Over two thousand years ago, The Zohar cryptically states that, the liver physically filters the blood and sacrifices it to the heart which is “king” to nourish him. He takes everything which is clean and pure, namely all the merits and good deeds, purified blood, and our positive behavior. (1)
Most of us have been taught in school that the heart is a pump that constantly responds to orders sent by the brain in the form of neural signals. However, it is not as commonly known that the heart sends more signals to the brain than the brain sends to the heart! These heart signals have a significant effect on brain function, influencing emotional processing as well as higher cognitive faculties such as attention, perception, memory, and problem-solving. In other words, not only does the heart respond to the brain, but the brain continuously responds to the heart.
The heart is the dominant energetic organ of the human body, and heart rate variability (HRV) is the orchestrating symphony connecting the human body and the universe. This revolutionary paradigm of the human heart confirms the ancient perspective of the human heart as king of organs and Master of Human Consciousness. Scientific research in multiple countries establishes the non-pumping functions of the human heart neurologically, biochemically, biophysically, and most importantly the dominant electromagnetic field generator in the human body. In specific, major research efforts have been devoted to the discovery that the heart detects stimuli before the brain. Brain neural events are locked into heartbeats. Heartbeat Evoked Potentials (HBEPs) and their role in interoception (feeling what’s going on inside) and the human heart connects to the cosmic environments and the far away galaxies. The amplitude of the heart’s electrical signal is about 60 times greater than that of the brain. The electromagnetic field of the heart is approximately 5000 times stronger than the brain’s and can be detected six feet away from the body with sensitive magnetometers. There is a direct mathematical relationship between the HRV patterns, and the spectral information encoded in the magnetic field. (2) (3)
Never in my wildest dreams did I envision the true function of the vagus nerve. I had been taught in multiple anatomy and physiology classes, both at the undergraduate level and in post graduate work, that the vagus nerve controls your autonomic nervous system (actions your body does without conscious awareness) breathing, digestion, sweating and that it is the main conduit in the gut- brain connection. I was also taught that it carries signals from the brain to other parts of the body like your heart and intestines as part of the parasympathetic nervous system that calms the body down.
The energy dominance of the heart over the brain was absolutely mind blowing for the modern scientific communities as well. Karl Pribram proposed that low frequency oscillations generated by the heart and body in the form of afferent (inward) neural, hormonal, and electrical patterns which are the carriers of emotional information and the higher frequency oscillations found in the EEG reflect consciousness. John and Beatrice Lacey during the 1960s and 1970s created a massive drift in the modern psychophysiological arena. Heart- Brain communication science was revolutionized with their publication declaring that afferent input from the heart and cardiovascular system could significantly affect perception, cognitive functions, and behavior which all reflect in conscious experience. The heart behaves as if it had a mind of its own. The Laceys showed that patterns of physiological responses were affected as much by the context of a specific task as by emotional stimuli, in clear contradiction to the current theory of homeostasis which claims a constant internal environment. It was further demonstrated that cognitive performance fluctuated at a rhythm around 0.1 Hz and showed that the modulation of cortical function was via the heart's influence due to afferent inputs on the neurons in the thalamus, which synchronizes cortical activity and the consciousness phenomena. A critical observation here is the finding that the pattern and stability of the rhythm of the heart's inward inputs, rather than the number of neural bursts within the cardiac cycle, modulates thalamic activity, which in turn has global effects on brain function and ultimately on consciousness. A growing body of quality research has been accumulating indicating that the inward information processed by the intrinsic cardiac nervous system can influence activity in the front cortical areas and motor cortex, affecting psychological factors and conscious experience elements such as attention level, motivation, perceptual sensitivity, and emotional processing. An amazing fact about the vagus nerve is that it has significant number of afferent (inward) neurons compared to its efferent (outward) neurons. Around 85-90% of the fibers in the vagus nerve carry signals inward to the brain. Most higher brain centers, as well as emotional experience and cognitive processes are operated by cardiovascular related afferent neural traffic. The vagus nerve has afferent connections to the deep nuclei of the brain. Numerous brain centers including the thalamus, hypo thalamus, amygdala, reticular formation, and hippocampus are connected to cardiovascular inputs. A range of frequencies of complex information related to mechanical and chemical factors is continuously sent to the brain over various transit times, ranging from milliseconds to minutes. Vagal afferent nerve stimulation has been shown to reduce migraine and cluster headaches and to improve cognitive processing and memory. (6) (7)
The Harmony of The Cardiovascular System with the Resonances of the Sun and the Planet’s Geomagnetic Activity.
