The heart is at the centre of a rather large electromagnetic field (depicted) that is measurable several feet from the human body, but nobody seems to know much of its structure or function. This page makes some speculations based upon vortex physics.
Assertion: The heart is at the centre of an inward spiralling energy vortex generated in the muscles and other tissues and it is an extension of this field that is measurable outside the body. Energy accumulates at the vortex centre to drive the physical processes of the heart and to provide power for a fully developed cognitive system (a heart-brain) that monitors and controls the entire of the circulatory processes including blood pressure at every point and even the movement of blood in each section of artery and capillary.
Absolute proof of this is not to be found but we can:
- Demonstrate a need for such a field
- Give a geometrical argument for a toroidal arrangement
- Suggest a mechanism for such a system
- Argue that the field is ‘cognitive’ in nature
- Give some ideas as to its functioning
Energy conservation
The usual description of the heart’s field is of an electromagnetic field generated by the heart itself, which then radiates outwards from the heart, passing through the bodily tissues largely unscathed to radiate outwards beyond the body for several feet before dissipating into the electromagnetic wasteland of the Earth’s magnetosphere.
This is a monstrous waste of energy from the Human body and gives little clue as to the function of the field. What is it for? What is the effect of the field passing through the bodily tissues?
The heart is already at a temperature whereby it might ‘cook’, so how does it cope with fluctuations in energy requirements? Where does the extra energy come from and how is excess energy dissipated? If excess energy is simply carried away by the blood stream then it is highly fortuitous that the quantities match; that the extra blood flow produced during exercise exactly corresponds to the extra heat produced by the heart.
This is a general problem in biology, that energy in must exactly match energy out in order to avoid a dangerous accumulation of waste (heat). Moreover, this must happen at every physical scale from the whole organism down to the individual cell.
The heart field of a horse is five times more powerful than that of a human despite having to make its way through considerably more tissue – so again, why doesn’t it overheat? Where is the huge power line that supplies the heart with energy?
Toroidal energy flow
Many researchers have identified circular (electric) currents within organisms and these exist at all scales. An electric circuit is easy to imagine but not a 3-dimensional object full of such circuits. The requirements are that each circuit must be complete, that no circuit may cross over another and that there may be no singularities or infinities in the system.
A spherical arrangement is not possible according to the hairy ball theorem of topology, with the only sustainable arrangement for continuous flow in three dimensions being the torus (shown).
Electrical currents flow from the heart to the periphery (Beraia) where they are said to be ‘earthed’ – but what does this mean? Where does the current go to? Electricity likes to flow in complete circuits.
Consider an alternative whereby the field energy is recycled back through the bodily tissues, eventually returning to the heart after receiving a boost from energy generated in almost every cell in the body.
The overall flow then would be some sort of torus with the heart at the centre. This is precisely what is measured outside of the body and is consistent with what is measured inside the body.
The Chakras
A multi-hole torus with the heart, brain and solar plexus would give us a system that naturally creates energy centres analogous to the Chakra system of Eastern medicines.
Field energy is created in every cell of he body and moves inwards to wards the chakras.
Increased physical activity results in an increased energy production. Sufficient energy is guided inwards towards the heart and any excess is diverted outwards where it is measurable as the external bio-field. In this scheme, the excess energy is never allowed to accumulate and is diverted from the heart before it gets anywhere near it.
The power system is therefore distributed and needs no cable to supply it. Supply is highly flexible and maximum intensity is only reached at the vortex radius which coincides with the heart itself.
People with a weak bio-field have little surplus energy.
Physical exercise enhances the ability of the body to direct energy inwards towards the heart, increases heart activity and promotes extra muscle mass.
An athlete is someone who can create and sustain a strong inward spiralling vortex and whose heart can withstand this pressure in the short term and adapt to it over the long term. This doesn’t do them much good though as they don’t live as long as the rest of us on average and suffer from both long and short term cardiac problems.
The heart is not a pump and so a strong heart is not a pre-requisite for pumping but rather a result of a strong circulation. The heart is very likely having to do a lot of work to actually slow down the blood flow and regulate the pressure. (The Heart and Circulation)
Moderate ‘movement’ develops harmony in the energetic circulatory system whilst hard exercise puts strain on the heart.
