Chapter 3 : Holistic Man
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
(Psalm 139:14)
Man the measure of all things?
Man seems to be or wants to be “the measure of all things.” But who is the measure of man? The Copernican revolution*1 has apparently displaced man’s abode from being the centre of the universe, yet man cannot but think that he is still the centre of it. It is man who originates the question on the origin of the universe and himself. Man’s quest seems to be to find the ultimate answer to his own question, no matter how elusive it may be. The proper study of mankind is man, it has been said. Can the proper study of God be better understood if we first begin with the study of man and understand more of him?
The study of man involves also the study of animals and other living things as these provide the first materials for experimentation and analysis. First of all, let us look beyond our basic textbooks on human anatomy and physiology at the relatively unknown and more recent researches in the natural sciences, particularly the holistic health and healing sciences.
Holistic and complex living beings
We are familiar from our health science studies that the human body is made up of various living systems of cells and organs. They are classified into nine major systems: the integument or skin system, the musculoskeletal system, the respiratory system, the circulatory system, the digestive system, the excretory system, the nervous system, the endocrine system, and the reproductive system. These systems work together in harmony when the body is in health. Apart from these much-studied systems of the body, it has been recognised in recent years by western medicine (though it has been known for centuries in the East) that the human body is overlaid just beneath the skin with a system of acupuncture meridians and their attendant acupuncture points at specific locations. Researchers have also discovered that the human body (and the bodies of animals and plants) is enveloped with one or several overlapping layers of energies or fields, confirming what the ancient seers and philosophers have known for centuries. Various names have been given by different people to this enveloping energy field: etheric field, biofield, subtle energy body, aura or Astral Body. Pictures from early Egypt, India, Greece, and Rome showed holy figures in a luminous surround even before artists in the Christian era began to paint their saints with halos. Clairvoyants believe that the human body is interpenetrated by a subtler body of energy and it is the outward radiating luminescence from this second body that they see as the aura, something like the corona seen in an eclipse of the sun by the moon.
Etheric Fields
In the 1940s a neuroanatomist Harold Saxton Burr *2,3,4,5 of Yale discovered that there are electrical fields (which he called life fields) surrounding humans, plants and a variety of animals including salamanders and worms. Burr’s electrodes measured the changes of the electrical potentials around the surfaces of these organisms and correlated them to growth, regeneration, tumour formation, drug effects and sleep. He found that the life field persists as long as the organism continues to live, undergoing regular small changes in healthy subjects and more dramatic changes in a diseased subject. Among his discoveries, Burr could measure voltage differences in a newly laid frog egg, in those parts of the egg that were due to become the nervous system. Burr also found that cancers or tumours could be detected electrically in certain organs even before their clinical signs could be observed. In another instance, he could also pinpoint the exact location of a chick’s head during the first day of incubation! The electrical field surrounding a tiny seedling appear to resemble that of the adult plant. His experiments suggested to him that the life field has an organising capability, a kind of a three-dimensional template or living mould that governs the form and function of the organism in growth and development. This life field fades and disappears as an organism dies.
Kirlian photography
About the same time, a Russian by the name of Samyon Davidovich Kirlian *6,7,8 (electrician and photographer) and his wife took pictures of leaves using high voltage photography. The photograph of a leave (taken on film to which it was sandwiched between the electrodes of their device) showed that a corona of bright coloured lights surrounded the leaf and surged outwards from it. The emanations gradually faded and disappeared as the leave was allowed to die. The discoverers and those who observed their experiments were fascinated by what they saw. A spectacular panorama of colours was observed, much more fascinating, especially after the Kirlians developed a special optical instrument when they could directly observe the whole phenomena in motion.
Kirlian held his hand under the lens of the instrument and switched on the current. And then ‘a fantastic world of the unseen’ opened before the husband-and-wife team. The hand itself appeared “like the Milky Way in a starry sky.” Against a background of blue and gold, something was taking place in the hand that also looked like fireworks in display. Multicoloured flares lit up, some glowing steadily like burning candles, others flashed out then dimmed. Still others sparkled at intervals. The Kirlians placed a fresh leaf under the lens of a microscope connected to the high frequency generator. They saw a vibrant picture of a healthy leaf, quite similar to that of the human hand. Next, they tried a half-withered leaf. It “looked like a great metropolis turning out its lights for the night.” They tried an almost completely withered leaf. There were almost no flares and sparks and ‘clouds’ scarcely moved. As they watched, “the leaf seemed to be dying before their eyes and its death was reflected in the picture of energy impulses.” The investigators examined every conceivable substance under their high-frequency microscope – leather, metal, wood, leaves, paper, coins, rubber. The pattern of luminescence was different for every item, but living things had totally different structural details than nonliving things. A metal coin, for instance, showed only a completely even glow all around the edges. But a living leaf was made up of numerous sparkling lights that glowed and glittered like jewels. The flares along its edges were individual and different.
Researchers have used the Kirlian photographic technique to see the ‘auras’ of other living things, and even determine their state of health. The Kirlians themselves have discovered that they could tell the health of the plants from their leaves even before diseases manifested in them. Similarly, in respect to the human body, the corona discharges of a finger, for example, may reveal different diseased states of the body according to the characteristic discharge patterns. The corona discharges indicate that brighter and longer lights flash out from points that correspond to the traditional acupuncture points.
There is also a unique phenomenon called the “phantom leaf effect.” One-third of a freshly-cut leave of a healthy plant was removed by an experimenter and an electrophotograph taken of it, which revealed a picture of an intact whole leaf, as if the amputated portion was still there! This experiment however was not consistently duplicated.
Sceptics think that the Kirlian aura is “nothing but” a corona discharge of electromagnetic radiation which can be measured surrounding every object and its nature is understood in terms of well-known physics. Some experiments have indicated that the “cries of agony” of a dying leaf are dependent on the amount of moisture present, its electrical conductivity being lowered as it dries out. The same effect has been reportedly seen in a long dead but initially wet piece of wood. Believers in life energy fields however have reason to think that the aura is more than just electromagnetic radiation or electrical conductivity. Auras are affected by moods and thoughts initiated voluntarily, as seen in experiments (such as conducted in the UCLA radiation field photography laboratory). One study attempted to observe the Kirlian fingertips of pairs of individuals, holding their fingers close together, but not touching, as they stared into each other’s eyes. The corona of two individuals meditating happy thoughts shows a merging of the two individual coronas, whilst hostile thoughts from both partners show their auras retreating, with a large gap between them. In another experiment, one individual imagines threatening the partner with a dagger, and the resultant picture shows a sharp red aura projecting from his finger and piercing against the retreated aura of the other person.*46 The intent of the individual is reflected in his aura.
