CAROTID GLANDS

CAROTID GLANDS

U.G. Krishnamurti talks about the cobra effect of the neck puffing out during acute prana flow hence the ancient Egyptian symbol. The carotid glands are a reddish-brown oval body, in the top of the neck just below the ears. It is similar in structure to the kundalini gland coccygeal gland. It is known that oxygen and carbon dioxide concentrations represent the main stimulus for the carotid body. Carbon monoxide as a gaseous neurotransmitter also appears to be involved in the regulation of chemo sensors of carotid body which are regulated by molecular oxygen and inhibited by carbon monoxide.

The coccygeal and carotid glands seem to act as neutralizers of systemic poisons. The carotid gland cells produce dopamine, and this is significant to the understanding of their function.

I do not want to be an exhibitionist, but you are doctors. There is something to the symbolism they have in India the cobra. Yesterday was the new moon. The body is affected by everything that is happening around you. It is not separate from what is happening around you. Whatever is happening there is also happening here; there is only the physical response. This is affection. You can't prevent this, for the simple reason that the armor that you have built around yourself is destroyed in the alchemy, so it is very vulnerable to everything that is happening there. With the phases of the moon full moon, half moon, quarter moon those swellings here take the shape of a cobra. Maybe the reason why some people have created all these images Siva and all those kinds of things. But why should it take the shape of a cobra? I have asked many doctors why this swelling is here, but nobody could give me a satisfactory answer. I don't know if there are any glands or anything here. P.31, UG Krishnamurti, The Mystique of Enlightenment.