Notes  

The links and references below are only a toe-dip into an ocean of fresh thinking about fundamental questions.

There is a wide variety of methodology and focus in the websites listed.

There is no attempt to ‘grade’ websites or links in order of significance or accuracy. Suffice that the exponents, professionals, practitioners referenced are surely in earnest and have devoted serious thought to what they say.

Books or websites etc suggested do not imply espousal of all their contents. Their selection centres more on whether they bring up relevant points or questions of potential interest.

Some websites or links listed in one sub-section might sit equally well under another category.

The links etc are designed mainly as an introduction for a layman who wishes to reflect on the modern world of intellectual endeavour.

Specialists in a particular scientific area may feel that what is on offer here is elementary or plain wrong.  They are invited to contribute their viewpoints to this site.

Perhaps every piece of relevant information is yet to be digested by any one person. This website is in the cause of providing a guide – or at least some signposts – as to what is available.

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Scientific studies that have a bearing on

is there a fundamental animating spirit in our biological make-up? If so, what might this animating spirit be?

Neuroscience: Interpersonal Connectivity:

For many years the brain was viewed as an electrical system, a system that transfers electrical signals from key neural areas to other neural areas. A new paradigm in neuroscience has emerged. Researchers including Nobel laureate Henry Dale demonstrated that the activation of action and synaptic potentials is the result of not an electrical but a chemical release – specifically, the release of acetylcholine, which sets the electrical process in motion. The focus has changed to understanding the effect of chemicals on the brain. The activation of a single neurochemical causes significant changes to occur in the brain. The interplay between chemicals, how to excite or inhibit these chemicals, and how to provide guidelines to maximise outcomes, was explored, including by Dr Pieter Rossouw.

Complex interactions of genetics, environmental input, electrical activity, neuromodulator activity, neurochemical activity, the neural structures and pathways of the brain, and epigenetics – gene expression as a result of a person’s interactions with the environment – are not yet fully explored and illustrate the complexities of neural networks and difficulties in the quest to understand memory systems, which are the basis of pathology.

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Johnjoe McFadden and Jim Al-Khalili in ‘Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology’ (Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADiql3FG5is ) Nobody has ever made anything living entirely out of dead material. Life remains the only way to make life. Are we missing a vital ingredient in its creation?

Scientific studies that have a bearing on

The focus or centre of consciousness may lie like a radial point just outside the confines of the physical body and feed information to receptors such as the brain within the body. Professor Paul Grof, director of the Mood Disorders Center of Ottawa and professor of psychiatry at the University of Toronto, states in the  Journal of Humanistic Psychology that “contrary to the assumptions underlying the biological theories of mind, the brain does not seem to play a role in the content of the non- ordinary experiences.”

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The ramifications in terms of man’s reactions to stimuli ranging from chemicals etc in human bodies to the energy and wave frequencies emitted from outside sources hold true in different ways in innumerable areas of mainstream medical studies. Stress levels – by way of just one example – are affected by cortisol . It follows that personal decisions taken, in mental terms, can be affected by altering these chemical flows within the body. In another example from a different field, humans generate electromagnetic energy or ‘noise’. A normal, healthy body should resonate with a natural frequency of 65 – 75M Hz. Human cells and for instance muscles respond to magnetic fields.   Research shows that some human brains can pick up on rotations of geomagnetic-strength fields as evidenced by drops in alpha wave power following stimulus. See abstract on ‘Transduction of the Geomagnetic Field as Evidenced from 2 Alpha-band Activity in the Human Brain‘ by Professor Shinsuke Shimoto, Connie Wang, and Isaac Hilburn.

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Scientific studies that have a bearing on

Do the increasing revelations about the human body including its sub-atomic parts have a relevance to what and who we are and, if so, what is it?

Scientific studies that have a bearing on

What do discoveries about natural science tell us about who we are?

Masaru Emoto, conducted experiments with water. He collected water samples from around the world, froze them and analyzed the crystals under a microscope. He compared water from clean, mountain streams to city tap water. Water from mountain streams and springs formed beautiful geometric designs in their crystalline patterns while city water and polluted water formed distorted and damaged crystal structures. The structure rather than the chemicals in water can change and water has memory. He discovered that water exposed to positive words, music and thoughts formed beautiful crystals whereas water exposed to negative words, music and thoughts formed fragmented crystals.

A large percentage of the human body is composed of water – some 70% and more – though it fluctuates downwards with increasing age – with a larger proportion concentrated in the heart and brain. See the study by James Roland medically reviewed by J. Keith Fisher, MD. It has been scientifically tested that water reacts to music. Therefore there is a physical explanation as well as a mental one as to why we react to unpleasant and pleasant sounds

PETER PROKOPKIN is known as an anarchist theoretician but in his work as a zoologist he was a forerunner of the backlash against an interpretation of Darwinism that put man’s competitive traits at the core of human nature. Prokopkin believed that seeking out conflict proved to be socially beneficial only in attempts to destroy unjust, authoritarian institutions. According to Frans de Waal in ‘The Age of Empathy: Nature’s Lessons for a Kinder Society’ research on primates shows that there is a biological basis for behaviour such as co-operation and mutual aid. Recent research into single cell organisms – in humans and other creatures – and the substances they secrete show how co-operation is a key to survival.

