Pskov land of magic and mystery in Russia
Blacksmith Alchemy as Holy Mother worship in Russia!!
Pskov hibernate meditation is supernatural! https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1117993/ and science is trying to rediscover this secret! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxdT93MoqKM
but the secret is nonwestern meditation! Documented in a 1985 study by
Dr. Herbert Benson: The altitude was 15,000 feet and the temperatures
reached zero degrees Fahrenheit as the Tibetan monks in the Himalayas
slept, apparently comfortably, through the night. With as little
insulation as a thin wool cloak and laying on the cold rock separated
from one another, this should have killed the monks. But they were all
fine and the cameras didn’t even catch them shivering at any point. When
they woke, they walked calmly back to their monastery, not seeming to
notice the cold at all, unlike the scientists and camera crew who were
all bundled up and freezing by morning.
magnetic resonance imaging scans of the monks brains while they meditate
have shown “marked differences in blood flow to the entire brain”,
Benson explains. “At the same time, certain areas of the brain became
more active, specifically those that control attention and autonomic
functions like blood pressure and metabolism.”
All three monks were able to achieve substantial temperature changes by
at least 17 degrees in fingers and toes within minutes of beginning
their meditation. At the same time their heart beat did not increase.
The authors said the most likely physiological mechanism was dilation of
the blood vessels in the extremities. A decrease in oxygen consumption
directly correlated with a decrease in metabolism rate. The results
found that the participants significantly lowered their oxygen
consumption during meditation, more so than through sleep. They were
astonished to find that these monks could lower their metabolism by 64
percent. “It was an astounding, breathtaking [no pun intended] result,”
Benson exclaims. To put that decrease in perspective, metabolism, or
oxygen consumption, drops only 10-15 percent in sleep and about 17
percent during simple meditation.
Increasing alpha wave activity, decreases in the rate of metabolism,
oxygen consumption and blood lactate production are all measured,
observed side effects of the relaxation response. Tibetan monks
reportedly stopped their own heart beat or confined themselves in a
steel metal box and continued to survive by slowing their oxygen intake
to extreme rates. (p. 105,
The Relaxation Response
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsBJ62jSCl0
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