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Bacteria - are composed of genetic material, chemicals arranged into complex metabolic cycles, various molecular infrastructures, and salt water, all housed within a selectively permeable membrane. – Swimme, Sahourtis, and Liebes

bai -  Cashinahua term for ayahuasca tryp is 'bai', the idea of a sightseeing excursion with housecalls for visiting.  Kensinger, K.

balance - 1) the play of polarities. - mb 2)  Nature always seeks balance.  The natural range of activity of all elements of the system must be expressed. - Alexander

banana clock -  The host (Jivaro Amazon Indian) gives each guest a banana from the same stalk and when it ripens they know to come back for the celebration.  M. Harner

bandwidth -  1)  The numerical difference between the upper and lower frequencies of a band of electromagnetic radiation, especially an assigned range of radio frequencies.  2a)  The amount of data that can be passed along a communications channel in a given period of time.  2b) volume of information per unit time that a computer, person, or transmission medium can handle. "Those are amazing graphics, but I missed some of the detail -- not enough bandwidth, I guess."  3) Attention span.

bard - 'Taliesin was invited by the Emperor Arthur to his court at Caerlleon upon Usk, where he became highly celebrated for poetic genius and useful, meritorious sciences.' . . .  'Taliesin, Chief of the Bards, was the highest of the most exalted class, either in literature, wisdom, the science of vocal song, or any other attainment, whether sacred or profane' - Mabinogion

batin -  Indonesian.  “There are many types of spiritual practices in Java which may be undertaken and which are said to bring a person in better contact with the larger order: As preparation for or as part of such practices, one generally needs to become centered, to still one's own thoughts and listen to the batin, one's inner, spiritual aspect which is capable of being sensitive to the unseen forces of the universe. Batin is in contrast to the lahir, the outward realm of the senses, appearances, and material phenomena, although lahir and batin tend to be seen as operating in a sort of reciprocal arrangement - C. Geertz. 2) Through the development of the batin one may increase one's spiritual power or potency. This development is often undertaken through the denial of basic comforts associated with material life so that one may be detached and able to engage in the search for unity or oneness with the 'ultimate'.  Deprivations may take the form of fasting, night vigils, sexual abstinence, as well as more complex disciplines such as special forms of meditation (samadhi), prayer, and pilgrimages to sites considered to be foci of power. Such places of pilgrimage include certain gravesites, places of guardian spirits (dhanyang), natural sites such as springs or mountaintops, sites of old temples, and places associated with the remains of past kingdoms. Such practices are referred to as laku (literally 'step'; also, 'ascetic practice') or nglakoni.  M. Lyon

bardo passing -  In the Tibetan tradition that 49th day, seven perfect weeks, concludes the bardo passage, the interval between death and some kind of rebirth.

barakumin -  “I believe there needs to be a change of consciousness so that people have confidence in themselves, rather than asking for something from the outside. It seems to me that they lack the personality of independent individuals. They have probably been shaped by the patterns of discrimination and the corrective movement over the past thirty years. They have a sense of disgrace as children of the eta. Everyone thinks discrimination comes only from the outside world, and that is the source of their pain. But it is actually coming from inside themselves, too. They think negatively about themselves, so they suffer in terms of the value system of the outside world. If that were not the case, they would not be suffering. I don't think they have realized that yet, because the movement has been oriented toward the outside world. You see, the difficult thing about the buraku problem is that burakumin are social beings, not racial beings. You can't tell that I am from the buraku community just by looking at me, can you? So if I am socially successful, it might seem best to hide my background. It is unusual for successful people to say they are from the buraku community. But that is crucial to the development of a new consciousness. Those who succeed tend to hide their origin, and those who remain identified as burakumin maintain negative self-images. While there is generally no need to worry about people's origins, in this sense, I feel the necessity to declare that I'm a burakumin. I live in an apartment building, and our neighbors know that I am from the buraku community, and that my wife is not. We could have chosen not to tell anyone. but doesn't it bother us. - Nadamoto Masahisa

batrachian assemblies -  breeding frogs

beauty - a direct link to our inpsired selves

beliefs –  chronic thought  2) "Alberto, belief is not something that is based on proof, like your sciences. It is something that you invest. However much of yourself you invest in the ceremony is what you're going to receive. Don't be an observer; participate. Dare to take a chance." Oldmanat:  http://www.intuition.org/txt/villoldo.htm  3) beliefs are agreements about reality, and agreements can be changed . . .Beliefs are the invisible building blocks, the conditions around which you agree to interact with reality.– the Pleiadeans  4) My own opinion is that belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence. The more certitude one assumes, the less there is left to think about, and a person sure of everything would never have any need to think about anything and might be considered clinically dead under current medical standards, where absence of brain activity is taken to mean that life has ended. - Robert Anton Wilson   5)  beliefs that foster despair are biologically destructive - Seth

bewilder -  to make wild . . . 

