Elements construct the body and forces control it. Forces lay down the foundation and elements build upon it. The magnetic mental force thinks up the plan and lays down a blueprint. The electric emotional force goes to work on the plan like the builders. The building materials are the elements created by electromagnetic force. Electromagnetism builds atoms and elements with different weights and densities. All the elements in the periodic table are created by the power of electromagnetic force. According to ancient science, there are five main phases to the process of creation:
- Space Particles (Energy)
- Gas Particles (Air)
- Plasma Particles (Light)
- Fluid Particles (Water)
- Solid Particles (Earth)
Notice one theme in this process of creation i.e. increasing density and weight from top to bottom, energy is the lightest and solid is the heaviest.
Space is a vibrating field of energy, a field where attractive (magnetic) and repulsive (electric) forces create immense field of vibration with dynamic motion of contraction and expansion that give birth to vortexes or what the ancients call space-wheels that appear and disappear in an instant called virtual particles by modern science. Virtual particles of similar wavelengths coalesce together to create subatomic particles—quarks, leptons, electrons, mesons, muons, gluons, Hicks’s bosons (God particle) etc. Subatomic particles of similar wavelength or frequency aggregate together to form atoms.
Science defines particle as “quanta of energy associated with certain field”– meaning a particle is a unit of energy with a field around it. A quantum particle has dual properties of being solid particle and energy wave at the same time. Light is made of quanta, it acts as particles of photon when refracting and as waves of energy when propagating, i.e. when you pin down a photon at a position, it acts like a particle but when you measure its speed, it acts like a wave. It is impossible to measure the position and the speed of a photon at the same time. This is the crux of quantum physics, Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle.
These moving patterns appear and disappear instantly at first, that’s the first stage of creation, the empty space or the energy stage. The patterns disappear instantly because waves of positive inward motion cancel waves of negative outward motion. They are in perfect equilibrium and they cancel each other perfectly which is why space looks empty.
Then, because of some unknown reason, a disequillibrium is created in this boiling soup of moving energy and the waves moving in opposite directions lose touch with each other and don’t cancel, instead, they develop into separate moving energies, the contracting inward moving energy coalesce in the center giving rise to a separate pattern in the middle known as proton. The expanding outward moving energy creates another pattern on the outside that encircles the first known as electron.
Ancient people has a name for this disequillibrium, they call it the “original sin”, both Indian and Tibetan texts describes the three forces as the “three glitches”, three faults, three defects, or three disorders. The glitch in the center forms the magnetic proton, the glitch encircling the proton is the electric energy electron. Because of these two glitches the waves do not cancel each other but instead separate and form their own space-wheels that are tethered to each other and their tension creates a third glitch in the middle, the neutron. It’s the neutron that gives stability to an otherwise canceling and disappearing magnetic and electric waves. Neutron is the child that binds male and female together and the three stay together like a stable family. We can now see this stable family as an atom.
Following the rule of creation that offspring are multiple, different densities of neutrons create different states of matter. The least dense element being the gaseous phase such as hydrogen with no visible neutron, followed by plasma phase with visible neutrons such as oxygen and its family of elements. The next phase is liquid with still more neutrons in nitrogen and other liquid elements. The last phase is the solid phase composed of hard elements like carbon and most elements in the periodic table.
Hydrogen has no neutron and behaves as an unstable element moving at high speed filling up the space of the whole universe. This is the gaseous phase of creation. The prime quality of gas is motion which is opposite of space and stillness following another rule of creation that the progeny is always opposite to its parent.
Motion is time and therefore space is the mother of time and the two are inseparably intertwined. Space and time are one continuum—space-time continuum as Einstein theorized. What is time? Time is distance and motion. With increasing distance between proton and electron, time is created.
The next stage of creation is formation of plasma, light, or fire. Plasma is a cloud of ions. Ions are highly reactive atoms with free electrons. Gas elements like hydrogen and helium moving at high speeds collide with each other excites their electrons due to extra energy acquired from collision. When these excited electrons settle back to their ground state, they release that extra energy in the form of light or photons and they acquire more stable neutrons. Now the energy patterns become more stable, the waves settle down and the moving pattern becomes visible to our sense of vision. This is the birth of a new element plasma or fire, the third phase of creation, the phase of radiating energy in the form of heat and light exemplified by oxygen atom and others like it such as fluorine and chlorine. Oxygen and fluorine are the two most reactive elements in the periodic table just as fire is the most reactive element. Remember that the progeny is opposite of parent and so plasma is opposite of gas because of the fact that plasma and light is visible whereas gas is invisible.
Next comes the phase of fluid and water. After release of light in earlier reaction, electrons settle down and condense into a different state of matter. Proton-electron interaction produce more neutrons and the waves get bigger and denser. This is the phase of condensation and liquid formation exemplified by liquid elements like nitrogen, bromine, mercury etc. Water is opposite of fire, again keeping with the theme of progeny being opposite of parent.
