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Soul Food

Good nutrition is important for a healthy body.  And a healthy body helps provide us with the opportunity to develop our spiritual gifts of the mind and the heart.

Thomas Aquinas (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Hanging on the wall of my office for years I have displayed a favorite quote, adopted as the mission statement of the Hawaii Center for Natural Medicine: “The power of nutrition enables one to exercise the senses and from sensory experience, the intellect gains concepts and so the will is freed to choose.”  What is most remarkable to me about this statement is that it was written by Thomas Aquinas by the year 1273 A.D.

Hanging on the wall of my office for years I have displayed a favorite quote, adopted as the mission statement of the Hawaii Center for Natural Medicine: “The power of nutrition enables one to exercise the senses and from sensory experience, the intellect gains concepts and so the will is freed to choose.”  What is most remarkable to me about this statement is that it was written by Thomas Aquinas by the year 1273 A.D.

But is it also possible that there is food for the soul itself?  What is the substance of the soul?  Does it have a material substrate?

I visualize existence as composed of hierarchies angels (God’s creative thoughts) living in 9 states of which science now confirms the first 5 by direct measurement, with indirect observation of another 2, and the final two remaining in realm of contemplation, revelation and faith:

Plasma

Plasma is the energized, conductive medium filling cosmic space, named after its likeness to the plasma of the blood and the cytoplasm of the cells, being ionic media and therefore electromagnetically active in similar ways.  90% of our biological energy comes from release of high energy electrons stored in carbon-carbon bonds in the electron transport chain of the mitochondria, the symbiotic bacteria in every cell, inherited from our mothers.  The photonic energy carried by these electrons comes from sunlight, emitted by the plasma surrounding the sun.

It is possible that we can also directly utilize free high energy electrons from our environment, such as the refreshing negative ions produced by moving water and plants.  Electrons are by definition the most efficient anti-oxidant, since a biological antioxidant is defined as an electron donor.  The bioavailable energy of the electron is carried as photonic light energy.

We breath in on average about 15 times more water than we obtain from food and drink, so the electronic and photonic content of the air we breath is of crucial importance to life, especially the life of the spirit, which means breath.  There are even a few claims of people being able to live for extended periods of time without eating.  When this is done intentionally it is called breatharianism, but it has also been documented with a few canonized saints, as recently as the stigmatist Theresa Neuman in the 20th century, a large woman who lived for over 40 years without consuming anything but the tiny eucharist.  She did not even drink anything from 1926 until her death in 1962.

The body only needs food for energy and repair, so if it is able to derive photonic energy from plasma (free) electrons, or from light directly, then there is no reason that food would be essential even to maintain the life of the biological body.  Hundreds of saints’ bodies have been documented to maintain some degree of preservation after death, sometimes even for hundreds or thousands of years.  Saints bearing the stigmata, the wounds of Christ, have sometimes been documented to emit light, as well as the fragrance of roses, from their wounds, and it is light that is the ultimate source of biological energy, with the exception of a few species of sulfur based bacteria living around volcanic fumaroles.

It is this light energy that makes the difference between a gas and a plasma.  If prophecies come to pass that in the new heavens and new earth, there are no oceans, it could be that the atmospheric plasma content formed by their ionization could directly support life through the breath.  After all, the fluid our cells live in is ionically very much like sea water.  This might be the reason prophecies also foresee that the lion will lie down with the lamb, as they do when they feast on the tree of life…

In Oriental Medicine, the lungs are part of the Metal Element, and one of their crucial functions is to breath in the jing, the most precious substance that forms the physical building blocks for the spirit body.  In other traditions, these spirit minerals are called by other names such as manna in the Judeo-Christian lineage, and mana by the Hawaiians.

Gas

We breath an atmosphere supplying paramagnetic oxygen, the most immediate requirement for human and symbiotic life forms which are also aerobic.  Hundreds of years of burning fuels by industrial culture has reduced oxygen in the air from 32% (measured in fossil bubbles trapped in amber and ice caps) to less than 20%, and in some city environments it can sometimes drop as low as 5 or 10%.

Once we absorb this gas into the blood, via the pulmonary circulation powered by the right side of the heart, we need the larger left side of the heart to pump it to the rest of the body.  But there are other paramagnetic gases we breath in that are not so well known (see condensate, below), as they are not detected by current conventional means.  A laborious Russian patented laboratory method has been replicated once in the states, so some limited data can be extrapolated.

The electrical pulse of the heart is the strongest electrical wave in the body, unless we are exposed to modern electronic culture which often overpowers this signal by a factor of thousands.  This blocks the ability of the heart’s electrical pulse to open the way for the pressure pulse wave that carries 50% of the blood flow to the body’s tissues.

This electrical discharge of the heart, when it is coherent, that is when our soul is heart centered, can also reprogram the condensate gases in the blood from their natural paramagnetic mineral state to the biologically active diamagnetic state.  This indicates the creation of a Meissner field, and likely the organization of planar superconducting, superfluid liquid crystals that make up the substance of the soul.

In Oriental Medicine, the heart is central to the Fire Element, and is home to the shen, the conscious spirit.

Liquid

The medium of life is an aqueous saline solution, a bioplasma.  We are familiar with nourishing ourselves with food and drink, which we chew, mixing with amylase, swallow, and mix in the stomach with acid and additional enzymes, and alkalize with bile and digest with pancreatic enzymes into a liquid broth of nutrients for absorption in the small intestine.

In Oriental Medicine, the process of digestion is the focus of the Earth Element.

Solid

The structural support systems from the macroscopic bones to the microscopic cytoskeleton allow for movement of navigational beings, and are thought by some, as in the Penrose-Hameroff hypothesis, to be linked to the locus where the conscious soul links to the bio-body suit.  It is the only biological hypothesis of consciousness that provides enough loci to contain the number of bits of information stored in a lifetime of human experience.

Condensate

This is the superconducting superfluid bridge between worlds.  It’s mass, when stable, is measured to be ~4/9 non-local, and it is proposed as the material seat of consciousness itself.  It shows quantum dynamic behaviors at a macroscopic level, when integrated into an extended liquid crystalline matrix such as a human soul.  This is the first time we have the potential for a scientific model that explains the characteristics of the spirit, from the human soul to the Holy Ghost.  Phenomena documented with highly coherent individuals such as canonized saints show macroscopic quantum dynamic properties such as bilocation, multiplication, teleportation, levitation.

The coming age of BEC (Bose-Einstein Condensate) technology will appear to our eyes as an age of miracles.  Fortunately, with this technological upgrade will come the upgrade of the highest functionality we have: the consciousness itself.  In the coming age, as we integrate knowledge of the metabolism and physiology of the condensates into our diet, lifestyle and environments, along with the possibility of a prophecied cosmic upgrade to the earth environment, we will come to know the Divine Will directly (as revealed to Louisa Piccarreta), without having to wonder what it is we should be doing, or fumble through the current pattern of suffering from trial and error processes.

Dark matter

This non-ordinary matter, or spirit, may be the non-local side of the condensates.  It could be associated with the function of the will, associated with the Water Element.  When we project our will, it acts non-locally, perhaps via the 4/9 of the mass of the condensates of the spirit body that are non-local.  The coherence of the will with the Divine Will may allow this non-local portion to become temporarily localized transdimensionally in time and/or space.

Dark energy

The ether that pervades the universe is now being indirectly extrapolated at % of all that is known.  This may correspond to the function of knowledge, associated with the Earth Element of Oriental Medicine.

