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Consciousness
Infuses Our Entire Being Our
model of reality is deepening and expanding with the help of new scientific,
electronic microscopes and sophisticated techniques. My
experience had been that consciousness infuses our entire being. For years I
have taught that fascia on the microscopic level is actually a three-dimensional
web of tiny, hollow tubules filled with fluid carrying information. This
information in the form of thermal, electromagnetic and mechanical energy is
transmitted to all aspects of the mind/body complex via myofascial release for
healing on the deepest levels. The
old way of observing this phenomena was to try to break everything down into its
lowest common denominator; the reductionism model. Until quite recently there
have been very few experiments set up to observe the living system. Biology has
a long tradition of fixing, pinning, clamping, pressing, pulping, homogenizing,
extracting and fractionating.* This unfortunately gave us a very limited and
distorted understanding of the interrelationships of the whole living system. Cellular
Consciousness Has
an understanding of consciousness eluded brain researchers because they have
limited their focus to the brain? A
major international conference was recently held in Cambridge, England called
"Beyond the Brain: New Avenues in Consciousness Research." Speakers
included many of the world's most eminent theorists of consciousness experience
including Nobel laureate physicist Brian Josephson, neurologist Stuart Hameroff,
psychiatrist Stanislav Grof, evolutionary scientist Ervin Laszlo, and
psychologist Charles Tart. The conclusion of the conference is that there is
evidence of a shift away from the premise that consciousness is a mere byproduct
of brain processes. Science
is in the throws of a deep-seated revolution. When you look at the evidence that
the mind is not confined to the skull you automatically expand the horizons of
research. Many people are now realizing the ways in which we have been limited
by the assumptions of science. Reductionists
tend to overlook the fact that neurons are alive and traditional views of the
hierarchical organization of the brain stop at the synapse as the fundamental
switch, analogous to bytes in computers. The complexity of neurons and their
synapses, however, are closer to entire computers than individual switches. This
implies the mechanism of consciousness may depend on an understanding of the
organization of adaptive (cognitive) functions within living cells.* Is
fascia the physical basis for the emergence of consciousness? Recent
discoveries support this suggestion. Two of the leading researchers on
consciousness, mathematical physicist Roger Penrose, and Stuart Hameroff have
stated that past brain/consciousness research had been severely limited by
scientists not looking deeper than the synapse of the nervous system.* With
the help of new, sophisticated electronic microscopes capable of incredible
magnification, Penrose and Hameroff have discovered microtubules filled with
fluid within the cytoskeleton of the cell. The
Nervous System of the Cell The
famous neuroscientist C.S. Sherrington observed the cytoskeleton may act as the
nervous system of single-cell organisms. Synaptic connections are formed and
regulated by cytoskeletal polymers, including microtubules.* Penrose
and Hameroff speculated that the cytoskeleton is like a micro-myofascial system,
within each cell. This micro-myofascial system is made up of a skeleton of
tubules filled with fluid and surrounded and interconnected from cell to cell by
a viscous ground substance. They
go on to suggest that using the quantum field theory, that ordering of the water
molecules and the electromagnetic field confined inside the hollow microtubules
core manifest a specific collective dynamics called "super radiance."
Accordingly, each microtubule can transform incoherent, disordered energy
(molecular, thermal or electromagnetic) into coherent photons within its hollow
core.* This
information supports the continuity of the myofascial system from the inside of
the cell to the very periphery of our being and the holographic model of reality
where photons (light) are transmitted as information throughout the mind/body
complex. Consciousness (information) is necessary for healing. Consciousness may
emerge as a macroscopic quantum state from a critical level of coherence of
quantum-level events in and around a specific class of neurobiological
micro-structures: cytoskeletal microtubules within neurons.* The
Piezoelectric Phenomenon This
information about how information/consciousness is transmitted through the
hollow core of the microtubules to all aspects of the mind/body helps to deepen
our understanding of the piezoelectric effect when the myofascial system is
treated. The
fascia is a piezoelectric tissue; therefore when a therapist utilizing the
gentle, sustained pressure of myofascial release through compression,
stretching, or twisting of the myofascial system, generates a flow of bioenergy
(information) throughout the mind/body complex by the piezoelectric phenomenon. This
facilitates the extra cellular matrix to transform as it undergoes its "sol
to gel" reorganization during myofascial release. Fascia is behaving as an
electrically conductive medium which allows this visco-elastic tissue to
rehydrate under the sustained pressure of the therapist's hands. This
rehydration also allows for an elongation of the myofascial system relieving the
pressure on pain sensitive structures for alleviation of the symptoms of pain,
headaches and the restoration of motion. Cellular
Consciousness and Healing So
we are connected-- from deep within each cell of our being flows
information/consciousness via light energy (photons) throughout all aspects of
our mind/body. The
incredible magnification of our new electronic microscopes has allowed
scientists to see myofascial structures within the cell that expand our
knowledge and provide us with a more accurate understanding of our fascial
system and its importance to the healthy functioning of our mind/body. There
is an avalanche of new information coming out on the deeper structures of the
cell, the myofascial system, holography and the piezoelectric phenomenon. I will
go into more detail in future articles on these fascinating subjects. Myofascial
release and the other excellent "hands-on" therapies give the
therapist powerful healing techniques to effectively, cost-efficiently and
comprehensively help your patients realize their full potential
References: 1.
Ho, Mae-wan, the rainbow and the worm, the physics of organisms, World
Scientific Publishing CO, Singapore, 1993. 2. Journal of Consciousness Studies,
1, Summer 1994, pp. 91-118. #. Penrose, Roger, Shadows of the mind, 1995
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