Meridian System
Dr Richard Gerber, MD, in his book ‘Vibrational Medicine’ tells of a series of studies made by Professor Kim Bong Han*9 and his team of researchers in Korea in the 1960s on the anatomical nature of the meridian system in animals. Professor Kim (as related by Dr Gerber) discovered that there are four interlinked network of meridian subsystems within the body of the rabbit and these lie close to (at varying depths within the body) but are different from the internal organs and the vascular, lymphatic and nervous systems. The terminal ducts of these meridian subsystems reach into the tissue cell nuclei. Among many experiments Professor Kim performed is one in which a severed liver meridian in a frog resulted in degeneration of the liver. Another experiment revealed that in an embryonic chick the meridian ducts were formed within fifteen hours of conception, at which stage even the most rudimentary organs have yet to be formed! Culling from the researches of Professor Kim and also those of Burr and Kirlian mentioned earlier, Dr Gerber concluded that the acupuncture system exerts an influence upon the migration and spatial orientation of the internal organs. He also inferred that the acupuncture system forms the interface between the physical body and the etheric body, which precedes and guides the development of the physical body.
Body Electric
Another researcher, Dr Robert O. Becker, MD *10 (a pioneer in the field of bone and tissue regeneration) discovered in the 1960s the existence of minute electrical currents in parts of the nervous system that contribute to the self-healing power latent in all organisms. The highly regenerative capability of the salamander (a lizard-like reptile) provided for some interesting experiments. For example, if the forelimb of the salamander is amputated, it will regrow fully – like a ghost materialising its substance. All the “interrelated parts grow back in the proper order – the same interlocking bones and muscles, all the delicate wrist bones, the coordinated fingers – and they’re wired together with the proper nerve and blood vessel connections.” The regrowth appears to be like a pile of bricks spontaneously rearranging itself into a building, becoming not only steel beams but also walls and windows, light sockets and wiring, plumbing, rooms and furniture. There seems to be an overarching guiding system or energy field arranging the regrowth. Dr Becker refers to a “morphogenetic field” – a concept advanced by researcher Paul Weiss in the 1930s and a “flamelike field” suggested by a Danish biologist Bronsted in the 1950s. Such fields are reminiscent of the forms that Plato spoke of much earlier.
We all understand that the basic unit of every living being is the cell. More than one cell make tissues, tissues make organs, organs make systems, and systems make the organism. Now we have evidence to understand further that all these cells, tissues, organs and systems are moulded and differentiated (specialised from raw stem cells) in their development and orientation in the body of the organism via the guiding mechanisms of the interlocking acupuncture meridians and the enveloping energy body. The organism is maintained in wholeness (shape, health and function) by this guiding and regulating energy template. Another researcher from Moscow *8 minced up muscle tissue and packed it into a wound incised in a rat’s body. The body grew from this an entirely new muscle, as if there were some sort of organising pattern at work.
Machine in the Ghost
We have frequently heard it said of the living human person that there is a soul in the body or “a ghost in the machine”. From the researches cited above, it appears rather that the body is in the soul – a machine in the ghost! And the substance of the machine is regulated by the overarching living ghost! – which also permeates the machine and is interwoven with it! This seems to be what gives us the sense of the unity of the self. The “ghost” can hardly be (as some claim) a mere corona discharge radiating from matter because it materialises missing or lost matter and doing it in precise intricacy, conforming it to the original form! It is in this “ghost” or subtle energy body that every individual lives and moves and have its being.
More experiments*10 done by Dr Becker reveal the powerful influence of the energy template over tissue cells. A foreleg of a salamander was amputated and the very young growing cells (called blastema) just beneath the healing amputation point were removed and grafted near to one of the salamander’s hindleg – and, believe it or not, the blastema grew into a hindleg! If the blastema was grafted near to the tail, it grew into another (a second) tail! The immediate vicinity of the etheric body moulds the blastema into the appendage intended for that area.
However, if a slightly older blastema from a foreleg stump was grafted to a hindleg area, it produced a foreleg, as originally intended! Dr Becker observed that the young blastema knew where it was, whereas the older one knew where it had been. Well, this proves that it is hard to change an older mindset! I am reminded of a scripture which refers to the pliability of a young mind (Prov 22:8).
Perhaps an inference may be made: the older blastema was amputated along with part of its maturing adjoining portion of energy template (“mindset”) to which it is intermeshed or intimately connected – one cannot exist without the other. Dr Becker’s work is reminiscent of a host of remarkable experiments done by biologists at the turn of the last century, to which we shall refer shortly.
Dr Becker’s experiments led him to one unifying conclusion: the overall structure, the shape, the pattern, of any animal is as real a part of its body as are its cells, heart, limbs or teeth. Living things are called organisms because of the overriding importance of organisation, and each part of the pattern somehow contains the information as to what it is in relation to the whole.*10 There is an ability of this pattern to maintain itself throughout the lifetime of the organism.
Physicians and healers (and all of us) know that the human body has a tremendous ability to heal itself and maintain its shape and function, even if it is living in harsh physical conditions or environment (think of the desert dwellers and the eskimos in the North Pole). The human body however does not have the remarkable generative ability of the salamander (which can regrow its limbs again and again after amputation) – we do not have the ability to regrow amputated limbs. Except perhaps as in the case of a young child where an amputated phalange of a finger will regrow itself. We can be maimed; we can become ill from diseases or from stress beyond our threshold of tolerance. Nevertheless, humans and other living things have not been observed to change or evolve their shapes beyond what is patterned by their biofields (auric or etheric bodies). Our cells die and are renewed periodically in the same living mould. A portion of our liver may be surgically removed and our liver will regrow its original shape and size. Our skins are replaced frequently and regularly, so are the other cells of our bodies. Yet we always appear the same. We are like a building whose bricks, wiring and plumbing systems (in the total structure) are continually being replaced. The above pioneering researchers (and others before them) have given us the confirmatory evidence for a truly holistic view of multi-dimensional man (and all living things).
One cell is born and divides again and again. How does it know whether it is to become a heart, a liver, a kidney? What inside or outside a cell that allows it the knowledge to become part of skin, or eye, or the lung of a baby? The answer points to an enveloping etheric body (the invisible mould) that modulates the growth and function of the whole organism. In this way the cells “understand their part in the wholeness of life” into which they are associated.
Parts become whole
Way back a quarter millennium ago, in the 1740s, Abraham Trembley, a Swiss naturalist, had published his Memoirs on Fresh-Water Polypes, documenting some early experimental evidence of an etheric body (which was not well understood at that time) surrounding organisms. Trembley had cut a polyp in several pieces, and in eight days each fragment grew into a whole organism capable of reproducing itself.*11
At about the same era of Sir Jagadish Bose, in the first decade of the twentieth century a German biologist, Hans Driesch, began publishing the results of experiments he did on sea urchins. He had found that any fragment cut at random from the blastula (an early stage of embryo) always grew into a complete embryo. Driesch held that the organism is “a harmonious equipotential system possessing a vital individualizing entelechy [the doctrine of vitalism or the belief that the first principles of life cannot be found in non-living matter] which works through matter with a view to the whole.”*11 The fascinating phenomena of morphogenesis (origin and growth of forms) have often led researchers to the conviction that some internal purpose must be involved, a plan realised by the embryo when its growth is complete. This is most likely what is referred to in Psalms 139:13-16.
