BLUEPRINT FOR IMMORTALITY: THE ELECTRIC PATTERNS OF LIFE

Dr. Harold Saxton Burr, Ph.D – 1972

[Dr. Burr (1889-1973) was E. K. Hunt Professor Emeritus, Anatomy at Yale University School of Medicine, and a member of the faculty of medicine for over forty-three years. From 1916 to the late 1950’s, he published, either alone or with others, more than ninety-three scientific papers]

Dr Burr’s extended ‘adventure in science’ began in 1935 and comprised a search for the mysterious ‘Factor X’ that organizes inanimate material into living organisms and then maintains them. Through his research, Dr. Burr and his associates discovered that our bodies, and those of all other life-forms, are organized and controlled by electro-dynamic fields that can be measured and mapped with precision. Through thousand of experiments, they discovered that all living things – from men to mice, from trees to seeds – are molded and controlled by electro-dynamic fields, which could be measured and mapped with standard voltmeters. These ‘fields of life,’ or L-fields, are the basic blueprints of all life on this planet. Though almost inconceivably complicated, the ‘fields of life’ are of the same nature as the simpler fields known to modern physics, and obedient to the same laws. Like the fields of physics, the ‘fields of life’ are part of the organization of the Universe, and are influenced by its vast forces.

The molecules and cells of our bodies are constantly disintegrating and new structures are made to replace them. For instance, all protein in our bodies is ‘turned over’ every six months and, in some organs such as the liver, the protein is renewed more frequently. When we meet a friend we have not seen for six months, there is not one molecule in his face that was there when we last saw him, yet we still recognize our friend because his ongoing reconstruction has been performed according to the patterns of his unique field.

Earlier biochemistry studies had suggested that – through the direction of DNA – molecules become information systems. Burr granted that chemistry is itself of great importance, similar to how the chemical properties of gasoline make a machine work. But the chemistry of a living system doesn’t determine its own composition and internal functional relationships, any more than changing the gasoline turns a Ford into a Rolls Royce. The chemistry provides the motive energy, but the phenomena associated with the electro-dynamic fields determine the direction in which the energy flows to construct and maintain the living system. Therefore it is the fields that are of prime importance in understanding the organization, development and maintenance of all living things.

“Electro-dynamic fields are invisible and intangible; and it is hard to visualize them. But a crude analogy may help to show what the fields of life – L-fields for short – do and why they are so important. Most people who have taken high school science will remember that if iron filings are scattered on a card held over a magnet, they will arrange themselves in the pattern of the ‘lines of force’ of the magnet’s field. And if the filings are thrown away and fresh ones scattered on the card, the new filings will assume the same pattern as the old. Something like this happens in the human body. Its molecules and cells are constantly being torn apart and then rebuilt with fresh material from the food we eat. But, thanks to the controlling L-fields, the new molecules and cells are rebuilt as before and arrange themselves in the same pattern as the old ones.

“Until modern instruments revealed the existence of the controlling L-fields, biologists were at a loss to explain how our bodies ‘keep in shape’ through ceaseless metabolism and changes of material. Now the mystery has been solved: the electro-dynamic field of the body serves as a matrix or mould which preserves the ’shape’ or arrangement of any material poured into it, however often the material may be changed…

“….In the growth and development of every living system there is obviously some kind of control of the processes. As a distinguished zoologist once said, ‘The growth and development of any living system would appear to be controlled by someone sitting “on the organism” and directing its whole living process.’ The Field theory suggested that it should be possible to determine the polarity and direction of the flow of energy transformations in the living system. The organism, as a whole, depends on such directives for its continued existence; so also does atypical growth… It became clear that the crest of atypical growth in the host organism produced measurable and reproducible electro-metric correlates.

“We had reason to believe that the electro-dynamic field could serve as a signpost for a variety of conditions because our experiments had confirmed our basic assumption. This was that the organism possesses a field as a whole that embraces subsidiary or local fields, representing the organism’s component parts. We assumed, then, that variations in the subsidiary fields would be reflected in variations in the flow of energy in the whole system – as we had found in ovulation and malignancy. We decided, therefore, to look for further practical consequences of the theory.

“We soon found a definite relationship between nerve and tissue in the form of a potential difference, which can be used in quantitative tests of nerve injury. The potentials were not affected by vascular and sweating responses.”

Dr. Burr was able to measure the changes taking place in the L-field as wounds would be healing. During all phases of the healing process, gradient measurements could be made to show the body initiating various functions pertaining to wound healing.

Later, Dr. Burr decided to investigate if electro-metric technique might be useful in the neurological and psychiatric fields. He conducted numerous experiments with Dr. Leonard J. Ravitz, Jr., at one time on the staff of the Department of Psychiatry at Yale. Dr. Ravitz found that they could establish baseline voltage gradient measurements for individuals who had normal mental functioning.

“It became obvious to Dr. Ravitz’s examination that by using electro-metric techniques on patients in psychiatric hospitals, patients – as a result of therapy or changing circumstances – could safely be discharged from the hospital when the voltage gradient indicated a reasonable return to normal….

“Likewise, electro-metrics could show clearly enough when certain patients – no matter what the therapy was – could not return safely to normal life outside the institution.

“Another remarkable experiment by Dr. Ravitz, too, in which an emotion of grief recalled under hypnotic regression caused a 14-millivolt rise for two and a half minutes, suggests other possibilities. It cannot be too strongly emphasized that the electro-metric approach to emotional diagnosis can be completely impersonal and objective. The electro-metric investigator of psychiatric patients does not need to know the mental state of the patients. Yet his electro-metric findings tallied closely with the psychiatric diagnoses…”

[This information concerning the effect of emotions on our bodies being so significant as to be instrumentally calibrated is very intriguing. And note the experimental findings arising from hypnotic induction: in the understanding of some crisis counselors, every-day hypnosis is really what goes on in normal, sincere conversation, when the mind of one person ‘informs’ that of another and brings about relief. In dialogue with a friend, emotions are naturally triggered and modified, and – for better or worse – somatic transformations ensue.]

“The Universe in which we find ourselves and from which we can not be separated is a place of Law and Order. It is not an accident, nor chaos. It is organized and maintained by an Electro-dynamic field capable of determining the position and movement of all charged particles. For nearly half a century, the logical consequences of this theory have been subjected to rigorously controlled conditions and met with no contradictions.”

Organization and direction – the direct opposite of chance – imply purpose. Dr. Burr’s research into the ‘fields of life’ offered instrumental evidence that man is no accident of chemical chance. On the contrary, man – like all living entities – is an integral part of the Cosmos, embedded in its all-powerful fields, subject to its inflexible laws, and a participant in the purpose and destiny of the Universe.

Initially reviewed in May 1998; subsequently updated and posted in December 2010

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