The Human Body, Mind, and Consciousness

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.brucelipton.com/article/t...-of-your-cells

be well, be love.

david

the wisdom of your cells

the wisdom of your cells is a new biology that will profoundly change civilization and the world we live in. this new biology takes us from the belief that we are victims of our genes, that we are biochemical machines, that life is out of our control, into another reality, a reality where our thoughts, beliefs and mind control our genes, our behavior and the life we experience. this biology is based on current, modern science with some new perceptions added.

the new science takes us from victim to creator; we are very powerful in creating and unfolding the lives that we lead. this is actually knowledge of self and if we understand the old axiom, "knowledge is power," then what we are really beginning to understand is the knowledge of self-power. this is what i think we will get from understanding the new biology.

flying into inner space
my first introduction to biology was in second grade. the teacher brought in a microscope to show us cells and i remember how exciting it was. at the university i graduated from conventional microscopes into electron microscopy and had a further opportunity to look into the lives of cells. the lessons i learned profoundly changed my life and gave me insights about the world we live in that i would like to share with you.
using electron microscopy, not only did i see the cells from the outside but i was able to go through the cell's anatomy and understand the nature of its organization, its structures and its functions. as much as people talk about flying into outer space, i was flying into inner space and seeing new vistas, starting to have greater appreciation of the nature of life, the nature of cells and our involvement with our own cells.

at this time i also started training in cell culturing. in about 1968 i started cloning stem cells, doing my first cloning experiments under the guidance of dr. irv konigsberg, a brilliant scientist who created the first stem cell cultures. the stem cells i was working with were called myoblasts. myo means muscle; blast means progenitor. when i put my cells in the culture dishes with the conditions that support muscle growth, the muscle cells evolved and i would end up with giant contractile muscles. however, if i changed the environmental situation, the fate of the cells would be altered. i would start off with my same muscle precursors but in an altered environment they would actually start to form bone cells. if i further altered the conditions, those cells became adipose or fat cells. the results of these experiments were very exciting because while every one of the cells was genetically identical, the fate of the cells was controlled by the environment in which i placed them.

while i was doing these experiments i also started teaching students at the university of wisconsin school of medicine the conventional understanding that genes controlled the fate of cells. yet in my experiments it was clearly revealed that the fate of cells was more or less controlled by the environment. my colleagues, of course, were upset with my work. everyone was then on the bandwagon for the human genome project and in support of the "genes-control-life" story. when my work revealed how the environment would alter the cells, they talked about it as an exception to the rule.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.ucalgary.ca/~einbrain/shapes/index.html

be well, be love.

david

t h e s h a p e s o f t h o u g h t

an exploration of the visualization of emotion as eeg and other bioelectrical signals over time as retrievable data in three-dimesnional forms.

in 2004 the project asked participnats to recall traumatic events from their past. they were asked to emote anger, and other primary emorions. each participant was wired to eeg, and ekg sensors and monitored. the resulting ingormation was visualized as still images using iris explorer and visualized in realtime, interactive space using specialy develop data acuisition modules in eonreality.

participants agreed to undergo hypnosis to generate cleaner and more powerul recollections. what follows is a sampling of some of the images that were generated by this experiment.

[soup]

i was recently reading that the human genome project is funding a new supercomputer that operates at petaflop speeds. its comforting to know that any biological warfare threat will be solved with such high speeds.

http://www.topix.net/tech/2007/06/ib...flop-milestone

[soup]

some of these forms seems to resemble neuron cells with dendrites, as if the thoughts resemble the cells that manifest them.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://ezinearticles.com/?earths-bra...ints&id=571853

be well, be love.

david

earth's brain, akashic records and paranormal imprints
by jay alfred

neural circuits and memory

the neuron is a cell surrounded by electrically charged particles called ions. some of these ions have a net positive charge and some are negative. if there are more negative ions inside the neuron, the neuron has a negative electrical charge; conversely, if there are more positive ions inside, then the neuron has a positive electrical charge. when the neuron is resting it has a negative electrical charge. however, when the neuron gets information, an electrical signal is propagated through a network of neurons by a wave of positively charged neurons. neurons in networks with numerous synapses and feedback loops constantly receive inputs from other neurons, integrate them and generate electrical activity patterns in response. these complex interactions allow neural circuits to process and encode information, support cognitive functions and control behavior. the neural circuits in our brain are similar to electrical circuits.

canadian psychologist, donald hebb, explains memory as a reactivation of the same pattern of neurons that were activated at the time of the original experience. thinking of the sahara desert activates one network of neurons, while thinking of rats fires up an entirely different network. over the years, some of the neurons die or are incorporated into circuits that represent different experiences. repeated activity between any two neurons or a network of neurons, however, strengthen their connections and the memories they represent. when one neuron is activated it tends to activate the others, which collectively re-create the original pattern that was generated during an experience. individual neurons are involved in many different circuits and thus participate in many memories simultaneously. it is this connectivity that gives our brains the enormous capacity to encode a vast amount of information.

