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May 2007 (Vol. 3, No. 5)

Breaking News: Mars Melt May Hint at Solar, not Human, Cause for Global Warming
Kate Ravilious
for National Geographic News

Simultaneous warming on Earth and Mars suggests that our planet's recent climate changes
have a natural--and not a human-induced--cause, according to one scientist's controversial
theory. Earth is currently experiencing rapid warming, which the vast majority of climate
scientists says is due to humans pumping huge amounts of greenhouse gases into the
atmosphere.

Mars, too, appears to be enjoying more mild and balmy temperatures. In 2005 data from
NASA's Mars Global Surveyor and Odyssey missions revealed that the carbon dioxide "ice
caps" near Mars's south pole had been diminishing for three summers in a row.

Habibullo Abdussamatov, head of space research at St. Petersburg's Pulkovo Astronomical


Observatory in Russia, says the Mars data is evidence that the current global warming on
Earth is being caused by changes in the sun. "The long-term increase in solar irradiance is
heating both Earth and Mars," he said.

Solar Cycles

Abdussamatov believes that changes in the sun's heat output can account for almost all the
climate changes we see on both planets. Mars and Earth, for instance, have experienced
periodic ice ages throughout their histories. "Man-made greenhouse warming has made a
small contribution to the warming seen on Earth in recent years, but it cannot compete with
the increase in solar irradiance," Abdussamatov said.

By studying fluctuations in the warmth of the sun, Abdussamatov believes he can see a
pattern that fits with the ups and downs in climate we see on Earth and Mars.

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FEATURED IN THE MAY 2007 ISSUE OF DNA MONTHLY

1. "The Holographic Concept of Reality," by Richard Alan Miller, Burt Webb & Darden
Dickson

2. "How Much of You Is Here?," by Katherine Train

3. "Synchronicity: The Sacred Path of Co-incidence," by Carolyn North

Also, Also ... DNA-related Definition of the Month & Did You Know?

1. The Holographic Concept of Reality

Richard Alan Miller, Burt Webb & Darden Dickson


[Editor's Note: This landmark article was initially presented at the First International Congress of
Psychotronics in Prague in 1973 and was first printed in the Journal of Psychoenergetic Systems in 1975.]

"The pattern or organization of any biological system is established by a complex electrodynamic field, which is
in part determined by its atomic physiochemical components and which in part determines the behavior and
orientation of those components. This field is electrical in the physical sense, and by its properties it relates the
entities of the biological system in a characteristic pattern and is itself in part a result of the existence of those
entities. It determines and is determined by the components. More than establishing pattern it must maintain
pattern in the midst of physiochemical flux; therefore it must regulate and control living things. It must be the
mechanism, the outcome of whose activity is wholeness, organization and continuity. The electrodynamic field
then, is comparable to the entelecy of Driesh, the embryonic field of Spehmann, and the biological field of
Weiss." --Burr and Northrop, 1935

Since the dawn of time there have been two conflicting explanations for the nature and
structure of the world in which we live. Those can be most simply stated as the field and the
particle. These two conflicting ideas appear in Greek thought, Democritus stressing the field
and Heraclitus the particle. Today, fields are stressed in relativity physics, while particles are
emphasized in quantum mechanics.

Throughout history, many attempts have been made to synthesize the field and the particle
theory. In current physics, those attempts fall under the name of geometrodynamics
(Wheeler, 1959). It is our intent in this article to show how a cross synthesis of particle
theory and field theory will shed new light on living processes.

Field theory can be interwoven with particle theory in an attempt to better understand
biological processes. This effect will enable us to approach an understanding of life because
we can conceptualize all structures and functions, all levels from the electronic to the super
molecular, as one single unit (Szent-Gyorgyi, 1960: 135).

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Quantum Mechanisms

Particles found in biological processes include photons, electrons, protons, elementary ions,
inorganic radicals, organic radicals, molecules, and molecular aggregates. Photons act upon
electrons by raising their energy state. This process is called excitation. Excited electrons
can drop back to more stable energy levels and emit photons. Electron excitation can lead to
the formation of an electronic bond between molecules. This is the traditional bond of
classical chemistry. The breaking of such bonds can, by reverse process, lead to the
excitation of electrons.

In living systems the excitation of electrons by photons and the subsequent conversion of
that excitation into the bond energy is called photosynthesis and is the basic builder of
biological structures. The reversal of this process is called bioluminescence. This
phenomenon is the transfer of energy from a bond to an excited electron, resulting in the
emission of a photon. It has been suggested by Szent-Gyorgyi (1957: 8) that the energetics
of living creatures can be understood in terms of photosynthesis and its reversal,
bioluminescence.

All cellular processes are driven by energy derived from the breaking of chemical bonds and
the excitation of electrons. Depending upon the particular environment and circumstances,
the excitation of the electron can be converted in one of three ways: 1) conversion into heat
and dissipation; 2) translation of molecules or ions through the cell; or 3) transformation of
the molecules' shapes which profoundly influences their biological reactivity.

The formation of a certain type of chemical bond known as the resonance bond (which is
most easily seen in the case of the Benzene molecule) leads to a peculiar situation in which
certain electrons are freed from a particular location in the molecule. These are then free to
travel around the entire molecule. This means that the electrons occupy an energy shell of
the whole molecule as opposed to a particular atom in the molecule. The existence of
molecular systems with mobile electrons has been found to be of profound significance in
the phenomena of life.

Hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen and oxygen, which comprise ninety-nine percent of all living
systems, are among the atoms in the periodic table which form the multiple bonds most
easily leading to mobile electrons. Sulphur and phosphorus, which are extremely important
for life processes, also form multiple bonds quite easily.

All the essential biochemical substances, which perform the fundamental functions of living
matter, are composed completely or partially of such mobile electrons. Molecules that
contain these electrons are known as conjugated systems (Pullman and Pullman, 1963,
chapter 18). The essential fluidity of life may correspond with the fluidity of the electronic
cloud in conjugated molecules. Such systems may best be considered as both the cradle
and the main backbone of life.

Conjugate bonded molecules may interact in a variety of ways. Among these types of
interaction can be found the interpenetration of electron orbitals which permits
electromagnetic coupling. This coupling can permit activated electron energy to pass from
one molecule to another in the same way a radio can transmit a message to a radio
receiver. There is also the possibility of the transfer of an entire electron, known as charge
transfer.

It is possible for a molecular complex to contain several radicals at different positions on the
main molecule, each of which is conjugated. If these are in close enough proximity, or can
be brought into proximity by changes in the structural configuration of the molecule, a

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charge can pass between these two groups. This is the case of the transfer of electron
charges on or around a single molecular complex. It has been suggested by Szent-Gyorgyi
(1968) that the sugars and phosphates that make up the side of the alpha helix of DNA can
permit the passage of electrons, functioning as a conductor.

