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Contemporary biomedical science suffers form lack of understanding the most complex control system of the organism and the society pay for this dearly. The postulated Biofield Control Systems (BCS) is a hierarchal organization including the organism, organs, tissues, and cellular levels, which develops in ontogenesis based on genetic information. It consist of four fundamental programs of life- development, maintenance, reproduction and death- as well as the mid that serves the behavioral aspects of these programs.

The physical carrier of the BCS cannot be reduced to the currently known fundamental physical interactions. It must have both energy and information components and be capable of interactions with the currently known fundamental forces.

Experimental studies presented and referred to in this book suggest that the operation of the organism cannot be reduced to chemical interactions since contemporary chemistry knows only electric and thermal forces, that the biological nuclear synthesis presented by Louis Kervran in 1960-80's is not a myth, that the non-structural memory of water manifests itself at organism, cellular and enzymes levels, that human intent and/or expectation may effect cellular equilibrium, etc. These experimental works are falsifiable and the theoretical concepts presented in the book suggests alternative physical models that may incorporate life.

Among authors of the articles are:

William Tiller- Professor Emeritus of Stanford University, USA

John O'M Bockris- formerly Distinguished Professor of Texas A+M University, USA

Lev Beloussov- Professor of Moscow State University, Russia

Gaby Drouchuoiu- Professor of Al. I Cuza University, Romania

Vladimir I. Vysotsky- Professor of Kiev State University, Ukraine

Elena B. Burlakova- Professor and Scientific Director of the Institute of Biochemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

Hal Puthoff- Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies, Austin, USA

As well as other distinguished scientists.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1796579 in Books
• Published on: 2007-02-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 274 pages

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Filling a Gaping Hole in Medicine and Biology
It is sometimes astonishing how few of us know that there remains a huge gaping hole at the center of biology: how do biological systems become organized and maintain their level of structure, activity and organization over long periods of time? Indeed there is an even more fundamental question: "What is life?" That was the name of a famous book first published by the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Erwin Schrödinger in 1944. And more than sixty years later, we are still struggling to find an adequate answer.

Yes, molecular genetics is making rapid progress, but the more that we learn about genetics and epigenetics, the less we seem to understand about the mechanisms involved in biological organization. The English scientist Rupert Sheldrake once used the analogy of a building site. The bricks and all the other materials have been delivered, the workmen and standing around, but where are the architectural plans, and who is going to make sure that they are used to guide the building of the house? It is sometimes foolish to try and fill in gaps in our knowledge with an entirely different model. To say, perhaps, that if we don't understand, then that must mean some form of Divine Intervention. The type of theorizing that we call the "God of the gaps."

However, there are powerful reasons for thinking that there is an organizational principle in biology that stretches way beyond the interactions of DNA, RNA, enzymes, peptide bonds and epigenetic factors. Biofield is a word about which we are going to hear a great deal in the years to come. It is the term that we use for the organizing Informational Matrix that is the underlying field of life itself. It is the matrix that underlies and directs the "energy systems" and biochemical processes in the body. Unbeknownst to many people, a small but robust literature on the biofield has been developing in recent years, given particular impetus by the ways in which many healers are able to induce dramatic changes in the persons with whom they are working. There are powerful reasons for believing that some healers are working not with energy, but with the Informational Matrix that underlies the flow of energy.

The editor of this fascinating collection of essays is Savely Savva, a Russian-born engineer who founded the Monterey Institute for the Study of Alternative Healing Arts in 1990. I have personally met or known the work of over two thirds of the contributors, and most have distinguished scientific careers and impressive academic affiliations: they are most certainly not from the fringes of science. Yet here they are producing evidence for the existence of the biofield.