The bio-field as a regulatory system
So far, all that has been described is a distributed power supply centred at the heart. This may serve to drive the electrical system of the heart as described above but also acts as an infrastructure for a distributed communication system.
Such a system is clearly a necessity for regulation of blood pressure at least.
The heart and circulation – Branko Furst
- The heart is not a pressure pump
- The blood propels itself around the circulatory system
- Responses to change in posture and activity are global and instantaneous
One overwhelming impression after reading this book is that there is a constant and very reliable maintenance of functional blood pressure no matter what the circumstances:
- On moving from seated to standing posture, the heart rate will increase to compensate in the space of one heartbeat
- If a giraffe were to lift its head from drinking position to vertical then it will not faint (even in an emergency) owing to low blood pressure in the head
- Attempts in a laboratory to impede blood flow by blocking an artery in one place will result in an immediate compensatory mechanism somewhere else
Any local disturbance to the blood pressure results in an immediate global adaptation to the flow; the whole system ‘knows’ what it is wants and will instigate changes in pursuance of that teleological aim.
By the time you have stood up, your whole system has already adapted to the new situation. This suggests that the changes are actually pre-empting the action and are somehow triggered by the knowledge that you are intending to stand up.
Without this idea we are stuck with the notion that the circulatory system simply makes local adjustments to itself according to micro-changes in its own pressure system. Moreover, without some sort of ‘computation’ we will have to believe that all this happens according to the laws of fluid dynamics alone!
An independent ‘cognitive’ system?
As described above, changes to circulation are coordinated globally which immediately implies a distributed information system or ‘field’ with almost instantaneous communication speed.
Each part of the system is apprised of happenings elsewhere and adapts accordingly. This suggests complex computation comprising an abstract map of the entire circulatory system somewhere and an implicit ‘aim’ in the sense of an engineering control system.
These are all characteristics of a fully developed ‘cognitive’ system. That is to say, a biological control system every bit as sophisticated as the brain and analogous to the proprioceptive system that ‘knows’ exactly what is going on everywhere all the time and is in full control of all meaningful parameters.
Information concerning pressure from every section of artery or grouping of capillaries is produced from baroreceptors and synthesised into a coherent cognitive map in a format for further computation. Similarly formatted ‘data’ from the brain is integrated into the whole and a decision is made (in the heart itself?) and action taken.
Action signals travel back to the capillary system and to the heart and as a result the existing flow parameters are updated to form a new dynamic state appropriate to the new circumstances or even to anticipated circumstances.
The reaction of the heart rate to the cognition of fear is proof of a meaningful connection between the computational systems of both brain and heart. Both systems are now of a cognitive nature which makes communication between them natural and ensures correct interpretation of even high level constructs such as emotions.
We can think of the phenomenon of fear as an emergent product of the firing of neurons, a mere side effect of the laws of physics, and we can think of the speeding up of the heart as being triggered by a similar set of neuronal firing, but surely simpler to admit that the heart forms its own ‘intelligence’ that is able to communicate with the brain on its own terms, which is to say, thoughts, requirements, intentions and feelings?
Brain says “I feel fear” and heart responds “Ok I will beat faster”.
This happens instantly, surely faster than a gland can manufacture adrenaline and transport it to the heart itself? What sort of messenger is adrenaline? How many dimensions of information can a single chemical carry? What are all the nerves connecting the brain and the heart for if all we need are one-dimensional chemical messengers?
The executive functions of the bio-field
- Energy accumulation and distribution
- Collation of distributed information
- Liaison with the brain
- Management of blood pressure
- Management of heart rate
- Control of dynamic vaso-dilation
- Energisation of blood cells in the heart
- Direct control of blood flow in capillaries
- Synchronisation of pulse between individuals
Post mortem blood flow dynamics
On the driver of blood circulation beyond the heart– Zheng Li, Gerald H. Pollack
This paper has some interesting videos of blood flow after the heart has been stopped.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0289652
Postmortem arterial blood flow dynamics: video
In this video (screenshot below) the heart is stopped and an instantaneous reaction is seen in the arterial blood flow. First the blood stops flowing and then it begins to resume but in a haphazard fashion.
Flow seems to be independent of any overall scheme and different sections of artery exhibit different flow rates and even direction. The system seems to first go into shock and then to recalibrate in the absence of a pulse before an overall flow is eventually organised and circulation will then continue for some time without a pulse.
