Hans-Pineal

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 127023


Hans Andrea wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/126711 :

<< There are many other indications which point towards Dumbledore's
office as the pineal gland >>

I suppose the various times characters visit Dumbledore's office on
school business is part of the story rather than alchemical symbolism
(was it Dean who said that the Sorting Hat had told him that Harry had
killed a basilisk with that sword on Dumbledore's wall? So Harry is
not the only student who visits DD's office and converses with the
Sorting Hat). Is there an alchemical meaning to Harry smashing stuff
in Dumbledore's office in the end of OoP? To the portraits of deceased
Headmasters? 

<< The pineal gland is indeed the third eye >> << of all the
connections between the chakras and the physical glands, the
relationship between the pineal gland and the crown chakra is the most
intimate one of all >>

I was taught that 'brow chakra' is Another Name for 'third eye
chakra'. I *think* that is what Catkind (see below) meant by saying:
<< Actually, a lot of traditions have the crown chakra associated to
the pituitary gland and the brow chakra to the pineal gland. >> Were
those traditions mislead by something more alchemical than the
physical position of the first two eyes?

Catkind (meow!) wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/126738 as :

<< The chakras are usually given rainbow colours in order >>

You've sent me back searching my memories (which might have been
faster with a Pensieve instead of the Web). In the 1980s I attended a
class given by a psychic healer named Reverend Rosalind something who
had a training institute in Topanga Canyon (Web: Reverend Rosalind
Bruyere, Healing Light Center) and my recollection is that she said
"You've all seen pictures of the chakras looking like a little
rainbow. It's so pretty. Well, it's *wrong*" and went on to tell what
color she sees each chakra as, which I've forgotten. When I said
"sees", I mean literally, through her eyes -- being able to see auras
is a pre-requisite for studying at her institute. And she had some
connection between wavelenghts of light of those colors and
wavelengths of sounds....

My real teacher in the 1980s (not just a weekend seminar!) assigned
yet another set of colors to chakras, which I do not remember except
for vague recollections that the crown might have been violet and gold
and the throat might have been multi-color stripes. 

<< Also biologically, the pituitary is itself controlled by the
hypothalamus. Is that by any chance Dumbledore, Hans? >>

D'you remember a book called POWERS OF MIND by 'Adam Smith' (who
earlier wrote THE MONEY GAME and SUPERMONEY)? My recollection is that
he's talking about stress-related diseases -- 'fight or flight' --
sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems -- and he says
something about 'hypo' means 'under' and 'thalamus' means 'wedding
bed' in Greek, so the order to flee or fight comes from under the
wedding bed. "Very insightful, Dr. Freud."

All this analysis of Weasleys has given me the silly idea that maybe
Arthur and Molly chose seven as the number of children they wanted
from the beginning because they wanted their own Quidditch team (like
butcher Parkin).