Our Bodies as Seismographs

In this post, I want to go back to the work of Cleve Backster, the Lie Detector expert who began experimenting outside the box. I wrote about his work a number of months ago. I have since found and purchased his book, Primary Perception; Biocommunication with Plants, Living Foods and Human Cells, (White Rose Millennium Press, Anza, California, 2003)

My previous blog was written after viewing a video interview with him regarding his work done over the last 40-50 years. The book only reinforces the importance of his work investigating the connectedness of everything with everything else down to the cell level. None-the-less, despite his credentials as a scientist, the vast majority of those in related scientific fields do their best to debunk those findings, and sabotage efforts at replication by refusing to follow his very strict protocols for conducting his experiments. They can thus stand up and disparage his work as unproven pseudo-science. This, of course, is standard practice in the effort of consensus reality to keep us from understanding how everything really works.

Despite this debunking propaganda, the negative affect stress can have on our health has been widely disseminated. Seeing the printouts of Backster's experiments demonstrates why this is so. Picture the charts he has collected from the experiments as equivalent to seismographs which record earthquakes. When the earth is stable, the line is relatively straight, with few up and down markings. When a small earthquake happens, the pen marker reflects it with jagged lines; as the earth steadies, the lines become flat once again.

During great quakes, seismographs around the world register the quake by jumping from the middle, to top, to bottom of the paper for the duration of the quake, and continue registering long after the earthquake is, officially, over. Now, if you will transfer that image to what happens inside every cell of your body whenever you are stressed or experiencing fear, anger, upset, trauma, etc. The degree of the emotion experienced, is what regulates the power of the quake the cells experience

Interestingly, the charts of the cells reactions seem only to record what are considered to be negative and/or highly-charged events taking place, whether to one personally; by experiencing it vicariously, through watching TV, videos, etc., or has been experienced by someone connected to the individual. These can be stirred-up memories of past such events as well.

So, in effect, every time you become angry, experience fear, watch "action" movies or videos, (Think of the movies which are put out around Halloween--"slasher" movies, killer-whale movies, movies with violence of any kind--and you will get an idea of what input I am talking about.)

Also, every time you worry and/or imagine negative possibilities, you are sending this information to every cell in your body. Contrarily, when you are calm, feeling positive emotions, happy, content, etc., etc., your cells would be registering a straight line, (just humming along).

If we extend this information to the idea that what we are experiencing, our cells are sending out those signals to the people we are associated with, as well as to the world at large. This explains how people can know, from any distance, when people they care about are in danger, hurt, etc. It also explains how, if you change how you think about another individual, this change can be picked up by them, causing them to relate to you, also, in a new way.

It only takes approximately 15 seconds for a major earthquake to do major damage to a populated area. Just image what you are doing to the cells in your body by watching violence for an hour-or-more, (the duration of a movie or video).

Consider, also, the number of children who are allowed to play violent video games put out for them; the entire time they are playing, all the cells in their bodies are experiencing the equivalence of a great quake.

In response to real, or simulated, experiences, our body puts out adrenaline. (It is the bodies, "fight or flight" response.) People, who are in situations which their bodies interpret as potentially harmful, have their bodies flooded with adrenaline. The same is true of the body when one watches such depicted events. Adrenaline is addictive! Vast numbers of people in this country, especially younger people, are adrenaline addicts!

The Backster "Primary Perception" findings are so important; it is, literally, belief system shaking! If one knows this, how could you continue to assault your bodies by watching violence? If one knows this, how can you not work to modulate negative feelings toward oneself, in particular, but to all other living things, as well.

Consider, every time you have negative thoughts about yourself, you are assaulting every cell in your body.

With that thought, I end this blog.

Shirley Gallup