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THE WORLD OF JAMY – Animals can speak

From time immemorial a division between human beings and the animal kingdom has been illustrated and justified by the fact, so-called, that humans unlike animals have language. A few lay people may have thought this contentious but no serious scientific attempt has been made explore this assumption till now. It seemed odd that recorded human speech when speeded up sounds like the twittering of a bird with all the sounds undifferentiated or recognisable as words per se, or, when slowed down, comes across with the effect of a dog-like growl. It now appears that this pillar of a purported key difference between animals and men has crumbled. A camera was placed by a behaviourist veterinarian in the heart of animal families to decipher what dogs and cats say to each other in the absence of humans and the richness of dolphin conversation was recorded and analysed. It has been shown that dogs can understand a hundred words; cats meow to imitate our language; monkeys communicate like human babies; and birds like men have regional accents. Animals talk to each other.
Jamy’s world – Our animals have the floor streaming. (See Replay France 3 | France tv)

Dr Luc Montagnier stated that DNA produces electromagnetic radio signals which may be able to recreate that DNA. His work ‘Electromagnetic Signals Are Produced by Aqueous Nanostructures Derived from Bacterial DNA Sequences’ concludes that ‘diluted DNA from pathogenic bacterial and viral species can emit specific radio waves that are associated with ‘nanostructures’ in water which might be able to recreate the pathogen’. ‘Waves’ and ‘signals’ are thus a prime mover in actuating and explaining biological phenomena.

The theory has been critiqued by some scientists as inter alia appearing to support some of the tenets of homeopathy. Theories like that of Lynn McTaggart which deal with energy fields and magnetic attraction as a way of healing are supported by Montagnier’s findings.

While the lay jury may still be out, much care went into the theory of Montagnier, a Nobel Prize winner, as a summary of some of the experimentation as below indicates:

From a medium of white blood cells, cultured bacterial DNA (from Mycoplasma pirum and Escherichia coli) was filtered to remove all the bacteria. A polymerase chain reaction was performed, which demonstrated the absence of remaining DNA. The solution was then incubated for two or three weeks, after which the presence of bacterial DNA was again detected. Following the dilution electromagnetic radiation was detected using a Fourier analysis technique developed by Jacques Benveniste. It detected electromagnetic frequencies only at high dilutions, ranging from 10−5 to 10−12. The energetic pattern was recorded, transmitted, and used to reconstruct the DNA using brand new nucleotides. The existing nucleotides from the original sample are unaffected.  In more detail the steps taken were:
1. A known water sample with 2 ng/ml of 104 bases DNA from an HIV infected patient is diluted by 10 into water and agitated for 15 seconds. After filtration to remove the DNA, the dilution and agitation steps are repeated 10 times, reaching high dilution levels of 10−10.
2. The highly diluted sample emits electromagnetic signals (EMS) of low frequencies.
3. This EMS is recorded by a microphone coil and saved as a 6-second WAV file at the lab in Paris.
4. The WAV file is emailed to a partner team at the university of Benevento in Italy.
5. The Italian team emits with a coil for 1 hour the EMS of the WAV file on a sample of distilled water in a sealed metal tube.
6. The water sample is then placed in a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) machine.
7. The PCR machine in Italy produces DNA, 98% identical to the initial DNA in Paris.
8. A known water sample with 2 ng/ml of 104 bases DNA from an HIV infected patient is diluted by 10 into water and agitated for 15 seconds. After filtration to remove the DNA, the dilution and agitation steps are repeated 10 times, reaching high dilution levels of 10−10.
9. The highly diluted sample emits electromagnetic signals (EMS) of low frequencies.
10. This EMS is recorded by a microphone coil and saved as a 6-second WAV file at the lab in Paris.
11. The WAV file is emailed to a partner team at the university of Benevento in Italy.
12. The Italian team emits with a coil for 1 hour the EMS of the WAV file on a sample of distilled water in a sealed metal tube.
13. The water sample is then placed in a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) machine.
14. The PCR machine in Italy produces DNA, 98% identical to the initial DNA in Paris.

IF the results are correct, ‘these would be the most significant experiments performed in the past 90 years, demanding re-evaluation of the whole conceptual framework of modern chemistry.’

‘Neuroscience: Interpersonal Connectivity

For many years the brain was viewed as an electrical system, a system that transfers electrical signals from key neural areas to other neural areas. A new paradigm in neuroscience has emerged. Researchers including Nobel laureate Henry Dale demonstrated that the activation of action and synaptic potentials is the result of not an electrical but a chemical release – specifically, the release of acetylcholine, which sets the electrical process in motion. The focus has changed to understanding the effect of chemicals on the brain. The activation of a single neurochemical causes significant changes to occur in the brain. The interplay between chemicals, how to excite or inhibit these chemicals, and how to provide guidelines to maximise outcomes, was explored.  Dr Pieter Rossouw also explores this subject.

Complex interactions of genetics, environmental input, electrical activity, neuromodulator activity, neurochemical activity, the neural structures and pathways of the brain, and epigenetics – gene expression as a result of a person’s interactions with the environment – are not yet fully explored and illustrate the complexities of neural networks and difficulties in the quest to understand memory systems, which are the basis of pathology.

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An Interview with biologist Jeremy Griffiths about a book by Professor Harry Prosen That ‘Solves The Human Condition’ by homing in on the cooperative genes that underlie our evolutionary development.

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