Hearts Have Their Own Brain And Consciousness

[Mark]

... from another forum (thanks, H1), this article and research have astounding implications regarding some of the more esoteric ideas that have received a lot of attention in the alternative media. What I find particularly interesting are the implications for larger collectives of individuals and how heart resonance multiplies and expands, actively forming the energetic bond that brings and keeps groups together.

It seems that the idea that we are individuals with no connection to each other is going the way of the dinosaur, as it should.

source http://www.wakingtimes.com/2012/03/06/hearts-have-their-own-brain-and-consciousness/

Heart Fields

Many believe that conscious awareness originates in the brain alone. Recent scientific research suggests that consciousness actually emerges from the brain and body acting together. A growing body of evidence suggests that the heart plays a particularly significant role in this process.

Far more than a simple pump, as was once believed, the heart is now recognized by scientists as a highly complex system with its own functional “brain.”

Research in the new discipline of neurocardiology shows that the heart is a sensory organ and a sophisticated center for receiving and processing information. The nervous system within the heart (or “heart brain”) enables it to learn, remember, and make functional decisions independent of the brain’s cerebral cortex. Moreover, numerous experiments have demonstrated that the signals the heart continuously sends to the brain influence the function of higher brain centers involved in perception, cognition, and emotional processing.

In addition to the extensive neural communication network linking the heart with the brain and body, the heart also communicates information to the brain and throughout the body via electromagnetic field interactions. The heart generates the body’s most powerful and most extensive rhythmic electromagnetic field.Compared to the electromagnetic field produced by the brain, the electrical component of the heart’s field is about 60 times greater in amplitude, and permeates every cell in the body. The magnetic component is approximately 5000 times stronger than the brain’s magnetic field and can be detected several feet away from the body with sensitive magnetometers.

The heart generates a continuous series of electromagnetic pulses in which the time interval between each beat varies in a dynamic and complex manner. The heart’s ever-present rhythmic field has a powerful influence on processes throughout the body. We have demonstrated, for example, that brain rhythms naturally synchronize to the heart’s rhythmic activity, and also that during sustained feelings of love or appreciation, the blood pressure and respiratory rhythms, among other oscillatory systems, entrain to the heart’s rhythm.

Video: Rollin McCraty Science of the Heart 1:15 mins


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=CMQipX-hIDs

We propose that the heart’s field acts as a carrier wave for information that provides a global synchronizing signal for the entire body. Specifically, we suggest that as pulsing waves of energy radiate out from the heart, they interact with organs and other structures. The waves encode or record the features and dynamic activity of these structures in patterns of energy waveforms that are distributed throughout the body. In this way, the encoded information acts to in-form (literally, give shape to) the activity of all bodily functions—to coordinate and synchronize processes in the body as a whole. This perspective requires an energetic concept of information, in which patterns of organization are enfolded into waves of energy of system activity distributed throughout the system as a whole.

Basic research at the Institute of HeartMath shows that information pertaining to a person’s emotional state is also communicated throughout the body via the heart’s electromagnetic field. The rhythmic beating patterns of the heart change significantly as we experience different emotions. Negative emotions, such as anger or frustration, are associated with an erratic, disordered, incoherent pattern in the heart’s rhythms. In contrast, positive emotions, such as love or appreciation, are associated with a smooth, ordered, coherent pattern in the heart’s rhythmic activity. In turn, these changes in the heart’s beating patterns create corresponding changes in the structure of the electromagnetic field radiated by the heart, measurable by a technique called spectral analysis.

More specifically, we have demonstrated that sustained positive emotions appear to give rise to a distinct mode of functioning, which we call psychophysiological coherence. During this mode, heart rhythms exhibit a sine wave-like pattern and the heart’s electromagnetic field becomes correspondingly more organized.

At the physiological level, this mode is characterized by increased efficiency and harmony in the activity and interactions of the body’s systems. [1]

Psychologically, this mode is linked with a notable reduction in internal mental dialogue, reduced perceptions of stress, increased emotional balance, and enhanced mental clarity, intuitive discernment, and cognitive performance.

In sum, our research suggests that psychophysiological coherence is important in enhancing consciousness—both for the body’s sensory awareness of the information required to execute and coordinate physiological function, and also to optimize emotional stability, mental function, and intentional action. Furthermore, as we see next, there is experimental evidence that psychophysiological coherence may increase our awareness of and sensitivity to others around us. The Institute of HeartMath has created practical technologies and tools that all people can use to increase coherence.

Heart Field Interactions Between Individuals

Most people think of social communication solely in terms of overt signals expressed through language, voice qualities, gestures, facial expressions, and body movements. However, there is now evidence that a subtle yet influential electromagnetic or “energetic” communication system operates just below our conscious awareness. Energetic interactions likely contribute to the “magnetic” attractions or repulsions that occur between individuals, and also affect social exchanges and relationships. Moreover, it appears that the heart’s field plays an important role in communicating physiological, psychological, and social information between individuals.

Experiments conducted at the Institute of HeartMath have found remarkable evidence that the heart’s electromagnetic field can transmit information between people. We have been able to measure an exchange of heart energy between individuals up to 5 feet apart. We have also found that one person’s brain waves can actually synchronize to another person’s heart. Furthermore, when an individual is generating a coherent heart rhythm, synchronization between that person’s brain waves and another person’s heartbeat is more likely to occur. These findings have intriguing implications, suggesting that individuals in a psychophysiologically coherent state become more aware of the information encoded in the heart fields of those around them.

The results of these experiments have led us to infer that the nervous system acts as an “antenna,” which is tuned to and responds to the electromagnetic fields produced by the hearts of other individuals. We believe this capacity for exchange of energetic information is an innate ability that heightens awareness and mediates important aspects of true empathy and sensitivity to others Furthermore, we have observed that this energetic communication ability can be intentionally enhanced, producing a much deeper level of nonverbal communication, understanding, and connection between people. There is also intriguing evidence that heart field interactions can occur between people and animals.

In short, energetic communication via the heart field facilitates development of an expanded consciousness in relation to our social world.

