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SCIENTIFIC PERSPECTIVES OF MIND-HEART AND RESONANT FIELDS

Turmoil in the Heart’s Broadcast

A major source of our personal heart-field incoherence—the “fuzziness” alluded to in the holonomic perspective of chapter 5—is found in emotional turmoil, upset, or imbalance. Emotion is a term we use for the quality of relationships taking place, as within our body parts and/or our self within the larger body of people and planet. While often considered to be “only psychological,” emotion proves to be solidly biological as well, as first spelled out in Candace Pert’s classic study, The Molecules of Emotion.1 Pert’s Nobel Prize–winning work clearly shows emotion’s molecular effect on our biological system and vice versa. In like manner, our emotions have been found to profoundly affect our heart and its torus field, with positive emotions bringing coherence, negative emotions incoherence. That such reciprocal interaction enters into further extensions of field effects, as found in planet and Sun, might seem conjecture but is the case, within an increasingly complex scalar measurement.

Should our personal heart-field be incoherent (of irregular or chaotic frequencies), then coherent merging with Earth’s fields—or those of other people—cannot take place, since an incoherent wave-radiation cannot mesh with or function as an integral part of coherent waves or fields (see figure 5.7). Incoherent wave-forms, rather than fusing or merging, act in a counter fashion—clashing, even canceling each other out, rather as a short-circuit in a radio prevents that radio from picking up a station’s broadcast, no matter how powerful and clear that broadcast might be.

Heart’s Intuitive Foreseeing

A number of older, materialistic-scientific beliefs have been challenged by recent discoveries, stemming from more than a decade of electromagnetic recordings of Earth’s electromagnetic (e-m) field output. Particularly significant is an ongoing study initially conducted by Elizabeth Rauscher and William Van Bise that monitored the Earth’s magnetic fields in recordings made roughly a thousand miles apart. When compared, these two records not only matched, but showed that any physical disturbance within or on our planet, such as an earthquake or tsunami, clearly registered as characteristically marked changes in the configurations of those magnetic fields of Earth and her torus forms radiating from each magnetic pole. Certain patterns within such changes were found only in connection with some form of chaotic physical disruption on or in our planet.

We might say these recordings were electrocardiograms of Earth, whose pulsations from her magnetic poles offered a bit more for research than just a “northern-lights” sideshow. These changes in Earth’s magnetic fields were later found to be strikingly similar to changes in our personal heart-fields when we are subject to negative emotions, as studied for years at HeartMath Institute. Further, these electromagnetic disturbances, clearly visible in e-m pictures of the heart, are detectable in e-m images of Earth’s own torus-fields obtained by NASA from satellites. Those magnetic waves at Earth’s surface, and even those arcing out short distances above the Earth, apparently shift from coherent to incoherent, according to phenomena on or within Earth herself, while Earth’s great torus streamers going out into space are apparently unaffected by these more modest surface phenomena (see figure 5.1).

Research into heart-emotional interactions at HeartMath Institute discovered direct connections between our emotional responses and the frequencies of our heart and its torus field. Their research followed a direction set by Dean Braden and Karl Pribram investigating galvanic skin response (long an enigma). Following ever-more extensive research, these heart-fields within and from us were found to produce a completely unexpected intuitive, precognitive “foreseeing,” detectable within that heart-torus. This foreseeing anticipated future laboratory-induced emotional upheavals that proved to be negative to that person, events producing incoherence in that person’s heart-field.

Such precognitions were, in effect, forewarnings, since they occurred in the physical laboratory setup in advance of the actual event as visible to the subject or research people (see details in appendix A). Since all this research involved electronic machinery functioning independently of direct human manipulation, many an applecart of academic assumptions was upset. Such a provocative and counterintuitive phenomenon resulted in HeartMath running some 2,400 trials on this one anomaly—precognitive intuition of the heart—before publication of their first of many papers on the subject.2

In the same way, and equally surprising to Rauscher and Van Bise, ructions in the physical Earth are not just reflected in the Earth and her ionosphere, but also in advance of such disturbances on an actual personal, physical-sensory level. This was discovered when the scientists found both sensing stations showing the same shift of planetary frequency fields occurring in advance of earthquakes in general.

