There is something that a lot of people call Biohacking that has been going on for tens of thousands of years, but has recently been termed Biohacking. The Church of Neuroscience was started by Dr. Jeremy Kerr, not with Biohacking in mind, but with Eucharists in mind. Dr. Jeremy Kerr created a Church that accepts all Religious Faiths and Denominations, and offers them Physical and Spiritual Enlightenment through the use of various Neuroactive substances. I have been a member of this Church since 2010.

Many people have never heard of the concept of Neurospirituality, but they have probably heard something related to it. You have probably heard that certain parts of your Brain Light up when you talk about or listen to something about God, and it is different than the parts that light up when you are just normally talking or listening. Some people take this and say “See, when someone experiences God, it is just Chemical Reactions in their brain”. But, for example, when someone with Alzheimer’s becomes completely Lucid, and remembers everything about their entire lives, and are able to talk to family members for a brief period. That is also all just Chemical Reactions in the Brain, right? But just because it is Chemical Reactions in the Brain doesn’t mean it isn’t much much more than that. Take the Concept of Love for example, Scientists have discovered that when someone experiences what we call “Love”, the 2 main Chemicals associated with this feeling are Theobromine and Oxytocin. But you can’t force yourself to love someone simply by ingesting or injecting Theobromine and Oxyticin. And when they hook someone up to an EEG or ECG Brain scanner, they can see Brain activity based on the Molecules. But what is making the Molecules be released? Are the Molecules being released because of the Brain Activity? Or is the Brain Activity a result of the Molecules? When you Love someone, it may have a Chemical Reaction behind it, but it does not mean that it isn’t something real and more meaningful than a Chemical reaction.

And as a Shaivite Hindu Neurospiritualist this idea comes naturally. To me, God, Lord Shiva, is the Phenomenon of Dance. Shiva is the Phenomenon of Meditation. Shiva is the Phenomenon of using Bhang. Shiva is all of these Phenomenon and of course each has its own particular Brain Activity associated with it. And in Hinduism, the Goal is to experience these Gods. God is not some man in the sky dictating your life, God is real.  The Sun is called Surya, Fire is called Agni, the Moon is called Soma.

The Santo Diame Church experiences God by consuming Hoasca, The Native Americans experience God by consuming Peyote, The Church of True Inner Light experiences God by consuming DPT, Christians experience Jesus by consuming Wine, the Mazatec people of Mexico use Salvia to experience Ska Pastora (the Sherphardess), Some people have even experienced God on LSD. And all around the World people have natural experiences of God.

The Goal of the Church of Neuroscience is to teach people about their Brains and Brain Functions and how they can work to improve them and have life changing experiences using various Sacraments, such as Nootropics, in an educated way.

Over the next year I will be presenting a Clinical and Religious path to Biohacking. Here are some examples of what we will be using to perfect the art of Biohacking through Neurospirituality:

Nootropics

Nootropic:

n, adj: dietary supplement that helps support certain brain functions, such as memory, mental speed, and focus.

Nootropics will be explained, tested and reviewed. It will be done in a Clinical way so as to give the most benefit to the reader. Everything will have a preparation explanation with Dosages prepared, etc, and will be done in a T-0:00 (ingestion time) T+0:30 (30 minutes after ingestion) T+1:00 (1 Hour after ingestion) so that people can understand exactly what is happening, in what timeframe and with what dose. If anything is taken on a daily basis there will also be Daily, Weekly or Monthly Updates.

Once Neulog equipment is acquired, more results will be available, such as Galvanic Skin Response, ECG, etc.

http://www.powdercity.com/

http://nootropicsdepot.com/

#SteemitNootropics

Herbs

Herbs from various Regions of the World will be explained, tested and reviewed, as well as combined with Nootropics and tested and reviewed. Various Religious Ceremonial and Traditional Mixtures from around the World will be used, such as: Ubulawu, Wormwood, Hottentot Tea, Ayahuasca, Ibogaine, Rose Otto, San Pedro, Rivea Corymbosa, Datura and Kava, as well as Oilahuasca

Other examples of Herbs that will be used are: Ginseng, Gingko Biloba, Kanna and Betel Nut (to name a few)

http://www.starwest-botanicals.com/

http://www.bouncingbearbotanicals.com/

Structure Activity Relationship (SAR)

A catalog will be created of various Nootropics and Herbs, containing their Molecular makeup and structure, and as the catalog becomes larger and larger, they will begin to be compared to each other in respects to effect and Molecular Structure. For example, if you use a Molecule that has an AceOxy chain in a certain place and it is in the Racetam family, and you take another Molecule in the Choline family that has an AceOxy in the exact same position, how are those 2 similar in any way? How are they more similar to each other than their parent molecules are to each other? Can this attachment be used to create similar effects in other Molecular families? 

