Our ultimate aim is to demonstrate as much as we can of the

heart\'s consciousness. We have already made interesting progress in this

direction. The embryologist Bremer had shown, but failed himself to see, that

both blood and heart express conscious functions. He took movies of the two

blood streams traveling in the single tube stage of heart formation and this is

what he saw: each stream spiraling around its own longitudinal axis and both

streams spiraling around each other in graceful motion. This tells us that the

blood streams can navigate; they know where they are, where they want to go and

how they will get there. The streams do not collide, travel at different

velocities but arrive at the same time at their destination.

The embryonic heart also demonstrates its consciousness:

when the blood enters the heart, the heart senses the spiraling motion of the

blood, mimics it and times its impulse to boost the blood motion to maximize

energy transfer and minimize disturbance to the blood flow pattern. The heart\'s

engagement of the blood is beautifully in phase.

Of course the well-known blushing and blanching of the

cheeks in shame and fear respectively told us long ago that the blood reacts to

the motions of the soul.

The heart is not a pressure pump nor is it a metaphor. It is

the seat of good and evil. Its noble reality is implied by Christ\'s references

to it, \"Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, Believe also in

me.\"

Ralph Marinelli

Rudolf Steiner Research Center

2825 Vinsetta

Royal Oak, MI 48073

Correspondence welcome.

Cosmic Heart