Superstrings

Angels are God’s thoughts, and as the Creator, these thoughts are the fundamental substance of all that is.  This may be the fundamental creative act initiated by process of attention, associated with the Fire Element.

Source

God’s essence may lie in awareness itself, associated with the Metal Element.  Conventional modern interpretations of quantum observations in physics conclude that the essential nature of reality is subjective… consciousness itself…

BECs

English: Satyendra Nath Bose in Paris 1925 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The most recently confirmed state is the condensate, first documented in 1995, for which a Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded in 2001 to Eric Cornell and Carl Wieman, although physicists Bose and Einstein predicted this state many years ago. The condensate is the transitional state between pure matter and pure spirit. In its fully material state, it represents the sum of the properties of all 9 states, to the extent of having 5/9 of the mass of the same mineral in any of the states: ~1-4. Bose-Einstein Condensates (BECs) are made of bosons which inlcude photons and subatomic W and Z particles.

English: German-born theoretical physicist Albert Einstein. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Bose-Einstein Condensates of 11 transition metals are now thought to be responsible for superconducting properties of living organisms, as well as ‘miraculous’ phenomena such as levitation, bilocation, prophecy and non-local effects such as remote-viewing and the healing effects of prayer. 4/9 of the mass of these Spirit-Minerals are non-local, and the other 5/9 may account for the mass of the soul, with a measured mass of up to 42 grams. The unmeasurable halo of 34 grams that is non-local, according to Einstein’s E=mc^2 equation contains the energy equivalent of the solar energy falling on all of North America. This is why a little faith can move mountains.

A fermionic condensate has also been confirmed in 2004 by Deborah Jin. Fermions include protons, electrons and neutrons.

In current exploratory research including the patented work of David Hudson, condensates and related states are variously called ORMUS, ORMEs, Mono-atomic minerals, and High spin transition elements.  Traditionally, from various spiritual and alchemical lineages, the terms also include white powder gold, mana, mfkz, nouss, jing, shewbread, ‘what is it?’ and the philosopher’s stone.

This is the stuff of legend.  The holy grail.  And the stuff of life.  Sentient life.  Immortal life.  The stuff of the soul.

Spirit Matters:

The human body loses spiritual substance within seconds to minutes of death.  The same is likely true of our food and medicine.

The spirit of material is lost not only as a function of time, but also of industrial processing.  50 Hz and 60 Hz magnetic fields, such as those of an electric stove, drive these spirit minerals away, as they seek energetic peace and harmony.  This could be changed by converting to 172 Hz current, the dominant harmonic frequency of nature, known in ancient China and Tibet.  When I was seeking a frequency which would attract and stabilize these minerals, I rediscovered this frequency once used throughout the provinces of China during 1,000 years of peace.

Working with medicines that stabilize and carry this spiritual matter for purposes of healing, I have had the opportunity to have a couple of medicines analyzed by an alchemist.  In both instances, they confirmed my hypothesis, measuring over 5% dry weight of spirit minerals in both Nouss-Ade and Sango Coral.  This is about the same concentration found in the brain (by dry weight) according to the Russian patented method for laboratory analysis.

In its pure crystalline form, it is the most other-worldly substance I have ever seen.  It is actually impossible to measure as it levitated itself and a portion of the tare that was in its field, weighing less than the tare alone!  It was glistening with light and an irridescent white in color, composed of planar crystalline sheets.  Think fairy dust!

A description of this material in its annealed glass-like form as given to Moses by God is quite amazing.  The stones, each containing the fullness of Natural Law, are described in Talmudic Midrashic sources as clear, flexible and transparent, measuring about 20″ by 20″ by 10″.  Tradition affirms that one book of the law still exists today in The Chapel of the Tablet in Ethiopia, one of the contents from the ark of the covenant.  The guardian monk commits the rest of his life to being in the presence of this divine portal.

Life and Death

Life and Death.

Gravity: Consciousness Matters

History of Kinetic Theories of Gravity (condensed and modified from Wikipedia with added notes and a new theory by GMS)

Nicolas Fatio (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Kinetic (push or shadow) theory of gravity first proposed by Nicolas Fatio de Duillier in 1690. Later Georges-Louis Le Sage in 1748 termed the particles ultra-mundane corpuscles.  (GMS: Might we be seeing them today as Dark Energy?)

Variations of this theory remain the only mechanism proposed for gravitation. Objects partially absorb corpuscle flow, causing a shadow of reduced corpuscle density around objects, and thus a net pressure pushing the objects together.In order to cause a gravitational force, collisions must not be fully elastic, or reflected particles must be slowed, so that their momentum is reduced after impact.

The imbalance of momentum flow over an entire spherical surface enclosing an object is independent of the size of the enclosing sphere, while the surface area of the sphere increases by the square of the radius. Thus the momentum imbalance on a particular body follows the inverse square law observed for gravity, as do similar electrical forces.

Matter is mostly space, and ultimately just standing waves of energy, so very small particles or very high frequency waves mostly pass through unattenuated. It is now found that gravity acts based on all energy, not just particulate matter.

Nicolas Fatio presented the first formulation of his thoughts on gravitation in a letter to Christiaan Huygens in the spring of 1690.[1]  Two days later Fatio read the content of the letter before the Royal Society in London. His work was first published in 1929.[3]

In the last version of his theory in 1742 he proposed “perfect elasticity or spring force” for the particles and “imperfect elasticity” to gross matter, resulting in diminished velocity for the reflected particles. He proposed that the size of the particles is so small that mutual interaction is rare.

Condensation

Fatio thought initially that if corpuscles travel slower after interaction with matter, they might accumulate, which he called “condensation”. Later he thought that this would only occur if there is a greater rate of self-collision near the mass. With a high enough velocity and elasticity, the difference in densities could be arbitrarily small while producing the same gravitational force. (GMS: If there are periodic conditions such as plasma discharge which increase resonance with the corpuscles, the density could temporarily increase enough to cause them to collide and condense into new matter.)

Porosity of matter

Because of mass proportionality, Fatio concluded that gross matter is super permeable to corpuscles. (Today, this is confirmed)

Pressure force of the particles

In 1690 Fatio derived the formula p=ρv2zz/6 for a point zz, which is very similar to that for the kinetic theory of gases p=ρv2/3, by Daniel Bernoulli in 1738. Bernoulli’s value is twice Fatio’s, because Fatio calculated the value mv (inelastic collisions) for the change of impulse after the collision, not 2mv (elastic collisions).

Resistance of the medium

Where u is the velocity of matter, v is the velocity of corpuscles, and ρ is the density of the medium, in the case v >> u and ρ = const. the resistance is 4/3ρuv.

In the case v << u and ρ = const. Fatio stated that the resistance is ρu2.

Newton observed that the lack of resistance to orbital motion requires an extreme sparseness of the medium of space. So Fatio observed that to produce sufficient gravitational force in his model, a rarified medium would be compensated for with a higher v “inverse proportional to the square root of the density” due to gravity (corpuscle pressure) which is proportional to ρv2. A very high v produces very little resistance compared to gravity, because resistance is proportional to ρuv while gravity is proportional to ρv2.

