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Nice to welcome you back here on the Doctor Raw blog.
As mentioned in the last entry, we would now like to turn to the topic of epigenetics in a little more detail.
To round it all off, we’ll take a brief excursion into the field of quantum physics.
At this point, it is important to understand the significance of this field of research: Epigenetics is changing our understanding of how our lives are controlled.
In the last 20 years, epigenetics has established that the DNA in our genes is not yet fully determined at the time of birth.
So genes do not determine our fate! But from the beginning.
The Human Genome Project
Once it was recognized that DNA plays a fundamental role, the aim was to categorize human genes.
This was the genesis of the Human Genome Project, a global scientific endeavor that began in the late 1980s.
It was assumed that the body needs one gene each that regulates around 100,000 proteins in our body and a further 20,000 regulatory genes, meaning that the human genome must have around 120,000 genes. Surprise! This was not the case, and since they were already very sure of themselves, the ambitious scientists probably experienced the shock of their lives when they realized that the human body, with its 50 trillion cells, has only 1,500 more genes than a primitive, small, thousand-celled threadworm.
Incidentally, humans and rodents have roughly the same number of genes.
So we do not owe our complexity to more genes – in retrospect, we can probably say that scientists could have guessed at this point that genes were not the key factor.
The wrong brain
By definition, the cell nucleus (including DNA) is the brain of the cell.
If this theory were true, the cell would have to die a quick, premature death after the “brain” was removed.
But now, the following picture: it is 1940, a merciless scientist binds an unwilling cell in the microscopic operating area and removes the cell nucleus in one fell swoop.
What remains is the pitiful cell that has just had its brain rudely removed – and lo and behold!
It is alive.
After enucleation, cells survive for up to 3 months, actively absorb food and carry out all biological functions as usual.
At this point, it is often joked that thinking men have used their gonads to turn the cell nucleus into a brain.
The fact is that the cell dies without a nucleus, as it has lost its ability to reproduce, because without reproduction of its parts, no protein blocks can be replaced.
The gonads were therefore mistaken for the brain.
To summarize: the cells responded to all the information from the environment without a nucleus, they formed communities, remained alive and showed every kind of function, very dynamically, without genes.
Forty years ago, it was like, “Well, that doesn’t make sense!”
Because the genes were supposed to control the cell, here are cells without genes and they’re doing very well.
The unrecognized role of proteins
Research into epigenetics has shown that proteins (one half of the chromosomes consists of DNA, the other of proteins) play just as important a role as the DNA itself.
This is because the DNA forms the core of a chromosome strand, coated with proteins.
If the genes are covered, the information can no longer be read.
The proteins are therefore like sleeves that prevent genes from being read.
They can only be removed by an environmental influence.
Then the gene can be read and the cell can make a copy of it.
Aha, environmental influence, let’s remember that.
The true brain of the cell
So what have we learned so far?
Correct, the functions of the cell structures are somewhat different than we previously thought.
And now there’s more: The brain of the cell is not the cell nucleus, but the membrane. Let’s start with a very simple thought experiment: Imagine a cell is deprived of its membrane, what happens?
Exactly, it dies.
And even if we only remove the receptor proteins, the cell has no chance, it becomes “brain dead“. So what is the cell membrane all about? The membrane is the skin of the cell and the actual information processor.
It is the interface between the external and internal environment and thus reads the environment and adapts the cell accordingly.
By technical definition, the membrane is a fluid semiconductor with gates and channels.
And that is also the definition of a computer chip.
An interesting comparison: cells are programmable building blocks: The nucleus has all the programs in it, i.e. the genes.
The membrane is the processor and the environment is the programmer that enters the information on the surface – that’s where the antennae are and these then control the actions of the cell.
What kind of antennae? The antennae are so-called self-receptors.
Bruce Lipton explains: “If I take the self-receptors from a cell, it is generic.
And I can implant a generic cell in any body and it will never be rejected.
But if someone has the self-receptors on the surface of the cell, that gives them identity.
That’s why we can’t just transplant our cells and tissues, because each of us has our own identity.
… to make a long story short: The identity of an individual is a signal that is picked up by the antennae, called self-receptors, on the surface of the cell.
And if the surface receptors are gone, the cell has no identity.
So, what the bottom line really was is that the identity of a cell is not something that is programmed into the cell. The identity of the cell is some information from the environment that is picked up via these antennae called self-receptors.” So the identity is not inside the cell, because it reads from the environment. The self is “downloaded” from the environment by the cell’s protein receptors.
What controls the fate of the cell?
And after about two weeks I have thousands of cells in the petri dish, but they are all genetically absolutely identical.
And what my first experiments were was that I separated the population and divided it into three different petri dishes; so I had three dishes with genetically identical cells in each dish.
And what I then did was to change their environment very slightly, the chemistry of the nutrient solution, which is the environment of the cells.
In each dish I had a slightly different environment: in one dish muscle cells formed, in one dish the cells formed bone.
In a third dish, the cells formed fat cells. All from the same genetically identical cells.”
A little clarification as to why this is the case might …
Quantum physics
In this type of physics, we speak of 2 worlds: Energy and matter, one cannot influence the other, but quantum physics sees it differently.
Why?
If you examine an atom, you discover that it contains small particles that move like a solar system.
These small particles that make up the atom are called electrons, neutrons and protons.
So far so good, but if we go further and look at what they are made of, we realize that there is nothing physical to be found here.
There are no even smaller particles, instead we find small tornadoes, powerful energy fields that are in motion.