Biological conduction systems operate primarily on an amorphous semiconductor mode as


opposed to resembling metallic conductors (such as the new devices being developed for
computer memories). The former do not have sharply defined energy bands in which
electrons may flow, as opposed to other bands in which they are bound rigidly. There is a
spread or bell-curve in which the points or tails are bound more closely to a particular
molecule. The hump indicates a conducting band that permits electrons to flow across the
surface of a particular molecule or between molecules (McGinness, 1972).

This means, in essence, that protein molecules, which are composed of amino acid
sequences, may act as organic circuits. The amino acids each have a donor group and an
acceptor group on opposing ends. This means that a string or series of amino acids could
pass a charge along its length as if it were being passed along a series of spines sticking up
from the main body of the molecule.

Different pathways could be defined across the surface of a protein molecule by the amino
acid radicals projecting from the surface of the protein. The shape of the protein molecules
is a function of the charges and the conjugate systems on the radicals that make up the
protein. When a protein is manufactured and peels off the ribosome, it immediately assumes
a three-dimensional spatial pattern that is directly related to the charges on its surface and
the ways in which they interact.

The biological activity or specificity of action of various molecules is intimately related to their
structure or their exact three-dimensional spatial configuration. Electronic energy and
electrons can move through a protein molecule between its different parts and even pass
among different molecules. We now come to understand a possible mechanism for
biological regulation involving flows of electrons and transfer of electronic energy between
molecules. These can change their shape and thereby change their specific action and
activity. The fusion of electron clouds can exist within a conjugated system and among
conjugated systems. This can account for cohesion or adherence of such molecules to each
other. Such fusion is a very important determinate of the structure of larger aggregates of
molecules and portions of living cells, such as membranes.

Fields

A liquid crystal in a cell through its own structure becomes a proto-organ for mechanical and
electrical activity, and when associated in specialized cells in higher animals gives rise to
true organs such as muscles and nerves. The oriented molecules in liquid crystals furnish an
ideal medium for catalytic action, particularly the complex type needed for growth and
reproduction. A liquid crystal self-structures through singular lines, rods and cones, etc.
Such structures belong to the liquid crystal as a unit and not to its molecules which may be
replaced by others without destroying them, and they persist in spite of the complete fluidity
of the substance (Needham, 1936).

Bernal's statement (1933) would seen to support Burr and Northrop's macro-atomic theory
(1935), which postulates that there are two aspects to reality: the field and the particle. Burr
and Northrop associate the field with what they term the macroscopic aspect and the
electron with the particle. The particle is associated with movement. The structure of
biological material seems to be associated with the field aspect. The electric field causes
polarization of the macromolecules in solution due to the fact that molecules possess a

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dipole moment, and changes the position of protons in the molecule. Such action can affect
the relative stability of different possible configurations of macromolecules. The field affects
the degree of structure present in the solution.

A constant magnetic field can, in principle, affect various processes in biological objects.
Three possible mechanisms for this biomagnetic affect are 1) orientation of diamagnetic or
paramagnetic molecules by the magnetic field; 2) distortions of the angles in the molecules;
and 3) orientation of the spins of molecules in a magnetic field (Fowler and Bernal, 1933;
Freedericksz and Zolina, 1933; Van Iterson, 1933; Osborne, Ambrose and Stuart, 1970).
Presman (1970) has postulated that such electromagnetic fields normally serve as
conveyors of information, from the environment to the organism, within the organism, and
among organisms. He suggests that organisms employ these fields in conjunction with the
well-known sensory, nervous, and endocrine systems, in effecting coordination and
integration.

Influences

Becker (1972) has stated that it is already established that electromagnetic forces can be
used to change three fundamental life processes in mammals. These processes are 1)
bonegrowth; 2) partial multi-tissue regenerative growth; and 3) basic levels of nerve activity
and function. All these affects appear to be mediated through perturbations in naturally pre-
existing bioelectronic systems. The organism's bioelectronic system also seems to be
related to levels of consciousness and to biological cycles (Ravitz, 1970).

Experimental evidence indicates that part of the environment of living organisms consists of
a complex four-dimensional, space-time, field pattern that the organism responds to and
requires for a healthy existence (Brown, 1971). Research carried out with organisms in fields
lower than the normal magnetic field strength of the earth inevitably results in deterioration
and death of the organisms involved (Purrett, 1971).

Recent research indicates that an organism utilizes its sensitivity to cope with the complex
electromagnetic and gravitational fields in its environment. This process serves to calibrate
its internal biological rhythms with external factors such as 1) rotation of the earth; 2)
variations in the earth's magnetic field; 3) transit of the moon around the earth; and 4)
influences of the sun (e.g., short-term field variations, yearly seasonal changes, sun spot
cycles occurring every eleven years). Changes in these various external systems influence
the organism profoundly (Burr, 1972; Garrison, 1971). Correlations have been drawn
between collapse and reversal of the earth's magnetic field and extinction of various species
(Purrett, 1971).

The complex field pattern also carries other information to living creatures. Fluctuations of
the field pattern reflect the presence, location and other characteristics of different physical
and biological phenomena in the environment such as other creatures and physical objects.
Alterations in electomagnetic parameters in the environment can be related to such physical
phenomena as conductivity, permeability, and space and surface charges. Organisms
themselves contribute to the environment by virtue of the end products of their various
physiological processes. These may alter environmental electrical and magnetic properties.

Weather systems also have electrical and magnetic correlates (Brown, 1971). One can see
a very positive contact or connection between electromagnetic phenomena associated with
weather and the behavior and health of organisms. A more advanced theory would connect
weather changes and changes in the physical environment to behavior and biological
products attributable to organisms. More precisely stated, not only does weather in a variety
of ways profoundly influence living creatures, but also it is possible that living creatures can

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influence weather.

Co-relations

Moving from a consideration of various mechanisms and influences of electromagnetic field


phenomena on living creatures, a more intimate role for electromagnetic fields in life
phenomena will be examined. The first phenomenon to be considered is the relationship
between electrodynamics and development.

It is a current hypothesis that the electrical fields associated with a cell are intimately related
to processes that have to do with structure and motion in the cell. The first such influence or
effect would be that of providing a directive force in the laying down of substances in the
growth of the creature. In dealing with extra-cellular electric fields, such fields most probably
correlate the growth activities among cells, and thus determine the origin and orientation of
symmetrical axes for cell groups and the entire organism (Lund, 1945, chapter 6).

The next area for consideration has to do with regeneration of damaged tissue. Recent
research has shown that electrical current in living tissue can serve to precipitate
regeneration and growth of new tissue (Becker, 1972). This mechanism apparently operates
by causing cells at the site of the injury that are still alive, to dedifferentiate back into cells
resembling embryonic cells and thereby to divide and grow. This new growth is guided to
repair the damage and ceases when the damage has been repaired and the creature is
again intact.

From the very beginning, the electromagnetic field provides a sustaining and directing matrix
for the cells and the biological substances in the creature. There is evidence that all
creatures possessing a central nervous system have a direct current system that displays a
field pattern expressing the anatomical arrangement of the central nervous system itself. It
has been suggested that this DC system serves as a primitive data transmitting and control
system which regulates the ability of the central nervous system to process data by a more
sophisticated form of neural transmission (Becker, 1963).

