1.2 Scientific view of The Christ Oil Cycle

From a purely modern scientific standpoint (ie lacking an understanding of immaterial realities as discussed in previous lessons), while the claustrum is known to be highly connected within the brain, its exact function remains somewhat mysterious. Some say the idea of it secreting an oil with spiritual properties lacks scientific backing, and what is described as “Christ oil” is more akin to the natural production of CSF, which has essential roles in brain function but not in the mystical sense described but this is to be expected ** from a paradigm which doesn’t recognize immaterial reality.

Skeptics and some scientists argue that these interpretations are misreadings or over-interpretations of biological processes. They point out that while CSF does circulate in the body, attributing spiritual or mystical properties to it is not supported by conventional neuroscience or biology.

** For the most part people are unable to understand the esoteric nature of the universe at this particular time. This is related to the Dharma available at any particular time via the light which comes to Earth as per Sri Yukteswar’s teachings.

Modern science however, if you study ‘The Philosophy of Science’ topic and history you can see that slowly over time mainstream science removed the concepts of a hidden and immaterial world existing parallel to the material world. Slowly it forced a sole focus on material and mechanical considerations. Hence the critiques of the possibility of esoteric functions of The Claustrum of what they see as purely biological processes would naturally be too far of a stretch for them.

Notably, some mainstream scientists (perhaps rogues) like Sir Francis Crick – who discovered the Helix structure of DNA (under the influence of LSD no less!) – thought that The Claustrum area of the brain was ‘the seat of consciousness’. Conveniently mainstream science sometimes marginalizes certain scientific findings and not others. Such is Kali Yuga.