findings have begun to reach the minds of the established medical community, however, awareness and change is still very limited.

The key to Lipton's findings comes from results of the human Genome Project (released in 2003). These results have produced a major restructuring in biology. The established assumption that each gene produces coding for only one protein has been overturned. The new biology now recognizes that each gene can create up to 30,000 proteins, and there is wide variability possible in genetic expression. Thus, if one has a family history of disease, such as cancer, this increased probability can be reversed.

Lipton's research fills in the missing information about genetic predisposition, and helps to explain why some actually develop disease, while others do not. Through the new biology of epigenetics, we now know that our mind controls our genetic expression. Thus, our mind triggers our disease process.

The science of epigenetics supports the work of Ryke Geerd Hamer, a German physician. Dr. Hamer originated the "Germanic New Medicine" that approaches human illness, most notably cancer, as not being dangerous in itself. Rather, Dr. Hamer says that physical illness is really the physical expression of an unresolved psychological conflict.

When examining the work of Lipton and Hamer, many are beginning to see that each of us has the potential to control of our health. Our disease states depend on whether or not we express our genetic potential positively or negatively. Thus, we can see how the re-imprinting of embryonic negativity can improve our physical health.

So, how do we influence genetic expression in a positive direction? The answer seems to involve a DNA supporting structure called nuclesomes. Nucleosomes appear to be major carriers of imprinted (epigenetically inherited) information. Nuclesomes also regulate messenger-RNA transcription, preventing unnecessary RNA polymerase access to what are called: promoter regions within our genes.*

Our DNA has some 3-billion base pairs that makes up our unique genetic sequence.. The nucleosome has a crystaline core structure, and it is attached to the DNA. There are a large number of nuclesomes, and they are positioned roughly every 200 base pairs; and thus each DNA has 30-million nuclesomes attached. All of these many nuclesomes are needed because the massive DNA strand wraps around each nuclesomes exactly1.65 times in a process that packs the exceedingly long DNA molecule into the nucleus of the cell.

Because part of the DNA is wrapped around many nucleosomes the transcription factors can only "see" sites in the naked DNA that lies between two nucleosomes. However, nucleosomes frequently move around, letting the DNA float free when a gene has to be transcribed. See: the New York Times article titled: Scientists Say They've Found a Code Beyond Genetics in DNA.

Our nuclesomes are very involved in the expression and transcription of our DNA, and they resonate to, and are tuned in to, the information streaming in from the true "brains" of the cell: the millions of receptor sites in the membrane of each cell. They also appear to respond to the higher meta language of human belief.

The DNA is not the "brain" of your cell, your cellular membrane is more of a "brain," acting as a sensor and processor to the "soup" around it, responding by sending a steady stream of information to the nucleus. The nucleus responds to the information by making various messenger-RNA molecules; and these are like molecular "computer tapes" that are then processed by the machinery of the cell to make a variety of different proteins.

Thus, our mind can be guided to make corrective actions that actually influence cellular output, and thus can produce healing at a cellular level. The trick is to get out of a self-destructive "groove" and re-imprint a new beneficial pattern. And most readers of this newsletter know that the discoveries of prenatal science, and the techniques of PNRI (including Transforming Dragons) are a highly effective in moving out of self-destructive patterns, and establishing positive self-actualizing patterns.

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* A gene is region within a chromosome that controls a part of the hereditary characteristic of who we are. That chromosome is one of 23-pairs of chromosomes that are modular components that assemble to form our DNA. A gene can be as short as 1,000 base pairs, or as long as several hundred thousand.

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Electrogenetics
by Gerald Vind

The preceding article about the new biology of epigenetics, we examined how our mental and emotional processes influence our health and longevity. Thus, the more we understand how this imprinting and cellular memory process works, the more effective we can make our remedial processes work to correct maladaptive patterns. In this article we will examine bioelectrical processes of cellular signaling and communication in the field called: electrogenetics.

Electrogenetics refers to the energy reactions by which a living cellular organism interacts with its DNA and supporting genetic structures. Specialized electronic frequencies and voltages are used to communicate within the cell. While presently only a theory of prenatal science, this is surely involved in embryonic adaptation and imprinting of response patterns from conception onward.

Many years of research by Dr. Merrill Garnett* has demonstrated a direct physical-chemical interaction between the liquid crystal states of human DNA, and the blood protein prothrombin. These interactions take place at "long range" at a cellular level, through forces that use frequency dependent aspects of magnetic field energy. This communication relies on cable-like liquid-crystal polymer structures that have characteristic impedance, that is, they are typically selective for frequency propagation at specific voltages.

Okay, so stay with me as we explore the inner workings of the cell. This is important because the present conventional "wisdom" is wrong, and cells do not function the way that many are being taught. We are going to examine prothrombin, and how it works.

Prothrombin is a glycoprotein that is most known for its essential role in the blood-clotting mechanism. It circulates throughout the body and it serves as a dynamic organizing substance. However, it also has another vital function in the transmission of information to the nucleus of a cell. Prothrombin has a liquid crystal structure when it is dissolved in water, and it is made up of uniform subunit structures that are arranged in a crystalline geometry with both curved arrays and angular structures. When prothrombin structures are stimulated there is a signal emission (called flexoelectric) that is like the piezoelectric effect in solid crystals.

Prothrombin protein molecular strands have an electronic field characteristic that is called Faraday inductance. And this electromagnetic field effect is a vital link in the transmission and reception of signals by the DNA and supporting structures (nuclesomes). Faraday inductance is a very delicate field, and it is easily corrupted and deformed by toxic substances. Thus, we should now view degenerative and carcinogenic changes to DNA as deformities to the DNA energy field structure and function.

Thus, restoration of the normal energy-field behavior of DNA and prothrombin has become a safe and novel approach to treating cellular degeneration (aging) and cancer.

All liquid crystals are field-sensitive to electrostatic or magnetic fields (Attention cell phone users!). Merrell Garnett's research demonstrated that carcinogenic substances destroy liquid-crystal properties, and thus they interfere with cellular communications from the cellular membrane to the DNA in the nucleus. Keep in mind that cellular DNA is not the "brain" of the cell, rather, it functions more like a computer hard drive that is activated by the cellular membrane. The vast array of many varied receptor sites in a cell's membrane respond to the cellular environment and processes this input and transmit information to the DNA in the nucleus. This transmission involves field-sensitive liquid crystals, and thus the electrogenetic functions of the cell.

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*Dr. Merrill Garnett is the founder and CEO of Garnett McKeen Laboratory, Inc. in Stony Brook, New York. He is the inventor and recipient of three U.S. patents for a chemically stable paladium-lipoic acid complex (LAPd) called Poly-MVA; This LAPd complex enhances the transmission of energy and information within the cell, and it has been used with great success for many years as an anti-cancer and anti-aging supplement.

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Q - Josh asks: What is imprinting and how does it work?

A - The term imprinting comes from the work of Conrad Lorenz almost one century ago. Lorenz observed the behavior of hatchling ducks that "imprinted" on the first moving object in their field of view, and they bonded with it as their mother (even if it was not). This concept of imprinting conveys the important idea that very early influences establish life-long patterns.

In the field of psychology, imprinting is a term associated any kind of phase-sensitive learning that is rapid and apparently independent of the consequences of behavior. Unfortunately, most in the field do not yet address the prenatal learning (imprinting).

In the field of cell biology and genetics, the introduction of an imprinted pattern is called: bookmarking. This is the biological process that transmits both epigenetic (from outside the DNA) imprints, as well as genetic patterns of DNA. This transmission is a cellular memory of a particular pattern of gene expression in a cell that carries on through successive generations of daughter cells. This is vital for maintaining the proper cellular expression (phenotype) throughout many generations of cells. Accordingly, cells in particular organ reproduce to provide cells for that organ, and not some other organ.

The actual introduction of an original "bookmark" is what we call imprinting, but that does not include "genomic imprinting" in which certain paternal and maternal characteristics are influenced by environmental conditions before conception.

How imprinting works is a technical excursion into cellular and molecular biology, and some of this is discussed in the preceding articles. The important discovery in Prenatal Re-Imprinting is this: PNRI has proven to be an effective method of writing-over or re-imprinting maladaptive patterns that were established before we are born.

The human brain has a great capacity for change and growth when properly guided and nurtured. That change, however, should come to the first-formed maladaptive foundations of our personality. Anything less simply "papers over" the prenatal "dragons."

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2007-11-30T18:21:10Z

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In this Issue

Issue No. 10 November - December 2007

Dear Subscribers,

Our tenth Transforming Dragons newsletter combines the months of November and December. We continue to present articles related to the science of prenatal re-imprinting (PNRI), and related subjects. And, we truly value our TD listener�s experiences, and we often present them to you ithrough our newsletters.

As we close the year 2007, I extend to all of you a very warm and sincere holiday greeting. And, my greeting carries my wish for a very positive holiday season and New Year for each one of you. Most of us are blessed by favorable circumstances in our lives. Unfortunately, most of humans on earth today are much less well off than we are, and growing numbers are living on the edge of survival.

As the collective chaos in the world continues, it is my sincere wish that you and your loved ones will be able to rise above chaotic circumstances. May the changes ahead work to your benefit, rather than to your detriment. And, it is my sincere wish that you will be healthy and prosper in the years ahead.

Erratic changes and the level of chaos increase in many areas of the world because we have entered into unprecedented economic times, and the underlying dynamics have been masked by a desire to put a happy face on the holiday season. The word �unprecedented� is used because we have entered an era of economic instability that can make our present way of life unsustainable.

Can�t we recover as we have done in past recessions? What is the extent of the problem?

There are fundamental structural problems that will handicap economic recovery. And the major structural problem is called the �peak-oil problem.� Please be open, and follow with me as I expand upon this problem. I consider this it to be of the utmost importance, and I invite you to seek additional information in the article below titled: Outside The Matrix � ENERGY. When you know what is really going on you can then move from being part of the problem, to being part of the solution.

As you read the Energy article (below), and you process what may be new and unpleasant information, I urge you to look within yourself for strength. Find rapport within yourself, then, find true rapport with others. From this, I urge you to find rapport with the earth, and a higher guidance that is there for all of us to access.

Move forward into the New Year of 2008 with a commitment to personal growth, and seek out and find ways that you can assist in improving the world.

What is PNRI?
by Gerald Vind, PhD

PNRI is a pathway out of darkness. For those who have darkness in their lives, the science and methods of Prenatal Re-Imprinting (PNRI) can be a turning point. For example, a life filled with depression and failure can be transformed quickly and permanently onto the path of a happy and successful life.

Why is it that a group of people with the same education, living in the same city, and having the same financial opportunities will produce those who are very successful financially and very happy in their relationships, and also produce those who are in unhappy relationships and are struggling to survive financially? The answer to this question has two separate parts, just as our human brain has two separate parts: cognitive, and emotional.

First there is the cognitive knowledge base that develops our decision-making and opportunity selection, and is involved in the development of our relationships and financial opportunities, and other resources.
Second, there is the emotional component. It is the emotional center of our brain that guides our attention, awareness, attitude, mood, emotions, and motivation.

So, someone can study all of the wealth-making programs, and they will still fail when their emotional center is not in rapport with the cognitive part of the brain. When the cognitive and emotional parts of our brain are not in rapport, we cannot possibly function at our full potential. To believe otherwise is self-delusion.

So how do we know if we are out of rapport in the cognitive and emotional parts of our brain? The answer is very simple. Take a look at your life. Our life is a projection from our inner cognitive-emotional processes. It is from this projection that we create our world-view, and our experience of reality.

For many, the Transforming Dragons audio program can provide significant improvement by re-imprinting positive emotional alternatives to replace maladaptive patterns (�dragons�).

However, some people have been burdened by such profoundly negative prenatal experiences that the Transforming Dragons audio program is not enough. These burdened people usually respond quickly to individual one-to-one PNRI sessions. The results are often so dramatic that they seem almost magical.

After experiencing the dramatic results produced by a few PNRI sessions, one must conclude that the psychotherapeutic conventions used today are relatively costly and ineffective. Hopefully, those who provide psychotherapy and psychological counseling will upgrade their practice to include PNRI as the primary therapeutic modality.

There are several certified PNRI practitioners who are also licensed psychotherapists in the Greater Dallas, Texas area. For more information send an email inquiry, with the subject PNRI, to ghvind@yahoo.com

Re-Programming Life from Our Zero-Point
by Gerald Vind, PhD

Prenatal Re-Imprinting (PNRI) is a technique for accessing and re-imprinting the first-forming embryonic patterns that imprint at a cellular level. Thus, PNRI accesses the biological origins of maladaptive patterns, that is, their biological zero-point* of their existence. These zero-point maladaptive patterns, once located, can be easily re-imprinted and a permanent re-programming can be made to replace negative patterns with positive patterns.

How does that work?

Our personality begins to develop at the same time as our embryonic nervous system. And from our conception (our zero point) and throughout our development in our mother�s womb, we are imprinted with various foundational neurochemical response patterns. Our embryonic and fetal imprinting follows our mother�s response to her life experiences. Our mother�s emotional experiences (good and bad) produce many different emotional neurochemicals that pass through the placenta and imprint cellular-level response patterns. We become imprinted, and we adapt to our mother�s neurochemical �soup.�

This imprinting occurs in the emotional center of our brain (limbic system). And, it is our emotional center that will later guide our attention, awareness, attitude, mood, emotions, and motivation. Our embryonic imprinting establishes our foundational thresholds and set points that we become programmed to reactivate throughout out life.

After we are born, our life becomes organized around creating events that produce the same �flavors� of neurochemical �soup� in our emotional core that we experienced in our mother�s womb.

This is so important, and yet, it is astonishing that no one has addressed this problem in any meaningful way. That is, no one except PNRI practitioners.

PNRI is a science and methodology that takes us back to our zero-point to re-experience our prenatal imprinting. Through a novel and highly effective PNRI system, practitioners work with clients to transform their maladaptive personality patterns into positive and self-actualizing patterns. The results are achieved in a few sessions, and they are zero-point life readjustments.

The zero-point of our being is where we started to form the personality �grooves� that we continue to follow after birth, digging our early prenatal �grooves� deeper throughout our life. PNRI focuses on the early imprinting of maladaptive �grooves� or patterns because this is the place where profoundly beneficial changes take place with PNRI.

Locating the zero point of a maladaptive pattern and transforming it with PNRI releases negative foundations for our present problems (tracing all of the way back to the zero point). Without the negative foundation, our associated contemporary problems are able to resolve themselves and clear up quickly. Thus, PNRI is zero-point life readjustment that is effective and efficient. The power and potential of re-imprinting prenatal patterns is truly remarkable.
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* The term �zero point� is borrowed from its use in quantum physics. There, it is used to describe the threshold of existence where, for example, a photon �pops out� of the vacuum of space into our observed local space-time. In quantum field theory, zero-point energy is synomous with �vacuum energy� that can be drawn from the vacuum of empty space; that is, the natural process of creating �something� out of �nothing.�

Outside The Matrix - ENERGY
by Gerald H. Vind

This is the fourth in a series of articles about the "Matrix" in which we live. The concept of a "Matrix" was introduced by the 1999 Sci-Fi motion picture titled THE MATRIX, written and directed by Andy and Larry Wachowski. (Although, Sophia Stewart claims to be the "mother" of THE MATRIX, and is suing the Wachowskies.) Nonetheless, the idea of being enslaved by a manipulated reality field has gained a broader acceptance.

Energy may seem outside of my field of neurobiology, and thus involved in areas seemingly unfamiliar. However, prior to my more recent passion with neurobiology, I was on the corporate New Technology Staff of one of the great aerospace companies some three decades ago. I was involved in new-technology planning and forecasting, and I assisted numerous department heads in the development of their annual R&D plans. I had the opportunity to learn many scientific and technical fields from the perspective of the leading edge.

Also, from the same perspective of the past three decades, the price of crude oil has gone from under $15 per barrel to close to $100 per barrel today. There is a clear economic stress produced by this, and technology has not kept pace.

The world has grown in the last century and a half from under 2-billion inhabitants to over 6.5-billion. The present world population is unsustainable without cheap oil. The present political and economic �dinosaurs� are sucking as much profit as they can from the established petroleum-based energy system. Some believe that they are well aware of the impending crude oil shortages, and have positioned themselves to profit from the instabilities that are developing.

We are all �woven� into the matrix of a massive worldwide energy production and distribution system. The obsessive focus on petroleum has obscured promising alternatives. This is particularly true in the USA, where efforts to develop energy alternatives are handicapped and often suppressed. The financial powers behind Big Energy dominate not only petroleum, their influence has guided most research into dead-end alternative energy �solutions�, such as hydrogen powered cars.

Behind the conflicts and wars around the world, there is an intense competition for control of strategic resources, especially crude oil. I recommend a well-researched Internet article by Matthew David Savinar, Esq., posted on his website: http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net

Why don�t the media or the political candidates address this important problem? Savinar explains the peak-oil information vacuum in words he first published four years ago:

�Once the seriousness of the [peak-oil] situation is generally acknowledged, a panic will spread on the markets and bring down the entire house of cards even if production hasn�t actually peaked. For this reason, the mainstream media cannot discuss this issue without largely whitewashing the dire consequences for the average person. If they told the truth, people would panic and the markets would crash.�

The unfolding changes may become catastrophic, and changes will surely be stressful, to say the least. Transforming and clearing out our dragons will bring us into greater rapport within ourselves, and hopefully bring greater rapport with each other..

Hopefully, greater rapport with each other and greater rapport with the Earth can lead beyond "vulture capitalism" to a new sustainable socio-economic order. To that end, let us use the resources of our Transforming Dragons Network as a place to gather your comments, ideas, questions, and suggestions.

No need to report to me on Google�s entry into the energy field with a major commitment to energy alternatives. (See: http://www.google.com/corporate/green/energy/index.html) Because of the magnitude of the problem, this will likely fail to provide alternative energy in time to replace declining oil; and to prevent hyperinflation, and economic disruptions.

There are important energy alternatives that Savinar did not discuss, and that Google probably is not considering because of limited scientific horizons. Three of these technologies are discussed below: 1. Super Solar Photovoltaics, 2. Brown�s Gas Technology, and 3. Zero-Point Energy.

If there is interest in this subject, please send me an email with the subject: Energy to ghvind@yahoo.com and I will respond. Perhaps we can help to transform the �energy dragon.�

1. Super Solar Photovoltaics: A company in Cambridge, Massachusetts named Advanced Diamond Solutions has developed a breakthrough in solar cell technology using amorphous diamond nanostructures. In their research to improve ways to cool semiconductor chips, the company discovered a way to convert both heat and light into electricity. The result is a solar cell that is half the cost of silicon solar cells, and has a remarkable conversion efficiency of 50% in turning sunlight into electricity. This is a revolutionary improvement over present solar cell technology. In addition, because this technology responds to the infrared (heat) spectrum, the technology could be used to harvest waste heat from various industrial processes. As of November 2007 the company is a little over one-year away from beginning to offer its new technology in the solar photovoltaic market. http://www.advanceddiamond.com/ (Someone tell Google ab out this.)

2. Brown�s Gas Technology: There is an ongoing revolution in energy generation that is called Brown�s Gas Technology (BGT). In my 20-year study of the history of BGT, it is clear that BGT has been suppressed by the energy establishment. And BGT has also been ignored or dismissed by scientific arrogance (that could easily pass for stupidity) at the highest levels in the United States and Europe.

What is Brown�s Gas? It is produced by the use of electricity to split water into its two constituent parts: hydrogen and oxygen. These two gasses are collected together, and their mixture is called: Brown�s Gas. There are some very unusual properties produced by Brown�s Gas that have been the subject of scientific discussion (and disinformation) for some 20-years.

BGT is presently being exploited by the People�s Republic of China with various technological developments and military applications applications. The United States is slow in catching up to the rest of the world. Outside the USA, responsible individuals are now advocates of Brown�s Gas technology. In Canada, for example, Dr. Andrew Michrowski of The Planetary Association for Clean Energy (PACE). Dr. Michrowski is a strong advocate for full development of BGT. (http://pacenet.homestead.com/)

Brown�s Gas is named for the late Professor Yull Brown. In his early efforts to advance his technology in the 1970s, Professor Brown ran into great difficulty in the United States and Australia. Then, he found that his ideas and research were welcomed by the People�s Republic of China. Professor Brown spent three and a half years at Institute 52; China�s research center for space, energy, and nuclear science located Baotou, Inner Mongolia.

