Most every adult in the U.S. remembers when the term politically correct turned into the verb being PC. We began to wholeheartedly embrace the fact that being mindful of our language changes attitudes.

While most of that thought reformation has been targeted toward social justice in recent decades, it’s worthwhile to note the changes it has brought to our rational understanding of reality as well.

It took many years for folks to come to terms with the principles set forth in Newton’s Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and his work Opticks, which is about the nature of light. After that, scientists were ready to close up shop, stating that everything that needed to be known in physics had been revealed.

Thankfully, human curiosity cannot be so easily satiated. About 100 years later, Einstein showed that Newton’s laws were merely a subset of a larger truth. Einstein’s bold statements began the quantum revolution that ensured we would never stop investigating because the new theories clearly demonstrated the profoundness of our ignorance.

Most of us weren’t alive in 1905 when Einstein released his first papers that changed everything. We have no way to remember what it was like to live through an intellectual revolution of Copernican magnitude. Most believe that E=mc2 was as popular then as it is now. Unfortunately, Einstein suffered the same shunning and disbelief as Newton until others could check the math and see the truth for themselves.

We are sentimental creatures who are hard-pressed to relinquish what brings us pleasure or security in our world. For instance, even though we know full well that we live in a solar-centric system, we are still enamored with the words sunset and sunrise. When folks in the U.S. and in Australia both point up, they are actually pointing in different directions out. And, think about our casual use of the word universal when, thanks to Einstein and every astrophysicist since, we clearly have evidence to show that what we experience on this planet is anything but universal.

Language is a living thing. Currently, there are two key words in cultural flux that are shifting us into another revolution. They are heart and brain. Material realists would have us believe that without a brain, or another physical processing center, there would be no thought. The other philosophy vying for dominance right now is that consciousness is the basis of everything and both matter and energy are an epiphenomenon of it.

The tenuous compromise being struck is that perhaps the organ in the head is not the only intelligence processing center. The term emotional I.Q. came into vogue a few decades ago and now the term heart intelligence is gaining in popularity.

With recent advancements in technology, science has been able to start measuring the subtle energy fields emanating from the hands of healers and Qigong masters. Even molecular biologists are jumping on the bandwagon by showing how our thoughts affect us at the cellular level.

The fact is, the physical body is a sophisticated, multi-faceted antenna system that transmits and receives all manner of informed energies. That’s what the first four chapters of The Sage Age are all about.

We may very well be adopting the language that will lead into another Copernican-level revolution. And our great, great grandchildren will think that all these theories and ideas must have been as popular with us as it is to them. And, they will be able to clearly see that what their great, great grandparents knew was merely a subset of a larger truth.

As a graduate student in the 1960s, Felicitas Goodman was assigned to translate material for Dr. Erika Bourguignon who was conducting a study on behavior that occurred during religious experience, especially trance states induced by specific body postures. After graduation, Dr. Goodman continued the research and found that there were at least seventy ritual body postures that produced either subtle effects or full-blown altered states of consciousness.

Your body is a sophisticated, multi-faceted antenna system. From the bones to the cells you are comprised of a crystalline matrix that transceives (transmits/receives) a variety of informed energies.

Remember the old TV antennas that were atop practically every house? It’s called a yagi style antenna and had multiple rods of various lengths that corresponded to the frequency of available broadcast channels.

When you change the length of your body by positioning it in different poses, you are effectively changing the frequencies it can transceive.

Dr. Goodman found that it takes ten to fifteen minutes of holding a pose to achieve a desired state of consciousness. Think of it as moving the rabbit-ear antenna on a TV a certain way to bring in better reception of a single station.

Moving your body through fluid ritual positions like those practiced in Tai Chi are more akin to a radio scanner. They scan through all of the available frequencies and only momentarily hold a position to gather informed energies from that frequency.

Even if you only casually meditate, try different time-tested body positions and see if you notice a difference in your practice.

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The human body is a sophisticated, multi-faceted antenna system. From the bones to the cells, it is comprised of a crystalline matrix that transceives (transmits/receives) all manner of informed energies.

The reason that transcontinental radio broadcast antennas are located in the plane states is because the soil is so rich. You see, the soil is actually a part of the antenna system. The guy wires that radiating from the center point of a radio antenna aren’t there to simply stabilize it. There is a correlating set of wires buried underneath that radiate from the antenna out to the guy wire anchors in a starburst. Rich soil is more conductive than poor soil and the healthy dirt covering the wires contributes directly to the broadcast strength of the antenna.

But what does all of this have to do with Tai Chi? One of the basic principles of this form of exercise is to exchange energy with the environment by fluidly moving the body through a series of specific postures. These motions align the body’s antenna into specific configurations that change the frequencies it can transceive.