The Heart’s Field and Intuition

There are also new data suggesting that the heart’s field is directly involved in intuitive perception, through its coupling to an energetic information field outside the bounds of space and time. Using a rigorous experimental design, we found compelling evidence that both the heart and brain receive and respond to information about a future event before the event actually happens. Even more surprising was our finding that the heart appears to receive this “intuitive” information before the brain. This suggests that the heart’s field may be linked to a more subtle energetic field that contains information on objects and events remote in space or ahead in time. Called by Karl Pribram and others the “spectral domain,” this is a fundamental order of potential energy that enfolds space and time, and is thought to be the basis for our consciousness of “the whole.” (See heartmath.org for further detail.)

Social Fields

In the same way that the heart generates energy in the body, we propose that the social collective is the activator and regulator of the energy in social systems.

A body of groundbreaking work shows how the field of socioemotional interaction between a mother and her infant is essential to brain development, the emergence of consciousness, and the formation of a healthy self-concept. These interactions are organized along two relational dimensions—stimulation of the baby’s emotions, and regulation of shared emotional energy. Together they form a socioemotional field through which enormous quantities of psychobiological and psychosocial information are exchanged. Coherent organization of the mother-child relations that make up this field is critical. This occurs when interactions are charged, most importantly, with positive emotions (love, joy, happiness, excitement, appreciation, etc.), and are patterned as highly synchronized, reciprocal exchanges between these two individuals. These patterns are imprinted in the child’s brain and thus influence psychosocial function throughout life. (See Allan Schore, Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self.)

Moreover in a longitudinal study of 46 social groups, one of us (RTB) documented how information about the global organization of a group—the group’s collective consciousness—appears to be transmitted to all members by an energetic field of socio-emotional connection. Data on the relationships between each pair of members was found to provide an accurate image of the social structure of the group as a whole. Coherent organization of the group’s social structure is associated with a network of positively charged emotions (love, excitement, and optimism) connecting all members. This network of positive emotions appears to constitute a field of energetic connection into which information about the group’s social structure is encoded and distributed throughout the group. Remarkably, an accurate picture of the group’s overall social structure was obtained from information only about relationships between pairs of individuals. We believe the only way this is possible is if information about the organization of the whole group is distributed to all members of the group via an energetic field. Such correspondence in information between parts and the whole is consistent with the principle of holographic organization. [2]

Synthesis and Implications

Some organizing features of the heart field, identified in numerous studies at HeartMath, may also be shared by those of our hypothesized social field. Each is a field of energy in which the waveforms of energy encode the features of objects and events as energy moves throughout the system. This creates a nonlocal order of energetic information in which each location in the field contains an enfolded image of the organization of the whole system at that moment. The organization and processing of information in these energy fields can best be understood in terms of quantum holographic principles. [3]

Another commonality is the role of positive emotions, such as love and appreciation, in generating coherence both in the heart field and in social fields. When the movement of energy is intentionally regulated to form a coherent, harmonious order, information integrity and flow are optimized. This, in turn, produces stable, effective system function, which enhances health, psychosocial well-being, and intentional action in the individual or social group.

Heart coherence and social coherence may also act to mutually reinforce each other. As individuals within a group increase psychophysiological coherence, psychosocial attunement may be increased, thereby increasing the coherence of social relations. Similarly, the creation of a coherent social field by a group may help support the generation and maintenance of psychophysiological coherence in its individual members. An expanded, deepened awareness and consciousness results—of the body’s internal physiological, emotional, and mental processes, and also of the deeper, latent orders enfolded into the energy fields that surround us.This is the basis of self-awareness, social sensitivity, creativity, intuition, spiritual insight, and understanding of ourselves and all that we are connected to. It is through the intentional generation of coherence in both heart and social fields that a critical shift to the next level of planetary consciousness can occur—one that brings us into harmony with the movement of the whole.

source http://www.wakingtimes.com/2012/03/06/hearts-have-their-own-brain-and-consciousness/

[DeDukshyn]

The heart does the thinking and the brain produces phlegm. ;) That is what many say the ancient Egyptians believed ;)

[greybeard]

Gregg Braden in a talk/video pointed out that the heart is the first part of the body to form and is beating before the brain exists.
There is an enormous amount of info on this in several of his videos and linked to heart maths.
The vibration that comes from the heart can change the world
See Creating Coherence to Make a Global Shift on last link.
Chris

http://www.greggbraden.com/

http://www.heartmath.org/

http://www.heartmath.org/templates/ihm/e-newsletter/publication/2012/spring

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8dKcvROnl4&feature=related

/gci-new-video.php
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8dKcvROnl4&feature=related

Added as it explains simply the difference between Heart and Brain.
Heart came first,
Chris

[WhiteFeather]

So as the heart functions/operates in a loving, peaceful and happy environment, it maintains this certain harmonious vibratory frequency to the rest of the body. Thus keeping the body in tune and alignment. As this Could very well be the reason why happy loving people live a more healthier and longer life perhaps. It seems when the body frequency is lowered it could have some effect on ones health with regards to sicknes, depression, cancer etc. Makes clear perfect sense here. And A Great thread bredren. Much to learn from this thread. Wanishi.

Its all about Love, Isn't It?

L iving
O ne
V ibrational
E nergy

[Mark]

Great comments, you guys. Thanks for the quotes, links and vids, bulking up this thread with as much good, solid research can only increase its utility to the group.

As a logical explication of this research, it stands to reason that a fear resonance excludes individuals thusly oriented from experiencing this feeling of Unity with others. It creates a vibration of cacophony and disharmony within the body. If that resonance also emanates outwards from the person experiencing that fear-state then it can affect others in near proximity. It can affect groups and social institutions if that fear-resonance is a constant, or, in place upon the formation of that group or institution.

Depending upon the depth and strength of the disharmonic impulses caused by fear, as it manifests in the body of those experiencing it, it results in decreased energy and vitality, which might also mean that its emanation strength and capacity is reduced as well. This potentiality is not addressed in the above research. The result of that might be the inherent instability of people, groups and institutions that are based upon a fear-resonance oscillation pattern, making it more amenable to fragmentation, as individuals of that orientation seem generally to live by the dictates of the reptilian brain/amygdala. Self-preservation, selfishness, extreme individuality, extreme critical nature, tending toward isolation rather than unification.

A community of individuals of such an orientation would be fractious and divisive, filled with conflict and negativity.

The scientific basis of the research above points toward the natural state of individuals and communities as being one of unity and harmony, as people are more healthy and have more peace of mind when they are experiencing heart-resonations of a positive type.

There are some very interesting implications for individuals and groups if this research is "taken to heart" and considered.

[spiritguide]

That is why hugs heal! Heart to heart.

