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Integrins, Cytoskeletons and Meridians
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Blood vessels transport chemical energy stored in molecules throughout the body. Nerves conduct electrical
energy. But what conducts the electromagnetic energies we have been discussing? Well, electrical and magnetic
fields don't actually need pathways to propagate. They are transmitted through space itself. Unfortunately the
fields diminish the farther away we get from their source and in some cases these fields can be shielded. [1]
Over a very small region the fields will be strong enough to conduct energy or information, but over larger
areas a different mechanism is required.
Electrical fields follow the flow of electricity. As we have seen, the nerves are not the only conductors
of electricity in the body. An ECG measures the electrical activity of the heart in places far away from
our chest. These signals are possible because the blood system itself conducts electrical information. So
the circulatory system is one possible channel for electromagnetic energy, not just chemical energy.
Interestingly, the Daoists long ago identified the blood system as a conduit of Chi. If Chi is not simply
chemical energy perhaps they were sensing this conductance of electromagnetic energy through our blood
vessels. Or, perhaps, the definition of Chi needs to be broadened to include all these forms of energy:
chemical, electrical, and electromagnetic.
Does it stop there? Does our circulatory system feed every part of the body? What about inside the cells?
How can information be transmitted to the insides of the cells themselves? To answer this question we need
to look at the current and the evolving models of the cell.
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The Bag of Soup Model
In most books that describe the anatomy of a cell, you will find a diagram similar to the one shown here.
This is a very detailed view of the components we find inside the cell body. Detailed, but incomplete. What
is that water-like substance inside the cell? Soup! In the popular model of the cell all the internal
apparatus float in this soup. Chemicals, from outside the cell, ease their way past the permeable cell
membrane, and then drift around in the soup until they happen to bump into something important. The
chemical energy model of communication requires a random movement of these chemicals until they find
and latch onto their destination.
This is not a very satisfying model, relying as it does on random timing for information transfers to occur.
James Oschman notes that many cellular activities happen much faster than a random walkabout would allow.
Something is missing in this model. [2]
When we look in most anatomy books and see the way the body is depicted, we find a similar "something missing."
The pictures will show in wonderful detail the circulatory system, or we may trace the skeletal system or the
muscular or nervous systems. But all these models omit the material that these systems are embedded within.
What is missing is the connective tissue. Connective tissues join the circulatory system to the nervous
system to the muscular system and so on. Our connective tissues are ubiquitous and, as we have seen, are
formed of collagen fibers, elastin fibers, and many other components arrayed in crystalline matrices.
These matrices form the piezoelectric crystals that create and conduct the electrical energies we were
discussing in the previous section.
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What is that brown stuff in the middle of the cell?
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These matrices are exactly what are missing in the bag of soup cellular models. We need a new model that
fills in the gaps and explains the cellular processes more completely.
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1 -- With metal plates, for example. See the section on
Electropollution
for a discussion on this topic.
2 -- See Oschman's book Energy Medicine, chapter fourteen, for more details on this topic.
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