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The Heart Has Its Own “Brain” and Consciousness
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Posted on 09/26/2012 2:28:47 PM PDT by djf

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Amazing if true...
1 posted on 09/26/2012 2:28:49 PM PDT by djf
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To: djf

bttt


2 posted on 09/26/2012 2:30:14 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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To: djf

and this we have always known from the word of God for thousands of years. The more science learns the less it knows


3 posted on 09/26/2012 2:33:25 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: djf

What about conjoined people with two heads, two personalities, same body?


4 posted on 09/26/2012 2:35:21 PM PDT by umgud (No Rats, No Rino's)
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To: djf
It was all intuited by the Ancients as in "body, soul, spirit, heart, and mind" ~ and I understand Orthodox Jews believe they have identified 6 other distinct states of relevance.

That koinkidinkily gives you 11 different dimensions to life ~ which is consistent with at least one version of String theory.

So, what's new?

5 posted on 09/26/2012 2:37:14 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: djf

I have been seeking psychophysiological coherence all my life.


6 posted on 09/26/2012 2:38:10 PM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature not nurture TM)
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To: djf

I didn’t read the article. But a FR article from a year ago(?) was how the stomach has “brain cells” in it. Part of the reason why one can have an upset stomach when thinking about something or nervous. Plus that whole “gut reaction” thing.


7 posted on 09/26/2012 2:39:54 PM PDT by 21twelve (So I [God] gave them over to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices. Psalm 81:12)
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To: djf
I recall a venerable psychoanalyst who long ago asserted that "there is a psychic heart that causes the physical heart to beat." I wonder how he knew that.
8 posted on 09/26/2012 2:42:05 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Pride in the USA

Ping!


9 posted on 09/26/2012 2:45:24 PM PDT by lonevoice (Today I broke my personal record for most consecutive days lived)
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To: djf

Very, very interesting! Thanks for posting it.
As a musician, my sense of timing is very important to me. I find that, within just a few measures, my heartbeat synchs up with the beat, and stays remarkably steady. I drive drummers who rush,, crazy! As soon as my heart synchs up, I feel a sense of calm, and confidence. Get into great discussions with people who insist that tapping one’s foot is important! Don’t know if this ties in with this research, but it certainly is interesting!


10 posted on 09/26/2012 2:49:37 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: djf

what a load of pseudo-scientific crap, right on the same level as global warming...

Of course there are magnetic fields anytime there is a flow of electrons. We have known this since Michael Faraday told the world about it in 1831. If it makes someone feel better to beleive nonsense like this from some blogger, fine, and you might also enjoy “Five Steps Toward Decolonizing Gaia and Rewilding Mankind” from this Waking Times home page...

Hell, far too many actual brains could use some “brains”...


11 posted on 09/26/2012 2:52:13 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: Nifster

I’m a Bible-pounding (but cultured...) Calvinist.

But recently I have been reading some eastern medicine stuff.

If you can get beyond some of the terminology that the New Age/pagan movement has co-opted here in the west, it actually makes sense and doesn’t really contradict Scripture in many instances.

Most profoundly, I think the whole idea that your thoughts have a profound influence on your physical well being seems to me to be very strong.

In any event...all very interesting.

(And I expect to have a weak heart and stomach for the next six weeks as this general election unfolds).


12 posted on 09/26/2012 2:54:58 PM PDT by ConservativeDude
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To: djf

I feel in my heart that this isn’t true.

Wait...


13 posted on 09/26/2012 2:56:48 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: ConservativeDude

well said...and with you on that weak heart and stomach

made up for it by having breakfast at Chick Fil A today. Made a good start to the day


14 posted on 09/26/2012 3:00:49 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: bigbob

It’s long been known there are various feedback and learning systems in the body. The question here seems to be how sophisticated those systems can be.

For instance, after you learn to tie your shoelaces, your brain doesn’t get involved so much. Your central nervous system and hands themselves “know” how to tie your laces.

An honest skeptic is one thing. Someone who just flat denies something without contrasting/comparing it to what we already know is another.


15 posted on 09/26/2012 3:02:55 PM PDT by djf (Political Science: Conservatives = govern-ment. Liberals = givin-me-it.)
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To: djf

The Buddhist view is that the heart center is the seat of mind. The brain is just considered a controller of the body. The senses, speech, hearing, sight, touch, taste and so on, are all said to be “consciousnesses” but ultimately there is only one consciousness in a sentient being.


16 posted on 09/26/2012 3:05:38 PM PDT by TigersEye (dishonorabledisclosure.com - OPSEC (give them support))
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Sort of interesting I have been reading the Philokia recently on the Orthodox Christianity and their idea that the soul, or the nous, is seated in the heart. The repeated saying of the Jesus prayer with attention focused on the heart, if repeated with feeling often enough ( and I'm talking thousands of times a day), the Orthodox claim, will result in the heart saying the prayer of it's own accord leading to the actual practice of "pray without ceasing" of the Bible.
17 posted on 09/26/2012 3:05:52 PM PDT by Red Boots
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To: ConservativeMan55

My consciousness starts in my big toe on my right foot. I didn’t know this until one day when I dropped a very heavy brake drum on my toe.


18 posted on 09/26/2012 3:19:36 PM PDT by JaguarXKE (If my Fluffy had a puppy, it would look like the puppy Obama ate!r)
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To: djf; All

I’ll show you proof.

Goto your toolbox and get out an ordinary wire tester... you touch it to an insulated wire, it tells you if current is flowing through that wire by measuring the electromagnetic field, right?

Take the terminals in your hands, and you can use your mind to make that needle go up, or down.

If it was purely electrical impulses that produced electromagnetic radiation as a byproduct, you would have increased nervous stimuli and arm movement in order to produce an increased field... not just moving it by thinking it.

If you could manipulate your electromagnetic field, then it’s not just a byproduct of your nerve’s electricity... it’s an invisible part of your body that fluctuates at will.

Once you wrap your mind around that, wrap your mind around this: when scientists measure the electromagnetic field of different people in different countries speaking different languages, they ask each person to say words like love, family, hate, mother, father. Though the languages were different the EMF patterns for each individual word were identical across the board. Whether we know how to receive it very well, there is an invisible language.

Add one more interesting fact: scientists discovered that animals that migrate, especially birds, have a unique small deposit of iron between the eyes that seems to help them navigate by reading the electromagnetic lines of the earth. When they wore devices that interfered with receiving this EMF signal, they were lost.

They have not yet studied humans to determine for certain if they possess this unique iron deposit, but the place where it exists in other animals’ bodies corresponds precisely to that area in humans that the people in India call the third eye, that they have always claimed is a spiritual center and has some psychic sensitivities.

And that’s all I’m going to say, and I’m stepping away from the subject.

Except one more thing, and this is for Christians:

What was the one language that all people shared at the building of the Tower of Babel, that they “forgot” when God caused them to have multiple languages?

Now I’m done.


19 posted on 09/26/2012 3:21:20 PM PDT by Tuanedge (Tigers don't eat horns.)
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My wife's curves sure get my heart in rhythm with hers and when she wants to get synchronized the amplitude increases exponentially with heart beats in rhythm.
20 posted on 09/26/2012 3:23:37 PM PDT by Mat_Helm
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