With the assistance of 35 scientists and engineers, Professor Brown developed the gas generator that has been used primarily for welding. There is now a well-established manufacturing operation in China that is producing four sizes of BGT welders. These welders are being exported throughout the world, including the United States. A Chinese company called Norinco (under the Chinese Army) has produced millions of BGT units, and these have worked very reliably over many years.

There are remarkable properties in the Brown�s Gas welding torch flame. BGT welders have an ability to form strong bonds between dissimilar materials, welded bonds that are not possible with any other welding technology (for example a Brown�s Gas torch can weld aluminum to steel or glass or to a ceramic brick).

The temperature of the Brown�s Gas flame, when it is not in contact with some inorganic material, is relatively cool. Yet, when the Brown�s Gas flame comes in contact with some inorganic substance, particularly metals, much higher temperatures are produced. There is a poorly understood interaction between the imploding vortex of the Brown�s Gas flame and metals, and this creates remarkably high temperatures.

Scientific evaluation in terms of the present Standard model will fail; however, when seen in terms of the Casimir effect and the new Lattice Nested Hydreno atomic model the seemingly impossible properties of Brown�s Gas make sense.

This explains what I witnessed when a Brown�s Gas flame heated a rod of pure tungsten metal, and it created a temperature of 10,220-degrees F. (5,660 degrees Celsius) and it caused the tungsten to vaporize.

It was claimed by the late Professor Brown, that his Brown�s Gas welding flame would reduce the radioactivity of some radioactive materials. This claim has been verified by scientific tests conducted by Knud Jespersen, of Infinite Energy Corporation, Toronto, Ontario, and published by Dr. Michrowski ten years ago. More recently (June 2002), Mark Porringa of Zeropoint Techtonix, Inc in Ontario, Canada reported that the Brown�s Gas-Metal Matrix process that achieved a 95% reduction in radioactivity.

There are verified reports of catalytic combustion of Brown�s Gas; and very high temperatures have been achieved, depending on the type of catalytic materials used. Highest temperatures are reported by sintered-porous metal that are made by compressing powdered metal with a process called sintering. Sintered-porous metals produce temperatures from 700 to 800 degrees Celsius. Ceramic catalysts using certain noble metals are reported to operate in the 400 to 600 C range. Clearly, there is an energy gain beyond that predicted by a simple chemical reaction in the combustion of hydrogen and oxygen.

Unlike the combustion of hydrogen gas and hydrocarbon fuels, Brown�s Gas results in only pure water vapor. Thus, there is no requirement for vents, although, Brown�s Gas combustion will produce a slight increase in humidity. However, there may continue to be problems of a damaging burn-through of catalytic materials that may still make catalytic devices too unreliable for commercial product development.

There is much practical engineering information on Brown�s Gas published on the Internet by George Wiseman. He publishes books and he manufacturers BG generators. Wiseman sells his books and products online at: http://www.eagle-research.com/

There is currently a buzz about using water to power automobiles. This really does work. See this practical application of Brown�s Gas at: http://www.water4gas.com/2books.htm?hop=mike514

3. Zero-Point Energy: In 1987, Tom Bearden and Floyd Sweet demonstrated Sweet's over-unity electrical generating device that produced electrical outputs of over a million times more power than was input by the operator. The device extracted almost all its input energy from the active vacuum (zero point) to produce its remarkable electrical power gain. And, interestingly, this six-pound device also produced anti-gravity effects. Sweet�s device was mechanical and had rotating elements.

Subsequently, Tom Bearden, Ph.D. (Nuclear Engineering) set out to construct a simple non-nuclear device that could extract energy from the vacuum fluctuations (sub-quantum kenetics) of the �zero point� of space-time. In other words, atoms are continually absorbing and re-radiating electromagnetic energy (primarily light and infrared). This energy is released in discrete bits called quanta. Thus, a sub-quantum activity is constantly going on throughout all matter and space, however, this activity is below the energy threshold (quantum level) of existence in our space-time (observed reality).

The vacuum of space is a boiling sea of potential energy. This is the zero-point energy that is tapped into and brings forth an output of electric current. This energy source is also referred to as EFTV, that is, Energy From The Vacuum.

Tom Bearden also cites many inventions that have successfully produced �free energy� from the vacuum fluctuations of space.http://www.cheniere.org/ Unfortunately, these inventions have been blocked and have not yet been developed to benefit humankind.

On March 26, 2002, a patent was issued for a device that could revolutionize energy generation The device was patented by Tom Bearden and four colleagues, and they have named the device The Motionless Electromagnetic Generator (MEG). The MEG has produced up to 100 times more power than was input, by extracting free energy from the vacuum of space. The MEG has been independently constructed, and its over-unity performance independently replicated, by other researchers.

Tom Bearden�s MEG work has been verified and duplicated by Jean-Louis Naudin, and he provides a fuller explanation of the MEG at: http://jnaudin.free.fr/html/tbfrenrg.htm

The MEG requires further development engineering, and manufacturing engineering before it can be produced as a commercial product. The current energy establishment resists the development and commercial production of MEG devices.

The MEG could make each home independent of electrical utilities for a fraction of the price of solar energy installations. And, therein may be the true problem, and the reason for resistance to innovation. Such technology would make people free from the present energy matrix, and would result in many trillions of dollars in lost revenue for the present energy establishment.

MAIL BAG

Ruth sent us a card to the Transforming Dragons Network, and she wrote: "This CD is powerful. Please keep me up to date on additions."

Dear Ruth, Thank you for your card, and your feedback. Be sure to go to http://www.transformingdragons.com./other.html and check out Module # 5.

And, Gina sent us the following email inquiry:

Q � "Can the Transforming Dragons Audio CD help people with diagnosed Anxiety and Panic Disorders?"

A � First, let�s deal with the word �diagnosed.� Diagnosis is an administrative and billing category used for Medicare/Medicade and insurance reimbursement. Do not assume that these categories have any intrinsic reality. A particular category can have several possible causes and treatments.

More importantly, almost all diagnosis and treatment overlooks the vitally important prenatal period, and generally seeks to deal with a client�s strong primary emotional events that happen after birth. Consequently, such therapeutic efforts seldom produce change at the primary prenatal level; and thus they just �paper over� the primary emotional foundations.

The central principle of Prenatal Re-Imprinting (PNRI) is: All emotional problems have primary origins in embryonic-fetal response that are imprinted as an adaptation to severe maternal stress. Thus, in a PNRI session a client is guided by a PNRI practitioner to the primary origins of their anxiety or panic.

Typically, this origin point is imprinted from the cascade of neurochemicals that are produced by a mother�s reaction to extreme fear and panic while pregnant with their baby. A mother�s extreme emotions causes the developing embryo-fetus to adapt to this as a baseline or foundational state, and imprints life-long maladaptive patterns.

Using PNRI techniques, the foundational maladaptive pattern (anxiety, panic, etc.) can be re-imprinted; and typically the pattern is gone forever; usually from a very few PNRI sessions. There is no need for months or years of therapy with PNRI, because the re-imprinting produces immediate and lasting change.

Transforming Dragons is based on the science of PNRI, and is usually very effective. However, the effectiveness of Transforming Dragons is directly related to the intention and attention devoted by the listener to the process. With a severely disturbed prenatal experience, the Transforming Dragons (self help) may need follow up with some one-to-one PNRI sessions.

PNRI sessions locate the original emotional �garbage� and remove it, and then plant a �flower bed,� so-to-speak. With Transforming Dragons, no effort is made to remove the core emotional �garbage;� rather the listener receives �flower seeds� in the form of alternative memories that then over-grow the �garbage.�

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Transforming Dragons Newsletter - October 2007

2007-10-01T14:45:41Z

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Issue No. 9 October 2007

Dear Subscribers,

Our ninth Transforming Dragons newsletter continues to present articles related to the science of prenatal re-imprinting. In this newsletter there are three articles: Enhancing Re-Imprinting Mechanisms, Human Intention and Imprinting, and Causes of Depression.
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We want acknowledge those of you who have not only purchased a Transforming Dragons audio CD for yourselves, you have also purchased a second CD for another person close to you. What greater gift to give to someone than the gift of transformation. With the holiday season approaching, it would be a very good idea for all of our Transforming Dragons listeners to consider purchasing additional CDs as gifts.

Also, we greatly appreciate hearing from you. I have been able to respond to each of the emails that I have received. Thank you all for taking the time to send us your personal comments and questions.

What to Expect After Listening

Patti is one of our Transforming Dragons listeners, and she has received great benefit from her experience. Patti offers the following excellent advice to others for listening to their Transforming Dragons audio experience.

Fellow Transforming Dragons listeners,

There are several reasons you may not be getting the results you desire. In my experience of Transforming Dragons, I have found the following five points to be helpful. They are presented to you to help listeners get more out of their listening experience.

Practice getting into the fetal position. Rehearse several times without actually going through a Transforming Dragons module. Sometimes, new experiences seem "strange" or "weird". Your Transforming Dragons experience will be more profound if you can quickly and easily slip into the feeling of being in the womb to begin your Transforming Dragons experience.
You must really exercise your imagination. If you feel you cannot imagine being in the womb, substitute the word "pretend". If an internal voice then answers "I'm not sure if what I'm feeling (or seeing or hearing) is correct", ask yourself "If I DID know what it felt like (sounded like, felt like) what would that experience be for me? The unconscious mind will give you an answer; trust that answer to be the correct one for you. Some people notice a floating sensation. Some feel that there is not quite enough room for them. Hint: stretch out a little (as a fetus), and this sends a signal to mom to straighten up and give you more room. Some people notice a cozy, warm feeling. Some hear the sound of the mother's heartbeat; others hear the sound of the placental "swoosh". . Whatever you hear, feel or sense is right for you!
Listen to at least one module daily. Be sure you are in a quiet place where you will not be disturbed or distracted. Transforming Dragons begins an inner healing process that can be accelerated by private sessions with a Pre-Natal Re-Imprinting (PNRI) practitioner. In private sessions, specific instances of negative prenatal imprinting can be identified and re-imprinted, making immediate and lasting change. Transforming Dragons is designed to re-imprint positive experiences over the negative experiences and thus may take a little longer. But it DOES work, and you WILL experience positive changes in your life.
Expand your awareness and notice the changes. Take notice of even those subtle changes, they can have a profound impact on your life. You may, for instance, notice that someone you used to fight with every few days is no longer as "combative" as they used to be. It may be that three weeks goes by without disagreements with this person instead of three days. As you change your personality what you project into the world changes, and you will no longer attract those negative experiences into your life. Why? Remember - you are born with certain neurochemical "needs" that were imprinted while you were in the womb. As you listen to the Transforming Dragons Modules, you re-imprint these "negative feeling" chemicals with neurochemicals that produce positive thoughts, feelings and emotions. In other words, you no longer project the "need" for that particular negative experience into your world; and then poof - another dragon has been transformed. Many people are not aware of negative "self-talk" that goes on in their head almost constantly. After a few weeks of listening to a Transforming Dragons Module daily, you will more than likely notice that either the voices have disappeared or have been magically transformed into positive "self-talk" and encouraging thoughts that are life-affirming.
Commit yourself to the listening process. Looking at the Transforming Dragons CD case will not produce changes for you. You must take the CD out of the case and play it while you are in the proper posture. If necessary, listen to the introduction again. The correct listening posture is critical to opening your mind to the transformational process. Lying down in bed and curling up is not the same as sitting in a chair and assuming the prenatal position. This is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself. It takes, at the most, about 15 minutes per day to complete one module. Each of the module-stories is designed to stimulate a release of positive neurochemicals in your brain. So listening to a different module each day is very beneficial. You ARE worth 15 minutes a day. And if you don't feel you are worth it, do it anyway, because after a few weeks your brain will be re-imprinted with positive neurochemicals. Then, you will KNOW you ar e worth it!

When you follow these five steps, you cannot help but see positive changes in your life.

After you have followed the suggestions above and noticed the transformative changes they have produced in you, consider this. Why not give your friends and relatives (and even your enemies) the wonderful gift of Transforming Dragons, and the opportunity to transform their own lives? Purchase a Transforming Dragons CD for friends, relatives and anyone you know who would like to have peace and joy in their lives. What greater gift could you give someone than the gift of a lifetime of peace, happiness and joy?

Patti G.

Enhancing Re-Imprinting Mechanisms
by Gerald Vind, PhD

An article in the January 2007 issue of Cognition Magazine reports that episodes from our past are remembered faster and better while we are in a body position that is similar to the physical posture that one was in when experiencing an event.

Thus, the PNRI and Transforming Dragons prenatal posture seeks to achieve a body position that is similar to our prenatal experience where we are confined in our mother�s womb. This simple mechanism has a profound effect on our mental-emotional processes. Tilting our head fully forward activates mechanoreceptors in the base of the head-joint area that is made up of the first cervical vertebra, the atlas (C1) and occipital bone (base of the skull); and also the second cervical vertebra, the axis (C2).

This, along with our seated posture emulating our body in a confined in a cramped womb, produces a stimulus-response (SR) reflex arc that signals the dominant cognitive neocortex (some 80% of our brain) to release dominance, and thus allow the emotional center (the limbic system) in the paleocortex (first developing part of the brain) to become dominant. This SR reflex arc is the primary mechanism for opening up our foundational �master control panel� to be reprogrammed. Anything less than this will only �paper over� our emotional core; and thus our dragons will only be exercised, and not transformed and blown away.

In the Transforming Dragons experience, we are asked to use our imagination in our prenatal journey. When we are guided to imagine some prenatal experience shared with our mother, we are activating neural circuits down to their prenatal point of origin.

When your imagination is properly directed, it has virtually the same intensity as a direct primary experience. This is shown clearly in a study at UCLA , reported in the 11/16/2000 issue of the journal Nature. UCLA neurosurgeon Dr. Itzhak Fried headed the study, and discovered the important role that individual neurons play in the brain during actual visual imagery, and during imagined or recalled imagery.

"Our research helps clarify how the mind's eye works. Visual images can be generated in our mind's eye in the absence of actually looking at the image. Our study reveals that the same brain cells that fire when a person looks at a picture of the Mona Lisa are, in fact, the same neurons that excite when that person is asked to imagine the Mona Lisa."

Dr. Fried and his research team found that when their study subjects were imagining various previously observed photo images, the firing rate of the neuronal brain cells was almost as high as when the study subjects were actually looking at the photos. In Dr. Fried words:

"When you look at something, it's really vivid and when you close your eyes to imagine it, the image is not so vivid. So, we were surprised that the brain cells fired at almost the same intensity.�

Transforming Dragons (and PNRI) utilize the power of your imagination (even if you believe that you are lacking in imagination) to bring you into profound inner healing. Our listeners have experienced results that are profoundly beneficial.

Thus, a warm and loving visualization can re-imprint an alternative foundation and �over-write� some negative prenatal imprint. It is important to recognize that the four Transforming Dragons Modules (and now an added Module 5) are designed to create alternative prenatal memories. They are more than visualizations. When fully invested with a listener�s attention and intention, they become a whole alternative experience. In other words, you are changing your personal history from one of negative experience to one of positive experiences. As one client has reported, "Now I know what it was like to have a happy childhood".

Mental practice has been used to improve skills in throwing darts, karate, and shooting basketball free throws. Mental practice utilizes the imagination in mental imagery and mental rehearsal. The practiced imagery activates the same neural circuits used in actually doing the physical action. In much the same way, a listener�s Transforming Dragons Module experience activates neural circuits that are the same as an actual physical experience.

Mental practice in skills-enhancement training is well studied, and it provides some insights for the PNRI and Transforming Dragons experiences. It is a composite of mental activities involving the recall of visual, auditory, and kinesthetic cues. Thus, it is not just visualization alone. Coaching skills-enhancement training involves the use of three main properties: vividness, controllability, and exactness of reference.

Vividness. Those who can imagine better learn better. Thus, some instruction on imagination, along with practice exercises, will probably improve the effectiveness of the Transforming Dragons process. Mastery of any overt skill increases the vividness of imagery. Thus, superior athletes are able to imagine their skills better than others.
Controllability. Those who can generate and hold a persistent image will have a better Transforming Dragons experience than those who cannot. Sometimes there is too much suppressed and/or repressed chaos in the brain and central nervous system to generate persistent images. For Transforming Dragons and for skills-enhancement athletic training, persistent images are desirable. Use of techniques to quiet the inner chaos by relieving the underlying stress is very beneficial. Listening to the Transforming Dragons Modules themselves is very calming to the listener�s central neuraxis. Thus, the second and subsequent listening experiences will progressively calm imprinted prenatal chaos.
Exactness of reference. For skills-enhancement training, events have to be an accurate representation for the effects of the mental practice to transfer effectively to real-life situations. For the Transforming Dragons experience, this means imagining more detail. Thus, one can listen to their Transforming Dragons CD again with an intention to develop more reality through the experience of more imagined detail.

Thus, our Transforming Dragons experience and similar active-meditative experiences can be enhanced with work in these three coaching areas. Also, after listening several times to the Transforming Dragons Module experiences, one can assume the prenatal posture and expand into their own imagined positive prenatal experiences.

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Human Intention and Imprinting
by Gerald H. Vind

Very ancient Polynesian Huna traditions teach of an inner core of human will, and they call it: Kanaloa. Within the ancient Huna traditions, Kanaloa is one of four aspects of self:

Aumakua - The High Self
Lono - The Conscious Self
Ku - The Subconscious Self
Kanaloa - The Core Self (will)

A Polynesian shaman (kahuna) develops an ability to use their will power (their focused intention) to do seemingly magical or paranormal things.

For centuries philosophers have dealt with issues of free will, volition and intention. Discourse, for example, about people who are intrinsically motivated and do what is in their best interest; and this is contrasted with others who are labeled as "weak-willed" because they are extrinsicly motivated and thus easily influenced by others.

More recently, interest in human intention has been addressed in studies that bridge quantum physics and the paranormal. The growing evidence that there are skills and abilities for directing human intention in order to influence physical reality, and this evidence points to a significantly larger human potential.

In an article in our June Transforming Dragons Newsletter titled, �Thoughts, Intentions, and Emotions Influence Prenatal Development� we presented information about human intention and the nonlocal aspects of our mind.

In our current article we address the ability of human intention to imprint. This is important to the science of Prenatal Re-Imprinting (PNRI). Controlled scientific experiments have demonstrated an ability of human intention to physically imprint, thus, providing another mechanism for early prenatal imprinting. This mental-intentional imprinting is shown in some remarkable mind-over-matter experiments and studies conducted by William Tiller.
www.tillerfoundation.com

William Tiller, (featured in the film: �What the Bleep�) has conducted several experiments that show that the human intention can imprint physical things, and can animate (and inanimate) materials in the physical world.

Tiller�s experimental design used two physically identical, simple electronic devices called Intention Imprinted Electrical Devices (IIED's). These IIEDs were housed in plastic cases seven inches by three inches by one inch in size. The following summarizes Tiller�s description:

�We take one of these [two identical IIED] devices and wrap it in aluminum foil and place it in an electrically grounded container called a Faraday cage. This is our control device. The other device [to be]� imprinted with a specific intention for a particular target experiment� [was] also wrapped in aluminum foil and placed in a separate Faraday cage...

Four individuals highly skilled at meditation and who exhibit a high level of mental and emotional inner self-management carry out the imprinting. On entering a deep meditative state, they mentally cleanse the area surrounding the [test IIED] device to create a �sacred space� and, when accomplished satisfactorily, they first verbalize and then mentally hold the specific intention for about 10 -- 15 minutes. Then they release the intention and mentally seal the [test IIED] device before returning to their normal state of consciousness.�

Tiller describes three separate experiments that all demonstrated the ability of human intention to significantly change measurable properties of matter. The intention imprinted devices (IIEDs) were used to capture and convey an assigned specific intention of the skilled mediators. In the experimental design, the IIED device would be wrapped and returned in the same protected way that it was sent to the mediators. The following is Tiller�s description of one of three target experiments:

�For the third target experiment, the intention was to increase the in-vitro thermodynamic activity of the liver enzyme alkaline phosphatase (ALP) by a significant amount. This was achieved with an increase of about 20 percent with the [imprinted] IIED compared to the control device and once again the statistics were excellent with a probability factor of p<0.001.�

In all of Tiller�s three different kinds of target experiments, all of the imprinted IIED devices demonstrated significant changes when compared to the control IIED devices. Professor Tiller concludes:

�These are very remarkable results that are certain to confound our physics, biology, and medical colleagues; however, the experimental data speaks for itself in spite of the entrenched belief systems held by others.�

Now, considering the moment of human conception, and the subsequent prenatal period, let us ask the question: Is it possible that intense emotions and feelings can be imprinted not only by the expectant mother, but also by the father and others who are close to her?

