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From Joseph Chilton Pierce, author of “The Crack in the Cosmic Egg”:

Molecular biologists have discovered that the heart is the body’s most important endocrine gland. In response to our experience of the world, it produces and releases a major hormone, ANF that profoundly affects every operation in the limbic structure, or what we refer to as the “emotional brain.” This includes the hippocampal area where memory and learning take place, and also the control centers for the entire hormonal system.

Neurocardiologists have found that 60 to 65% of the cells of the heart are actually neural cells, not muscle cells as was previously believed. They are identical to the neural cells in the brain, operating through the same connecting links called ganglia, with the same axonal and dendritic connections that take place in the brain, as well as through the very same kinds of neurotransmitters found in the brain.

…in other words, there is a “brain” in the heart, whose ganglia are linked to every major organ in the body, to the entire muscle spindle system that uniquely enables humans to express their emotions. About half of the heart’s neural cells are involved in translating information sent to it from all over the body so that it can keep the body working as one harmonious whole. And the other half make up a very large, unmediated neural connection with the emotional brain in our head and carry on a 24-hour-a-day dialogue…

The heart responds to messages sent to it from the emotional brain, which has been busy monitoring the interior environment of dynamic states such as the emotions and the auto-immune system, guiding behavior, and contributing to our sense of personal identity. The emotional brain makes a qualitative evaluation of our experience of this world and sends that information instant-by-instant down to the heart. In return, the heart exhorts the brain to make the appropriate response….

…Meanwhile, biophysicists have discovered that the heart is also a very powerful electromagnetic generator. It creates an electromagnetic field that encompasses the body and extends out anywhere from eight to twelve feet away from it. It is so powerful that you can take an electrocardiogram reading from as far as three feet way from the body. The field the heart produces is holographic, meaning that you can read it from any point on the body and from any point within the field. The intriguing thing is how profoundly this electromagnetic field affects the brain. All indications are that it furnishes the whole radio wave spectrum from which the brain draws its material to create our internal experience of the world.

“…we now know that the radio spectrum of the heart is profoundly affected by our emotional response to our world. Our emotional response changes the heart’s electromagnetic spectrum, which is what the brain feeds on. Ultimately, everything in our lives hinges on our emotional response to specific events.

Graphic video warning!

Largest Recall of Ground Beef Is Ordered

New York Times
By ANDREW MARTIN
Published: February 18, 2008

A California meat company on Sunday issued the largest beef recall in history, 143 million pounds, some of which was used in school lunch programs, Department of Agriculture officials announced.

The recall by the Westland/Hallmark Meat Company, based in Chino, Calif., comes after a widening animal-abuse scandal that started after the Humane Society of the United States distributed an undercover video on Jan. 30 that showed workers kicking sick cows and using forklifts to force them to walk.

The video raised questions about the safety of the meat, because cows that cannot walk, called downer cows, pose an added risk of diseases including mad cow disease. The federal government has banned downer cows from the food supply….(read the rest).

The previous entry on this began:

What does it mean to be a Healer? The Healer is first a unifier. This can be at a political level or in the psyche.

Let’s explore what this means in the psyche. There’s a simple 5-body model of our makeup:

1. Energy or etheric body
2. Physical body
3. Emotional body
4. Mental body
5. Spiritual body

This describes what we are in the holistic and spiritual view. We are this whole, interacting, layered being, with all parts influencing and dependent on each other. The wellbeing of any one body depends on all the others. We want to function well as a whole, addressing all bodies.

It’s key to understand that there isn’t a hierarchy here. Each body is significant. There are natural strengths, likes and dislikes. You’ve probably observed that you may be comfortable with physical activity and sports, or perhaps best when putting your intellect to use, or feel confident dealing with your emotions, or perhaps your spirit is where you find the most joy. All of us have bodies which make sense to us, that we’re good at maintaining and excelling. Then there are those bodies that feel out of reach for us or confusing. Sometimes we even don’t know that a certain body exits.

From the Healer’s viewpoint integration is the answer to knowing ourself as a whole. When we spend all our time on parts we know intimately, parts we can wield well, our other bodies feel left out, like they don’t have keys to our home, or the key doesn’t fit. With no other recourse, these parts draw our attention in unhealthy ways, leading to imbalances and suffering that could’ve been easily avoided with a little care for the whole self.

It’s well known that “heal” simply means to make whole, but it’s worth repeating here. We originate as a whole, then through life experiences we fragment and focus on the fragments. Sometime we entirely forget parts of ourself for years and years. Or we let others and circumstances steal these parts.

When the Healer finally shows up, it acts like a giant magnet, pulling essential parts of yourself back to you, and reinstalling them once again in their rightful place in your being. The Healer also acts as great communicator between your bodies so each knows about the other, what ails or redeems it, what it needs, what it can offer the rest of the team that is you.

With unconditional love the Healer coalesces us to our unified origin.

to be continued…

No matter how you feel about the presidential candidates, where your loyalties are, how jaded or inspired you may be about the state of the world, this is one of those time-outs we can take from the barrage of statistics and exit polls and talking heads on the boob tube. (This is a video and it seems videos don’t always show if you’re reading this blog’s feed or get the email version, so please click on the original item to see the video on the blog itself.)