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First and foremost, remember your Dura Mata ~ Meninges / Cuda Equina (Horses Tail) – it’s the ‘tail end’ of the connective element of your PSN > Parasympathetic Nervous System, your SNS > Sympathetic Nervous System, and your ANS > Autonomic Nervous System … within this facia you receive stimuli from your Myotomes (Muscles) and your Dermatones (Skin), you have receptor’s and responders, pro-preception, it’s all part of your kynasthetic sense … from which there is the classic withdrawal reflex.
Your Lumbar Plexus is part of your Pheranom Magnum – your Spinal Canal.
Your Nerves :
3 major leg nerves – Sciatic, Obturator and Femoral – the Obturator Nerve supplies your adductors and the Femoral Nerve supplies your Quads ..
3 major arm nerves – Radial (back of arm / triceps, back of hand), Median (front inner arm and palm of hand), Ulnar (front outer arm) …. together known as the Brachial Plexus
your funny bone registers the ulnar nerve all the way into your little finger …
5% of your body mass is your nervous system and requires 20% of your total oxygen intake to function healthily
>overstretching can cause nerves to be starved of oxygen
>compression (osteophytes / extra growth and cts, carpal tunnel syndrome)
>entrapment
>frank injury – torn calf muscle or boney fracture
these injurious qualities all mean that the nerve will lose its oxygen supply and become inflamed (itis). It may also lose the ability to transport messages.
Overstretching must always be avoided.
Signs of an Unhealthy Nervous System :
>pain
>pins and needles
>numbness
>muscle weakness
>skin discolourment, bagginess
The human body is the most ingenious assembly of purposeful components you will ever ever find on this planet.
Beneath the envelope of skin and tissue, there are muscles, nerves, a circulatory system for blood, glands, vital organs, and above all, that marvellous system of bones called the Skeleton.
The skeleton not only supports the muscles and body as a whole, protecting those vital organs of brain and lungs but it is also responsible for our basic shape and size (although the last word in that matter comes from the muscles and subcutaneous tissue and skin).
The skeleton consists of 214 bones (which includes the six ossicles found the ears – not listed below).
AXIAL SKELETON
The axial skeleton comprises the skull, the backbone (vertebral column) and the ribs and breastbone (sternum).
APPENDICULAR SKELETON
The appendicular skeleton comprises the legs, arms (limbs) and shoulder and pelvic girdles.
The skeletal bones are classified according to their shape and formation
LONG BONES found mainly in the limbs, fingers etc
SHORT BONES such as found in the wrist
FLAT BONES like in the shoulder-blades, skull etc
IRREGULAR BONES such as some facial bones and those of the vertebrae etc
SESAMOID BONES like those developed in the tendons of the muscles. The knee-cap is a good example.
SO:
Starting at the top we have the SKULL and the SKULL consists of the Cranium and the Face.
The CRANIUM has 8 bones which are made up of 1 occipital, 2 parietal, 1 frontal, 2 temporal, 1 sphenoid and 1 ethmoid.
The FACE has 14 bones and they are made up of 2 nasal, 2 palatine, 2 lacrimal, 2 zygomatic, 1 vomer, 2 inferior turbinate, 2 maxillae and 1 mandible
The VERTIBRAL Column has 33 bones (sometimes 34). Each separate bone is called a vertebra.
The upper 7 vertebrae (plural of vertebra) are called the Cervical vertebrae, the uppermost two permitting movement of the neck. the first cervical vertebra is called the Atlas and the second is called the Axis. Together these two bones form the Atlanto-axial joint.
Then we have 12 thoracic vertebrae. Then we have 5 lumbar vertebrae. After the lumbar comes the sacral vertebrae which form the sacrum after which comes the tail of the spine, the coccyx, which comprises of 4 (or5) coccygeal vertebrae.
Within the thoracic vertebrae we have what is known as the thoracic cage. it consists of the 12 thoracic vertebrae (already mentioned above) at the back, 12 pairs of ribs at the sides and the sternum at the front.
Uppermost in this cage we have 7 pairs of true ribs, below them, 3 pairs of false ribs and then 2 pairs of floating ribs.
The true ribs (pairs 1-7) are attached directly to the sternum, the false ribs (8-10) are attached indirectly to the sternum (by means of cartilage extending from each rib to the one above and then ribs (11 and 12) are not attached to the sternum in any way (hence the term ‘floating’).
Above this we have the shoulder girdle: the left and right Clavicle (collarbones) and left and right Scapula (shoulderblades).
In isolation in front of the throat rests the hyoid, a small bone.