With our awareness expanded by Transforming Dragons, we can answer from our own personal experience. Of course the answer to the question above is: yes. Now, let us move to a greater understanding of human intention and prenatal imprinting that is based on the science of Prenatal Re-Imprinting.

Causes of Depression
by Gerald H. Vind

Major depression is generally a recurrent disorder, occuring as either unipolar depression, or as bipolar disorder (manic depression). It is estimated that depressive symptoms are affecting somewhere between 13% to 20% of the population at any given time. Depression occurs in women more than men, with a lifetime probability of depression in women somewhere between five to nine-percent, and in men between three to four percent.

While major depression is thought to involve inherrited or genetic factors because it occurs much more frequently in pairs of identical twins than in fraternal twins, scientists have been unable to locate a "depression gene."

Depression is a neurobiological process operating primarily within the limbic system of the brain. Severely depressed people have unusual high levels of the hormone cortisol, and reduced levels of the neurotransmitters serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine. These neurochemical imbalances are also found in severe stress. The reduced level of these chemicals may be inherited in our DNA, which some use to explain why depression tends to run in families. However, this genetic attribution ignores possible prenatal imprinting that influences the expression of the DNA. Prenatal imprinting has been largely ignored in mainstream science.

There are various theories that have been used to explain depression. In cognitive and psychodynamic theories, causality is found in past exposure to an emotionally difficult environment, and also exposure to distorted negative thinking. Biologic theories find causality of depression related to neurotransmitter and neurohormonal imbalances, and to irregular circadian rhythm (sleep) cycles. Again, few people have considered the profound importance of the prenatal experience.

Imprinting occurs while we are inside our mother's womb, and our embryonic-fetal brain is imprinted by a neurochemical emotional "soup" from our mother experiences. Our mother�s emotional responses to her life, while we are in the womb, establish our foundational personality patterns.

For example, when a mother does not want to be pregnant, there is an emotional pattern that creates a cascade of emotional neurochemicals that bathe the developing baby and adapts neuronal patterns of response to the mother's emotional "soup" as foundational set points.

Very often this prenatal experience of being unwanted, results in patterns low self-esteem and depression in later life. The underlying neurochemical imprint is likely to be verbalized as a suicidal-prone complex generalization, such as: �When the going gets tough, then it is time for me to go away.�

Research has yet to identify any definitive medical tests for major depression, and so the diagnosis relies on clinical eveluation in accordance with the official reference guide, DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders). In order to be considered depressed, you must have at least five of the following nine symptoms, and they must represent changes in your life:

Depressed mood most of the day, nearly every day
Markedly diminished interest or pleasure in all, or almost all, activities
Significant weight loss when not dieting or weight gain, or decrease or increase in appetite nearly very day
Insomnia or sleeping too much (hypersomnia) nearly every day
Psychomotor agitation or retardation nearly every day
Fatigue or loss of energy nearly every day
Feelings of worthlessness or excessive or inappropriate guilt
Diminished ability to think or concentrate, or indecisiveness
Recurrent thoughts of death, recurrent suicidal ideation, or a suicide attempt or a specific plan for committing suicide.

If you or someone close to you has five of the nine symptoms listed above, you can find relief and an end to depression quickly and permanently. However, lay PNRI practitioners should be careful since depression is considered a medical condition; and so technically, depression should only be treated by a licensed health care provider. So lay PNRI practitioners, you know that you are not treating depression per se, you are transforming dragons through the imprinting of alternative memories. If depression should disappear in the process, so be it.

Those readers who are familiar with Transforming Dragons or with Prenatal Re-Imprinting (PNRI) know that these are very powerful tools for re-imprinting positive prenatal foundations and thus eliminating the foundations of depression. With the prenatal foundation of major depression re-imprinted , the depressive pattern that flowed forward into one�s life can be revised quickly so that major depression is gone forever.

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Transforming Dragons Newsletter - September 2007

2007-08-31T16:34:31Z

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Issue No. 8 September 2007

Dear Subscribers,

This is our eighth monthly publication of the Transforming Dragons newsletter. Your email responses are greatly appreciated.

Again, I encourage subscribers to send me personal email messages. I will take the time to respond individually and privately to your personal concerns, comments, or questions.

Also, please share this newsletter with others.

What to Expect After Listening
by Gerald Vind, PhD

One of our TD listeners shares: �I've been listening to at least one TD module per day and doing some �free form� walks with different parents. I suppose it just takes time to re-imprint all the crap that was put there first.�

Transforming Dragons can be listened to several times, however, it will loose its impact from continued repetition. We recommend that listeners then use their experience of the TD Modules as framework to improvise their own personal scenarios and to create their own positive prenatal experience. Find a quiet time and place where you can guide yourself through the process that you have learned. If you would like some personal guidance in how to do this, send me an email at: ghvind@yahoo.com I will assist you without charge.

PNRI Class
by Gerald Vind, PhD

Prenatal Re-Imprinting (PNRI) is the foundational science that is behind Transforming Dragons. PNRI Practitioner Training is now moving into the fourth month. The classes are held every Thursday evening in Dallas, Texas from 7:00 pm until 9:00 pm. The class has been held in Dr. Joe DiRuzzo�s office. Now because of increasing attendance, the PNRI class will likely be moving to a larger location. For more information contact: Dr. Gerald Vind at: ghvind@yahoo.com

If you are in the Dallas area come see us on Thursday evenings. Casual visitors are welcome, no matter how big or how small their problems are. You will very likely be able to experience a free PNRI session during the class.

Adrenal Function: Pregnenolone and Cortisol
by Gerald H. Vind

Understanding how our adrenal glands function helps us to better understand the psycho-biological processes that are involved in severe maternal stress, and our prenatal imprinting. While this article focuses on the adrenal glands (triangular-shaped �cap� on top of each kidney), the adrenals are part of the hypothalmo-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, and the autonomic nervous system (ANS) that collectively regulate our response to stress.

While we are focusing on stress and the adrenal function, we must keep in mind that the human brain is the key organ in responding to stress. Also, the complexity of the HPA and ANS means that we can only provide a superficial reference in this article.

Maternal prenatal stress is very significant to the developing baby. It is recognized as an important factor causing pre-term birth, as well as low birth weight in full term births. Prenatal maternal stress in a chaotic home environment is thought to imprint the same patterns as early-childhood studies; that is, chaos results in poor self-regulatory behavior, a sense of helplessness and psychological distress. In addition, a chaotic home environment correlates with increased body mass and elevated blood pressure. (1.)

So now, let us look at the adrenal part of the HPA-Brain-ANS functions. The adrenal glands produce many hormones, and in this article we will focus on the important steroid hormones: pregnenolone and cortisol.

Pregnenolone is a precursor hormone synthesized from cholesterol. It is produced mainly in the adrenal glands, but it is also produced in the brain, gonads, liver, retina, and skin.

It should be stated that medical-pharmaceutical promotions of statin drugs are seriously wrong. Promotions of Crestor, Lipitor, Mevacor, Pravachol, Zocor, and (with life-long treatment programs) in order to reduce cholesterol in the interest of cardiovascular health have propagandized the public and sold a bogus issue. The real problem and risk factor for cardiovascular health is inflammation. Reducing cholesterol can have serious consequences, not the least of which is liver damage and an increased risk of cancer. There is a good report on statin drugs on: http://www.mercola.com/2004/jul/21/statin_drugs.htm

Pregnenolone is a natural steroid hormone that is produced in the body from cholesterol. It is the precursor to DHEA (dehydroepiandrosterone), and some 150 other steroid hormones, and is sometimes referred to as the "grandmother� of all steroid hormones.

With all of the media treatment of �roids,� it is probably worthwhile to take a brief overview. Steroid hormones include:

Sex hormones that produce sex differences and support reproduction: progesterone, the estrogens, and testosterone.
The corticosteroids: glucocorticoids (such as cortisol), and mineralcorticoids (such as aldosterone).
Anabolic steroids interact with androgen receptors to increase muscle and bone synthesis.

There is illegal trafficking in natural and synthetic anabolic steroids. In popular language the word "steroids" and �roids� and �roid rage� usually refers to anabolic steroids. (It has been suggested with tongue-in-cheek that �roid rage� might also refer to a bad case of hemorrhoids.)

Pregnenolone is part of this large family of similar steroid hormones that play such important roles in regulating growth, inflammation, and sexuality. Yet, the beneficial action of pregnenolone supplements has no significant side effects, including little or no anabolic, androgenic or estrogenic effects.

Pregnenolone has been found to be 100 times more effective for memory enhancement than other steroids or steroid-precursors. Pregnenolone appears to be the most potent memory enhancer yet reported. Pregnenolone not only makes people smarter, it also makes people happier. Studies have shown pregnenolone is able to enhance job performance. Pregnenolone also has the ability to reduce stress effects caused by fatigue; and it also improves immunity, and speeds the repair of neuronal myelin sheaths.

Pregnenolone levels, along with all steroid-hormones levels, declines with age. At age of 75 there is a decline of some 60% in our pregnenolone levels compared to the levels produced in our mid-thirties. For this reason measurement of our pregnenolone level is one of the important markers of biological aging.

Pregnenolone supplementation is associated with improvements in memory, mood, awareness, alertness, and reduction in the symptoms of stress. Pregnenolone enhances the ability to acquire knowledge, and it has been shown to increase motivation. It not only makes people smarter, but it also makes them happier with heightened feelings of well-being.

Pregnenolone is a powerful neurochemical, and in our brain it modulates neuronal transmissions and it strongly influences learning and memory. Supplementing small amounts of pregnenolone appears to slow age-related degenerative processes, improving one's quality of life by rejuvenating the body to more youthful functioning.

Supplementation to restore pregnenolone to youthful levels is an important step in slowing (and reversing) the effects of aging. Pregnenolone is important because it has a balancing effect; and since it is a precursor to most other hormones it helps to regulate the levels of other hormones as needed. Recommended dose is 25 to 50 mg per day, or as directed by your health care provider. Pregnenolone is available in a sustained release form, and this form is preferable.

Our modern diet has significantly compromised the function of our adrenal glands. Rapid increases in blood-sugar levels causes the pancreas to secrete excessive amounts of insulin, which often leads to hypoglycemia. In an attempt to normalize blood sugar, our body starts a counter-regulatory process.

During this counter-process, our adrenal glands are stimulated to secrete increased levels of cortisol and adrenalin (epinepherine). This can lead to a chronic depletion of cortisol, and then to adrenal exhaustion.

The corticosteroid cortisol is a vitally important steroid that:

Counteracts inflammation reactions and allergies,
Counteracts the effects of stress. (From physical and emotional trauma, infection, temperature extremes, etc.),
Maintains emotional stability and regulates mood,
Stimulates the conversion of amino acids to glucose by the liver as an added source of energy production; and,
Stimulates increased movement of fatty acids into the blood (from fat cells) to be used as an added source of energy production.

While cortisol plays an important role in our health and it is required for our survival, when our fight-or-flight stress response is turned on too high and for too long, some serious health problems can develop. Then, excessive cortisol production:

Causes shrinkage in our brain, especially our hippocampus that is central to memory and learning,
Increases blood sugar levels, while it reduces cellular utilization of glucose. This results in high insulin levels that increases abdominal fat, and can damage vital organs;
Suppresses the immune system leading to increased infections, allergies, and degenerative diseases,
Decreases protein synthesis, while increasing protein breakdown, and can lead to muscle wasting; and,
Causes demineralization of bone that can lead to osteoporosis.

Pregnenolone helps to regulate cortisol production, however, there is another important process of regulating and stabilizing blood sugar levels. We must maintain a balance between the two hormones, glucagon and insulin, that are both produced by the pancreas. Protein in the diet induces the production of glucagon. Carbohydrates (especially refined carbs) in our diet will stimulate the production of insulin.

Insulin promotes fat (energy) storage. When refined carbs are eaten and then quickly converted to glucose (blood sugar), our body produces large quantities of insulin and reduced levels of glucagon. High insulin levels result in more fat being formed and stored, and this is the major factor in our national obesity pandemic with 65.2% of Americans in the obese category. (2.)

When insulin is high and glucagon is low, the adrenals are called upon to produce excess cortisol as a back-up response to help raise blood sugar in the absence of adequate glucagon. This occurs at the expense of the adrenal glands, thus contributing to adrenal exhaustion.

How many expectant mothers are given proper knowledge and guidance to reduce fetal stress from faulty nutrition and toxic substances? How many young families are properly prepared for pregnancy with adequate resources? How many young families are guided in stress reduction, and in coping with emotionally toxic relationships? I think that most of our society and educational system fails miserably. Most of us grow up in a fog of advertising and compromised science. Who is there to clear the fog? Actually, you are the one who must clear the fog, at least in your own mind. As your awareness grows, you can join with others to help improve the next generation by supporting programs such as The Wonder Baby Program.
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(1) McEwen, Bruce � �Physiology and Neurobiology of Stress and Adaptation: Central Role of the Brain,� Physiol. Rev. 87: 873-904, 2007 � pg 879.

(2.) With respect to obesity, there are the important considerations of the neurotoxins aspartame (in diet drinks) and MSG (in many processed foods). They are called excitotoxins, and both destroy nerve cells in the weight-regulating center of our brain (hypothalamus), and also in our brain�s memory-learning center (hippocampus). Through aspartame and MSG we not only become obese, we also become stupid!

Also, obesity studies often overlook the important regulatory hormone leptin. Leptin is produced by our fat cells and it plays a key role in regulating energy intake and energy expenditure, including the regulation (decrease) of appetite and (increase) of metabolism. Leptin works by inhibiting the activity of neurons that produce appetite regulating peptides (NPY) and hormone (AgRP) that stimulate hunger. Leptin signaling also increases the activity of neurons that produce a regulatory hormone (�-MSH) that signals when we have satisfied our hunger. Leptin is a regulatory hormone and not another supplement to be taken; it is regulated by our dietary intake of protein and carbohydrates.

Exploring Personality
by Gerald H. Vind

The Transforming Dragons Personality Transformation ProgramTM (TDPTP) enables listeners to re-experience their time in the womb, and re-imprint positive personality patterns in the inner core of the brain. The program is developed from a new science of Prenatal Re-Imprinting (PNRI)

The presupposition of PNRI is: Our personality begins to form when we are only a small bundle of embryonic cells inside of our mother�s womb, through a process of imprinting in the deep structures of our brain. This imprinting is in a pattern of many different neurochemicals that conditions our emotional neuronal cells before we develop the massive cognitive-thinking part of our brain.

This imprinting establishes foundational perceptual filters that will later have a profound influence on our personality and how we experience life. After birth our life is about manipulating our reality field to achieve the same foundational patterns of emotional neurochemicals that we experienced in the womb.

Thus, all of our problems have their roots in foundational maladaptive Pavlovian (conditioned) responses developed under fetal and/or maternal distress. So for example, if your mother was distressed over a lack of emotional or financial support, her distress created a cascade of stress-related neurochemicals that pass through the placenta and imprinted a personality pattern of inadequacy.

Under extreme maternal stress embryonic cells are subjected to excessive adrenaline and its metabolite adrenochrome (hallucinogenic). These powerful neurochemicals can establish what later becomes a virtual addiction to stressful experiences. Thus, embryonic imprinting causes many to be born as �addicted� stress-seekers who unconsciously re-create stressful situations over and over again.

TDPTP is designed to do exactly what the name implies. There is a personality transformation through a re-imprinting (re-programming) of our core emotional center with alternative prenatal experiences. Thus, listeners are guided to accept alternative positive and self-actualizing foundations to their personality.

We are going to delve into aspects of multiple personality disorders to better understand the intimate connection between body and mind. (Multiple personality is now called dissociative identity disorder.)

Dissociative identity disorder (DID) has generally replaced the original name of multiple personality disorder (MPD). Some 97-percent of DID patients have a history of severe childhood trauma, often in the form of monstrous psychological, physical, and sexual abuse. Most DID patients have around eight to twelve separate personalities. No studies have yet examined the prenatal experiences of DIDs, but theory suggests a traumatic gestational period.

Dissociation is a complex coping mechanism for individuals confronting traumatic and painful situations, and with DID it involves a collapse in ego integrity (constructs of reality) that is so profound that their personality fragments. Ego integrity is our accumulated experience of order, structure, relevance and meaning from which we develop a sense of self and others; and from which we develop our personality. However, as students of PNRI we know there are prenatal experiences that form a more primary personality foundation.

DID is an unusual and bizarre condition in which two or more distinct personalities inhabit a single body. People who suffer from this disorder often have some awareness of their abnormal condition. However, they often have no awareness that control of their body is being passed back and forth between different personalities. They typically feel confusion, and believe that that they are suffering memory blackouts or amnesia.

EEG measurements show that each of a DID patient�s personalities has a different brain-wave pattern, and each personality has his own name, memories, and capabilities. Also, DID personalities each have their own unique handwriting.

At the International Society for the Study of Multiple Personality, in Chicago, Dr. Bennet Braun has documented a case where a patient's sub-personalities were all allergic to orange juice, except for one. When this patient drank orange juice he would break out in a very bad rash when one of his allergic personalities was in control. However, if he switched to his non-allergic personality, the rash would instantly start to fade and he could drink orange juice freely.

Biological changes can take place when there is a switch in personalities. A medical condition possessed by one personality will mysteriously vanish when another personality takes over. For example, a multiple personality that was admitted to a hospital for diabetes showed no disease symptoms when one of her non-diabetic personalities was in control.

The evidence from studies of multiple personalities shows how fragmented constructs of reality (fragmented ego integrity) operate as separate belief systems. It is important to students of PNRI and TDPTP to understand the intimate connection between the body and mind. With a normal (single) personality there is one body-mind. With a DID patient there multiple body-minds.

Our personality (and for DIDs, multiple personalities) includes a belief system (or multiple systems). Our belief system is a core structure that is accepted as true, and thus resistant to change. Our belief system is surrounded by other thoughts and ideas that are generally consistant with the core belief structure. Acceptance of new thoughts and ideas is often blocked by the mechanism called cognitive dissonance.

We have limiting beliefs that inhibit us and limit our thinking, and thus limit the fullness of our lives. Our perceptual filters, with their roots in our prenatal development, shape our self-image, our attention, and our interest, values and motivation. Our perceptual filters are the lenses through which we project and create our reality field. And we do really create our experience of reality with all of its problems, faults, and limitations. Our prenatal limitations are the foundations of complex generalizations that impose limitating beliefs, such as:

I belong in a role or set of relationships that define my place and capacities in life, and these bind me and they cannot be changed.
I am not good enough and cannot succeed, so there is no point committing to even trying.

Our beliefs have a profound influence on us physically, as noted in the orange-juice allergy cited above. This mental over-ride of bodily functions can be clearly demonstrated in hypnosis. If, for example, a subject is hypnosized and is told that the hypnotist is holding a red-hot branding iron (however the iron is cold). And then the hypnotist presses the iron on the hypnotized subject�s arm, and this produces a physical reaction.

The subject�s mind believes that the branding iron is red hot, while his body experiences a cold object. Normally the body would respond to a red-hot object automatically releasing neurochemicals to produce an inflammatory response. The hypnotized subject�s mind will perceive the contact of the cold iron, and will operate as a back-up system and will cause an inflammatory response at the point of contact.

Our personality patterns (that include our belief system) contain limiting prenatal programming. Working with TDPTP and PNRI can give us a much smoother playing field in the game of life, where stumbling blocks become stepping stones.

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Recommended Reading: The Alcoholism & Addiction Cure
by Chris Prentiss

This is an important book because Chris Prentiss is shaking up the establishment by demonstrating that they are misguided and wrong in their approach to alcoholism and substance abuse. While the book is written for those with alcohol and substance abuse problems, it is worth reading for those who are (or planning to be) therapists or caregivers.

For half a century, the American Medical Association (AMA) has identified alcoholism as an incurable disease. Throughout the world today, the medical model is used and thus: alcoholism and addiction are regarded as incurable diseases. While there are physiological and medical considerations in an individual�s recovery, the longstanding AMA model is being overturned by the ongoing work of Chris Prentiss.