Shortly after Driesch, another researcher Paul Weiss did experiments with dragonflies. A newly laid dragonfly egg was tied around the middle dividing its undifferentiated cell mass into two halves and one half was then destroyed. Instead of developing into half a dragonfly, the remaining mass developed into a smaller but complete living dragonfly!*13
Why did the dissected portions of the polyp, sea urchin and the dragonfly egg not form abortive or mutilated entities? It appears that each original entity “insisted” upon imparting its globular form or “intent” to its broken away parts. It would not yield to the mutilating force. These entities seem to exhibit in their own manner the desire to conform to the original intent the Creator has for them: “be fruitful and multiply” after their own kind (Gen 1:22). The divine intent has cohered into a given form for each species of things.
Flatworms and magnets
The common flatworm has the power to regenerate, even if cut in two. If the middle is cut off, separating the section with the head and the other section with the tail, each bisected section will grow back the missing half and become a whole body. That is, the bisected tail section will regrow a head and the head section will regrow a tail! This is like a bar magnet that is cut in half when two new magnets form, each having its own complete magnetic field and polarity. Flatworms have the ability to grow an entire body even from each of several cut-up pieces! The regrown flatworms from these portions are normal but smaller in size compared to the mother flatworm. The processes of regeneration appear to proceed on the knowledge of the whole. And the knowledge of the whole must have been carried over into each of the cut-up pieces. As there is a magnetic field over a magnet, so also there is a biofield (or subtle body) enveloping the organism. A full set of information is involved in building the organism and this information seems to lie within the living biofield that guides the development of the part-organism into its full potential. The intention of the whole biofield of the organism cannot be destroyed – to a large extent apparently, unless the organism is killed. Nature Science Update (22 November 2001) reports that a flatworm, chopped into as many as 279 pieces, will grow into 279 perfect new worms (in the interval of two weeks, with occasional feeding)!*16 One may ponder that “if the biofield is considered life, then the will to live is strong indeed.”*12 If one can liken the biofield to a magnetic field as in this example, then it looks like the biofield is a form of magnetism or one that lurks behind it.
Sponges
Sponges are considered the most primitive of multicellular animals or loose colonies of cells. Most of them live in saltwater, some in freshwater. They come in a variety of shapes and colours, looking like a slimy, spongy or prickly layer on a rock. Some biologists consider sponges to be colonial animals which are made up of many individual cells which specialise to fulfil the animals’ many needs. This means some cells specialise in reproduction, others in feeding and so on. If a sponge is chopped up in a blender, the resulting soup will reassemble and recreate itself! – given the right conditions.*15 The living mould or overall etheric body or biofield of the organism is apparently not destroyed.
Many other lower marine animals like the hydra have the capacity to reproduce an entire organism from a single transverse section. Crayfish grow new claws. Starfish grow new rays. Earthworms may be cut into sections and they will regrow themselves. The segments from three different worms may be grafted together to produce a fourth worm, reconstructing the complicated system of tissues and organs of its species! Still more familiar to us but maybe not as astounding is the same power in the vegetable kingdom. Whole plants may be grown from a piece of the root, the stem, and in special cases the leaf of certain species. The grafting of fruit trees illustrates this capacity as practically applied by the orchardist.*14
The stuff of design
The origin and growth of forms (morphogenesis) appear to be a universal process. The specific form or etheric body of an organism is its “guiding hand” giving the organism its shape and function and a host of its own unique characteristics and capabilities. Each living species takes after its own kind, nature and likeness. Theosophists see the “evolution of form out of pre-existing material is in every case the result of thought.” There is some kind of non-material intelligent mind stuff behind all of nature. The perennial philosophies see this as the all-pervasive One behind all existence.
The development of this intelligent designer mind stuff into various organs for an organism appears to exhibit an electrical and magnetic nature according to a wealth of investigation done by researchers, some of whom are mentioned above. Others include Russian biologists who have concluded for example that the only difference between living and dead protoplasm of a cell is in the lowered magnetic susceptibility of the latter, due to altered electrical tensions.*22 The growth rate of yeast cells can be retarded by placing the cells in the field of a permanent magnet.*20 Researchers have also discovered that one pole of a bar magnet has the ability to encourage growth whereas the opposite pole the ability to retard it.*21 It is well known that a living cell has electrical polarity and that such a polarity “remains unaffected when these bodies are displaced by centrifuging or mechanical pressure.”*19
A living cell has a nucleus surrounded by a fluidic structureless material called cytoplasm and enveloped by a skin. There was a time when biologists were trying to determine whether the differentiation of cells originates from the nucleus and whether chemistry alone is the answer.
In 1937 Dr. Ethel Browne Harvey, of the Princeton Department of Biology, reported experiments which show that the early stages of a sea urchin embryo can develop from an egg which has no chromosomes at all – an egg, that is, from which the nucleus has been removed. According to Dr. Harvey: “We must change our views about the role of cytoplasm at least in the process of initiation of life, and possibly may be compelled later to assign to it a much more important part in the development of the embryo.” Dr. Harvey took fragments of egg – portions from which the nucleus had been removed by centrifuging – and activated them with sea water, with this result: Some of these activated non-nucleate egg cells have lived for four weeks. The normal unfertilized egg cell with a nucleus lives only a day or two.*24
Dr Ludwig von Bertalanffy apparently disposed of the chemical theory of morphogenesis by calling attention to the simple mushroom. He stated that: “We find no chemo-differentiation, no separation of organ-forming materials, no unequal distribution of determinative substances which must be the foundation of all development according to the chemical theory; instead, we find a wholly homogeneous [chemically] material which nevertheless attains a definite form. Moreover, there is at least the appearance that the same holds for all cases of organogeny. The endless complicated system of bones, the elaborately arranged muscles of the arm or leg, consist – so far as we know – of fairly uniform cells, not much different from the case of the mushroom. Chemically homogeneous material, muscle, bone-cells, reaches an organisation endlessly complicated in form. Thus it seems that in embryonal development, in addition to chemical differentiation, there is yet another factor, a particular formative factor....”*23
The following comment from a Theosophist is particularly apt:
“The question arises, for all biologists who are not mechanists, To what terms can biological phenomena be reduced? If chemical and physical laws cannot alone account for vital activity, what is the ‘lowest common denominator’ of organic life?
