alteration of receptors and all body processes. This amplified energy field effect is
the foundation of the metamorphic process. And because there is a self-reinforcing
feedback loop between the generation of increased field and the supernal alteration
of body tissue, this is why full-on awakenings last for such an extended period.
The sensory organ that perceives “soul” is the heart. The heart sense works by
aesthesis, or by “breathing in.” Thus the term aesthesis is similar, if not identical to
Robert Heinlein’s word “Grok.” That is, the direct perception and understanding
of the world via “Whole-Seeing.” That is, when the heart entrains the brain we
become sensitive to Depth or the spiritual dimension. aisthesis is gnosis of The
Good, The True and The Beautiful through the empathetic direct perception of
the heart. Only the Heart can grok the ineffable through direct perception.
The Nondual Jung termed “Pleroma,” where nothingness is the same as
fullness”...an Absolute in which there is no division between subject and object.
Jung intuited this nondual Pleroma to be a collective transpersonal reservoir, an
ocean of collective unconscious. From this omnipotent universal Pleroma our
individual psyches coalesce around “attractor archetypes.” In this sense Jung
was approaching the Buddhist axiom: “Emptiness is Form, Form is Emptiness.”
Although we only vaguely know what we are talking about, today we refer to this
storehouse of consciousness as the Universal Mind or Global Brain.
“The heart generates the strongest electromagnetic field of the body, and this field
becomes more coherent as consciousness shifts from the brain to the heart. This coherence
significantly contributes to the informational exchange that occurs during contact
between different electromagnetic fields. The more coherent the field the more potent
the information exchange.” 108, Stephen Harrod Buhner, The Secret Teachings of
Plants, the Intelligence of the Heart in the Direct Perception of Nature;
During heart entrainment when the brain wave patterns are embedded
within the larger field of the heart, information processing is very different. With
entrainment the heart and brain oscillating together. When neurons in the brain
entrain to the heart, their firing timing alters, and this timing of neuronal firing
conveys several times more information than the firing count. Hippocampal activity
increases significantly when the heart becomes the dominant oscillator. Increased
demand on hippocampal function from feeling the world through heart-centered
cognition stimulates stem cells to form new neurons in the hippocampus. Heart
coherence also reduces cortisol production thus enhancing hippocampal activity
as well as boosting the immune system. With heart entrainment, brain chatter is
reduced and there is more connection between brain and body.
However when the brain becomes the dominant organ and the heart is entrained
to the brain, the heart begins to lose its coherence. The more the heart entrains
to the brain and the longer it does so, makes the heart less sensitive, less variable,
more dissociated and basically less intelligent as an organ of gnosis. The focus
of consciousness in the brain leads to an increased disconnection between brain
and body. Since the heart’s entrainment of the brain gives us the widest range of
consciousness, sensitivity and health it is obviously “supposed” to be the dominant
oscillator. It is after all the seat of the soul and the organ for “Whole-seeing.”