Spirituality Guide

Among the new things I have learned from The Genie in Your Genes, by Dawson Church, is that genes are not static things, but rather they live in the moment. They are triggered or quietened by us, the person who thinks, feels and believes. Church’s book outlines the research that shows us this.

Add to this the presence of a system of microfibers that run at electrical speed rather than chemical – thus neatly explaining how a batter can hit a ball coming in at around 100 miles an hour. This system rather interestingly seems to come to the body surface at the points the Chinese ancients knew about around 5000 years ago. The Acupuncture points are being shown to be not only real, they have properties way beyond that of the nervous system that make the reported results of such ancient healing a reality rather than myth.

And there’s yet another system that has been mapped – it is one we’ve known about for a long time, but nobody ever thought of it as a system. It is one that reaches so ubiquitously throughout the body that it replaces the skin as the largest organ of the body.

This newly recognized system is remarkable – it reaches into every cell and receives information back from every cell. When layered or grouped it behaves like a semiconductor – for those without a technical education, a computer chip, whether processor or memory, is a semiconductor – it will pass charge or current in one direction but not the reverse, and so can be used in a variety of ways, to process data.

This system truly blows the field wide open, and while I am tempted to say, go buy Church’s book, I will just say it includes sheath and tendon material. NOW, go buy Church’s book!

I’ve recently been working my way through Dawson Church’s book, The Genie in Your Genes. It has been an very interesting journey so far, and it is taking me longer than many books I have read – not that it is hard going, but simply because as I read, so many things are ‘clicking’ into place. I’ve grown accustomed to these ‘clicks’ in my life. They aren’t really sounds, just the sensation when something I learn ‘snicks’ into place with associations across a variety of subjects.

I was an average to good student in school – smart enough to be able to get by while being lazy, dumb enough not to realize that if nobody else pushed me I should do it myself, but after a while I noticed that when someone asked a question, I could string together an answer that, to me, had to be a lie, but sounded good enough for them to accept it. Later they would thank me and I came to know that somehow, I had produced a correct response.

Over the years I came to understand what was happening – while I wasn’t a classic student, able to regurgitate at will the facts and figures force fed to us, those same facts were going in and being assigned a place. When I started trying to answer someone, the recovery process would reach across subjects, finding bits and pieces of data and fitting them together. Edward de Bono calls it Lateral Thinking.

So I spent my life learning, not worrying specifically about what it was, or from whom it came, and fairly early on I developed a view of problems that, if I couldn’t find an answer in a short time, I would work out all the things I could about it, then send it to ‘the back of my mind’ for an answer to come later. Sooner or later, I’d have an ‘Aha!’ moment as the answer came forward.

And sometimes, questions I had held for some time would suddenly find the missing jigsaw piece as I heard or read something new and I would almost literally feel the ‘snick’ as the pieces came together.

Dawson Church’s book has been like that for me.

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. Today is the last day of this style questioning.

Stop in tomorrow for my more formal interview with Mr. Church.

S: Bruce Lipton talks about cell stimuli, as in what triggers them to do things. The signals seem to provoke reactions in the cell membrane which then cause the internal processes to produce proteins. What i wonder is where the epigenetic structures receive their ‘instructions’ to operate. Is it possible they show the presence of a life field as Lipton says is the originator of our DNA functions?

DC: I believe there’s Consciousness with a big C, of which our little local human consciousness is a part. Experienced meditators have experiences that are not explainable in terms of our local awareness. They produce a “felt sense” in the body as well, as these transcendent experiences echo down to the level of our cells.

The amazing observation I make here is that we’re unified organisms, and our trillions of individual cells are as involved with transformative states of consciousness as our transcendent spirits. There’s no such thing as a spiritual change that is not a biological change, and when our spirits soar, our bodies are filled with vibrancy and health.

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Dawson Church has edited or authored many books in the fields of health, psychology, and spirituality. He has collaborated on articles with many of the leading voices of our time, including Larry Dossey, Bernie Siegel, Caroline Myss, Barry Sears, and John Gray. He earned his doctorate in Integrative Healthcare at Holos University under the mentorship of distinguished neurosurgeon Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D., founder of the American Holistic Medical Association. He went on to receive a postgraduate Ph.D. in Natural Medicine.