This fact leads us to the following realization: everything physical is made up of atoms and these in turn are made up of vibrating energy fields.
Everything we can see and grasp is ultimately energy.
In this context, the following quote from Einstein seems to make a lot of sense: “Our reality is an illusion, albeit a persistent one.” And now we come to the most important point: the energy fields that surround us, or that we are, can be influenced by energy. Because energy interacts with energy. Max Planck, the founder of quantum physics, said that the mind is the matrix for all of reality.
And the quantum physicist Richard Conn Henry from John Hopkins University wrote in a famous article: ” Our universe is not material, it is mental and spiritual.”
Does the mind create matter?
The energetic field is the only creator and influencer of matter; energy creates us and shapes us.
And a strong energetic field is also a thought, or a thought form.
Let’s think of an EEG, for example, which can be used to measure brain activity.
There is also a so-called magnetoencephalogram, with this device you don’t even have to touch the scalp, it is enough to be close to the head to read the activity.
And this shows us that we are sending out our thoughts, so to speak.
This means that these thoughts, which also represent an energetic field, are sent out into another energetic field, which in turn produces our reality. Our consciousness creates the whole of reality.
The power of the unconscious
Now many of you may be thinking: “Great, I’m already thinking positively, I’ve started meditating and no longer allow any negativity in my life. The same tip over and over again. But nothing changes!”
Unfortunately, you haven’t taken the power of the unconscious into account.
Science in recent years has clearly shown that there are 2 areas of consciousness, the waking consciousness and the subconscious/unconscious.
This area is not inhabited, only our programs are played out here.
These programs are formed up to the age of 13.
They are formed through the constant repetition of stimuli, whether conscious or subconscious.
Learning a program is like learning to ride a bike, for example; we find it difficult at first and later it becomes completely automatic.
Unfortunately, this kind of automatism also applies to our thought patterns or emotional habits, but not quite as conveniently.
If my parents always gave me the feeling that I was only valuable if I worked hard, then this stimulus has been repeated so often that it has become my reality as an adult.
I think, act and feel as if this is the truth and may never question this program.
Children are in a theta state most of the time, which is the brain state in which hypnosis is most effective.
This means that the programs that determine the rest of our lives are downloaded, so to speak, by copying the behavior and beliefs of our caregivers and society as a whole.
So you could say that we ourselves have nothing to do with the way we were programmed, we had no influence on it whatsoever.
And that’s very interesting, isn’t it?
After all, the mind is the creator of our reality, because thoughts create reality, as we have established.
This means that our reality is manifested through the information recorded in our unconscious.
Consequently, our upbringing, which has strongly influenced our programs, our old traumas and experiences have an incredibly large effect on our lives.
The problem is that at least 70% of these programs are limiting and degrading, they create self-sabotage. And an even bigger problem is the utilization ratio of these two forms of consciousness.
We operate 95% from the unconscious and only 5% from the creative mind, the creative consciousness.
Epigenetics and consciousness
So what ultimately controls us is not our genes, it is our programs.
This explains, for example, why it is possible for people who are adopted into a family in which a certain type of cancer is common to also develop this type of cancer, even though they have completely different genes.
It was only the negative programming that made them ill.
Or the reason for the placebo or nocebo effect. There is actually no such thing as an unfavorable predisposition, there is no inheritance of disease-causing genes, only the passing on of disease-causing programs. Of course, we have a certain spectrum of genes, but this spectrum is far wider than we think!
Based on its environment and the interpretation of the blueprint, each gene has the potential to produce as many as 30,000 different proteins.
An incredibly large number of possibilities and variations.
DNA can be understood as a blueprint that can be interpreted in an infinite number of ways, and here we can look back at the self-receptors of the membrane: What are these environmental signals that control the identity of the genes?
Exactly, consciousness.
We ourselves decide which genes are switched on and which are switched off.
We are not victims of our genes or our origins, as genetics tells us.
Conclusion
So what exactly is epigenetics?
“Epi” stands for “above”.
And what is this higher authority, above genetics? The answer is: consciousness. Logically, consciousness means nothing other than being conscious, living consciously and thinking consciously.
Being present and observing oneself, being aware of one’s own self.
Also creating awareness, awareness of things and of oneself.
Gaining the ability to observe yourself and catch your own sabotage programs “in the act”, as the discipline of reprogramming yourself.
This is how a deeper change happens than simply trying to think positively – because let’s be honest, this often(not always) simply means lying to yourself.
But the programs continue to run in us and can work even better, because they are now even being ignored, how nice. Answer for yourself: What does “consciousness” mean? You are welcome to write the answer to this in the comments.
And to come back to hair loss (the topic of the last entry), you may remember that hair has been assigned the function of antennae in feng shui and also by indigenous tribes.
And then we think about what we have learned today: With our thoughts, we are proven to be able to create energy fields. I would say that our hair, which sits on our head as antennae, is very easily accessible by our thoughts.
In this respect, our hair is strongly influenced by them.
And that’s it for this time from us again and I hope you enjoyed it. If you have any suggestions or questions, feel free to write them in the comments, I look forward to hearing from you.
And if you want to know what psychosomatics is all about, then come back in two weeks’ time, because there’ll be a new entry about it then.
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Sources (or interesting links) :
- An informative video about our reality
- What the Bleep – A lecture by Bruce Lipton
- The book “Intelligent Cells” by Bruce Lipton
- An interview with Bruce Lipton about consciousness (Pdf)
- The book “The power of your subconscious” as PDF