Reception of Fatio’s theory

Isaac Newton wrote in a note in his own copy of the Principia in 1692: The unique hypothesis by which gravity can be explained is however of this kind, and was first devised by the most ingenious geometer Mr. N. Fatio.[5] Fatio stated that Newton commented privately that Fatio’s theory was the best possible mechanical explanation of gravity, but that Newton believed that the true explanation of gravitation was not mechanical. Gregory wrote in his “Memoranda”: “Mr. Newton and Mr. Halley laugh at Mr. Fatio’s manner of explaining gravity.”[5]

Leibniz rejected Fatio’s theory on philosophical grounds for demanding empty space between particles (though such objection is not tenable today). Jakob Bernoulli expressed an interest in Fatio’s Theory, and urged Fatio to write his thoughts on gravitation in a complete manuscript, which Bernoulli copied and now resides in the university library of Basel. Fatio was never able to formally publish his work, so it was never widely known.

Le Sage, Cramer and Redeker later produced similar theories. The first such publication was in 1756.[8] Le Sage proposed quantitative estimates for some parameters. He proposed ultramundane corpuscles, which propagate similar to light. Le Sage thought that no gravitational force would arise if matter-particle-collisions were perfectly elastic, so he proposed interactions completely inelastic normal to the surface, and perfectly elastic tangential to the surface. He claimed that the mean speed of scattered particles is 2/3 of their incident speed. He claimed that resistance of the flux is proportional to uv (where v is the velocity of the particles and u that of matter) and gravity is proportional to v2. He first suggested that corpuscles move at the speed of light, and later revised this to 10^5 times the speed of light. Le Sage also applied the shadow mechanism to account for forces of cohesion and other forces by hypothesizing a variety of dimensions of corpuscles.

Roger Joseph Boscovich pointed out that the theory is the first to explain the mechanics of gravity. He rejected the model because of the enormous amount of ‘unused’ corpuscles. He favored action at a distance, without any intermediary particle. John Playfair describes Boscovich’s position:

“An immense multitude of atoms, thus destined to pursue their never ending journey through the infinity of space, without changing their direction, or returning to the place from which they came, is a supposition very little countenanced by the usual economy of nature. Whence is the supply of these innumerable torrents; must it not involve a perpetual exertion of creative power, infinite both in extent and in duration? [14]”

Maxwell later used a similar argument, yet today physics sees a universe filled with 95% unknown dark energy and dark matter.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg’s[15] wrote “If it is a dream, it is the greatest and the most magnificent which was ever dreamed…” and that we can fill with it a gap in our books, which can only be filled by a dream.[16] (GMS: Now we are considering the possibility that the corpuscle is a kind of a dream… an imaginary or virtual particle!) He was later convinced by Immanuel Kant that attraction must be the fundamental force.[17] Spatial configurations of matter implies a binding force to hold the particles together. This was the same objection used against the impulse theory of Descartes. (Today we know of the strong and weak forces which serve this function, but still fail to explain gravity)

Pierre-Simon Laplace tried to measure the speed of gravity consistent with astronomical observations. He calculated that it must be “at least a hundred millions of times greater than that of light”, based on lunar motion.[19] This was taken as support for the Newtonian notion of instantaneous action at a distance. Laplace also argued that to maintain mass-proportionality the upper limit for earth’s molecular surface area is at the most the ten-millionth of earth surface.

Development of the kinetic theory in the second half of the 19th century brought renewed interest in kinetic theories of gravitation.

Since corpuscles are thought to lose speed when interacting with matter to produce gravitation, huge quantities of energy must go into internal energy modes or be absorbed by matter. Armand Jean Leray[20] proposed that the absorbed energy is used to produce magnetism and heat. He thought this could power the stars.

Lord Kelvin published a paper in 1873.[21] in which he showed that the absorbed energy is sufficient to vaporize matter in a fraction of a second. Kelvin repeated Fatio’s thought on the thermodynamic issue, that heat might be absorbed by internal energy modes of the corpuscles, based on his proposal of the vortex-nature of matter. The original translational kinetic energy of the corpuscles is transferred to internal vibrational or rotational energy.

Peter Guthrie Tait called the theory the only plausible explanation of gravitation which has been propounded at that time:

“The most singular thing about it is that, if it be true, it will probably lead us to regard all kinds of energy as ultimately Kinetic.[22]”

Samuel Tolver Preston[24] proposed that the mean free path of the corpuscles is at least the distance between the planets, and that in open space the particles regain their translational energy due mutual collisions. He concluded that gravity would have a limited range of effect. Paul Drude suggested a relationship with theories of Carl Gottfried Neumann and Hugo von Seeliger, who propose absorption of gravity in open space.[25]

James Clerk Maxwell

A review of the Kelvin-Le Sage theory was published by James Clerk Maxwell in the Ninth Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica under the title Atom in 1875.[26] He concludes:[27]

“Here, then, seems to be a path leading towards an explanation of the law of gravitation, which, if it can be shown to be in other respects consistent with facts, may turn out to be a royal road into the very arcana of science.”

Maxwell commented on Kelvin’s suggestion of different energy modes of the corpuscles that this means they are systems with internal energy modes which must be held together by forces of attraction. He proposes that matter and corpuscles would approach thermal equilibrium, which should incinerated matter within seconds. (GMS: assumes thermal coupling) He wrote:

“We have devoted more space to this theory than it seems to deserve, because it is ingenious, and because it is the only theory of the cause of gravitation which has been so far developed as to be capable of being attacked and defended.” The theory requires “an enormous expenditure of external power” which he thought violates conservation of energy. Preston countered Maxwell’s assessment with the observation that the kinetic energy of a corpuscle could be as low as required, given a lower mass and higher density. On deeper investigation, Poincaré found that the thermodynamic issue remains unresolved.

Adalbert Ryšánek in 1887 [29] applied Maxwell’s law of particle velocities in a gas. He distinguished between gravitational and luminiferous (cosmic plasma?) aethers. According to his calculations, the absence of drag in the orbit of Neptune gives a lower limit for particle velocity of 5 · 10^19 cm/s. He thought that absorbed energy is converted to heat, and transferred to the luminiferous aether and/or used by stars.

Paul du Bois-Reymond (1888) pointed out that for exact mass proportionality as in Newton’s theory (which implies no shielding or saturation and infinitely porous matter), the corpuscle flux must be of infinite intensity. He also felt that “elasticity” and “absolute hardness” can only be explained by attractive forces.[30]

Wave models

François Antoine Edouard and Em. Keller[31] proposed a theory in 1863 based on longitudinal waves. In 1869, Paul-Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran[32] proposed a model like that of Leray including absorption and heat production, also using longitudinal waves.

Hendrik Antoon Lorentz

In 1900 Hendrik Lorentz[33] conceived that electromagnetic waves could produce pressure and can have penetrating power. An attractive force between charged particles would result only if the incident energy is completely absorbed.

“The circumstance however, that this attraction could only exist, if in some way or other electromagnetic energy were continually disappearing, is so serious a difficulty, that what has been said cannot be considered as furnishing an explanation of gravitation. Nor is this the only objection that can be raised. If the mechanism of gravitation consisted in vibrations which cross the aether with the velocity of light, the attraction ought to be modified by the motion of the celestial bodies to a much larger extend than astronomical observations make it possible to admit.”

Thomas Tommasina[38] from 1903 to 1928 proposed long wavelength radiation to explain gravity, and short wavelength radiation for explaining cohesive forces of matter. Charles F. Brush[39] in 1911 also proposed long wavelength radiation, but later proposed extremely short wavelengths.