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.

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: For a long time it was thought that individuals are the result of their genes. Before the Human Genome study it was presumed that the DNA of humans would be complex, vastly more so than say, a mouse. Did this finding kick off the epigenetics theory or was it more a matter of bringing back into attention something from earlier times?

DC: It was eye-opening when the Human Genome Project showed that humans share about 99% of the genes of mice. We have only about twice the number of genes found in a simple insect such as a fruit fly. Scientific papers from the early 1990s spoke of over 100,000 genes. A decade later scientists were talking 65,000 genes, then 40,000, down to the current consensus of 23,688 genes. These findings told us that epigenetics, control of the DNA from outside the genome, was very important in differentiating human bodies.

S: Some time back there was a study that looked at the environments of grandmothers and how this affected their children and the children of their children. Was this the beginning of a real look at the effects of environment on DNA expression?

DC: A number of provocative studies have shown that love and nurturing is epigenetic. When we’re loved, gene switches in the stress-response parts of our brain are tripped, and these changes affect our lives. They can also be passed on to the next generation. So the offspring of nurturing parents tend to nurture their young better, several generations on. All this without any change in the DNA sequence!

This week, author Dawson Church will be joining us not only to talk about his newest book The Genie in Your Genes but also the implications of epigenetic research.

Dawson Church has edited or authored many books in the fields of health, psychology, and spirituality. He has collaborated on articles with many of the leading voices of our time, including Larry Dossey, Bernie Siegel, Caroline Myss, Barry Sears, and John Gray. He earned his doctorate in Integrative Healthcare at Holos University under the mentorship of distinguished neurosurgeon Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D., founder of the American Holistic Medical Association. He went on to receive a postgraduate Ph.D. in Natural Medicine.

Church and Shealy coauthored a compendious survey of spiritual healing throughout history called Soul Medicine. Church founded Soul Medicine Institute (SMI), a nonprofit dedicated to education and research into science-based medical interventions which use consciousness and energy as primary modalities. He is the author of several studies published in peer-reviewed journals, and lectures at many medical and psychology conferences each year.

He presents workshops on peak performance for athletes and organizations through EFT Power Training. He performed the first randomized blind trial of EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) for athletes, the first study of EFTs effects on healthcare workers, and a large nationwide study of PTSD in war veterans as part of the Iraq Vets Stress Project.

His research summarizes the biomedical evidence for consciousness-based treatments. The Genie in Your Genes outlines the latest studies on the effects of psychospiritual experiences on gene expression, and predicts that consciousness will reach the front line of medicine in the coming decade. It has been hailed as a brilliant contribution to the literature by many reviewers.

You can visit his website at The Genie in Your Genes.

The Genie in Your Genes

The Genie in Your Genes is a breakthrough book linking consciousness to genetic change. For the first time, a single book summarizes a chain of remarkable scientific discoveries that are revolutionizing the ways we think about health.

Author Dawson Church applies the insights of the new field of Epigenetics (epi=above, i.e. control above the level of the gene) to healing. Citing hundreds of scientific studies, he shows how beliefs and emotions can trigger the expression of DNA strands.

He focuses on a class of genes called Immediate Early Genes or IEGs. These genes turn on within a few seconds of a stimulus. They can be triggered by thoughts or emotions (”I loved that unexpected gift of roses Bill gave me” or “I’m so mad about what Uncle John said at the Christmas party”). Many IEGs are regulatory genes turn on other genes that affect specific aspects of our immune system, such as the production of white blood cells that destroy attacking bacteria and viruses. Epigenetics thus influences our health every day.

He coins the new term “Epigenetic Medicine” to describe healing techniques with epigenetic effects. He also summarizes the science behind the infant fields of Energy Psychology and Energy Medicine, both of which offer promising epigenetic medical therapies, and describes a few of the thousands of powerful personal breakthroughs that are being achieved by therapists, doctors and lay people practicing these techniques.

The Genie in Your Genes shows that there is a sound theoretical framework, based on credible experiments, for understanding these astonishing results, and predicts that the insights of Epigenetic Medicine will dramatically advance the fields of both medicine and psychology in the coming decade.