In his book, Chris Prentiss shows how to truly cure alcoholism and addiction, and he backs up his words by the results of his rehabilitation center: �Passages Malibu [is] the world�s most effective center for the treatment of substance abuse, where our success rate�is 84.4 percent.�

Prentiss is an innovator, and he is very passionate about his work. He wants to bring about revolutionary changes to the longstanding medical approach to alcoholism and addiction.

�Alcohol and drugs are not the problems; they are what people are using to help themselves cope with the problems. Those problems always have both physical and psychological components�anything from anemia, hypoglycemia, or a sluggish thyroid to attention deficient disorder, brain-wave pattern imbalances, or deep emotional pain. You will be reading later about the steps to recovery that address these causes, but foundational to them all is this key premise: when the underlying problems are discovered and cured, the need for alcohol or drugs disappears.� [emphasis added]

Reading this book opens our mind to new ways of thinking that cause us to see substance abuse in a whole new light. All dependency is just a symptom, not the true problem. Thus, Prentiss point out that the belief system of the caregiver or therapist is powerfully important

�Pay particular attention to what you're about to read, for it will lay the groundwork not only for part of your cure, but also for your continued state of well-being throughout the rest of your life� Here's a bit of metaphysical law regarding our topic of cure that relates to one of the basic and most important aspects of our Universe - cause and effect. Simply stated, the metaphysical law says: "Every action produces a reaction, and that reaction is in exact accord with the action." (Do not confuse that metaphysical law with the physical law that states that "for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.)�

�The metaphysical law of cause and effect applies to your beliefs in the following way. Every belief that you hold manifests itself in some manner by either causing you to take some form of action or by preventing you from taking action. When we apply this metaphysical law to the cure of addiction, we see that healers and therapists who don't believe that a cure is possible will not talk about a cure, will not look for a cure, and will most likely fail to bring about a cure.�

Prentiss warns that the current therapeutic paradigm poisons the mind of those seeking help with the belief that a cure is impossible, and thus one is doomed to be an addict or alcoholic for the rest of their life. The inculcation of that belief results in a self-defeating attitude that undermines the recovery process.

�Those misguided �helpers� poison the minds of those who come to them. It's not that they're doing it deliberately; they don't know any better. That is sad, because hope - the hope for a cure, the hope for a bright, clean future free of addictive drugs and alcohol, and the hope for a return to a normal, healthy life free from the excessive fear of relapse - is the most powerful stimulus for complete recovery.

Compare those misguided healers with healers and therapists who believe that a cure is possible. They will talk about a cure, will look for a cure, and will be more likely to bring about a cure. Most important, they will instill in you the belief that a cure is not only possible, but probable, and that you are definitely going to be among those who will be completely cured. That belief alone results in the self-empowering attitude that sets the stage for your recovery.�The treatment program at Passages Malibu is advertised as providing a therapy-intensive program:

�Each client receives an astonishing 65 individual therapy sessions per month with doctors and therapists who are at the forefront of modern addiction treatment. Our fully customized treatment program first discovers and then heals the underlying causes of a person's addiction using one-on-one therapy. With the proper addiction treatment, Passages helps our clients to cure themselves so that they can remain drug and alcohol free for the rest of their lives.�

I believe that PNRI introduced into the Passages Malibu, or any other substance-abuse therapeutic protocol, would be a significant benefit. For those readers who have experienced a PNRI session one-to-one, you know that it is very difficult to understand or appreciate the power and effectiveness of PNRI without a direct personal experience. Unfortunately, news about PNRI spreads slowly. However, we are pleased that Transforming Dragons is helping to introduce the world to PNRI.

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Transforming Dragons Newsletter - August 2007

2007-08-02T17:52:45Z

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Issue No. 7 August 2007

Dear Subscribers,

This is our seventh monthly publication of the Transforming Dragons newsletter. Thank you for your encouragement and support. Your email responses are greatly appreciated. It helps to publicize this work when you forward the newsletter you receive to others.

I encourage subscribers to send me personal email messages. I will take the time to respond individually and privately to your personal concerns, comments, or questions.

What to Expect After Listening
by Gerald Vind, PhD

There is an anonymous story that circulated on the Internet about ten years ago. I am told that this version is similar to an earlier original version by Portia Nelson. In either form, the story is worth reviving because it illustrates the growth process that Transforming Dragons is designed to facilitate. The story is titled: My Biography in Five Chapters.

My Biography in Five Chapters

Chapter One: I walk down a street. There is a deep hole in the street, and I fall in. I am lost in the hole. I feel helpless, and I know that this is not my fault. It takes a long time for me to get out of the hole.

Chapter Two: I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the street. I am in denial that the hole is still there, and I fall in again. I can't believe I am in this same place, and I still believe that it isn't my fault. Again, it takes me a long time to get out.

Chapter Three: I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the street. I see the hole is there, and I fall in with my eyes wide open because I believe I do not have any other options. But this time I know where I am, and I now know it is my fault, and that I created my experience. This time I get out of the hole immediately.

Chapter Four: I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the street. This time I choose to walk around the hole.

Chapter Five: I walk down many different streets, avoiding the holes.

New TD Module 5 is now complete
by Gerald Vind, PhD

We have completed Module 5, and it is now available as an MP3 download from our new Digital Download Store.

The Module 5 audio file contains a story designed to produce an alternative re-imprinting of the bonding and love between mother and father. Listeners are guided to participate in a positive parental prenatal experience that stimulates the production of a neuropeptide called, oxytocin. This audio experience is designed to stimulate new neural response patterns for several neurochemicals, especially oxytocin.

The neuropeptide oxytocin acts throughout the human body-mind. In women, it is released during the birthing process, and during breast feeding. Oxytocin is also released during orgasm in both sexes, and also during plesant surprises. Oxytocin is an important neurochemical in social recognition and bonding, and it is involved in the formation of trust between people. Oxytocin is seen as an important neuropeptide for the experience of happiness and a feeling of belonging. Module 5 is designed to stimulate and expand your development of a greater response and sensitivity for happiness and love.

Rapport
by Gerald H. Vind

Rapport is one of the most important features of human interaction, yet it is often unnoticed because it is established largely through unconscious interaction. Rapport is defined as a feeling of harmonious or sympathetic relations with, or connection between people.

Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) stresses the importance of rapport, and teaches techniques of 'mirroring' or matching body language, posture, breathing, predicates and voice tonality. NLP practitioners have been criticized for mirroring with a �pantomime effect� of mere mimicry that fails to establish authentic rapport. Mirroring or matching of client�s body language should strive to come out of the practitioner�s subconscious empathy.

PNRI training also stresses the importance of rapport, and strives to have practitioners achieve an empathetic sensitivity with their client. Empathy allows us to feel the emotions of others, to identify and understand their feelings and motives and see things from their perspective. How we generate empathy remains a subject of debate in cognitive science. However, neuroscientists have discovered the mechanism for �mind reading� that is found in what are called �mirror neurons,� described below.

Empathy is commonly defined as a heightened sensitivity to perceive, recognize, and directly feel the emotions of another person. Empathy is often characterized as an emotional resonance, with the ability to experience the outlook and emotions of another being.

We have a long-term and short-term memory. Our long-term memory can be likened to a computer hard drive, while our short-term memory can be likened to a very small-capacity RAM. Because of this limited capacity, our short-term memory can hold only about seven items (plus-or-minus two)at a time.

Accordingly, our conscious awareness or attention can process on the order of seven items simultaneously. To use the metaphor of a darkened cave, we have our narrow beam of attention lighting our perceptual field. While some beams may be broader and brighter than others, we are all limited in what we can hold in our consciousness awareness at any given moment.

To continue our darkened cave metaphor, we have a subconscious awareness that is able to perceive and process a great deal more information; that is, we also pick up all of the perceptual input that never makes it into the �beam� of our conscious awareness. This latter capacity may be likened to holding up a lantern in our darkened cave, allowing us perceive and record sensory input, but not necessarily be congruent with it. That is, our gut reaction may not agree with our conscious awareness.

So in human interaction we have our conscious awareness, and our subconscious sensory perceptions. However, let us turn that concept around and say that we have broad sensory awareness that floods our nervous system, and out of that �flood� we filter and abstract the average of seven items that make it into our �beam� of conscious awareness. All sensory input is processed by the whole body-mind, and we use but a small portion of that input in our conscious thought.

We talk glibly about the human subconscious without real agreement about what is conscious and what is subconscious. The term �subconscious� rose into popular use from the early works of Sigmund Freud in his efforts to describe the unconscious mind; but it has been avoided by academics because of its ambiguity. In seeking a fuller understanding of the �subconscious� and �unconscious� we would do well to discard both terms and instead think in terms of full-consciousness being our full capacity for sensation, subliminal perception, and full perception.

Accordingly, what is often called human consciousness is the limited capacity that we have to hold our attention on approximately seven items that fill our sensory-perceptual channels.

We have a vast amount of primary perceptual information that constantly floods our brain while we are awake. This information is recorded in the mind as a stream of episodic-memory inputs that are not presented to our conscious awareness unless we direct our attention to them.

Returning to the issue of rapport, we can see that when we are seeking to establish rapport that there is a level of primary perception that becomes excluded by limiting the experience to the narrow focus of conscious awareness. If we can become bigger than our mind�s eye, that is, bigger than our �beam� of conscious awareness we will develop our capacity for a deeper empathetic rapport.

This is not a big stretch to achieve because we do this all the time when we sense the intentions of others around us. Neuroscience has identified neural paths and parts of the brain that are involved in the coding of the intentions of others. This coding of intention involves what are called �mirror neurons.� Brain imaging studies show that the intention behind the actions of others is recognized by the brain�s motor system using a mirror mechanism.

Mirror neurons recognize the actions of others below the threshold of conscious awareness. This is done in a process of matching the observed action onto its motor counterpart coded by the same neurons. Thus, there is an unconscious and automatic coding for intention associated with the actions of others.

This coding is based on the activation of neuronal circuits formed with mirror neurons. Mirror neurons code observed motor acts, and the context and pattern of events that follow. Thus, mirror neurons develop patterns for interpreting and predicting the intention of others.

Thus, in establishing rapport with someone, our studied actions to mirror their physical aspects (posture, breathing, etc.) can subconsciously communicate to them that we are in harmony with them. However, this harmonious relationship is not a given.

�Mirroring� as a rapport facilitating technique may be masking our core inner state that is inconsistent, and is emotionally colored by the dragons deep in the innermost part of our brain. Thus, the dragons imprinted during our prenatal development form fundamental barriers to establishing authentic rapport in later life.

Dallas clinical psychologist Ross Stewart, Ph.D. is one of the first to apply PNRI techniques with his clients. He has identified rapport as a major human problem, and he says that humanity is suffering from a disease pandemic called: Rapport Deprivation Sickness (RDS).

Rapport deprivation produces social and psychological distance from others, and leads to alienation and isolation. Far too few of us are psychologically and emotionally open and honest with others; as is sometimes said, we are not comfortable with psychological nudity. We relate with each other from behind masks and manipulate others for personal advantage. Moral lessons teach us to learn to use things and to love our fellow humans; reality teaches us to love things, and to use people. The latter tends to preclude authentic rapport.

The consequences of the RDS pandemic are a wildly dysfunctional culture. An effective treatment for the foundational causes of RDS can be found in Transforming Dragons.

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Outside The Matrix � B6
by Gerald H. Vind

This is the fourth in a series of articles about the "Matrix" in which we live. The concept of a "Matrix" was introduced by the 1999 Sci-Fi motion picture titled THE MATRIX, written and directed by Andy and Larry Wachowski. (Although, Sophia Stewart claims to be the "mother" of THE MATRIX, and is suing the Wachowskies.) Nonetheless, the idea of being enslaved by a manipulated reality field has gained a broader acceptance.

There are countless scientific studies showing that people who are happy have high levels of the neurotransmitter serotonin in their brain. And, there are countless studies showing that people who are depressed have very low levels of serotonin.

Reduced serotonin levels are commonly attributed to factors of stress, poor nutrition, lack of exercise, lack of sleep, and lack of sunlight. Serotonin, along with dopamine, norepinephrine, melatonin, insulin, and prostaglandins are some of the important neurochemicals that are influenced strongly by stress, diet, exercise, sunlight, sleep and other life style factors. However, serotonin is even more strongly influenced by our dietary excess of B6.

B6 is the only "vitamin" that is not natural and not a vitamin. In the 1920's, nobody noticed that the amino acid L-tryptophan was not just a precursor for niacin (vitamin B3), but that it was also the only precursor for serotonin. That important discovery was not made until the 1970's. Unfortunately, the medical �science� that B6 was the necessary vitamin precursor to niacin was a well-entrenched dogma.

B6 is added for processed-food product promotional reasons since it is a cheap, simple and stable synthetic chemical that does not degrade with age or cooking. Adding 100% of the RDA costs almost nothing. But B6 is NOT a vitamin. It is not found in any natural food. And there is no natural form of B6. It is a chemical additive and not a food.

Thus, the average person in America who eats breakfast cereal along with many other vitamin-enriched foods will receive about ten times the RDA for B6. That is an extreme overdose of B6 that prevents the amino acid L-tryptophan from entering the brain. And, L-tryptophan is what our brain cells need to make serotonin.

Almost all of our dietary problems, mental and physical disorders are all the result of a huge surplus of B6 in our diet and supplements. What is B6? Okay, lets trip lightly through some chemistry. The major forms of B6 are pyridoxine, pyridoxal, and peridoxamine. Pyridoxine is the most common form of B6 used in multi vitamins, and vitamin additives to foods.

But, the body actually uses pyridoxal in the chemical form of: pyridoxal-5-phosphate (P5P). P5P is the active enzyme form of B6 that does not require activation by the liver and does not convert L-tryptophan to niacin. Supplementation should switch from B6 to P5P. Our nervous system needs the P5P to aid in protein metabolism, and in the absorption of B12. Also, P5P is a cofactor in managing homocysteine levels.

Overdosing with B6 (pyridoxine) converts the L-tryptophan to niacin, and thus significantly limits the amount of serotonin and also melatonin that can be produced in the brain. Interference with serotonin production leads to some major health problems.

How can our health professionals overlook something so important? Would I sound too cynical to say: follow the money trail? Could it be that supplementation with L-tryptophan and P5P, and avoidance of B6 might reduce pharmaceutical sales?

As we transform our dragons and free more of our conscious awareness we become more aware of how we are deceived and enslaved by the matrix. Our health, and the health of our loved ones will improve as we grow in our awareness.

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Subliminal Influences
By Gerald H. Vind, PhD

Are subliminal techniques employed in advertising and propaganda, and are we are influenced by these techniques? A subliminal message is embedded within a conscious perception that passes below the normal limits of perception. These messages are ignored by the conscious awareness of the mind (because of its limited span of awareness), yet they register in our whole body-mind.

A device called a tachistoscope can project an image for a very brief period that is below the threshold of conscious awareness, and yet registers subliminially in the whole body-mind. It is possible to embed a subliminal messages in any projected visual image, for example words and subliminal images to encourage purchase of snack-bar items during the intermission of a motion picture.

Half a century ago a market researcher named James Vicary claimed that quickly flashing messages on a movie screen influenced people to purchase more food and drinks. Vicary coined the term subliminal advertising and formed the Subliminal Projection Company.

Vicary's claims were promoted in Vance Packard�s book titled: The Hidden Persuaders. Packard�s book led a public uproar, and subsequent ban of subliminal advertising.

However, in 1958 Vicary conducted a television test in Canada and found no increase in subliminally programmed telephone calls. Four years later, Vicary admitted that he fabricated his original claim, and his story was a fraudulent marketing ploy. Some have suggested that Vicary�s scandal provided a misdirection away from a developing field of highly classified mind-control research that was later exposed.

Congressional testimony subsequently exposed Project Artichoke as a CIA mind control program that studied hypnosis and various chemicals and techniques to produce amnesia and vulnerable states for control of human subjects. Artichoke arose from the CIA Project Bluebird on August 29, 1951, and in April 20, 1953 it became Project MKULTRA with their infamous LSD experiments.

Artichoke was an offensive program of mind control. The scope of the project was outlined in a memo dated January 1952 that indicated their objective:

"Can we get control of an individual to the point where he will do our bidding against his will and even against fundamental laws of nature, such as self preservation?"

Two separate stories by victims of the MKULTRA mind control programming have been published by: Cathy O'Brien and Sue Ford (a.k.a., Brice Taylor). These are two well-publicized stories of victims of the CIA's mind control program, which by their account, is designed to create human robots to serve functions ranging from prostitutes to couriers to killers.

Such mind control techniques go well beyond subliminal programming by using very sophisticated techniques to fracture the human mind into self-contained compartments that are called: �alters.� The mind is filled with amnesic barriers that prevent the primary personality (�front alter�) from being aware of the back alters. By an implanted program a handler can cause a back alter to replace a front alter and then direct prearranged programming.

Subliminal techniques, as with any human communication, should be evaluated in terms of the intention of the source. Unfortunately, with high secrecy (as is common in the three-letter Agencies) there is greater opportunity for abuse.

Yet, in the field of personal growth and development, subliminal audio programs have been used widely with extensive reports of benefits and success. Two prominent examples are:

http://www.monroeinstitute.com - Half a century ago Robert Monroe experienced spontaneous out-of-body experiences. Subsequently, he established The Monroe Institute as a nonprofit educational and research organization dedicated to the exploration of human consciousness. Monroe is the pioneer in working with binaural audio sound patterns that affect one�s consciousness states. Monroe�s audio-guidance technology is known as Hemi-Sync�, and it is able to stimulate an expanded awareness and out-of-body experiences.
http://www.centerpointe.com - Centerpointe�s Holosync audio technology combines binaural and subliminal technology. Centerpointe says their soundtracks are specially engineered to create various states of consciousness, including changes in important brain chemicals related to aging and longevity, including DHEA, cortisol, and melatonin.

Subliminal encoding is used in many other self-improvement or self-help audio programs. However, it will never be used in Transforming Dragons. Subliminal programming is below our threshold of awareness, and we want you develop your awareness, and not subvert it. We want you to become more aware, and using subliminal programming can weaken our ability to resist manipulation.

We want you to develop and expand your personal inner awareness to discover where the �strings� and �hooks� can be attached to you. Transforming Dragons and PNRI are effective methods for expanding our awareness, and avoiding circumstances that diminish our aliveness.

Financial Support

We encourage your support of Transforming Dragons. Contributions can be made directly to Applied Neurobiology, LLC. Tax-deductible donations can be made to our supporting research organization setup in the Applied Neurosciences Institute (ANI). The ANI is part of the Congressional District Programs, a 501(c)(3), 509(a)(1) public charity, and thus shares its federal tax status (Tax Identification Number 65-0970090) with our ANI program.

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Transforming Dragons Newsletter Archives
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For those who are recent subscribers to this Transforming Dragons newsletter we call your attention to our archives, and invite you to read some of our previous issues.

Issue 6 Transforming Dragons Newsletter � July 2007

New TD Module 5 is near completion
Transformation
The Dragons of Violence
The Wonder Years
Recommended Reading: The Second Brain

Issue 5 Transforming Dragons Newsletter � June 2007

New TD Module is under development
Stressful Pregnancies Create Dragons
Thoughts, Intentions, and Emotions Influence Prenatal Development
Recommended Reading: Biology of Belief

Issue 4 Transforming Dragons Newsletter � May 2007

What to Expect After Listening
The Science Within TDPTP: Meta Programming
Changing Our Reality
Recommended Reading: Molecules of Emotion
Recommended Link: www.birthpsychology.com

Issue 3 Transforming Dragons Newsletter � March 30, 2007

The Science Within TDPTP � Severe Stress
PNRI and Self Esteem
Outside The Matrix - Media
Recommended Reading � The Secret Life of the Unborn Child

Issue 2 Transforming Dragons Newsletter � March 2, 2007

The Developing Phenomena
The Science Within TDPTP � Neural Circuits
Outside The Matrix � Health Care
TD and Seasonal Effective Disorder

Issue 1 Transforming Dragons Newsletter � February 2007

Connecting With Mary
The Science Within TDPTP - Norepinepherine
Nurturing and Expressing Creativity
Outside The Matrix -Education

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Issue No. 6 July 1, 2007

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Thank you all for your continued interest and support of Transforming Dragons.

