BACKGROUND

Somewhere there must be primordial forms whose images are ideas. If we could see them, we would understand the nature of existence and the connection between mind and matter.

--Gustave Flaubert

It was not my rational consciousness that brought me to an understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe.

--Albert Einstein

What is life? What is alive? What are we? What is consciousness? These questions have traditionally been the domain of philosophers or hermits, ascetics and yogis tucked away in mountain caves. But today scientists are discovering that their long-accepted view of life as the simple interaction of chemical compounds is no longer viable. From physics to biology, research is probing the deepest mysteries of the universe and developing a new definition for both life and consciousness.

Modern physics...pictures matter not at all as passive and inert, but as being in a continuous dancing and vibrating motion whose rhythmic patterns are determined by the molecular, atomic, and nuclear structures. This is also the way the Eastern mystics see the material world. They all emphasize that the universe has to be grasped dynamically, as it moves, vibrates, and dances: that nature is not a static, but a dynamic equilibrium. (1)

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INFORMATION AND THE CODES OF LIFE

What commands life to unfold? What gives living things their form? How does a baby's body know how to grow into an adult? The biological sciences have found that within every plant and animal information precedes the creation and unfoldment. The seed or the egg contains an information system, DNA-RNA. DNA is a chemical life code essential to the formation of proteins. Specifically the four DNA chemicals (guanine, adenine, cytosine, thymine) are the chemical words, the language communicating the roles for reproducing biological life.

Western philosophers, from Plato to Aristotle to Alfred North Whitehead, have promulgated the ideas that form exists independently of substance and that there are perfect, unchanging forms in an eternal domain beyond the reach of human senses. This idea can be likened to the architect's blueprint which exists independently of and prior to the building of the house. It is the blueprint which informs the builder where to place what type of materials.

"Blueprint" is the role that DNA and its messenger RNA play. But are they the complete information system for creating the human mind/body? Rupert Sheldrake, biological scientist, believes there is another information system of equal important to DNA-RNA.

Consider the arms and legs. The chemicals inside them are identical; the muscles, the bones, the proteins are chemically the same in both, and so is the DNA-- indeed the genetic material is identical in all the cells in our body Yet in spite of the chemical identity the arms and the legs have a different shape. Their chemical shape is not explained by the chemicals they contain, just as the buildings we see out of the window are not entirely explained in terms of the stone they are made out of. The form depends both on the materials and the way the materials are organized. (2)

Sheldrake proposes that there is another information system for plants, animals, and Man, the morphogenetic field. Derived from morphe meaning form and genesis meaning coming into being, the morphogenetic field is an invisible energy field similar to a magnetic field which generates the coming into being of form.

Not only do we inherit chemicals from our forebears, such as DNA, the genetic material, but we also inherit morphogenetic fields which mold our form and influence our patterns of behavior. (3)

The morphogenetic fields contain information as critical to our brain/mind development and operation as DNA is to the creation of the physical body, as a blueprint is to the construction of a house, as software is to the functioning of a computer. The technology of Circles of Life offers us an opportunity to give new information to the morphogenetic fields which generate our thought, belief and behavior.

Because the technology of Circles of Life affects the morphogenetic fields and works through the energy fields of the human body, an appreciation of the nature and importance of fields is essential.

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FIELDS AND FIELD THEORY

In the words of Albert Einstein: We may therefore regard matter as being constituted by the regions of space in which the field is extremely intense...There is no place in this new kind of physics both for the field and matter, for the field is the only reality.

--Tao of Physics

A professor at the Yale University School of Medicine, Dr. Harold Saxton Burr, was among the earliest scientists successfully probing the relationship of electricity and life. Burr was a prolific researcher who published many technical papers between 1916 and 1960. As a biologist he rejected a then popular idea that an intelligent "essence" or "vital force" was directing and integrating all the bodily processes because these concepts could not be proven scientifically. Instead, he focused his research upon the electrical processes that are associated with the body and which can be measured by electrocardiographs and electroencephalographs, and he postulated that the ongoing dynamic processes of the body were organized by "bio-fields' or "L-fields" ("Life fields").

After he formulated his electrodynamic theory of life, Burr set out to prove his notion that all living bodies possessed fields. One of Burr's early experiments seemed to corroborate the existence of L-fields and also demonstrated that these fields controlled growth:

We explored the field of frog's eggs...not only to satisfy ourselves that something so small and relatively simple possessed a field, but also to find support for our theory that the field controls the growth and development of the form.

Using micro-pipettes filled with salt solution and connected to the voltmeter we found different voltage gradients across the different axis of the eggs. We marked the axis of the largest voltage gradient with spots of Nile blue sulphate and later found, as the eggs developed, that the frogs nervous system always grew along the axis of the largest voltage gradient. This was an indication that the field is primary -- the matrix that shapes the living form. (4)

From the data Burr collected it was evident that individual life -- fields do indeed exist and respond to external fields in an organized and systematic way. The existence of fields is no longer questioned within the scientific community. It is now an accepted fact that our bodies produce electrical and magnetic fields as a natural result of the motion of negatively and positively charged ions inside each cell.