[WhiteFeather]

Fear seperates us, while love makes us whole! ;)

[Mark]

LOL Yeh y'all, it's always nice when reductionist aphorisms are proven out the long way.

We are One. ;)

but ...

One is also the loneliest number. ;)

[DeDukshyn]

" ... There are some very interesting implications for individuals and groups if this research is "taken to heart" and considered. "

I like to find clues and dots to connect in our language -- there are many phrases we use that make almost no sense in our current definitions, but if we expand our awareness and re-look, sometimes gems can be found.


An example of this is the common question "Does it matter?" --- which we take to mean -- "is it of importance?"

Matter is what physical existence is made out of. What if at one time the term in that phrase also directly meant "Matter" in the sense of physical as opposed to Ether (Spirit)? Indicating a step down process, that first all considerations start in the Ethers, and if these considerations have enough "applied" value, they will somehow "manifest" into a physical component (matter) in the creation matrix. "Does it matter yet?"

"Taking things to heart" -- the real things of value are the ones you "Take to Heart". Your brain can be pretty smart and think of great stuff all day, but unless you interpret or assign value with the heart (but I'm not really talking about emotions here -- emotions are misunderstood vastly), it is not taken as nearly as valuable. This indicates that the things with true value do not need logic/reasoning to explain, but to be just felt with the heart.

Just some rambling thoughts ;)

[Mark]

Ramble on, ramble on. Great points, words are so interesting, in how we use them and don't even know where they came from. They retain their original meaning and sometimes that is lost in the mists of time. From the Online Etymology Dictionary (http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=matter):


matter (n.)
c.1200, materie, "subject of thought, speech, or expression," from Anglo-Fr. matere, O.Fr. matere "subject, theme, topic; substance, content, material; character, education" (12c., Mod.Fr. matière), from L. materia "substance from which something is made," also "hard inner wood of a tree" (cf. Port. madeira "wood"), from mater "origin, source, mother" (see mother (n.1)). Or, on another theory, it represents *dmateria, from PIE root *dem-/*dom- (cf. L. domus "house," English timber). With sense development in Latin influenced by Gk. hyle, of which it was the equivalent in philosophy.

Meaning "physical substance generally, matter, material" is early 14c.; that of "substance of which some specific object is made or consists of" is attested from late 14c. That of "piece of business, affair, activity, situation, circumstance" is from late 14c. From mid-14c. as "subject of a literary work, content of what is written, main theme." Also in Middle English as "cause, reasons, ground; essential character; field of investigation."

Matter of course "something expected" attested from 1739. For that matter attested from 1670s. What is the matter "what concerns (someone), the cause of the difficulty" is attested from mid-15c. To make no matter "be no difference to" also is mid-15c.

Looks like the feminine essence/power is inherent within the word as well. That essence has to do with fundamental creation, so it seems you have a very palpable point! "Something" from "nothing" ... as in a child being created in the gestation space of the mother, a thought, a word, an idea, being created in the gestational space of the ether, resulting in manifestation through thoughts, words and actions into the material world ...

For some of us, the heart is the final "decider", isn't it ... but for others, it is the head. The difference between the two orientations is the fundamental divide in the human family, in my opinion. And it seems to be a very real, biological - and perhaps esoteric - differentiation.

[RMorgan]

This research makes me curious about people who receive heart transplants.

Do they feel any emotions or memories from the previous heart owner? Do they feel anything emotionally different or unusual? Do they feel connected somehow to the previous heart owner´s loved ones? Do they show any kind of abnormal change in behavior?

Studying these folks could be a nice complement for this research, in my opinion.

[christian]

This is lovely. :)

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[Flash]

from the heart math institute, the founder/creator of it in a speech at Stanford


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPzjMu6sLtY&feature=related

I have the taste for a comment: this is a very good example of where Greg Bradden takes is information and how he organised his presentations with it and makes money.
Should I make a thread on Greg Bradden and how terrible it is. He gives the source of his work, does he share the revenues and does he have the permission? Or is he doing like David Wilcock, just compiling what others have discovered and explaining it for everyone to understand? The latter is most probable (big egos included). Yet, the information does circulate.

I can tell you that the heart math institute forbid people to teach about their findings too, without thorough training given by them, for having been too many times fooled and misrepresented by "charlatans" using the Institute to make money. They won't give anything anylonger that is going to be on the circus road of speakers and trainers. Their condidtiolns are very strict. They do behave like David Wilcock when you want their information. The only difference is that THEY did do the research themselves, they are the one who researched the science of it, this is their findings.

[WhiteFeather]

This research makes me curious about people who receive heart transplants.

Do they feel any emotions or memories from the previous heart owner? Do they feel anything emotionally different or unusual? Do they feel connected somehow to the previous heart owner´s loved ones? Do they show any kind of abnormal change in behavior?

Studying these folks could be a nice complement for this research, in my opinion.

True story here. My cousin has a friend whom received a heart from a donor. My cousins friend was never much into music prior to the transplant. After his full recovery however he started to be enthused with music and musical instruments. The donor was a musician and enjoyed music.

[Mark]

Thanks for the vid, Christian, it explains it very well and adds more in addition! Spiritscience is an awesome resource ...


Should I make a thread on Greg Bradden and how terrible it is. He gives the source of his work, does he share the revenues and does he have the permission?


I can tell you that the heart math institute forbid people to teach about their findings too, without thorough training given by them, for having been too many times fooled and misrepresented by "charlatans" using the Institute to make money.


They do behave like David Wilcock when you want their information. The only difference is that THEY did do the research themselves, they are the one who researched the science of it, this is their findings.

Hey Flash, thanks for the information. You probably should, as I'd rather keep this thread about the information in the article that I posted in the OP if you don't mind. You probably make very valid points here but I try to keep the threads I start on topic and of a positive nature, not critiquing individuals or institutions that are trying to help people in general. Thank you, my Québécois sister! ;)

That's an interesting confirmation, WF, there was a movie out not too long ago, I think it was actually a horror movie LOL about a woman who'd gotten an eye transplant and started to "see" horrific events that the eye donor had experienced that led her to finding out all about that person's life. There is also a wealth of apocryphal lore out there, Raf, about those who receive donated organs changing in personality and have strange experiences. I've never met anyone who has received a transplanted organ myself, but if I did I would certainly ask them about their experiences!

[DeDukshyn]

This research makes me curious about people who receive heart transplants.