Best of all, The Genie in Your Genes demonstrates that, by taking control of our consciousness and using it to influence our genetic expression, we can sometimes bypass years of therapy, as well as harmful drugs and invasive surgeries, to, in effect, do continuous genetic engineering on our own bodies. This can produce both immediate relief from long-standing anxieties and neuroses, as well as “miraculous” healing of persistent physical conditions, especially autoimmune diseases.

Among a new crop of books that chart the way to a positive health future, The Genie in Your Genes stands out as a solidly grounded and exciting pointer to the future possibilities of a medicine that links soul to body and mind.

By Seeker

It would seem, if we seek the media and not the messenger, Religion is about finding ourselves, not as mortal bodies in a physical world, but rather seeking the purpose behind who we are. If Graham Hancock sees any Truth, we were, in this chain of history, ‘awakened’ through trance. Somehow in Trance we found new knowledge, new paths and ways of expression that showed us a world beyond this one.

If we look at the physical evidence, the relics and monuments, we see that those who had (as far as we know) few of the technologies we now have, were able to at least equal and in all truth surpass projects of which we are not capable. If we look at the peoples of the past that are only now becoming known, we see people who venerated those who brought knowledge so highly they formed civilizations to provide for the needs of those they called Gods.

If we read our myths, we find stories so fantastic they are treated as legend, yet they seem to tell of the times when the civilizations that built the megalithic monuments, who hauled stones in the hundreds of tonnes across vast distances, and who mapped the world in accurate detail before we think there was a people capable of so doing, fell from their sophistication because of cataclysm.

Over and again the stories are of Flood and Deluge. In our knowledge of Science we now have a process by which these two events can occur and they attach directly to events we know to have happened. The evidence of the passing of the most recent Ice Age is all around us. Go to the shoreline of the sea and you will see such evidence. Ten thousand years ago you could have walked out miles further than you can do now – the sea has risen that much.

So, what is Religion? Well, what it is now for you depends on what your parents believed to be true. Very few people have the strength of mind to stand aside from what they were raised in to view Truth as it might be. But at its root, in the beginning, from all the evidence, Religion appears to have been meant as a means to preserve the knowledge of the Fall… and perhaps a forewarning of what is still to come.

By Seeker

So, what is religion? This can be broken down further – what is religion NOW and what did it begin as? In Supernatural, Graham Hancock looks into the hallucinatory drugs, how they work (from the inside rather than a chemical treatise on body effects) and why we find similar visions across the world using drugs like DMT or LSD to those painted on cave walls dating back to, as far as we can tell, the dawning of Consciousness.

There appears to be information and answers available in trance state. The ‘Sleeping Prophet,’ Edgar Cayce, would go into trance to find answers for petitioners to resolve problems ranging from illness to a life direction to follow. Shamans down the ages use trance to delve into a person and help their soul on its path through life or lives.

It goes further – Edison and other inventors deliberately pushed what is called the Hypnagogic state to find new ideas and come up with inventions. Societies around the world use various methods from drugs through dance and drums to chanting to find a path into trance. They are all firmly convinced that in trance they can find new information, new paths and ways to follow for the betterment of others.

Hancock is not saying drugs equal religion or god, he is suggesting they offered one path very early in our development to open up a facet of ourselves that we have been exploring ever since. The Indian experience, both recent and from the Vedic times, tells us that people can be happy, or at least content, with very little in the way of material things if they are actively pursuing a spiritual path in life.

Reading across the internet it is fairly easy to find references to the fall of Atlantis 12,000 years back – the tale is one of spiritual beings becoming enamoured of the flesh, finding overmuch attraction in the things of this world and seeking power for its own sake. The bible and other religious texts also talk of the Fall of Man. It can, on one level, be talking about the destruction of the ‘golden age’ of Man by consecutive cataclysms that wiped out civilization not just once, but possible 3 times within eight or nine thousand years, but it could also be talking about a more spiritual fall.

If Man was once focused on the life beyond this, on the pursuit of the development of an immortal Consciousness, and somehow we lost that focus and started to think the merely physical was all that mattered, maybe having such a view triggered by the disasters around us followed by the herculean efforts needed to regain survivability for the race, this could be a Fall from the heights.