But far greater implications-anomalies are found in the 9-11 case, for that Twin Tower disaster, which occurred on September 11, 2001, was clearly forecast in these two scientists’ recordings, showing the same significant changes in the Earth’s magnetic fields and ionosphere as found in such severe quakes as the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption or the later tsunami quakes in 2004. That the 9-11 event showed up in the magnetic images was in itself enigma enough, but, far more significantly, the 9-11 event was also recorded in advance of the actual physical calamity itself, as had been found with earthquakes.

As mentioned earlier, such patterns of negativity within our body, brain, and heart interactions had already been induced in subjects and recorded in HeartMath’s laboratory in those many hundreds of trials. These clearly showed intuitive forewarnings by the heart of some actual material laboratory occurrence, designed to test such result in each case. This information, when published, led Rauscher and Van Bise, recognizing the significant similarities with their own work, to join forces with HeartMath. The self-evident hypothesis was drawn that incoherent or negative emotional waves—easily induced on a small scale in the laboratory—could, with sufficient magnitude (that is, from many people being so induced simultaneously), result in similar incoherence in Earth’s e-m fields, as was recorded when the 9-11 disaster took place.

Media and Earth-Reactions

In previous, pre-electronic–media times, emotional reactions to local disasters took place only within a local population. One group warring on another, for instance, remained localized within that specific area simply by the comparative isolation and distance between communities. Calamities in one area obviously could not activate an emotional reaction in some far-removed locale simultaneously, and even such information arriving later and at second hand in far-flung places would be too sporadic and isolated to build into a significant “negative force.”

Widespread, synchronous emotional incoherence can and does continually take place today, however, through electronic media. This now saturates every inch of Earth’s surface and atmosphere, from Arctic snow-fields to New York, London, the jungles of Africa, steppes of central Asia, or wherever. Thus 9-11, sweeping up every form of media for days on end, repeated ad nauseam and witnessed by virtually the entire population of our planet, brought about surprisingly powerful emotional reactions in those populations. Even in such far-flung climes as Australia, reports were of people rushing out into the streets to share their distress, as the images played on and on. All of this planet-wide attention—and resulting emotion—created a negative field-effect of serious, planet-wide force, indistinguishable from other planetary physical disruptions and temporarily bringing corresponding shifts in Earth’s magnetic fields.

The issue lay not only in this corresponding planet-wide unified response from upwards of six billion humans, bringing about an emotion-laden negative field-effect, but also, as our original two scientists had found, the shift taking place in their equipment had registered on those recording devices—as had earthquakes—in advance of the physical disaster itself. Aye! There’s the rub—which involves an even more critical enigma than the other phenomena. Resonance, as a feeling of soul or spirit, can employ or accompany the “molecules of emotion” expressed physically, much as mind can employ or accompany brain, although the two are not identical.

Collective Emotion and Chaotic Attractors

A deeper examination reveals that aspects of the 9-11 event can be shown to have also followed the same formative pattern of a long, drawn-out buildup of cumulative emotional effects involving various segments of societies and cultures. Consider the meticulous planning—weeks and months of preliminary preparations—by those dozen or so young men involved in 9-11. They actually learned to fly huge jets, intent on the same suicidal maneuver. And they were supported in spirit and intent by the organizations and rogue nations standing behind them (and source of many a conspiracy theory branching out in many directions).

Consider their lifelong indoctrination into beliefs concerning sacrifice of self for eternal rewards (which has its strong resonance with early Christian passion). These beliefs meshed, bringing together into a single focus of intent and resolve, the similar passions of large segments of Earth’s people. This larger group influence of religiously-driven but otherwise unfocused resolve or intent, was brought to single focus as a field-effect of power by these self-selected “field-attractors” (to use Ilye Prigogine’s term). Such scattered forces found a core resonance, attracting and building to a climax long in process, unbeknown to the various times and cultures involved.

Carl Jung spoke of a dark specter or shadow side of humankind building up in Europe in the latter half of the nineteenth century, finally manifesting as two world wars and the ultimate horrors of the Holocaust. There, a small core of passionate believers first acted to galvanize widespread political-social discontent into a chaotic focus, giving them the grounds to act as “chaotic attractors.” Such attractors galvanized millions of people into a unified if disastrous response, acting to lift their unfocused chaos into ordered chaos, at the cost of well over a hundred million human lives when all was said and done.