A living being is more than a fortuitous concurrence of atoms; the doctrine of Democritus and Epicurus, even when supplemented by Newton’s laws of motion, is not sufficient to account for the complex forms which exist above the mineral kingdom. Here, in the word form, is the clue to the present emphasis in modern biological theory. Atomistic materialism is being replaced by a view that may be named ‘formal materialism.’ It is materialism because the suggestion of an indwelling intelligence as the builder of the forms is still too ‘metaphysical’ for serious attention. This intelligence is an implicit necessity of biological discovery, but an explicit heresy to biological theory. While physicists have accepted atoms (rather electrons, protons, etc.) and physical law as the primary facts of their science, biologists are now beginning to regard organic form as sui generis, not reducible to physical terms. In the words of Prof. Ross G. Harrison of Yale, ‘Living protoplasm is a complex mixture of substances deriving its properties not merely from their chemical nature, but also from their arrangement in space.’ (Science, April 16, 1937) The essence of life, as Dr. Coker says, is the organisation of the substance.”*24
According to Theosophical teachings, “the two chief difficulties of the science of embryology – namely, what are the forces at work in the formation of the foetus, and the cause of ‘hereditary transmission’ of likeness, physical, moral or mental – have never been properly answered; nor will they ever be solved till the day when scientists condescend to accept the Occult theories.”*25
In the 1930s, there has been an accumulation of remarkable facts about the processes of morphogenesis. Phrases like “electrical architect,” “deathless engineer,” “master-builder,” and “sculptor of life” were commonplaces in the scientific columns of the daily press.*38 A number of biological laboratories were engaged in exact observation of embryonic development and related phenomena in various species of the lower animals. The results from the mostly vivisection method of research are startling.
In 1935, Prof. Hans Spemann,*30 of the University of Freiberg, Germany, received the Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine for his discovery of an invisible “organiser” of living forms, the culmination of fifteen years of experimental research on the common newt (a lizard-like reptile). “The organiser is the principle or entity which, in the theories resulting from these experiments, transforms the undifferentiated protoplasm of the egg into a complex organism. In the early stages of the development of a fertilized egg cell, there is no evidence of any dominance of one part over another. The future embryo is only a mass of cells surrounding a central cavity. Prof. Spemann, however, learned that one particular region, the dorsal lip of the blastopore, determines the formation of the primary axis of development. He found that a fragment of tissue from this region, when transplanted to another part of the original embryo, would grow into another one, causing a double embryo to form. The presence of this “organiser” or principle of form in a small bit of tissue, which has the power to grow an entire embryo, is the foundation of a long series of experiments.”*26
Some other researches, developing upon the discoveries of Prof. Hans Spemann, may be highlighted as follows (some of which have been duplicated by Dr Robert O. Becker mentioned earlier in this chapter):
a) If in a very young embryo of the newt, a piece of tissue that would normally form skin is transplanted to the brain region, it does not become skin but brain. The embryonic skin tissue, removed from the place where, under the influence of the mysterious organiser, it would naturally become skin, docilely submits to the direction of the organiser in its new location and turns into brain matter!
b) Dr Oscar E. Schotté, however, reversed the above phenomenon – he transplanted a small area containing an organiser, and grew the organ it represented in a place far from where it would naturally develop. In this case the organiser in the transplanted tissue dominated the new environment instead of submitting to its influence. A bit of eye tissue from a tadpole embryo was transplanted in the regenerating tail of another tadpole. Only during the formative stage, while the new tail was growing, would the rapidly proliferating cells be guided by the “eye organiser” which was a little sack of protoplasm taken from the part of a frog’s egg that would eventually grow into an eye.
c) According to Dr Schotte, “If an organiser such as the eye cup be implanted into these shifting masses of cells, an eye field is organised which spreads the material. By some unknown process the eye field must exert its influence beyond its proper limits and the materials constituting the borders of that eye field in turn become organisers for far more remote regions such as an ear, a nose, a mouth ... the transplanted eye cup induces an eye field which, with time spreads and becomes an upper head field, thereby inducing the formation of an ear vesicle. These diverse fields complete each other and eventually a lower head field is created.”*27 Thus, from a fragment of embryo, practically a whole head was grown on the regenerating tail of the tadpole.
d) Prof. Nelson Spratt revealed that tiny bits of tissue from the forebrain and eye region of chick embryos would develop into primitive eyes and parts of the forebrain if nourished by blood clots. He observed: “Development of the forebrain and eyes seems to be the expression of an already existing but invisible structural organization.”*28
e) Dr. Ross Harrison has discovered the importance of the time factor in the work of the organisers. The bit of embryonic tissue containing the eye organiser would not manifest its power when transplanted at a very early stage, but would turn into normal belly tissue if grafted in that area. Just as with human development, in which a point is reached when the etheric or biofield body is no longer subject to malformation or modification through subtle influences, so there is a similar cycle for the lowly salamander and its organising centres of form. The same experiment, repeated later in the cycle of embryonic development, resulted in the growth of an eye on the belly of the host embryo.*29
f) Another experiment by Dr. Schotté shows that the process of regeneration of a lost limb or tail reproduces the sensitivity of embryonic development. A portion of the rapidly proliferating tissue in the regenerating tail of an amphibian was placed in the eye of a frog larva from which the lens had been removed. The result is described by Dr. Harrison thus: “Already ‘determined’ to form cartilage, bone and muscle in a certain definite configuration, this tissue, nevertheless, under the new and radically different conditions obtaining in the eye chamber, forms a crystalline lens, a structure heretofore unknown to develop either directly or indirectly only out of ectodermal epithelium.”*31
From the above experiments, it appears that the body’s overall biofield consists of many invisible organisers (or organising subfields) that guide the formation and orientation of the various organs and systems of the body from raw embryonic cells. As the organs differ in form and tissue types, their organising fields must also differ in their ‘field types.’ These organising fields or invisible designer stuff of an organism can be affected by manipulative experiments, resulting in a malformed entity.
Physicist David Bohm calls what may be equated to these invisible organising fields as “implicate order,” whilst biologist Rupert Sheldrake*41 calls them “morphogenetic fields” of different hierarchies, the lower ones being “nested” within higher hierarchies. These fields quite clearly give rise to and direct the materialisation of the organs and tissues of the body. The concept of biofields nested one within another helps to explain all the traits, instinct and behaviour of an individual entity. Biochemist Michael Behe believes that many biological systems are “irreducibly complex” even at the molecular level. More so then, “irreducible complexity” exhibits itself at yet more fundamental level.
I am reminded of stories (in the Bible) of angels appearing to the prophets of old and others. The spirit entities must have their own “spiritual organising fields” that enable them to materialise and take the form of a human at will – the materialisation must have included internal organs as these angels were able to enjoy physical meals with humans. These angels or messengers appear anthropomorphic too. They are not altogether disembodied as they must have spiritual bodies that can materialise into physical ones. Jesus told his believers that at their resurrection they would be like the angels in heaven – also anthropomorphic in form, but then they would not marry or be married. When Jesus was resurrected after his crucifixion, he appeared in material form to his apostles and had them touched him. He even ate with them. In a later revelation given to the apostle Paul, believers are told that they will be given immortal spiritual bodies upon resurrection from the dead at a future point in time.
