10.2190/SH.4.3.a T755U72154M46381 2 CURVES: The Creative Abode of Vibrant Science 175 190 20090522 20090522 20090522 20090522 T755U72154M46381.pdf http://baywood.metapress.com/link.asp?target=contribution&id=T755U72154M46381 3 Deborah A. Davis Independent Educator To have a better understanding of helping the self and self care, a better understanding of our culturally situated knowledge of science is proposed and elaborated upon. Not only is science a culturally situated knowledge and rule-governed form of story-telling, where "facts" are actually "artifacts," it is also a re-presentation of all of the more or less developed human perceptive and epistemic practices—sensory body-knowing, story-telling/singing, valuing, imaging, conceptualizing, and theorizing—the habits of mind of each, particular scientist. Conventional Western habits of mind, especially, are reductionist, compartmentalized, and frozen by beliefs—all of which pollute clarity. Science will be coherent and vibrantly whole when the perceptions of more scientists become unfettered by false assumptions such as: the universe is made of matter, life forms are machines made out of matter, evolution is based on competition rather than cooperation, and scientific research is best guided by patriarchal politics and economics. When accurately perceived, science will be more consonant with a poetry that is ultimately beyond what theories can portray. Beginning with a democratic model of the heart—the heart as anatomy as well as the core of consciousness—this article embraces some new and emerging methodologies, which uncover how scientists create themselves and their sciences. It presents an ecology of knowing and being that is life-centered, dynamic, and grounded in the human body and its inner techniques: knowing-through-the-heart, root epistemologies, and imagination.

Mae-Wan Ho, The Rainbow and the Worm, The Physics of Organisms (Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific Publishing Co., Pte. Ltd., 1998, 2nd Edition). According to quantum physics, physical "solidness" is both wave-like and particle-like simultaneously (Ho: 203). And: "… the living system is a bewildering mass of organized heterogeneity. It's molecular diversity alone would defy description in terms of any statistical mechanisms involving large numbers of identical species" (Ho: 110). "… the whole collective behavior of physical systems at low temperatures when molecular disorder—entropy—disappears and the systems no longer behave statistically but in accordance with dynamical [where the whole system is in coherent motion] laws" (p. 110). There are more examples of collective behavior which are completely anti-statistical (Ho: 138). The human body is comprised of 50 trillion cells, which function in complete cooperation with each other, or we don't function at all! (Cf. Bruce Lipton, "The Wisdom of the Cells" www.brucelipton.com, accessed July 25, 2007.) Living systems are coherent: "The organism really has no preferred levels. That is the essence of the coherent organic whole, where local and global, part and whole are mutually implicated at any time and for all times" (Ho: 177). Vibrant wholeness … (Ho: 126). "Coherent energy comes and goes together so it can do work, as opposed to incoherent energy which goes in all directions and cancels itself out" (Ho: 34). DNA doesn't control life, cf., Lipton, "The Wisdom of Your Cells," Parts 1 and 2. <a target="_blank" href='http://www.brucelipton.com'>www.brucelipton.com</a>

Lipton, "The Wisdom of Your Cells," Part 1.

Mae-Wan Ho, "The Entangled Universe," in YES! Magazine, Spring, 2000.

Ho, The Rainbow and the Worm, 1998, 48.

Stan Tenen, "The Shape of Information: How to Talk to an Extra-Terrestrial," The Noetic Journal V3, N2 (April 2002), www.meru.org (accessed July 19, 2007). <a target="_blank" href='http://www.meru.org'>www.meru.org</a>

Ho, The Rainbow and the Worm, 32-33. Harmonics refers to the "… resonant energy transfer between molecules…. As is well known, chemical bonds when excited, will vibrate at characteristic frequencies, and any two or more bonds which have the same intrinsic frequency of vibration will resonate with one another. (This happens also in macroscopic systems, as when a tuning fork is struck near a piano, the appropriate string will begin to vibrate when it is in tune.) More importantly, the energy of vibration can be transferred through large distances, theoretically infinite, if the energy is radiated, as electromagnetic radiations travel through space at the speed of light, though in practice, it may be limited by nonspecific absorption in the intervening medium"

Joseph Chilton Pearce, The Biology of Transcendence, A Blueprint of the Human Spirit (Rochester, VT: Park Street Press, 2002): 59.

Joseph Chilton Pearce, The Biology of Transcendence, A Blueprint of the Human Spirit (Rochester, VT: Park Street Press, 2002): 58. Originally from the Institute of HeartMath, www.heartmath.org (accessed July 19, 2007). <a target="_blank" href='http://www.heartmath.org'>www.heartmath.org</a>

Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, University of Utah, Bioelectric Fields: cardiac, getslice.png <a target="_blank" href='http://www.sci.utah.edulsci_gallery.php?schTerm1=heart&schField1=anywhere&page=4'>http://www.sci.utah.edulsci_gallery.php?schTerm1=heart&schField1=anywhere&page=4</a>

Institute of HeartMath <a target="_blank" href='http://www.heartmath.org'>www.heartmath.org</a>

Roland McCraty, "The Energetic Heart: Bioelectromagnetic Communication Within and Between People," Clinical Applications of Bioelectromagnetic Medicine, ed. P. J. Rosch and M. S. Markov (New York: Marcel Dekker, 2004): 541-562.

Roland McCraty, M. Atkinson, and D. Thompson, Modulation of DNA Conformation By Heart-Focused Intention (Boulder Creek, CA: Institute of HeartMath Publication, No. 03-008, 2003).

