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 mentioned Bruce Lipton earlier. He and Rupert Sheldrake (also talked about) are biologists who have been led outside the strictures of the laboratory into trying to find the reasons for the mysteries they found in cells.

I had a problem with what they’d come up with though. I didn’t know of any way for what they were talking about to actually occur. Lipton talks about us being a field, ‘owning’ a body by having identity ‘tags’ that let us run the cells. Sheldrake talks about Morphogenetic Fields capable of storing information at a species level, and seemingly generating mass change (think the 100th monkey syndrome) across groups.

The problem was, I couldn’t see any way for fields to be a factor – there didn’t seem to be a way to connect together the Kirlian aura with the triggers for cells, to link in some esoteric field to the everyday practical life of cells. Intellectually I could think of fields directing cells, making decisions that resulted in actions but I didn’t see a mechanism. I could accept that maybe we are quantum fields, but such things seemed to be orders of magnitude too fine for any operation at the much grosser physical level.

In Dawson Church’s book, The Genie In Your Genes, I have found quite a number of ideas that have me connecting things together to come to new understanding. Mind you, this isn’t necessarily research he personally has done, but rather his synthesis of what is happening in the world of research and his linking together of new data we are finding.

It is entirely possible this could be the most important book you can read – Church is showing how the systems function, how there is mechanism for things that until very recently, most scientists held to be thoroughly in the world of the mystical.

Recently, around 2000AD, Science completed the mapping of the Human Genome. The pharmaceutical companies were very disappointed – they’d held the view that when the genes were counted, they’d have the chance to create medicines for individuals, but that was based on there being way more than 100,000 genes that make a human – there isn’t. There are a little over 23,500 of them.

That may sound like a lot but it isn’t, not for something as complex and intricately intertwined as the mechanisms of the human body. There’s not a lot of difference between a mouse and a human and we even share a lot of the same genes.

So there’s a bit of a mystery about the human genome. It just isn’t complex enough, the genes get turned on and off instead of being relatively set at conception as was first thought and very small differences in the pattern can produce vastly different effects. Even identical gene sets (identical twins) can have radically different outcomes.

I’ve mentioned before about how most people think of DNA as the brains of the cell, but it simply isn’t so. As we’ve learned more about the workings of a cell, it has become apparent the cell is a response system – something tells it what to do & it performs a task.

And now we have a gene issue as well. Genes simply don’t seem able to produce the interwoven complexities of a human. And we see the same gene in different people and even different animals performing different functions, or, as it is termed, being ‘expressed’ differently.

Are genes magic? Do they have an ability to do different things based on their own decisions? Dawson Church brings together a wide range of information that says, rather emphatically, No.

Most people, when asked, would say life is all about the physical. Some will bring their church into it but they see that as a separate thing to daily life – church is about what happens to your soul, about where you go when life is done, and about conning the God into thinking you’ve had a good life and so deserve to go to heaven.

But many people, perhaps ALL people, will, when asked nicely, tell about a time when they knew things they couldn’t, felt things impossible, saw strange things, heard sounds from nowhere or acted just right to prevent disaster without knowing why they did it. It might be thinking of someone not seen for years, then meeting them, knowing who is on the phone or at the door, feeling the presence of a loved one then finding that was the exact time they died, or just knowing something has gone wrong for a child or friend.

What most people DON’T realize, because they don’t have the training or education, is that while one of these things may be simple coincidence, all of them add to a scientific anomaly. And the fact that so many people have them is also a scientific anomaly.

We discard such things because they have been made to seem like fantasy, or superstition, and of course, as modern ‘realistic’ humans, we can’t see ourselves believing in such mumbo-jumbo, but when so many people have so many ‘impossible’ things happen to them, this is definitely not something to ignore. Something is going on and that something has an explanation – but if we refuse to look for it we will never find out what it is.

I’ve been wondering and worrying at these things across the years. It is what brought me back towards a spiritual view of life, the motivation that had me overcome the anathema to such things generated by my early experiences and showed me, once again, the delightful mystery of life.

Here’s one: We have carefully documented cases of people who have been diagnosed with incurable disease. Then suddenly, they seem to have no evidence of the disease. There seems little coherence of the factors involved – in other words we can’t look at their lives and see that they all did a particular thing to get well.

Here’s another: All living things have a Kirlian Aura. If you take a living thing and place it within a high frequency electric field, then photograph it, there is a glowing field around the object. This is not simply an effect of the tiny electric impulses we’ve known about for so long, and video of the aura shows it can change and react to outside influences.

