'A New Science of Heaven'
by Robert Temple
Chapter 13: The Mysterious Case of the Dirty Gas
Excerpts have not been perfectly edited, and the greater context will be found by reading the book 📖.
“Microbial clouds and dusty plasma are analogous in many ways as both are made of invisible and microscopic particles. And later in this chapter and the next I will be examining the work done on what are called our ‘bioplasma bodies’, which are invisible and which surround us, just as the microbial clouds do. The concept of bioplasma bodies suggests that we are jointly constructed of physical bodies and bioplasma bodies, which operate in synch.
The further suggestion is that when we ‘die’, because our physical body has worn out or been damaged beyond repair, our bioplasma body may detach from “our physical body and abandon it to ‘death’. We might be said to continue to exist as bioplasmic beings made of non-atomic matter – of plasma. On this way of looking at it, the ‘soul’ is thus material, but in a different and more rarefied sense than was the physical body. This leads to the concept of bioplasma beings existing without ‘physical bodies’, and I suggest that this is what is often referred to as ‘the Other World’.
Traditionally it has been called ‘the spiritual world’, upon the assumption that it must be wholly immaterial. It was assumed that body and spirit were entirely separate, one being ‘material’ and one being entirely non-material. I touched on this earlier, and it is what I regard as the prime fallacy of our Western civilization (as previously explained, it is not a fallacy that was ever traditionally adopted by the Chinese.)”
“It is possible that most microbiologists of today do not know enough about plasma to realize that it acts as an excellent conductor of charged currents when there are imbalances of charge in the plasma, or when the plasma has a cellular structure, such as we find in the Earth’s atmosphere or in dusty plasmas such as the Kordylewski Clouds. (As we have seen, cellular structure implies the existence of boundary layers, known as ‘double-layers’, surrounding the cells, and these layers themselves carry currents, often very powerful ones.)
If the microbial clouds around us are charged by plasma “or become part of a plasma cloud, or even generate a plasma cloud through their own charges, then they can potentially carry electric currents, whether electricity (negatively charged currents) or proticity (positively charged currents). And of course, once you have electric currents, you get magnetic fields. We may thus be surrounded by highly complex ultra-weak currents and fields, the existence of which no one has ever suspected until now, at least not ones involving microbes and dust.”
“The relevance of electricity and magnetism to the human body was revealed very dramatically in 1963, when Gerhard M. Baule and Richard McFee made the first scientific detection of a naturally occurring ‘biomagnetic field’ in the human body, and they proved the existence of a magnetic field associated with the action of the human heart.4 The electrical and magnetic aspects of the human heart are now universally accepted, but it was very painful and difficult for scientific and medical experts to accept this discovery at the time, because it went against the ‘body as a machine’ “theory, by which everything was supposed to be chemical and mechanical. (Modern machines use electricity, but ‘the body as a machine’ theory did not allow for that, and was essentially based on models of clocks and nineteenth-century factory machines.)
Pre-existing fixations, theories rigidly adhered to, ossified notions, and fixed opinions are the great enemies of progress in science; but scientists are human beings, with all the limitations that that implies.”
“But in America Reich caused even more alarm because he was speaking openly of orgasms, and as everyone knows Americans in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s didn’t have any. Reich’s main interest in them was their release of a special kind of energy. He called this ‘orgone’ energy, and he regarded its release in orgasms as being only one of its many manifestations.
It was, in his opinion, a genuine universal life energy. Reich carried out many elaborate researches, attempting to find out what this strange undefined energy really was. He came to believe that most of it appeared to come streaming in
from the Sun, so he viewed it as part of what came to be known as the solar wind, but he believed it was not light, or electrons or protons or ions. It was something else, he did not know what.
Reich’s theory of ‘orgone energy’ was that it was the essential life energy of all living beings, and that the sexual orgasm was a specific form of a general biological phenomenon (occurring in all creatures in different forms and for varying purposes, but found in specialized form in humans sexually) to do with ‘an involuntary contraction and expansion of the total plasma system’ resulting in an ‘energy discharge’, in which a bit of the orgone energy was released.