What to Expect After Listening
by Gerald Vind, PhD

After listening in accordance with the instructions, TD listeners experience an inner calmness and a shift or transformation in perspective. That shift is from being at effect of their feelings and emotions, to being at cause. This is accompanied by a heightened awareness of the dynamics of one�s life. There is also a much lighter and brighter outlook on life.

In order for a fundamental shift to take place, listeners must invest their full attention and their strong intention into the TD process. If a listener does not follow the instructions provided, and they have a casual approach to the TD experience, their results will be diminished.

We invite all of our TD listeners to share their experience with us. .

New TD Module 5 is near completion
by Gerald Vind, PhD

We have designed and recorded a new Module 5 that follows the Transforming Dragons Module 4. The added web-page design is underway and should be completed in mid-July. Module 5 will be available only as an audio-file download. The plan is to also offer the first four TD CD Modules as a download as well. It is strongly advised that listeners to Module 5 first experience Modules 1 thru 4.

The Module 5 audio file contains a story designed to produce an alternative re-imprinting of the bonding and love between mother and father. Listeners are guided to participate in an alternative prenatal experience that stimulates the production of oxytocin, and thus adjust new neurochemical response patterns.

Oxytocin is a neuropeptide that acts in the human body-mind. In women, it is released during the birthing process, and during breast feeding. Oxytocin is also released during orgasm in both sexes, and also during plesant surprises. Oxytocin is an important neurochemical in social recognition and bonding, and it is involved in the formation of trust between people.

The structure of oxytocin is very similar to that of vasopressin. Oxytocin and vasopressin were discovered, isolated and synthesized by Vincent du Vigneaud in 1953, and he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in 1955.

Vasopressin has also been of particular interest for its role in social behavior. Vasopressin appears to also be released in the brain during sexual activity, and it initiates and sustains pair-bond between the sexual partners. Both oxytocin and vasopressin are released in the brain during intimate sexual bonding.

Why a Module 5?

How many get into relationships that are screwed up by going about it backwards? Ideally, a relationship between a man and woman follows these steps: rapport, communications, friendship, trust, physical intimacy and sex (that may lead to pregnancy). In keeping with the prevalent fast-food mentality, couples often fail to develop a foundation of friendship and trust (two facades courting each other) and they rush into sex, pregnancy, and problems.

Under such circumstances a pregnant woman may fail to adequately stimulate the neurotransmitter oxytocin in her baby, and the result may be a child born with a down-regulated oxytocin production, and thus may have problems in forming interpersonal bonds, and experiencing love.

Module 5 will not only benefit-oxytocin disadvantaged soles, it will benefit everyone. Oxyticin production makes us feel good, and continued work with Module 5 will up-regulate oxytocin production. Why not feel wonderful? Why not up-regulate your oxytocin production?

Module 5 is split into two separate audio files. The introduction by Dr. Vind will be available as a free download. The experiential process of Module 5 can be purchased through our new digital product online store for $4.95.

TRANSFORMATION
by Gerald H. Vind

In Transforming Dragons, we talk about a �personality transformation program,� and the question is asked: What is transformation?

Transformation is more than change, it is a fundamental alteration of a pattern or a system. In the field of biology, transformation is a post-natal biological process called metamorphosis. Within the field of genetics, transformation refers to the introduction of a change in genetic material (from outside of a cell) that results in an alteration of the host DNA; and thus, the host cell is transformed by a process called mutation.

There is a fundamental principle involved in transformation, and it is worthwhile to take a few moments and examine a deeper meaning.

About 30-years ago I was serving on a board of directors of a health care organization, and I had several opportunities to spend time with a consultant who was hired to help the organization to plan its future. The consultant was named George Land, and he had at that time recently published a book titled: Grow or Die: The Unifying Principle of Transformation. As the author of this 1974 paperback, his name then was George T. Lock Land. However, George married a woman named Ainsworth, and so he changed his name as author of the hardcover printing of his book (in 1986) to: George T. Ainsworth-Land. Subsequently he has simplified his name to George Land.

I had several lengthy conversations with George Land, and found him to be very knowledgeable and inspiring. He has mastered every field imaginable, and he is the closest person I have encountered to being a universal expert. I have had the opportunity in my life to work with many very brilliant minds, and I have not encountered anyone with his breadth and depth of knowledge in so many fields.

George Land advances the idea that all living systems are either growing or dying, and there is no sustainable stasis. Land developed what he called a general systems theory of transformation. Accordingly, we live in a world that is in dynamic tension between the opposing forces of order and disorder.

The closed world (reductionist) view sees everything in terms of the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The Second Law holds that things go from a higher order to a lower order, from higher to lower complexity; e.g. water runs down hill (not up), and things wear out turning ultimately to dust. This is true for closed systems, however, living things (especially humans) are not closed systems, and thus can move to higher orders of complexity.

George Land explained to me that the disordering force of the Second Law of Thermodynamics was in opposition to an ordering force that is active in the universe. Land introduced me to the work of Ilya Prigogine, who received the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1977 for his theory of dissipative structures. Through Prigogine�s work we can see that life forms are complex open systems that are able to move from lower to higher orders of complexity.

Land incorporated Prigogine�s ideas into his general systems theory of transformation. Land explained this to me as he drew a line as an arrow from left to right in the middle of a sheet of paper. The direction of the line represented the passage of time, moving from left to right. At the left end of the time line, Land drew a vertical line that represented increasing order above the time line, and decreasing order (or increasing disorder) below the time line. Living systems grow to increasing orders of complexity above and along the time line.

Land explained to me his three fundamental patterns of growth apply universally. He drew a curve along the time line, as he explained that growth takes place in three fundamental phases. The first phases he calls the accretive phase. This is the getting-it-together phase, and we can observe it operating from the molecular level to the level of microorganisms, and to the level of business and governmental organizations. He explained with an example of a boy playing with an Erector Set, and he is surveying the array of parts on the floor before him. After free play with some parts, the boy begins to assemble them into a structure.

Land drew the curve from flat with the time line to begin to curve upward toward the right. Land said that the boy moves form the accretive phase to the replicative phase, as the pattern of order is repeated over and over again.

At some point in the growth process, continuing to repeat the same pattern cannot be sustained; as in the example, the boy who is building a bridge and he does not have enough long pieces to continue his structure (growth). This brings in a crisis where the growth process must transform or growth must stop. Land drew the slope of a bell-shaped curve. As one moves up the curve you are increasing growth and order. At the top of the curve there is no longer growth, and there is a process of increasing disorder as one continues down the slope.

For growth to continue there must be a transformational process. Using the example of the boy with an Erector Set, he can transform his plans from a bridge to a fort, and begin to transform his basic structure to allow the growth process to resume. Land explained that there is a potential for a fundamental transformational phase within all growing systems. When we can no longer grow we die, unless we can transform our process to resume growth.

Many people are blocked in their growth, and they are slowly dieing. This is a condition that Land calls �quiet desperation.� Others simply give up and they die more quickly. When we look at our life we can find ourselves repeating the same patterns over and over again, even when they are no longer productive and they no longer allow us to grow and enrich our lives. We can see this in a resume of a job applicant who claims ten-years of experience, when in reality he had one year of experience ten times.

In the science of Prenatal Re-Imprinting we have a fuller awareness of the prenatal imprinting that starts to form response patterns before we are born. After birth, our life seems to become more and more automatic as we enter into a replicative phase of growth. Eventually, we encounter barriers to the continuation of our established patterns, and we stop growing.

Transforming Dragons and Prenatal Re-Imprinting operate at our foundational level to revisit the origins of our maladaptive patterns and to transform them into positive alternative foundations. In this process we are able to expand our awareness about: ourselves, our relationships, and our lives. We can to begin to grow again; we can move from quiet desperation to a personal transformational phase.

The field of physics has marked some paradigm shifts. In classical Newtonian Physics we are the detached observers of our world. In the field of Quantum Physics we find that the very act of observing influences our measurements. Beyond this, we now have the awareness that the act of observing our measurements also influences us as the observer. This new paradigm is referred to as Transformational Physics.

We live in a wondrous and dynamic world that is presently going through major transformations. Are we going to be part of the world�s problems, or part of the healing? The key to our participation is in our ability to expand our awareness, and then to inspire others.

It is worthwhile to recall a quotation from psychologist Carl Jung: �The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.� Thus, in our reactive interactions with others we transform them; and we are transformed by them.

My fervent desire is to facilitate an expansion of human awareness through the Transforming Dragons Personality Transformation Program. I welcome you, and greatly appreciate you joining with me and assisting in this quest.

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THE DRAGONS OF VIOLENCE
by Gerald H. Vind

The clinical dynamics of violent behavior are well known, but the underlying mechanisms are not well understood. Yet, you readers who are listeners to Transforming Dragons have an insight that most people do not have. Even professionals in the American Psychological Association (APA) are only just beginning to examine the underlying mechanisms of violence that have their origins in the prenatal experiences in the womb.

The American Psychological Association (APA) addresses violence on their website as follows:

�Violence. It�s the act of purposefully hurting someone. And it's a major issue facing today's young adults. One in 12 high schoolers is threatened or injured with a weapon each year. If you're between the ages of 12 and 24, you face the highest risk of being the victim of violence. At the same time, statistics show that by the early 1990's the incidence of violence caused by young people reached unparalleled levels in American society. There is no single explanation for the overall rise in youth violence. Many different factors cause violent behavior. The more these factors are present in your life, the more likely you are to commit an act of violence�.�

The APA goes on to say:

�There is never a simple answer� But people often commit violence because of one or more of the following:

Expression. Some people use violence to release feelings of anger or frustration. They think there are no answers to their problems and turn to violence to express their out of control emotions.
Manipulation. Violence is used as a way to control others or get something they want.
Retaliation. Violence is used to retaliate against those who have hurt them or someone they care about.
Violence is a learned behavior. Like all learned behaviors, it can be changed. This isn't easy, though. Since there is no single cause of violence, there is no one simple solution. The best you can do is learn to recognize the warning signs of violence and to get help when you see them in your friends or yourself.�

The psychological and social perspectives are important, but the promise of significant change in the level of violence must address the prenatal roots of violence. The field of neuroscience has many studies that are shedding light on the underlying mechanisms of violence.

Many new insights into these underlying mechanisms are coming from genetic studies of the molecular biology of neurotransmitter regulation; and these studies are providing insights into the neurobiology of violent behavior. Neurochemicals (neuropeptides, regulatory peptides, and hormones) involved in the regulation of violent behavior are under study with new brain imaging methods.

Violent behavior develops as a result of complex interactions between neurobiological and environmental factors. Some of the neurobiological mechanisms of violent behavior are similar or identical to those mechanisms found in suicidal behavior. ⁽¹⁾

Many neurotransmitters and hormones are involved in the modulation of aggressive behavior. Most of the current science strongly points to the importance of the neurotransmitter serotonin and catecholamines (dopamine, norepinephrine, and adrenaline). Norepinephrine plays an especially important role in aggression.

Aggression is neurochemically similar to suicidal behavior, and it is associated with increased norepinephrine (noradrenergic) activity. Elevated levels of norepinephrine and epinephrine (adrenaline) have been experimentally related to hostile behavior. ⁽²⁾

Serotonin exerts inhibitory control over impulsive aggression. Various studies have associated violence with a deficit found in various measures of serotonin function. The subjects in these studies were diagnosed with personality disorders and alcoholism.

Research has also found that a deficiency in two enzymes are important biomarkers of impulsive and violent behavior: monoamine oxidase (MAO) and catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT). MAO and COMT are involved in the breakdown of catecholamines, including norepinephrine.

Severe maternal stress depletes an expectant mother�s norepinephrine levels. This stress can also produce natural opiates that further inhibit the release of norepinephrine. During pregnancy these natural opiates pass through the placenta and influence neurological development of the prenate. Depletion of norepinephrine, accompanied by excessive amygdala activation, and opiate release, can lead to permanent structural and functional neurological development by affecting brain interconnections, synaptic size and densities, and responsiveness.

Under conditions of severe maternal and or fetal stress, an abnormal form of neuronal interconnections can develop along with a reduced response threshold. Thus, a child�s foundational capacity for empathy and socialization are handicapped. After birth, continued exposure to severe stress continues to handicap developmental processes.

Children with severely disrupted development are impacted in five primary neural systems involved in regulating a child's response: Reticular Activating System, Locus Coeruleus, Hippocampus, Amygdala, and Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis.

These five areas are the foundational areas in what�s known as �the inner most part of the brain.� They are all involved in the altered neurobiology of violence, and they are all best influenced in a therapeutic process through Prenatal Re-Imprinting (PNRI). The use of the Transforming Dragons audio experience helps to reduce the level of inner chaos, and to prepare for a subsequent PNRI-centered therapeutic process.

References:
(1) Mann JJ: �The Neurobiology of Suicide�. Nat Med 1998; 4:25�30
(2) Gerra, G., Zaimovich A., Avanzini, P., et al: Neurotransmitter-neuroendocrine responses to experimentally induced aggression in humans: Influence of personality variable. Psychiatry Res. 1997; 66:33-43

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THE WONDER YEARS
By Gerald H. Vind, PhD

In terms of the science of Prenatal Re-Imprinting, we have very intriguing evidence of the importance of the prenatal period on all subsequent developmental processes. We have significant evidence of our ability to facilitate superior development in all areas, such as superior intelligence, motor skills, and coordination. Rapport, attention, and love of the prenate from the moment of conception by both parents (who were cleared of their "dragons" with PNRI) have produced children that have truly extraordinary abilities. While the evidence is at present in the form of anecdotal studies, it is likely that controlled studies with a larger number of subjects will substantiate the current evidence.

For many years we have known that the period following birth is most important for subsequent developmental processes. Benjamin Bloom of the University of Chicago, has conducted extensive research on the early influences on human intelligence: "Put in terms of intelligence measured at age 17: from conception to age 4 the individual develops 50% of his mature intelligence... This would suggest the very rapid growth of intelligence in the early years and the possible great influence of the early environment on this development." ⁽¹⁾

Research by Colwyn Trevarthen at Edinburgh University, Scotland studied many hours of infant behavior while interacting with their mothers, and has this recorded on sound film. Trevarthen is primarily interested in babies' embryonic "intention to communicate," 'pre-speech and early gesticulation,' and "integration of experience with communication of intent." Trevarthen�s work points us to the prenatal period as having great importance. ⁽²⁾

The fact that babies can communicate at birth indicates prenatal development and learning are taking place. One of the primary sensory channels is auditory.

Even though a series of acoustic barriers buffer a fetus from the outside world, the fetus lives in a stimulating matrix of sound, vibration, and motion. Many studies now confirm that voices reach the womb, and are not overwhelmed by the background noise created by the mother and placenta. Speech patterns, as well as musical sounds, reach the fetus with very little distortion. Our mother's voice is particularly powerful because it is transmitted to the womb through her own body reaching the fetus in a stronger form than outside sounds. ⁽³⁾

Music and voices (especially the mother�s voice) can have a significant influence on prenatal development. Prenatal responsiveness begins some eight weeks before the ear is structurally complete around the 24th week. This �pre-hearing� is a reactive and primal listening, that is, a patterning that forms first on the skin and skeletal framework that are the foundations of the complex structures of the ear that will follow. With responsive listening proven at 16 weeks, hearing is clearly a major information and learning channel that is fully operational at about 24 weeks before birth. ⁽⁴⁾

Sounds have a surprising impact upon the fetal heart rate: a five second stimulus can cause changes in heart rate and movement that last up to an hour. Some musical sounds can cause changes in fetal metabolism.

More fundamentally than musical sounds, however, are the rapport and the intention to communicate by the mother. In our last newsletter there was an article: �Thoughts, Intentions, and Emotions Influence Prenatal Development,� and this describes several levels of prenatal influence.

There are nonverbal messages from mother to her fetus that take place at a cellular level in the mother�s orchestration of emotional neurochemicals. These maternal messages can cover an extreme emotional spectrum. Let us consider two different cases for example: 1. A happy mother in a happy family setting, and as her pregnancy progresses she eagerly anticipates holding and loving her baby. 2. An unhappy mother in an emotionally toxic family setting, and as her pregnancy progresses she experiences more and more dread and despair.

The neurochemical orchestration by the happy mother is emotionally nurturing and develops a positive growth experience for the fetus with an eagerness to learn and to experience more. On the other hand, the unhappy mother is creating an emotionally toxic experience for her fetus forming a complex generalization in a neurochemical representation of the concept: �I am not wanted.� The unwanted fetus responds by withdrawing, and will miss the window of opportunity for exceptional growth and development.

The window for exceptional prenatal development begins very early in a pregnancy. Solid foundations for lifelong learning and exceptional achievements can be established in the gestational period. This window of prenatal readiness is the focus of the WonderBaby Program. See: www.wonderbabyprogram.com

The WonderBaby Program strives to expand awareness at all levels about the importance of the prenatal period in realizing our full human potential. In summary, the WonderBaby Program is described in its workbook as:

�The WonderBaby Prenatal Enrichment Program is designed to help expectant parents work in harmony with Nature to produce an exceptionally gifted child. By combining science, tradition, and practical experience, the WonderBaby Program presents a �paradigm shift� in our approach to parenting and family development. With a unique, dynamic, and extraordinarily proactive philosophy, the WonderBaby Program gives expectant parents a set of principles, exercises, and guidelines for an exceptionally fulfilling pregnancy.�

References:

(1) Bloom, B. Stability and Change in Human Characteristics - New York, London, Sydney: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., (1964:68).
(2) For a popular article on Trevarthen's research see Patrick Young�s, "Babies Can Communicate at Birth," The National Observer (24 July 1976), pp. 1-4.
(3) See: Busnel, Granier-Deferre, and Lecanuet, 1992.
(4) PG Hepper and BS Shahidullah; Queen's University of Belfast, School of Psychology; also R. E. Lasky and A. L. Williams: The Development of the Auditory System from Conception to Term NeoReviews, March 1, 2005; 6(3): e141 - e152)

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Recommended Reading: The Second Brain

Michael D. Gershon is considered to be the father of neurogastroenterology. He has written a book titled: The Second Brain. (1999, Harper Perennial, paperback) This is a groundbreaking book that provides new understanding of nervous disorders of the stomach and intestine.

Our second brain, that is located in our gut, is composed of many of the same types of cells that use the same neurotransmitters as the brain in our head. Consequently, both brains are affected by many of the same drugs and diseases, even though they operate largely independently.

The human autonomic nervous has three parts: sympathetic, parasympathetic, and enteric. The sympathetic and the parasympathetic nervous systems connect the brain to the major organ systems. The third part is the enteric nervous system. Remarkably, the enteric nervous system (our gut) is very densely populated with neuronal tissues with as many neurons as in the spine. The process of regulating sphincters, peristaltic contractions, gastric juices, digesting and assimilating food requires extensive neuronal activity. Over 90-percent of the neurotransmitters produced in the body are produced in the enteric nervous system. The connection between the brain and the gut is through the vagus nerve, however, the gut will continue to function just fine when the vagus nerve connection is severed. Thus, the complex operation of our gut is capable of operating autonomously.

�We know that there is a brain in the bowel, however inappropriate that concept might seem to be. The ugly gut is more intellectual than the heart [which has extensive neuronal tissue] and may have a greater capacity for �feeling.� It is the only organ that contains an intrinsic nervous system that is able to mediate reflexes in the complete absence of input from the brain or spinal cord.� (p-xii)

Dr. Gershon is very passionate about the brain in our gut, and he has done an excellent job of explaining some very complicated physiology and neurochemistry. As students of PNRI we are concerned with the prenatal imprinting on the limbic system, however, we also need to be concerned with neuronal imprinting in other part of the body. Gershon addresses research on the encoding of enteric receptors, and tells us that prenatal development lags the development of the paleocortex.

�Although it is obvious that life itself depends on having an enteric nervous system that has developed well enough to function at birth, the enteric nervous system of a newborn animal or person is still not fully mature. Development continues postnatally�.How long after birth humans continue to add enteric nerve cells has never been determined�� (p270)

However, Gershon estimates on the basis of studies of mice, that the human enteric nervous system continues to develop and add new cells for about three years after birth.