CYP450 Enzymes

These are your Digestive Enzymes. They break down everything you eat, and they turn Molecules in to different Molecules. For example, this is what turns Aspirin (a pro-drug) into an actual effective Molecule in the body that can be used to kill pain. If your CYP450 Enzymes did not act on Aspirin it would not work. And then for example DMT, you can smoke it and it is similar to LSD, but if you eat it nothing happens. That is because your Digestive Enzymes are destroying it, and you must take an Enzyme Inhibitor to activate it. Another example is Liver medication, there are certain Liver medications which are given in massive doses (8g+) but are meant to mostly be broken down in your stomach, and absorbed at a rate of something like 1% or 10%. But if you drink Grapefruit Juice, then take one of these Liver medications. The Grapefruit Juice will Inhibit your Digestive Enzymes and make the full 100% (of the 8g+ dose) active, and can kill a person. So we will go over CYP450 Enzymes and how to use them in different ways to create New Active Molecules in your own body. 

CYP Enzymes

Induction and Inhibition

Neulog & EEG

This is a company that produces a series of Modules that allows you to turn your computer into a Nurses station. Using Neulog Modules you can test everything from ECG (Electrocardio Monitoring), to Heart Rate and Pulse, to Grip Strength, to CO2 output, to Galvanic Skin Response, to Weight, to Surface Temp, to Salinity, etc etc etc. We will teach people how to use these, and provide results using them. This will help provide Clinical Evidence for any Nootropic discoveries.

EEG allows the monitoring of Brain Waves, together with Neulog, EEG will provide complete Clinical Evidence of all Research Conclusions

EEG Devices

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2357794.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.XEEG.TRS0&_nkw=EEG&_sacat=0

Life Extension

There are Animals that can technically live forever, they are known as Biologically Immortal. An example is Jellyfish or Lobsters, and various random animals. These animals live to be over 100 and sometimes hundreds of years old in the Wild. The reason we age is not because Time is passing, but because our cells are splitting. As our cells split, they have to split their DNA. And if they were to split their DNA directly, they could cause some mistakes when replicating the DNA, as the process is imperfect. So there is something called a Telomere. Telomeres exist on each end of a strand of DNA, and as that DNA is split over and over and over into new Cells, those Telomeres at each end get shorter and shorter. As your Telomers get shorter the DNA replication process is effected, and it causes aging. Biological Immortal Animals have Telomeres that do not get shorter, and that is how they stay alive easily for 100 years.

There are actually various methods now which have been proven to either reduce the amount of Telomere lost in each split, or elongate shortened Telomeres, or to Deactivate Enzymes that split them, etc, but the research has not been around long enough for anyone to have tested it and live to 150 or 200 and say “It works” so the research is all there, but to see if it works we just have to wait and see if it works. 

Here are a tons of Research Papers about Telomeres and making them last longer:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21426483

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3045570/

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC100331/

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10784448

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25263700

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3108241/

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21461814

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2194261/

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK6486/

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17634580

Electronic Medicine: The Medical Applications of Light

There are various forms of Electronic Medicine emerging, for example, the receptor in your Eyeball that determines what time of day it is, Melanopsin, can be effected by different Colors of Light. It has been discovered that Blue Light is similar in activity to Caffeine, so when you have a Blue Computer screen open and aren’t getting tired, that is why.

Here is the Light Research Center's study on Red light

http://www.lrc.rpi.edu/resources/newsroom/pr_story.asp?id=253#.VK8cdCvF9lo

Here is the Light Research Center's study on the effects of light on the Endocrine System

http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ije/2010/829351/

Here is what Harvard says about blue light

http://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletters/Harvard_Health_Letter/2012/May/blue-light-has-a-dark-side/

This paper compares Blue Light to Caffeine in a study

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0076707

This paper explains a test where Blue and Green light were tested against each other in an MRI in a group of people.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21628552

This paper explains how if someone was exposed to Orange light, they had different results on a test.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140310152023.htm

This explains a double blind study that was done that showed if your ear canal is exposed to light, your brain has more cognitive function

http://www.science20.com/news_articles/brain_tissue_responsive_light_says_study-90499 

LED Lights of different Colors

http://www.capitalelectricalsupply.com/CyberTech-Blue-5-Watt-A15-LED-Party-Light-Bulb-p/8k202.htm

http://www.capitalelectricalsupply.com/CyberTech-Green-5-Watt-A15-LED-Party-Light-Bulb-p/8k203.htm

http://www.capitalelectricalsupply.com/CyberTech-Orange-5-Watt-A15-LED-Party-Light-Bulb-p/8k208.htm

http://www.capitalelectricalsupply.com/CyberTech-Red-5-Watt-A15-LED-Party-Light-Bulb-p/8k205.htm

Electronic Medicine: The Medical Applications of Electric Currents

Transcranial Direct Stimulation (tCDS) This is where currents are sent to the head through the skull to change brainwaves

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcranial_direct-current_stimulation

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) This is where magnets are used to change brainwaves

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcranial_magnetic_stimulation

Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) This is where currents are sent through the skin to stimulate nerves

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcutaneous_electrical_nerve_stimulation

Electroencephalography (EEG) can also be used in order to perfect the art of stimulating specific parts of the brain by using tDCS/TMS/TENS and then using EEG to pin point what is happening and repeat that in other people.

