Insights:
"Rising Feelings and Descending Emotions"

by Stuart Wilde

April 21st, 2005
I went to visit my friend Ralph Miller who runs the Heart of the Initiate Ayahuasca temples in Brazil. He told me a very interesting perception he had about the nature of rising and descending emotions.

Ideas that begin in the mind and drift down to the heart to become emotions are considered to be descending. They are often the result of an affirmation or a contradiction of the ego’s opinions. So pleasing events that confirm what your intellect wants in life evoke happiness, while events that contradict your intellect’s desires evoke negative emotions. So a descending emotion is a reaction in your heart to an intellectual opinion.
Ascending feelings are more primal; they are initiated in the heart and they rise up to the intellect to be unraveled and understood. Sometimes they are not easily put into words. There is a beauty and an empathy to them. It’s a mother’s love for a child, it’s crying at the beauty of a sunset, it’s being mesmerized by the sound of flowing water and so forth. It’s a moment when your mind stands still and you feel yourself suddenly connected to all things. That is the ascendant feeling. It’s like falling back into the arms of God.

Miller told me that because western civilization is almost totally devoid of DMT (dimethyltryptamine) in the pineal, the rising feelings and primal emotions of humanity are almost completely lost. The natural empathy we should have for each other just doesn’t feel natural, no matter how hard we try. We have cut ourselves off from nature and other humans. We say, “I love you”, but they are hollow words from the mind without any real warmth or feelings behind them; it’s not an invocation to another’s divinity, a connection to the God Force within them that would come from the primal connection of the heart.

Humans fire DMT in large quantities at birth and at death. So we arrive on earth in a trance state and we depart the same way. The near-death experience of trauma victims is thought to be a DMT firing and the pineal is known to be active for about forty-five minutes after death, which is very mysterious. Why the modern western lifestyle destroys DMT in the pineal is not readily understood; it may be due to stress and nutrition but it is also because the visionary function of the pineal is crushed and beaten out of us early in childhood. So the pineal’s DMT activity atrophies for lack of use. As a society we only endorse logic. We don’t support a child’s imaginary friends or his or her phantasmagorical dream world. We train a child to become a thinker, a performer in a commercial world, a follower of logic and socially approved assumptions.

So you can better understand our world of yang and war and the competitiveness of dog-eat-dog. It’s the manifestation of cruel descending emotions of a mind devoid of the one critical chemical; it’s the cold world of thinkers with their judgments, parameters, rules and evaluations, rather than the natural warmth of visionaries and dreamers. Democracy is intellectualized as the relatively inconsequential act of one man, one vote. In fact, democracy in its primal emotion is a connection to others. It’s being able to love a complete stranger and to care for them and be polite and respect who they are, especially if they are very different to you. Democracy is an empathy—a natural compassion. It’s feeling the same as others, allowing them into your soul, rather than distancing yourself from them.

Our linear world doesn’t allow for other dimensions and the vast inner universe of transdimensional perception. It’s often ridiculed as not there. But quantum physics has proven mathematically it is there. In fact, we exist in those dimensions all of the time; it’s a hyperspace potential we all have as a birthright. Ayahuasca replaces DMT in the pineal and that is why it opens the inner door to the other worlds. You can’t take aya’ and ever remain the same. Once DMT levels are restored in your brain, the primal emotion of ‘remembering’ begins. You remember who you are and those emotions ascend from the heart to the mind and they instantly change the way you think. We become less fake and more authentic. It’s the difference between pretending to be warm and actually being loving and warm.

In the 90s, I wrote a book called

Whispering Winds of Change, in it I said the world would split into three evolutions: the curved path of dogma and elitism, the technological path of global control via electronic wizardry and the open parabola of the visionary path. Only the visionary path survives long-term. This is because the ten dimensional phantasmagorical world eventually folds over our three dimensional world, and as it does, dogma, technology and logic will become meaningless. The world we know will be swept away.

Dogma and technological control are cold and devilish, while the open path is warm and potentially god-like. It’s the ability to walk into those other dimensions and see and remember that allows you to evolve away from the curved trajectories of ego, logic and dogma and control toward the next evolution.

So the choice is an evolution of descending emotions of a mind depleted of DMT, or the ascending emotions of a heart that has the language of the shamans as its poetry. That is why I have felt that Ayahuasca is so vital to people’s perception and spirituality for without a boost of DMT that aya’ provides they may never arrive at the transdimensional door no matter how genuine they are, or how hard they try. We need the language of the shamans to read and understand the book of our evolution.

It’s weird to think that almost all the mayhem of the world comes only from a very slight chemical imbalance in the pineal, and all the human angels and would-be rescuers and kind people, comes from a slight surplus of the same chemical.

Strange but true.

Copyright © 2005 Stuart Wilde
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