Similar powerful forms of negative emotional energy still build in our planet today, stimulated and magnified by media. In the United States, “hate radio” involves some two-thirds of all broadcasts, feeding on and inflaming widespread public discontent.

Variations of this flood Earth’s surface and atmosphere constantly with comparatively smaller and varied shifts in the coherence of Earth’s e-m fields (see figure 5.6). Having set into motion a negative feedback loop, which continues in reciprocal fashion, however, with more and more people affected for ongoing lengths of time, ever-greater cumulative negative and synchronous responses spill far beyond the bounds of any country or religion.

Darwin’s Formula

In the context of these ongoing global-scale negative feedback patterns, it is useful to remember Charles Darwin’s claim that any action repeated long enough will tend to become a habit, and any habit repeated long enough will tend to become an instinctual, genetic reflex—accepted as the human condition. Consider, for instance, how entrepreneurs have, since the mid- to late- 1950s, employed (unwittingly or not) what is termed “startle-effects” into television programming, begun when television viewing was found to induce varying forms and degrees of catatonia, particularly in children. Young children still tend to go catatonic in front of back-lit screens in general, as do adults in varying and less extreme intensities.3

Media-induced startle-effects are created by a variety of arbitrary, abrupt, incoherent, and nonlogical extremities of contrasts in light, sound, and general imagery in televised content (as compared with stable natural settings). These startle-effects result in unstable, shifting visual-auditory tapestries not found heretofore in nature or ordinary daily situations.

Such a montage of visual-auditory shifts as now occupies television triggers or alerts our primary sensory-motor systems into action. These old defensive functions spring from our primary “world-brain,” as Karl Pribram called it (also referred to herein as reptilian brain or hind-brain), giving rise to all human experience. These primary neural structures are unable to find a coherent, stable image in television’s high-density, visual-auditory flux. So that primary brain alerts, by means of adrenaline “flight-fight” hormones—particularly cortisol—the viewer’s higher, logical brain systems to “pay attention” to this primary sensory intake, which is tacitly perceived as threatening. So aroused, we viewers are loathe to take our eyes off that screen, even if we hate the programming, not aware that our alert-reflexes prompt continual if minuscule “adrenaline rushes” of this cortisol, which trigger our defense alert to lock our sensory system onto such unpredictable signals, in order to deal with any danger inherent within them.

Our old sensory-motor (reptilian) system, having no logical reasoning processes of its own, depends on the later evolutionary additions to the brain for these very much higher “reasoning” processes. Thus, in television viewing, with its ongoing startle-effect, the entire brain, “lower” and “higher,” functions on behalf of that lowest, most ancient “reptilian” or basic survival-sensory process. This produces a “topdown” reversal of evolution’s ordinary “bottom-up” organization of our neural apparatus, and is yet another form of devolution—compounding and amplifying the nurture-deprivation phenomenon surveyed in earlier chapters, and making us ever more reflexively subject to the negative impacts of global e-m waves as discussed in this chapter.

Sperry’s Early Micro-Movies

In early micro-images of neural cells, Roger Sperry found that releasing into the brain the most minute trace of cortisol (as in television viewing) brought an immediate “explosion” of new dendrites and axons sprouting out to connect neural fields with new networks of connecting links, to cover all contingencies within its sensory-world, as with emergencies in daily life.4

If such startle-effects happen very often, the parasympathetic nervous system does not have time to counter this sympathetic nervous system response. Hormones released by the parasympathetic system remove cortisol and any excess neural connective links made in that instant alert. The “excess” are those links not involved or needed in the actual emergency itself. And, of course, the emergencies involved, though fictional and unreal, can produce excessive cortisol and neural connections to the point of “congestion” in neural fields.

HeartMath research shows that a single negative experience can upset the hormonal balance of sympathetic-parasympathetic systems in us for varying periods before balance is regained. Unaware of all this internal action, we adults eventually learn to compensate for and even override our continued startle impulses, paying them no further attention. Such hormonal actions continue, however, on primary brain-body levels beneath our awareness.

