The Field Governs the Particle, Still

Uncle Al (God Bless him) proved to his own standards that the effect of epigenetic control is the same at every scale of the material universe. Different in scale, but not in kind is the way I read it. Particles, cells, communities, stars, galaxies and beyond: all are governed by self-organizing forces and influences in the field, the context, the environment. That is to say, not by any mechanism of the particle itself. It was the environment of the particle's own creation that brought it kicking and screaming into existence. From that point on, existence only has decay into chaos and then settling into equilibrium to which it can look forward. 

The force of life resists this decay by its very nature. Life has learned to repair and replace physical elements that fail to perform their function. Epigenetics shows that the molecules that perform these repairs are lifeless mechanisms, getting their instructions from outside the living cell itself. 


This post wants to look at that dance with the universe. And I can just hear Ruby say, "What in hell does theoretical physics have to do with acting?" How about this Ruby?

It seems that our “whole body’s” relationship to our environment, field, context; is very similar to that of the individual living cell.(See post of 10/24/2011 " The Field, Context or Environment.")

One of my favorite meditations is “Enoch’s Prayer.” The poem begins with these four words, “Be still and listen.”

Listen to what? To the voice in my head? Not really. That voice is not necessarily your friend. It will not necessarily tell you the truth. Anyway, words take time in continuum to convey a meaningful message. One can only do one thing at a time and if you’re talking to yourself, you’re not listening. 

Here is a link to research being done by the Heart Math Institute. The article that follows comes from research posted on its web site. 

http://www.heartmath.org/research/science-of-the-heart/introduction.html

The Heart Brain

“The intrinsic cardiac nervous system, or heart brain, is made up of complex ganglia, containing afferent (receiving) local circuit (interneurons) and efferent (transmitting) sympathetic and parasympathetic neurons. Multifunctional sensory neurites, which are distributed throughout the heart, are sensitive to many types of sensory input originating from within the heart itself. The intrinsic cardiac ganglia integrate messages from the brain and 

other processing centers throughout the body with information received from the cardiac sensory neurites. Once information has been processed by the heart’s intrinsic neurons, the appropriate signals are sent to the sinoatrial and atrioventricular nodes as well as the muscles in the heart. Thus, under normal physiological conditions, the heart’s intrinsic nervous system plays an important role in much of the routine control of cardiac function, independent of the central nervous system. Dr. Armour and his colleagues have shown that the heart’s intrinsic nervous system is vital for the maintenance of cardiovascular stability and efficiency, and that without it, the heart cannot operate properly.

The heart’s intrinsic nervous system consists of ganglia, which contain local circuit neurons of several types, and sensory neurites, which are distributed throughout the heart. The intrinsic ganglia process and integrate inflowing information from the extrinsic nervous system and from the sensory neurites within the heart. The extrinsic cardiac ganglia, located in the thoracic cavity, have direct connections to organs such as the lungs and esophagus and are also indirectly connected via the spinal cord to many other organs, including the skin and arteries. The "afferent" (flowing to the brain) parasympathetic information travels from the heart to the brain through the vagus nerve to the medulla, after passing through the nodose ganglion. The sympathetic afferent nerves first connect to the extrinsic cardiac ganglia (also a processing center), then to the dorsal root ganglion and the spinal cord. Once afferent signals reach the medulla, they travel to the subcortical areas (thalamus, amygdala, etc.) and then to the cortical areas.”

What the good Doctor is trying to say in his clumsy way, is that there is a whole neurological “brain” system in the heart that processes information in time that is separate from the brain in the head. This system processes and only then “reports” to the head brain. There seems to be a primus subordinate relationship between all the independent “brain” systems in our body and when and how and under what circumstances these systems report to the “Head Brain.”

In all of these posts, I am intending to apply observation and measurements of behavior relative to changes in the temperature, blood flow and electrical field of the neurons in question. In the pictures of the MRIs you can see the areas of the brain effected light up when they fire. Just like the brain, the whole body performs an ever changing dance of measurable changes when viewed in continuum.

Above is a graphic representation of the measurable electromagnetic field around the heart; however, the heart is not the only system that produces an electromagnetic field. Each neuron does. Each separate “brain” center does. All together, our oneness is projected as an ever changing orb of interacting, focused, dynamic energy dancing with the greater environment.