In the 1990s, there were numerous reports of some weird creatures killing farm animals by sucking their blood and causing terror to farmers and villagers in Mexico and other places. These creatures, called chupacabras (“goatsuckers”), have been sighted even as late as the year 2000, and they are reportedly creatures of unknown origin. About the same time, Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) have been seen in the vicinity where animals have been mutilated and found to be without blood. The reports suggest a link between these “anomalous biological entities” and UFOs or alien phenomena. There are also speculations that some of the creatures, shot dead and analysed, could be a hybrid of several species of animals, created in a laboratory by means of genetic engineering. No one seems to know the answer with certainty.
In reference to the incidents, there was also a report of a Chinese-Russian scientist by the name of Kanchen who has produced genetic manipulations that have created new species of electronically-crossed plant and animal organisms. Kanchen apparently developed an electronic system whereby he can pick up the bioenergetic field of the DNA of living organisms and transfer it electronically to other living organisms. By these means he was supposed to have created “incredible new breeds of ducks/chickens with physical characteristics of both species, goats/rabbits, and new breeds of plants such as corn/wheat, peanut/sunflower seeds and cucumber/watermelons.” Considering the researches mentioned above, it is quite conceivable that the chupacabras or “anomalous biological entities” could have been developed by humans in scientific experiments.*32
The dark-side results of these experiments if true are frightening. Hopefully researchers will know when to stop tinkering with nature when experimental results give adverse effects to human life and the ecological environment. Environmental pollution is also known to cause birth defects and mutations in animals and plants. Nevertheless, these experiments provided knowledge and proof of the existence of a kind of non-material stuff guiding the development of life.
The chromosomes of fruit flies, exposed to X-rays, have produced thousands of insect monstrosities – “Flies with eyes that bulged, flies with eyes that were sunken; ... flies with extra legs or antennae or no legs or antennae; flies with wings of every conceivable shape or with virtually no wings at all.”*33 The common fruit fly has been studied for more than 80 years (since the turn of the last century) in many laboratories around the world. This creature is chosen because of its short life cycle of about 10-12 days; therefore, many generations can be studied in a short time. Mutation resulting from harmful X-rays and chemicals caused the fruit flies to grow progressively weaker, become sterile and eventually die. When the mutated strains of fruit flies were allowed to breed for several generations, they gradually changed back to the original form. One experiment produced fruit flies without eyes. Yet, after a few life cycles, flies with eyes began to appear. Mutation according to researchers has not been known to produce better or different species. “Some kind of genetic repair mechanism took over and blocked any possibility of Evolution…. Once a fruit fly, always a fruit fly.”*42 The fruit fly, like any other creature, is according to the Bible created “after its own kind.”
In materialist science prevalent over the last 100 years, genes have been supposed to determine all the characteristics of a living being. The human genome has been completely sequenced at the turn of the century and the complete human genome map was announced. There is a surprise. The ‘book of life’ turns out to have only 30,000 genes, which are considered too few to support genetic determinism, as admitted by chief gene-sequencer Craig Venter. He said: “The wonderful diversity of the human species is not hard-wired in our genetic code. Our environments are critical.” British scientist Dr Mae-Wan Ho said that the only clear message in the “book of life” is “there is no one home, life is not to be found here”. Dr Ho is emphatic that the human genome sequence does not contain the “blueprint for making a human being”.*45
According to Dr Ho, there is “a torrent of new discoveries which shook the very foundations of genetic determinism. By far the most significant picture to emerge from the findings is how very dynamic and flexible the genome is in both its function and structure. This is in striking contrast to the static, mechanical conception that previously held sway. Gene functions are mutually entangled in extremely complex networks, with many genes required to turn other genes on or off, which are in turn regulated by other genes. Genes can get silenced under certain physiological conditions, and this state can be passed on to all daughter cells. According to the Central Dogma, one gene specifies one protein. In reality, all possible specifications exist.” Dr Ho and others “have written on how those newly discovered processes seriously undermine neo-Darwinian evolutionary theory over 15 years ago. The evidence against the natural selection of random mutations has grown overwhelming since…. All organisms, from bacteria to human beings, possess a wide range of repair and proof-reading functions to remove accidental changes to DNA sequences and correct errors resulting from physiological and physical insults.” According to Dr Ho, an organism possesses its own “natural genetic engineering” capability which “involves mobile genetic elements, found in all genomes, which can move from one position to another, enabling organisms to respond to environmental challenges.” To Dr Ho, “the scientific findings have completely invalidated genetic determinism. The new genetics is diametrically opposite to the old static, reductionist view. It is radically holistic. The gene has a very complex ecology consisting of the interconnected levels of the genome, the physiology of the organism and its external environment. Changes in the environment are transmitted inwards, and may alter the genes themselves. … It is clear that the mechanistic paradigm has failed the reality test in life as in science. But the discredited paradigm is still perpetrated by mainstream academic institutions as though no alternatives exist.”*44
Dissenting voices have been raised against scientists “playing God” in bold experiments likened to “Frankenstein science.” “All species are being genetically manipulated. Millions of transgenic mice are being created to serve as dubious models of human diseases, and an increasing number have to be sacrificed to make room for more. Livestock are ‘humanized’ to provide spare organs for transplanting into human beings, or engineered and cloned as ‘bioreactors’ to produce pharmaceuticals and industrial chemicals in their milk, blood, urine and semen, and with tens of thousands of failures and abnormalities.”*44
Left to themselves without intrusive experimental interference, living organisms display their life roles in harmony with their environment and they exhibit the transformative creativity of God evident in all of creation. The beautiful butterfly, for example, has given moments of delight and inspiration to every person, young or old, not only to poets and story writers. Its life cycle is a marvel to reflect upon – turning from the egg stage to the voracious caterpillar to the dormant pupa and then to the lively butterfly. In the pupa, the caterpillar dissolves into a homogeneous fluid from which differentiation into a butterfly takes place. Such a process of change (metamorphosis) is not limited to the butterfly alone. In the life cycle of the dragonfly there is a similar process but the pupa stage is absent. The millipede which comes in different colours and sizes sheds its skin (or moults) many times in its life cycle of several years with additional segments and legs added in each moult.
