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Thomas Wilson's avatar

I started following you for your Covid posts, but I am staying here for essays just like this. The idea that water has a fourth phase, and how it travels through the body in mysterious meridians is fascinating. Now you have added how the heart creates special packets of blood and sends them exactly where they are needed is even more mysterious.

I work with growing aquatic animals and found your information about Viktor Schauberger revelatory, and his work with water made me think a lot about how we use water in farming. I have shared your Substack posts with a number of people, including a trainer I study with who has a PhD. in Chinese medicine and is now doing another PhD. in Qi Gong energy. As an aside, I am curious what you understand and believe about the research work that Nobel prize winner Luc Montagnier did on the memory of water? https://youtu.be/R8VyUsVOic0?si=zTRso7hqk_CEUrPW

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I really enjoyed this, and went over to the reference article as well. Ooof, some of those studies were hard to get through, but I really learned a lot.

My favorite part is how we get to choose what kind of heart we would like to have.

I also loved the section about the venous system being the present, the lymphatic being the past, and arterial the future with erythrocytes as data carriers. The properties of blood are non-Newtonian. Blood is a migrating brain of the heart. It’s all so amazing!

I do believe the Heart is ahead of consciousness. When I work with Parkinson’s patients, we talk a lot about the heart-brain connection, how it can be severed by trauma, and what the consequences of that might be. I will share this material with my PD friends - they’ll get it.

I’m also thinking about how each part of the body has a corresponding part of the heart responsible for providing blood flow. It was beautiful to read in more detail how that works, and it certainly adds to my understanding of pulse-taking in Chinese medicine. My teacher, who would’ve had so much to add to this conversation, taught us “Li Gan Jian Ying:” When you stand a pole under the sun, you immediately see its shadow. Likewise, when you insert needles, the pulses should shift. If you don’t get the desired changes, you’ve missed the mark. The pulses (as a microsystem of the Heart) tell the story and provide immediate feedback to the acupuncturist.

I’m also wondering if the I Ching could be used to help map out heart conjugations? I’m sure there is wisdom there that could spare innocent animals from cruel experimentation. I am so in awe of all the applications of the I Ching from computer programming to geno code. It’s not just “fortune telling” as we think about it in the West.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28935152/

In my world, I Ching Acupuncture/Balance Method lays out acupuncture meridians and points on the Ba Gua. The point prescriptions (beyond simple treatments for pain etc.) don’t always make sense if you’re looking at them strictly through a TCM-style lens. There’s more to it than single point energetics. Learning the more advanced material is a bit like learning a computer language. There’s probably some kind of relationship to how Balance Method works and what was discussed here about heart conjugations.

I have written a short novel, lol. Thank you if you read it. I am grateful for everything you put into your writing. I always find treasures here that make me a better practitioner. I appreciate you (your heart and your brain) so much! Many blessings, AMD!

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