bezoar -  is a stony calcified hairball or gallstone that occurs in the stomachs of cud-chewing animals such as goats (though humans sometimes get them, too). The word is Persian ('pad-zahr', counter-poison or antidote); the bezoar's fame as a cure for poison spread westwards from there in medieval times. You swallowed it, or occasionally rubbed it on the infected part. In 'A Voyage to Abyssinia', written by Father Lobo in the eighteenth century, he says: "I had recourse to bezoar, a sovereign remedy against these poisons, which I always carried about me". Belief in its near-magical properties was then common.  - http://gen.culpepper.com/interesting/medicine/nicholas.htm

bhava roga - Anandamayi considered individual identity to be a kind of spiritual disease. She called it bhava roga, or the disease of feeling where every person looks at him or herself as a separate individual.

bien - "The tendency of the modern human mind is to approach the world through reduction and to look only at certain aspects of the bee hive. Due to this, the notion of the one-being was created ( Einwesen, in German) also called the Bien (bee in German is: Biene). The concept of the bien reveals itself as an undividable entity. As something which is beyond the sum of its small and many parts. The modern equivalent to bien could be called super-organism. More like the biological term for this. A super-organism is something which goes beyond individual organisms, so this is what the beehive is. It’s something which goes far beyond its individual parts. So that is the basic understanding of bien. . . the bien is one whole being. Through the Bien we can experience the miracle, that life is. We may sense the communal, non hierarchical form of life, an attitude without greed, hate and dilusion. Deep within we may feel the extent of selfless serving to the whole – like Steiner says: the hive is permeated with love. So the beauty of the concept of bien, is that it can open our minds and stretch our understanding, because it’s not only what we can see with our eyes, it’s something those 50,000 honeybees are creating together. It can help humans to learn, to relearn, to remember the bigger picture of the underlying interconnectedness of everything. - Michael Thiele

big bang - The remainder of my trip was spent going through cycles of re-orientation. Over all I felt that I had come into being, into existence, at that point in time, like in a ‘big-bang’ sort of way, it was the true moment of my creation.   - http://www.mypc.myhome.org.uk/shrooms/committed.htm

Bija - A "root" or "seed" sound or syllable of a mantra. Sperm. - http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gthursby/tantra/glossary.htm

bilateral coherence -  descriptive of a healthy relationship between two entities

bilocation - shaman defined as:   “men or women who exhibit both the need and the ability to induce in themselves the kinds of experience that bring them to the brink of permanent madness or even death.   These experiences can  produce feelings of depersonalization and fragmentation, in addition to feelings of weightlessness, ascension or flying, and bilocation.”

biochemical yoga -  the art of trypping well

biolence -

biolations -

biological resonance -  proclivity of the body-mind to take resonance with ‘outside’ phenemena either positively (laying on of hands) or negatively (sudden onset of a degenerative disease). 

biomemes -  biologically held information.  E.g. Plants are midwives of our consciousness, as we evolved later than plants.  Plants thus contain a story, information, that directly relates to human well-being.  Mitchell 

bi-ontological -  1) Participant-observation is a contradiction in terms, an oxymoron - similar to the impossibility of the objective observor in quantum physics.  “Thus the anthropologist ‘dances on the edge of paradox’, playing schizophrenic role of player/commentator’” - Narby.  2) . . . This is especially hard when as a commentator you have to report back to a world view that is anithetical to the one you’ve been participating/observing - though this has some expansion of conscious ‘stretching’ function if one can train oneself to accommodate and synthesize these perspectives, thus becoming bi-ontological. - mb  

biosphere -  irregularly shaped envelope of the earth's air, water, and land encompassing the heights and depths at which living things exist. The biosphere is a closed and self-regulating system, sustained by grand-scale cycles of energy and of materials-in particular, carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, certain minerals, and water. The fundamental recycling processes are photosynthesis, respiration, and the fixing of nitrogen by certain bacteria.   - http://www.encyclopedia.com/articles/01492.html

birth - 'to transit the dimensions'

blessings - "Blessing" means the vigorous total wish for good, coming from the innermost self, from the divine inner being, the wish for the good of the unitive principle, which holds that there are no opposites and no conflicts.  When this unobstructed wish flows directly into the deepest regions of consciousness of another person, a vibrating energy force is created that brings a new impact in the inner person. - Pathwork Lecture #144 

