The pineal gland secretes melatonin, which activates the pituitary gland to release M.S.H. (Melanocyte Stimulating Hormone). It is in the melanocytes that melanin (Greek: melas = Black) is produced. Melanin is somewhat analogous to chlorophyll in plants. While chlorophyll allows photosynthesis to occur, or the transference of the sun’s energy into food, melanin in animals takes the sun’s energy and makes it useful energy for the body. While the growth of plants is directed toward physical sunlight, King contends that the growth of human beings is directed toward higher states of consciousness. This would imply that somehow melanin is related to highly developed states of consciousness, or “spiritual light” We are familiar with melanin in relation to the pigmentation of the skin. But we are not taught about the relationship between the skin and the brain. The ectoderm or outer layer of the skin is where melanin is produced in the pre-fetus. In the core of the brain are found twelve black nuclei, or melanated centers. This outer layer of the blastula (the pre-fetus) invaginates to form the spinal column, the end of which balloons out, becoming the brain. The twelfth of these “centers,” and therefore the “highest,” is the locus coeruleus. King says that they are related to spirituality and consciousness and also allow human beings access to the world of dreams, thereby learning from ancestral experiences. In animals other than humans, fewer of these “centers” will be pigmented therefore their degree of “consciousness” isaffected. Melatonin is released from the pineal gland during darkness, periodically between 11p.m. and 7 a.m. It induces sleep and increases the amount of melanin production. In King’s terms, it “unlocks the door to the unconscious.” At the same time heat and sunlight cause melanocytes to produce melanin so that internally melanin production is regulated by light and dark (hormonal secretion) and externally by heat. Pineal melatonin induces puberty, while King maintains, melatonin is also related to fertility. (Certainly world population figures and related fertility rates bear out this contention.) In addition, it seems that melanin is essential to the life process. The primary and fundamental atom in all biological systems is carbon, which is black. All organic matter comes from a carbon atom. Melanin in the early blastula develops into the spinal cord, the central nervous system, a significant part of the brain, as well as parts of the skin, retina of the eyes (the lack of melanin severely impairs vision), the hair, and the ears. The cerebral spinal fluid made in the brain that helps to regulate various glands in the body contains melanin. The chemistry of melanin is that melanocytes contain tyrosine, an amino acid, and an enzyme tyrosinase. Melanin is made when tyrosinase and oxygen cause tyrosine to convert to DOPA, a “precursor amine” that changes to melanin. The lack of tyrosinase results in the genetic disease known as albinism, which has a deleterious effect on eyesight. Melanin in the retina protects the sensitive eye from the ultra-violate rays of the sun, just as it protects the skin. It also allows for the perception of colors. DOPA is thought to be related to creative thinking and to changes in states of consciousness by the regulation of melanin production. King argues that blackness or carbon is life and is therefore divine. He says that ancient Africans understood this, and called themselves by various names meaning “black,” such as “Kemites” (people of the black earth). According to King, these ancient scientists studied the workings of their own minds, which they understood as being identified with their entire bodies. According to King, the ancient Africans studied themselves until they came to understand the relationship of “blackness” to spirituality and inner vision; the higher levels of understanding on which synthesis occurs. For them “Blackness” represented the divine. What did these early, advanced scientists discover? All vibratory energies, were but a shade of black; black was the color of the night sky, primeval ocean of outer space, birthplace and womb of the planets, stars and galaxies of the universe; black holes were found at the center of our own galaxy and countless other galaxies; black was the color of carbon, the key atom found in all living matter of our world; carbon atoms linked together to form black melanin, the first chemical that could capture light and reproduce itself, the chemical key to life; and the brain itself was found to be centered around black neuromelanin. Inner vision, intuition, creative genius, and spiritual illumination were all found to be dependent upon pineal gland blood borne chemical messengers that controlled skin color and opened the hidden door to the darkness of the collective unconscious mind, allowing the ancient priest-scientist to visualize knowledge from the timeless collective unconscious memory banks of the mind. Indeed, the Black Dot was found to be the hidden doorway to universal knowledge of the past, present and future.
Posted on: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 11:46:11 +0000
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