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DEFEATING DEMENTIA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

by DrBenGo the Healthwarrior<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dementia is the loss of mental function which results in loss of ability to function in society & loss of ability to function alone without assistance. I will explore how dementia relates to ancient Egyptian, Greece-Buddhist & Roman ideas of internal brain anatomy. I will then fast forward to the German field of Psychiatry, and discuss Alzheimer’s dementia in particular. Enjoy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

INTRODUCTION<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For most of history, dementia was considered to be a disease of the elderly what would now be called \u201csenile dementia\u201d with the observation of mental decline with old age. However, the word dementia has undergone significant manipulation throughout history and especially in modern times. In this episode I will \u201cunbugger\u201d the field from ancient to modern and get the reader up to speed on what to do when facing this horrible disease. To defeat dementia you must know thine enemy, and to heal you must know thyself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DEMENTIA ETYMOLOGY<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The word Dementia is a compound word from Latin which means “Out of the Mind” [De i.e. Down from or concerning and Mentia i.e. Mind]. The Romans also had the compound word demens (dementis) which meant mad, crazy, out of the mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SPIRIT DEMON<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Roman word demens is related to the Greco-Roman word daimon meaning \u201cSpirit\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DOUBLE ENTENDRE OF THE SPLIT MIND<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The idea of the demens \u201cout of the mind\u201d from demon etymology also comes from a root \u201cda\u201d meaning \u201csplit or separate\u201d. (see www.etymology.com\/demon<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Greek language (also Hebrew & Runic) is from the Ancient Phoenician language. In Phoenician, the phonetic sound of words were used to create words with multiple meaning, and plays on words with similar sounds are not only common but expected. All letter and words have both literal and spiritual double entendre meanings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because of this, the word dementia or demens or demons does not just mean \u201cOut of the Mind\u201d it also can mean \u201cSplit Mind\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is my belief that this corresponds to the anatomy of the brain which the two different hemispheres connected by the corpus callous anatomy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Ancient Greeks may have believed that each hemisphere of the brain housed different guiding spirits, maybe one good and one bad, like the image of an angel on one shoulder and the devil on the other both trying to tell you what to do while you try to figure out who to listen to while actually just listening to yourself!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ideas is that you can either listen to your self for improvement or you can lead yourself to ruin through your actions and thoughts and I think that this idea was given to the Greeks through their interaction with Buddhist teachings and Dharma (see Greco-Buddhist).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TIBETAN BOOK OF THE DEAD<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the Buddhists of Tibet, the external spirit forces causing madness and demented hallucinations, the demons, are just projections of your own mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Tibetan book of the dead describes scary demons of
different colors and has instruction for reminding a dying
person to move beyond fear and to recognize the scary visions as self-projections to find peace and thus obtain the ability to reincarnate to higher states of existence. Failure to
recognize yourself and to fear yourself could result in reincarnation to lower planes of existence. It\u2019s not clear to me or maybe it changes whether the goal of reincarnation is to reincarnate to a better plane of existence or possibly to reincarnate outside of the cycle of existence yet it seems to also encompass the idea of being able to reincarnate back into the cycle of existence to help others. I love the Buddhist idea of the \u201cBodhisattva\u201d, a person who has achieved enlightenment in a past life and has come back to help others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EXTERNAL IS INTERNAL IN THE HUMAN ANATOMY MYSTERY RELIGIONS<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although much of the ancient greek mystery school religions has been lost, I have pieced enough of it together to figure out the important gist of it which is derived, for simplification, from ancient Egypt and ancient Tibet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The uniting religion of the ancients was essentially what I call Greco-Buddhism, and it is syncretic with the teachings of Luxor, Egypt at Karnak Temple and also espoused by the Persians and the Greeks from Darius the Great to Alexander the Great and beyond even unto the founding of the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The idea is to relate the movements of the stars and heavens to the internal anatomy of the human body where each house of heaven corresponds to a house in the body as well as to both a number, a color and a sound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BRAIN ANATOMY CARTOON CRASH COURSE SONG & DANCE VIDEO!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you\u2019re a little fuzzy on brain anatomy (neuroanatomy) please watch this quick video called \u201cBrainstem\u201d from the Pinkie & the Brain cartoon which is as a neuroanatomy crash course song and very informative!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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