Anthropods (the beetle families), which form 95% of animal species, also undergo metamorphosis and they have been called “weird animals” because they are very different from mammals. Unlike humans, they are said to be “inside-out animals” having skeletons on the outside, digesting outside the stomach, teeth inside the stomach, blood without veins and arteries, ears not on the head, noses and tongues everywhere, and they breathe without lungs!*43
Another interesting animal is the platypus, an “extremely different” mammal found in Eastern Australia. It looks like an otter, a good swimmer, with dense fur fibres, and lives on the edges of rivers and freshwater lakes where its burrows can be dug. It has webbed feet and a bill that resembles a duck’s bill. It belongs to a family of animals known as “monotremes” that lay eggs rather than giving birth to their young.
Fruitful Reproduction
“Being fruitful to multiply after their kind” takes on a variety of forms in both plants and animals. Our human kind of sexual reproduction is very common among animals. The other main kind of reproduction is asexual. This process only requires one parent. Many single celled organisms simply divide and produce offspring (mitosis). Some organisms can reproduce by regeneration, or the reproduction of organisms from the parent’s body part. Starfish are a good example. If one of their arms is cut off, a whole starfish can grow from that one arm. Another form of asexual reproduction is budding. A bud or growth is produced by the parent, and when it breaks off, it is a new organism. In another way, a single parent can produce offspring by forming spores. These tiny structures drop off the parent to form new organisms. Mushrooms and Ferns use spores to reproduce. With asexual reproduction, the offspring are identical to the parent. There are some organisms that can even reproduce in more than one way.
Parthenogenesis is the development of an unfertilised egg into a new individual. This makes parthenogenesis sort of intermediate between sexual and asexual reproduction. It resembles sexual reproduction in that it involves the growth of the new individual from a single-celled egg, generally produced by an ovary; thus parthenogenesis occurs only in female animals. Parthenogenesis is known to occur in a few kinds of lizards, snakes, salamanders, bony fishes, some earthworms, scorpions, millipedes, and centipedes, and is common among insects like aphids, walking stick insects, moths, bees, wasps and ants. Many marine fishes and pollinating-plants reproduce as hermaphrodites (organisms having both male and female parts). Fishes are also known to change sex at will when needed. Fruitful reproduction evidently comes in a variety of methods.
“In the growing embryo, the electrical pattern develops hand in hand with the development of the whole organism. All else in the body undergoes constant change; the individual cells of which the body is made, excepting the germ cells, grow old and die, to be replaced by other cells, but the ‘electrical architect’ remains the only constant throughout life, building new cells and organizing them after the same pattern of the original cells, and thus, in a literal sense, recreating the body [or creating a new type of body as in each stage of metamorphosis of a butterfly or an insect] ....”*34
“The experimental evidence shows, according to Dr. Burr, that each species of animal and very likely also the individuals within the species have their characteristic electrical field, analogous to the lines of force in a magnet. This electric field, having its own pattern, fashions all the protoplasmic clay of life that comes within its sphere of influence after its image, thus personifying itself in the living flesh as the sculptor personifies his idea in stone....”*34
Pulsebeat
As we have derived in chapter one, all entities are created out of part of the God stuff. All creations or transformations from the God stuff must necessarily have a root pattern of perpetual motion or heartbeat inherent in them as derived from the living God. The heartbeat starts to form in the foetus before there is a brain. Scientists still do not know exactly what triggers this self-initiated heartbeat. Perhaps a discovery made by Cleve Backster may provide the answer. Among the living things experimented on by researcher Cleve Backster (mentioned in the previous chapter) are chicken eggs. In the tracing on a polygraph chart, there is a familiar pulse beat evident. It is a recording obtained from an unfertilised chicken egg, the cycle rate around 157 per minute, which is the accurate rate of a heartbeat for a chick embryo around three days along in incubation. That the egg was infertile was confirmed by Dr Charles Granger of Cornell University.*17
Correlating the researches of Backster, Kim Bong Han and others mentioned above, one may conclude that the pulse of life originates and lies in the etheric body or biofield surrounding living things. And as we have seen in the previous chapter, even ‘non-living’ things like metals (according to Sir Jagadis Bose’s discoveries) exhibit muscle response graphs similar to those of living things.
The Heart has a Mind of its own
Doc Childre, founder of the Institute of HeartMath, (IHM) in Boulder Creek, California, U.S.A. and his colleagues have done research that shows the heart is much more than a device that pumps blood. Some of the most revolutionary research on the heart is coming out with fascinating information on how every beat of our heart carries intricate messages that affect our emotions, our physical health, and the quality of life we experience. We are told that neuroscientist Dr. J. A. Armour made the exciting discovery that the heart has its own intrinsic brain and nervous system. “This has helped to explain (what physiologists have found in earlier years) that the brain (in the head) was dutifully obeying messages being sent from the brain in the heart.” HeartMath researchers have taken these discoveries even further – they have established the heart’s capacity to ‘‘think for itself,’’ how it formulates logic and influences behaviour in a two-way dialogue with the brain in the head.*18 So Pascal was right after all in saying “the heart hath reasons where reason knoweth not.” The New Testament scripture, more than in symbols as we now see, speaks of the “thoughts of many hearts” (Luke 2:35) and “thoughts and intents of the heart” (Heb 4:12).
Negative emotions (like anger, frustration, anxiety, and insecurity) create a chain reaction (blood vessels constrict, blood pressure rises) in the body that weakens the immune system. Positive heart-felt emotions like love, caring, appreciation, and compassion produces coherent or smooth rhythms that enhance communication between the heart and brain. The heart is, as these researchers found, “a highly complex, self-organized information processing centre with its own functional ‘brain’ that communicates with and influences the cranial brain via the nervous system, hormonal system and other pathways. These influences profoundly affect brain function and most of the body’s major organs, and ultimately determine the quality of life.”
HeartMath researchers also discovered that the heart is the most powerful generator of electromagnetic energy in the human body, producing the largest rhythmic electromagnetic field of any of the body’s organs. The “cardiac field,” extending out in all directions into the space around us, suggested to these researchers (in what they refer as cardioelectromagnetic communication), that it is an important carrier of information that can be transmitted to and received by others. What is the nature of the information carried by the electromagnetic field? Is it some underlying non-material or spirit stuff manifesting itself in the electromagnetic field? Whatever it may be, we are like a radio or TV station transmitting and receiving radio/TV waves and empowered by the energy in us.