Electric Currents can even induce Lucid Dreaming

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24816141

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2014/05/14/312285764/neuroscientists-hack-dreams-with-tiny-shocks

http://www.clinph-journal.com/article/S1388-2457%2815%2901088-3/pdf

tCDS Devices

http://www.diytdcs.com/tag/tacs/

http://www.foc.us/all-products/tdcs-devices

http://www.elixa.com/shop/oasis-pro/

TENS Devices

http://www.lgmedsupply.com/tenslg3000kit.html?gclid=CMfz4NXpsM4CFUUdaQodygcJmQ

http://www.otcwholesale.com/koalaty-select.html?cmp=googleproducts&kw=koalaty-select&gclid=CL-D-PjpsM4CFYNsfgod_O8BKw

Dream Yoga: Disciplined Lucid Dreaming for Real World Application

When you “see” something, what is happening is your Eyes are receiving light that is coming from the Sun or an Electrical Source, and that light is being interpreted by your Eyes in a way that sends a message to your brain. Your brain then takes that message and creates the image that you see. When you Dream, your brain is just creating images and Environments, but experiencing these images and Environments, as far as your Brain is concerned, is no different than actually visually experiencing them.

In Dream Yoga the Dream world is seen as a place where you can gain enlightenment, and the goal of Dream Yoga is to make massive progress in your dreams. It is similar to regular Yoga and is based on some of the same ideas. For example "Sadhana" which is Spiritual Progress.

When you read most Lucid Dream Guides, they will usually just get you to the Point of Lucid Dreaming. Much of it is focused on the WILD, MILD, DILD, WBTB, etc etc. Techniques. But often times people do not make suggestions past that, except maybe to Fly or Meditate or use Jedi powers. But in Tibetan Dream Yoga "Realize You are Dreaming" is step 1. Not the last step like in usual guides, that is the first step in Dream Yoga.

The next goal in Dream Yoga is to eliminate any fears while dreaming. So once you "Realize you are in a dream" you have to actually "Realize you are not in the real world" so you have no restrictions. Breathe underwater, Put out fire with your hands, Jump off a cliff, Find a snake or anything else you may be afraid of or think can harm you.

Then once you are aware that you are not in the real world, the goal is to contemplate the real world and how it is similar in how time passes and things happen, etc. Meditate on reality while you are in your dream.

You can always go back to thinking about reality and interchange between different goals, but the next goal is to take control of the dream world. Playing with the Physics instead of just living within them. Not just making yourself fly, but making a tree carry you to the clouds. Or changing the weather or moving the Sun, Moon and Stars. Or Shrinking a mountain. Also try making things completely different, for example turning a Fish into a Dog, or turning a Tree into a Person.

Then, you have to realize that in the dream you are not a constant object. You can also change in the dream to become other things.

Then from there, the goal is to contact different entities in the dream and travel to different places with them or through them. These worlds are known as "Loka" in the ancient Sanskrit Language and are also talked about in Hindu tradition. The Entities you are supposed to seek are known as "Yidam" and can also be found in Buddhist Yoga.

Comparing your dreams to reality is a must in Dream Yoga so writing down your dreams is probably a good way to start doing that. Also thinking about your dreams while you Meditate is a good opposite technique to Meditating on Reality while you are dreaming.

A Ritual used in Tibetan Dream Yoga is known as the "RAOM GAOM" Mantra, where you say "RRRAAAOOOMMMM" and "GGGGAAAOOOMMM" with special emphasis on the "O". This is meant to help you remember your dreams if you do it when you wake up.

This is the Dream Yoga technique for inducing Dreams. The Symbol below is the Tibetan Syllable that sounds like "Ah". If you imagine this symbol in the middle of your chest, and think "Ahhhhhhh" in your head. It will help you go into a Vivid or Lucid dream. 

Eventually the goal is to treat the Dream world and Reality the same, and to find a better center to go through your day with. Being able to think, "I want to dream about that" can actually make any situation a new situation from what it was. Even if you have a problem arise, being able to look at it as if it were a dream problem makes it easier.

Before you go to sleep, Review the day in your mind while you are laying down. Think about the people you saw, or the places you went, or the Food you ate, or anything you did that day.

Just like regular Yoga, breathing exercises can be used in and out of your dream to clear your mind of other thoughts. 

Here is a small list of other Topics that will be discussed:

Lab Equipment and Hydrogen Bonds

Plant Seeds

Growing Plants

Breeding Plants

Cacti (many contain Molecules similar to Serotonin)

Mushrooms (many contain Molecules similar to Serotonin)

CB Receptors, FAAH Inhibitors, CRI/ECRIs and Cancer Research

SARMs, Myostatin Inhibitors & HcG

Syntheses

Alibaba

Making Extractions

Please post any other related Research Topics in the Comments.

Through this sharing of information and Home Grown Clinical Studies done by Steemians, the Steemit Community could put itself at the Cutting Edge of Biohacking. And I have not even begun to get in to these Topics, this is just the intro for the Church of Neuroscience in to Steemit, and I hope that we can start a huge discussion with focused Goal oriented thinking.