Attached to each side of the shoulder girdle we have the upper body limbs, otherwise known as the ARMS. Nearest the shoulder is the upper arm bone, the Humerus and then for the lower part you find the Radius and Ulna, placed side by side. Then moving on to the Wrist and Hand, these bones are: The 8 bones of the Carpus, the Navicular (Scaphoid), Lunate (Semilunar), Triquetral, Pisiform, Trapezium, Trapezoid, Capitate and Hamate. Then there 5 Metacarpals (the bones between the fingers and wrist) and then the 14 Phalanges which form the Thumb and 4 Fingers.
BELOW the WAIST we have the PELVIC GIRDLE and this consists of the 5th lumbar vertebrae, the sacrum, the coccyx at the back and 2 Innominate bones which encircle the remainder of the region.
Moving on to the LEGS : You have the Femur (Thigh Bone), the Patella (Knee Bone), the Tibia (Shin Bones) and the Fibula (placed alongside the tibia).
Bones of the FOOT are: 7 tarsus bones, the Calcaneum (heel), Talus, Navicular, Cuboid, 3 Cuneiforms, the 5 metatarsals, and then the 14 phalanges forming the toes.
JOINTS
A joint (or articulation) is a union of two or more bones.
There are 3 main types:
1.Fibrous (immovable) – a fixed joint allowing no movement whatsoever, i.e the joints (sutures) of the flat bones of the skull, like the teeth in their sockets etc.
2.Cartilaginous (slightly moveable) – in this joint the surfaces are separated by some intervening substance such as cartilage … i.e the intervertebral joints of the vertebral column with their intervertebral discs of fibro-cartilage.
3.Synovial (freely moveable) – the ends of the bones forming the joint are covered by hyaline cartilage. ligaments are necessary to bind the bones together, and the joint cavity is filled with synovial fluid and is enclosed by a capsule of fibrous tissue.
Varieties of Synovial Joints:
1.Gliding – small bones of the carpus etc
2.Ball and Socket – hip and shoulder joint
3.Hinge – elbow joint
4.Condyloid – wrist joint
5.Pivot – atlanto-axial joint
6.Saddle – joint between the trapezium and first metacarpal bone (thumb)
The Biostrata, in all its glory, has been revealed. If you have read through from beginning to end you can now, from that knowledge, draw certain principles that will point you the way to a near perfect human health (something very hard to come by in this modern day society).
Remember!
Human cells are not human beings. Human cells are components of the human body and therefore belong to the human being.
The Biostrata (each stratum) are degrees of expression and together, constitute the Soul of Total Existence.
Within the Biostrata, the souls of individual units are ever flowing until finally merging as one main stream, just as all waters flow toward a common level, so too do the individual souls flow to their common level (The Godhead).
Levels of awareness and communication between stratum must take place in comprehensible terms, always consistent with the level of intelligence upon which the unit depends for its consciousness.
The Biostrata are to the Godhead what the colours of the spectrum are to White Light.
It is perhaps unfortunate that sensory units (human beings) are able to freely choose whether they should act in accordance with the Laws of Nature, or indeed, reject them, for far too often the human being does choose to reject and ignore instructions issued from the Godhead and thus ends up in stagnation and premature deterioration. If the laws of nature (natural life laws) were to be heeded one would be assured of health throughout your entire ‘beingness’ … one would have health of mind, body and spirit.
All instruction (laws of nature) flow naturally through the Biostrata and are only ‘blocked’ or ‘obstructed’ by those units who choose to ignore the instructions in favour of doing one’s ‘own thing’.
Life Force (Prana) flows through the Biostrata too and can be utilised to increase one’s chances of a healthy, happy and successful existence. Choose to do things ‘contrary to law’ and interfere with the natural flow, then so be it, at your own demise.
For true health and successful living :-
Allow instruction to flow naturally from the Godhead to the Pranic Stratum, without interference.
Fully Appreciate this by pondering upon :-
Of TOTAL existence, the Godhead is INFINITESIMAL WHOLE, the Biostrata, the INFINITE WHOLE
CREATION is the out-pouring of the Supreme Controlling Force (Nature) from the infallible Godhead to the Pranic Stratum whereas the ‘struggle’ to return to the Godhead is otherwise known as LIFE.
So we’ve come a long way from the big ‘Pranic’ bang and we have moved through being ‘body’ and ‘mind’ … but what of ‘spirit’? the triple role of the human being.
Spirit is the human being’s potential for doing that which has not yet been done. ‘Spirit’ is the inherent quality of purpose which enables man to ‘move’ within the Biostrata.