Scientist Dr. T Galen Hieronymus (1895-1988) discovered that every element, compound and tissue gives off a characteristic vibration of energy, one that he termed “eloptic energy” – the word is taken from the first two letters of electricity and the word optic, because the energy has some, but not all, of the characteristics of both those forms of energy. The energy can be identified by an Analyser that he developed.*47
In the 1940s, scientists were coming to see that “atoms can act like little radio transmitters broadcasting on ultra short waves.”*48
“Man himself as well as all kinds of supposedly inert matter constantly emit rays. The existence of such rays coming from man and all living things, and probably from the inanimate, has been suspected by a few scientists for many years. Today brought experimental proof. The discovery shows that every atom and every molecule in nature is a continuous radio frequency broadcasting station. Those who believe in telepathy, second sight and clairvoyance, have in today the first real proof of the existence of invisible rays which really travel from one person to another.”*49
“Scientists who have studied Dr Rabi’s report said it furnishes for the first time a logical explanation of such things as telepathy, heretofore a quasi-scientific phenomenon, and the ‘feeling’ that someone else is approaching in a dark room. It may also prove to be the source of attraction or repulsion between individuals since all the atoms of the body are continually broadcasting weak but detectable radio signals.”*50
David Sarnoff, president of RCA, speaking before the 7th International Congress on Rheumatic Diseases in New York (June 1, 1949), said, “Men do not understand how their thoughts and emotions are born, and by what power they grow to fruition. Is this force electricity? When we understand each other, is it because we are attuned to each other electrically or electronically? If so, we should learn the electrical characteristics of the human body.”*47
The feeling of being looked at from behind seems to be quite common. So is the experience of looking at someone from behind and finding that they turn round. According to researcher Rupert Sheldrake,*51 surveys show that about 90% of the population have personally experienced these phenomena. Following the research of Dr Sheldrake, staring experiments done in Britain, USA and Germany have been statistically significant. The “starer” must have emitted some form of energy onto the person being stared at. This lends further evidence to the hypothesis that a person is like a transmitting radio or TV station.
Experiments done on famous psychic Uri Geller (noted for his ability to bend metal objects with his mind) indicate that thought forms (via fingertips corona discharge patterns) could even be captured on film using the Kirlian apparatus.*46 Experiments with intimate couples showed a dramatic range of coronal responses. The fingertips of both man and woman were photographed simultaneously as each member of the pair bond was instructed to think either unpleasant or loving thoughts toward one another or engage in a kiss. During the unpleasant thought phase, the coronal patterns between the couple were withdrawn, they did not merge. When the subjects entered the pleasant and loving thought phase or kissed, the auras seemed to blend and converge in a state of mutual attraction. The clear fingertip boundaries consistently dissolved until it was difficult to distinguish one fingerprint from another.*40
The experiments mentioned in the previous paragraph provide a clear indication that there is a spirit – a volitioner – in man.
Rhythms of life
We know that all life moves, grows, wakes and sleeps to some beat, regulated by the changing influences of the sun and the moon upon our earth and by the earth’s own geomagnetism. Within the body of a human or animal life are biological clocks that depend on many parts working together in harmony to provide normal health and function. They help in orchestrating the physiology of the body. The heart, the liver and the brain, like any other organs, have their own rhythms.
Recently,*35 the light-giving sun is discovered to have pulsing currents of gas that beat deep inside it, speeding and slackening every 16 months, like blood pulsing in an artery. The sun too has its own rhythm. The solar “heartbeat” that throbs in the same region of the sun is suspected of driving the 11-year cycle of solar eruptions, during which the sun goes from stormy to quiet and back to stormy again. Natural sunlight is absorbed by plants to manufacture food by a well-known process of photosynthesis. Natural sunlight is also an important nutrient for human and animal health.
The late John Nash Ott, a naturalist photographer famous for his ground breaking work on the health effects of sunlight and artificial light, has demonstrated that sunlight is a holistic and essential nutrient to a healthy life and that long exposure to artificial light, produced by conventional bulbs and fluorescent tubes, is not healthy. For example, school children, hyperactive in classrooms lighted with fluorescent tubes, became normal a short time after the tubes were replaced with “full-spectrum” tubes producing light close to natural sunlight. Animals in zoos become productive when the lights were changed to “full-spectrum” ones. It is also known that jaundiced babies can be treated by exposure to sunlight. In light therapy, coloured lights are shone onto specific zones of the body for treatment of health conditions.
Sound, another mode of vibration in the form of songs, music and drums, is known to provide therapeutic effects just as light does. According to BBC News, scientists have uncovered evidence that the perception of sight and sound are inextricably linked. When attention is drawn to a sound it also enhances the ability to see. Researcher Professor Steven Hillyard said: “Our results suggest that you will see an object or event more clearly if it makes a sound before you see it.”*36
Baroque music combined with gentle sounds of nature together with a certain beat has been used to accelerate concentration and learning. Natural sounds like the roaring waves of the sea and the chirping of birds have been used as therapy by modern researchers.
Sound also seems to have a relationship with shapes and figures. Such a relationship was studied by a German, Ernst F. F. Chladni, towards the last decade of the 18th century. He published in 1787 his research results that show his so-called sound figures, together with very detailed descriptions on how to produce them. A horizontal glass or metal plate of different shapes was mounted securely in the centre against a vertical metal pole. The plate, sprinkled with fine sand, was then bowed with a violin-bow at certain points at the edge of the plate to produce harmonic vibration that arranged the fine sand into symmetrical shapes which have come to be known as Chladni figures.*37
In the 1950s, one Swiss scientist Dr. Hans Jenny followed up on the work of Chladni using more advanced technology. His research extended to many different kinds of materials and vibrations. Using a “Tonoscope” which he developed, he was able to use his human voice to form “sound patterns” in sand, liquid or powders on a plate or cup without any form of amplification. He was able to “see sound” coming alive from “inert” substances. Modern instruments use a computer to generate the sound vibration through a speaker, facing upwards and supporting a cylinder on top of which is a saucer with the test materials. Complex and intricate forms, often resembling living organisms, arise from inert powders, pastes and liquids, solely through the influence of sound. Different frequencies generate circulatory patterns which closely resemble sun spots, solar flares, spiral galaxies – intricate patterns that are mirrored in nature and the universe. Dr Hans Jenny seemed to have uncovered tantalising evidence that sound could actually shape matter. This prompts a recall of what the Bible says: “In the beginning was the Word” – the Divine Sound – and the powerful Word said “let there be” and things of various forms and characters came to be according to the intent of the Word.
By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. (Psalms 33:6 KJV)
Late French researcher Dr Jacques Benveniste*53 in the 1980s discovered that highly diluted substances have definite effects on living tissues. In 1988 Nature magazine published an article “Memory of Water” which shows that a highly diluted antigen in water is able to cause a reaction to in vitro white cells, just as a material antigen would. The “ghost” of the antigen seemed to be present in the water. The continuing research of Benveniste led to his development of “digital biology,” that is, recording and transmitting biological activity as “.wav” electronic sound files.
In an experiment, an anticoagulant remedy was digitalized by this process, and the sound file was forwarded to a researcher by electronic mail. The file/signal received by electronic mail was transmitted to water, which in turn inhibited the coagulation of a tissue in the same way the original molecule would have. Benveniste’s numerous experiments, duplicated independently, showed that it is possible that the specific activity of biologically-active molecules (e.g. histamine, caffeine, nicotine, adrenalin) can be recorded and digitized using a computer sound card, just like an ordinary sound. These recordings can then be broadcasted to affect living tissues. We know that music and sound affect our moods; sounds of different frequencies evoke different types of mood, and this is exploited by the movie makers. This shows that biological entities function like radio sets, by co-resonance. If we tune a receiver to 92.7 MHz, we tune in to a particular radio station because the receiver and the transmitter vibrate at the same frequency. If we change the setting a little to, say, 92.8 MHz, we no longer receive that radio station but another one instead.
