Entangled - journey of discovery

Chapter IV From Outer Space to Inner Space

I watched a video that started off showing the far reaches of the observable universe and then slowly zoomed back inward through the outer galaxies, through our Milky Way galaxy, our solar system, to our planet, ourselves, on through to our own molecules and on to the atomic world.

It was not that any of this was particularly new information, but that seeing it this way made everything appear very similar except for the scale. Which begged the question, "what is unique in the universe". What is unique about our place in the galaxy or in the universe. Throughout this vast universe everything is made up of the same sub atomic particles just rearranged a bit differently, that started with the Big Bang ...

I really needed to understand a lot more about how it all got started.

Thanks to Leonard Susskind, Neil Degrasse Tyson, Katie Freese, and lectures on quantum physics, string theory, black holes, dark energy, dark matter, worm holes, event horizons, multiple universes, and gravitational waves, I garnered a crude understanding of the world and the universe that we are such a small part of.

What I did like about theoretical physics is that everything can be speculated or predicted to exist mathematically before the search for observable or experimental evidence is found. This approach has to provide one with a great deal of confidence in the existence of things before large amounts of time and money are spent on their search.

I like to keep in mind some of the facts that are generally agreed upon; the age of the universe being 13.8 billion years and our earth 4.5 billion years. The universe is not only expanding but accelerating, which leads to the hypothesis that there is a force (dark energy) which is greater than the gravitational force trying to hold everything together. The big bang, where it all started, had an initial rapid inflation phase before settling into a more steady expansion.

We are like a raisin in rising raisin bread. All the raisins are moving away from all the others at the same rate. Like the raisins our galaxies are moving away from all the others at an accelerating rate.

One of the intriguing facts of the cosmos are that what we can observe in the universe is only about 5% of what is out there. The rest is mostly Dark Matter and Dark Energy. So one can understand the intense interest in studying the 95% that we don't yet know that much about.

Getting to know the cosmos and the sub atomic world a little bit was extremely fascinating and I could have spent much more time exploring them, but felt I should extract myself from this rabbit hole and get back to the original pursuit; the normal functioning of our minds, and beyond to the psychic powers that some people possess.

As my search continued I discovered many researchers that have done very important work in the related fields of biology, chemistry, as well as physics. And keeping true to my original objective I endeavored to only look at researchers with academically sound credentials.

This wasn't any guarantee that their writings would be of that much interest because some would drift off into areas that I wanted to avoid, like religion and aliens and such. This was because once you go beyond the classical science's teachings, it is very tempting to try and answer the really big questions that most of us want to know; are we alone in the universe, what are we doing here anyway, and is this all there is?

These diversions were also tempting but should to be left for another journey. Right now, first things first and another chance meeting ...

Mae Wan-Ho

One day, Roland came to my table at breakfast and asked if I had heard of May Wan-Ho's book "The Rainbow and the Worm". We had been talking about consciousness and communication and he explained that her book was about the physics of organisms. She was a biochemist but became intrigued by the question, 'What is Life', that quantum physicist Erwin Schrödinger asked in his book by the same name.

She knew that conventional biochemistry didn't provide an answer and from her Chinese Taoist background she wanted to take a more holistic approach to the investigations, which meant among other things, looking at live specimens as opposed to body parts which was the more common reductionist approach. One day while looking at a living worm May Wan-Ho saw rainbow colours. This led to the discovery of the quantum coherence of living systems and our body's liquid crystalline meridians.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3609844/

How did this fit into my journey? Well, it seemed sensible to me if I wanted to understand how we communicate psychically outside our bodies and minds we should first understand how we communicate on the inside. How our bodies and all of the parts communicate and function as a whole entity and with our brain. These liquid crystalline structures looked like a possible part of that vehicle. As Mae Wan-Ho stated in her paper: Quantum Coherence and Conscious Experience.

http://www.i-sis.org.uk/brainde.php

"Connective tissues make up the bulk of all multicellular animals. They are flexible, highly responsive, yet ordered phases which are connected, via transmembrane proteins to the intracellular matrices of individual cells [15, 16]. The extracellular and intracellular matrices together constitute an excitable continuum for rapid intercommunication permeating the entire organism, enabling it to function as a coherent whole [13]. The existence of this liquid crystalline continuum has been directly demonstrated in all live organisms by a noninvasive optical imaging technique ... "

This was a bit of a milestone in my search but I needed some collaboration or confirmation that this was at least somewhat accepted in the scientific community.

Gerald Pollack

That led me to Gerald Pollack who had studied water from a biomedical engineering background. His experimental results indicate a fourth phase of water that he calls EZ water, a liquid crystalline substance. This video of his lecture is very convincing.

His evidence satisfies the question about our bodies being made up of 70% water and how does it all stay together. Living organisms are somewhat like jello which is 90% water but manages to hold that water. It doesn't dribble out of jello and it doesn't dribble out of our bodies. The reason for this odd behavior is that the water in living organisms and in jello is in this liquid crystalline structure, which facilitates the biophoton communications.

Even though Gerald Pollack has his detractors, I am accepting the premise for now for my purposes in order to see where it will lead, mostly because it supports the findings of Mae Wan-Ho.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVBEwn6iWOo

I must confess that I liked the idea of our body's meridians because I had some familiarity with shiatsu massage and acupuncture that use these meridians. The meridian mapping of our bodies came after thousands of years of empirical evidence and practice and is now accepted as legitimate treatment by western medicine. In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) these meridians are the paths of the life-energy which they call "qi".

Now with techniques to observe the liquid crystalline structures those meridians have been observed and verified. This is still a long way from the functioning of our minds and psychic powers, but there most probably are similar communications going on inside our brains as in our other body parts.

Cells in all living organisms communicate by the coherent properties of biophotons as discovered by Fritz Albert Popp in the 1970s and analysed in this paper.

http://nopr.niscair.res.in/bitstream/123456789/4474/1/IJEB%2046(5)%20371-377.pdf

This was an important point in my journey. Something I felt I could build on.