Blossom Time – “Large numbers of people, without distinction of race, religion, age or social status have acknowledged the value of her teachings by establishing Sahaja Yoga centers in over 75 nations. These people who live a normal family life, tap to their inner spiritual power through daily Sahaja Yoga meditation and have achieved a complete balance of their lives on the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels. They understand the integration of all religions and spiritual paths not at a mental level, but through their direct, tangible experience on the central nervous system. Thousands of years ago, the Blossom Time was prophesized to come when, in these modern times of crisis, thousands of seekers of Truth are going to experience this connection with their Spirit.”

blood of the bhang - hash oil

boddhichita - the awakened heart. By putting good energy into the world, you manifest boddhichita. A Boddhichita mind is that of someone who can understand the needs of the largest majority of the people. 2) the natural opening in the barriers that we create. The soft spot, the weak link in the solid structure of ego. This is the tenderness that you can seize, the opening to take, to let grow and spread to full awakening. - Pema Chodron 3) sensitivity to the rights of all sentient beings, a stronger version of compassion, the Boddhichitta prayer precedes all other practices - Bompo tradition

body -  1)  What we call the body is a sort of flowering of the soul, a concentration of its sensual potential in the direction of a specific level of being.  - Whitney Streiber.  2)  the body is an evolutionary frontier - mb 3) the body is like a bud, to open it up, to flower energetically, is by way of the joints.  the deeper and less normally conscious are the joints, the more they are foundational and fundamental to the flowering process - mb 4)  the body . .   learns from ecstatic states - jorge gonzales  5)  a standing wave pattern - hathor material  6)  The temple template of infinity. – Sheoekah  7)  the terrestial terminal for the habitation of eternal awareness;  a nerve ending of god in matter;  a sheath of tangibility – K. Carey  8) (according to Taoism) a microcosm that follows the macrocosmic laws and is continually informed by macrocosmic influences such as the seasonal changes, planetary conjunctions, and other shifts in the life that surrounds us.  9) "One of the rather striking things I believe I learned (from my ibogaine experience) was that our human physical body is, in reality, a highly ingenious and very amusing trick of the light. It's essentially the 3D holographic construct, (a hologram), that results from the interraction of laser light with holographic plates at a multi-dimensional level. Furthermore, there are in fact a whole array of higher "spiritual" bodies, (some of which are immortal), superposed on top of it in multi-dimensional space. The reason we are not really aware of these most of the time is down to the ingenuity of the design. We're not really supposed to be. The illusion we start to maintain from birth, therefore, is that we are solely physical. The idea of an outside world and inner physical space that we typically conceptualize in our daily life is, therefore, not very accurate. (If you think about it, everything we sense exists only inside what we conceive of as our head.) Our World is merely a projection. It appears this way because it's designed to appear this way. The reason we're not aware of this most of the time is because the human physical body and its' existence is, in fact, a sophisticated learning tool for our higher spiritual bodies. If we were ordinarily aware of our higher spiritually bodies, the learning tool would not function. As a people, therefore, we are here to learn. It is the act of learning that justifies our continued existence. - www.ibogaine.co.uk/exp12.htm  9) the body is a series of frequency envelops.  10) an energy system that processes material, because the body changes completely in only a few years.   11)  the body is a spiritual, psychic, and social statement, biologically spoken - Seth 11) In my own case, apart from the physical transformation I have been going through, as per my intention, the plant (ayahusca) is giving me a profound knowledge of my body's inner workings. I can actually feel it from the inside now; the ducts and channels, the tendons and the lymph, the blocks and the free areas, the bits that need extra attention. I was amazed at how blocked I was with regard to my body before, how I distained it, and disregarded its needs, mostly unconsciously and at the behest of a willful mind denying the seriousness of my condition. For me, my body is now a universe that I want to explore, to take care of, and to love. I could never have conceived this was possible before. The beauty with which various aspects of my physical self are being revealed to me makes me revere and respect the medicine more and more with each passing day. And even more magical is the fact that what I considered ugly in my physical form before, I can now see it is a perfect, divine, and even beautiful creation. - http://www.realitysandwich.com/how_shipibo_healers_cured_my_brain_tumor

body intelligence -  “According to his capabilities, the jaguar-man (shaman) can invoke the 'owners' (oversouls of animal species) in various ways: firstly through meditation and shamanic spells, for example on the origin of the Tapir if it is hunting that is required. As he recites his body 'tells' him by muscular contractions whether or not he can proceed with the hunt.” - Martin von Hildebrand

