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the centre located in the posterior pituitary body and a nerve path in the spinal system, the upper dorsal sympathetic ganglia and the splanchnic nerves governs the functional activity of the adrenals. The anterior pituitary body governs through the posterior pituitary body all the oxidation - processes of the body. The centre in the posterior pituitary body through which the anterior pituitary body governs the adrenals also controls the functional activity of the thyroid gland and thus constitutes the adreno- thyroid centre.
The pituitary body, the adrenals and the thyroid gland (including the para - thyroid) are functionally united, forming the adrenal system. The posterior pituitary body is the seat of the highly specialized centres, which governs all the vegetative or somatic functions of the body and each organ individually.
The posterior pituitary body receives all the sensory impressions belonging to the field of common sensibility: pain, touch, muscular sense etc., initiated in any one organ including the mucous membrane, the skin and brain.
"Owing to this fact, the posterior pituitary body is the sensorium commune upon which all emotions, shocks, psychical or traumatic concussions etc., react. The resulting impairment of its functions being the cause of the morbid phenomena observed under such conditions.* The stimulation of such a centre full of possibilities of a very intense life also means death if it is done without proper expert guidance. Thus the Khechari-vidya is a dangerous procedure to undertake, as the Yoga Kundalini Upanishad itself says, for it may slay the individual." It is only after long and continuous practice under the direction of a guru that this should be undertaken: years must elapse before the final stimulation or manthana takes place and the psychic centre stirred into divine action. The khechari-vidya may mean the stimulation of the pituitary gland and not any other thing.
The value of all these theories lies in the fact that they breathe the air of research into the intimate connections between the neural and the glandular and the psychonic systems. The way of their development studied embryologically shows the way in which they progressed coordinating themselves and reveals the importance of their transformations. In their differentiations lies the problem of separation of functions and in their