America loves controversy. We can’t wait until some politician or actor lashes out in angst on television. We fill our hallway conversations with the “did you hear what he said?” rants, and we participate in the water cooler jockey sessions on monday mornings regarding those that oppose or challenge our current belief sets. In antiquity, it was blasphemy to mention that the earth was round, or that bloodletting is a horrible practice. However, unlike the argument over the shape of our world, some findings that may have been true often get buried in favor of accepted norms that weren’t necessarily proven correct.

In an article published by the Rudolf Steiner Research Center, scientists discuss how the heart is not a pump. Then what is it exactly?

Abstract

“In 1932, Bremer of Harvard filmed the blood in the very early embryo circulating in self-propelled mode in spiralling streams before the heart was functioning. Amazingly, he was so impressed with the spiralling nature of the blood flow pattern that he failed to realize that the phenomena before him had demolished the pressure propulsion principle. Earlier in 1920, Steiner, of the Goetheanum in Switzerland had pointed out in lectures to medical doctors that the heart was not a pump forcing inert blood to move with pressure but that the blood was propelled with its own biological momentum, as can be seen in the embryo, and boosts itself with “induced” momenta from the heart. He also stated that the pressure does not cause the blood to circulate but is caused by interrupting the circulation.”

Full Article found here: http://www.rsarchive.org/RelArtic/Marinelli/

The Buddhists would say “it’s not always about looking for different things, it’s about looking at things differently?”

Is the heart really a pump?

Charlie Reid Uncategorized