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Israeli scientists have found that giving elderly insomniacs melatonin -- a hormone produced in the human pineal gland, which regulates sleep cycles -- dramatically improves their chances of getting to sleep. It also seems to work for people whose insomnia is caused by Alzheimer's disease and other brain disorders...
...mail came the year's most original movie tie-in: a red plastic visor with a 4-in. protruding, well, sort of asparagus stalk. "Fun Facts and Myths About the Pineal Gland (The Gland of the '80s)" reads the press release. "Mad Doctor Edward Pretorious' invention stimulates the pineal gland and causes it to protrude and take on a personality of its own -- much like your official From Beyond Pineal Gland Visor . . . Wear it anywhere: the ballpark, parties, the shower (it's waterproof...
...romantic surge may be as much scientific as emotional, according to a study by Dr. Joel Ehrenkranz, a resident in internal medicine at New York's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. Looking for a relationship between human breeding habits and the effects of seasonal light on the pituitary and pineal glands, Ehrenkranz spent portions of a five-year span measuring the hormone levels of Eskimos in Labrador. Birth records of two Eskimo communities dating back to 1778 showed a sharp increase in births in March. This confirmed Ehrenkranz's observations that secretions from these glands had changed dramatically...
...particular, the surge of androgens and estrogens may cause the onset of estrus. To prevent this one should do two things: keep cool, and wear a hat at all times to prevent the sunlight from striking the pineal gland," he said...
Science, Rennie says, so long the materialistic brand of knowledge, begins to come upon evidence of other types of experiences. The pineal gland points to the mystical concepts of the third eye--looking inward, regulating the other glands . . . Einstein finds a single equation reducing all matter in the universe to pure simple energy--an energy infinite in extent, timeless, perfect, uniting all individuals, revealed in the Guru's brand of meditation . . . another essence revealed in meditation is the Divine Name, which crops up in references to the Christian logos and to the name of Krishna . . . another essence, a divine nectar...