Do they feel any emotions or memories from the previous heart owner? Do they feel anything emotionally different or unusual? Do they feel connected somehow to the previous heart owner´s loved ones? Do they show any kind of abnormal change in behavior?

Studying these folks could be a nice complement for this research, in my opinion.

I watched an episode of William Shatner's "Weird or What!?" on exactly this topic. The show never draws serious conclusions but makes you think a bit based on anecdotal and circumstantial evidence. This episode outlined several examples of people picking up the old hosts memories and habits after transplants.

The one thing I like about that show is they sort of paint the skeptics and haters in a bad light (by usually merely highlighting some absurd claims they make (the show has a back and forth "for and against" style between claimers and skeptics) that are often more absurd than the conspiracy they are trying to debunk.

[christian]

This research makes me curious about people who receive heart transplants.

Do they feel any emotions or memories from the previous heart owner? Do they feel anything emotionally different or unusual? Do they feel connected somehow to the previous heart owner´s loved ones? Do they show any kind of abnormal change in behavior?

Studying these folks could be a nice complement for this research, in my opinion.

Totally, not only with heart-transplants. David Icke cites many cases in Human Race Get Off Your Knees, where people suddenly become musicians, mountaineers or whatever.

[WhiteFeather]

This is lovely. :)

7c3AVj66ahg

Chris that was bliss. Great find......Wanishi

[WhiteFeather]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dhjjgvnkh8&list=UUUaaOB-zGK33pZD4f8Ivabg&index=22&feature=plcp

[RMorgan]

Hey guys,

Well, if, as some of you report, there have been cases of people demonstrating abnormal behavior after organ transplants, the scientists behind this research should hurry up and start collecting solid evidence, so they can close their theory with golden keys! :)

What a fascinating subject!

Raf.

[onawah]

More discussion on this subject and related others in the new thread here:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?52445-Connecting-the-Dots-re-the-Shift&p=589561#post589561
and in Drunvalo's latest here:

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[christian]

Well, if, as some of you report, there have been cases of people demonstrating abnormal behavior after organ transplants, the scientists behind this research should hurry up and start collecting solid evidence, so they can close their theory with golden keys! :)

The cases are all there. The point is, they cannot yet really explain how and why this is possible. At least not in tangible scientific formulas.

[DeDukshyn]

Well, if, as some of you report, there have been cases of people demonstrating abnormal behavior after organ transplants, the scientists behind this research should hurry up and start collecting solid evidence, so they can close their theory with golden keys! :)

The cases are all there. The point is, they cannot yet really explain how and why this is possible. At least not in tangible scientific formulas.

Due to the mechanisms of what we call "scientific process" the most important discoveries are impossible to "prove" because they involve consciousness and experience, which are too subjective to be all that seriously considered in the scientific process. I'm certain this was partly by design.

There are two other mechanisms that I take as seriously as "scientific process" and that is "deduction", and "confidence by evidence" --- for all the things in which scientific process does not apply, doesn't not mean we cannot give it value. It just means that deduction and confidence are also values that indicates with strong reason, a "fact".

Since a "fact" is merely an agreement anyway, I consider the other two mechanisms as valid alternatives where the scientific method cannot give the desired results. Just because scientific process cannot "prove" something certainly doesn't make it so (no one has proof how gravity works yet we are still "stuck" here) ;) ... the entire scientific community and individuals in general need to get that through their heads, or look like fools in the awakening Intelligence.

My 2 cents ;)

[RMorgan]

Well, if, as some of you report, there have been cases of people demonstrating abnormal behavior after organ transplants, the scientists behind this research should hurry up and start collecting solid evidence, so they can close their theory with golden keys! :)

The cases are all there. The point is, they cannot yet really explain how and why this is possible. At least not in tangible scientific formulas.

I´m not sure about that, Chris.

They could, as an example, track (with the consent of all parts involved) people who have received organ transplants from musicians, and study if they have develop any taste for music that wasn´t previously there before the transplant, following the most rigid protocols for behaviorist research.

(they could do it with musicians, doctors, architects and all professional fields, testing if there was real empirical improvement in those areas on the respective subjects)

It would work as formal scientific evidence, if they had enough test subjects to achieve statistical significance.

[DeDukshyn]

Well, if, as some of you report, there have been cases of people demonstrating abnormal behavior after organ transplants, the scientists behind this research should hurry up and start collecting solid evidence, so they can close their theory with golden keys! :)

The cases are all there. The point is, they cannot yet really explain how and why this is possible. At least not in tangible scientific formulas.

I´m not sure about that, Chris.

They could, as an example, track (with the consent of all parts involved) people who have received organ transplants from musicians, and study if they have develop any taste for music that wasn´t previously there before the transplant, following the most rigid protocols for behaviorist research.

(they could do it with musicians, doctors, architects and all professional fields, testing if there was real empirical improvement in those areas on the respective subjects)

It would work as formal scientific evidence, if they had enough test subjects to achieve statistical significance.

It would work as statistic based confidence ... but things this subjective have a rare case of ever making it to be considered .. fact. Scientific process was designed this way. The variability is that maybe it is all made up -- scientific process gives little value to personal experience.

Not to say someone shouldn't try. In my world -- in the post I made above -- confidence of evidence, and deductive reasoning are, in reality, serious considerations ;)

My 2 cents ;)

[Selene]

At the considerable risk of adding the obvious to this very good discussion about the heart and its “brain”, all the above is exactly what the traditional heart chakra can be described as, were it couched in western scientific terms: an intelligent nerve system of specific frequency electromagnetically powered by the heart muscle/unit. It creates and sustains its own electrochemical biofield, its own energy field of specific frequency and character.

That’s what the heart chakra is in modern, scientific, and measurable terms: a highly sophisticated and resonant nerve plexus, a core processing unit of a specific type and field that sends interactive data to all the other processing centers – the other chakras. It also links up automatically to resonant heart fields of other humans. [Sheesh. What a cold, heartless description for friendship or a hug!]

And the only reason that scientists are able to “confirm” (or believe) this is that their measuring apparatus are now able to detect and quantify these signals, that’s all. Their feeble technology has finally caught up with what we mystics have seen, understood and taught all along….I love this.

Bonus understanding::wink: (couched in modern scientific terms): This resonant heart field/brain is highly feedback interactive and constantly sending/adjusting frequency-based data received from the other body nerve plexus processors – the other chakras – these frequencies collectively determine (or facilitate) our consciousness.

