Pineal gland

The pineal gland (named after the pine and the shape of its cones; also called conarium, corpus pineale, glandula pinealis, pineal organ) or epiphysis (cerebri) (from Greek: επίφυση, literally "the up-growth", "the sessile growth" with the Latin suffix cerebri - of the brain, as the bone ends of the long tubular bones are also called epiphyses), is a small unpaired organ in the epithalamus, a part of the diencephalon. In the pineal gland, the hormone melatonin is produced in special neurosecretory cells called pinealocytes. The hormone is mainly produced at night. The sleep-wake rhythm and other time-dependent rhythms of the body are controlled via melatonin. In case of malfunction, it causes - apart from a disturbed daily rhythm - either sexual prematurity or an inhibition of sexual development. Descartes believed the pineal gland to be the transition point between mind and body.

Literature

• Rick Strassman: DMT: The Spirit Molecule: A Doctor's Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near-Death and Mystical Experiences, Park Street Press 2000, ISBN 978-0892819270
• Rudolf Steiner: Universe Earth and Man in their Relationship to Egyptian Myths and Modern Civilization. Reprint of the original edition. CW 105. Kessinger Publishing 2010, ISBN 978-1162581132
• Rudolf Steiner: Man as Symphony of the Creative Word. 3rd Revised edition. 12 lectures Dornach. CW 230. Translatation by V.& J. Compton-Burnet. Rudolf Steiner Press 1970. ISBN 978-0854402069 rsarchive.org

German

• Rudolf Steiner: Kosmogonie, GA 94 (2001), ISBN 3-7274-0940-1 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Welt, Erde und Mensch, GA 105 (1983), Siebenter Vortrag, Stuttgart, 11. August 1908 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Der Mensch als Zusammenklang des schaffenden, bildenden und gestaltenden Weltenwortes, GA 230 (1993), ISBN 3-7274-2300-5 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org

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