He believed that orgone energy could occur in the form of tiny particles, which he called bions. Reich had concluded:
that every living organism is a membranous structure that contains an amount of orgone in its body fluids; it is an ‘orgonotic’ system. Thus, the term orgone comes from ‘organism’ and ‘orgasm’, and means an energy found within all organisms and basic to the orgasm reflex.8
“But there were some people who knew that Reich had stumbled onto something. It is necessary to give some of the political background to this, as one of the side effects of what happened was to suppress for many decades any public discussions of plasma, especially of cosmic plasma and any plasma or electronic functionalities within living systems. ”
“Cope came to the conclusion that each of us is surrounded by yet another invisible cloud. He describes it as ‘a gas of electromagnetic (EH) dipoles.’ (A dipole is so called because it has two electromagnetic poles, a north pole and a south pole. A dipole may be a molecule or some other object that has both poles.) He believes this cloud can be detected on rare occasions by sensitive persons, who tend to call it an ‘aura’. Cope stresses that he wished to investigate this by sweeping away mystical theories and tackling the matter purely scientifically.”
“In order to complete the symmetry and for there to be magnetic currents, there would need to be magnetic particles which, like electrons, the particles of electricity, have a charge operating in a single direction. But all magnetized particles known about operate in equal and opposite directions, which is to say they have two poles, one negative and one positive. Therefore, in standard physics there is no such thing as a magnetic monopole.
The quest to discover them has been called the Holy Grail of physics, because not only would this give symmetry to the theory of electromagnetism – with gravity the most important formative factor in the Universe – it would open up a vast new dimension of theoretical physics when it comes to exploring the fields that give our Universe the form it has.”
“Cope is saying here that if tachyons do exist, their rhythmic interactions would naturally make them resonate with crystalline structures in intimate and interesting ways. This is a wonderful vision and a joy to conceptualize. Critics may say it is highly speculative, but Cope found a way to describe the relationship between crystals and mysterious energies in scientific terms. He found a scientific language for it.
Cope goes further. He comes up with mechanisms in the form of ‘superconductive regions’ to explain how these particles might be the trapped within the body. (Again, superconductivity is when electricity travels without resistance.) He also suggests that on the planetary scale, these phenomena could create a standing energy grid, a vast grid system of resonant standing waves of ‘earth energy’.”
“We may thus look upon bees and flowers as engaged in a continuous orgy of charged intercourse with one another, generating and displaying their auras and creating plenty of charged dust in miniature clouds as they do so.
It really is true to say we live in an electromagnetic world, and are only beginning to understand how it works. All of us are electric people, full of multiple currents of both negative charge, called electricity, and positive charge, called proticity. Since charged currents always generate magnetic fields, we are also all full of multiple magnetic fields....
by Robert Temple
Chapter 13: The Mysterious Case of the Dirty Gas
Excerpts have not been perfectly edited, and the greater context will be found by reading the book 📖.
“Microbial clouds and dusty plasma are analogous in many ways as both are made of invisible and microscopic particles. And later in this chapter and the next I will be examining the work done on what are called our ‘bioplasma bodies’, which are invisible and which surround us, just as the microbial clouds do. The concept of bioplasma bodies suggests that we are jointly constructed of physical bodies and bioplasma bodies, which operate in synch.
The further suggestion is that when we ‘die’, because our physical body has worn out or been damaged beyond repair, our bioplasma body may detach from “our physical body and abandon it to ‘death’. We might be said to continue to exist as bioplasmic beings made of non-atomic matter – of plasma. On this way of looking at it, the ‘soul’ is thus material, but in a different and more rarefied sense than was the physical body. This leads to the concept of bioplasma beings existing without ‘physical bodies’, and I suggest that this is what is often referred to as ‘the Other World’.
Traditionally it has been called ‘the spiritual world’, upon the assumption that it must be wholly immaterial. It was assumed that body and spirit were entirely separate, one being ‘material’ and one being entirely non-material. I touched on this earlier, and it is what I regard as the prime fallacy of our Western civilization (as previously explained, it is not a fallacy that was ever traditionally adopted by the Chinese.)”
“It is possible that most microbiologists of today do not know enough about plasma to realize that it acts as an excellent conductor of charged currents when there are imbalances of charge in the plasma, or when the plasma has a cellular structure, such as we find in the Earth’s atmosphere or in dusty plasmas such as the Kordylewski Clouds. (As we have seen, cellular structure implies the existence of boundary layers, known as ‘double-layers’, surrounding the cells, and these layers themselves carry currents, often very powerful ones.)
If the microbial clouds around us are charged by plasma “or become part of a plasma cloud, or even generate a plasma cloud through their own charges, then they can potentially carry electric currents, whether electricity (negatively charged currents) or proticity (positively charged currents). And of course, once you have electric currents, you get magnetic fields. We may thus be surrounded by highly complex ultra-weak currents and fields, the existence of which no one has ever suspected until now, at least not ones involving microbes and dust.”