The book is arranged into three sections and twelve chapters:
Part One: Biofield Control System
1. Biofield Control System of the Organism by Savely Savva
2. Biofield as Engendered and Currently Perceived in Embryology by Lev Beloussov, J. Opitz and S.F. Gilbert
3. Eugene Macovschi's Concept of Biostructure and its Current Development by Gabi Drochioiu

Part Two: Paradoxical Observations
4. Nuclear Synthesis of Iron Isotopes Fe57 and Fe54 by Alla Kornilova and Vladimir Vysotsky
5. The Effect of Ultra Low Doses of Biologically Active Substances and Low Rate Physical Factors by Elena Burlakova, Alexander Konradov and Elena Mal'tseva
6. Bioenergy Effects at the Cellular and Molecular Level by Juliann Kiang
7. Paradoxical Communication Between Living Systems by Cleve Backster

Part Three: Alternative Physical Models
8. About Approaches to a New Paradigm in Science by John O'M Bockris
9. Physics and Metaphysics as Co-Emergent Phenomena by Hal Puthoff
10. Towards a New Physics and Biology that Includes Consciousness by William Tiller
11. Structures in the Physical Vacuum by Nina Sotina
12. Alternative Physical Models of the Universe by James Beichler

Although some of the contributors made their names in the 1970s, the papers - about half from Russia and Rumania and the remainder from the United States - are remarkably fresh and up-to-date.

Part One begins with an introduction to biostructures and biofields, beginning with the work of the Russian Biologist Alexander Gurwitsch who first proposed as long ago as 1912 that there might be certain "fields" that somehow act upon embryonic cells to help direct and orientate them. In those days almost all learned papers were written in English or German, and so he used the German word "Kraftfeld" to describe these putative fields. This idea of the field, together with the way in which organisms self-organize, led him to postulate that living systems could not be reduced to chemistry and physics alone.

The editor proposes that there are four interdependent but distinct control systems operating in the body:
1. Chemical
2. Neural
3. Electromagnetic, including biophotons
4. A control system that is seen in acupuncture, and is, or is related to qi or prana

I thought that he should also include at least one or two more systems that we see activated by homeopathy, flower essences and spiritual healing.

The second Part is more technical, with the authors drilling down into the nuts and bolts of "biostructures," the products of informational fields and molecular structures.

If you look at the title of Chapter Four, and ask if that means that there are nuclear reactions in cells that can create isotopes of iron, you are quite correct. I first saw some data on this bizarre observation at a meeting in London in 1974. The passage of the years and the introduction of ever better technology seems to confirm that living cells can produce or transmute some metals by some form of alchemy that nobody understands. Though I know of more than one company that was looking into the idea of using cells to produce gold! I have heard nothing from them in a decade, so you can read what you will into that.

There is also yet more evidence that therapy using the biofield - either the Informational Matrix or "energy" - can affect cells and whole organisms.

In Part Three, the authors set about the creation of a new science that must take into account the growing numbers of paranormal phenomena that have been reported from laboratories around the world. The eminent chemist John Bockris re-capitulates some of the arguments that he advanced in his excellent book "The New Paradigm" in which he demonstrates that some of the received wisdom about Relativity and evolutionary theory rests on very shaky ground. And he, William Tiller and Hal Puthoff all point out the importance of including conscious experience in a comprehensive model of the universe.

This highlights a key issue in consciousness studies as well as the work from parapsychological and healing research: how do different types of "stuff" interact? How can information "stuff" interact with consciousness, energy "stuff" and physical matter? It is these skull-cracking questions that have lead many people back to the ancient non-dual ideas, in which all of these phenomena are manifestation of Mind or consciousness.

Rupert Sheldrake's work is mentioned, but surprisingly I could not find anything about the works of Harold Saxton Burr. A Professor Anatomy at Yale for over forty years, he first claimed in the 1930s that all living things are molded and controlled by electro-dynamic fields that could be measured and mapped with standard voltmeters. He used to stick his electrodes onto and around trees and animals to demonstrate the effect of what he came to name "Fields of life" or "L-fields." I must admit to being biased: I first stumbled on Burr's work in my late teens, and it has had a long lasting effect on me.

Sadly there is no index, and not all the citations contain the titles of the papers. Both are a shame, given the ease with which word processors can generate an index, and software like Endnote will generate uniformly formatted lists of citations.