Weirder still, if we take a leaf and look at its Kirlian aura, then tear the leaf in half and look again at one half, the missing piece still shows, and it continues to show for half an hour or more.

Here’s one more: Plants can feel. There’s solid objective evidence that a plant will react not just to damage, but to thoughts of damage. A plant will set a flurry of activity on an EEG or a polygraph when someone intends to harm it. Maybe those who think eating vegetables need to rethink their ‘moral’ stance?

Another one: there are documented cases of people receiving transplants from unknown (to them) donors, who subsequently develop strange cravings or behaviours – on checking back, researchers have found the new behavior was characteristic of the donor, now deceased.

Here’s yet another: From what we have learned about nerves and how they work, a batsman in cricket or a batter in baseball should not be able to hit the ball. That little sphere comes at them so fast there is not the time for several sights of the ball (to be able to calculate trajectory and speed) ro reach the brain, be thought about, even instinctively, and the results to be sent back out along the nerves to start the swing – and the bat makes god contact with the balls to often for it to be blind or chance hitting.

There are many such puzzlements in our lives, often ignored or brushed aside as wacko ideas. But we all have strange little experiences in our lives, all of us.

Recently, around 2000AD, Science completed the mapping of the Human Genome. The pharmaceutical companies were very disappointed – they’d held the view that when the genes were counted, they’d have the chance to create medicines for individuals, but that was based on there being way more than 100,000 genes that make a human – there isn’t. There are a little over 23,500 of them.

That may sound like a lot but it isn’t, not for something as complex and intricately intertwined as the mechanisms of the human body. There’s not a lot of difference between a mouse and a human and we even share a lot of the same genes.

So there’s a bit of a mystery about the human genome. It just isn’t complex enough, the genes get turned on and off instead of being relatively set at conception as was first thought and very small differences in the pattern can produce vastly different effects. Even identical gene sets (identical twins) can have radically different outcomes.

I’ve mentioned before about how most people think of DNA as the brains of the cell, but it simply isn’t so. As we’ve learned more about the workings of a cell, it has become apparent the cell is a response system – something tells it what to do & it performs a task.

And now we have a gene issue as well. Genes simply don’t seem able to produce the interwoven complexities of a human. And we see the same gene in different people and even different animals performing different functions, or, as it is termed, being ‘expressed’ differently.

Are genes magic? Do they have an ability to do different things based on their own decisions? Dawson Church brings together a wide range of information that says, rather emphatically, No.

I want to thank Dawson Church for his excellent posts. I am still working my way through his book and have found, almost from the start, it contained useful information that has led me to go looking for a wider range of reading.

The Genie in Your Genes, I thought, when asked to consider it for Spirituality Guide, going to be about Epigenetics, probably explaining what it is, how it works, and it’s relevance to our world. And it is, but the book has far more to it than that. It reaches across the fields of Science, brings forth studies and experiments, models and concepts, to show that we can change our lives.

Now most of us have run into the ‘self-help’ flood, the mass of books and web sites where, for just a few dollars, we can find out how to… whatever the site has deemed is saleable. Dawson’s book leads us to a knowledge of just how we can help ourselves and although, as I said, I am still reading it, he doesn’t focus on one method. He is telling us how any method can work, by giving us the basics about how any method which can work, must work for the body to respond.

I will be talking more about this book, and about some of the methods he mentions which can be shown to cause the physical and mental changes that must happen for healing to begin. To learn from a practical view how to achieve the results of change we desire in our lives is valuable indeed. This isn’t a book full of theory and testimonials from ‘satisfied customers’ whom you’ll never meet, it is a pathway through some truly amazing Science, bridging the chasm that has traditionally existed between the world of the physical and the world of the spirit.

There’re more things to wonder about when we begin to examine reality. One is a BIG one.

Science tells us that inside atoms are protons, neutrons and electrons. Inside them are quarks. But some oddities in physics have brought forth a new theory to explain some odd goings on. String Theory tells us that at base of everything are strings, so small that an atom compared to the Earth is a far closer match than a string compared to an atom.

Strings are tiny bits of… we are not sure what, but the best of theory says that for at least part of the time, they are somewhere else. They vibrate in and out of our reality. Strings make up everything we experience, yet for part of the time they are just not here.

So with all those things pointing at a reality a bit different from that being taught in schools, we have to wonder what is really Real.