In 1905, George Darwin calculated gravitational force between bodies at extremely close range to see if geometrical effects would lead to deviation from Newton’s law.[40] He found that only with perfectly inelastic collisions (zero reflection) would Newton’s law stand, reinforcing the thermodynamic issue. He said that the emission of light is the exact converse of the absorption of corpuscles.

An important criticism was given by Henri Poincaré in 1908.[42] He concluded that the attraction is proportional to S√ρv, where S is earth’s molecular surface area, v is the velocity of the particles, and ρ is the density of the medium. Following Laplace, he argued that to maintain mass-proportionality the upper limit for S is at the most a ten-millionth of the Earth’s surface. Now, drag (i.e. the resistance of the medium) is proportional to Sρv and therefore the ratio of drag to attraction is inversely proportional to Sv. To reduce drag, Poincaré calculated a lower limit for v = 24 · 10^17times the speed of light. So there are lower limits for Sv and v, and an upper limit for S and with those values one can calculate the produced heat, which is proportional to Sρv3. The calculation shows that earth’s temperature would rise by 10^26 degrees per second. Poincaré analyzed some wave models (Tommasina and Lorentz), remarking that they suffered the same problems as the particle models. To reduce drag, superluminal wave velocities were necessary, and they would still be subject to the heating issue. He also considered a re-radiation model like Thomson. He stated that if in Lorentz’ model the absorbed energy is fully converted to heat, it would raise earth’s temperature by 10^13 degrees per second. (GMS: this parallels current assumptions that the only effect of microwave absorption is to produce heat, a non-specific translational energy, but quantum absorptions also have specific resonances, and therefore specific effects, such as breaking of nitrogen bonds in proteins, making microwaved food less digestible to proteolytic enzymes. A Swiss study found that after 2 weeks of eating only microwaved food, subjects live blood appearance was indistinguishable from that of cancer patients, indicating Phase 1 low energy terrain in my 5 Phases of Health model of biophysics. Americans eat about 4 times more protein than they can optimally utilize anyway, so the putrefactive process resulting from microwave Nitrogen bond breaking is not typically discernible.)

Predictions of the theory

A basic prediction of the theory is the extreme porosity of matter. As predicted by Huygens even before Fatio, matter consists mostly of empty space. This basic view has been confirmed.

Cosmic radiation

Every kinetic gravitation model proposes a superluminal isotropic flux or radiation of enormous intensity and penetration. Cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR) discovered in the 20th century is fairly isotropic but of low intensity and penetration and is not superluminal. Neutrinos are penetrating but the flux is not isotropic, high intensity or superluminal. The potential for the neutrino or a neutrino-like particle to mediate quantum gravitation was disproved by Feynman.[43]

Gravitational Shielding

At some level of increasing amounts of mass the shadow resulting with each increase must become less than the sum of the two individually, a hypothetical effect called gravitational shielding. For this to appear directly proportional at testable mass levels the shielding effect must be small, and so the interaction cross-section of matter must be extremely small. This results in an extremely high minimum level on the intensity to produce the observed gravitation. Any gravitational shielding would be inconsistent with the extremely precise null result observed in the Eötvös and later experiments which confirmed precise equivalence of active and passive gravitational mass with inertial mass as predicted by general relativity.[44]

Speed of gravity

Drag

A mass is subject to drag when it is in motion relative to a unique isotropic frame in which the speed of the corpuscles is the same in all directions because the particles striking from the front have a higher relative speed than those striking from behind. The magnitude of drag is proportional to vu, where v is the speed of the particles and u is the speed of the body, whereas the force of gravity is proportional to v2, so the ratio of drag to gravitation is proportional to u/v. The speed v is therefore necessarily much greater than the speed of light. Superluminal speeds would appear to invalidate special relativity theory, but superluminal speeds are being observed in other instances as well. The thermal issue is another matter still unresolved.

Aberration

As shown by Laplace, orbital aberration could be caused by a finite speed of gravity, but the superluminal speeds proposed by Le Sage and Kelvin solve this. If present at all, this component will act to accelerate both objects away from each other, countering any slight drag effect. In general relativity theory gravity is proposed to propagate at the speed of light but the induced aberration is nearly cancelled by velocity-dependent terms in the interaction.[48]

Range of gravity

In particle models like Kelvin’s, the range of gravity is limited by the nature of particle interactions. The range is determined by the rate the internal modes eliminate the momentum defects or shadows created on passing through matter. Predictions of the range of gravity depend on specific modes of interactions available in interactions. The large-scale structure of the cosmos constrains this to allow for aggregation of immense gravitational structures. (GMS: unless those immense structures are fundamentally electromagnetic)

Energy Absorption

A major issue is energy and heat. Maxwell and Poincaré showed that inelastic collisions lead to a vaporization of matter within fractions of a second. Aronson[27] gave a proof of Maxwell’s assertion:

“Suppose that, contrary to Maxwell’s hypothesis, the molecules of gross matter actually possess more energy than the particles. In that case the particles would, on the average, gain energy in the collision and the particles intercepted by body B would be replaced by more energetic ones rebounding from body B. Thus the effect of gravity would be reversed: there would be a mutual repulsion between all bodies of mundane matter, contrary to observation. If, on the other hand, the average kinetic energies of the particles and of the molecules are the same, then no net transfer of energy would take place, and the collisions would be equivalent to elastic ones, which, as has been demonstrated, do not yield a gravitational force.”

Isenkrahe’s violation of the energy conservation law is unacceptable, and Kelvin’s application of Clausius’ theorem leads (as noted by Kelvin) to perpetual motion. Secondary re-radiation for wave models was of interest to JJ Thomson, but not taken seriously by either Maxwell or Poincaré, because it violates the second law of thermodynamics.

The energy issue has been considered in relation to the idea of mass accretion in the Expanding Earth theory by Yarkovsky and Hilgenberg.[49] By mass-energy equivalence, if the Earth was absorbing all the energy necessary to produce the force of gravity using values calculated by Poincaré, its mass would double in a fraction of a second.

Coupling to energy

Observational evidence now shows that gravity interacts with all forms of energy. The electrostatic binding energy and weak interactions in the nucleus, and kinetic energy of electrons contribute to the gravitational mass of an atom, as confirmed with high precision in Eötvös and similar experiments.[50] Lunar Laser Ranging experiments show that gravitational binding energy interacts as well, so a successful theory of gravitation must be nonlinear and self-coupling.[51] [52] Variations of the theory do not predict any of these effects. (GMS: see my theory below)

Non-gravitational applications and analogies

Mock gravity

Lyman Spitzer in 1941[53] calculated that absorption of radiation between two dust particles lead to a net attractive force which varies proportional to 1/r2 (apparently unaware of other shadow theories especially Lorentz’s considerations of radiation pressure and gravity). George Gamow called the effect “mock gravity” and proposed in 1949[54] that after the big bang the temperature of the electrons dropped faster than the temperature of the background radiation. Absorption of radiation and the kinetic shadow mechanism between electrons was proposed to have an important role in galaxy formation shortly after the big bang. This was disproved by Field in 1971,[55] showing that the effect was too small because electrons and the radiation were nearly in thermal equilibrium. Hogan and White proposed in 1986[56] that this mechanism affected galaxy formation by absorption of pregalactic starlight. But Wang and Field[57] showed that mock gravity cannot produce enough force to affect galaxy formation.

Plasma

The mechanism is a significant factor in the behavior of dusty plasma. A.M. Ignatov[58] showed an attractive force between dust grains in an isotropic collisionless plasma due to inelastic collisions between ions and grains of dust. The force is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between dust grains, and counterbalances the Coulomb repulsion between dust grains.