The Primary Image Is Always True

Although this hormonal process does go on beneath the threshold of awareness, on heart and brain wave recordings such shifts and loss of our “higher” brain-mind to the apparatus of the “lower” become apparent. As physician Keith Buzzell points out (from his decades of research into a child’s television response), to that old sensory-motor (reptilian) brain in our head, the image is always true.

By four or five years of age the child is aware of the discrepancies of imagery on television, and will even assure the parent, “It’s okay, Mom, its only television.” This is the child’s “high-brain” rationalization, but the cortisol output from that primary-sensory brain continues unabated in that child, doing its damage. And this startle-effect is lifelong, as true for the eighty-year-old as for the child, suggesting hypothetically that immersion by the eighty-year-old in such imagery and the ongoing cortisol over-production may be involved in the recent increases of Alzheimer’s disease, television viewing being the major preoccupation of many elderly and retired adults.

As well, this hormonal activity is only a surface effect of electronic media; far more takes place on subtle levels. As Buzzell points out, by the time our “high-brain” responds to the actual imagery of an alerting primary signal from our “old brain,” millions of neural responses throughout brain and body have fired into motion, even as our higher rational processes (of which we are personally aware) accommodate to the scramble, unaware of the fuss “below,” which continues unabated. And all of this, we should remember, is occurring collectively as well as individually.

More! More! (Again . . .)

Since our sensory systems eventually habituate to such false-alert prompts, an increase in intensity and frequency of such startle-prompts became more and more necessary. Throughout the early decades of television viewing, this increase continued, demanding that our attention be caught and held by the programming. Many a current young viewer today would find early 1950s TV insufferably dull. By the 1970s the ongoing alerting-action had become increasingly intense, and by the 1990s the average action on the TV screen would have struck a viewer back in the early 1950s as sheer bedlam making little sense (as such confusion does to this writer, who raised two families while never allowing such a device under his roof).

In summary, our very survival nature tends to lock our ancient sensory-motor system and its ongoing attention into such televised instability, since, being indecipherable or unpredictable (or both) to that oldest sensory-brain system, such an environment continually activates our higher neural systems (our more recent evolutionary parts of brain-mind) to attend these more primal environmental signals. Thus, our higher brain systems begin to serve the lower, almost from the beginning, in a reversal of evolutionary organization. (I have more or less repeated this outline-of-action because of our tendency to disregard it as technical minutiae having nothing to do with our real life, when it actually has a profound effect on multiple levels, both personal and global.)

Media Drug Lords

Such ongoing startle-alerts create in viewers an addiction to the high-density startle-effects employed, with their resulting adrenaline-stimulus overloads. Once conditioned to such intense stimuli and the resulting adrenaline overload, if deprived of that or a similar level of stimuli and/ or overload, our sensory system undergoes a form of sensory deprivation. Then ordinary bucolic, natural settings—such as forest or mountains—can bring boredom, restlessness, or even distress in younger generations.

These physiological responses involve the Reticular Activating System between the sensory-motor and relational systems in the limbic brain. This “RAS” closes the gates of the sensory system, allowing us to sleep, while opening and activating it to awaken us. Subjected to near-continual high-density phenomena from early on, when there is a lack of enough stimuli to maintain an established hyper-alert state (such having become our norm), a natural setting tends to bring initial boredom and eventual anxiety-distress, since our primary sensory system doesn’t receive sufficiently strong stimuli to maintain full, active consciousness.

Thus, we find the restlessness of young people and their resorting to constant hyper-activity, earphones, loud music, high-tension interactions with each other, hyper-fast automobiles, and so on, and we wonder why it is getting more difficult to get even kindergartners to “pay attention,” as schooling (perversely and increasingly) requires. (For which we blame the schools, teachers, methods, and so on, all of which are products of the same brain-altering process and automatically perpetuate it.)

Bending the Twig From Its Beginnings

On average, a six-month-old infant in the United States spends two hours daily in front of a back-lit radiant-light screen, as found in computers and televisions. Back-lit screens such as TV and computer screens produce radiant light, found only in sunlight or fire, stimuli which carry no environmental information. Visual environmental information, objects and actions of a world, can only be found in reflected light, and our primary visual system finds no information in radiant light other than the raw fact of sunlight or firelight.

