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THE PHYSIOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF STRESS AND THE CALL BY THOSE CONSEQUENCES FOR REALIZATION AND A NISARGAN PERSPECTIVE
[NON-DUAL NOTE: Some regular visitors to the author’s non-dual website might recall an example used back in 2007 or so: Consider two men working in a downtown high rise office complex. It is lunchtime.
One takes out the lunch he brought, puts on some relaxing music, leans back in his chair, puts his feet up on his desk, eats his sandwich and fruit, and looks out the window and watches the birds fly by as the clouds move cross the sky.
Next door, a businessman (that is, a “busy-ness man”) has a client sitting at his desk, two other clients waiting in the outer office, and is on the phone lining up one early lunch meeting with a client and a later luncheon with another.
His phones have three lights blinking, indicating three calls for him are on holds. The secretary brings in papers for the client at his desk to sign. Still talking on the phone, he points for the secretary to set the papers in front of the man and points at the man to sign them.
He rushes through seeing the others in his office and clears them out and heads to his car to drive to the first of two lunch appointments. Now, the question is this: “In the typical, so-called “developed” or “advanced” nations on the planet nowadays, which man would be admired and which would be labeled ‘a lazy man who is not nearly motivated enough and should be accomplishing much more than he is’?”
Again, Shively: “We have to change our values and value people who understand a balanced and serene life.”]
Narrator: “One heartbreaking moment in history reveals that stress may, in fact, damage us long before we are even aware. Holland, late 1944. A brutal winter and a merciless army of occupation conspire to starve a nation. It is known as the Dutch Hunger Winter. For those who survive today, these are haunting memories.”
[Side note: I was able to meet Jan and Miep Gies, the couple who helped hide Anne Frank and six others from the Nazis. and we were friends up until Jan took mahasamadhi. My friendship with Miep lasted for many more years and she bonded with my then-young daughter.
In the early 1980’s, I sat in the flat of Jan and Miep Gies located about a twenty-minute tram ride from the central area of Amsterdam where the Otto Frank office was located on Prinsengracht Canal in the early 1940’s.
Jan and Miep were among several who helped hide the Frank and the van Daan families in several rooms in the attic of the office building out of which Frank had operated the company which he established there after leaving Germany when the Nazis began their reign of terror.
(See “The Diary of Anne Frank” which logged the events of their daily lives during their hiding over a twenty-five month period.)
Miep described to me - and to the readers of her book as well - riding her bicycle into the countryside during that winter of 1944, seeking enough food for the seven people hiding upstairs as well as for her and her husband and two others who assisted in hiding two families of Jews from the Dutch Green Police and the Nazi occupiers. She said that often a four-or-five hour trip would net only a few, mostly rotten, potatoes purchased at a very high cost. Brutal conditions indeed.]
Narrator: “Dutch researcher Tessa Roseboom had heard many of those tragic memories. She and her team wanted to know if there were any lingering effects. Roseboom knew that our bodies respond to famine in much the same way they respond to other stressors, so she set out to see if the fetuses of women pregnant during these arduous days could possibly be affected by stress.
Because of meticulous record keeping by the Dutch, Roseboom was able to identify over 2,400 people who could have been impacted. She and her team analyzed the data from those born during and after the famine and came to a surprising conclusion.”
Roseboom: “I think that you could say that these babies were exposed to stress in fetal life and they are still suffering the consequences of that now, sixty years later.”
Narrator: “Most of the Dutch Hunger Winter children live today, all in their sixties. Many still bear the scars of war.”
Roseboom: “We found that babies who were conceived during the famine have an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. They have more hypercholesterolemia, they are more responsive to stress, and they generally are in poorer health than people who were born before the famine or conceived after it.”
Narrator: “Researchers think that stress hormones in a mother’s blood triggered a change in the nervous system of the fetus as it struggled with starvation. This was the fetuses’ first encounter with stress. Six decades later, the bodies of these Dutch Hunger Winter children still haven’t forgotten.”
Sapolsky: “What we now know is it’s not just your fat cell storage that winds up being vulnerable to events like this. It’s your brain chemistry. It’s your capacity to learn as an adult. It’s your capacity to respond to stress adaptively rather than maladaptively.
How readily you fall into depression, how vulnerable you are to psychiatric disorders - yet another realm in which early experience and early stress can leave a very bad footprint.”
[NON-DUAL NOTE: Maharaj was once asked if he really even cared about the people who came his way, seeking peace and freedom? He replied: “More than you will ever know.”
Do you understand why some among the realized that not only know the Oneness but abide as the Oneness care enough to provide time and energy to try to offer a means by which some have found freedom from stress and worry and from the consequences of those factors, consequences which can go on for generations?
The realized understand that almost all of those consequences are rooted in the mental, in the mind, in what Sapolsky terms “psychological states.”
The Ultimate Sickness is a mental sickness, and it is the mental, psychological issues - not a too-little-religion issue or “a spiritual malady” issue - that must be addressed if peace and freedom are to come and remain for the remainder of the manifestation.]
Narrator: “Most of the Dutch Hunger Winter children live today, all in their sixties. Many still bear the scars of war. Researchers think that stress hormones in a mother’s blood triggered a change in the nervous system of the fetus as it struggled with starvation. This was the fetus’ first encounter with stress. Six decades later, the bodies of these Dutch Hunger Winter children still haven’t forgotten.”
Sapolsky: “What we now know is it’s not just your fat cell storage that winds up being vulnerable to events like this. It’s your brain chemistry. It’s your capacity to learn as an adult. It’s your capacity to respond to stress adaptively rather than maladaptively. How readily you fall into depression, how vulnerable you are to psychiatric disorders-- yet another realm in which early experience and early stress can leave a very bad footprint.”
To continue with the results of a study which provide one more example of how spot on Maharaj was when he predicted that science would someday verify all of the non-dual teachings and reveal exactly what the Ultimate Sickness is all about and how the understanding can help alleviate many of the symptoms:
Dutch woman: “If I had had an option, I would not have opted to be bipolar, but now that I am bipolar, I’ll have to live with it.”
Sapolsky: “What the Dutch Hunger Winter phenomenon is about is experiencing an environment that starts long before birth. An adverse, stressful environment can leave imprints, can leave scars lasting a whole lifetime.”
Narrator: “During this year’s multi-generational research, Robert, who has spent his career documenting the effects of stress on the individual and on the cell, tracks the trail of stress even deeper into our bodies.”
Sapolsky: “One of the most interesting new directions of stress research is taking the effects of stress down to a ‘nuts and bolts’ level of how cells work and finding how genes work in ways that half a dozen years ago nobody could have imagined.”
Narrator: “The once unimaginable genetic structures called telomeres protect the ends of our chromosomes from fraying. As we age, our telomeres shorten.”
Sapolsky: “What’s interesting is stress, by way of stress hormones, can accelerate the shortening of telomeres, so the assumption is for two exact same-aged guys, if one is a low-ranking guy who’s just marinating in stress hormones, his telomeres are going to be shorter.”
Narrator: “So how does this formidable finding [that stress can shorten the telomeres which are intended to protect DNA from being damaged] apply to us?”
More on that tomorrow.
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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THE EXPLANATION
Yeshu'a (Jesus) and Pope John Paul II and Pope Francis were spot on:
"No one shall ever see 'the kingdom of heaven.' It is within"
and
"Heaven and earth shall fade away."
and
"Heaven and hell are not geographic places
"There is no hell."
teachings which become a part of the Papal Magisterium.