Last phase of creation is the solid phase where motion slows down to a stasis and the pattern looks and feels solid like the carbon element. Fluid crystallizes to give rise to solid element. In crystallization, the atoms organize themselves into a compact structure losing much of space. Crystals like diamond have the least amount space.
How Elements Create Life
Life is an aggregate of information. The body with its cells and molecules are crystallization of information. This process of crystallization happens during the construction of DNA molecules. DNA is a spiral structure with two chains of molecules made of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen, and phosphorus. Phosphorus is similar to nitrogen but in nature it is found as phosphate which is phosphorus bonded with four oxygen atoms. Phosphates are an integral component of DNA, RNA, ATP (the energy current of cells) and phospholipids which form membrane skin for all cells.
Carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen bond in certain proportions to form carbohydrates or sugar. Sugars bond with phosphate to form deoxyribose, the backbone of DNA spiral. To this back bone are attached two kinds of nitrogen compounds or bases, purines and pyrimidines. Purines are of two kinds, adenine (A) and guanine (G); pyrimidines are also two, cytosine (C) and thiamine (T). These four letters; A, G, C, T, writes the genetic code. Purines are made of 4 nitrogen atoms, 5 carbon atoms, and 4 hydrogen atoms. Pyrimidines have 2 nitrogen, 4 carbon, and 4 hydrogen atoms. The arrangement of these four bases in particular order makes a particular gene just as arrangement of alphabets in particular order forms a word. A gene is like a word with meaning and instructions to make different kind of proteins, the building blocks of body. There are total of 20,000 to 25,000 genes or words in the dictionary of human genome according to recent estimation.
The long strands of DNA are packed closely together to form chromosomes. Each chromosome contains a single pair of DNA. We have 23 pairs of chromosome.
As is in the outer world, so is in the inner world, 96% of the universe is made of four basic elements; hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon, the same is true inside the body. Major portion of proteins are made of four elements. Other significant elements needed in trace amount are calcium, phosphorus, potassium, sulfur, sodium, chlorine, and magnesium. Still lesser significant elements include iron, iodine, zinc, selenium, copper, fluorine, lithium, molybdenum, and cobalt.
Ancient traditions say everything is made of five elements; space, air, fire, water, and earth. The Chinese tradition and older Greek traditions narrowed down the five into two; yin and yang in Chinese and fire and water in Greek tradition. The idea is that water and earth are similar elements as earth is a kind of hardened water. The same can be applied to fire and air since fire is an ionized form of gas, a plasma. This binary classification makes sense physiologically because the body functions in binary system of input and output, nutrient and waste, acid and alkali, blood and lymph, heat and cold etc. Translating this concept into biochemistry then the two most important element in the body are oxygen and nitrogen. In terms of biological activity, the two most important activities are breathing and eating foods with high water content i.e. fruits and vegetables. Water is more important than food but drinking pure water is difficult for the body to absorb and retain due to lack of minerals and microbes in treated water. Fruits and vegetables have high water content with all the minerals and microbes that fix nitrogen in water.
That’s the input department, for complete health we need to pay attention to the output department as well which is the elimination of waste products that acidic and cold flowing in the lymph. Skin is the biggest elimination organ that also regulates temperature through sweating. The best way to sweat more is exercise or sauna. But exercise must be done in a gentle format such as walking, swimming, yoga, or chi-gong. Extreme and hard exercises like running and other sports activities are counterproductive as they produce more waste products in the body which is why professional athletes die earlier than regular couch potatoes.
To make it all simple in taking take of both the input and output systems of body, the ancient medical traditions of Ayurveda and Tibetan medicine recommends listening to the body’s messages conveyed in our instincts and intuitions. It is recommended not to repress and suppress the following thirteen bodily functions:
- Breath
- Thirst
- Hunger
- Yawn
- Sleep
- Sneeze
- Cough
- Vomit
- Tears
- Urine
- Defecation
- Gas expulsion (belches and flatulence)
- Sex (ejaculation of sexual fluids)
These thirteen bodily functions take care of both input and output systems. Breathe completely using all the muscles in the trunk of your body, the most important one being the diaphragm. Do not ignore the sensation of thirst, if you can’t drink pure water, eat some juicy fruits but stay away from man-made drinks like sodas and beer which drain water out of your body. Sleep is an important period for output functions of the body especially the brain. New research is indicating that people who are sleep deprived suffer from Alzheimer’s disease. It is found that sleep promotes draining of lymph which carries toxic waste matter out of brain. Sneeze, cough, tears, and gas expulsions shouldn’t be suppressed for fear of social reprisal, instead excuse yourself politely and get away to a safer place. Urine and defecation are obvious indications but people still hold these longer than necessary. Toxicity needs to be expunged swiftly. Sex is a big topic but repression of sex is common which is why prostrate and cervical cancer rates are high.
Only when lower bodily urges and instincts are satisfied, can we go on to higher levels of consciousness for health and happiness. The height of happiness depends on the root of deeper satisfaction; one must get down and dirty to obtain greater satisfaction up top.