Consciousness may be seen as a frame of electrical charges in motion such as electrons


bombarding a television screen; personality is a time-lapse series of these scintillating
frames of consciousness. Personality becomes a reverberating input-output pattern of self
creation seeking information or patterns of energy from the environment as well as from its
own memories. The personality never recreates itself but creates only a close approximation
which is accepted, due to the principle of constancy, as being the same.

The phenomena of unique individuality and personal continuity depend on memory.


Consciousness involves the most recent memory and is thereby subject to loosening and
erasure. Personality transformation becomes energy pattern modification of not only
scintillating consciousness but also of recent circulating memories and older stored
memories. Thus consciousness can be conceptualized as an electronic phenomenon
occurring in the brain that involves both dynamic charges in motion and also stored structure
(Tien, 1969). Referring to the mechanisms mentioned earlier, a very close connection
between electronic activity and structure can be seen. A good deal of work on human
psychological processes indicates that human beings are extremely sensitive to various
electromagnetic events in their environment.

Daily variations are related to the rotation of the earth. Correlation has been found between
deviant human behavior and alterations in consciousness to cycles of the moon. Work has
been done on the correlation of deviant behavior in schizophrenia and sun spot activity
(Becker, 1963). All these factors indicate that human consciousness is modulated by

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electromagnetic events in the environment.

Conclusions

Mechanisms of molecular influence, influences of field phenomena on whole organisms, and


various factors relating to human consciousness shed interesting light on ancient
metaphysical systems having to do with psychophysiological regeneration. We suggest that
the conscious experience of various profound electromagnetic events in our terrestrial
environment can have a salutary effect on the health of organisms. When human beings
consciously experience a sunrise or sunset, a new moon or full moon, the equinoxes and
solstices, as well as the points of maximal and minimal sun spot activity, a calibrating effect
results which involves their various biological rhythmic systems.

It has been shown that stress can uncouple synchronized and harmonious biological
rhythms resulting in pathological conditions in organisms (Burr and Northrop, 1935). We
propose that these biological systems can be resynchronized and recalibrated through
conscious effort. The proposed mechanism for this influence has to do with the indicated
coupling of these various external events to biological processes.

The amplifying effect of consciousness has also been seen to be relatable to various
electromagnetic occurrences in the brain. At a deeper level of analysis, it can be suggested
that the field phenomena which we have been studying and working with are in fact more
real, if that term can be used, than the particulate matter and various objects of which we
have been speaking (Wheeler, 1959).

Briefly stated, fields and particles may be themselves composed of empty curved space,
trapping lines of electromagnetic force. This is the holographic concept of reality. The
structural configurations themselves or the geometry of the fields and the particles are more
fundamental than either the fields or the particles themselves.

We suggest that an epistemology based on the concept of a human being as a material


object composed of particulate substances in various configurations and patterns would be
erroneous. Human beings are better seen as ongoing, dynamic, shifting, changing, field
entities (or field patterns) that serve as a matrix for the flow-through of biological substances
and various simple chemicals.

This proposal has profound significance for human behavior, extending from the actions of
the individual and personal ethics all the way to the actions of sociological aggregate
systems such as nations and multi-national groups. We feel that many of the problems of
society that are current today can be traced to our ignorance of, or refusal to embrace, this
larger holographic electrodynamic reality in which we live. Furthermore, this knowledge is
not new. It is the main core of the message of social reformers throughout history. It is also
discussed, in other terms, by many individuals who characteristically experience
psychoenergetic phenomena (e.g., psychokinesis, clairvoyance, telepathy, precognition).

Summary

As postulated by Northrop and Burr (1935), the pattern or organization of any biological
system is established by a complex electrodynamic field which is in part determined by its
atomic physiochemical components and which in part determines the behavior and
orientation of those components.

Presman (1970) has postulated that such electromagnetic fields normally serve as
conveyors of information from the environment to the organism, within the organism, and

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among organisms. He has postulated that in the course of evolution, organisms have come
to use these fields in conjunction with the well-known sensory, nervous, and endocrine
systems in effecting coordination and integration.

Szent-Gyorgyi (1957, 1960) has theorized that cells and other biological components might
have various electronic solid-state physical properties such as that of being semi-
conductors. He suggests that the use of quantum electrodynamics is necessary to
understand biological processes which regulate the vital activity of organisms.

Becker (1963) has maintained that it is already established that electromagnetic forces can
be used to change three fundamental life processes in mammals. Those processes are
bone growth, partial multi-tissue regenerative growth, and basic levels of nerve activity and
function. All of these effects appear to be mediated through perturbations in naturally pre-
existing electronic control systems. The neural electronic system also seems to be related to
levels of consciousness and biological cycles, and we have developed the thesis that this
system furnishes the linkage mechanism between electromagnetic forces in the environment
and biological cyclic behavior.

McGinness (1972) reported that melanins are excellent electron acceptors and have semi-
conductor properties which appear to be important in midbrain structures. Melanins are
known to act as an ultraviolet sun screen, but research indicates that they also have a
fundamental biological role. McGinness (1972) has proposed that melanins may de-excite
certain biological molecules by converting electronic energy to heat. An analysis of data on
melanins suggests that the electronic properties of melanins can best be explained in terms
of a band model for semi-conduction in amorphous materials, which may also explain the
behavior of proteins and other biological macromolecules such as RNA and DNA. In
amorphous materials, there is an essentially Gaussian density of electron energy states.

Muses (1970) has proposed the possibility of unit impulse functions evolving from the
Gaussian. His work traces the relation of this mathematical concept to quantum biological
indeterminacy in terms of modulation of random fluctuations by target-seeking perturbations,
pointing the way to the understanding and computing of the parameters of volitional
experience in quantum biological terms. He maintains that we are dealing with Gaussian
wave packets, put to use in terms of a close-range reaction, in turn resulting in the resonant
microbiological specificity (arising from the relatively large number of specific molecular
parameters) necessary to the essential life and evolutional processes of chromosome
synapses, replication, and mutagenesis.

Muses holds that inherently indeterminate processes may be biologically used in achieving
determinate ones such as our repeatable and commonly accepted volitional experiences of
effort and direction. The range of quantum indeterminate fluctuation of biological efficacy is
in the far ultraviolet, and it is in this spectral region that we should expect to look for any
modulation effects on Gaussian wave packets by volitional energies manifesting as
ultramicrobiological field perturbations.

Biologically, there is a threshold of non-randomicity below which peaks tend to emerge that
are sharp enough to possess biodirectiveness in an enzyme-guiding sense. Random
biological quantum energies which are physiologically unassigned are the clue to
psychosomatic directing, which can be beneficial or deleterious to the organism. Muses
(1970) describes the mechanism of this effect as a microbiolaser type process.

Heisenberg explored the possible relevance of the quantum indeterminacy of elementary


particles for biological systems, especially human systems (discussed in Koestler, 1972). He
stated that there are two places in the human system where the quantum indeterminacy of a

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single particle can have a profound influence. The first important effect is that of mutation in
the genetic code. The second important influence is the alteration of the behavior of neurons
during human thought processes.