Parks usually have lush surroundings, which is an indication that the soil is rich. Performing Tai Chi in such a place increases the effectiveness of the exercise because the antenna of the body is anchored on good soil.

So, taking a walk in a park may do you more good than running on a treadmill. Hiking a dirt trail will really ramp up the experience and give you the best opportunity for a harmonious exchange with the environment.

If possible, take some friends with you. Groups that hold the same body shape work together like a multi-antenna array, just like the VLA (Very Large Array) of antennas located in New Mexico that are used for astronomical radio observation.

If you can’t get outside or don’t live near a park, put some plants around your exercise area. Doing so will also increase the oxygen content of the air.

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Like piezo crystals, liquid crystals also detect mechanical stress and change shape. These are the same sort of crystals found in many flat-screen computer monitors and televisions. The goo that forms at the bottom of a soap dish contains liquid crystals as well.

Liquid crystals also make up our cell’s membranes and the arrangement of DNA in our chromosomes also possesses a liquid crystal structure. An investigation into how these crystals function in the body may also help treat diseases such as Multiple Sclerosis, Sickle Cell Anemia and even Cancer.

Professor Peter J. Collings, who wrote the de facto standard book on this topic titled Liquid Crystals: Nature’s Delicate Phase of Matter and states that “the ability of biological organisms to form fluid structures of some rigidity in an aqueous environment is central to the existence of life on this planet.” James L. Oschman, who authored Energy Medicine: The Scientific Basis, echoes this sentiment by stating that “crystalline arrangements are the rule, not the exception, in living systems.” He also states that, “Crystalline components of the living matrix act as a coherent molecular antenna, radiating and receiving signals.”

The way to tune this antenna is through the repetition of such practices as yoga, martial arts or even playing an instrument. These disciplines also involve entrainment, which is mindfulness of breathing and heartbeat rhythms that bring the body and brainwave activity into a synchronous, harmonious state. Entrainment of the crystalline matrix in this way brings the entire being into a state of coherence. In other words, the whole being becomes one big, resonant antenna.

From our bones to our cells, the crystal matrix of the body turns it into one large antenna for the transmission and reception of many types of informed energies including those that are filtered through the subtle energy bodies. Traditional Ancient Chinese medicine asserts that this flow between the physical body and the subtle energy bodies occurs through the exit and entry points along the meridian system. Positioning the body in certain ritualistic postures, such as those found in Tai Chi and yoga, aid in transceiving these informed energies.

For more on this topic, read the full article The Body’s Crystalline Matrix Part 2.

The Sage Age – Blending Science with Intuitive Wisdom, was featured in Publishers Weekly shortly after its debut. Visit www.SageAge.net for more information and to read articles on many of the topics covered in the book.

Piezo crystals reside all over the body. They are found in the bones, intestines, teeth, and in the collagen arrays of connective tissue such as ligaments, tendons and cartilage. The basic function of a piezo crystal is to convert mechanical energy into electrical energy and vice versa. It’s why weight-bearing exercise is good for you.

Here’s an example, every time you take a step, the bones in your feet and legs are compressed. This activity squishes the crystals in the bones, deforming their shape. When that happens, they discharge an electric current that goes to your brain and tells it to reinforce the bones in that area.

Piezo crystals only emit a tiny current, but it’s very useful. In fact, these crystals are at the heart of what makes an electric guitar work. The pickup, with the shiny six dots under where the hand strokes the string, is full of piezo crystals. When the vibration of the string hits them, they deform and send out an electric current that is amplified many times and comes out as a wall of sound from a guitar amplifier.

This makes you wonder how sound, both inside and outside your body, makes your crystals react. Think about all the extra electric current shooting off inside you when your heart beats or you tone OM. This effect has been studied with great interest since the 1950s as a way to promote rapid bone healing.

The ability of piezo crystals to deform in shape when hit with an electrical charge has benefits for us too. It’s how matter gets moved through your digestive tract. Recall that your intestines are loaded with piezo crystals.

Have you ever had a gut feeling or felt something in your bones? There may actually be something to that feeling that science will eventually be able to detect and measure. These areas are the main components in the physical body’s antenna system. (Read the blog post on this topic.)

In the next segment of this series, we’ll cover how the liquid crystals in your body help you transceive (transmit and receive) informed energies.

For more on this topic, read the full article The Body’s Crystalline Matrix Part 1 and discover what Dr. James L. Oschman said about piezo crystals in his book Energy Medicine – The Scientific Basis. You can also find out which of our other favorite elements in the world contain piezo crystals.

The Sage Age – Blending Science with Intuitive Wisdom, was featured in Publishers Weekly shortly after its debut. Visit www.SageAge.net for more information and to read articles on many of the topics covered in the book.