Spirituality Guide

As part of his virtual tour to promote his book, I decided to question Mr. Church on some subjects relevant to his work and curious to me.

S: Craig Venter has been involved recently in a project to map the genetic diversity across the oceans. They have found more families of genes than there are genes in the Human genome and seem to have new life at every drop of the collector. Is it possible that ALL this life uses epigenetics to control the DNA or are we just talking the higher life forms or perhaps even just primates or humans?

DC: What is life? At least part of it can only be explained by consciousness. In The Genie in Your Genes (www.GenieBestSeller.com), I review the research showing that consciousness is epigenetic. The change of consciousness provided by love and nurturing is epigenetic beyond reasonable doubt; in the book I also make the case for the epigenetic effects of meditation, optimism, energy psychology, altruism, belief, and energy medicine.

S: There are a couple of biologists whose work seems to perhaps mesh with the epigenetic process. Rupert Sheldrake uses Morphogenetic Fields to explain some interesting things about how various species pass on non-coded information. He talks about how birds in Holland, for example, managed to keep memory of how to steal milk from bottles even though for years the deliveries had ceased. Could epigenetics be involved here?

DC: I’m visiting Rupert in London later this month, and I love talking to him, because he stimulates so many insights. Information is also held in energy fields, and these fields shape biological processes. In the 1930s, Harold Saxton Burr experimented with salamanders whose limbs had been severed (salamanders, unlike humans, can regenerate lost limbs).

He found that even when a limb was missing, the electromagnetic field of the cell persisted. And when a new limb grew, it took on the morphological characteristics of that energy field. We use electromagnetic fields all over medicine nowadays, from EEGs to MRIs to pacemakers. I believe there are also much larger nonlocal quantum fields that contain information, like Rupert’s morphogenic fields, and in the book, I describe rigorous experiments that demonstrate that they are independent of local electromagnetic fields and all known forms of energy exchange.