Tien (1969) has conceptualized mind as mass in relative motion and brain as energy at
relative electrical charges in motion, like electrons bombarding a television screen, and
personality as a time-lapse series of scintillating frames of consciousness. Personality
becomes a reverbating input-output pattern of self-creation, seeking information or patterns
of energy from the environment as well as from its own memories. The stability of any given
personality is maintained by feedback based on the principle of most similarity.

According to the holographic model of reality, all the objects we can observe are three-
dimensional images formed of standing and moving waves by electromagnetic and nuclear
processes. All the objects of our world are three-dimensional images formed
electromagnetically--i.e., holograms.

This concept and the models of human information processing based on the hologram throw
interesting light on the philosophical tradition which holds that the world of objects is an
illusion. With the triumph of relativity and quantum physics, the interpenetration of the
philosophical and the scientific is possible.

LeShan (1969) has observed, in discussing some individuals who purportedly experience
psycho-energetic phenomena, that their view of the universe as a great thought of which
they are a part is quite similar to many physicists' view that they see reality only in their own
mental image.

We propose that the "reality hologram" which appears as a stable world of material objects
is the elementary particle which has a long-term existence and fairly simple rules of
interaction. We also propose the existence of a "biohologram" which appears mobile and
evolving, through the DNA molecule. This "biohologram" projects a dynamic three-
dimensional image that serves as a guiding matrix for the manipulation and organization of
the "reality hologram."

Thus we have mobile self-organizing holograms moving through a relatively static simpler
hologram. The possibility exists that such "bioholograms" could achieve sufficient coherence
to continue existence as a pattern of radiant energy apart from a material substate. We feel
that such an occurrence could form the scientific basis of such psychoenergetic phenomena
as psycho-kinesis, clairvoyance, telepathy, and precognition.

Copyright (c) 2007 by Richard Allan Miller, Burt Webb & Darden Dickson. All Rights Reserved.

[Richard Alan Miller started his career as a physicist, biophysicist and instrumentation specialist. In 1972 he
began his foray into paraphysics with experiments in Kirlian photography and developed a field theory to
explain the phenomenon. He is an expert in growing and marketing botanicals, and set up his own company,
Northwest Botanicals. Visit http://www.nwbotanicals.org for a listing of his writings on metaphysics,
parapsychology, and alternative agriculture. His forthcoming book is entitled The Non-local Mind in a
Holographic Universe. Richard is available for lectures and as an outside consultant.]

DNA-related Definition of the Month

Sealing: term employed by the developers of the Regenetics Method to indicate the stage
of "ener-genetic" repatterning through DNA activation in which the bioenergy vacuum
constituted by the Fragmentary Body (a disruptive expression of non-integrated forces) is
closed. Sealing is a critical step on the path to genuine healing as well as enlightenment, as
it lays the groundwork for a stable luminous embodiment by establishing an "infinity circuit"
of eight electromagnetic fields and corresponding chakras.

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2. How Much of You Is Here?

Katherine Train

"It's the gap between activities that I can't stand, the time when one phase of my day ends
and the other hasn't yet started, like the time between work and supper," says my 35-year-
old client who has recently left a drug rehab center for alcohol addiction.

"The gap, tell me about the gap," I probe deeper. Something must be happening there. On
entering the gap, he describes an emptiness, a nothingness, then entering more deeply he
experiences the welling up of an immense anxiety. I ask him to stay with the anxiety, to
sense it in his whole body, then to enter the sensation and gesture how it feels. There must
be something causing the anxiety. Shifting his attention to the inner landscape surrounding
the anxious, fearful part of himself, he experiences the presence of a thing. He describes
something that lurks in the deep recesses of his imagination and feels as though it is
circulating around him. It is very clear to him. It is all head and shoulders, withering to
nothing at the hips. It is blue, red and yellow and has the presence of electricity.

This is but one descriptive example of the many imaginations that clients face in the office of
a Psychophonetics practitioner. All fear, doubt and hatred experienced by a person coexist
with "monsters" that feed on the energy of these expressions, enhancing themselves at the
expense of the client's spirit. We see large, rodent-like monsters with gnawing teeth, witches
with long red fingernails, large, dark, swamp monsters that fill the room with their shadowy
presence.

Unique to the human being is the capacity to make choices about how we act out of a higher
intention and purpose. At times we may observe that aspects of ourselves are split off from
this higher nature with varying degrees of alienation. Diverse behaviours range from
reactions and projections where a part of ourselves temporarily responds to outside stimuli
in a way we would not choose; to deep-seated anxieties, fears, doubts and hatreds that
undermine large chunks of our life, keeping us smaller than we would wish to be; to
fundamental splits in our actions that we would not even recognise as our own if we saw
them. Sometimes it feels as though someone else has slipped in and acted on our behalf. At
these times our animal nature that would respond without thought to base instincts and
drives reigns supreme over the organizing human part of ourselves. The further our animal
nature splits off from our humanity, the more we assume the nature of foreign beings.

According to philosopher and seer Rudolf Steiner, the human "I" is not the only master in the
astral and etheric bodies of the human being. Other astral and elemental beings inhabit
these bodies. Depending on the nature of the deeds of man, so are corresponding elemental
beings given a room at the inn. There is only one aspect of the human body that can
increasingly belong to man alone and that is his blood. If, however, he is not perpetually
careful to strengthen his I inwardly through a strong and vigorous will, he loses control of his
I and other beings can fasten onto his blood. The blood becomes a stronger expression of
the I as the I finds its centre and inner strength.

In Basel, Switzerland, in October 1911 in his lecture on the Etherization of the Blood, Steiner
described the human faculties of the following in relation to their effect on the blood: thinking

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or intellectual activity; feeling (sympathy and antipathy); and moral impulses or the will to do
good or evil. The activities of thinking and moral impulse have a tendency to polarize,
resulting in thinking devoid of moral integrity and will activities that are not thought through.
Steiner stated that distorted moral deeds will assert their influence on the blood in a negative
way.

Thinking, feeling and doing (moral deeds) are manifestations of the two essential activities of
sympathy/antipathy and reasoning swirling constantly in the soul. Sympathy and antipathy
arise out of desire and reasoning results in mental pictures or vizualisations emerging in the
soul. In the swirling they encounter the boundary of the soul at the sense organs to form a
perception of an outer phenomenon and a corresponding sensation in the soul. The turning
back on themselves of these capacities results in feeling. The working over of the sensation
with reasoning results in a mental image that sinks into the etheric body as an aspect of
memory. All experiences are met with a gesture of soul and associated resonance pattern
represented by the sounds of speech and are stored as a mental picture complete with its
coloring of sympathy or antipathy and the meaning placed on it. The soul contains all the
mental images acquired in the life of the individual.