Man, as pure spirit, reaches upwards to the Spiritual Stratum so that he may learn more of the truth about that superior existence. A spirit that is fully alive and reaches up towards the Spiritual Stratum is a Spirit of Divine purpose. It will enable a human being to live according to the divine laws of nature itself, a natural existence.
A Spirit which favours expanding in the Sensory Stratum rather than reaching upward into the unknown is a Spirit ‘out of tune’ with the preordained system of existence, and therefore shall not receive the support or rewards of that system, (Nature).
Such an ‘out of tune’ spirit may appear to be successful, resourceful and progressive within the Sensory Stratum, but excess of Sensory expansion via experience and knowledge bodes unwell unless man can reach upward to the Spiritual Stratum. Making fair use of Sensory experience as a means of ascending the Biostrata is potentially the makings of the most wholesome, living spirit.
Man is spirit. Ascending the Biostrata makes man vital.
Spirit reveals itself as pure emotional force, the driving force behind ambition, love, devotion, happiness and joy but on the flip side these are not the only outlets for emotional drive, so too there is hatred, envy, sloth, jealousy.
A weak emotional driving force results in depression and boredom and apathy and indicates a waning spirit, a spirit moving in the wrong direction within the Biostrata, a spirit driven ‘off course’ and definitively ‘out of tune’ with the preordained natural system of existence.
It is misleading to believe that we, as human beings, belong to only the Sensory Stratum. Human consciousness, having evolved, for most, no further than the Sensory Stratum, leave a very vast expanse of ‘unexplored terrain’ between present awareness and the ultimate state of awareness up there in the Godhead.
The full range of the Biostrata, from Pranic Stratum to Godhead, reveals the existence of the timeless essence of the human being. However, due to human being’s attachment in the realms of Sensory stimuli and images we are almost totally unaware of any part of our existence above what we live through on a day to day basis.
Our main consideration should be the encouragement of all human conscisouness to ascend higher with the ultimate destination being the Godhead, All Consciousness (Awareness). Every human would benefit from laying a path upward through the unknown territory.
When a unit of a stratum starts to deteriorate, surrendering to the re-cycling processes, then it leaves behind a vacancy needing to be filled so that ascent toward the Godhead may be continued by another consciousness. This would seemingly suggest that when a unit ‘vacates’ on its path toward the Godhead, an emptiness remains until some other unit comes along to fill it and progress with the role of the original occupying unit … this is generally what occurs, however it is not a random exchange that takes place, remember, units have to gel with each other, a progressive series of groupings needs to take place to reach a final integration to become one. The path laid has to cumulative with all the natural existence’s system upward through the Biostrata. The Soul of a human being is the path already laid and this goes for the Soul of a Cell, of a Molecule, of an Atom. Hence when one Human Consciousness drops out of the race, a whole new batch has to replace, and this can take much time to replenish. In the meantime, the consciousness of the race dropping back as a whole, depleting, deteriorating. Thus, a unit (human being) may stagnate by allowing its path to stray from direct ascent of the Biostrata but this merely delays progress. The ultimate destiny of the path (soul) is toward the Godhead. Reflect here upon Reincarnation. If this cannot be as yet accepted then refer to the Cellular Stratum.
When a cell dies (deteriorates, enters re-cycling processes) another cell moves in to continue along the same course so as to fulfill the role and function of the cell that ‘died’. The new cell possesses the ‘soul’ of the dead cell and thus continues laying the same path. If this were not the case then our bodies would not be maintained and permit growth. Nothing would exist beyond the ‘molecular’ stage and because the Biostrata can exist only in its entirety or not at all, there would be no existence.
So, the soul is the developing path that leads to the Godhead and a long line of successive individuals may have engaged in the laying of the path, and many more may be needed to complete the same, but, when consciousness reaches the Godhead, that soul will be of the Godhead and will be pure and infallible, timeless and in absolute existence.
Man would do well to comply with the laws of the Supreme Controlling Force of the Biostrata (otherwise known as ‘the Laws of Nature’) for if the laws are ignored and/or violated then there is penalty to be paid, such as, ill-health, retardation of soul development, premature death (re-cycling), pain, fear. If however, the laws are complied with then one is assured of good health, speedy soul development together with a fulness of life.
How to we get to know such laws?