An outstanding feature is the apparent independence of flow in different sections of artery. Blood is almost inert in the main branch whilst a narrower section develops a rapid flow, seemingly sucking the blood from the larger vessel at will.
At one point there is clearly pulsatile flow in the thick branches whilst the narrow tubes maintain a continuous flow.
Crucially, flow seems to resume in the small vessels first, before resuming in the larger ones (the ones closer to the heart). Flow then is clearly not driven by the heart and is not driven by pressure.
How and why is the blood behaving in this way?
A hypothesis
- The blood contains the energy required for movement
- The bio-field gives the direction of the blood flow
The energy is in various forms of vortex energy:
- Fluid vortices
- Ring currents in the red blood cells
- Heat
- ‘Other’ field vortices (?)
These are given a good boost of mechanical and electrical energy when passing through the heart and may also accumulate additional energy whilst circulating from heat transfer (vortex transfer), infra-red photons and possibly solar neutrinos.
The bio-field provides an enclosing electromagnetic field of some structure, possibly contained within the arterial walls, which is sufficient to drive the vortices one way or the other and at a desired flow rate.
The following video is not the same mechanism as blood flow but has some similarities and might make the idea sound more plausible. The battery is the energy supply, it does not need an external energy source to push itself around. Here the battery itself produces the spiral electric field it needs to gain momentum.
In the case of the circulatory system it is envisaged that it is the bio-field itself that has complete control of the enclosing electric (magnetic?) field and hence complete control over the movement of every single section of artery in the entire body.
The system is mapped and codified into a single functional system similar to the proprioceptive system whereby the brain has complete knowledge of, and control over, almost every individual cell in the body – but without having to know about any of the individual cells in the body.
In films of blood flow through the smallest capillaries, the red blood cells are seen to form an orderly queue in the blood vessels. This is because the cells themselves contain circular (orbital) electric currents and necessarily form magnetic dipoles with north south alignment along the length of the blood vessel. The magnetic aspect of the cells amounts to a long range attractive force between the RBC whilst the negative electric charge (zeta potential) creates a short range repulsive force thus maintaining the spacing between the cells.
Capture of microparticles by bolus flow of red blood cells in capillaries – Takeishi, Imai
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-05924-7
The organisation of blood cells is clearly depicted in this paper. Note also the vortex movement of nano-particles.
The mechanism
Both information and energy are transferred around the system by means of electromagnetic ring vortices (water vortex shown). These rings will conduct in the myelin sheath surrounding the nerves (Scalar waves and nerves) and create an electrical current within the conductive tissues of the nerves.
The electrical ‘current’ within the nerves is assumed by most to contain the information necessary for cognition but electricity is a crude communicator compared with the possibilities afforded by the ring vortices.
The pattern of flow is that magnetic ring currents will form in the insulating material round the nerves and these will give rise to an induced electric field in the conductive environment within the nerves. The electric current is measured and imagined to be paramount but it is a side effect of the ring vortices.
“Information is the structure of a scalar wave” – Konstantin Meyl
Energy transfer is also via ring vortices. A ring is formed from available field energy and is transmitted along a conduit (nerve, wire, microtubule). Energy loss is minimal and is largely independent of the amount of energy or information being transferred (desirable), unlike traditional ‘current’. When the ring vortex reaches its destination, the energy is unwrapped in accordance with the nature of the ambient electromagnetic field at that location and thereby transformed into useful ‘work’.
Power supply for the brain?
The brain is a scalar wave (ring vortex) computer according to Meyl (What is the brain?) and so information travels from the heart up to the brain via this means.
There are said to be many more nerves conducting information from heart to brain than the other way around (Heart Math) and this has led to the claim that there is more information travelling from heart to brain than the other way around.
But where is the proof for this? Does ‘information’ really take up lots of space? Why do our brains not fill up then? Time to consider that the nerves may be used for energy transfer as well as information transfer.
The brain itself radiates a significant electromagnetic field and surgeons operating near the crown will see sparks fly between the soft tissues and their metal instruments. So where does all this power come from? The brain is not a chemical battery as there is not vast amounts of waste product and nor is it a dynamo as there are no moving parts.
The brain is not at the centre of a large vortex like the heart and so it is getting its energy from somewhere else. Vortex energy spirals inwards toward the heart where it is used to regulate heartbeat etc. Some of this energy then moves into the blood to energise the corpuscles and some moves up the conduit of the nervous system to the brain in order to maintain the necessary electrical function.