�The postnatal acquisition of new enteric nerve cells means that an infant�s nervous system is still plastic and developing. It is therefore possible that the early experiences of a young bowel can affect the �personality� of the second brain when it matures.� (p270)

While the �brain� in our gut lacks the complexity of the brain in our head it is subjected prenatally to developmental imprinting from the extreme stress reactions experienced by the mother. Thus, the foundations of eating disorders can have roots in the enteric nervous system.

It is important for our understanding of the enteric nervous system that we recall that Candice Pert holds the view that we are one bodymind. In Prenatal Re-Imprinting and in Transforming Dragons we address the whole bodymind by operating through the most powerful means of reprogramming maladaptive behavior in the limbic system. In this process the enteric nervous system is a silent participant in the re-imprinting experience.

Yes, there are �dragons� in the gut as well as the �dragons� in the paleocortex in the brain. The meta-language effects of Transforming Dragons, and PNRI are all inclusive, and the enteric nervous system responds accordingly.

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Financial Support

Some supporters of Transforming Dragons have suggested that we include a way for people to make contributions to expand the TD network. Accordingly, we have established a fund under the Applied Neurosciences Institute (ANI). The ANI is part of the Congressional District Programs, a 501(c)(3), 509(a)(1) public charity, and shares its federal tax status (Tax Identification Number 65-0970090).

Contributions should be made payable to the Applied Neurosciences Institute, and mailed to:

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Transforming Dragons Newsletter - June, 2007

2007-06-04T17:38:25Z

Transforming Dragons Newsletter

In this Issue

Issue No. 5 June 4, 2007

Dear Subscribers,

We are pleased to be publishing our fifth monthly newsletter. We are also pleased at the growing response of our TD listeners, for example a TD listener writes:

"Thank you so much for the time, effort and love it took for you to bring this CD to the world. I can't wait to see what you come up with next! I signed up for your newsletter, so I can be among the first to take advantage of your knowledge and expertise."

Your email and snail-mail messages are very important to us. USPS Mail should be addressed to:

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Thank you all for the growing interest in, and support for Transforming Dragons.

What to Expect After Listening
by Gerald Vind, PhD

We have received feedback from listeners who have tried to deviate from the instructions, for example, lying down instead of sitting up. Although it is more comfortable and relaxing lying down, nonetheless, the instructions are precise, and should be followed. The seated fetal position provides important spinal compression, maintains balance of laterality, and it helps to maximize alertness.

All of these are important in activating a stimulus-response reflex arc that is important for TD listeners in order to achieve a prenatal trance-like state where their neocortex is no longer dominant. If a listener does not follow the instructions provided, their results are diminished. This is illustrated by the email comments of a TD listener:

�I've always taken �short cuts� and made half-hearted attempts at nearly everything I tried. And, true to form, I skipped your directions and assumed the fetal position while lying in bed and listening to the CD. Of course, I fell asleep both times! Today, I decided to actually follow directions and WOW!, what a breakthrough I had! At 64, I have tried just about everything on the planet with only limited results. For the first time in my life, I now know what it feels like to have loving parents - even if they are only in my mind! That's the great part - I know it isn't "reality", but my mood and attitude has changed anyway - quite amazing!"

Okay, any of you TD listeners who have not followed directions, please listen again as directed. Then, please let us know about your experience.

We invite all of our Transforming Dragons listeners to share their experience with us. Your feedback is truly appreciated.

New TD Module is Under Development
by Gerald Vind, PhD

Transforming Dragons continues now beyond the four modules contained in the TD CD. We have designed and recorded a new Module 5 that follows the Transforming Dragons Module 4.

Module 5 is designed to re-imprint a new set point for an important neurotransmitter called: oxytocin. Unfortunately, crucial stages of our prenatal development may not have stimulated adequate neurological development of oxytocin receptors that are necessary after birth to develop bonding and attachment, and for the experience of happiness.

Module 5 is a story designed to produce an alternative re-imprinting of the bonding and love between mother and father. As a listener, you are guided to open yourself to participate and share in an experience that stimulates the production of oxytocin, and thus adjust new neurochemical response patterns within you.

Module 5 will soon be available as an MP3 download from the Transforming Dragons website.

Stressful Pregnancies Create Dragons
by Gerald H. Vind

Some stress can be positive and beneficial, and this is called eustress. Eustress is our response to demanding requirements that are fun, rewarding and exciting. Acute stress can be positive, as in athletic competition, or negative as with a life-threatening experience. There is a neurochemical difference between positive and negative acute stress: higher dopamine and norepinephrine with positive, and higher epinephrine (adrenaline) with the negative.

Chronic stress is often experienced as hopeless and inescapable circumstances, as with the stress of a very unfair and demanding boss; also as with a bad marriage. A recent study at University College London (UCL) determined that civil servants who thought their superiors treated them unfairly were 55% more likely to have heart attacks than those who felt they were being treated fairly. Clearly, the UCL study points to the chronic stress of an unfair work environment as the primary causal factor.

Chronic stress is major health problem for our body-mind, and is the most common physical danger that we all face. Chronic stress manifests physical symptoms, and may begin with increased colds, headaches, and digestive problems. As the stress increases in time and intensity more serious health problems develop.

Too much stress assaults our brain, slowing its function and performance to a critical level. When our brain is not working right, our life is not working right. Accordingly, when our life is not working right, very likely our brain is not working right.

During pregnancy, severe stress is the driving force for creating �dragons� in a mother�s embryo/fetus. From the very earliest days of a pregnancy the mother�s emotional �juices� influence the developing embryonic tissues.

The very first embryonic neuronal tissue begins to establish foundational patterns of neuronal response. Embryonic cells develop a response pattern to the emotional stress �stew� of the mother�s emotional �juices� through a process of up regulation. That is, more receptors are created to respond to the stress �stew� (anxiety, depression, fear, etc.). As these embryonic cells divide they pass on their �wisdom� to their successive generations. Clearly, the earliest period of a pregnancy is vitally important to the proper development of the baby.

To more fully understand physiological problems produced by excessive stress in the mother, it is necessary to understand the principal control mechanism of the body that is called the autonomic nervous system (ANS). The ANS has two main parts: sympathetic (fight or run) and parasympathetic (digestion and assimilation of food, relaxation, and sleep). When the sympathetic turns on, the parasympathetic turns off. Our sympathetic nervous system is turned on by:

Perceived danger or threat
Acute or chronic pain
Injury or trauma
An acidic metabolic state with excess calcium levels in the blood, and insufficient levels of magnesium, potassium, and zinc

While protective mechanisms come into play with pregnancy, nonetheless, chronic stress patterns result in a chronic sympathetic-excited state. Thus, the parasympathetic nervous system shuts down, which means that the body's resources are diverted from the gut to prepare for a run or fight response. With parasympathetic shutdown our digestion and assimilation malfunction; so we may take large doses of supplements and eat a good diet, but our gut cannot assimilate most of these nutrients. Of course, in a pregnancy this will be a detrimental impact the developing prenate.

Chronic parasympathetic shutdown also means the large intestine is not working properly, and it fails to conserve water from the digestive sludge that flows in from the small intestine. With an elevated sympathetic and a shutdown parasympathetic nervous system the intestinal wall develops an oily, wax-like coating. The walls of the intestines become inflamed and cause a condition called �leaky gut,� where large protein molecules (that are normally excluded) enter into the blood stream and produce allergic reactions.

An elevated sympathetic (and a shut-down parasympathetic) nervous system activates the endocrine glands, particularly the adrenal glands. With chronic sympathetic nervous system activation endocrine glands become exhausted and shut down. Soon, nothing works properly, including the brain and immune system.

For children, high stress levels can produce too much corticotrophin releasing hormone (CRH is released by the hypothalamus) delivering a message to reduce production of growth hormone. Excess CRH (and the adrenocorticotropic hormone released by the pituitary) also affects digestion and can produce inflammation in the bowel. And, excess CRH is implicated in some mental disorders. Clearly, these same processes influence prenatal development.

If you are feeling uneasy about the effects of high level stress in your life, and you have concerns about your own imprinted patterns that generate stress, know that there is new hope; there is light at the end of the tunnel. That light comes from the great nuroplasticity of the human brain through new neurite (dendrites and axons) growth, and even growth of new neurons.

This new brain growth, grown under the influence of the science of Prenatal Re-Imprinting, offers a bright light for our individual paths out of darkness. Also, Transforming Dragons is designed to relieve stress in a very fundamental way. By freeing ourselves of our stress-hungry dragons, the stress producing patterns in our life will change, and we will be better equipped to master life�s challenges.

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Thoughts, Intentions, and Emotions Influence Prenatal Development
by Gerald H. Vind

Prenatal growth and development are subject to many influences that operate primarily through the mother. In Transforming Dragons we have seen how a high stress levels cause pregnant women to release neurochemicals that influence prenatal growth and development. One of the major stress producing influences on the mother/prenate are negative thoughts and emotions of the mother.

In addition, there are also ways in which the prenate can be influenced directly by those who are close to the mother. Those around the expectant mother can influence the prenate directly with their thoughts, intentions, and emotions about a mother and/or her prenate. For example, very negative thoughts can be unexpressed (masked) by those close to the expectant mother, and they can still influence the prenate.

To some, this may sound like some pretty far out stuff. Yet, I challenge our readers to step outside of the reductionism of today, outside of thinking that limits our human potential. We humans are much more than machines that have a separate body and mind. We are a unified bodymind, and we relate to each other in significant ways that are often beyond our conscious awareness.

Dr. Masaru Emoto, a research scientist from Japan, has proven through repeatable experiments that human thoughts and emotions can alter the molecular structure of water freezing into ice. Now, for the first time, there is physical evidence that the power of our thoughts can change the world within and around us. Emoto�s research that shows human thoughts directed at water just before it is frozen can influence the formation of water crystals.

Dr. Emoto found that water could be consciously altered by the simple imprinting of a word of intent upon the water. Water that was imprinted by love, gratitude, and appreciation, responded by the development of ice crystals of complex beauty, and water that was mistreated by negative intentions became disordered and often took on grotesque forms.

Through repeatable experiments Dr. Emoto demonstrated the ability of human thoughts and emotions to alter the molecular structure of water. Yes, regular old tap water is a liquid crystal because the bond between H₂ and O (in H₂O) is asymmetrical, and this gives all water molecules a slight electrical polarization. This polarization causes water molecules to link together creating liquid crystal properties.

Water is thus able to store vast amounts of information, and is the primary mechanism for the effects of homeopathic medicine. Emoto�s books document his research with numerous photographs of water crystals influenced by words of intent, and they provide physical evidence that the power of our thoughts can change the world within and around us.

If thouthts, intentions, and emotions influence the structure of water, then that same influence operates on the cellular growth and development. Let us look at some of the mechanisms that influence cellular growth and development. Remember, the prevailing �wisdom� is that thoughts and intentions are insignificant and can be ignored. This is not so, and so let�s continue to discover why.

In addition to our brain�s neuronal network, there is also a very subtle signaling mechanism built into many non-neuronal brain cells. The vast majority of these cells are able to respond to magnetic fields. For almost all of us, the level of cellular chaos is so high that these electromagnetic influences remain below the threshold of our conscious awareness.

Only about ten-percent of the cells in our brain are neurons. Ninty-percent of the cells in our brain are neuronal support cells called glial cells, and about 70-percent of the glial cells are a type called astroglial cells. Astroglial cells provide neuronal support, primarily by operating next to neurons, particularly at the synapses, cleaning up the neurotransmitter molecules from the synaptic cleft, and recycling those molecules.

Also, astroglial cells play a vital role from our inception as a prenate by supporting or restricting the migration and differentiation of neural stem cells. Astroglial cells instruct non-committed undifferentiated stem cells to adopt a neuronal fate (become a particular type of neuron). Astroglial cells (also called astrocytes) induce neuron formation through direct cell-to-cell contacts and via short-range acting factors (neuronal messenger molecules). In addition, astroglial cells are influenced by receptor sites on their membrane surface; receptor sites that are made of ferromagnetic crystals, and are highly responsive to magnetic fields.

Astroglial cells manufacture their own ferromagnetic crystals. These are magnetic crystals (Fe₃O₄), and they are aligned in chains of up to 80 crystals per chain (typically in a cross-like structure) in an alignment that maximizes the magnetic moment of each crystal particle. These are membrane-bound biomineral magnetite crystals (produced within each cell as needed), and they have been shown to have a mechanical coupling that takes place between each compass-like magnetite particle and a mechanoreceptor in the cellular membrane.

These linear magnetic crystal domains are more than a million times more responsive to external magnetic fields than surrounding cellular non-magnetic structures. Some theorize that these magnetic particles interact with magnetic and electromagnetic fields and transduce their response into their host cell. Thus, they provide a means of responding to, and sensing our bioelectrical environment. (Kirschvink, J.L.et al, "Magnetite Biomineralization in the Human Brain," Proceedings of the national Academy of Sciences , 89 (1992) 7683-7687)

The synaptic firing of neurons produces an action potential that is a sharp spike of voltage, and then falls quickly back to the starting voltage. Our human brain is very electrical, and changes in membrane polarization, action potentials, etc. This creates micro-voltages that operate throughout the brain, and can be detected outside the skull with electrodes placed on the scalp. However, we should look deeper than superficial electrical measurements.

What is overlooked in all of this it the important action of the astroglial cells. Our brain operates many times faster than the action potential of the fastest neurons, achieving almost instantaneous speeds. Speed and coordination appear to be the result of the influence of astroglial cells. How do the astroglial cells communicate with each other in order to coordinate neuronal activity? While much research remains to be done, it appears that ferromagnetic crystals on the surface of the cells are involved in astroglial cellular communication and coordination. However, there is also another mechanism involved.

In addition to large numbers of ferromagnetic crystal structures on the membrane surface of astroglial cells, there is an additional mechanism that involves the structures within and under the cellular membrane; structures that are called the cytoskeleton. The cellular cytoskeleton is a complex matrix of self-assembling fibers, primarily actin filaments, and microtubule fibers.

I know I have been dragging some readers through some pretty deep �yogurt.� Please stay with me as we look more closely at microtubules. In an effort to explain why the human brain can process far more information than can be explained by synaptic firing of neurons, quantum physicist Roger Penrose and Stewart Hameroff, MD (who appeared in the movie �What the Bleep�) collaborated on research of this area; and they developed an explanation involving microtubules of the cellular cytoskeleton. They postulate that microtubules operate as a computer within the computer. Thus, the non-local properties of microtubules could provide both computational and communications functions.

Okay, we are up to our ears in microtubule deep �yogurt,� and I have yet to explain how thoughts and intentions influence the developing prenate by acting at a distance, that is, not through direct neurochemical messages. This subject requires more of an explanation to grasp the significance of non-local (nonlocal) effects, sometimes referred to as hyperdimensional effects. There is more information on this subject in a 60-page ebook titled: The Nonlocal Mind � Some Advances in Theory, Research, Measurement of �subtle energy/information system� of the body. This ebook is available online for free at: www.rebprotocol.net/nonlocal2007f.pdf

The Nonlocal Mind is also a doorway leading through links to many hundreds of additional interesting pages (and perhaps information overload). Exploring the many links found there will definitely take your mind �out of the box� of reductionism.

We humans exist within a vastly larger reality, much larger than the limited perspective of space-time that defines the common experience of our local reality. Nonlocal means beyond our space-time reality: timeless, and everywhere and nowhere (now/here). It is an integral part of our human existence that most of us have been conditioned to forget and ignore by our heavily reductionist and materialistic culture.

For those readers who can�t take the time to explore The Nonlocal Mind, and its links, I invite you to accept my assertion that the thoughts, emotions, and intentions of those close to a prenate influence its biological development. Positive thoughts, emotions, and intentions should surround and nurture a prenate. Negative thoughts, emotions, and intentions come from the �dragons� of the expectant mother, and those around her.

Thus, a pregnant woman and those around her would do well to transform their dragons. For expectant mothers living in a dysfunctional family, this is a matter of the utmost importance and urgency. Remember, that Transforming Dragons has no negative effects, only positive and beneficial effects.

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Recommended Reading � Biology of Belief:

This month we feature Biology of Belief, a groundbreaking book (2005) in the field of new biology by Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D. Dr Lipton is a former medical school professor (University of Wisconsin) and research scientist (Stanford University School of Medicine). His experiments have examined in great detail the processes by which cells receive information. His book is well written and can be read and understood by the general public.

This book will change how you think about your own thinking. There are stunning new scientific discoveries about the biochemical effects of the brain�s functioning. These discoveries show that all the cells of your body are affected by your thoughts. Dr. Lipton describes the precise molecular pathways through which this body-mind connection occurs. He explains a revolutionary new science of Epigenetics that provides a revolutionary understanding of the link between mind and matter.

Dr. Lipton shows that we can control the activity of our genes and even rewrite our genetic expression through our belief. Our beliefs, whether they are true or false, positive or negative, exist throughout the cells of our bodies, as well as in our minds. He also shows us that we have the means to reshape our lives, by changing firmly held beliefs.

�Endowed with the ability to be self-reflective, the self-conscious mind is extremely powerful. It can observe any programmed behavior we are engaged in, evaluate the behavior and consciously decide to change the program. We can actively choose how to respond to most environmental signals and whether we want to respond at all. The conscious mind�s capacity to override the subconscious mind�s preprogrammed behavior is the foundation of free will.� (p 134)

Dr. Lipton believes that this emerging model of cell biology will have as great an effect on our scientific paradigm as the emergence of quantum theory had on physics. The fact that energy impacts cells as profoundly as physical molecules provides a scientific explanation for the efficacy of conventional medicine, alternative therapies, and spiritual healing.

The implications of Bruce Lipton�s research radically changes our understanding of life. His work has shown that genes/DNA do not control our biology. And, he has shown us that DNA expression is controlled not from within, but by signals from outside the cell, including the energetic messages emanating from our positive and negative thoughts. Dr. Lipton�s profoundly hopeful synthesis of the latest and best research in cell biology and quantum physics is being hailed as a major breakthrough showing that our bodies can be changed as we retrain our thinking.

Dr. Lipton�s work is an important construct in the science of Prenatal Re-Imprinting, and Transforming Dragons.

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Recommended Link
Uncovering the Biology of Belief

Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D. has a website with articles, and a calendar of his public appearances speaking about the revolutionary new science. His presentation of the new science will engage your mind, inspire your spirit, and challenge you to grow and become proactive as you comprehend the potential for applying this information in your life, and in transforming the human condition on planet Earth.

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Schedule of Events

Dr. Vind has had three speaking engagements in Texas during the month of May. Presently, only one event is planned in June in Dallas, and additional events are developing. The summer months are a slow period, yet Dr. Vind is still very interested in speaking before groups or organizations.

In order to extend the benefits of Transforming Dragons and PNRI to more people we ask for your assistance and suggestions in scheduling additional speaking engagements for Dr. Vind. Please send your suggestions directly to Dr. Vind at: ghvind@yahoo.com

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Hi Dr. Vind,
I've noticed some changes in my attitude about life since buying the Transforming Dragons CD and working with it several times. I would like to schedule a private appointment with you for additional progress - but not in Las Vegas! Dallas is much closer and more convenient. When are you going to have a training class for PNRI in the Dallas area? -- (TD Listener)

Dear Listener,
I appreciate hearing from you. A PNRI training class is starting in Dallas, on June 6th and will run for ten consecutive Thursday evenings from 7:00 to 9:30. I have moved from Las Vegas to the greater Dallas area, and I will be working with Dr Joe DiRuzzo in conducting the class. I believe that the cost for basic PNRI certification is $1,250. I believe that the course can be audited for $350. Also, I am now available in Dallas for private sessions.
For more information send me an email: Dr. Geral Vind

Dear Dr. Vind,

I am very excited about the Transforming Dragons procedure. Before I heard your presentation I had almost given up hope of finding something to help with the negative traits that I knew were implanted before I was born. Thank goodness my Mother told me the situation so that I at least had an idea of what could have caused my problems. � JR

To: TD Network,

I have never heard of anyone before starting at the beginning like you did. Beautiful! Wonderful! - Thank you, -- LM

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Transforming Dragons Newsletter

2007-04-30T13:56:03Z

Transforming Dragons Newsletter

In this Issue

Issue No. 4 May 1, 2007

Dear Subscribers,

We are pleased to be publishing our fourth monthly newsletter. We have been actively seeking to expand our network of Internet and other connections. It would be most helpful to our efforts if our subscribers and TDPLP listeners would provide us with feedback either by email or by U.S. mail.