The first article in the book is available on the website of the Monterey Institute for the Study of Alternative Healing Arts. Sadly I cannot include the URL in this review, but you will be able to find it with a couple of clicks.

For anyone interested in consciousness, non-invasive healing and the fundamental nature of life itself, this is an extraordinarily interesting book that should be easily accessible to most readers. There are a few equations, but you can easily skip them and enjoy the text.

I wish that some of my friends and colleagues in academia would really read and study the material in this book, but most will not, simply because the findings are too radical for them!

Highly recommended.

Insight Into the Structure of Life
Despite mind-blowing technological strides in unraveling and producing images of the insides of living organisms--from single cells to human bodies--how they come into being, survive, and reproduce still eludes science. Savely Savva and fourteen other scientists probe what is inside the insides of all organic structures--and even some we consider inorganic--in this collection of "paradigm-busting" studies.
Have you ever stopped to wonder which laws of nature produce a living, conscious organism made up of originally inert matter? What sort of process can make life out of non-life? That you've never heard of a totally unique, single life form points toward an answer. Living forms always come as members of a group or species, each kind distinctively shaped by a set of abstract principles known as a "biological control system."
Most of today's biologists, biochemists, neuroscientists, and other life-sciences specialists assume the "inert-matter-to-life" process is limited to chemical and electrical interactions. But, to describe a process begs the question of how that process "pulled itself together" out of chaos. It does not explain why such a universal process works and how it maintains life, and even adapts through changing external and internal conditions.
Savva and his colleagues are attempting to learn how unseen patterns can account for increasingly complex combinations of living matter--even the human mind. They deal in the concepts of matter-shaping, but nonmaterial structures that parallel and inform the nature of the physical universe. The implicit "holy grail" of their research into the "foundation of fundamentals" is to understand how simple matter orders itself to produce a level of consciousness that takes the initiative to study itself.
At this preliminary juncture, they have concluded that each living entity has at least two forms. One is the visible and touchable, physical organism. The other is an energy field (likely not electromagnetic) with patterns that control four stages in the life of each member of every species [page 7]. This bioenergetic field shapes the processes of development, maintenance, reproduction, and death. Reproduction (with various methods of gestation and birth) cannot occur independently of a pre-existing, generic species-biofield.
(While Savely and his scientific colleagues shy away from addressing the question of an original source for the so-called species biofields, the descriptions they give can be related to the more simplistic terms of Egyptian and other metaphysical models of multilayered life forms. In this way science seems to sometimes reinforce intuitively developed information.)
The authors generally agree with one of their colleagues (Beloussov) that a phenomenon with the characteristics of the biofield model is necessary to explain the ontogenesis (life cycle) of organisms. One (Drochioiu) states it this way: "biostructures" can be formed from "nonliving prebiotic systems" only because of established rules for living systems.
Other authors of various chapters in the book ask where such rules of biological control patterns might be stored. [p.12] Some options being tested include biological nuclear reactions, thermophysical processes, consciousness, universal plenum vacuum (Puthoff and Sotina), and the quantum level of psychoenergetics (Tiller). Evidence is offered to support the call for further research in each area.
While different terminology is evident among the various contributor's to Savva's book, a general consensus emerges that all living systems and pre-life molecular organisms are embedded in parallel with or as "continuations" of a conterminous force field of a non-physical and non-molecular character. This points to the next revolution called for in physics. The revolution wrought in thinking and science by quantum theory must be built upon and complemented by a pattern theory that includes bioinformation fields that shadow quanta of energy in whatever form they assume.
Fortunately, some physicists are already moving in that direction. The rest of us can feel comfortable in our attempts to validate information from extradimensional sources. We know that scientists will closely follow and help us to discern the difference between private, anthropomorphic projections and what is certain enough for public implementation.
For these reasons, I recommend reading books like Life and Mind. They show us a middle path between being trapped in the dogma of science and wishfully changing our view of reality based on untested assertions by any would-be guru. Only with a balance between the extremes of blind skepticism and irrational credulity can lasting progress be made in the evolution of human consciousness and behavior.