“The relevance of electricity and magnetism to the human body was revealed very dramatically in 1963, when Gerhard M. Baule and Richard McFee made the first scientific detection of a naturally occurring ‘biomagnetic field’ in the human body, and they proved the existence of a magnetic field associated with the action of the human heart.4 The electrical and magnetic aspects of the human heart are now universally accepted, but it was very painful and difficult for scientific and medical experts to accept this discovery at the time, because it went against the ‘body as a machine’ “theory, by which everything was supposed to be chemical and mechanical. (Modern machines use electricity, but ‘the body as a machine’ theory did not allow for that, and was essentially based on models of clocks and nineteenth-century factory machines.)
Pre-existing fixations, theories rigidly adhered to, ossified notions, and fixed opinions are the great enemies of progress in science; but scientists are human beings, with all the limitations that that implies.”
“But in America Reich caused even more alarm because he was speaking openly of orgasms, and as everyone knows Americans in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s didn’t have any. Reich’s main interest in them was their release of a special kind of energy. He called this ‘orgone’ energy, and he regarded its release in orgasms as being only one of its many manifestations.
It was, in his opinion, a genuine universal life energy. Reich carried out many elaborate researches, attempting to find out what this strange undefined energy really was. He came to believe that most of it appeared to come streaming in
from the Sun, so he viewed it as part of what came to be known as the solar wind, but he believed it was not light, or electrons or protons or ions. It was something else, he did not know what.
Reich’s theory of ‘orgone energy’ was that it was the essential life energy of all living beings, and that the sexual orgasm was a specific form of a general biological phenomenon (occurring in all creatures in different forms and for varying purposes, but found in specialized form in humans sexually) to do with ‘an involuntary contraction and expansion of the total plasma system’ resulting in an ‘energy discharge’, in which a bit of the orgone energy was released.
He believed that orgone energy could occur in the form of tiny particles, which he called bions. Reich had concluded:
that every living organism is a membranous structure that contains an amount of orgone in its body fluids; it is an ‘orgonotic’ system. Thus, the term orgone comes from ‘organism’ and ‘orgasm’, and means an energy found within all organisms and basic to the orgasm reflex.8
“But there were some people who knew that Reich had stumbled onto something. It is necessary to give some of the political background to this, as one of the side effects of what happened was to suppress for many decades any public discussions of plasma, especially of cosmic plasma and any plasma or electronic functionalities within living systems. ”
“Cope came to the conclusion that each of us is surrounded by yet another invisible cloud. He describes it as ‘a gas of electromagnetic (EH) dipoles.’ (A dipole is so called because it has two electromagnetic poles, a north pole and a south pole. A dipole may be a molecule or some other object that has both poles.) He believes this cloud can be detected on rare occasions by sensitive persons, who tend to call it an ‘aura’. Cope stresses that he wished to investigate this by sweeping away mystical theories and tackling the matter purely scientifically.”
“In order to complete the symmetry and for there to be magnetic currents, there would need to be magnetic particles which, like electrons, the particles of electricity, have a charge operating in a single direction. But all magnetized particles known about operate in equal and opposite directions, which is to say they have two poles, one negative and one positive. Therefore, in standard physics there is no such thing as a magnetic monopole.
The quest to discover them has been called the Holy Grail of physics, because not only would this give symmetry to the theory of electromagnetism – with gravity the most important formative factor in the Universe – it would open up a vast new dimension of theoretical physics when it comes to exploring the fields that give our Universe the form it has.”
“Cope is saying here that if tachyons do exist, their rhythmic interactions would naturally make them resonate with crystalline structures in intimate and interesting ways. This is a wonderful vision and a joy to conceptualize. Critics may say it is highly speculative, but Cope found a way to describe the relationship between crystals and mysterious energies in scientific terms. He found a scientific language for it.
Cope goes further. He comes up with mechanisms in the form of ‘superconductive regions’ to explain how these particles might be the trapped within the body. (Again, superconductivity is when electricity travels without resistance.) He also suggests that on the planetary scale, these phenomena could create a standing energy grid, a vast grid system of resonant standing waves of ‘earth energy’.”
“We may thus look upon bees and flowers as engaged in a continuous orgy of charged intercourse with one another, generating and displaying their auras and creating plenty of charged dust in miniature clouds as they do so.
It really is true to say we live in an electromagnetic world, and are only beginning to understand how it works. All of us are electric people, full of multiple currents of both negative charge, called electricity, and positive charge, called proticity. Since charged currents always generate magnetic fields, we are also all full of multiple magnetic fields....