Mail feedback to:

Transforming Dragons Network
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Also, if there are persons who do not want to order the Transforming Dragons CD through our on-line store, their order can be processed as a mail order. The mail order price for the U.S. and Canada is $23 plus $7 for S&H, a total of $30. Make checks payable to Applied Neurobiology Associates LLC, and mail it to the Transforming Dragons Network address above.

P.S. In the next issue (June) of this newsletter we plan to present a special feature on the PNRI-based Wonderbaby Program.

What to Expect After Listening
by Gerald Vind, PhD

There is a very ancient wisdom that comes to us from the keepers-of-wisdom of an ancient Polynesian civilization. These keepers are called Kahuna, and their wisdom is founded on seven principles. The third of these seven principles is contained in the single word, Makia; and that translates to: Energy flows where attention goes.

When listening to the TDPTP modules it is important to have your full attention invested into your process. Your attention is essential to permit the flow of �energy� that activates the transformational process.

Those few who listen to the TDPTP modules with distractions intruding into their process will have the effectiveness diminished. Those who don�t get much out of it, did not put much into it.

However, we are receiving positive feedback; and so it seems that most TDPTP listeners experience a shift in emotional foundations of their life, and their awareness has been expanded.

The Science Within TDPTP � Meta Programming
by Gerald Vind, PhD

There is an underlying structural integrity and order that forms the foundations of our personality. This exists at the deepest level of our experience, and this foundational integrity begins in our own unique neurochemical patterning that is created from our shared emotional and other experiences with our mother. From this patterning, certain complex generalizations develop after birth. These complex generalizations form unconscious filters of perception, and create what is referred to as �meta programs� that structure our reality and affect our personality.

The meta programming model draws on the idea that language is a translation of mental states into words, and that in this translation there is an unconscious process of deletion and distortion. The meta model originated from the somewhat vague works of Milton Erickson. Later, Erickson�s meta model formed the basis of neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) as developed in the mid-1970s by then assistant professor of linguistics John Grinder, and his student Richard Bandler.

Therapeutic methods based on meta programming knowledge yield a fuller representation of a person�s world view, by accessing their linguistic foundations (�deep structure�) from which later verbal expression (surface-structure language) is derived.

For example, suppose that a person has had a prenatal experience of being an unwanted pregnancy that was only reluctantly accepted because of social pressures on the mother. This prenatal experience is imprinted as a deep structural foundation of their personality. This will later develop a meta program with the complex generalization: My mother really does not want me.

While the conscious awareness of this complex generalization may be blocked, it is still there lurking as a hidden dragon in the inner core of that person. This establishes foundational personality patterns of insecurity and inadequacy that will remain in the inner core of a person and will influence their perceptions, their emotional outlook, their attention, values, and motivation throughout their life.

It is helpful to introduce a parallel comparison between digital computers and human brain function. Digital computers operate through the fundamental operation of an electronic circuit with a �gate� that is either open or closed. Thus, digital computers operate with a binary numbering system using zero (open) and one (closed) as the base numbering system. With very large numbers of circuits operating very fast, computers can run many computations very quickly.

At the dawn of the computer age we saw a great surge of programming instructions to make computers work better and accomplish remarkable feats. Microsoft has built an enormous empire writing computer meta language (software), and there are growing numbers throughout the world that are continuing to program computers by writing code that connects a higher language (software) to the basic machine language of zeros and ones. Computer programs are a meta programming language that operates through to the basic computer machine language of zeros and ones.

The human brain has trillions of circuits, and for a simplistic comparison, each synapse may be considered to be either open or closed (zero or one). As we develop, our basic neurochemical language develops a higher level ordering and we form characteristic patterns of response and behavior. After birth our foundational neurochemical language becomes subject to our learned patterns of meta language.

The goal of Prenatal Re-Imprinting (PNRI) and Transforming Dragons (TDPTP) is to re-imprint new and positive neuronal circuits through the introduction of appropriate meta programming language. Thus, transformation occurs in the relationship between deep-structure neural circuits, and the surface structure of meta programming language. The dysfunctional meta program that �My mother really does not want me,� is re-imprinted with an alternative meta program of a loving mother mother who is proud of her baby.

One of the important meta programs for self esteem is the experience of a loving mother being proud of her baby. Thus, the mother�s voice in the TDPTP modules is the loving mother being proud of her baby.

The effectiveness TDPTP depends to a large degree on the ability of the listeners to shift dominance to the deep structural base language and make new associations (re-imprints) with positive alternatives.

Changing Our Reality
by Gerald H. Vind

In our discussions of the science of Prenatal Re-Imprinting, and Transforming Dragons, we talked about our own personal reality field. Our personal reality is what we seek and what we create; a reality field that stimulates the emotional center of our brain to produce the same orchestration of emotional �juices� that we experienced in our mother�s womb. This article discusses reality, our personality and how we introduce positive change.

In the What-to-Expect-After-Listening article (above) mention was made of a very ancient wisdom that comes to us from the keepers of wisdom of an ancient Polynesian civilization. These keepers (Kahuna), and their wisdom are founded on seven principles. The first of these seven principles is contained in the single word, Ike (ee-kay); and that translates to: The world is what you think it is.

Many eons later this ancient wisdom has been reframed into a more popular awareness through Robert K. Merton (1910 to 2003), distinguished Professor of Sociology at Columbia University. Merton is best known for his coined phrase: "self-fulfilling prophecy." Merton�s concept of the self-fulfilling prophecy is often restated as: If you believe something is real, it is real in its consequences.

So, what is really real? We begin creating our experience of reality when we are mere embryos beginning to form our first neural circuits. Our experience of reality is learned. When something is learned, that learning occurs through a process of neural growth, and the creation of interconnections between neurons.

When we repeatedly activate a pattern of neural connections there is a point when the individual neurons involved release a neurochemical called neural growth factor (NGF). When NGF is released it travels in the opposite direction of the nerve impulse, moving from the receiving side of the synaptic gap to the sending axon side. There, NGF facilitates the growth of additional terminals on the axon extension. This results in more neuronal interconnections and an expanded information transmission capacity.

Neural circuits are formed by repetitive synaptic firings between adjacent neurons that initiate release of certain neurochemicals that begin to �hard wire� the neuronal interconnections. However, this simple example must be viewed as part of a vastly larger orchestration of many neurochemicals that are involved in neuronal responses.

Our personal �fabric� of reality is built upon our unique neurochemical process-level experiences that become woven into symbolic higher orderings that develop our meta language reality. (See �meta language� described in the preceding article.) Out of the many trillions of synaptic firings that take place every second of our lives, only a few thousand of these rise to the level of our conscious awareness.

Our neural circuits are the basic foundations of our inner reality. At this neurochemical level the trillions of our various brain circuits become integrated into memories. We have memories from book learning (called semantic memory) and more meaningful memories from life experiences (called episodic memories).

Memories of our life experiences have separate sensory components that include visual images, sounds, smells, tactile and kinesthetic sensations, and tastes. Our brain routinely forms our experiences of the various sensory features of an episode, and binds them together into a common memory representation.

This perceptual binding of multiple stimuli into coherent memory �packets� takes place in a region of the brain called the IPS (intraparietal sulcus). The IPS seems to be central to the coherent organization of our life experience. The IPS is also involved in interpreting the intentions of others, and thus is important in our process of socilization.

Our brain�s massive neocortex has a left and right hemisphere. The neural circuits in our left hemisphere become �hard wired� through repetitive firings and thus, these brain process are largely routine. The right hemisphere is where we process novel events and where learning begins.

Our personality, while resting on its prenatal foundations, is the sum total of all of our �hard wired� automatic neural networks. These neural networks operate like a computer program, and much of our life becomes automatic, and there is very little awareness involved.

We create our own experience of reality. However, we are social beings, and we develop within a familial and social environment. Those who are closest to us in our prenatal and early childhood years powerfully influence the development of our personal reality. So if we are around dysfunctional people we learn to do dysfunctional things; thus these become our �hard wired� perceptual, emotional, and behavioral patterns.

Our prenatal and early childhood years establishes both functional and dysfunctional patterns of behavior. However, we live in a dysfunctional world stumbling near the edge of chaos, and thus, there are many people who seek counseling to help them cope with dysfunctional and maladaptive patterns in their life.

Unfortunately, most therapeutic processes are exceedingly slow in changing or removing maladaptive and dysfunctional patterns. This is because the emotional and cognitive parts are experienced in separate (and semi-autonomous) parts of the brain. The massive verbally dominated neocortex inhibits access to the neurochemically dominated emotional center (limbic system). In order to produce significant changes to our emotional center, our neocortex must move out of dominance. The instructions in the Transforming Dragons Personality Transformation Program (TDPTP) are designed to shift dominance to our emotional center.

The TDPTP is designed to guide listeners to their inner emotional core and re-imprint positive and nurturing alternative emotional foundations. Thus, we are able to more quickly and effectively introduce positive change to our personal reality.

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Recommended Reading � Molecules of Emotion

This month we feature Molecules of Emotion, a groundbreaking book in 1997 by Candice B. Pert, PhD. She is a Research Professor (Physiology and Biophysics) at Georgetown University, and was featured in the Bill Moyers book and PBS series: Healing and the Mind. She was also featured in the film, What the Bleep.

Molecules of Emotion tells Dr. Pert�s inspiring story of the search for biochemical links between consciousness, mind and body. She has accomplished pioneering research on how messenger-molecules (neurochemicals) inside of our bodies form a dynamic information network linking body and mind into an inseparable whole. In her own words:

�Recent technological innovations have allowed us to examine the molecular basis of the emotions, and to begin to understand how the molecules of our emotions share intimate connections with, and are indeed inseparable from, our physiology. � [Dr Pert tells] how the molecules of emotion run every system in our body, and how this communication system is in effect a demonstration of the bodymind's intelligence, an intelligence wise enough to seek wellness, and one that can potentially keep us healthy and disease-free without the modern high-tech medical intervention we now rely on.�

�In order to grasp the enormity of this revolution, you have to first understand some of the fundamentals of biomolecular medicine which is what I like to explain at the beginning of my talks. How many of us can close our eyes and picture or define a receptor, or a protein, or a peptide? These are the basic components that make up our bodies and minds, yet to the average person, they are as exotic and remote from everyday experience as the Abominable Snowman. If we're to understand what role our emotions may play in our health, then understanding the molecular-cellular domain is a crucial first step.�

Dr Pert explains that there are close to 300 different messenger molecules (ligands) that operate throughout the body, activating particular types of receptor sites on the surface of our cells and signaling cells to respond.

�The receptors are molecules, as I have said, and are made up of proteins, tiny amino acids strung together in crumpled chains, looking something like beaded necklaces that have folded in on themselves. If you were to assign a different color to each of the receptors that scientists have identified, the average cell surface would appear as a multicolored mosaic of at least seventy different hues -- 50,000 of one type of receptor, 10,000 of another, 1,000,000 of a third, and so forth. A typical neuron (nerve cell) may have millions of receptors on its surface...�

�Basically, receptors function as sensing molecules -- scanners. Just as our eyes, ears, nose, tongue, fingers, and skin act as sense organs, so, too, do the receptors, only on a cellular level. They hover in the membranes of your cells, dancing and vibrating, waiting to pick up messages carried by other vibrating little creatures, also made out of amino acids, which come cruising along -- diffusing is the technical word -- through the fluids surrounding each cell. We like to describe these receptors as "keyholes," although that is not an altogether precise term for something that is constantly moving, dancing in a rhythmic, vibratory way.�

�All receptors are proteins, as I have said. And they cluster in the cellular membrane waiting for the right chemical keys to swim up to them through the extra-cellular fluid and to mount them by fitting into their keyholes -- a process known as binding...The process of binding is very selective, very specific! In fact, we can say that binding occurs as a result of receptor specificity, meaning the receptor ignores all but the particular ligand that's made to fit it."

Prenatal science tells us that during the early stages of our embryonic development severe maternal stress can lead to functional alterations affecting brain interconnections, and also to receptor-site types and densities, as well as their responsiveness to the many varied messenger molecules (ligands).

"And what is this chemical key that docks onto the receptor and causes it to dance and sway? The responsible [molecule, called a ligand,]...is the chemical key that binds to the receptor, entering it like a key in a keyhole, creating a disturbance to tickle the molecule into rearranging itself, changing its shape until -- click! -- information enters the cell..."

"My favorite category of ligands by far, and the largest, constituting perhaps 95 percent of them all, are the peptides...[And,] these chemicals play a wide role in regulating practically all life processes, and are indeed the other half of the equation of what I call the molecules of emotion. Like receptors, peptides are made up of strings of amino acids. ...If the cell is the engine that drives all life, then the receptors are the buttons on the control panel of that engine, and a specific peptide (or other kind of ligand) is the finger that pushes that button and gets things started."

Candice Pert popularized the neurochemical basis of our emotions, and explained these new scientific developments in a clear and understandable way. She has united body and mind with her term: bodymind. Her inspiring work is an important part of the science within Prenatal Re-Imprinting (PNRI), and thus is incorporated into the development of the Transforming Dragons Personality Development Program (TDPTP).

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Recommended Link: www.birthpsychology.com

There is an excellent presentation of importance of prenatal influences that is shown on the website: www.birthpsychology.com This website is operated by the Association for Prenatal & Perinatal & Health (APPPAH) in Forestville, California.

The APPPAH seeks to expand awareness, and to bring a new psychology of consciousness to pregnancy and birth. Their website allows readers to explore the many mental and emotional dimensions of pregnancy and birth in everything from scholarly articles to personal stories and late-breaking headlines.

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Gentle Gestation & Birth Resolution

The State of Hawaii has a Gentle Gestation & Birth Resolution under consideration by their legislature. Hawaii is the first state to receive and consider such a resolution. This resolution seeks to develop a greater awareness of the importance of proper gestation and birthing practices to the individual, and to social harmony. Hopefully, subscribers to this TD newsletter can share their greater awareness with others, and offer their support to the resolution in Hawaii. We urge you to support this resolution by offering emails, support and testimony to the legislature in the State of Hawaii.

The following link takes you to the main site where on can monitor the resolution in the legislature: http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/site1/docs/docs.asp?press1=docs

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(Q) � What is Personality Transformation?

(A) � Personality is a dynamic pattern of personal characteristics that uniquely influences a person�s awareness, motivation, cognition, and behaviors. The word "personality" comes from the Latin word persona, that means �mask.� However, in the theater of the ancient Roman Empire the mask was not used to disguise identity, rather the mask was used to represent a typical character type. Personality is explained in the Changing Our Reality article above: �Our personality, while resting on its prenatal foundations, is the sum total of all of our �hard wired� automatic neural networks.�

Transformation is a marked change in appearance, character, or behavior, especially a change for the better. Transformation in the TDPTP experience is perhaps best understood in terms of the discussion presented in the Meta Programming article above. Transformation happens when our automatic �hard wired� neural networks undergo a major reorientation and change.

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2007-03-30T12:27:39Z

Transforming Dragons Newsletter

Issue No. 3 March 30, 2007

Dear Subscribers,

We are pleased to be publishing our third monthly newsletter, and we are also pleased at the growing interest in Transforming Dragons, and the science behind it (www.pnri.net). Many listeners are awakening to more of their full potential through TDPTP. Your assistance in spreading the word is greatly appreciated.

What to Expect After Listening
by Gerald Vind, PhD

There is truly profound benefit from Prenatal Re-Imprinting (PNRI). I know this from my own personal experience becoming a practitioner of PNRI, and from my work with PNRI to help troubled individuals. I know that PNRI can take someone out of suicidal depression in a single session. I have seen PNRI take persons with severe eating disorders, and remove their problem in one or two sessions. The PNRI technique is remarkably effective when performed by a trained practitioner.

Transforming Dragons (TDPTP) may not have the same immediate impact as working with a PNRI practitioner. Nonetheless, in the long run, it is effective when the intention of listeners is strong, and they seek to transform their dysfunctional patterns.

TDPTP listeners usually experience deep insights, and there is a pervasive sense of lightening up emotionally, along with feelings of happiness. Most listeners experience a positive emotional story-content in a re-imprinting overlay. Negative and maladaptive "dragons" are re-imprinted with positive parental images and comforting relational experiences. Walls are transformed into doorways.

Listeners experience results that reshape the way they experience their life, and there is a positive shift in the foundations of their personality. Also, listeners notice their awareness has expanded, and it will continue to expand according to a listener�s intention to experience personal growth.

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The Science Within TDPTP - SEVERE STRESS
by Gerald Vind, PhD

An expectant mother�s negative emotional experiences can do a great deal of harm to her physical health by producing a surge of corticosteroids, catecholamines, and C-reactive protein. This compromises her health, and it influences the developmental patterns in her fetus.

Severe prenatal and childhood stress are indicated as being foundational in virtually all autoimmune diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, chronic fatigue syndrome, and irritable bowel syndrome.

Prenatal experiences of severe stress imprint patterns that predispose us, in later life, to more stress. Many people seem to be stuck in recurring patterns of very stressful life experiences. The science of Prenatal Re-Imprinting (www.pnri.net) tells us why. We create a reality field to cause our adrenal glands to produce "juices" (corticosteroids and catecholamines) to feed our dragons.

Adrenal glands are two triangular shaped organs that form a cap on top of each of our two kidneys. They contain very specialized cells that are primarily responsible for regulating our stress response. Catecholamines produce general physiological changes that prepare the body for a fight or flight response. Extremely high levels of catecholamine can produce a catecholamine toxicity.

The catecholamines epinephrine (adrenaline) and norepinephrine are produced in the adrenal medula and also in postganglonic nerve fibers of the autonomic nervous system; together they regulate the heart rate, blood pressure, and they (especially epinephrine) prepares us in various ways to fight or to flee.

When adrenal glands are highly active in responding to stress they produce an excessive amount of epinephrine (adrenaline). Circulating in our blood, adrenaline is eventually metabolized into two metabolites.

One of these metabolites is adrenochrome, and it can induce significant psychoactive effects that some researchers classify as hallucinogenic. These effects include: euphoria, confusion, loss of concentration, and a changed train of thought. Some lives appear filled with confusion and lack of concentration that result from stress-induced adrenochrome hallucinations.

Epinephrine is produced by conversion of norepinephrine, and so severe stress reduces the levels of norepinephrine in the mother, and signals the conversion of norepinephrine in her fetus into epinephrinin. (See article on Neural Circuits in TD NL #2) Thus, the developing fetal brain is depleted of the stuff needed to assure proper development of neural circuits, and at the same time this imprints a configuration of chatacholamine-fed dragons.

In later life, there is a prenatal pattern imprinted that motivates toward relationships and events that will stimulate the same prenatal pattern of chatacholamine "juices" (complete with adrenochrome hallucinations) in order to feed the dragons.

Techniques for re-patterning such negative foundations have been shown to respond to several therapeutic techniques, in particular to Prenatal Re-Imprinting (PNRI). However, as was noted in the last TD newsletter, severe maternal stress can significantly alter neural pathways and damage a developing fetal brain.

You can safely use Transforming Dragons to treat yourself, no matter how serious your mental/emotional problems. However, if there is serious organic brain damage, then it is recommended that your work be under the care of a health care professional. If there is some question about PNRI or Transforming Dragons call 800-473-1227 and ask for a free initial phone session. Be sure to leave your name and phone number.

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PNRI and Self Esteem
by Dr. Joseph DiRuzzo

Dr. DiRuzzo is the originator and leading developer of the techniques of Prenatal Re-Imprinting (PNRI). He is currently working on a program to enhance human mental and physical potential through a program of prenatal nurturing and enrichment.

The PNRI position on the issues of self-esteem is straightforward, clear, concise and unequivocal, as is the rest of the PNRI model. Lack of self-esteem upon analysis using PNRI methodology, is caused by maladaptive, simple stimulus-response conditioned reflexes established in the prenatal period.

Specifically, if the mother and/or father do not want the pregnancy, are angry at or dislike the fetus or the prospect of having a child; if they regard the pregnancy with reservation, disappointment, despair or revulsion or any similar emotion, then the fetus is imprinted with extremely negative generalizations about self, others and their environment.

Such foundational beliefs, in the form of simple reflexes, are of the deepest unconscious nature, and they underlie everything that that individual learns.

Many individuals spend a lifetime in self-doubt, tortured by feelings of worthlessness and lack of value. Such torment, the PNRI model asserts, is unnecessary.