At the moment it would seem only one thing can be relied on. With the universe a hologram, with memories being part of a mental hologram we call Consciousness and Mind, with the evidence that there is nothing at all that inside the smallest things we can conceive of, it would seem that the only real thing is us.

Strange that after all these years, after brilliant men have worked their minds for decades in study and discovery, we find ourselves heading back towards the idea that only Life has meaning, that ‘All the World’s a Stage’ or that lives are played in the Cave as Shadows on a Wall with the real players back off behind us.

If all this speculation is right, being worried about the world around us if like being worried if you’re behaving right in a dream you had last night. If the world around us is a creation of ours, if how we see it can change what we experience, then it would seem it is what is in us that matters.

To review briefly some of the ideas behind all this speculation – from Science we have the theory that we are inside a hologram. When I first heard about holograms, almost nobody knew what they are, but since Princess Leia’s message to Luke as a hologram from R2D2 and Neo’s Matrix worlds, most people now have some idea of what one is.

Relativity tells us that the frame or location of the observer is important – where the observer is and what he is doing can alter what he sees and when.

Quantum Theory tells us that everything is random jiggles of a quantum foam and the only apparent causation for a reality is Consciousness – in other words it is the perception of the quantum state that causes it to collapse into entanglement – to become real, or perhaps just to Become!

Brains are not where it is at. We can probe and scan all we like, but there’s some steps missing in the idea that brains are US. One you might want to ask is, where are the memories stored? When they talk memories with brains, they show us where particular types of memories are processed, they show us what parts trigger when certain associations are made, but what they don’t show us (because they can’t) is where the bytes of memory storage are actually held.

I’m not sure why but it seems to be a question not being asked.

Currently we are hampered not just by the way things are being run, which removes effectiveness from the very people who are the mainstay of the society, but those people are also being crippled from childhood by an education system designed to ensure they never learn to think properly and always find authority more important than individuality. Those who break the mould normally find the people around them work to bring them back to the normal level – in my opinion because the example of someone not conforming raises uncomfortable subconscious thoughts about why one isn’t also throwing off the chains.

It can be hard to break the chains of normalcy, particularly when those in whom we confide put us down for trying, or when those we love or trust will not or cannot back us in our path. Sometimes I think the road is hard, not through any particular quality of the road, not because we have to walk it all alone as the Christ and all the real sages have said, but because those we know are standing by the side of it, mocking and throwing clods of dirt at us until we turn aside and return to the dullness of the daily grind.

There’re times I think it takes more courage to be able to tell those around you that you aren’t going to keep on with the role they have you slotted into, that you are finding a new pathway through life, than it does to actually start the new life itself. When we are ready to start our new life, when things have clarified enough to goad us into new directions, the steps can seem natural – finding the guts to tell a loved one you aren’t going to keep on with something they expect isn’t something we want to do to someone we love or care about.

In a thread on a forum, a discussion started over whether people liked the world or not. One person was talking about how things aren’t good for us, we have little or no control and hardly anyone has a decent life. Another responded by saying most people were content with their life, living day by day and making their way.

For me the question would be more whether they accept the world with its faults or have they no alternatives? Seems to me when I talk to people (I did bar work for a decade) about the world they all have complaints as you say, but they also have no way to change anything. Some surprising people think the election system is a fraud, that banks should be neutralised somehow, or that corporations are the true rulers of our world, but when you ask how we can go about changing it they pick up their drinks, shrug their shoulders and turn back to the cricket.

The conversation included reference to Zeitgeist, a movie detailing the world around us with a view of religion and banks that feeds directly into the theory of how there’s those who control our lives, who sit above the top of all the various organizations and manipulate the world so as to increase and hold power.

I don’t think the problem is getting people to realise there’s something smelly in our pig pen, although films such as Zeitgeist help detail the aroma, it is finding air freshener that we can all use. Rather than detailing in ever more complexity how many ways the shite stinks, we need to be working on ways to grow a new world from it, one in which people get to learn and live, if not happily, at least with some expectation they might be able to influence the path of their own lives.

To illustrate the point - you’re familiar with the appearance of the Milky Way, correct? Yet here… …you will find views of it which look radically different from what you see in the sky - simply because the ‘collector’ isn’t being limited to the tiny amount your eye can see - change the frequency and the picture is entirely different.

It isn’t hard to imagine that there may be a lot of our cosmos we don’t perceive simply because we don’t know how to look for it. Instruments can assist us but instruments are also a part of the hologram like our bodies and so only report what is IN the hologram, leaving aside the limitations we may be building into them because of our own perceptive deficiencies.