Control over how a human being is composed is partly the result of preconditioning of all components (atoms, molecules, cells) and partly by instruction from the sensory unit to its cells and so on downward. All stratum respond accordingly to either precondition or instruction. Therefore a higher stratum can control a lower (subservient) stratum. Now it is due to this ‘handing down’ of instruction through the strata that ascension can take place. To qualify for promotion (a lower strata unit becoming a higher strata unit) that lower unit must prove itself, its capability, its compliance, its ability to communicate via its consciousness with the intelligence above itself – it is about receptivity and being influenced in accordance with the laws. Think about meditation. Learning to ‘open’ the mind to receive instruction from the Spiritual Stratum. If man does not open his mind enough, he will stagnate in the Sensory Stratum.
The Laws of Nature emanate from the Godhead and opeate through every stratum of the Biostrata. They are progressive laws and demand far less from the units of the lower strata than of the highly complex and developed units of the higher strata.
Due to the very nature of the human being, consciousness is mainly concerned with materialism, with each individual having materialistic attitude toward life and these humans are predominantly ‘BODY’ persons who will progress slowly through the Biostrata, who have weak Spirit and are Self-centred and mundane of Mind.
The human being who encourages expansion of consciousness within the Sensory Strata could be one of a higher professional, a human of intelligent calibre, whatever their profession however, they will be one of a ‘MIND’ person. Their progress through the Biostrata will be speedier than that of a BODY person, but nevertheless will still be slow.
The speediest ascent through the Biostrata is predominantly a ‘SPIRIT’ person, one whose consciousness reaches up and beyond the limits of the Sensory Stratum. One who reaches out into the unknown by using the experience of Mind and Body to facilitate Spiritual advancement. A SPIRIT person is usually an aesthetic human being. Communicating via the ARTS or DEVOTION to his fellow man, with much of what he does being the result of inspiration or intuition.
Mind is intelligence, awareness, consciousness, perception, mind exists in and with everything. It is the inherent and most basic quality of active prana. Therefore you will see that the human body, being made up of prana and displaying infinite complex behaviour patterns, is also Mind.
Consciousness makes us see ourselves sometimes as ‘bodies’ and other times as ‘minds’.
It is always the observation (the point of view) which changes, not that which is being observed, and so it is, with every single one of us human beings, we can all be observed as mind, body or spirit.
Now upon having gathered the knowledge of all of the above we can now look at the true nature of Mind and consider too the 3 sections it is divided into …. Conscious, Subconscious and Unconscious.
The human ‘conscious’ mind belongs to the Sensory Stratum, the ‘subconscious’ and ‘unconscious’ belong to the Cellular Stratum, with the ‘unconscious’ reaching all the way down to the Pranic Stratum (after passing through the molecular and atomic strata too).
The conscious mind possesses a number of faculties, ‘Consciousness’ being just one of them. Consciousness (otherwise termed ‘Awareness’) is introspective and results from exclusive components which make up a unit, i.e the consciousness of ‘cells’ and/or ‘molecules’ and the intelligence displayed therein of those components/units. When awake and fully conscious, we rely on the combined consciousness of all cells for our normal functioning, together all combinations give us our Awareness. During sleep however, ‘sensory’ consciousness can become ‘patchy’ as not all cells are still functioning, some have suspended their activities. Sensory experience (in sleep) is fragmentary and incomplete and inclined to seem slightly less ‘real’ than that of the fully awake sensory consciousness. Hence the phenomenon ‘Dreaming’.
All levels of the Biostrata need each other, no one level can exist without the others for this is all about a progressive, unifying process in the development of inert Prana to Human Being.
Communication throughout the Biostrata is strictly from one stratum to the adjacent stratum so it is not possible for say, the Sensory Stratum to communicate directly with the Molecular Stratum, the communication must pass through all intermediate strata wherever the communicating strata are not adjacent with each other. This communication is much the same as any form of communication, whereby it is an influencing of awareness of one entity, reaching out to the awareness of another.Usually this communication is for one of two reasons. Either for controlling the units of another stratum, or for the purpose of being controlled by the units of another stratum.
Consciousness is unique, it belongs to one unit and is its inherant part. when a number of units of one stratum unite they constitute a ‘complete’ unit in a higher stratum and thereby produce a ‘collective unit consciousness’ .. i.e another ‘one exlusive unit’.
Awareness (Human Consciousness) is the ‘agent’ for all communication in the Sensory Stratum, it is not only a ‘receiver’ susceptible to other strata but it is also a ‘transmitter’ which has capability of influencing all units of its own, and other, strata.