However the study of these biomagnetic fields is still in its infancy. In 1971 Dr. David Cohen, a physicist at M.I.T., first measured the magnetic field around the human head. The system he used, a SQUID (superconducting quantum interferometric device), can measure magnetic fields one billionth the strength of the earth's magnetic field. By 1975 the magnetoencephalogram (MEG) was developed to record changes in the brain's energy field more sensitive than the EEG (electro-encephalogram.) (5)

The Chinese acupuncture meridians are bio-electrical conductors which have been acknowledged and used for over 5,000 years in the East. However, because there are no known anatomical structures associated with the meridians Western medical scientists had dismissed their possibility. Money to research the acu-system was not made available until after 1971 when it was popularized in the news by well-known columnist James Reston who, while touring China, received emergency surgery with acupuncture treatment. Researchers set electrodes along the meridians and proved beyond doubt that there are unusual electrical currents at each acu-point and that the same points existed in all people.

More recently Western medicine has enthusiastically accepted "Magnetic Resonance Imaging," (MRI) a bio-electromagnetic diagnostic system which creates actual video images of internal organs as well as the brain. It works on the fact that nuclei of atoms in the body will align themselves in the presence of a magnetic field. When the magnetic field is turned off, the energized atomic nuclei return to their original position and release the absorbed magnetic energy in the form of a radio signal which is received by an antenna. A computer then processes these signals into an image. MRI is used extensively at sophisticated hospitals around the United States by neurologists and physicians.

Additionally, it has been shown, thanks to the pioneering work of Robert O. Becker, M.D., that weak electro-magnetic fields can stimulate regrowth and refusion of bone fractures. Magnetic bone growth stimulators are now used in the medical community.

The Soviet Union has for many decades been actively involved in research on bioelectromagnetism. It was a Soviet citizen, Semyon Kirlian, who first discovered in 1939, that electrophotographs could be taken of the auras, or energy fields around living things. Since 1944 Soviet scientists have studied the 'bioplasma' which they define as a theoretical fifth state of matter existing as a 'particle soup.'

In it, free protons, free electrons, and ions (all subatomic particles existing with no nuclei) co-exist without a definite molecular structure... It is said to exist in and around living organisms... (6)

Hiroshi Motoyama, Ph.D. and director of the Institute for Religious Psychology in Tokyo, Japan has published results of a series of his physiological experiments using an electro-encephalogram which show the existence of unusual energy patterns around the areas known as chakras. Additionally, Motoyama claims that his "Motoyama Device" measures psychic energy emanating from chakras and meridian points controlled by the will of the subject. (7)

Financial support for similarly intensive research is limited in the United States, perhaps because it does not fit the traditional physio-chemical approach of Western medicine, Nevertheless, an impressive number of studies has been published. The Fall, 1986 issue of Archaeus, a journal of psychophysics, included a "Bibliography on the Psychoactivity of Electromagnetic Fields," which contains over 500 entries of research studies, articles and books. (8) In fact, a scientific research organization, The Bio-Electro Magnetics Institute, was recently established in Boulder, Colorado by Dr. John Zimmerman. This institute intends to develop a "Bio-Magnetic Imager" which can scan the body's feeble magnetic fields and produce an image that may appear something like a full color, dynamically changing envelope of "aura" around the body. This image will then be studied to detect disturbances in the field indicating the presence of disease. (9) Perhaps it will also be able to detect the Geotrantm energy field grid system.

But what are fields? Rupert Sheldrake, in The Presence of the Past: Morphic Resonance and the Habits of Nature says,

The nature of fields is inevitably mysterious. According to modern physics, these entities are more fundamental than matter. Fields cannot be explained in terms of matter; rather, matter is explained in terms of energy within fields. (10)

Like the philosopher's "eternal domains beyond the reach of human senses," a field is defined in quantum physics as a non-material region of influence, a state of space rather than of matter. For example, the Earth's gravitational field cannot be seen though its effects can. Likewise, we are all familiar with magnetic fields, and in the quantum field theory of modern physics, fields are associated with electrons and all the particles of matter.

In Space-Time and Beyond, Bob Toben writes about Albert Einstein's thoughts on fields:

Self-organizing fields generate matter. Einstein repeatedly stressed this view in his unified field theory where the particle is simply a singularity or very high space-time concentration of the nonlinear master field. (11)

Edward Russell provides another definition for a field. In his book, Design for Living, he states:

When something occurs somewhere in space because something happened somewhere else in space, with no visible means by which the cause produced the effect, the two events are connected by a field. (12)

Russell also commented on Burr's experiment with the frog's eggs which we have discussed in the previous section:

This [frog experiment] is important because it shows that the L-field is the controlling, organizing force in the growth of the living form. It illustrates also that the field anticipates physical conditions....All this shows that the field is the master, so to speak, and that matter is its slave. (13)

Now that we have developed an appreciation for the power of fields we can return to Rupert Sheldrake's theory of the morphogenetic fields which contain information to give life its form.