The human brain, as we presently conceive of it in modern science, is actually a secondary processing unit using whatever [higher order] filtered data remains unprocessed from the main decision-making units: the chakras, especially the solar plexus…. As ancient teachings have always taught. The brain follows the body, not the reverse.

Don’t mind me. I’m just vastly amused to observe the translation of ancient teachings into Modern Scientific Paradigm, the language of our new official religion: Science. (But that’s a whole ‘nother discussion, isn’t it?)

Cheers,

Selene

[DeDukshyn]

Great post Selene! Thanks button wasn't quite enough .. ;)

[Twinsel]

Linking Hearts Through Global Coherence:

While there is a lot we don't know about conciousness, there is one thing that we do know for certain: it is made of energy. That energy includes magnetism. While we can explore the magnetic nature of conciousness for another hundred years and still not solve all its mysteries, we can apply what we've learned so far to help us meet the conditions of a changing world. A growing body of evidence now suggests that Earth's magnetic field plays a powerful role in connecting us with one another, as well as the planet.

In September 2001, two geostationary operational environmental satellites(GOES) orbiting the earth detected a rise in global magnetism that forever changed the way scientists view our world and us. The GOES-8 and GOES-10 each showed a powerful spike of Earth's magnetic-field strength in the readings they broadcast every 30 minutes. It was the magnitude of the spikes and the time they occurred that first called them to the scientists' attention. From a location of about 22,300 miles above the equator, GOES-8 detected the first surge, followed by an upward trend in the readings that topped out at nearly 50 units (nanoteslas) higher than any that had been typical for the same time previously. The time was 9a.m. eastern standard time, 15 minutes after the first plane hit the World Trade Center and about 15 minutes before the second impact.

http://www.glcoherence.org/templates/gcp/images/monitoring_system/graph_curndev_var_mean.jpg

http://www.glcoherence.org/templates/gcp/images/monitoring_system/diagram_geosynchronous.jpg

The correlation between the events and the reading was uncanny. And it was undeniable. In light of the data, two questions had to be asked: Were the attacks on the World Trade Center and the satellite readings actually related? If so, what whas the link? It's the answer to the second question that sparked the research, and the ambitious initiative that has followed. Subsequent studies by Princeton University and the Institute of HeartMath, an innovative nonprofit institution formed in 1991 to pioneer research and development of heart-based technologies, have found that the correlation between the GOES readings and the events of 9/11 are more than coincidences (http://www.boundaryinstitute.org/bi/randomness.htm) (http://www.boundaryinstitute.org/bi/randomness.htm).

source:
miracleprayerchains (https://sites.google.com/site/peaceandconflictresolution/miracleprayerchains/magnetic-fields)
glcoherence.org (http://www.glcoherence.org/monitoring-system/about-system.html)

[Twinsel]

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[M6*]

Exciting stuff Rahkyt!

Thanks! M6*

[nomadguy]

:)
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[onawah]

Many of the original HeartMath people went there from Dr. Christopher Hills' intentional spiritual community, University of the Trees in Boulder Creek, California after he retired.
Dr. Hills spent years in India with his guru, Shantiananda before he established the University of the Trees, and he was ALWAYS talking about the heart, about living from the heart, speaking from the heart, etc.
(See my post # 8 at http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?52196-Re-incarnate-Tesla&p=586028&highlight=patrick+flanagan#post586028 )
I think it's clear those folks just decided they wanted to prove scientifically what they already knew in their hearts from their spiritual work, and they've done a great job.
I am really glad I got to meet some of them before they made that transition to HeartMath, when I was a regular visitor at the UofTrees.

[christian]

Well, if, as some of you report, there have been cases of people demonstrating abnormal behavior after organ transplants, the scientists behind this research should hurry up and start collecting solid evidence, so they can close their theory with golden keys! :)

The cases are all there. The point is, they cannot yet really explain how and why this is possible. At least not in tangible scientific formulas.

I´m not sure about that, Chris.

They could, as an example, track (with the consent of all parts involved) people who have received organ transplants from musicians, and study if they have develop any taste for music that wasn´t previously there before the transplant, following the most rigid protocols for behaviorist research.

(they could do it with musicians, doctors, architects and all professional fields, testing if there was real empirical improvement in those areas on the respective subjects)

It would work as formal scientific evidence, if they had enough test subjects to achieve statistical significance.

I'm not sure either. Where do you draw the line between someone casually interested in making music and a "real musician," in both, the donor and the receiver? The most illustrative cases are the extreme ones of course, but I would guess, they are in the minority of the overall cases. Most people are Average Joes.

And when it comes to organs of professionals in say more intellectual fields, it may be hard to trace that as well, because I think - that's really just my hunch - it's rather like the transfer of an intuitive ability than a transfer of written data on a hard drive. Otherwise, people would for instance be more easily able to speak a foreign language after a transplant, when an organ comes from someone who is good or fluent in a particular new language. But maybe this has been observed, that would be interesting.

But as long as they don't discover the definitive mechanism by which character traits or maybe even information can be transferred via organ transplantation, it wouldn't be considered as proven by current scientific standards, I guess. Ingo Swann has proven his remote viewing abilities already in the 70s under scientific observation and produced statistically significant results, but still this phenomenon is regarded as esoteric fringe para-whatever, because they could not with their concepts and machines understand how it could happen. This is not by accident, but designed that way, I concur with the notion that the scientific community has to update its modus operandi if it wants to be legit.

[Eram]

This research makes me curious about people who receive heart transplants.

Do they feel any emotions or memories from the previous heart owner? Do they feel anything emotionally different or unusual? Do they feel connected somehow to the previous heart owner´s loved ones? Do they show any kind of abnormal change in behavior?

Studying these folks could be a nice complement for this research, in my opinion.

Hi RMorgan,

Yes... feelings and emotions from previous owners of the heart get transplanted as well.

There are many testimonies about this, though I think that regular science is blind and in denial about it so far.


My next door neighbour got a heart transplant and changed personality overnight.


Here is one of the most impressive testimonies about heart transplants and changing behaviour that I know of.
This woman eventually even merged with the person/soul who's heart she got and in doing so, was able to stop the medication that prevents rejection of the new heart (which you're supposed to take for the rest of your life).

sorry for the long read, but it is well worth it.