The Human Consciousness is better able to communicate with strata below its own level rather than the levels above and this makes it more understandable to us how we can appreciate being ‘stuck’ in the Sensory Strata, often unable to progress upwards to the Spiritual Strata. Consciousness marks the extent of our singular development within the Biostrata, having ascended from the Pranic Stratum and being made up of units of the Cellular, Molecular and Atomic Strata, you will understand that when any unit of the Sensory Stratum is communicating with units of the lower strata, it is indeed actually communicating with parts of itself. Whenever we use our physical apparatus such as moving limbs or swallowing morsels of food we are communicating within the Cellular Stratum, making appropriate cells action and respond in accordance with our wishes, and those cells composed of molecules and atoms are all receiving communication from the Sensory Stratum, continuing, automatically, down and down the entire number of components until the Pranic Stratum is reached and all necessary communication has been actioned. You will recognise for instance, when you are hungry, you are made aware of this by Sensory Consciousness, it is a message from the Cellular Stratum telling you (human consciousness) that you must eat. Therefore these are the busiest lines of communication, the interchange of influences between the Sensory Stratum and all strata below.
If you take yourself to your current level of Sensory Stratum you might think that communication on this level is the easiest but alas, even with all the lines of help brought about by Post, Radio, Telephone etc there still remains some of the most difficult, if not impossible obstructions regarding communications between human beings on a Sensory Level.
When a human being (one unit of the sensory stratum) communicates with another human being it is possible for there to be awareness of who is the receiver and who is the transmitter, both can occupy consicousness at the same time, however, when one human is communicating with another, what has to be remembered is that communication is happening with a ‘separate’ consciousness and therefore, this is not as easy as communication with one’s own component cells. If you have little understanding of your own Sensory Self and all parts below (and above if possible) then you will have greater challenge in communicating with other conscious beings (especially if they have little or no understanding of their development).
Finally, to reach up and communicate to the strata above proves the most challenging and is probably the Sensory Stratum units’ upmost difficult communication. When a human being ‘reaches up’ it is doing so into the ‘unknown’ and the awareness is that of the actual reaching rather than of which level is being reached. The Spiritual Stratum is intuitive and when the Sensory Stratum does manage to communicate with the Spiritual Stratum it receives intuition and inspiration. Human consciousness must expand and transcend the Sensory Stratum if it is to successfully communicate with the Spirit and the Godhead of the Biostrata. Only when Human consciousness has made itself receptive by negating the significance of all sensory stimuli can it expand, can it reach up, can it communicate with a unit of the Spiritual Stratum and thereupon receive Intuition and Inspiration.
Now the true nature of development is taking place. Between the Sensory Stratum and that of the Godhead, rests the Spiritual Stratum.
As shown already, the trend is ever upwards as the units of one stratum come together to form units in a higher stratum. Just as the cells join to form human bodies, human bodies also join and unite to form spiritual units.
The spiritual stratum is perhaps the most complex of all the Biostrata for the human bodies from the sensory stratum unite in specialized groups to form a plethora of interrelated unit types, those such as ‘family’ which is first in the field of spiritual unit types what with its genetic bonds and those qualities of unique loyalty. Then coming up closely behind the family unit is the vast and ever-widening racial unit. There are far less racial units than family units in the Spiritual Stratum and here is where complexity kicks in even more so for both family and racial units are dependent upon each other for their components (human bodies) and therein lies the fact that each race becomes composed of a greater number of families because more and more we find families belonging to more than one race. Parents of differing races come together to make new families. Atop of all this we then have the multi-complex combining of units via nations, cultural societies, religion and religious organizations, politics and political groups, idealists and their seedlings. Despite all of this mixed up overlapping, the spiritual intelligence is of the highest order, it is the link between the sensory (human) intelligence and the godhead infallible. Spiritual intelligence is infallible at its very best and far more reliable than sensory intelligence at its very worst.
Again, reverting to your triangle Biostrata diagram you will see that the Spiritual Stratum is but one step from the Godhead Infallible. But what is infallibility?
The Godhead holds ‘exclusive’ rights to infallibility, being the most elevated level of intelligence. Being at the most elevated level of intelligence is always by courtesy of the Godhead for the complete Biostrata is an extension of the Godhead. All essential and absolute qualities for Life becoming ever more fallible and as yet, less vital as disintegration and dissipation co-exist in ever readiness to dilute existence back to the basic Pranic stratum, and as such behaviour and intelligence and all extensions exist only as an inert promise to great propensity.
Within the Biostrata, there are three possible states to existence and they are Life, Stagnation and Deterioration.
True Life exists when progress within the Biostrata is in upward motion, moving toward the Godhead. Any movement in the opposite downward motion is a resulting deterioration, life diminishing descent toward death. Stagnation is the state of there being such an enormous variety of inanimate substances present in the Universe about us. Inhibiting influence causes stagnation within a stratum, almost stopping the upward trend of the Life-state. Life forms from every level of evolution all play a role appropriate to its biostrata status and all of these so to contribute to the ascendance or descendance through life and death.
