trepanation. i've been reading about it all day. Very interesting. Its believed that trepanation, the act of drilling a hole in your skull, will act as a "third eye" per say and therefore allow you to reach a higher level of conciousness. The theory is that more bloodflow to the brain, the more lucid you can think. To think that there's that cluster of individuals out there who actually take on this practice, using crude surgical tools and, in the secrecy of their own home, drill out holes in their skulls. Risky business for the longing of higher levels of understanding. A certain individual sticks out to me though as i read about this....Amanda Feilding...she actually documented herself doing this procedure on herself.....completely aware......The film is called "Hearbeat in the Brain" and was produced in 1970. I've been looking on the internet for it but it seems to be very hard to get a hold of. Amanda and her close friend, who also strongly believed in the trepanation theory was this man named Joey Mellen and he wrote a book concerning the subject called Bore Hole. He attempted trepanation three times. No luck with the first two attemps but on the third, with some help from a hit of LSD, he had success......I found this quote from his book describing his success...

"'After some time there was an ominous sounding schlurp and the sound of bubbling. I drew the trepan out and the gurgling continued. It sounded like air bubbles running under the skull as they were pressed out. I looked at the trepan and there was a bit of bone in it. At last! On closer inspection I saw that the disc of bone was much deeper on one side than on the other. Obviously the trepan had not been straight and had gone through at one point only, then the piece of bone had snapped off and come out. I was reluctant to start drilling again for fear of damaging the brain membranes with the deeper part while I was cutting through the rest or of breaking off a splinter. If only I had an electric drill it would have been so much simpler. Amanda was sure I was through. There seemed no other explanation for the schlurping noises I decided to call it a day. At the time I thought that any hole would do, no matter what size. I bandaged up my head and cleared away the mess."


its so interesting. I wonder if Amanda and Joey have actually reached the state of conciousness in which they were striving for. I suppose it goes to show that people are indeed aware that this is an important thing to achieve in your lifetime. And...some people will go to extremes to obtain it. Its funny because this subject, not trepanation, but the act of reaching some sort of higher knowledge within yourself has been very common lately through day to day conversation.

we are all on some sort of existential journey. we're all becoming more and more aware of the importance of it.....

oi. what a glorious age we live in.