I was given a young man's heart - and started craving beer and Kentucky Fried Chicken. My daughter said I even walked like a man

By CLAIRE SYLVIA

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/04_02/sylviaDM0804_468x731.jpg



Yesterday, the Mail told the extraordinary story of how a heart transplant recipient in America committed suicide - just like the man whose heart he had received 12 years previously. In another extraordinary twist, it emerged that the recipient had also married the donor's former wife.

So can elements of a person's character - or even their soul - be transplanted along with a heart?

One woman who believes this to be the case is CLAIRE SYLVIA, a divorced mother of one.

She was 47 and dying from a disease called primary pulmonary hypertension when, in 1988, she had a pioneering heartlung transplant in America.

She was given the organs of an 18-year-old boy who had been killed in a motorcycle accident near his home in Maine.

Claire, a former professional dancer, then made an astonishing discovery: she seemed to be acquiring the characteristics, and cravings, of the donor.

Here, in an extract from her book A Change Of Heart, Claire tells her remarkable story...

During my final lucid moments before my heart-lung transplant, I was told that a medical team would soon be leaving to "harvest" the organs that would save my life.

My surgeon, Mr John Baldwin, would remain with me, ready to begin the operation as soon as he was notified that the donor's heart and lungs had been removed. But by this time I was far too groggy to focus on these details, which was probably just as well.

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Claire Sylvia believed she was acquiring some of the characteristics of her donor

Eventually, Mr Baldwin said to me: "We're going to put you under now, Claire.

"I have to remind you that it is always possible that something could go wrong, and the organs don't arrive in good condition.

"This sometimes happens with the lungs, which are very fragile. They could be damaged during transit. Sometimes, at the last minute, things don't work out." I looked up at him and said: "That's OK. Do what you have to. It's in God's hands now." After that, I don't remember anything until slowly becoming aware of a buzz of voices calling my name: "Claire, wake up. It's over." I awakened gently, feeling no bodily or physical sensation - nothing but pure consciousness and a cacophony of voices.

I couldn't speak, but managed to wiggle my fingers.

Someone brought me a pen and paper, and I scribbled my question: Did I get them? "Oh yes," the voice said. "Everything's fine."

Then I lapsed back into unconsciousness.

Later, after my initial recovery from the operation, I began to think of more questions.

How long would this new heart keep beating? How long would these new lungs keep breathing? Would I reject my new organs?

I envisioned the new heart breaking free of its stitches and popping right out of my body.

I wondered whether Mr Baldwin had sewn it in right.

I felt it was beating deeper in my chest than my old heart had. It felt different.

When I asked the surgeon, he explained that he'd had to position my new heart farther back than the old one, to fit it in.

It was nice to know that I still had some connection to reality.

With all my fears, though, I was just grateful to be alive.

I was also deeply thankful that a family I'd never met had made it possible for me to by-pass death and rejoin the world.

It was a humbling thought, and I wanted to be worthy of their amazing gift.

When I told Gail Eddy - the transplant programme co-ordinator - how I felt, she suggested writing to the donor's family to express my gratitude.

While I couldn't know their identity or give them my name, I knew my donor was an 18-year-old boy who had been killed in a motorcycle accident.

Because I was the first person in the state to have such an operation, there was a lot of publicity, and two reporters came to the hospital to interview me.

One asked: "Now that you've had this miracle, what do you want more than anything else?" "Actually," I replied, "I'm dying for a beer right now." I was mortified that I had given such a flippant answer, and also surprised.

I didn't even like beer. But the craving I felt was specifically for the taste of beer.

Donor: Claire Sylvia received a heart transplant from teenager Tim Lamirande

For some bizarre reason, I was convinced that nothing else in the world could quench my thirst.

That evening, an odd notion occurred to me: maybe the donor of my new organs, this young man from Maine, had been a beer drinker.

Was it possible that my new heart had reached me with its own set of tastes and preferences? It was a fascinating idea. During those early days, I had no idea that I would look back on this curious comment as the first of many mysteries after the transplant.

Or that, in the months ahead, I would sometimes wonder who was choreographing changes in my preferences and personality. Was it me, or was it my heart?

On the fifth day, though my body was doing fine, I fell into a profound despair.

Part of what I was experiencing was a post-operative depression, but I was also going through the early stages of an identity crisis. I mentioned my feelings to Mr Baldwin, but he told me not even to think about it and "just get on with my life".

A month later, I left the hospital and moved into a medical halfway house a few miles away.

Now that I could eat like a normal person, I found, bizarrely, I'd developed a sudden fondness for certain foods I hadn't liked before: Snickers bars, green peppers, Kentucky Fried Chicken takeaway. As time went on, a strange question crept into my mind. Although I hadn't thought much about my donor, I was acutely aware that I was living with a man's heart - and I wondered whether it was conceivable that this male heart might affect me sexually.

Until the transplant, I had spent most of my adult life either in a relationship with a man or hoping to be in one.

But after the operation, while I still felt attracted to men, I didn't feel that same need to have a boyfriend.

I was freer and more independent than before - as if I had taken on a more masculine outlook.

My personality was changing, too, and becoming more masculine.

I was more aggressive and assertive than I used to be, and more confident as well.

I felt tougher, fitter and I stopped getting colds. Even my walk became more manly. "Why are you walking like that?" my teenage daughter Amara asked.

"You're lumbering - like a musclebound football player." This new masculine energy wasn't limited to my walk. I felt a new power that I associated with strength and vibrancy.

A certain feminine tentativeness had fallen away. My sexual preferences didn't change in an overt way -I remained a confirmed heterosexual - but something had shifted deep within me.

And I could tell that others sensed it, too. I became friendly with a blonde woman I met at a conference.

We spent time together and, when the conference was finished, I invited her to stay for a few days.

It was innocent on my part, or so I thought, but as soon as we were alone she made it clear that she was interested in a sexual relationship.

I declined her invitation, but her surprise at my lack of interest made me wonder what kind of signals I had been sending out without realising it. Around this time, I also had the most unforgettable dream of my life.

In it, I was in a grassy outdoor place, it was summer, and I was with a tall, thin young man with sandy-coloured hair.

His name was Tim - possibly Tim Leighton, but I'm not sure.

I thought of him as Tim L. We seemed to be good friends.

As I walked away from him, I felt that something remained unfinished between us. I returned to say goodbye and we kissed.

I seemed to inhale him into me in the deepest breath I had ever taken.