Mental pictures carry on an independent life in the unconscious boundaries of the soul and,
depending on the feeling and meaning attached to them, are the source of bliss or suffering.
They rise to consciousness when triggered by a new perception or sensation with a similar
resonance. If left unattended, the images and associated resonance can cause illness within
body and soul. One needs to provide reference points to which these mental images can be
raised to consciousness in order that the I can rework the experience with new reasoning in
the process of creating new meaning of the experience. The conscious reworking of mental
images facilitates an integration of soul.

Psychophonetics, a method of counselling, personal development and soul work, applies the
principles of Steiner's Psychosophy in a manner that provides reference points for the
mental images to be raised to consciousness. Using nonverbal modes of communication
including body awareness, gesturing, visualization and sounding, mental images are brought
to consciousness where the dynamics are unpacked in the processes of exploration,
blockages released with empowerment, and new capacities invoked in resourcefulness. The
sympathies and antipathies associated with the mental image resurface and reasoning is
applied with new resources. The disharmony of thinking, feeling and doing are identified and
resources encouraged to face the doubt, fear and hatred that block these faculties of soul
from finding their integration. It becomes clear during this process that varying levels of
disowned and foreign astrality inhabit the clients' being, experienced as entities in the
psyche, and that when experienced and presented to consciousness, choices can be made
to integrate them or ask them to leave. The successful outcome of the counselling process
is that the I, able to change its relationship to the experience, becomes increasingly present
at the center of the individual's being and less at the mercy of chaotic soul forces.

The concept of disowned and foreign astrality asserting its presence in the blood may be
interpreted in the light of the following pleomorphic theory. According to Steiner the astral
beings that inhabit the astral body extend their influence into the physical body through the
parasites that inhabit the physical body. Since 1800 a stream of scientists have been
researching blood in light of an alternative view to the current germ theory. These
researchers have been ignored, ridiculed and sometimes persecuted in their time and their
work removed from scientific literature.

One such researcher was Antoine Bechamp (1816-1908), a contemporary of Louis Pasteur
whose germ theory forms the basis for the current medical model and its resultant
pharmaceutical mode of treatment. In his final work The Blood and Its Third Anatomical

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Element, Bechamp describes an entity present in the blood which he names a microzyma.
He envisions microzymas as submicroscopic entities in the blood, tissues and cells of all
living beings, plant and animal, which carry in themselves the essential elements for life,
disease, death, and decay. His work has been followed by other scientists, most notably
Gunther Endelein, Wilhelm Reich, Royal Raymond Rife, the Australian team Glen Dettman,
Ph.D., and Archie Kalokerinos, M.D., and presently Gaston Naessens and Robert Young,
N.D.

Bechamp's pleomorphic theory maintains that: 1) There is an independently living


microanatomical element (the microzyma) in the cells and fluids of all organisms that
precedes life at the cellular, even the genetic, level, and is the foundation of all biological
organization; 2) Microzymas routinely become forms normally referred to as bacteria, which
can subsequently revert or devolve to the microzymian state; and 3) Atmospheric "germs"
are not fundamental species, but are either microzymas or their evolutionary forms, set free
from their normal animal or vegetable habitat by the death of an organism.

Bechamp insisted that the process of cell breakdown is mediated by microzymian


fermentation even in a healthy body. Though there is renewal happening as well, breakdown
fermentation eventually takes over, greatly increasing its intensity at death. Microzymas
respond to biochemical signals and resolve into forms capable of more rigorous
fermentation breakdown, namely bacteria and fungi.

Observation of a blood smear under a microscope reveals the foreign particles identified by
Beauchamp, Enderlein and others as disturbed phases of the microzymal cycle.
Microzymas take on more vegetative bacterial and fungal forms, increasing the
fermentation process and resulting in cell breakdown and degeneration--also observed in
the blood. Parasites may find representation in the blood as metamorphosed microzymas
when the I forces are not strong enough to keep unbridled soul forces in check.

Many people observe that they conduct their lives with varying presence, often expressing
that they "do not know who they are" or "there is nothing at the core of them." Many such
individuals experience that they hover just behind or above their phyical bodies. Further
exploration reveals disturbing mental pictures which have the effect of distorting the
thinking, feeling and doing capacities of the individual in a soul that becomes increasingly
fragmented. Experience remains undigested until it is consciously engaged, made sense of
and named by the I. The process of creating meaning and naming experience ensures the
penetration of the I into that pocket of unconsciousness with a resultant strengthening of the
I forces and an integration of the soul faculties.

We are in a phase of human evolution in which more and more of our lower nature can
become consciously embraced by our higher nature. The opportunity exists for humans to
unite intellectualism and moral deed. The active, intentional strengthening of the I and its
penetration into the depths of the soul brings about the integration of the thinking or
intellectual faculties with feeling and results in moral deeds arising out of these harmonious
forces in a process of evolving consciousness and deeper penetration and ownership of all
aspects of self.

Copyright (c) 2007 by Katherine Train. All Rights Reserved.

[Katherine Train is a Psychophonetics Counsellor with a practice in Cape Town, South Africa. She employs
methods of deep counselling, expression of experience through gesture, and the sounds of human speech to
heal and integrate the many aspects of the human being towards more conscious living. For more information
visit http://www.psychophonetics.com.]

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Support your evolutionary path of light--with sound.

Did You Know ... that the divine triune structure of Silent Stillness (Divine Consciousness)
giving rise to Sound (the Word or Holy Spirit) which then becomes Light (the Sun or Son) is
one way of conceptualizing the Sacred Trinity? Moreover, the creational trinity composed of
nothingness, sound and light is not unique to the Western worldview; it is also foregrounded
in many Eastern philosophies. In Taoism, to cite one example, the implicate order of
consciousness is referred to as the Tao. The Tao gives rise to what Lao Tzu, author of the
Tao Te Ching, calls the "ten thousand things" (the light-based holographic multiverse) by
way of the breath (sound).

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3. Synchronicity: The Sacred Path of Co-incidence

Carolyn North

The word "synchronicity" was coined by C. G. Jung in the forward to the 1949 English
translation of the I Ching, the Chinese Book of Changes, by Wilhelm and Baynes.
"Telepathy, clairvoyance and precognition," he wrote, " are all synchronicities--meaningful
coincidences between persons and events in which an emotional or symbolic connection
cannot be explained by cause and effect." Jung went on to say that what we in the West
considered to be random chance, the ancient Chinese presumed to be a significant
confluence of events, and therefore meaningful for their lives.

Washing the dishes one evening, I found myself thinking of a friend--also named Carolyn--
with whom I had hitchhiked in Europe years earlier. A couple of adventurous students, we
had met going over on the boat and teamed up to roam around France together. The people
we met called us "Les deux Carolines." I had last seen her in Paris, and we had exchanged
a few letters since, but then had lost contact. The next morning, she phoned. "I was flying
into San Francisco," she told me, "and suddenly thought of you. So when I got in, I took a
chance and looked you up in the phone book. And here you are!" She was visiting her old
college roommate, who had the same name as my newborn daughter, and whose husband
had the same name as my husband. When we all got together, there were two Carolyns,
two Rebeccas and two Herbs.