Spiritual teachers have known for a long time that our body can be influenced (or “programmable” in modern computer jargon) by words and thoughts. Modern researchers know that our emotions and affirmations affect our mood and health. We intuitively know these ourselves from our daily experiences. The latest scientific research coming out from Russia confirms the existence of a dynamic relationship or similarity between language and our DNA. The Russian linguists found that the genetic code – especially in the apparent “useless” 90% – follows the same rules (syntax, semantics, grammar) as all our human languages. The vibrational behaviour of DNA is like a holographic computer having its own laser-like radiation. These researchers discovered that living DNA substance in living tissues always react to language-modulated laser rays and even to radio waves, if the proper frequencies (sound vibrations) are being used.*52
Scientists at the forefront of research beyond mechanistic science have recognised that a non-material factor, a living energy and vibrations are closely associated with all that can be called life. Researcher Dale Pond in his book “It Really Is a Musical Universe” has the following enlightening thoughts:
“The universe vibrates from end to end and everything in it. Therefore, if we are to investigate and understand this awesome Spectacle we are obliged to investigate the nature of vibration. If the universe were chaos there would be no harmony but only Degrees of chaos. All sound and vibration would be just plain Noise. Noise, therefore, is unorganized vibration. But no one can doubt there is order recognizable throughout nature from the uniformity of atomic structures and behaviours to spiral galaxies whose swirling arms of orderly stars span light years … of activity... The principles that make sound into harmonious music are the same principles that govern all associating vibrations throughout the universe – and includes everything that there is.”*39
Coherent design and forms that we see in all of nature must have come from a Designer who himself/itself must be inherently Coherent Organized Design, not Chaos; and a Harmony, not Noise. What form does the Designer and Harmony take if not formless Chaos or disharmonious Noise?
Footnotes:
*1. Notwithstanding popular current belief that the earth and the planets revolve around the sun, a minority of researchers today believes in the geocentric earth. See website: www.geocentricity.com
*2. Supernature, p 81-87
*3. The Secret Life of Plants, p 211
*4. The Body Electric, p 83
*5. Vibrational Medicine, p 52-54
*6. The Secret Life of Plants, p 215-218
*7. Vibrational Medicine, p 53-54
*8. Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain, p 200-236
*9. Vibrational Medicine, p.122-6
*10. The Body Electric, p 48, 50
*11. THEOSOPHY, Vol. 28 No. 6, April 1940
*12. See website: www.planarians.org
*13. Noetic Sciences Review, Vol. 31, Autumn 1994
*14. THEOSOPHY, Vol. 25 No. 11, September 1937, pages 508-513, The Mystery of Regeneration
*15. See www.accessexcellence.org and www.reef.edu.au
*16. See www.nature.com
*17. Mr Cleve Backster emailed a picture of the polygraph chart to me on May 17, 2002 with his explanation. This chart is reprinted in Backster’s brand new book Primary Perception, out in October 2003; published by White Rose Millennium Press. See also website www.primaryperception.com
*18. See www.heartmath.org
*19. THEOSOPHY, Vol. 28, No. 7, May 1940 quoting from Edmund Wilson, “The Cell in Development and Heredity” (New York: Macmillan Co., 1925), pp. 106-9.
*20. THEOSOPHY, Vol. 28, No. 7, May 1940 quoting from the researches of Dr. Grace Kimball.
*21. Refer to www.magnetlabs.com for researches of Albert Roy Davis and Walter C Rawls. Magnets are also used popularly in India in magnetotherapy.
*22. THEOSOPHY, Vol. 28, No. 7, May 1940 quoting from New York Herald-Tribune, September 29, 1936.
*23. THEOSOPHY, Vol. 28, No. 7, May 1940 with quote by William McDougall, The Riddle of Life, pp. 129-30.
*24. THEOSOPHY, Vol. 28, No. 7, May 1940
*25. The Secret Doctrine I, 223.
*26. THEOSOPHY, Vol. 28, No. 8, June 1940
*27. THEOSOPHY, Vol. 28, No. 8, June 1940 quoting from New York Herald Tribune, April 27, 1937.
*28. THEOSOPHY, Vol. 28, No. 8, June 1940 quoting from Newsweek, January 9, 1939.
*29. THEOSOPHY, Vol. 28, No. 8, June 1940 quoting from New York Times, April 28, 1939.
*30. For a Nobel Lecture in 1935 by Prof. Hans Spemann, refer to Nobel e-Museum in www.nobel.se under Medicine category.
*31. THEOSOPHY, Vol. 28, No. 8, June 1940 quoting from Science, April 16, 1937.
*32. Check the internet for “chupacabras” *33. THEOSOPHY, Vol. 28, No. 8, June 1940
*34. THEOSOPHY, Vol. 28, No. 8, July 1940 quoting New York Times, April 25, 1939.
*35. Report posted on March 31, 2000 in Spaceflight Now Breaking News (www.spaceflightnow.com)
*36. BBC News, Health, 18 October, 2000 (http://news.bbc.co.uk)
*37. See http://member.aol.com/woinem6/html/chladni.htm#o
*38. THEOSOPHY, Vol. 28, No. 8, June 1940
*39. “It Really is a Musical Universe” by Dale Pond, p 1 (www.svpvril.com)
*40. See www.kirlian.org
*41. See www.sheldrake.org
*42. See www.pathlights.com under Mutation Project.
*43. Check out www.szgdocent.org
*44. “The End of Bad Science and Beginning Again with Life” by Dr Mae-Wan Ho of Institute of Science in Society and Department of Biological Sciences, Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK. This is a public Lecture for Conference on “The Limit of Natural Selection”, French Senate, Paris, March 18, 2000. (http://www.i-sis.org.uk)
*45. ISIS Report - June 9, 2001- “The Human Genome - A Big White Elephant” delivered by Dr Mae-Wan Ho at Green Research Forum, European Parliament, Brussels, June 6, 2001. (http://www.i-sis.org.uk)
*46. See www.uri-geller.com
*47. www.rexresearch.com/hieronym/1hieron.htm
*48. Science News Letter for January 6, 1940
*49. The Associated Press release of December 30, 1939, describing Dr I. I. Rabi of Columbia University who won the AAAS prize for his work on nuclear resonance.
*50. The Associated Press release of December 31, 1939
*51. Visit site: www.sheldrake.org
*52. Visit www.fosar-bludorf.com/
*53. Visit www.digibio.com
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