I felt like Tim and I would be together for ever. When the dream was over, something had changed.

I woke up knowing that Tim L was my donor and that some parts of his spirit and personality were now within me.

I wanted to check this information, but the transplant programme observed a code of strict confidentiality.

I called Gail Eddy, the transplant co-ordinator.

Although she couldn't tell me who my donor was, I hoped she could confirm the name Tim L.

When I asked Gail, there was a momentary pause.

"I'm not supposed to discuss this with you," she finally replied.

"Let it go. You're opening a can of worms." I was disappointed, but I respected Gail's judgment and assured her that I'd drop the subject.

The subject, however, refused to drop me. Some months later, while out at the theatre, I met Fred, a rather handsome guy from Florida.

We talked about my transplant and about the donor. I wasn't sure if Fred was genuinely interested in my operation or if he was chatting me up, but there was something about him I liked and I gave him my phone number.

Fred called the next morning and was eager to meet.

He said he'd been moved by my story and - bizarrely - had had a dream in which he saw my donor's obituary.

Together, he and I decided to go to Boston (the nearest city to the accident) and search the newspapers for my donor's obituary.

Fred was already there when I arrived, scrolling through the newspaper for the week of my transplant.

We soon found the item we were searching for - an obituary for an 18-year-old who had died in a motorcycle accident.

His name was Timothy Lamirande. My dream about "Tim" was true after all.

I felt a weakness in my knees and collapsed into a chair.

The clipping mentioned five sisters and two brothers.

The family of my heart were right here on a piece of paper. Until this moment, in a strange way I hadn't been 100 per cent certain that the transplant had even happened.

The process had been so otherworldly that it was easier to view it as a miracle.

But, suddenly, I knew the donor was real and that he had a family.

There was the proof: a name, an address, a town.

A few days later, I met Gail Eddy and told her what had happened.

I asked her if she thought it was possible that Tim's name was spoken by one of the doctors during my surgery and that it somehow permeated my unconscious.

"I was wondering the same thing," said Gail.

"But the doctors are never aware of the donor's name.

Besides, Mr Baldwin works in near silence: not a word is spoken."

Almost nine months later, I had another dream about "Tim".

I felt he was doing everything but send me directions to his parents' house, so I decided to contact his family.

I wrote to them and they agreed to me visiting them.

I drove to Milford in the state of Maine with a close friend.

We waited in a car park where Tim's father would meet us.

As a large brown car drove slowly into view, my stomach tightened.

Mr Lamirande was smaller than I expected and greeted us with a simple "Hello" - not the profound moment I was expecting.

We followed him to the house.

Tim's parents lived in a world of freshly-mown lawns and large clapboard houses.

I was incredibly nervous, and surprised to see three of Tim's sisters there to greet me, too.

So there I was, with Tim's heart inside me, sitting on Tim's couch next to Tim's mother, and we were talking about the weather.

We exchanged small talk before being joined by Annie, a fourth sister, who was closest in age to Tim.

Leaning against the mantelpiece, she looked me in the eye and said: "So tell us how you found us."

The only thing which interrupted my story were the exclamations of amazement. When I'd finished, many eyes were misted over with tears. "None of the other people who received his organs have been in touch with us," Tim's sister Carla said.

I learned that in addition to his heart and lungs, the family had donated Tim's corneas, kidneys and liver.

Mrs Lamirande - June, as she had asked me to call her - went to another room and returned with a framed photograph.

Sitting back on the couch, she turned the picture so I could see it.

Tim wore glasses, although I hadn't seen him that way in my dreams.

In this photo, he looked about 14.

He was dressed in formal clothes, standing beside a priest.

But even with the glasses, I could see the sparkle in his eyes. June started to say something about Tim when she suddenly choked up.

Now the tears flowed. I felt a bond between us like nothing I had ever known. But I couldn't quite comprehend this: me holding Tim's picture in my hands and his heart in my chest.

I paused to take a breath and Tim's lungs filled with air.

Except that they were my lungs now.

Mine to breathe with, as I grieved with his mother next to me. June said Tim had had a tremendous amount of energy.

His sisters described how difficult it was to baby-sit him and how he tried to run away from them.

"He was restless," one of them added. Perhaps it explained why I, too, now had so much energy.

"Was he a beer drinker?" I asked. His sisters nodded.

When I told them how I had wanted a beer soon after the operation, there were smiles all around. It was so amazing just to be there that I had to remind myself that I had come with some specific questions.

I asked if Tim had ever had colds and whether he recovered quickly.

They told me that he was hardly ever ill, and I wondered if this explained my new-found resilience?

I also asked if he liked green peppers.

I'd never liked them before the operation - but afterwards I loved them and included them in virtually every meal.

His sister told me that, yes, Tim had loved green peppers - "but what he really loved were chicken nuggets".

This explained my trips to Kentucky Fried Chicken. I was dumbfounded.

Later that weekend, before going home, I went for dinner with the Lamirandes at a local restaurant.

In Tim's honour, I ordered chicken nuggets.

The conversation was light; far removed from the purpose of my visit.

"I'm not much of a correspondent," June told me, "so I won't be writing very much.

"But we want you to know that you're welcome here any time you like."

As we walked back to the Lamirandes' house, June asked if I wanted to come in for a little dessert.

Once inside, June disappeared and returned with a huge cake, decorated with a single word in large print: WELCOME. As the mother of my heart presented the cake to me, her face was beaming.

"Chocolate," she said. "Tim's favourite." ? Extracted from A Change Of Heart - A Memoir, by Claire Sylvia with William Novak. © Claire Sylvia and William Novak 1997


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[RMorgan]

This subjects also brings our attention to another aspect of absorbing other people´s organs: Cannibalism.

Ancient cultures believed that once they consumed another person´s body, specially the heart, they would absorb his qualities and strengths.

I remember that, a few years ago, a scientist team fed an untrained rat with the organs of a trained one, who knew the path of a Skinner labyrinth. After a few days, the untrained rat was released in the labyrinth and made his way thought it perfectly, without any training; he absorbed the knowledge about the labyrinth by eating the other rat´s organs.

Cheers,

Raf.

[DeDukshyn]

Alan Watts .. .some of this directly applies to the heart ... ;)


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[Kiforall]

This subjects also brings our attention to another aspect of absorbing other people´s organs: Cannibalism.

Ancient cultures believed that once they consumed another person´s body, specially the heart, they would absorb his qualities and strengths.