holographic encoding in the brain and universe

following karl lashley's work, karl pribram, a neurophysiologist at stanford, proposed that the brain stores information in the same way as interference patterns are encoded on holographic film. every element in the original image is distributed over the entire film. trillions of brain cells all contribute to a single memory by recording and combining all the signal patterns at once, including the sensory inputs into the brain. it is the combined firing pattern and interference of trillions of cells that defines a memory. this unique way of storage allows the brain to recall in linear sequences and at the same time access multiple memories.

but it is not only the brain which encodes holographically. david bohm, separately, recognized that the universe itself appears to be a hologram – being projected from the boundary of the universe. this idea has been taken forward more recently by physicists gerard t' hooft, lee smolin and others under the banner of "the holographic principle". this is not the only property that the human brain shares with the universe.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.brucelipton.com/article/t...l-your-biology

be well, be love.

david

the wisdom of your cells part 2: how your beliefs control your biology

conventional physics sees the human body as a machine made of atoms and molecules but the quantum physicists reveal that underneath that apparent physical structure there is nothing other than energy. that means we are energy beings interacting with everything in the entire energy field. what we are beginning to recognize is that there is an invisible world that we have not dealt with in regard to understanding the nature of our health. in other words, rather than focusing on matter, in a quantum world we focus on energy. in the world we live in we are entangled in an unfathomable number of energy vibrations and we are connected to all of them! in trying to understand a person's health, if you only focus on the physical, you miss the energy. if you only focus on the person, you miss the influence of the field. we are coming into a more holistic way of studying the fact that everything is one whole.

in quantum physics we also encounter a world of uncertainty. we have to let go of our newtonian belief that we can determine everything, control everything and dominate nature, and come back to the natural theology approach that said to learn the patterns as best we can and live in harmony. by doing so we would be far better off today than in the world we have created, where our deterministic pursuit has changed the environment, changed ourselves and actually threatens our own demise. there is a comeuppance here and it comes down to understanding the nature of the field, meaning everything from the core of our being to the edge of the universe. we are part of this entire field.

our thoughts are part of the energy field as is the energy from other living organisms and from non-living things. everything is giving off energy. as we are doing neurological processing of the world that we live in, including our thoughts and beliefs, we are actually creating a magnetic vibration, like a tuning fork that emanates from our head out into the field. scientists have found that if they take our magnetic field and direct it back into the head they can influence brain activity.

why this becomes relevant in our lives and in quantum mechanics is that we go back to the quote by einstein: “the field is the sole governing agency of the particle.” if we apply this understanding of einstein’s to the field that we generate with our thoughts, we can see that there is a connection wherein our thoughts can give shape to the particles that are the world we live in. all of a sudden we see that we are not disconnected little pieces moving around on the planet. we are little broadcast devices, giving the field shape and the shape that we generate manifests as the life experiences that we have.

[Chris Hamilton]

a variety of information linking consciousness, thoughts, and emotions.

[daresh]

hey everybody,

does anybody have some good articles about experiments which show that dna can be influenced by consciousness...

tnx in advance,
Unknown

[donald@newdirectionscs.com]

found this new research on the part of the brain that gives the ability to predict the future, good read, donald

http://www.hemuz.org/evolution/imagi...-future-2.html

human memory, the ability to recall vivid mental images of past experiences, has been studied extensively for more than a hundred years. but until recently, there's been surprisingly little research into cognitive processes underlying another form of mental time travel -- the ability to clearly imagine or "see" oneself participating in a future event...
now, researchers from washington university in st. louis have used advanced brain imaging techniques to show that remembering the past and envisioning the future may go hand-in-hand, with each process sparking strikingly similar patterns of activity within precisely the same broad network of brain regions.

"in our daily lives, we probably spend more time envisioning what we're going to do tomorrow or later on in the day than we do remembering, but not much is known about how we go about forming these mental images of the future," says karl szpunar, lead author of the study and a psychology doctoral student in arts & sciences at washington university.

"our findings provide compelling support for the idea that memory and future thought are highly interrelated and help explain why future thought may be impossible without memories."

[soup]

-- the ability to clearly imagine or "see" oneself participating in a future event...

this reminds me of the spielberg movie "minority report". sometimes i wonder if movies could act as seed thoughts that ultimately manifest into some reality.

this may be considered some form of "psychic power" called "precognition".
(it amazes me: all the names and labels they classify as being psychic, and i wonder if the line between psychic and enlightened seems fairly hazy.)

http://www.angelfire.com/realm2/amethystbt/psychic.html