A moving field in the brain gives rise to an external toroidal field and this is what is measured.
The measured field outside the brain is still smaller than that of the heart even though there is little tissue to absorb it, thus giving further support to the idea that the measured heart field does not come from the heart at all but the surrounding tissues of the torso.
The cognitive torus
Energy is created in the torso; some spirals inwards to the heart to form a strong vortex field whilst some is directed outwards as ‘waste’ and this forms the measurable bio-field. Physical exertion produces more energy and this is carefully managed to avoid overload on the heart and circulatory system.
How likely does this sound? How does it happen?
First note that the idea of vortex field is completely in tune with electromagnetic theory. Electric fields have a natural tendency to produce this sort of pattern so we are already halfway there and the body just needs to gain some finer degree of control over the field in order to produce the effects that are observed.
Nobody knows how this works but to see that it is at least plausible, consider the video below from David Rogers of a white blood cell chasing a bacterium.
The blood cell is acutely aware if its surroundings and responds instantly to the movement of the bacterium. It is managing its own energy supply (whatever that consists of!) and information is clearly distributed across the whole organism in order to coordinate movement.
The neutrophil behaves with intelligence and ‘intent’ and all this with no heart, brain circulatory system or even nerves!
The human amoeba
Time then, to start thinking of a human being, not so much as a machine comprised of smaller ‘parts’ but rather as a very large blob of intelligent jelly that has accrued some extra organs to manage and a few ‘super-highways’ to expedite the transmission of power to energy hungry parts of the organism.
Energy is produced globally, the heart does not ‘pump’ but directs accumulated electrical energy away from the vortex centre and somehow the blood flow is managed on a circulation-wide basis. How or where are such computations performed is up for grabs but obvious candidates are the brain or the heart itself.
An alternative idea is to simply say that the computation is distributed around the entire network somehow. Many will find this fantastical – but why? It seems natural to suppose that something like a brain is capable of this but that is only because we have allowed ourselves to become comfortable with the idea and not because it makes any sense.
It is easy to imagine a brain as doing all the computing but a brain is still just a lump of electrified jelly and so simply delegating all computational duties to this organ isn’t really solving the problem but merely shifting it from a large bunch of jelly to a slightly smaller bunch of jelly!
If you don’t believe the body can have intelligence then how can you think a brain can have intelligence?
Self-organisation
Heart cells are seen beating in a tissue culture. They are not part of a working heart and are not connected to a brain and yet seems to have organised themselves into a coordinated beating system which propagates in a wave from left to right.
Imagine that these cells had formed, not a hemisphere, but the shape of a heart and that the contraction wave propagated along the spiral muscle of the heart. The whole thing is pretty much working already and there is not much more to do other than supply it with sufficient energy and enough information to control the pulse rate.
The effect we are seeing is an emergent effect created from bottom-up organisation of the individual cells, but a functional heartbeat is controlled by a top-down influx of information from a distributed control system. Information is collected from the organism as a whole and condensed down to simple instructions for the heart.
In biological systems we have a consistent pattern of: bottom up emergence, top down control.
If we don’t have the top down information flow then we are left with lots of interesting effects but not a viable life form. Mainstream texts seem to ignore the organisational aspect and regard a human simply as a collection of interesting effects; they seem ok with this!
Note that the seemingly intractable problem of complexity in biological function is always understood in these terms: low level activities are more ordered and sympathetic to life than most people imagine and so higher level control systems have less ‘work’ to do. The instructions from top to bottom are not in any way digital and do not necessarily reflect the underlying physical (molecular) reality but instead are ‘cognitive’ representations of the ‘state’ of the system as a whole or parts thereof.
Top down causation
Mainstream science from physics to biology is fixated on a view of causation that is ‘bottom-up’ in terms of scale, radiative in terms of causation and downhill in terms of organisation (2nd ‘Law’ of Thermodynamics).
However, the laws of electromagnetism support the idea of vortex formation and everywhere in nature we see an inward spiralling of energy and an accumulation of ‘information’ at smaller scales:
- Blood flow starts in the periphery and moves towards the heart
- Energy moves from the torso to the heart in a vortex pattern
- Information flows from the extremities to the heart and back again
- A distributed bio-field modulates local activity