Vacuum energy

In quantum field theory the existence of virtual particles is proposed, which lead to the so called Casimir effect. Casimir calculated that between two plates only particles with specific wavelengths should be counted when calculating the vacuum energy. Thus energy density between plates is less when plates are close, causing a net attractive force between plates. The conceptual framework of this effect is very different from prior theories.

Recent work

19th century work on this identified issues of heating, drag, shielding, and gravitational aberration, resulting in decreased work on the concepts. Einstein’s theory of general relativity became the dominant theory, even though it does not suggest any mechanism.

In 1965 Richard Feynman looked at the mechanism as an attempt to explain Newton’s inverse-square law of gravity in terms of simpler primitive operations without the use of complex mathematics. He notes that it produces the inverse-square force law and that “the strangeness of the mathematical relation will be very much reduced”, but concludes that it “does not work” because of drag “so that is the end of that theory”[59][60] (GMS: even though there is zero issue of drag at highly superluminal speeds. His perspective conforms to mainstream acceptance of Einstein’s proposal that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, though this cannot be proven, and there is now evidence to the contrary).

Work on the theory outside the mainstream includes Radzievskii and Kagalnikova (1960),[61] Shneiderov (1961),[62] Buonomano and Engels (1976),[63] Adamut (1982),[64] Jaakkola (1996),[65] Tom Van Flandern (1999),[66] and Edwards (2007)[67]

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What’s next? The still dominant Relativity Hypothesis is incompatible with actual Quantum Dynamic observations. To me, relativity is an elegant and quite accurate mathematical description, but not a mechanism or explanation of gravity. But I do believe Einstein’s insight on the equivalence of energy and mass, E=mc^2, points the way to a comprehensive unity field in physics. We grasp the meaning that everything is made of energy, with matter seen either in its wave function form, or else in its coherent standing wave, particle-like form as mass. We also see from recent work that all energy has gravitational effect. Energy and mass really are equivalents, but seen from different perspectives. What is real is energy. That is all there ultimately is in the many forms of creation. What we conceive as mass is a particle or separate thing, a conception of our imagination (maya or illusion in Eastern thought). There is no separateness. All is ultimately of the one source, one nature, the living body of God. What has been missing is a grasp of the function of the speed of light squared. Let’s rewrite the formula just slightly:

E = (-m) (-c^2)

The reality and unity of all as energy moving forward in time can be separated into two synergistic perceptions, indicated by the negative values as we look back at them. (-m) is the conception of form or mass, which is perceived in reverse time, as we look back at the phenomena of creation that have already happened. (-c^2) is not only superluminal, incorporating the speed of light squared, but it is in reverse time, being negative. God’s vision, Grace, the foundation of all that is, travels in reverse time. These wave forms are related to light, but are the imaginary or virtual counterpart to the photon, the equivalent of an anti-photon, or a photon traveling in reverse time, just as the other fundamental subatomic particles have their reverse time anti-particle equivalents:

electron = -positron

neutron = -anti-matter

The spiritual equivalent of E=mc^2 is the trinity:

Holy Ghost = (Son) (Father)

This ends the millennium long debate between Orthodox and Catholic theologians. The Orthodox say the Holy Ghost proceeds from the Father. The Catholics say the Holy Ghost proceeds from the Father and the Son. The real problem is the attempt to speak the fullness of Truth with our temporal thinking and language. The word proceeds indicates forward motion (pro) in temporal thinking, and the word from indicates retrograde contemplation of origin in spatial thinking. These words bring in spatial and temporal relationships which depend upon multiple quanta or apparent separations of space and time. Yet God is transcendent of these properties, and therefore cannot be accurately defined by such words. No wonder God’s Church has been split into two wings for a millennium. Perhaps this single quantum language translation as a theological expression of the triune personhood of God will help it to fly:

For the Holiness of the Spirit is with the synergy by the Son and Father.

or functionally:

For the Sanctification of the Spirit is with the love by the Redeemer and Creator.

and:

For the unity of all Spirit is with the multiplication by the Formation and Grace

or from a fractal Creature perspective:

Freedom = Truth x Seeking,

where:

Truth is the potentially consensual is-ness or coherence in time, space and consciousnes of all things in God’s creation.

Seeking is the acceptance of any coherence of our sensorial inspirations, affective aspirations, cognitive contemplations, willful activations, and visionary missions.

Freedom is the fractal participation in the creation. (God draws straight with crooked lines.)

or written another way:

Space = Time x Consciousness

where:

Time = the movement and mutable coherence of local standing wave formations

Space = is the immutable coherence of energy of the non-local plenum

Consciousness = the time-reflective fractal participatory lawfulness, orderliness or coherence of all movement and change

or alternatively:

Scalar absolute = +Vector x -Vector

Thus all is a fractal vortex structure of the plenum. Even if there was a beginning of creation in time, or a so-called big bang, this structure would make it possible, as the source of the at least nearly infinite energy would have appeared not out of a non-existent past, but called into being out of it’s own time-transcendently real future via the power of consciousness by the creator. So-called vacuum energy, more appropriately Plenum Energy (plenum means fullness, opposite of the notion of a vacuum, which in energetically impossible) is a sea of energy making up 73% of the mass of the universe, nearly three times greater than the foam of standing waves of matter floating in it, of which our senses, even extended by modern science have detected only 16% (4% or 1/25 of total energy). Based on the lower limit set by the Planck constant, there are at least 10^113 Joules of energy per cubic meter of space.

Johari window of our state of knowledge of the universe from relativity perspective:

Matter                    Energy

Known               4%                        <

Unknown           23%                      73%

These figures are based on current interpretation of cosmological creation as an expanding universe initiated with a big bang and subsequent slowing and then speeding of expansion. This model relies on Doppler effect interpretation of red shifts for all galaxies and quasars. Another possibility is that red shifts are multi-causal, as has now been demonstrated in laboratory research, and not related to Doppler effect in a steady state universe. A steady state universe was Einstein’s initial exploration, which he later abandoned. Red shifts of galaxies do appear to be nearly linearly related to cosmological distance, but this alone does not imply that further galaxies are moving uniformly away from us. It has been shown that red shift can occur when light travels through a plasma environment due to heating of the plasma by electromagnetic interaction with passing photons, and at an average of one particle per meter of the plasma now estimated to fill cosmological space, the observed red shifts seen are actually expected in a steady state universe. The cosmic microwave background radiation is expected in this model, as light from extremely distant galaxies suffers so much red shift that it becomes microwaves and can no longer be resolved into images of individual galaxies. It is merely the limit of our photonic image resolution in a potentially infinite universe! Finally, quasars show a wide range of extreme red shifts consistent with a wide range of plasma conditions within these very active, newly forming galactic nuclei, as supported by red shifts documented in laboratory research in plasma physics. Thus, they are not necessarily further away and moving faster away, but simply younger, more active and with less stable plasma conditions.