This means that due to the thousands of hours of back-lit radiant light the infant-child experiences, he or she cannot form any visual information around which his or her world-structures can be built up (what Jean Piaget calls our “structures of knowledge”). Artificial light can reflect off objects and be cognized visually. Back-lit sources confound and confuse the budding sensory-motor receptors, whereby these infants quickly go catatonic and are reluctant to move their eyes from the screen, which makes TV the world’s safest babysitter, physically, while warping brain development.

By five years of age that child will have spent some five to six thousand hours in such virtual-reality flooding his sensory system, while undergoing a seriously insufficient exposure to natural environments. Building a full sensory pattern of a real world will be compromised, and the young person will be subject to boredom and a feeling of isolation in ordinary natural settings. Some such natural environment similar enough in nature to the one in which brain formation took place in our evolutionary history must be provided as a stable nucleus for early brain development and its “structures of knowledge.”

No five-o’clock alcoholic happy-hour acts in any more addictive way than this adrenal-cortisol overload and the body’s coping with it. According to early studies by the medical school of the University of London, cortisol overload is a major cause of many modern diseases, particularly cancer. Such overload is an automatic adrenaline by-product of television viewing in general, with computers, cell phones, music players, and the like creating a flood of new electromagnetic stimuli, each with their varying and noncohering e-m wave-forms all adding to the general discord.

Precognitive Thresholds

Consequently, the negative wave-interferences registering in our ionosphere and reflected by us in everyday life, as found in that NASA e-m photo of Earth, is understandable (see figure 5.6). Recall the rigorous series of experiments at HeartMath Institute, originally exploring galvanic skin response and various neural signaling. This research expanded until clearly revealing that well ahead of laboratory-induced negative events, the heart-brain signals in those wired-up subjects displayed a direct and rapid intuitive foreseeing of the negative event that was going to take place.

These experiments also revealed an intriguing dilemma: the warning signals the heart sends to the brain were not consciously perceived by those wired-up individuals taking part in the experiments. The foreseen event had to take place on a full sensory level on the computer screen (in “real time”) to affect those individuals’ conscious sensory awareness, even though both heart and brain graphs clearly registered the precognitive sensory signals. Clearly implied is a parallel between what happens on an Earth-wide physical scale with what is also happening within our heart-brain—though we perceive it not, until after such event’s physical manifestation.

Mind, the Last to Know

That Earth-wide effects can occur from the combined emotional reactions of a sufficient number of people is an enigma that typically falls outside our present-day common domain. Although such intuitive-precognitive capacities of both heart-brain and Earth can occur without our direct personal awareness of them, and are perceived by us only after the fact of their occurrence, the failing lies within mind’s domain, not the sensory system as a whole.

Bear in mind that while body senses may sense as designed, mind lags behind—the “last to know”—and we can rightly ask, why?

Why is mind—our personal awareness—like the deceived spouse, the last to know concerning our very own heart-brain interactions, as in the HeartMath laboratory series? Even though in actual daily life these are signals that might be critical to survival, our mind’s ignorance of what appears to be a vast intelligence and wisdom of heart-brain-body or of heart and Earth, or both, is the issue. At some point a disjunction between mind and body-brain-heart-Earth seems to take place.

Such is not the case with animals, however, who respond to heart-brain intuitive signals as automatically as any other instinct, as in the oft-reported instances of animals—both domestic and wild—clearly indicating awareness of impending earthquakes and other disasters. The odd reason for our lack of such “animal knowledge” may lie in the fact that animals seem to have no dualistic “mind,” no reflective cognitive process. While they have a distinctive consciousness, heart-brain precognitive awareness and survival instincts to respond accordingly, there is apparently no intervening mind through which such signals must pass to be “checked out” on some personal, introspective, abstract-cultural or logical level, as with us humans.

So it may be that the mind, our uniquely human development, intervenes in or deflects such responses that our body-wisdom would otherwise make, leaving us open, without recourse, to whatever results occur until after the fact or initiation of any given turbulent or traumatic occurrence. Mind may always thus be a bit behind brain-heart, perhaps never catching up. This disjunct between mind and heart can, however, be bridged and overcome, an issue we will delve into as we go along here.