Prologue

Abstract

Introduction

Part 1. Birth Trauma: The imprint: Its recall, dissipation and biological model.

1.1 Procedure

1.2 Results
           1.2.1 Skull Sensations
           1.2.2 Flashbacks
1.3 The Phenomenon Identified

1.4 General Discussion

   1.4.1 The Hallucinogen Raphe-Reticular Nucleus
             Model (RaRN)
   1.4.2 Engrams, Imprints and Memory Traces
   1.4.3 On Flashbacks

R1 REM Sleep Heals Noxious Memory
   REMS as a healing state
   REMS is hallucinogenic
   The RaRN memory
   The REMS dream
   The Pineal Space
   Habenular influence

R5 A Proposed Etiology of Depression

1.5 Twilight Sleep (TS)

   1.5.1 Scopolamine: Description and Pharmacology
   1.5.2 Predicted Fetal and Maternal Responses to
              scopolamine
   1.5.3 The TS Mother is Traumatized. Two Kinds of
                Memory
   1.5.3.1 Descant on Traumatic memory
   1.5.4 The Question of Fetal Memory with TS

1.5.5 Conclusion on scopolamine

1.6 The Molecular-biological Landscape
1.6.1 Identifying and Sorting Receptor Subtypes
1.6.2 Which Receptors?
1.6.3 5HT1a and 5HT2a Contributions
1.6.4 The Raphe Nuclei

1.7 The Anatomical Pathway
        1.7.1 From Palate to the Brainstem
      1.7.2 Which Raphe and Which Reticular Nucleus?
      1.7.3 The Ascent of Pain
        1.7.4 The Emerging Fetus
1.7.5 The Thalamic Gate
        1.7.6 The Adult
1.7.7x The Descent: The paths for storage and release
           of impulses to and from the memory substrate
          1.7.8 Three Pharmacological Conditions

Part 1, Cont'd

1.8 "Normal Birth": The Mental State of the Mother-to-be

1.8.1 Postulate: The Parturient Mother is Under the
Influence
1.8.2 The Hidden Process
1.8.3 Earlier Hallucinogen Use in Birthing
1.8.4 The Biology of Parturition

1.9 What is the Endogenous Hallucinogen?

PRECEDENT FOR A "TWO-STAGE" NUCLEUS

1.12 TESTING THE HYPOTHESIS

The DMT problem

1.13 THE SMOKING GUN

Part 2. Fetal Responses in the Adult on LSD

2.1 Procedure
2.2 Dosage and Variability
2.3 Results
            2.3.1 First Phase: Autonomic Measurements
            2.3.2 Second Phase: Somatic Effects
                   Movements
          2.3.3 Third Phase: After Effects

2.4 General Discussion

            2.4.2 Phase 1, The Autonomic Spike: Comparative
         Studies
            2.4.3 AUTONOMIC SPIKES ARE SEEN IN FETAL
        HEART MONITORING during Labor
            2.4.4 Phase 2. The Somatic Effects
            2.4.5 LSD as a Conventional Drug

2.5 Does the Obstetric Procedure Impact Fetal Development?
2.5.1 Defining Changing Ensembles as
                Constellations

2.6 What is a Birth Memory?
           2.6.1 A New Kind of Perinatal Influence: A Good Story

2.7 Summary of Parts 1 and 2

3.0 Trauma: A Biological Definition
           3.01 Corollaries and Postulates
           3.02 Caveats on Hallucinogen use
           3.1    PTSD Therapy
           3.2    PTSD Prophylaxis

4.0 Afterword

5.0 Bio Author

6.0 REFERENCES

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[3.] 1.4.2 Engrams and Imprints
[4.] 1.5.3.2 Trauma, PTSD Therapy
[5.] 1.4.4.1 REM Sleep
[4.] 1.6 The Molecular Biological Landscape
[5.] 1.7.4 Ascent of Fetal Pain
[6.] 1.9 What is the Endogenous Hallucinogen?
[6.] 1.9.1 A Precedent for the On-Off bidirectional nucleus
Identity of the endogenous hallucinogen

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