Nevertheless, looking from the perspective of the current model, the 73% of the energy in the universe modeled as dark energy is potentially a view of the kinetic plenum which may not only serve to illucidate gravity, but also the arrow (or more accurately the vortex) of time, and the nature of the content of consciousness. Similarly, dark matter may represent the substrate of consciousness and spirit, perhaps even Bose-Einstein Condensates or ORME’s which are typically footnoted as unknowns, as only two laboratories have ever established the means for technical measurements. For example, brain tissue contains 5% by dry weight, and 4/9 of their mass is found to be non-local. These spirit minerals in this view would be found at even higher concentrations in preferred sanctuary locations in the universe, and dark matter is found to concentrate at the center of galaxies as a halo enveloping and extending even beyond the galactic disc. Dark matter also extends between galaxies forming filaments connecting galactic clusters. BECs superconductivity would help link galaxies electrically.

Aether was the fifth element in ancient Greece.  Now quintessence, a theory about dark energy, is one view of the fifth element of energy in modern physics.  The first four in current thinking are: baryonic matter; electromagnetic radiation (photons, and neutrinos which can also be classified as hot dark matter); cold dark matter (which I think could be a form of Bose-Einstein Condensates, since they strongly resist electromagnetic interactions with a Meissner field); and gravitational self-energy due to relativistic spatial curvature.

Healing Health Care

Healing is fundamentally self healing.  No doctor or medicine heals a wound, but merely support and stimulate, or even interfere with the body’s intelligent process.  The body forms granulation tissue to mend itself.  Health care can interfere with the body’s wound healing process, like anti-inflammatories and anti-biotics do by over-alkalizing the tissue from a sol to a gel state, or support it like how Methyl-Sulfonyl Methane (an organic sulfur nutritional supplement) helps reduce any excess scar tissue and restore circulation and function, when taken after a wound has sealed itself… Even if that wound happened decades before!

Blood letting (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I have only heard of two double blind studies on surgery, and both found no advantage to real surgery over a mock procedure.  One was on open heart surgery, and the other arthroscopic knee surgery.  Blood letting may be more evidence based, as long as it is performed on people in high energy terrain (Phase 4 in my 5 Phases of Healing model), and preferably not performed by humans.  Leaches do a much cleaner job!

With untold resources poured into patent medicine for nearly a century now, we should be able to see the results of this modern experiment.  We are spending more on disease care, but our increases in longevity are attributable to improvements in public health knowledge and practices, not those of our medical system.  There are systemic issues in our current approach involving financial incentives in the most lucrative industry in the world today.  Most pharmaceutical research is funded by the industry, and most of the unfavorable results go unreported, while some of the favorable results are fictitious.  In the typical best case scenario, a drug may actually work for the parameter being manipulated, but does it make us healthier?  Were we really deficient in a toxin?

One study in England took a broader perspective, looking at the effects of blood pressure medication.  All the physicians in the study, as expected, agreed that the prescribed drug therapies improved the patients’ health status, based on statistically normalized blood pressure.  This study did something unusual.  They surveyed the patients, their family members and people in the community to rate the perceived health effects of the drugs.  These people were as unanimous in their opinions as were the doctors… but their observation was that under treatment, patients seemed less vital!  So who is right?

In New Zealand, an important asthma medicine was slated to go off the market.  Everyone was worried that it would mean more asthma deaths.  When the time came and the government followed through, taking the drug off the market… the death rate actually went down!

Most prescription and over the counter drugs are extremely toxic as a rule.  They are the leading cause of death and disease in our culture.  It can be shown that over a million Americans a year die because of them, though some estimates are somewhat lower, since most of the negative effects go unrecorded.  With all the negative effects of drugs, and the fact that the placebo effect is a full half of the effect of medicines, large, expensive statistical trials are needed to even begin to know if they are doing what is hoped.  Individualized medicine, personal attention, primary prevention, innovation and intellectual honesty take a back seat…

The best hospital based medicine with all its diagnostic instrumentation and budget, probably only achieves a proper diagnosis in one out of three cases at the best institutions.  This is based on comparison of diagnosis with results of autopsy at Harvard Medical School.  So most of those receiving toxic and invasive treatments are being treated for something they don’t even have…

Oncologists know how much their patients suffer from radiation and chemotherapy, both of which cause cancer.  That’s probably why 90% of them would not take the treatments they recommend for their patients if they had cancer.  Meta-analysis of all cancer research shows that those living longest are the controls, who had no radiation, chemo or surgery.

Physicians are so good at managing disease today, that they have little clue even about their own health.  The average medical doctor lives to age 58.

Perhaps one of the most telling stories is what happens when physicians go on strike: the death rate drops.  This has happened at least three times in different parts of the world including California and Israel!

Phases of wound healing. Limits vary within faded intervals, mainly by wound size and healing conditions. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

What is the leading form of medicine in the world today, in terms of numbers of people treated?  It is still the much maligned, misunderstood, and underestimated field of Homeopathy.  Homeopathic medicines are non-toxic.  They produce no side effects.  Where they stimulate symptoms, called provings, it has been shown that these effects actually improve health.  The costs are minimal, and the whole world can be treated without straining anyone’s resources.  In contrast, the World Health Organization acknowledges that there is no way the entire world could afford to receive modern Western medicine… Only indigenous natural medicines, like botanical medicine, as well as essential nutrient supplementation and subtle and safe approaches like homeopathy are sustainable.  These are the medicines of the past… and the future!

Having studied and practiced many modalities of natural, behavioral and biological medicine, the approach I recommend is to support and stimulate accelerated self healing.  ”Just say no to drugs!”  I recommend using some of the many methods of individualized bio-communication to select energetically balancing natural medicines in real time.  Statistical approaches used in patent drug medicine were not originally designed for use on humans, but for plant monocultures.  You deserve better than to be treated as a statistic or a diagnosis code.  Bio-energetic and bio-electronic test methods, in contrast, are completely individualized and actually help to stimulate the body’s own healing processes.  They follow well the first rule of medicine: Primum non nocere (first do no harm).  Without these methods, I myself would have been dead over 16 years ago, with over 99% certainty.

What is needed to heal our health care system?

For physicians, we can restore our sacred oaths to first do no harm.

We can seek to treat and remove causes rather than battling symptoms.

We can treat people to enhance abilities and functions, rather than fight contemplated disease entities.

We can select from a broad spectrum of natural and non-toxic remedies individualizing treatment to suit the unique needs of each person as they change in real time during the healing process.

We can focus on education (doctor means teacher) for primary prevention through improvements in public health, lifestyle choices and cultural knowledge and application.

To learn more, check out the resources on this site… and stay tuned for more!

Doctoral Contemplations: Toward a Science of the Spirit

Triunity.

The Shekinah Glory Enters the Tabernacle; illustration from The Bible and Its Story Taught by One Thousand Picture Lessons. Edited by Charles F. Horne and Julius A. Bewer. 1908. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

How does the body of the creator manifest in the creation?  The nature of this world is ultimately unique and individual for each perspective.  Yet, like our unique source, we are inseparably linked to that individuality from whence we arise.  Fractal beings from fractal beings. Life from life.

In the vortex of the Shekinah Glory, God the Father’s undeniably manifest presence on Earth, the souls swirl around as a cloud of smoke by day, and the light of glory shines through as fire by night.  If we accept the ancient accounts, do we know our Father’s presence in this by his power?  Or is it by his purpose?  The Shekinah Glory guided and protected those who were escaping the slavery of Egypt…

And what of the Son, our Redeemer… Did he not make us all sons and daughters of God.  He taught us how to pray… “Our Father…” and he adopted us to his Mother at the foot of the cross, through John…

Yes, we are made in his image.  The blueprint is secure… indelible… perfect.  Is this universe a holographic image of its source?  Must we not make an act of creation, aligning our will with the divine compass in order to participate in our own redemption?