So if the Milky Way can look so radically different simply by altering what we see, is it so hard to accept that maybe the universe itself might also seem different at different frequencies? Or one step further, that Reality might be different if we could find some other way to view it?

The mystics tell us that enlightenment is simply a new way of seeing things; that the path is a personal one because we need to change our view of reality. Only when we can change our focus from the day-to-day, when we can stop seeing only the purely physical world around us will we find the new reality, the path beyond this one.

Of course that’s the rub, isn’t it? How do we change our world view? If you’ve been reading my posts, you will know I view learning as the purpose for which we are here – finding new knowledge, applying it to gain wisdom and so come to know ourselves and our Reality is what it is about… I think, anyway.

And learning is how we can change our world view.

Not only is the cosmos a fake, a creation of consciousness, but in these bodies we don’t even see all of the fake! We live in a box that only partially resembles what is actually present in the hologram. We’re inside a world where it may not be real, where it might all be a creation of our own consciousness and yet we are unable to perceive anything but the tiniest fleck of it.

And it is worse than we think – it’s estimated that if you look at a picture on your 19 inch widescreen monitor, filling the screen, the part of it you actually can focus on is about one pixel or less! Of all the information coming into us from the outside world, that’s how much is being perceived by the spotlight of our attention. The floodlight sees it all, but we are carefully brought up to not use the floodlight awareness consciously.

For those wondering what I am on about, look earlier in my posts for ‘How Do We Perceive’ and ‘The Other Perception’ – they talk about how we spend our lives living in the Spotlight world while the floodlight world mostly passes us by.

As it turns out, we can change our view simply by changing the frequency we see or hear. Dolphins in Port Phillip Bay here in Melbourne have stopped using audible sounds because of the boat traffic on the Bay. They still communicate; they just do it in ranges that are not interfered with by our technology. You can imagine another dolphin from elsewhere coming in through the Heads, listening for a bit then going away thinking the place is empty, simply because there’s no normal dolphin noise. (not quite, but you get what I mean I hope)

I can’t help wondering if there IS a Law of Attraction. When we look at how much the quantum reality depends on consciousness to trigger the probability collapse into a coherent state, when the implications of entanglement are taken up, (and I am by no means promoting myself as expert in these areas) it seems to me that rather than a Law, it is a matter of what we allow ourselves to actually see or experience.

I hold the view that our senses are NOT things which enable us - rather they are limits. We can see, but only a fraction of a line infinitely long, we can hear a tiny amount of what sound can offer, we smell (well some do) only a fraction of what animals can achieve etc.

If the Universe is a hologram, some kind of image of a real reality in which we partake as active contributors by perceiving it, then our perceptions are crucial to how it unfolds. We’ve all seen this because we live in a society.

Two people are in identical situations, with the exact same things happening to them – perhaps colleagues side by side in a workplace, or neighbours on the same street. One person will moan and groan about their fate, seeing the worst of events, able to predict with almost uncanny vision how all the events are going to make things worse for him.

The other one will see the same things happening but sees them in a more positive light, able to bounce back and find new paths through the exact same situations. The only things different in the two situations are their views of things, yet they have very different experiences from the same circumstances.

Can we really say these two people are living in the same reality?

As time passed I began paying more attention to working out who I was and what things I considered were ‘right’ and ‘good’ – this came about mainly because I saw myself doing things that hurt others and this would react inside me and make me depressed. Logically I figured that I needed to work out what things I thought were wrong so I could avoid doing them and so reduce the times I felt bad due to my own actions.

It took me probably more years than it should have, probably because of influences like alcohol and dope, but eventually I found a way to begin to like myself. It took more years before I could operate within my ethical limits on a regular basis. I think I’m a slow learner.

But maybe it is just that I am blocked; that veil I talked of earlier is still there. I listen to others talking about what goes on in their minds and I am constantly reminded that mine simply doesn’t work like that. Others seem to be able to look inside and find motives, or see events or actions; I seem to float on a dark sea of Me, where ideas and thoughts come to the surface after an unknown process floats them to where I can see them.

This isn’t necessarily a bad thing all the time – I am quite a lateral person, able to connect the dots across wide gaps where none are to be seen. But it is highly annoying when one is trying to work out who one might be. Even finding something like personal goals becomes hit and miss – how does one run a scenario inside to determine if something might be true if one cannot see past the veil to the inner workings?