The human condition continues its rapid evolution with technology as our individual evolutions lag far behind. My travels from the sublime to the mystical to the raucous and beyond tell me that discerning truth from our life experiences is what it's all about. That our heroes journey is definitely fraught with peril but it is our imagination and curiosity that can make manifest anything, that making mistakes is a part of that journey, but our challenge is to overcome our fears.
We become the hero is when we value service to one another and our world and can sacrifice our own personal wants and desires in that end realizes there is no duality. Take all that life has to offer from the pious to profane, sacred to the mundane discerning the necessary in all elements of life.
Our creative genius and our ability to see beyond into the extraordinary.
That we all walk a narrow pathway only to recognize that our only companion is Truth.
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Perhaps we are the aliens we seek, seeded from some ancient race or even via panspermia floating DNA landing on earth from some meteoric rock.
Certainly our technology expands exponentially but our human maturity to handle such technology wanes.
Oh if only Carl Sagan had lived awhile longer, what insights he could have revealed.
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http://www.ee.washington.edu/research/compbe/ pico is stronger than femto
http://www.mindfulmuscleblog.com/heart-has-consciousness/
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091211131520.htm
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Greg Braden has written on this along with many others, you might care to google Belief is expressed in our heart where our experiences are translated into the electrical and magnetic waves that interact with the physical world; Greg Braden, from his book Spontaneous Healing of Belief.
THE HEART AS AN ELECTROMAGNETIC ORGAN
THE HEART IS the physical center of the circulatory system, managing over 75 trillion cells. It is also the electromagnetic center of the body, emanating thousands of times more electricity and magnetism than does the brain. Even more impressively, it is an organ of communication that can potentially manage the body's intuitive processes.
The heart's electromagnetic field (EMF) is five thousand times stronger than that of the brain. Its electrical field is sixty times greater than that of the brain. Not only is its electromagnetic capacity greater than that of the brain, but it is organically capable of performing certain brain-like functions. In fact, between 60 and 65 percent of its cells are neural, identical to those present in the brain. Energy-information that vibrates-flows constantly between the heart and the brain, assisting with emotional processing, sensory experience, memory and derivation of meaning from events, and reasoning. In addition, the heart is one of the body's major endocrine glands, producing at least five major hormones, which impact the physiological functions of the brain and body.
The heart has long been known as the center of the body, as well as the home of the soul. Under the correct conditions, such as when a person consciously "centers" or focuses in the heart, the heart begins to run the brain. (Most typically, the brain runs the body.) see http://energeticanatomy.blogspot.com/