The little flower:

Before she turned 10, Therese of Lisieux had a high fever, seeming near death, but as she prayed to the Blessed Virgin, she saw a statue of Mary animate and smile at her.  She was instantly better, not that anyone believed her experience…  Therese had a good heart, desiring to do good, but did not feel called to do housework or make beds… And if she imagined that she wasn’t being appreciated for some reason, she would burst into tears.  As the tears subsided, she would then cry for having cried.

At her Christmas ‘conversion’ at age 14, she experienced a shift, where she could now regulate her own emotions based on greater compassion for the feelings of others, starting with her father.  He had said, about her childhood custom of putting a shoe out to receive gifts, “Thank goodness that’s the last time we shall have that kind of thing.”  Up until this time, she would have had a tantrum, but I suspect that, through grace, she received this as a sign that she would be in a convent within the year, rather than as a personal affront.  This formerly shy girl asked to join the convent, and after being turned down due to her age, went to the bishop, who refused to over-ride the decision. She went to the Pope, to whom she was forbidden to speak, yet she begged him to let her enter the convent, as two guards carried her away!  Impressed with her courage, he interceded for her.

Experiencing dryness in her prayer life at the convent, she said “Jesus isn’t doing much to keep the conversation going.” She often fell asleep during prayer, and would note how much mother’s adore their babies as they sleep in their arms, so God must love her when she sleeps during prayer!

She thought, “Love proves itself by deeds, so how am I to show my love? Great deeds are forbidden me. The only way I can prove my love is by scattering flowers and these flowers are every little sacrifice, every glance and word, and the doing of the least actions for love.”  She smiled at sisters she didn’t like, and ate whatever leftovers she was served, showing outward gratitude even when she wound up being served the worst of the lot!  She gave these gifts to those around her so congruently that they never even knew what sacrifices she was making inside…  This is because her true concern was on how she could become holy, a saint…

In her own words, “I have always wanted to become a saint. Unfortunately when I have compared myself with the saints, I have always found that there is the same difference between the saints and me as there is between a mountain whose summit is lost in the clouds and a humble grain of sand trodden underfoot by passers-by. Instead of being discouraged, I told myself: God would not make me wish for something impossible and so, in spite of my littleness, I can aim at being a saint. It is impossible for me to grow bigger, so I put up with myself as I am, with all my countless faults. But I will look for some means of going to heaven by a little way which is very short and very straight, a little way that is quite new.”

“We live in an age of inventions. We need no longer climb laboriously up flights of stairs; in well-to-do houses there are lifts. And I was determined to find a lift to carry me to Jesus, for I was far too small to climb the steep stairs of perfection. So I sought in holy Scripture some idea of what this life I wanted would be, and I read these words: “Whosoever is a little one, come to me.” It is your arms, Jesus, that are the lift to carry me to heaven. And so there is no need for me to grow up [she had been made a permanent novice to ease politics within the convent]: I must stay little and become less and less.”

St Thérèse of Lisieux (1873-1897) was one of three women to be named “Doctor of the Church” during the 20th Century. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“I feel in me the vocation of the Priest. I have the vocation of the Apostle. Martyrdom was the dream of my youth and this dream has grown with me. Considering the mystical body of the Church, I desired to see myself in them all. Charity gave me the key to my vocation. I understood that the Church had a Heart and that this Heart was burning with love. I understood that Love comprised all vocations, that Love was everything, that it embraced all times and places…in a word, that it was eternal! Then in the excess of my delirious joy, I cried out: O Jesus, my Love…my vocation, at last I have found it…My vocation is Love!”

When she began coughing up blood, it took a year for others to realize how sick she had become.  Despite tremendous internal suffering, she maintained a smiling and cheerful disposition toward others, so much that some questioned if she was really sick, or just faking it.  Her one dream was to help us here on earth after her death. “I will return,” she said. “My heaven will be spent on earth.”  She died at age 24.  She saw this as a great blessing, as she always felt called to be a priest, and so she completed this life at the age that she could have been ordained had she been born a man…

Therese, “Little Flower” was canonized a Saint in 1925, and named a Doctor (teacher) of the Church in 1997.

Robert Bellarmine

Bellarmine took a position based on principles now regarded as fundamentally democratic, that authority originates with God, and is vested in the people, who entrust it to fit rulers.

Bellarmine also opposed severe action in the case of Galileo.  In 1616, on the orders of Paul V, Bellarmine summoned Galileo, notified him of a forthcoming decree of the Congregation of the Index condemning the Copernican doctrine of the mobility of the Earth and the immobility of the Sun, and ordered him to abandon it. Galileo agreed.

When Galileo later complained of rumors that he had been forced to abjure and do penance, Bellarmine wrote out a certificate denying the rumors, stating that Galileo had merely been notified of the decree and informed that, as a consequence of it, the Copernican doctrine could not be “defended or held”. Cardinal Bellarmine was ambiguous about heliocentrism, personally noting that further research was needed to confirm or condemn it.

From his research grew his Disputationes, published in 1581–1593, the earliest attempt to systematize the various religious controversies of the time. It treats of the Word of God, of Christ, and of the Pope; the authority of ecumenical councils, and of the Church, whether militant, expectant, or triumphant; of the sacraments; and of Divine grace, free will, justification, and good works.  Bellarmine also wrote for spiritual seekers The Mind’s Ascent to God (which was later translated into English as Jacob’s Ladder without acknowledgement of the source), The Art of Dying Well, and The Seven Words on the Cross.

Doctor Universalis

Against the wishes of his noble family, Albert became a friar while a student. He excelled in the natural sciences, gaining encyclopedic knowledge. He related the findings of science with philosophy and laid the foundation for the proper use of reason in matters of faith, which his pupil, Thomas Aquinas perfected. He taught at Ratisbon, Freiburg, Cologne, and Paris. He was dubbed “The Great” and “Universal Doctor” by his contemporaries because of his holiness and knowledge, and he is the patron of natural scientists.

When he died, his body was placed in a temporary vault.  After three years when the permanent tomb was complete, the body was in a state of perfect preservation with a delightful fragrance. Two centuries later a mausoleum was constructed. During the transfer the body was reduced to a skeleton, but still emitted its sweet perfume. After being placed in a glass case, miracles of healing and many visions were recorded.

Saint John of the Cross

Juan de Yepes, the son of a weaver, credited the Blessed Mother with saving his life from drowning twice as a child. After he was ordained, he met Teresa of Avila, who persuaded him to help her restore the original rule of the Carmelites. During this challenging endeavor, he was kidnapped and imprisoned for nine-months.

In Teresa’s words, “He was one of the purest souls in the Church of God.” It was here at Avila that the sisters witnessed many of his levitations during ecstatic prayer.

His mystical writings include The Ascent of Mount Carmel, The Dark Night of the Soul, and The Spiritual Canticle.  John’s works “possess the same authority in mystical theology as the writings of St. Thomas Aquinas possess in dogmatic theology.”

Following his burial, the friars observed a great light which burned for several minutes.  His body was found intact when the tomb was first opened nine months later.  Eighteen months after burial, upon opening the tomb, they perceived a fragrant perfume and found the body perfectly fresh and supple.  One of the fingers “was then cut off… as proof of the preservation of the body, and when this was amputated, blood flowed profusely as would be normal in a living person.

After another nine months, the body was still perfectly preserved under a layer of lime. The perfume of the body filled the entire area.  The body was exhumed and carefully examined in 1859, 1909, and 1955 and found perfectly moist and flexible.