I believe all of us have experiences like this. We think of an old friend and get a phone call
from her the next day; we miss a train and then meet the love of our life on the next train; we
hear an unusual name and then come across it four times in the next two days. Sometimes
a chance remark spoken in conversation will show up on the next page of the book we

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happen to be reading--or writing.

I suspect there are actually many kinds of synchronicity, and whether we think of these
various types of coincidences as pure chance or as having some significance, we still feel a
sense of wonderment when they occur--as if we have just entered some kind of magical
realm. We feel the presence of something that transcends rationality or logic, as if some
invisible guiding hand has intervened with grace for us, placing in our path the very person
we needed to meet; the timely phone call that makes all the difference; the chance
encounter at a party we almost skipped; the fortuitous surprise. "What a coincidence!" we
exclaim in amazement.

During a vacation in Vermont, I learned quilt making from a woman who lived at the
farmhouse I visited. Months later, back home in California, I was ready to bind my first quilt,
but had no idea how to begin. I telephoned Vermont to speak to her, but was told she was in
Australia and was expected back within the week. I laid all the pieces out on the floor and
was staring down at them trying to figure out what to do next, when the phone rang. She
was at the other end, calling from a pay phone at the San Francisco Airport. On her way
home from Australia, the plane had been re-routed because of bad weather. She was calling
to ask if she could stay the night with me. She had, of course, no knowledge of my call to
her house an hour earlier. I picked her up at the airport and we spent a happy afternoon
catching up and binding my quilt together.

Creative projects--especially those which involve benefit to others--often call up these


helpful coincidences, as if the universe itself were responding with nudges of
encouragement for our efforts. At Daily Bread, a hunger organization I work with, I have
learned to simply trust that assistance will show up after a new project is initiated. "Trusting
without expectation" seems to be the essential ingredient. If I can relax and make no specific
plans about exactly what I wish to happen, then almost invariably the very help we need
marches in within the week--sometimes in forms I would never have anticipated.

Whenever I embark on an idea and it feels "right," there is an internal quietness and relaxed
ease that I have learned to recognize. It's as if I'm located in the center of myself, the way I
feel when I'm well balanced on my feet. There's a sense of being in the right place at the
right time, and that I can trust myself to follow my intuition wherever it takes me. Worry,
doubt and uncertainty all seem irrelevant and in the way. Somehow or other I can count on
all the pieces coming together with a minimum of effort on my part--if I let go of control, give
in to the pleasure of the moment and, most of all, have faith in whatever is happening.

This is not always a popular position to take, especially when there is money involved, but in
my experience when I feel a combination of relaxation and the anticipation of an adventure, I
take it as a go-ahead signal and shrug my shoulders at resisters. Invariably, the results
validate this approach. Conversely, if I plan too much in advance to make something happen
because I think it ought to, often it will take twice as much time and effort and go awry
anyway, having to be done again at a later date.

A caterer donated a commercial refrigerator to us, free, if we would move it. We didn't need
a refrigerator, but we badly needed a freezer. However, after much discussion, we decided
to accept. The first attempt to move it failed because the truck broke down; the next time,
our helpers had the wrong date. When we finally got truck and helpers together, we
discovered that the door the refrigerator had to go through wasn't wide enough. Finally, with
thanks and apologies, we gave up. Two days later an anonymous caller donated a freezer--
delivery included.

Sometimes a single, fortuitous coincidence prepares the way for the next opportunity, which
then leads to yet another remarkable coincidence--all unpredictable and often involving

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people and events far removed from each other in time and space. In such instances, we
may feel watched over by a ministering angel, or like an agent for a much larger set of
circumstances than anything we can consciously control. At times it may seem that we are
the agents, or go-betweens among people we may not even know, helping things happen
between them as we play merely the role of "connector."

According to Jung, the world has an underlying order, a "collective unconscious," like a
shared memory in which all beings are bonded by deep patterns that connect us to each
other and to the cosmos. In such a universe, synchronicities are literally "co-incidences":
simultaneously occurring events whose meaning or significance is immediately apparent to
the person experiencing them.

In the course of my research several years ago, I found a reference to a large-format book
published in Germany early in the century, which dealt with color and its effect on the body.
Visiting the local libraries and bookstores, I came up with a blank. I felt that restless
sensation one feels when only one thing will satisfy, and came home from my bookstore
search disgruntled. Then the phone rang. It was a woman I had never met who said, "About
a year ago, a friend gave me your name saying that you and I were interested in the same
questions. I am an artist fascinated by vibration from the point of view of color and light--and
I understand you are interested in vibration from the point of view of sound. Is that right?"

"Yes," I gulped.

"Well," she said, "I've got a book here I've been meaning to lend you, and I've got some time
today. Can I bring it over and we can finally meet?"

Of course, it was the very book I'd been searching for. She came, we met, I borrowed the
book, and we've been good friends ever since.

From time to time co-incidences will be dramatically illustrated when several seemingly
unconnected activities begin to merge and each becomes relevant to the others. When this
happens, everything appears to be a sign for everything else and everything is potentially
useful. I've learned to pay close attention to every insignificant detail when this happens
because it seems to occur when the stakes are very high.

Jung writes, "The understanding of synchronicity is the key which unlocks the door to the
Eastern apperception of totality that we find so mysterious." Indeed, the ancient Chinese
oracle, the I Ching, or Book of Changes, is based on a belief system which assumes that the
manifest world as we know it is a reflection of an underlying reality in which all things are
connected and in the process of continuous transformation. Nothing ever stays the same.
According to Taoist, Buddhist and Confucian thought, the whole cosmos is perpetually in
motion, every particle shifting in relation to every other particle, everything synchronized in
time and space.

In this tradition, each moment in time sounds like a single chord. The notes of every force in
the universe sound simultaneously, singing the harmony of the Whole--NOW. Everything
everywhere is part of NOW. Everything is interrelated, inter-dependent, inter-penetrating
NOW. Nothing exists outside NOW, from the shimmering of subatomic particles to the
swirling of the galaxies. NOW becomes NOW becomes NOW ...

The Chinese, who have used the I Ching as a divination tool for centuries, do not have the
same difficulty as we in the Western world accepting that a "chance" pattern created by a
toss of three coins can be helpful as an inner guide. To use the oracle, one asks a question
six times, throwing the coins each time to indicate a pattern of changing lines which refer to
a particular reading in the Book. The pattern may seem purely random to the uninitiated, but

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the "hexagram" received as a result of the tossed coins is invariably to the point and relevant
in specific detail to the question.

To the ancient Chinese, it was simply a fact that correspondences exist between our
individual lives and the grand sweep of the universe at any given moment in time. The laws
governing the overall design are the same as the laws governing each person's life, and so,
by the law of resonance, when we ask for guidance at a specific time, we naturally receive
advice that matches our question.