Every aspect of qualitative discernment can be applied to this whole human field. At now time, there is no separation; however, at +1/2 second we can close one eye, hold our breath and pretend the rest of the universe isn’t there. From this fictitious perspective, one can imagine an internal environment that is defined by the outer boundaries of our skin, contained in air. Lets say that this human volume of space contains 50 to 75 trillion human cells. Someone must have counted. 

News Flash! Within the boundaries defined above as human, only about 10% of the living cells are actually human. The rest are other life forms along for the ride. Here is a path you can follow to prove this to yourself. 


Here is the first paragraph of an article in Scientific American on the subject from March 2010. 

"Genetics in the Gut: Intestinal Microbes Could Drive Obesity and Other Health Issues"

The diversity of germs in the human gut suggests microbiota play a greater role in health than previously thought, even driving obesity and other metabolic conditions

By Katherine Harmon  | March 5, 2010 | 12

"Outnumbering our human cells by about 10 to one, the many minuscule microbes that live in and on our bodies are a big part of crucial everyday functions. The lion's share live in the intestinal tract, where they help fend off bad bacteria and aid in digesting our dinners. But as scientists use genetics to uncover what microbes are actually present and what they're doing in there, they are discovering that the bugs play an even larger role in human health than previously suspected—and perhaps at times exerting more influence than human genes themselves."

Below is the first couple paragraphs from an article from ScienceDaily that explains this phenomenon.

“Humans Have Ten Times More Bacteria Than Human Cells: How Do Microbial Communities Affect Human Health?"

(June 3, 2008,) — "The number of bacteria living within the body of the average healthy adult human are estimated to outnumber human cells 10 to 1. Changes in these microbial communities may be responsible for digestive disorders, skin diseases, gum disease and even obesity. Despite their vital imporance in human health and disease, these communities residing within us remain largely unstudied and a concerted research effort needs to be made to better understand them, say researchers June 3 at the 108th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology in Boston.

"This could be the basis of a whole new way of looking at disease. In order to understand how changes in normal bacterial populations affect or are affected by disease we first have to establish what normal is or if normal even exists," says Margaret McFall Ngai of the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Researchers have long suspected and researched the role that beneficial microbial communities within humans, known collectively as the human microbiome, play in health and disease but only recently has molecular technology reached the point where they can truly begin to identify and characterize all the species that make up an individual's microbiome.”

We are neck deep in our microbiome, a garden we live in and by must needs, cultivate. As this becomes further understood to the greater medical community, whole new fields of health, nutrition, pharmacology, etc., will come into being. Damn, only 1 out of 10 cells! Good thing our body is a republic and not a democracy. 

Before I go on, I just want to do the math. 50 trillion human cells in the average human. For every single human cell there are 10 bacteria cells. That make a population of 500 trillion bacteria within our human boundaries. Some help, some hurt and some don’t make much trouble at all. A population of bacteria that finds itself in the right environment can double in 9.5 seconds. That hurts if it happens in the wrong place, I'm here to tell ya. 

I wonder if they talk and work together or if they are all into it for themselves. The cell bellow is an e-coli cell. Cool, huh?

There is a vast amount of information to which we can be sensitive, if we would only “be still and listen.”

OK, Wake Up! Set the clock from +1/2 second back to "Now" time. Open up your one eye that was closed and breathe deeply in your nose and out your mouth. Look, there is an external environment out there. 


Wait a second, wake up some more. That was all an illusion. The "out there" and the "in here" are not separate after all, they are one. Who knew? This boundary is no more real than the boundary between Oregon and California.

I leave you with this. When we become compressed into the singularity of now, separate doesn't work anymore. Now doesn't posses the capacity or capability to express itself in any way but oneness. This is where we are all the time, anyway. 


This compressing of which I speak, only exists in the systematic visual illusions of our own creation; all of which happened no less than 1/2 second ago. In fact, most of what we perceive as now comes from long held successful assumptions about that environment we are one with. 


Does this make us an inseparable aspect of all that is, in the here and now we all share as one, together? Are we that fluid inseparable oneness, always, anyway? I guess we can only pretend not to be one. I wonder what that means? Enough to make you want to say, Hummmmm........