Moreover, the PNRI methodology, appropriately applied, has shown itself to reliably and consistently be capable of changing even the most pervasive lack of self-esteem to an attitude of joy and happiness.

Characteristically, problems in the area of self-esteem last a lifetime, regardless of the seminars taken, books read or affirmations recounted on the subject. This is consistent with the observations of PNRI, that the initial imprints establish the format for our perceptions; emotions, thoughts, beliefs and behaviors, and such foundational prenatal experiences cannot by subsequent evidence to the contrary.

The methodology for change available in the PNRI system offers a solution to lack of self-esteem, often a most devastating problem. The simple tools of PNRI, applied with appropriate expertise, are consistently reported to be able to change negative self-image, negative self-talk, and negative self-concept.

For those who suffer from problems in this area, there can be no greater breakthrough in the field of human potential.

[For more on PNRI see: www.pnri.net And, locate a PNRI practitioner by calling: 800-473-1227. Please leave your name and phone number and someone will return your call as soon as possible]

Outside The Matrix - MEDIA
by Gerald Vind, PhD

This is the third in a series of articles about the "Matrix" in which we live. The concept of a 'Matrix" was introduced by the 1999 Sci-Fi motion picture titled THE MATRIX, written and directed by Andy and Larry Wachowski. (Although, Sophia Stewart claims to be the "mother' of THE MATRIX, and is suing the Wachowskies.) Nonetheless, the idea of being enslaved by a manipulated reality field has gained a broader acceptance.

There is a book that is most enlightening and revealing about the �Matrix� or world of illusion most of us live within. That book is: Trust Us, We're Experts: How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with Your Future, by investigative journalists Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber. Readers are introduced to the inner workings of the public relations (PR) industry and the corporate giants that hire them. The book illuminates readers to two kinds of PR "experts" -- the PR spin doctors who operate behind the scenes, and the experts that they present to the media as "independent." These "independent" experts have been hand-picked, corrupted, and paid large sums of money to promote the views of corporations involved in things that are controversial, and who want to project a favorable image into the market place.

It is so bad that the only thing we can be sure of is: If the majority of the population believes something, it is probably wrong. If you watch a lot of television then everything you know (or think you know) is probably wrong.

In America, the conventional wisdom that has wide spread acceptance is usually contrived and it is paid for by the interests the deception serves. For example:

America has the best health care in the world
Pharmaceuticals restore balance and health
Pregnancy is a medical condition
Vaccinations provide immunity
Sick children need Tylenol and antibiotics
Hyperactive children need mood altering drugs

If you take the time to research the list above you will find that the statements are misleading, inaccurate, and/or simply not true. We are conditioned to look only at "sugar cookies" instead of looking at the contents of the whole bakery.

And, the above list is only a small part of the carefully constructed public relations (PR) and advertising illusions that cost billions of dollars to create, billions of dollars that are passed on to the consumer in higher prices. These are the separate parts of the all-pervasive matrix of disinformation, deception, and illusion that enslave us. The illusion exists because of the corruption of science and the media; for example, Jenny Thompson, Executive Director of the Health Sciences Institute reports:

"The new FDA-approved $10,000-per-month cancer drugs are a total fraud. That�s right. These outrageously overpriced drugs provide almost NO benefit to cancer patients. They�re keeping the truth from us because there�s so much money at stake."

But, the basic mechanism for our enslavement is our individual awareness. An awareness that is limited to a significant extent by the dragons in the inner most part of our brain; in particular, dragons associated with fear and anxiety. Having our dragons fade into lifeless shadows releases resources within our brain to expand our awareness.

Back in 1964 Marshall McLuhan published his book titled: Understanding Media. McLuhan is perhaps most remembered for his "The medium is the message" quotation. There are several other McLuhanisms that are worth noting:

"Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity."
"We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future."
"The trouble with a cheap, specialized education is that you never stop paying for it."
"It�s misleading to suppose there is any basic difference between education and entertainment."

Our media and our educational system are the major threads in the fabric of the matrix that dominates us individually and collectively. I am not suggesting confrontation to unraveling the matrix; I am suggesting that by developing our awareness we can move more effectively above and within the matrix as we begin changing ourselves.

The matrix is our perceived reality. When we change, our reality field changes. As our awareness grows and expands, our perception of reality grows and expands. As we communicate our greater awareness with others we begin to shift the collective human consciousness.

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Recommended Reading � The Secret Life of the Unborn Child

From time-to-time we will present books or articles that are relevant to Transforming Dragons and the supporting science of Prenatal Re-Imprinting. This month we feature a classic that many subscribers have read. Many more, however, have not heard of Dr. Thomas Verny, and this will be of interest.

Pioneering physician Thomas Verny, MD wrote an important book based on his two decades of research: The Secret Life of the Unborn Child - (Paperback 1981).

Dr. Verny explains that the ways in which a mother responds to and cares for her unborn child can influence the child�s physical and emotional well-being for the rest of its life.

"In fact, the single most gratifying aspect of our new knowledge is what it reveals about the pregnant woman and her role in shaping and guiding her unborn child�s personality." (p.16)

In his book Dr. Verny explains his remarkable findings that an unborn child is:

Capable of learning,
Able to hear and respond to voices and sounds, including music,
Sensitive to their parent�s feelings about them,
Capable of responding to love,
Is an active, feeling human being.

Dr Verny in his discussion of psychological communication between mother and her unborn child, explains the significance of maternal anxiety:

�Anxiety- and stress-related hormones are the most obvious form of psychological communication from woman to child. Clearly, those anxieties that touch directly on the child, the pregnancy, the spouse or the woman�s insecurities and inadequacies have the greatest impact on the fetus. But only intense or continued maternal anxiety can be hazardous. The woman who sometimes worries about bills or the weight she is gaining is certainly not putting her child at risk. �[But the unborn child] cannot take�a continual assault of anxiety hormones [catecholamines]. The danger here is not just to intrauterine bonding, either�. This kind of attack may also set the child�s emotional thermostat at a precariously high level.� (p. 91)

Dr. Verny also points to research that shows the importance of the often-ignored father of the unborn child. How the father of an unborn child feels about the child�s mother and their child is one of the single most important factors in a pregnancy.

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PH writes: "Since [my audio experience] I have started a diet and have lost 20 pounds thus far, forgiven and have started reconciliation with an important family member, cleaned up the bathroom, cleaned up the den, and started cleaning up the kitchen. For most people these things are nothing special, but for me they are miraculous."

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Transforming Dragons Newsletter

2007-03-02T11:50:50Z

Transforming Dragons Newsletter

In this Issue

What to Expect After Listening
The Developing Phenomena
The Science Within TDPTP - NEURAL CIRCUITS
Outside The Matrix - HEALTH CARE
TD and Seasonal Effective Disorder (SAD)
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Issue No. 2 March 2, 2007

Dear Subscribers,

We extend continued thanks to persons from all over the United States and Canada for your interest in our Transforming Dragons Personality Transformation Program ^TM (TDPTP). We are gratified at the growing awareness of a larger purpose behind our work; that is, transforming neurological chaos into coherence one brain at a time. We are also striving to awaken people to more of their full potential through TDPTP. We have also inaugurated a network for awakening individuals to facilitate each other in the continuation of their expanding awareness.

What to Expect After Listening
by Gerald Vind, PhD

The TDPTP program uses a listener�s imagination to recreate an alternative experience for them. Listener�s are guided into a mental/emotional state as if they are a fetus inside their mother�s womb. And then, they are presented four different positive alternative imaginary experiences that the listener�s brain accepts as real (or more desirable that their actual past).

Listeners positive emotional experiences have both a cognitive and an emotional component that are experienced in their respective parts of the brain: the neocortex and limbic system. Through the listener�s process, there is a re-framing of their emotional neurochemical coding and emotional response thresholds.

Most listeners to the TDPTP audio presentation experience a positive emotional story-content of the four TD modules associated with their imaginary parents. The negative and maladaptive early programming that we call "dragons" are re-imprinted with positive parental images and comforting relational experiences.

There is a shift that takes place through the re-framing process, that is, a new pattern of associations between the listener�s neurochemical foundations and their outer world are developed. The results are part of an ongoing process that begins immediately, and yet the listener�s awareness of changes are often obscured by the shifts that happen to their basic emotional foundations. Changes occur over a period of months and even years, and they are best revealed through regular introspective entries in a journal or diary.

Going through the TDPTP experience has the added benefit of expanding a listener�s awareness about themselves and their relationships with both parents, and with others; and in addition the listener�s view of the world expands. Also, listeners develop a sense of empowerment from the TDPTP process as they shift their view of themselves from being at the effect of others, to being at cause (the creative source) in all of their life experiences.

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The Developing Phenomena
by Claire Papin

The community of professionals who are finding great value in prenatal re-imprinting, and similar modalities, is growing at a rapid pace. I recently interviewed Dr Bruce Lipton on my radio program about his latest, and very popular book, The Biology of Belief. He spoke highly of prenatal re-imprinting as one of the select few healing modalities that he recommends.

Similar works to prenatal re-imprinting (See: www.pnri.net) have also been very beneficial. One in particular that Dr. Vind especially encourages is for pregnant mothers and expectant fathers is to communicate with their unborn child regularly with positive intention, nurturing messages, and loving energy. Dr Vind not only wants to help those who are already born with his prenatal re-imprinting work, but also those who are yet to come into this world.

One book in particular that addresses this type of work is, Communing with the Spirit of Your Unborn Child by Dawson Church. For those who are expecting a baby, or concerned with the issues of raising a physically, mentally, and spiritually healthy child in a culture mostly focused on the material world. Church draws on the latest research in prenatal awareness. Whether you�re speaking to your own unborn child, or having a prenatal re-imprinting session for yourself, the idea is the same�to connect with the beautiful being inside and nurture that being with great Love.

Imagine a world where more and more members of the human race have a start in life, or even a restart, that gives them the confidence and unencumbered creativity and courage to live and share a life that they truly are happy living. I believe the world would begin to look very different, and begin to transform to a greater state of harmony and peace�a thriving world with endless possibilities for prosperity, abundance, good health, joy, and sustainability. A place a lot like heaven! �Impossible� some might say�but that kind of transformation has already begun, and tools such as Transforming Dragons are helping this greater awareness reach many more.

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The Science Within TDPTP - NEURAL CIRCUITS�
by Gerald Vind, PhD �

Everything that we experience has a correspondence in neural circuits that form networks in our brain. Mental/emotional problems do not exist in a specific area of our brain. These problems are the result of dysfunctional or maladaptive interactions between various areas of our brain, especially with areas that are in (or near) the innermost part of our brain. These areas are the first to be imprinted while we are growing inside our mother's womb; and negatively imprinted in a foundational neurochemical code that is formed by our mother's response to extreme stress.

Okay, there are some readers who�s eyes glaze over with the nomenclature and descriptions of the detail inner-working of the human brain. Nonetheless, it is worthwhile to at least scan the major brain areas involved in our emotional neural circuits. The top seven are:

Amygdala (ah-meg-dah-lah) - Our primal emotional center that activates our autonomic nervous system to prepare us to fight or flee; and this activation often occurs without our conscious awareness. It performs primary roles in the formation and storage of memories associated with emotional events, and participates in modulating memory consolidation.
Anterior cingulate gyrus (ACG) - Manages our attention, and it is part of the cingulate cortex and is an integral part of the limbic system. The ACG is involved with emotion formation and processing, learning, and memory.
Basal ganglia - A group of nuclei interconnected with the cerebral cortex, thalamus and brainstem; and it is associated with the functions of motor control, cognition, emotions and learning.
Hippocampus - It has an essential role in the formation of new memories about experiences, thus it is crucial to learning. It also plays a role in spatial memory and navigation.
Hypothalamus - Our internal regulator: It links the nervous system to the endocrine system via the pituitary gland.
Intraparietal Sulcus (IPS) - Performs an important perceptual binding function of multiple features from multiple sensory stimuli, forming them into a coherent memory. The IPS is also involved in interpreting the intent of others.
Thalamus - Our sensory switchboard: It has strong reciprocal interconnections involved with consciousness; and it plays a major role in regulating sleep, arousal, and the level of awareness and brain activity.

There, that wasn�t so difficult. And now you have a better idea of what is involved in neural circuits. The actual interaction is complex, and yet we can understand that many varied circuits and loops operate within our brain. These circuits begin to form "grooves" before we are born, and these pre-birth neural circuit patterns shape our subsequent development and personality.

During our growth inside our mother's womb, our neural circuits are imprinted with varied patterns or orchestrations of neurochemicals that correspond to patterns of stress-related emotional neurochemicals released by our mother.

During fetal development, depletion of certain neurotransmitter systems (norepinephrine, serotonin, and dopamine) as a result of severe and repetitive maternal stress can abnormally influence neuronal and synaptic development. This can produce abnormal neural circuitry, and thus, abnormal neural networks may be formed between areas that do not normally interact directly.

Our neural circuits are formed and conditioned to patterns of response, and thresholds of sensitivity that form the foundations of our personality in a primary neurochemical language, that is, in a molecular code. After we are born, we strive in various ways to create a world around us that recreates the same prenatal neurochemical patterns of emotional activation, no matter how dysfunctional that may be.

However, we now know that these foundational personality patterns can be re-imprinted, that is they can be changed under the right circumstance. The discoveries of Prenatal Re-Imprinting (PNRI) provide the science behind the TDPTP audio experience and give us a means to reshape the foundations of our personality.

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Outside The Matrix - HEALTH CARE
by Gerald Vind, PhD �

This is the second in a series of articles about the "Matrix" in which we live. The concept of a "Matrix" was introduced by the 1999 Sci-Fi motion picture titled THE MATRIX, written and directed by Andy and Larry Wachowski. (Although, Sophia Stewart claims to be the "mother" of THE MATRIX, and is suing the Wachowskies.) Nonetheless, the idea of being enslaved by a manipulated reality field has gained a broader acceptance.

We live in a world where knowledge about type 2 diabetes (knowledge that might save your eyesight or your life) is obscured by incomplete and biased information about the disease process.

Type 2 diabetes is the most common form of diabetes, and it occurs initially through a largely unrecognized process that creates insulin resistant cells. That process is called glycation (non-enzymatic glycosylation), and it produces a sugar-protein glaze called Advanced Glycation End products (AGE) that coat cellular surfaces where millions of receptor sites respond to their cellular environment. The AGEs foul up the vital cellular protein structures on the cellular membrane surface.

While largely ignored by continuing medical education in the United States, glycation and the damaging effects of AGEs are causal factors in insulin-resistant (type 2) diabetes. Diabetics age prematurely from the effects of glycation, and to a lesser degree, we all suffer from the destructive effects of glycation. Too much sugar (glucose) in the blood stream causes damage to the cardiovascular system. This results in damage to the eyes, heart, nervous system, and kidneys.

Glucose is the fuel that runs our bodies. Glucose is transported into the interior of our cells through insulin receptor sites where the "machinery" of the cell (mitochondria) combine glucose with oxygen (from hemoglobin) to produce metabolic energy molecules (ATP). Our cardiovascular system is most vulnerable to glycation.

Research has identified triosephosphate isomerase as the single glucose-induced mediator and damaging mechanism to our cardiovascular system. In our natural cellular defense mechanism there is an enzyme called transketolase that transforms triosephosphate isomerase into a harmless form. Vitamin B1 (thiamine) is necessary for the transketolase enzyme to function properly.

Unfortunately, the addition of vitamin B1 to the diet is only able to increase transketolase activity by an ineffective level of only 20%. However, research scientists in Germany developed a fat-soluble form of vitamin B1 called benfotiamine. Benfotiamine is able to increase in transketolase activity by 300%, and protect our cells from most of the damaging glycation mechanisms. Also, a substance called L-carnosine (beta-alanyl-L-histidine), is an important natural substance that declines with age; and L-carnosine supplementation has been effective in reversing the glycation process.

This information is largely unknown or ignored by the diabetes medical establishment. Causality for type 2 diabetes is wrongly attributed to a type of fat that is called viceral fat, and the build up of this fat around the major organs of the body. Viceral fat interferes with signaling between the various organs, especially the liver, and this leads to more viceral fat

Unfortunately, the medical establishment is strongly influenced by big pharmaceutical companies who may benefit from continued public ignorance. Some estimate that 900,000 people die from the complications of type 2 diabetes each year. With full knowledge outside of the Matrix, no one should die or be disabled by type 2 diabetes. Are we enslaved within a Matrix that profits from greater human suffering? Expand your awareness outside the Matrix, and see for yourself.

The problem goes far beyond diabetes. There is a sickness within the health care sector in the United States. We are lulled into complacency, and our awareness is dulled and deceived within a matrix of conformity and economic interests. The medical part of our health care sector projects an image of competence and capability that is far from the truth. Medicine is corrupted by the flow of large amounts of money; we are currently spending well over one trillion dollars annually on health care, and we are receiving far less health care than we should. The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published a study that supports that contention that doctors are the leading cause of death in the United States. (April 15, 1998; 279(15):1200-5).

Dr Joseph Mercola (www.mercola.com) tells his readers,

"The sad tragedy is that we are spending all of this money ($1.4-trillion) on disease management focused on drugs and surgery, and our return on this investment is profoundly poor. More and more people do not have the energy they need to get through the day while millions of others are suffering with painful crippling diseases because they have [unknowingly] violated basic health principles."

Most who elevate their awareness beyond the accepted "matrix" will discover that important health information is distorted and concealed to preserve economics special interests. Look beyond the matrix, and expand your awareness. Your health, and the health of your loved ones, depends on your growth and development. �

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TD and Seasonal Effective Disorder (SAD)
by Dr. Joseph DiRuzzo

Dr. DiRuzzo is the originator and leading developer of the techniques of Prenatal Re-Imprinting. He is currently working on a program to enhance human mental and physical potential through a program of prenatal nurturing and enrichment.

Seasonal affective disorder is a reduction in mood, a depressed feeling that occurs seasonally. It is sometimes called the hibernation response. Norman Rosenthal, MD is the pioneer in research into seasonal affective disorder (SAD) at the National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH). Dr Rosenthal coined the term for SAD, and he said that a reduction of environmental light for any reason, for example a spell of cloudy weather, is followed by a deterioration in mood.

Virtually all humans respond to seasonal variations in daily light exposure. Some respond with the mood reduction called seasonal affective disorder, or SAD. So, SAD is an emotional state induced by poor quality light, a preparatory phase of hibernation. However, since humankind lacks the physiological capacity to achieve full hibernation, we can become hung up in the preliminary shut down for hibernation. These preparatory hibernation reactions are trig�gered by reduced light exposure that starts a physiological shutdown for the long sleep that never comes.

This hibernation response is a neurochemical reaction of our pineal gland to a reduction in the average daily intensity and full-spectrum of the light in our environment. One of the functions of our pineal gland is to register environmental exposure to light and darkness. Located in the brain behind the frontal bone of the skull, the pineal gland has been called the "third eye." It responds to reduced light levels by converting serotonin to melatonin. Melatonin then acts as a tranquilizer to prepare us for sleep.

Melatonin production is not only from reduced light as sensed by the optic nerves, but also from light sensed by the skin, particularly on the face. Certain cells in the skin are photosensitive (melanocytes, and Langerhans skin cells) and their stimulation by direct sunlight initiates a process that blocks melatonin production.

An effective therapy for treating SAD is exposure to intense light that is close to sunlight at noontime. However, it is interesting to note that Prenatal Re-Imprinting (PNRI) has been effective in treating patients with SAD. Indeed, PNRI (and thus TDPTP) is effective in altering fundamental neurochemical patterns involved in mood disorders and depression. If you are suffering from SAD try listening to your Transforming Dragons CD and prenatally experience the sunlight on your mother's face as she goes for a walk in her favorite place.

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Dear AP

You asked an interesting question about the background of the mother's voice, wondering if something negative in the dark reaches of her mind might transfer to the listener. First and foremost, the voice of the mother (Claire Papin) is that of a highly evolved being who has no negative energies (subliminal or otherwise) that might be imparted to listeners. Claire, as the listener's alternative prenatal or pre-birth mother, has a very healing and nurturing voice, and she provides listeners with four positive alternative experiences that are designed to re-imprint (write over) typical negative gestational imprints. The listener must take an active role in the process (as is explained on the TD CD) using their imagination and intention to accept the alternative reality as a new foundation for their personality. This re-imprinting is a very easy process to accomplish when listeners follow the directions provided. �

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