Rabbi Joel Baksti (who appears in the movie The Spirit Molecule) has kindly sent me a paper he has written entitled The Foundations Stone & New Jerusalem of the Mind. This is a fantastic read and, with his permission I will be including credited sections of it in my forthcoming book The Gateway To Infinity - The Pineal Gland and Altered-States of Consciousness. I have just come across an amazing section where Rabbi Baksti highlights a section from the Bible just after Jacob has has what can be interpreted as a lucid-dream encounter with an "angel" (I cannot help but draw links with the "Machine Elves" encounters of Terence McKenna whilst under the influence of ayahuasca and the classic "Grey" encounters experienced by Rick Strassman's subjects during their DMT "journeys"):
"And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved."
Genesis 32:30
King James Version (KJV)
Now your are all probably aware that for me the Pineal Gland has great significance with regards to altered-states of consciousness and such things as Out-of-Body Experiences, Near-Death Experiences and "Lucid Dreaming". In my last book I presented a neuro-chemical/quantum physics model that attempted to explain what is taking place. Here we have evidence that, as usual, mystic beliefs and "Gnostic Traditions" have long known how this model works. I am not "discovering" anything. I am simply uncovering information that has been known for millennia.
I am aware that this is simply a homonym .... but one of some significance nevertheless. As Rabbi Baksti jokingly states:
“Pineal, please meet Peniel’’.....