The Heart Has Its Own “Brain” and Consciousness

http://www.mindfulmuscleblog.com/heart-has-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.

Quantum dots control brain cells for the first time

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21475-quantum-dots-control-brain-cells-for-the-first-time.html

In an unlikely marriage of quantum physics and neuroscience, tiny particles called quantum dots have been used to control brain cells for the first time.

Having such control over the brain could one day provide a non-invasive treatment for conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease, depression and epilepsy. In the nearer term, quantum dots could be used to treat blindness by reactivating damaged retinal cells.

New Theory of Life Claims to Unite Fields of Science

Interesting story that’s been published in a few magazines now – a united theory of everything?

Source: Case Western Reserve press release

http://astrobio.net/pressrelease/4522/new-theory-of-life-claims-to-unite-fields-of-science

The Earth is alive, asserts a new scientific theory of life emerging from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. The trans-disciplinary theory demonstrates that purportedly inanimate, non-living objects — for example,planets, water, proteins, and DNA — are animate, that is, alive.  Erik Andrulis, PhD, assistant professor of molecular biology and microbiology, advanced his controversial framework in his manuscript “Theory of the Origin, Evolution, and Nature of Life,” published in the peer-reviewed journal, Life. His theory explains not only the evolutionary emergence of life on Earth and in the Universe but also the structure and function of existing cells and biospheres.

It’s time for science to move on from materialism!

Interesting article in the Guardian over the weekend:

guardian.co.uk, Saturday 28 January 2012 12.00 GM

Werner Heisenberg, one of the founding fathers of quantum physics, once observed that history could be divided into periods according to what people of the time made of matter. In his book Physics and Philosophy, published in the early 60s, he argued that at the beginning of the 20th century we entered a new period. It was then that quantum physics threw off the materialism that dominated the natural sciences of the 19th century.

Rupert Sheldrake in the Living Matrix movie

Of materialism, he wrote:

“[This] frame was so narrow and rigid that it was difficult to find a place in it for many concepts of our language that had always belonged to its very substance, for instance, the concept of mind, of the human soul or of life. Mind could be introduced into the general picture only as a kind of mirror of the material world.”

Today we live in the 21st century, and it seems that we are still stuck with this narrow and rigid view of the things. As Rupert Sheldrake puts it in his new book, published this week, The Science Delusion: “The belief system that governs conventional scientific thinking is an act of faith, grounded in a 19th-century ideology.”

Precognition – feeling the future?

Very interesting article in New Scientist this week about ESP and Precognition. Predictably the article suggests researcher error but it is interesting that this data backs up some of the fascinating findings on the subject by Heart Math…worth a look

A barrage of experiments seems to show that we can predict the future – but they may tell us more about the scientific method

FEW sounds quicken the pulse like the clatter of the roulette ball as it drops. Fortunes can be won or lost as it settles into its numbered slot. Find a way to predict where it will come to rest, and you would soon become the envy of every other gambler and the worst nightmare of every casino.

Are you being influenced by the future?

Electromagnetic therapy and chronic disease – interesting article

Hopes of cancer breakthrough with treatment using electromagnetic fields to shrink tumours

This is interesting with regards to bio-stimulation devices that utilise electromagnetic and magnetic fields..

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2083803/Hopes-cancer-breakthrough-treatment-using-electromagnetic-fields-shrink-tumours.html#ixzz1itYeuqqK

Shift in human consciousness in response to world events – Kim Jong-Il Dies

http://noosphere.princeton.edu/

Interesting article on the Global Consciousness Homepage. Does this suggest that focused and synchronised human consciousness can effect the behaviour of random systems (such as random event generators)? How are we then influencing each other with our thoughts and intentions?

From the Daily Mail online:

As the fallen leader of one of America’s biggest foes, Kim Jong-Il would have been prominent on any U.S. intelligence watch-list. But still North Korea’s ‘dear leader’ managed to pass away on a train on Saturday night (Dec 17 20:30) without the outside world knowing for a whole two days. The remarkable intelligence blunder has left the world pondering the lack of American intelligence on one of the world’s most secretive nations.

Until a North Korean state TV announcement on Monday, South Korean officials had no idea Kim had died at 8:30pm on Saturday. Cautious U.S. officials were still quoting press reports well into Monday. The intelligence delay and failure to pick up on any clues shows the level of secrecy in the North Korean regime, reported the New York Times.

South Korean officials only found out what happened when North Korean state media reported the news in a 12pm announcement on Monday. ‘This shows a big loophole in our intelligence-gathering network on North Korea,’ South Korean politician Kwon Seon-taek told the New York Times.

Given the intense news coverage and geopolitical concerns that began upon the announcement, we chose this time rather than the time of Kim Jong-Il’s death for the GCP event. It was set for 24 hours beginning with the noontime (03:00 UTC) announcement on Monday, Dec 19. The result is Chisquare 86463.704 on 86400 df, for p = 0.438 and Z = 0.155.