Teresa of Avila

Born to a noble family, she was a very pious child, attempting at age seven to convert the Moors and suffer martyrdom. During her adolescence she was fascinated with romantic literature, and then a serious illness kindled her interest in religious life.

At the time she enjoyed many privileges that were allowed contrary to the original rule of the order.  Then at age 38 she experienced a further conversion reading the Confessions of St. Augustine.  Restoring rigorous interpretation of the rule, she attained heights of mysticism, with countless visions, and the phenomenon of levitation.

She was a reluctant writer, but left three spiritual masterpieces authored under obedience: her Autobiography, The Way of Perfection, and of course The Interior Castle, the title of which was given her by Christ.

The sweet fragrance which frequently enveloped her during her life, and which was so strong at the time of her death that the door and windows of her cell had to be opened, continued to emanate from her grave, and so many wonders were occurring there that curiosity concerning the condition of the body was great.  The coffin was open nine months later.  The clothes had fallen to pieces. The body was as fresh and whole as if it had been buried the day before.  There spread through the whole house a wonderful penetrating fragrance which lasted for days.  The body exuded oil.

Doctors examined the body and decided it was impossible that its condition could have a natural explanation, and that it was truly miraculous, as after three years without being embalmed, it was perfectly preserved, and a wonderful odor issued from it.

Theresa wrote in her Autobiography of her vision of her transverberation:

“I saw an angel close by me, on my left side, in bodily form. He was not large, but small of stature and most beautiful – his face burning as if he were one of the highest angels who seemed to be all of fire. I saw in his hand a long spear of gold, and at the iron’s point there seemed to be a little fire. He appeared to me to be thrusting it at times into my heart and to pierce my very entrails; when he drew it out, he seemed to draw them out also; and to leave me all on fire with a great love of God.”

Her heart was meticulously examined in 1872 by three physicians of the University of Salamanca who noted the perforation made by the dart. They unanimously agreed that the preservation of the heart could not be credited to any natural or chemical means.

The last exhumation of the body of the Saint occurred in 1914. The body was in the same condition as before including the flowery fragrance, while a tube of lead containing official documents was reduced to powder.

Teresa of Avila bore the title Doctor of the Church for many centuries by public acclamation.  In 1970, she became the first woman to be officially added to the list.

Francis De Sales

Francis was born of a distinguished family but became a priest rather than following his father’s ambitions.  Francis had saintly friends in Vincent de Paul and Philip Neri.  His success in speaking, direction of souls, and conversions brought him to be appointed Bishop of Geneva.  Out of humility, he declined the same position in Paris when offered.

His entrance into Heaven was announced supernaturally to many friends and relatives.  At his autopsy the body was embalmed and the heart extracted. A clear oil exudes from the heart periodically.  Ten years after death, his body was found to be still perfectly preserved.

His most most popular writings are Introduction To A Devoted Life and Treatise On The Love of God and he is the patron of writers.

Catherine of Siena

Catherine of Siena (Photo credit: Patrick Denker)

Catherine was the 23rd child of Jacomo and Lapa Benincasa. Both pious and wise as a child, she made a vow of virginity at an early age and received visions.  At age 6, she saw a magnificent vision of Our Lord seated on a throne.  When her brother finally pulled her from her ecstasy, she cried and said, “O, did you but see what I saw, you would never have disturbed me in such a sweet vision.” After this her thoughts, conduct and virtues were quite precocious, and she soon decided to join a holy order.  Cared for the sick, visited and converted prisoners, distributed alms, and attracted disciples and friends to her mysticism, in which she exibits a wide range of miracles: stigmata, clairvoyance, visions, virginity, living on the Blessed Sacrament alone, healing, invincibility against fire, levitation, and incorruptibility after death.

Worthy Contemplation

These are a few of the officially declared Doctors of the Church who, among many other accomplishments and miracles, showed, like several hundred other declared Saints, signs of grace related to their biological bodies, even after death.  Doctor means teacher, and these souls and their experiences have much to teach us about what is possible in this world and in the world to come.

What mystical truths can they reveal through their lives and their writings?

What are the types of miracles that occur? As we just saw broadly illustrated by Catherine of Siena, the full range of miracles we must account for in our Theory of Everything includes:

Incorruptibility:

Protection of the biological body against deterioration after death: incorruptibility (over 250 Saints in varying degrees, mahasamati)

Biological life sustained without basic material nutrition: living on the Blessed Sacrament alone (Theresa Neumann…), breatharian claims

Restoration of life in part: instantaneous healing (Jesus…)

Restoration of life in whole: resurrection (Jesus…)

Protection of life against external forces: invincibility against fire (Daniel…)

Subtlety:

Non-local resonance transcending both space and time: stigmata (Francis of Assisi, Padre Pio…)

Non-local resonance transcending space and numerosity: bilocation (Padre Pio…), multiplication of food (Jesus…)

Transcending of gravitation: levitation (Padre Pio…), walking on water (Jesus), ascension (Jesus, ), assumption (Mary’s body after her death), house of Loreto (Mary’s birthplace and home of the infant Jesus levitated and moved from Nazareth to Loreto, Italy in several stages between 1291 and 1294), New Jerusalem

Subtlety: entering or leaving an enclosed space (Jesus, Paul…)

Consciousness:

Non-local consciousness transcending space: clairvoyance, clairsentience, clairaudience

Non-local consciousness transcending time (reverse-time causality): visions, prophecy, immaculate conception

Material and sensory:

Oil: associated with incorruptibles, healing

Aroma: Sweet fragrance, rose (Mary…)

Light:  Pigment-free photographic images on cloth (the Sudarium of Oviedo - Veronica’s veil, the Shroud of Turin, the tilma of Our Lady of Guadalupe)

Quantum dynamics

The quantum dynamic behavior of all matter offers a foundation for understanding the science of the spirit.  These observations include superposition, tunneling, entanglement, non-locality, teleportation, and time-reverse causation.

Bose-Einstein Condensates can have macroscopic extent and still function as a single quantum state, a single coherent wave function in which the individual atoms of the normal state of matter do not appear as individual localized standing waves, thereby bringing quantum behavior to a sensible and biological size domain.  These behaviors includes Josephson tunneling (subtlety), superposition (bilocation), entanglement (instantaneous action at a distance) and Meissner fields (a strong degree of incorruptibility by outside forces).

Closely related ORMEs (Orbitally Rearranged Monoatomic Elements) of the transition elements with high spin nucleii, found in living organisms at high concentrations (5% dry weight in brain tissue) are 4/9 non-local relative to their mass in the familiar states of matter (solid, liquid, gas, plasma).  They have been demonstrated to show levitation, invisibility, and teleportation.  A brilliant flash of light can be associated with some of this quantum dynamic activity (Iridium).  ORMEs have a sweet taste and oily texture.  They are superconducting (capable of magnetic levitation) and superfluid (subtle).

Miracles do not, indeed, cannot happen outside the ultimate laws of the universe.  They happen outside our model of those laws.  A miracle is a natural process for which our scientific models lack explanatory or predictive power.  It is our models, our faith, which requires healing, growth and maturation.   By what mechanism might such miracles happen?  That is what this site is fundamentally about… A new theory of everything, a unity-field theory, including life, healing, consciousness, spirit and God.  Why include these in our operational model of our world?  Because spirit matters!  It is all that ever has…