Life status is an ascent, Death status is from descent but stagnation occurs in an outward direction on a horizontal plane. All interact and influence each other and this can have a stabilizing effect but also ensures no single state can gain supremacy without a struggle. Life is indeed a struggle, a continual battle against Stagnation and Death. But deterioration does not just happen, it is brought on by units failing to resist the lure of stagnation. Instead of resisting stagnation, those units who collaborate will eventually lose their vitality and thus must surrender to Deterioration.
Dependent upon which state is exerting the greater influence at the time when stagnation is allowed to succeed on one particular level will rely heavily on whether Life continues or Death ensues and from this we can learn that Stagnation means remaining too long with the bounds of one stratum.
You will see this clearly in this so-called civilized world that there is far too much stagnation. Within the consciousness of almost every human being there is a choice to stay outbound in direction over the whole of the Sensory (mind) stratum of the Biostrata rather than continuing to expand upwards to the Spiritual Stratum and eventually the Godhead. Stagnating in the Sensory Stratum not only increases the struggle for existence but it so weakens life’s upward ‘thrust’ too – as a result, Deterioration’s chances of gaining supremacy greatly improve.
One of the biggest and most valuable lessons to learn from this piece of knowledge is that the most successful, wholesome form of life and living can be experienced whilst ascending the Biostrata. It would be most prudent to seek avoidance from stagnation and deterioration. Remembering that all of this applies to the impermanent Self (the bodily vehicle) for the Essential Self moves in one direction only, and that is toward Godhead enlightenment.
We have only to resist Stagnation in order to deter and delay Deterioration and prolong life as the impermanent Self thus hastening the Essential Self’s ascent to the ultimate haven of spiritual bliss – the Godhead.
We now find ourselves evolved to the stage of the Sensory Stratum and here, development of the intelligence displayed is generally known as ‘Human’ intelligence. Within the ‘grey’ areas of there being no difference between mind and matter it is sometimes challenging to understand the credibility of this. But think on, your body is made up of cells which ‘display’ intelligence, for their behaviour is that of organised pranic (life source) movement, and as we have seen so far, all the way up through the layers of Biostrata there is intelligence. Thus, this belongs to both mind and matter.
For human intelligence to exist, there is dependence upon sensory images. This is so because when we think, or apply intelligence to problem solving, we are readily using ‘sensory’ images. We have not the capability to think of pure quality or pure quality for we must at all times have available to us, sensory images, better known as ‘symbols’ which represent the quantities and qualities which constitute the subject of our thinking. For example, if we were to try to think of the pure quantity of SEVEN, we would find that impossible, yet if we produce in the mind, a symbol and/or sensory images that represent SEVEN, we can then immediately begin to envisage that quantity. We could visualise SEVEN apples or audibly imagine SEVEN chimes of a bell. The ‘types’ of symbols used are not important but their presence in the imagination is fundamental to being able to ‘think’ about quantities.
Of course we know we have progressed further than this method of ‘quantity’ thinking (albeit the exception in young children in their learning informative years) for we have moved forward to utilise specific written symbols for each number and so to do we have symbolism when ‘thinking’ about quality. LOVE for instance, unless we can produce a sensory image in respect of this, something or someone who portrays the quality of Love, we would find it impossible to think (feel) it.
Qualities are abstract. Like a hole; that is abstract. A hole cannot be perceived purely as a hole, there must be a concrete counterpart. If you have a hole in a piece of wood and then the piece of wood were to be destroyed, there would be no hole. We are only able to think/perceive that hole in relation to the piece of wood it is found within.
So to think of an object of beauty, it has to come with a counterpart, a determination of an occasion, we have to see (perhaps a beautiful face), or hear (a beautiful voice) or smell (a beautiful scent) to have something which directly represents that which is beautiful.
Thus, here we are, in the knowing that the human body belongs to the Sensory Stratum of the Biostrata. Every single human body is the outcome of the upward movement/progression/development of Prana, forever ascending the evolutionary scale of Existence.
With this notion, how then do WE determine the extent of OUR potential progress?