I was a young woman, newly married to a university science professor, when I was first
introduced to the I Ching. My husband was rather dismayed by my interest in a document as
"irrational" as the oracle, and when I requested a copy as a birthday gift, he outright refused.
It was one of our first fights, and we were both hurt and confused by the encounter.
Unbeknownst to me, he bought a copy for me anyway--against his better judgment--and
threw the coins to prove to himself that his skepticism was justified. But he had somehow
gotten a defective copy, and the pages of the "hexagram" he received were blank!

Mystified, he returned that copy to the bookstore, exchanged it for another and then
changed his mind, by this time angry. He returned that copy to the bookstore, too,
determined not to buy me a gift he didn't believe in.

In the end, I received the I Ching as a gift from someone else. On the night of my birthday, I
asked my husband if we could read together the text of the "hexagram" he had originally
thrown. Reluctantly, he agreed. The text spoke to the issue of people with divergent views
learning how to negotiate their differences peaceably. Still unsatisfied, he threw the coins
again. The reading he received stated that a person was a fool who asked the same
question twice.

It is only in contemporary Western thought that things exist in splendid isolation in a three-
dimensional world and that God--if there is a God at all--is high in His heaven and out of
reach. The great Egyptian sage Hermes Trismegistus, whose origins are lost in the mists of
time, is said to have postulated the following basic law of existence: "That which is below is
like that which is above, and that which is above is like that which is below, for the miracles
of the Universe are part of One Whole Thing."

The teachings of Hermes Trismegistus emphasize that the same laws of Being hold true on
every level of the Universe--on every scale and every span of time--and that the form and
substance of our world arises from basic, recurrent patterns inherent in the larger Universe.
The solid-seeming forms of the three-dimensional world as we know it--the "below" of his
teachings--are a reflection of the corresponding elemental motions of the unseen,
transcendent Universe--the "above" of his teachings. "Above" and "below" here refer not to
directionality, but to degrees of density and subtlety difficult to describe in everyday
language.

For example, the spiral shape appears everywhere we look, from swirling smoke to
seashells to nebulae. It coils in the DNA molecule and whorls on a baby's head. The bloom
of a rose, the spin of a tornado, whirlpooling water, the unfurling of a fern all follow the same
pattern, each in its own context, each on its own scale. Our lives also trace a spiral course
as we come round and round again to the same dilemmas, each time presented with a new
opportunity to experience the world from a slightly higher perspective. On every level, these
forms reflect a basic motion of the cosmos.

Basic "movements," such as the spiral, are like energetic maps which pervade all of
existence, acting as blueprints which ultimately give form to everything we know. In our
everyday lives they exist in the ordinary realities of our physical world for us to notice or not,

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as we wish. But whether we perceive them or not, they are writ both smaller than we can
see and larger than we might ever guess at, inherent and immanent at every level of the
Cosmos. In the last twenty years, high-speed computer technology has revealed to
scientists what the wisdom traditions of many cultures have been pointing to in myth,
metaphor and symbolism through the ages: the universe is a complex dance of many
dimensions and the patterns laid down by this ongoing dance are the basis for all matter and
life.

Scientists and the sages now agree that underlying every leaf, pulsing vein and many-
branched river system is a recognizable geometry, a set of basic proportions that seems to
repeat itself wherever one looks. Scientists typically acknowledge this geometry as
"Pythagorean," while sages often refer to it as "sacred harmony." In other times, temples
were designed according to these proportions and music was sung based on these
intervals. The knowledge seems to have been lost during the late Middle Ages and until very
recently was termed "esoteric," or hidden knowledge, but computers may have begun to
make this implicit order more "exoteric."

In 1975 mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot put into his computer a simple equation
representing one of these basic patterns and programmed the computer to repeat the
pattern hundreds of thousands of times. The resulting graphics came out looking like forms
in the natural world! On his computer screen appeared shapes both organic and inorganic:
coastlines, mountains, river systems, plants ... These shapes, he discovered, showed the
same exact pattern at whatever scale he examined them. A coastline, for example, was
made up of a myriad of tiny, perfectly proportioned reflections of itself, repeating over and
over. ("That which is below is like that which is above ...") At the microscopic scale the
image appeared to be a chaotic jumble of motion, but at the level visible to the human eye it
was a recognizable form, easily identified, not chaotic at all.

Convinced that he had stumbled on a new way of looking at the form and structure of the
Universe--a geometry of the natural world, as it were--, Mandelbrot called his discovery
"Fractal Geometry," suggesting the basically fractured or chaotic nature of all matter.

Contemporary mathematicians and physicists studying these phenomena as Chaos Theory,


Non-linear Dynamics, Nonlocality Theory and Quantum Mechanics are observing that there
is an inherent roughness to the world, a kind of wild diversity. They describe it as frenetic,
haphazard, highly textured, unpredictable. Although they have not gone so far as to accept
the fact that all phenomena are linked by interactions too subtle to be measured, they do
acknowledge that the Universe is constantly changing on every scale, and that every particle
responds with acute sensitivity to the unpredictable gyrations of each new moment. Fractal
Geometry now shows that in every dimension this exuberant, complex tangle reveals itself in
greater and greater detail, system within system. Wherever we look, we see that each
discreet bit of activity and information is a subtle reflection of the Whole.

The late physicist John Bell showed that if two photons or two electrons are separated, no
matter how far, they are still actively connected to each other. Moreover, their connection is
both direct and instantaneous without the need for any mechanical intermediary between
them. A change in one creates a simultaneous change in the other. His theory of non-locality
posited that on the level of the "exuberant, complex tangle" of the Universe, everything is in
continuous contact with everything else and nothing is separate from the Whole. (In
anthropological terms, this has been referred to as "contagious magic.")

Likewise, physicist David Bohm observed that while on this implicate, minute scale of the
Universe everything is vibrating with wild abandon, in constant communion with everything
else, at the level of the Whole there is an overriding, interpenetrating order. He called this
"order enfolded in chaos," meaning that what appears to be randomly chaotic, actually holds

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within it a deep-seated cooperative spirit. Bohm suggested that this phenomenon is akin to
an intention embodied in matter, a will-to-be, an inherent awareness--in a word,
consciousness. Beyond "things," transcending even movement itself, there perhaps exists
an all-encompassing Mind. Bohm wondered if it is this self-aware, all-pervading
consciousness that we ought to acknowledge as the context in which all forms--including
ourselves--have their Being. For it is against this backdrop of conscious Wholeness that our
physical world, and all its individual entities, reveals its true nature.

In Western culture we are taught to think in terms of linear logic, where there is a specific
reaction to a single stimulus and proof exists in being able to repeat the same reaction. Hard
logic, some call it. But there is another approach--softer and more intuitive, nonlinear--in
which things are perceived in their totality as part of a larger context. The boundaries that
isolate one thing from another exist only at the most obvious and superficial level, like
bubbles on the surface of a pot of soup.

