Week 13 -- Bionics and Our Biophysical Future

• Would you support the development of a “bionic” person? -- I would except that I am sure the military industrial complex would use this for a means for power and control and violence not for peace or to help people. I remember the cartoon 'Bionic 6' which was a family of 6 that had special 'bionic' powers that they used to help the planet. Maybe the bionic person could do things like have super brain power so we could perfect solar technology and super lungs so we could clean the air pollution. That would be really cool.
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• How would you rate “the control of artificial limbs by thought alone”-- This is really cool. being able to decode the brain wave activity and transduce it into meaningful signals would be incredible. But again, hopefully it can be used for peaceful activities and not war situations. Also, this is another example of the externalized ability of the human which has been long since forgotten in the age of the machine. But still very cool. A little scary with regard to military applications but still pretty cool.
  

Week 11 -- Energy Fields and Energy Medicine

• Acupuncture as effective energy medicine-- I feel that the system of Acupuncture gives us a way into the realm of intention with a grid structure to work with. Many practitioners will state that the intention is the most important thing and that many times they don't even use acupuncture points in their treatments. Having the system of Acu. is a great way to ground one's energy and intention into a network in the human body to help bring balance on all levels and then even to move individuals into greater states of health, clarity, and well being.
  

• What conclusions can you draw from Kirlian photography?-- Kirilian photography shows us that there are energies that we can not see....at least for most people most of the time. There is a world beyond the veil that may have major interaction with the world we normally exist in and interact with. Through interacting and working with this facet of ourselves we can create change in the 'normal' world within which we work, though there is no separation only the conscious awareness of what we are and how much I can integrate into my awareness
  
• Human intent as it affects health-- Human intent is hugely impactful on health. The mind complex is housed ( or at least grounded) in the brain. The brain is part of the central nervous system. The central nervous system sends and receives signals from the peripheral nervous system. The peripheral aspect wires the entire body -- muscles, organs, glands, etc. If there are vibrations of well being eminating from my mind to my brain to my nerves to my body, there will be an effect. Whether the vibrations are positive or negative in effect depends on their frequency and that is determined by what thoughts are being transmitted by the brain , and produced by the mind. Now, most thoughts we think don't make it into the conscious mind but they are still occurring and are still being transmitted through our system. But they do not have the power of our focused intention behind them. By injecting our intention to power a thought it gains enormous strength and therefore more impact. By refining our minds through focused intent we can gain more precision on our projected thoughts thus making them more powerful and effective. This can be applied to anything including health. While the power of intention is very strong and intimately connected to thought our efforts in the world also add up to intent and will benefit our mental intention. Balance and integrated approaches can be very effective.
  

Week 10 -- Life and Living Systems

• I know I’m a “living system” because…….
• Biophysics and Oriental Medicine

• I know I'm a living system because.............. A living system has been defined this way: "nonrandom accumulations of matter-energy in physical space-time organized into interacting, interrelated subsystems or components" . Now, I don't think that it is a requirement that this system exist in spacetime, because we do not understand our universe enough to make that restriction. There very well could be lifeforms that can exist perfectly well outside our dimension of space time or that exist across different dimensions of spacetimes. But I like the rest of the definitions of living systems. I know that my system utilizes energy of various types, information from both the internal and external environments, and matter. My system also organizes these components into an organized and adaptive system. Thus I am a living system.
• Have we been able to find Qi yet? No. We haven't been able to explain how we or this universe came into existence either. And yet, here we are. If we were to say that because we cannot test for it means that it doesn't exist then we should accept that we don't exist either. This may be harder to prove than the existence of a force of energy that isn't picked up by the instruments of technology that we currently have. With a greater understanding of the energy fields that give rise to consciousness and the more physical substances we shall come to understand scientifically what has been known for thousands of years by the masters of great sensitivity and wisdom and insight into the secrets of the universe
  
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