The answer is found within consciousness. If consciousness is dependent upon the senses for information then this clearly indicates that the Sensory Stratum has been reached. If consciousness is mainly relying on impulses, feelings and urges then it is on one of instinctive nature (the Cellular Stratum) … but if thinking about quality and quantity through symbolism is reached, then we are at the Sensory Stratum. By no means however, does this mean we are on a ‘precision instrument’ level, one that is indicative of our development for more often than not, although we ‘occupy’ our main ‘stratum of residence’ we are also reluctant to leave behind the old ‘familiarity’ of acquaintance and experience and thus we continue to cling to the stratum immediately below. So too, do the lower stratum, before completely vacating their residence in their eagerness to ascend the biostrata, reach up immediately above and thus you can find intelligence occupying three strata at the same time.
One may think that ascension through the biostrata is now complete, seeing as we have come to our Senses, but we are still yet to reach the apex of the symbolic triangle. Next we venture further upward to enter the Spiritual Stratum.
In simple terms, Life is an upward motion/process and movement in any other direction is that of deterioration or failure of development.
Here is a diagram to help with a visual understanding of the Biostrata. The simple, yet empowering shape of the Triangle is utilised.
The bottom line represents the Pranic Stratum – that of inert energy, the ‘potential life force’ … that from which all recogniseable existence emerges.
You can see that as we move up to the next level of the triangle we enter the Atomic Stratum – that which relies heavily on the Pranic level for its existence, but which is of lowest order of intelligence with its uncomplicated patterns of behaviour … it provides the basis for all matter.
Lifting up to the next part of the triangle we gain admission to the Molecular Stratum and up again into the Cellular Stratum, a continuum in motion, a trend toward unity, a state of being one.
Always, a number of atoms must unite to form a molecule, a number of molecules must come together to form a cell (thus there are fewer cells than molecules) and this continues with existing numbers of units becoming fewer as the number of elements within each unit increases.
Keep returning to this Illustration to assist in understanding.
From the Cellular Stratum we move cohesively into the Sensory Stratum and this is where the collective activities of the cells move forever upward towards unity, being a whole, and thus commit to their specialised groups to form the Body. Again, it is a large leap, like that of the molecular to the cellular. What is significant about the progression upward from Cellular to Sensory is the contributory elements taking place in the formation of tissue and cells like that of the storing of hereditory data, the relative positionings of tissue formations and much much more which cannot be shown in the illustration but which exist in other ‘strata’ which rest in between the significant stratum as shown in the diagram.
So now we are in the Sensory Stratum and this is known as such quite simply because we have arrived at our Senses.
From the beginnings of the Biostrata we are aware that Prana is the vital force, the ‘potential’ life force in everything and seeing as it is indeed the first stratum it deems logical that the atomic, molecular and cellular strata all have prana manifesting in them. Prana is capable of manifesting at various levels of mind and matter (all relativity dependant of the observer). Thus, there is a predetermination of the development of pranic manifestation and progress within the natural laws imposed by ‘original design’ (the groupings, the selective process of atoms and molecules and cells) and is something that is predictable at every stage of development. So when, at the cellular level of life, cells, eventually ‘die’, is this due to the cell running out of Prana? Atoms form molecules, molecules form cells and so forth in an ever upward development of pranic manifestation. There is the common logic of upward direction toward a higher stratum. However, as soon as no further progress is being made within development, or if atoms, molecules and cells fail to conform to their original design, then they are deemed to be ‘dead’ or inanimate and they will begin to break up and fall back downward through the lower strata. This activity denotes gradual deterioration. A cell will break up into molecules and then the molecules will separate into atoms and so it continues. This could be nothing more than a re-cycling process whereby during ‘deterioration’ there is assessment of how much decline has taken place and if indeed some atoms and molecules can re-enter the upward development and further contribute to fresh material and life-form then so they shall. When a cell ‘dies’ it does not mean all Prana has disappeared. The dying cell is merely reversing its direction of movement within the Biostrata. It has the capacity to regenerate.
Therefore it is interesting to observe here, how despite the ‘dying off’ of various components within the ‘life form’, whether they be cells, molecules or atoms, there is an ‘essential design’ maintained by the ‘ever upward’ progression of new components (prana, atoms, molecules, cells) coming up through the Biostrata (resulting from reproduction or selective attraction). These are once again of original design, and are simply replacing those constituent parts whose term has expired and are in descent, possibly to be drawn again into circulation and ascend the Biostrata as new life-forms if their manifestation can regenerate, re-cycle itself.
