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 brain connecting itself with the third ventricle by a hollow stalk, the infundibulum.
Whether this is a possibility or not, the Yoga kundalini. Up and the Sandilya Upanishads have mentioned this method. The chief point in criticism of this method lies in the fact that the pituitary to be stimulated or in fact any nerve centre to be stimulated by the reversal of the tongue so as to stir them into activity needs the piercing through the bones of the cranium, which alone separates the gustatory from the neural portions.
Why should we speak of the possibility of the pituitary rather than the pineal? The real nature of pineal activity is yet conjectural; but in the case of the pituitary we have a mass of evidence. Dr. Sajous writes regarding the pituitary:
"The pituitary body is the general governing centre of the spinal system which includes the grey substance of the base of the brain pons, bulb and spinal cord and the nerves derived from any of these structures, cranial or spinal, though subsidiary centres, are also present in the bulb and spinal cord."
The pituitary body is the governing centre of all vegetative functions i.e. somatic brain.
The brain (as differentiated from the somatic brain) is the organ of mental processes and not the governing organ of motor functions though capable through the voluntary impulse it transmits to the spinal system of having its mandates carried out.
"There is no obvious nervous interconnections between the neural and the glandular part of the hypophysis".
Paul Glees. Experimental Neurology, Clarendon Press. Oxford. 1961. But the circulatory relationship should prove valuable evidence of their intermaintenance.
Neither the anterior nor posterior pituitary body is a secreting gland. The anterior pituitary body is a lymphoid organ which through the mediary of


























































































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