Bovis scale - “The Bovis scale is an intuitive scale created by a French scientist at the turn of the century to measure the natural health of organic objects, a system which is now being used in resonance therapy along with crop circles images to treat environments with disease as well as humans.   The higher the Bovis count, the healthier the system. An average person emits 15,000 Bovis.”  ?!?!

box system - The “Visions” chapter (of "Memories, Dreams, and Reflections") describing his recovery from a broken foot and then heart attack. . ..  Jung felt he was vacillating between living and dying.  While realizing he was choosing life, he was disappointed: ““Now I must return to the box system again,” for it seemed to me as if behind the horizon of the cosmos, a three-dimensional world had been artificially built up, in which each person sat by himself in a little box.” (p 292)  

brain - 1)  a liminal organ operating somewhere between the genetically fixed and the radically free - Victor Turner.  2)  skull marrow (in Chinese) 

breaching experiments - Dramatists occasionally play with the audience / performer boundary, and social psychologists have adopted this form of performance art as a professional technique, renaming the performances 'breaching experiments.' - http://sniggle.net/perfart.php

breakdancing - 'Breakdancing emerged from the Bronx and Harlem in the early 1970s, part of the hip-hop culture that also included graffiti, MCing or rapping, and disc jockeys scratching and mixing vinyl records on turntables.' . . . During extended pauses, or breaks, in the music, b-boys would mimic James Brown's showmanship and footwork and Bruce Lee's martial arts, adding their own signature moves.' - Associated Press writer Tania Fuente

breath - an integrative and balancing mechanism . . Breath seems to provide a physical control that bridges into the subtler dimensions through which life forces move.  Breathing exercises are the means to control and distribute vital energies.  2)  “the breath is where the voluntary and involuntary processes converge, where the boundary between outer and inner dissolves, and hence a powerful meeting ground of mind and body, the separate self and the All.”  –Susan Thesenga  3) Awareness and control of the breath are the essential keys for understanding and developing the higher mind because they form a very powerful and natural way to connect with both inner and outer sources of the vital life-force energy.    By focusing your attention, you can use your breath to stabilize yourself, to have more energy and enhance your immune system, to create beneficial brain wave patterns, and to travel into the interior of your being to beyond the linear mind. . . You must learn to pay attention to where the breath takes you, for it is a very powerful tool for activating  and using your physical form to its greatest extent.  Breathing exercises create a strong foundation in the body for those seeking higher consciousness, and we highly recommend you adopt the discipline of always returning your attention to conscious breathing.  Breathing is an exchange of energy between the outer world and the inner domain of your body.   No matter what you are doing . . . modulating your breathing pattern is a way of staying centered, expanding the use of your mind, and enhancing your physical prowess. – The Pleiadians 

brevity - the soul of wit - Shakespeare

brickolage -  a composite;  construction or something constructed by using whatever comes to hand.  It can describe the amalgamation of many bits and pieces of diverse cultural systems. 

bridge people -  In Incan prophecy, it being foretold that when the European's came to the Americas a 500 year period was to begin called the 'clashing of the cultures'.  It would then take 500 years for the Europeans to understand the Indians and the Indians to understand the Europeans.  This period would end with the appearance of the 'bridge people', those who are able to take the best of both worlds and alchemize them into a new culture and a new human. E.g, of the last crop of bridge people (500 years ago): "Though Paracelsus is considered the father of chemical medicine, he worked with an alchemical pharmacology:  materials fertile with souls, magical transformations, and vital essences.  His greatness lay in his application of a logical and experimental approach to the magical and experiential world." - mb

Buddhist mandalas - ‘’The relationship between geometry, math and music is especially important in Buddhist mandalas, whose elaborate geometries are claimed to be the physicalization of chants which are then used for meditation.’

bureaucracy -  1)  The outer trench behind which lay a powerful system of fortresses and earthworks.  – Gramsci 2)   organized irresponsibility – Mannheim  2) bureaucracies of “official” America are the latter day descendants of the colonizers. 

bureaucratic drift - When bureacracies become more concerned with self-survival than solving the problems they were created to deal with. Instead their interests lie in making the problem worse, so that they get more funding, personnel, status, so they drift into inflated versions of their orginal selves. The DEA is prime example.