Life, as we understand it, is an upward progress through the Biostrata and we should see that all development, progress and retrogression, manifestation, behaviour patterns and all intelligence are under direction of a Supreme Controlling Force. It is notwithstanding that everything in existence, whether it be an atom, a molecule, a cell, a human being or inanimate object, it has to make an upward progression through the Biostrata and has to conform to laws which emanate from the Supreme Controlling Force. Non-compliance of this will produce premature stagnation and deterioration because unless there is compliance with the laws of the supreme controlling force, whether by design or by accident, there can be no progress. Progress is Life in the generally accepted context. There is much opportunity for free expression at every level of the Biostrata, however this can only occur within the ‘essential design’ on the law of life.
The molecular stratum comes after the Pranic and Atomic stratum … basically, molecules are specialised groups of atoms. Atoms arrange themselves into categories with each category applying specific characteristics having come together as an ‘expression’ of atomic intelligence (atomic characteristics are mainly determined by the number of electrons orbiting each nucleus), so there is always a selective process responsible in forming groups of atoms. This, in turn, relates to selective processes for grouping atoms into molecules. Molecular intelligence is therefore one level higher in intelligence than atoms but only due to the fact that molecular patterns of behaviour are far more complex than that of atoms and therefore selection processing is more intricate. Atoms will come together to form a molecule by use of interaction, producing a pattern of behaviour within a single molecule. The molecule’s behaviour is mostly due to the atoms influencing each other by way of attraction or repulsion, so as to maintain equilibrium within a molecule’s precise structural arrangement. When molecules start their process of selection they are mainly extending the faculty of ‘atomic selectivity patterns’ within their formation. The formation of molecules are but an extension of the same procedure as that of atoms, only more intricate, molecules are moving closer to the development of the human body.
Molecules unite to form living human cells. The jump from molecules to living human cells is far greater than the jump from atoms to molecules but there are always firmly fixed ‘roots’ of the selectivity processes coming from the Atomic stratum. There are specialised groups of molecules to give us complete cells of every design – muscle, blood, bone, nerves. This development now shows us the growing complexity of each successive stratum and how it utilises the qualities and faculties of its preceding strata. This also allows us to witness the different behaviour patterns increasing during growth and displays the increasing level of intelligence, always gaining in superiority as the strata continue upward. The level of intelligence at the Cellular Strata is outstandingly high, so high that cells seem almost able to think.
The Biostrata deals with life force and the deterioration thereof.
There are 7 Levels of the Biostrata
The Pranic Stratum, The Molecular Stratum, The Cellular Stratum, The Sensory Stratum, The Spiritual Stratum and The Godhead.
Prana (Life Force) can be seen to be both a ‘potential force’ and an ‘active force’ … it is the foundation to all other stratum. Without Prana there would be no fundamental structure to Total Existence. It is deemed that all ‘matter’ is made up of atoms and that atoms constitute Total Existence, but there are vaccums and voids that exist too and it is these which have to be taken into consideration when relating to the Biostrata.
Thus, the baseline of you, and everything around you is made up of Pranic energy, life force, potential or active. This is the commencement of all matter. However, Prana is latent and its existence only becomes evident when ‘other forces’ cause it to manifest as life and activity.
The Biostrata can only become what it is by an ‘increasing of intelligence’, and therefore as we step up each stratum, we step up in intelligence.
After the ‘Pranic Strata’ there is the stratum known as ‘Atomic’. Everyone knows that an atom is a ball of space in which there are organised groups of ‘particles’, electrons, protons and neutrons. These organised groups act much in the same way as the solar system, so just as the planets orbit the sun, the ‘negative’ electrons and ‘positive’ protons orbit the nucleus of the atom. There is ‘electrical charge’ taking place too with the setting-up of force-fields and attractions and repulsions within the ‘space’ inside the atom. This could all be seen as a ‘nothingness’ inside of the atom but how does this ‘nothingness’ manifest? Prana is the answer. Prana can only make its presence manifest when combined with or influenced by ‘other forces’. Therefore, at this basic level of the Biostrata the ‘atom’ is ‘Prana in motion’. An intelligence operating at the lowest level to bring about the formation of precise patterns, generating a variety of frequencies that will work together to create, in every atom, a highy concentrated mass of physical energy. Once Prana becomes active, it will display activity in more than one aspect and thus will ‘register’ as intelligence, behaviour, or ‘active’ force in infinite capability of expression and assertion at every level of existence. In the Atomic Stratum, Prana endows every atom with the faculty of being able to attract or repel other atoms, thus constituting self-preservation etc. Most interestingly of all atomic qualities is that of ‘selection’ which enables atoms to congregate in specialised groups to form molecules, in turn displaying a higher level of intelligence and pranic behaviour (the next Stratum of the Biostrata being that of the Molecule). Each progressive strata of existence increases in intelligence over that of the preceding stratum.
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