In a nonlinear universe events happen all at once, arising out of the common brew, bouncing
and bumping off each other in every direction. Everything is part of this movement where an
impulse occurring at this moment, right here, may have unforeseen consequences
somewhere else in the world far into the future. In fact, this critical dependence of everything
on everything else is such that even an imperceptible shift of the tiniest element in one place
can have vast ramifications on the whole cosmos, for all time. As Jung put it, "There is no
linear evolution (except at the beginning of life); there is only the circumambulation of the
self."

In such a worldview, everything participates in a sensitive web of active information. Atoms,


cells, molecules, plants, animals, people, earth, Heaven and Spirit all enter into communion
with each other and join the ever-changing dance of form and structure. Like the dancing
Siva, the many-armed God revolves in a constantly changing pattern while his feet stamp
out the many rhythms of All-Rhythm--creating new designs at each moment in perfect,
dynamic balance. From this perspective the Cosmos is like a pure tone that contains all
sound the way a simple, balanced stillness contains all motion.

In a world like this, it would be surprising if synchronicities did not occur. Synchronicities, it
would seem, are a phenomena inherent in the Universe, continuously appearing in the
natural course of events. They pop out of the common matrix just as waves in the ocean lift,
crest with a tumble of white foam, and sink back into the larger sea. Synchronicities occur all
around us all the time, but it is only when we ourselves are the fulcrum around which a co-
incidence--good or bad--occurs that we sit up and take notice.

These surprises, which for the most part are unexpected gifts plopped into our laps by a
beneficent world, are like wake-up signals, eye-openers to the larger Universe in which we
live. We might consider them a means of tuning into the frequency of the Whole, becoming
citizens of a much grander world. In doing so, we may find ourselves participating in events
which take place on several continents, involving people we have never met, spanning long
periods of time ...

Many years ago in India, I met a remarkable classical flutist who hoped to bring his music to
America. He presented me with a demonstration tape, and I promised to play it for people
when I got home--but in fact, I dragged my heels on it for over a year and a half. One day,
however, I awoke with the feeling that on that day I had to follow through on my promise, so
I telephoned a local radio station and asked them for air time. "What a coincidence!" the
program Director exclaimed. "The tape for the eleven o'clock show never arrived, and we've
been searching for something to put in its place. Could you come right down?"

I went to the station and the program was heard, coincidentally, by a member of a college

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for Indian music, who called me and said, "You won't believe this, but just last night we had
a faculty meeting to talk about finding a classical flute teacher. I don't know what made me
turn on the radio this morning. Normally, I never tune in to that program ..."

I have wondered about what, indeed, made him turn on the radio that morning; what had
made me wait all those months before following through on a promise; and what had caused
my path to cross with this flutist's in the first place? It is as if we were all tuned to the same
frequency and so made contact, quite subconsciously, each following a signal we were not
even aware of. Like several waves cresting simultaneously on the same sea, we were
bonded by the medium of our shared ocean. Unknown to each other, we each responded to
a similar impulse. And like secret agents of the same unknown design, we collectively
created the conditions that brought this musician to America.

Co-incidences like this are similar to the magic of falling in love. The beloved, special in our
eyes, seems to stand out in bold relief from the backdrop of all the other people in the world.
As if composed of more dimensions than other, ordinary mortals, our loved one shines,
radiates with significance. At the same time, the very wondrousness itself of this feeling
appears to be so simple, so obvious, so right. Without effort new lovers seem to vibrate in
tandem, every sensor awake to even the most subtle signal from the other. In such
moments, the world, awash with color, makes such simple sense.

Years ago, in the first weeks of my first trip to Italy when I was nineteen, I found myself in a
small town quite against my will. The friend I was meeting in Milano brought me there for
"safekeeping" until she could return from her other commitments to take me to meet her
family. This was arranged without my knowledge. Since I spoke little Italian, I had no idea
whether she would come for me in a day or a week. I was left to wait for her in a convent
where I was locked in my room in the evenings and put in the care of a silent nun during the
days.

Bewildered and frightened, I tried several times to escape, but each time was apprehended
and brought back to the convent. Days passed, and there was still no sign of my friend.
Finally, making an early morning run for it, I jumped onto a passing bus and made my way to
the train station. I got on the first train to arrive, looking over my shoulder the whole time,
having no idea where it was bound for. When it arrived at Bologna Station, I jumped off, still
not knowing where I was going, but when I heard a conductor call out "Ravenna" I
impulsively ran for the next train.

Sitting across from where I plopped down was an attractive fellow with a cello case, with
whom I exchanged furtive glances until we both disembarked at Ravenna Station. Waiting
on the same tram line outside the station, we finally began to talk to each other, and with
that conversation began my courtship with the first love of my life.

Synchronicities are much like the experience of falling in love. Through them we get a
glimpse into the very fabric of the Universe, its miraculousness and utter simplicity, its
ordered Wholeness and the wild shimmying of its ecstatic dance. By learning to tune into
this seeming paradox, we can relax and be receptive to the daily coincidences that present
themselves to us like pennies from Heaven.

The more we can accept these chance gifts as real, the more they will tend to happen to us.
The more they happen, the more faith we may have in their usefulness. Without the
resistance of disbelief, things fall into place with little effort on our part, and gradually
become part of our ordinary, daily tools of living. Like lovers, we vibrate in tandem with the
Universe.

In the course of researching this essay, I found myself at Trinity College in Dublin, where the

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6th Century illuminated manuscript, The Book of Kells, is in display in a hermetically sealed
glass case, opened each day to a single page. Since these remarkable illuminations are
such beautiful examples of the interlaced reality I am trying to describe here, I wanted to see
as many illustrations as possible. The manuscript, however, is ancient and very precious
and only taken out for distinguished scholars.

For three days I returned to the Library to examine that day's page, then on the fourth day
decided to knock on the door of the office and simply ask if there were any way I might see
the whole manuscript. It was a rash, even irrational act on my part, but something propelled
me towards that door.

Inside, at the secretary's desk, sat an old classmate of mine! She was a friend from years
ago when I was a student of Medieval Art History in France, and is the only native Irish
person I have ever known well. She is also one of the few people in existence who could
vouch for my credentials to handle the manuscript. After our mutual delight at finding one
another again, she intervened on my behalf and I was granted permission to examine the
whole Book of Kells the following day!

The subtle signals are there to be heard. The Universe is singing all the time. If we learn
how to listen, we can probably hear something new, like a harmony that resonates within our
own Beings. If we then feel for the upbeat and breathe with the music, we have only to lift
our arms like the dancing Shiva, stamp out a rhythm with our feet, and dance!

Copyright (c) 2007 by Carolyn North. All Rights Reserved.

[Carolyn North teaches movement and sound for healing and writes about the principles of her work, mostly in
the form of readily accessible stories about ordinary people living ordinary lives. She considers her work as
bridging the gap between three-dimensional thinking and multidimensional thinking, and currently is working
with scientists to describe the Unified Field from both scientific and non-scientific viewpoints. As a healer, she
is especially interested in the use of the voice as a healing modality. She is author of eight books, four of which
are currently in print. Check out Carolyn's work at http://www.healingimprovisations.net.]

Coming in our June issue ... "What Our Human Genome Tells Us" & so much
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