I remember that, a few years ago, a scientist team fed an untrained rat with the organs of a trained one, who knew the path of a Skinner labyrinth. After a few days, the untrained rat was released in the labyrinth and made his way thought it perfectly, without any training; he absorbed the knowledge about the labyrinth by eating the other rat´s organs.

Cheers,

Raf.

That is probably another mistake made by the Elite, they have yet to realize the power of a postive heart and what effect it can have on EVERYTHING. They have tried to bring the positive energy down within the hearts of humanity. I think they really thought they could flat line us.Welcome to New World order :wave:

I'd like to see a recent recording.

Life can still be what you make it.

:dance:

I used to enjoy a good dance before the Love went and was replaced with sleeze.

Zoe x

[Frances2013]

I have tried the emwave technology of heartmath.
Some use it with children in schools.
A hightech effective tool to manage stress.

For some reason I went back to quantum meditation.

We have three neurological centers, gut-heart-brain.

The question I asked myself when looking at these research on human intelligence was;

Is it possible to measure the heart electromagnetic field to help children overcome psychopathic behaviors imposed on them.

Because the heart neurocenter is the one that coordinates the three, maybe it tells us something about psychopathy.

Living in psychopathic societies is a terrible burden for every human child.

Psyche as /soul/conscience/sovereign /mindheart intelligence

Pathy as /lack of balance ,

Overcoming the denial/ignorance of the true self, immortal/eternal/holographic part of reality which resides in all/each human, the prelude to establish the scientific proof of oneness and equality, also illustrates the need for transcendance found in every authentic spiritual quest.

Look at the universe and see the very rarity of the bioplanet hosts. So precious is Terra-nature and human life that only heart intelligence can help us in the coming phase of transformation to a species of the heart.

That feels like part of my mission somehow...

So the scientific research of heartmath and others like it is very important for the good of all.

Thank you for this subject.

[Mark]

Great research questions, Frances. That's the kind of work that needs to be done to continue moving us firmly into the new paradigm, beyond the old and outdated understandings of what a human being is.

The question of psychopathy is always interesting in the context of this type of understanding of how we think and what we are capable of. It is my understanding that the emotional range of psychopaths is quite limited. For instance, I've read in direct research utilizing prisoners studied extensively that what they call love, people with a normal range of emotions call sexual arousal. What they call depression is what those with a normal range of emotive expression call frustration.

It seems to be something innate that cannot be changed, something they are born with. I'm not sure that can be argued, since the research seems so very clear on this point. I know people bring up things like Aspergers and Autism in these kinds of discussions but I think that psychopathy as conscience-less and pathological is the extreme end of the spectrum.

Because society rewards psychopathy they've indeed been able to contribute to making the rules and determining what kind of behavior succeeds and what kind of behavior leads to failure.

As the system continues to transform these ways of being have to give way to more person-centered, or heart-centered ways of engaging and living. It has to come. The only question is when will we cross the threshold.

Hopefully in our lifetimes. :)

[conk]

http://www.rediscoveryoftheheart.com/larrynapier

Discover the heart here.

[Flash]

This thread is as important and goes hand in hand with the solution thread, imo.

How we impact each other unconsciously, in the morphic feild, in epigenetic field as well, is so important that we cannot even foresee what heartful people could do to an entire planet.

Wise and hearful people will make a difference. We just have to try it. It does in a household, in a classroom, in a community. Why not on the whole planet.

There has been hearfilled people throughout history, there has been wise mindful spiritual beings for a good while, may be it is time for heartfilled mindfullness to take root on this planet.

Personnally, I have difficulties with those that pass through the mind first and then forget the heart. I would say that this happens often with buddhism like approaches. I also have difficulties problem with being heart based only and forgetting the mind. This leads to falling back on a series of beliefs that may not be just, and at its worst, highly emotional people who think they are heartfilled (which is not the reality).

The combination of both, heart and mind, makes wonders. Real wiseman/women have this.

[Mark]

Looks like an interesting resource, Conk. Thank you for sharing it, I will check it out when I'm on a computer that can take video-intensive sites. :)

I think so, Flash. I'd like to reiterate your point by highlighting We-R-One's Solutions thread (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?52810-The-Solution-Is-In-Full-Swing-Are-You-On-Board). She's put an awesome amount of work into documenting a lot of correlated items in order to present a well-thought out synopsis of the current science - which I have also researched and find myself in agreement regarding - as well as potential ways of utilizing this new knowledge individually in order to foment collective change.

The nature of our shared, connected reality seems to be that people glom onto things around the same time, even without knowing other people are thinking the same thing, or working on the same issues. This occurs quite often in technology fields, where numerous scientists working on the same types of innovations publish or submit patents only to find out that other scientists were working on the exact same project. This is as it should be, as the Source Field is available to us all and there really are no new ideas.

It is also further indication of resonance, and how we are all connected. People who resonate on the same frequencies tend to think alike, come up with similar ideas, support the same causes or seek the same kinds of solutions to the same problems. The fact that we do so can only be a positive, as it is indicative of how important an issue is, and how much it needs to be brought to the forefront so that more people can gain access to the information, process it through their own knowledge filters and come to conclusions regarding its applicability to their own lives and others.

The Heartmath Institution's research is quite rigorous. Those who dispute it must come with proof of a similarly rigorous nature. While it is very true and very obvious that the world remains in the throes of change, both good and bad, there can be little denial, these days, that we are interconnected by more than just shared feelings and opinions, there is actual scientific proof of those interconnections at the biological level, showing that there is no real separation or individuation between us when it comes to energy and even matter, for that matter.

I found this video, by Deepak Chopra, to highlight these realities very clearly and concisely:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gJN7I0a9XU

For those without the hour's time to watch the video, Deepak speaks about quantum biology, the fact that the body has more than one brain - that the heart is one - and that the neurological functions previously believed confined to the brain alone are really the purview of the entire body. He speaks in great detail, in an understandable manner, on this topic, connecting it to healing and mentioning the newest research pertaining to this reality, which, in all truth, really only corroborates what we have known through spiritual traditions for many, many centuries and millennia. It's worth the time and contributes to the energy and focus of this thread by reiterating the importance of thinking and living holistically, not only as an individual, but as resonate variables within a heart-centered, human equation.

It is more than just fantasy. The energy is real and the connections are real. All we have to do is connect in to it, if we so choose.