Roland McCraty, R., M. Atkinson, and R. T. Bradley, "Electro-physiological Evidence of Intuition," Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 10 (1): 133-143 and 10 (2): 325-336 (2004). And M. Gillin, F. LaPisa, R. McCraty, R. T. Bailey, M. Atkinson, D. Simpson, and P. Scicluna, Before Cognition: The Active Contribution of The Heart/ANS to Intuitive Decision Making as Measured on Repeat Entrepreneurs in The Cambridge Technopol. Paper presented at the Fourth AGSE International Entrepreneurship Research Exchange, Brisbane, AU, February 6-9, 2007.

L. Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations: The English Text of the Third Edition, G. E. M. Anscombe (Trans.), Macmillan, New York, p. 8, 1968.

Stuart Sovatsky, Words From the Soul: Time, East/West Spirituality, and Psychtherapeutic Narrative (New York: SUNY Press): 20-21.

Maria M. Colavito, The Heresy of Oedipus and the Mind/Mind Split, A Study of the Biocultural Origins of Civilization (Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellon Press, 1995). Maria M. Colavito, "Why Study Humanities?" (1999), www.infinityfoundation.com, Indic Mandala, Society Today, Essays (accessed July, 19, 2007). Antonio T. de Nicolas, "The Biocultural Paradigm: The Neural Connection Between Science and Mysticism," Journal of Experimental Gerontology V 33, N 1/2 (1997). Antonio T. de Nicolas, "The Biocultural Paradigm," (2001), www.infinityfoundation.com, Indic Mandala, Inner Science, Essays (accessed July 19, 2007). <a target="_blank" href='http://www.infinityfoundation.com'>www.infinityfoundation.com</a>

Perception is movement (knowing is a flowing), which is filtered through our neural equipment (structural frameworks that result in different epistemics) and then "modified" by cultural beliefs. (Much of conventional psychology still studies "behavior modification" as if it were something natural and healthy!) Cf., biologist Lipton, "The Wisdom of Your Cells," Part 1, regarding "protein perception" and how: "We perceive the environment and adjust our biology, but not all of our perceptions are accurate. If we are laboring under misperceptions, then those misperceptions provide for a misadjustment of our biology. When our perceptions are inaccurate we can actually destroy our biology. When we understand that genes are just respondents to the environment from the perceptions handled by the cell membrane, then we can realize that if life isn't going well, what we have to do is not change our genes but change our perceptions. That is much easier to do than physically altering the body. In fact, this is the power of the new biology: we can control our lives by controlling our perceptions." Also psychologist J. J. Gibson, The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception, (Boston, MA: MIT Press, 1966), "… perception of the environment and perception of the self are simultaneously one and the same." Cited in Ho: 196. Similarly, beginning in the 9th century (C.E.) in Kashmir, India, practitioners of the lived philosophy and yoga of Kashmir Shaivism experienced and described consciousness as a "ciousness" (suchness) that "scires" itself, i.e., the capacity for knowing (consciousness) was/is simultaneously the process of knowing as well as action/power (prakasavimarsamaya). Cf., Jaideva Singh, The Doctrine of Recognition, A Translation of Pratyabhijnahrdayam (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1990:6-7).

Paul D. McLean, "Brain Evolution Relating to Family, Play, and the Separation Call," Archives of General Psychiatry V 42 (April 1985). And Michael Gazzaniga, Nature's Mind (New York: Basic Books, 1992). McLean established the "Triune Concept" of the brain (i.e., old reptilian, old mammalian, and neocortex. If the neocortex is counted as right hemisphere and left hemisphere, then Gazzaniga's addition of the "interpreter module, which is a specific area within the left hemisphere, brings the total number of brain centers to five. The latest research demonstrates the additional importance of the left and right pre-frontal lobes, and I add the heart. Thus, we could speak of the eight brain centers/centers of intelligence.

Gazzaniga, Nature's Mind: Biological Roots of Thinking, Emotions, Sexuality, Language, and Intelligence. (New York: Basic Books, 1992).

Note: the Borg are an exteriorization of our own internal neural activities of the interpreter module.

Robert Levine, C. Locke, D. Searls, and D. Weinberger, The cluetrain manifesto, the end of business as usual (Cambridge, MA: Perseus Books, 2000): 104.

From Rosa Brooks, "A really bad case of "reality," <a target="_blank" href='http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-brooks20jul20,0,7356522'>www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-brooks20jul20,0,7356522</a>

Colavito, "Why Study Humanities?"

Colavito, "Why Study Humanities?" and de Nicolas, "The Biocultural Paradigm"

Joseph Chilton Pearce, Evolution's End (New York: HarperCollins, 1992).

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Adapted from Colavito, The Heresy of Oedipus, and "Why Study Humanities?"

I didn't know the term, "inner screen of the mind," then. Nor were the words, "sages," "saints," and "mystics" in my vocabulary at that time.

English languages this phrase usually as, "I had a vision." But I felt then, and still feel now, that "I" (ego) was not the author of this image and experience.

Sanskrit for "I-maker," i.e., ego.

Sanskrit for the meditative union with the Absolute.

Sanskrit for "not-I-speaking," i.e., non-egoic. The "I" that had always been "me," didn't ask this question!

It's impossible for me to describe this.

Antonio T. de Nicolas, St. John of the Cross, Alchemist of the Soul (York Beach, ME: Samuel Weiser, Inc.): 46-7.

Barton, E. R. (2004). Consciousness raising. In M. Kimmel and A. Aronson (Eds.), Men and Masculinities: A Social, Cultural and Historical Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, Vol. 1, pp. 173-175.

Pearce, The Biology of Transcendence.

What I'm calling "sludge," much of conventional psychology still affirms as the "behavior modifications" that we and our children were/are subjected to—much of which is sociopathic. Cf. James W. Prescott <a target="_blank" href='http://www.violence.de'>www.violence.de</a>

Ho, The Rainbow and the Worm, 3 and its endnote #5.