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MORPHOGENETIC FIELDS

Morphogenetic fields, introduced above, are as real as gravitational or electro-magnetic or quantum matter fields. According to Sheldrake they are responsible for the characteristic form and organization of systems at all levels of complexity, not only in the realm of biology, but also in the realms of chemistry and physics. Each kind of cell, tissue, organ and organism has its own kind of field, and the total human being is composed of the morphogenetic fields of its cells, tissues and organs. The numerous fields interacting for a given person work in holistic hierarchies in such a way that higher-level fields are made up of parts which are themselves fields at a lower level.

Additionally, Sheldrake proposes that higher-level fields organize and coordinate the various lower-level fields of which they are composed. (14)

According to the organismic theory, systems or 'organisms' are hierarchically organized at all levels of complexity...These systems as morphic units...or holons, are defined as a self-regulating open system which display both the autonomous properties of wholes and the dependent properties of parts. At each level the holons are wholes containing parts, which are themselves wholes containing whole holons, and so on. The following diagram could represent subatomic panicles in atoms, in molecules, or in crystals, for example; or cells in tissues, in organs, in organisms. (15) (See diagram below.)

Thus, morphogenetic fields have a dynamic, interactive relationship with their physical counterparts and are ever changing and evolving fields of information for form, behavior and mental activities. In addition, the fields are passed from generation to generation just as the genetic code is passed from parent to child.

Hereditary behavior, like hereditary form, is influenced by genes, but is neither "genetic" nor "genetically programmed." Under the hypothesis of formative causation, characteristic patterns are organized by morphic fields, which are inherited by morphic resonance from past members of the same species. (16)

Thus, from the Point of view of the hypothesis of formative causation, there is only a difference of degree between instincts and habits: both depend on morphic resonance, the former from countless previous individuals of the same species, and the latter from past states of the same individual. (17)

Here we can see that the personal morphogenetic field is a memory bank for behavioral programs, beliefs, feelings, operational rules and the designs of the physical form "which interacts with the nervous system and plays a role similar to the program or software in the computer." (18)

With Sheldrake's allusion to the programming of a computer (see diagram below) we have come full circle to our introduction and to our suggestion that the techniques of Geotrantm are capable of eliminating and correcting self-destructive behaviors, thoughts and feelings by changing the information in the personal morphogenetic field.

The most important qualities of fields to Circles of Life are as follows:

a field is a state of space rather than of matter;
a field generates matter;
a field connects events in space;
a field organizes growth and determines form;
a field can store memories, behaviors, beliefs and feelings;
a field can be reprogrammed.

A: The mind is compared to the software. B: The software corresponds to the programs of the unconscious and conscious mind, and the conscious self to the programmer. C: The "physicalist" interpretation of the conscious self as a subjective aspect of the morphic fields interacting with the nervous system. D: The "interactionist' interpretation of the conscious self as interacting with the morphic fields, which interact with the nervous system. Source: The Presence of the Past, Sheldrake, 1988.

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PROGRAMMING IN THE HUMAN BIOCOMPUTER

Our patterns of behaviors are the source of frustration and self-sabotage. Inability to love, inability to forgive, and repetition of negative behaviors which do not produce the results we really desire may be locked in the morphogenetic field.. Obviously, people do change their behaviors and the quality of their lives, and, thus, must be changing the morphogenetic fields which inform their behaviors. The Circles of Life technology offers a method to accelerate change of the morphogenetic fields which maintain our patterns of behavior or programs.

When using the Circles of Life techniques a person is actually in the role of a self- metaprogrammer. Following the definitions offered by Dr. John C. Lilly in Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer, a meta-program is "a set of instructions, descriptions, and means of control of sets of programs." (19) Programs are sets of internally consistent instructions stored within the biocomputer which assist in determining and creating reactions, behaviors, feelings and thoughts about certain conditions and stimuli.

Some of these programs may be called 'practical' or physiological and they ensure that we breathe, eat, drink, and sleep. Others are social, and regulate our speaking and other forms of communication, our agreeing, and our loving and hating. We also have long-term programs, those that ensure continuing not of ourselves but of the race, programs for sexual activity and mating, programs for growth, adolescence, and indeed, for senescence and dying, Perhaps the most important programs of all are those used for the activities that we call mental, such as thinking, imagining, dreaming, believing, and worshiping. (20)

These programs can be changed, and through the techniques of Geotrantm from Circles of Life we are accessing the human biocomputer to elicit changes in the person's morphogenetic field. An important distinction in Circles of Life is that the integration process is re-educational, bringing forth harmony and creating choice as opposed to forcing behavior as might be inferred from the term "programming."

The term biocomputer implies a sophisticated intelligence present in each human being. This intelligence is capable of storing vast quantities of information and programs about the functions and experience of the mind-brain-body of the human being. Under normal conditions, however, a person can access only a small percentage of this data. Moreover, the biocomputer seems to have definite organization and rules of communication and operation.

However, through the techniques of Circles of Life we are able to communicate with a person's biocomputer to discover what aspects of the morphogenetic fields are in disharmony with his or her goals. Subsequently, through Geotrantm, the morphogenetic fields are reorganized, and the intended goal is integrated, allowing a greater freedom of choice in the area of the goal then there was prior to the integration.

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