All biological systems on the planet are exposed to an external and internal environment of fluctuating wide range of electromagnetic frequencies. These fields can affect virtually every cell and circuit of every living thing on the planet to a greater or lesser degree. Numerous physiological rhythms have been shown to be synchronized with solar and geomagnetic activity. Geomagnetic and solar influences affect a wide range of human rhythmic systems with the nervous and cardiovascular systems, with their significant contribution to consciousness, being the most clearly impacted. Sharp variations of sudden and sharp nature of geomagnetic, solar activity and its resultant geomagnetic storms can act as stressors, which have the capacity to alter body regulatory processes and rhythmic systems such as melatonin/serotonin balance, blood pressure, breathing, reproductive, and immune systems as well as the cardiac system processes. In the clinical arena, significant increases in hospital admissions for depression, mental disorders, psychiatric admissions, homicides, suicide attempts, and traffic accidents are associated with planetary geomagnetic disturbances. Increased incidence of myocardial infarctions, vascular variability disorders, local and global communication disruptions between humans during geomagnetic disturbances are all evidence that brain and cardiovascular systems are clear targets for the planetary geomagnetic disturbances. Exacerbation of present diseases like the development of cardiac arrhythmias and epilepsy is well known during disturbed electromagnetic activity. Clinical evaluation of humans in this prosperous era of electromagnetic knowledge should always be done since every cell in our body is bathed in an external and internal environment of fluctuating invisible magnetic forces that can affect virtually every cell and circuit in biological systems. Therefore, it should not be surprising that numerous physiological rhythms in humans and global collective behaviors are not only synchronized with solar and geomagnetic activity, but disruptions in these fields can create adverse effects on human health and behavior. The most likely mechanism for explaining how solar and geomagnetic influences affect human health and behavior are a coupling between the human nervous system and resonating geomagnetic frequencies called Schumann resonances, and other electromagnetic frequencies that occur in the earth-ionosphere resonant cavity. It is well established that Schumann Resonant frequencies directly overlap with those of the human brain, and the cardiovascular and autonomic nervous system. Low frequency magnetic oscillations, around 3 Hz, were observed to cause a sedative effect. Applying the Schumann Resonance (SR) frequency of 7.8 Hz for 1.5 hours was found to protect the cardiovascular system from stress with reduction of the amount of CK (creatine kinase) released to buffer, during normal conditions, hypoxic conditions and oxidative stress induced by hydrogen peroxide, Schumann resonance frequency is 7.83 hertz (Hz), with a (day/night) variation of around ±0.5 Hz. The higher frequencies are -14, 20, 26, 33, 39 and 45 Hz, all of which closely overlay closely with alpha (8-12 Hz), beta (12-30 Hz) and gamma (30-100 Hz) brain waves. The delicate orchestration of this universal symphony with the human autonomic nervous system (ANS) that interacts with cerebral cortex and controls heart rhythm, respiration, digestive functions, and other involuntary activities was investigated. The longest record in human history of human heart rate variability (HRV) synchronized with Solar Wind Indices, Schumann Resonances (SR) and Galactic Cosmic Rays (GCR) was achieved by Heart Math researchers. They completed a long-term study where they examined relationships between solar and magnetic factors and the time lags of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) responses to changes in solar and geomagnetic activity. Heart rate variability (HRV) was recorded for 72 consecutive hours each week over a five-month period in 16 participants to examine ANS responses during normal background environmental periods across the study period.
They were able to confirm that changes in solar and geomagnetic activity during periods of normal undisturbed activity affect daily ANS activity. ANS dynamics is known to be critical for human's psychophysiological wellbeing. In another publication, the researchers were able to document significant correlations between the group's HRV and, Schumann resonance power, and the total variations in the electromagnetic field. This effect is initiated at different times after the changes. (8)
Life on earth has evolved in a sea of natural electromagnetic (EM) fields. Over the past century, this natural environment has sharply changed with introduction of a vast and growing spectrum of man-made EM fields.
It is the introduction of these man-made EM fields that has disrupted the natural resonance of our cells and organs at the quantum level causing widespread disease. From models based on thermal effects, these fields were initially considered too weak to interact with biomolecular systems, and thus incapable of influencing physiological functions. Laboratory studies have tested a spectrum of EM fields for bioeffects at cellular and molecular levels, focusing on exposures below thermal levels.
It has become clear that many observed interactions are not caused by tissue heating. These studies support new concepts of communication between cells across the barriers of cell membranes; and point with increasing clarity to an essential physical organization in living matter at a far finer level than the image presented by biochemistry. Physicists and biologists have found evidence that these events relate to quantum states and resonant responses in biomolecular systems, and not to tissue heating. (9)
Conclusion
When I first started researching and writing my book, The New Biology, I had no idea the depth of the rabbit hole I was going down. I virtually had to unlearn almost everything I had ever learned in a college biology, chemistry, physics, or biochemistry class to be able to accept this “new biology” which I did with great difficulty. I spent hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars to triple fact verify everything in this book of which this essay is a part. My first clue that something was wrong was in Organic Chemistry. I naively thought that the class was about the chemistry of different organisms. Boy was I wrong. It was about using different solvents to break down petroleum into different medicinal compounds. I shit you not. I wanted to scream, which I did all the way down to the registrar’s office to drop the class. My interests were in natural medicine.
They teach that the heart is a pump that constantly responds to orders sent by the brain. Imagine my surprise when I found out that the heart sends more signals to the brain than the brain sends to the heart. These heart signals influence emotional processing as well as higher cognitive faculties such as attention, perception, memory, and problem-solving. In other words, not only does the heart respond to the brain, but the brain continuously responds to the heart. I could go on and on. But I’ll just leave it at this. Most of the information in this article and the book has been hidden in the name of corporate profits.
True healers can use energy medicine, instead of harsh chemicals. We can look forward to a healthy happy future once we replace better living with chemistry with better living with mother nature.
Hope you enjoy reading this as much as I did writing it. All comments are appreciated. Please pass it along.
THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE
Shawn
Resources
1.Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai (70 AD) The Zohar, Pinchas, verse 374, page 315
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Excited to read your information.
Great article and hoping to read more from you on this topic and others 😊 Noting both the importance and function of the heart, is it just a big coinkydink that according to the mainstream the #1 jibby jab side effect is myocarditis? 🤔