Fear And Love and DNA

FEAR AND LOVE AND DNA

“All you need is love. All you need is love. All you need is love, love. Love is all you need, love is all you need.”
-The Beatles-

Even though we enjoy the rich expressions of love and often desire more of it in our lives, we seem to be a culture addicted to fear. We buy fear, sell it, trade it, make scary movies about it, write novels of terror, compose morbid songs and constantly lap up fear in media obsessively chronicling the multiple horrors of our time. Like animals on the prowl, we seek out fear in the hidden corners of our lives, often leaving love on a trophy shelf just for show.

We have hard-wired our adrenal glands to dose us with a concentrated shot of cortisol, adrenaline, and other stress hormones directly into the bloodstream. This fires up a nervous charge of ‘fight-or-flight’ mechanisms which raises our bodily temperature, quickens the heart rate, sharpens our senses, and gives us those feisty reflexes and passionate, knee-jerk reactions we associate as swift motivation. Here we impulsively act from a primal place of survival, which may mimic a false sense of self-empowerment and give us a fleeting rush of excitement and victory.

When the kick-into-high-gear effect wears off, thanks to the action of the parasympathetic nervous system, our bodies are then flooded with endorphins, the feel-good hormones. We welcome this state, it calms us down, soothes us, grounds us out. And so this stress-cycle is complete until we want more, and go sniffing out the sources of fear once again.

Fear is one of two primary emotions we experience. Fear and Love. The rest, such as anger and sadness are derivatives of these. Scientific researchers in the life-sciences have shown that our emotions are switches physically linked to our human genetics. In the early 90’s, Dan Winter of the Heartmath Institute discovered that emotions program the double-helix of our DNA, and directly activate the genetic codes in our bodies, namely the amino acids of the human form. There are 64 possible combinations of these ‘human’ amino acids or genetic patterns and only a maximum of 20 of these are ever activated at one time-a modern unsolved mystery. Fear, as a long-wave pattern is very limited in its ability to activate any of this genetic code along the DNA. Love on the other hand, is a high vibrating short-wave capable of touching and activating many more points along our DNA.

*In a carefully conducted study by Russian Scientist Vladimir Popanov, human DNA tissue was placed into a vacuum tube after random photons in the tube had been measured and observed as scattered throughout the tube. When the human tissue was placed inside, the patterns of light aligned themselves along the axis of the DNA, showing that DNA ‘entrains’ light. When they removed the DNA tissue, the light remained in this pattern, naming this the ‘Phantom DNA Effect’.

As our universe is made up of particles of light, this is hard evidence revealing to us how much our emotions directly shape our physical world. Knowing that the emotion of love can activate even more of our genetic material, and thus can entrain more particles of light, it is surely LOVE, not FEAR, which will create sustainable peace and harmony both within and without.

So, the next time you consider filling up your ‘mourning’ cup with hot fear, try to overcome this compulsive tendency and choose instead to experience the inspiration of love. Help build and empower our collective future, the future currently wavering in multiple crisis’, upon the Light of Love not the rush of fear. It is literally “in our hands” to do so.

*from ‘Awakening to Zero Point’ by Gregg Braden

The Way of the Superior Man

"They" say when the Student is ready, the Teacher appears. Yes, yes indeed. I live this truth again and again when I surrender (which is not always a pretty thing) to the Truth Within. When I actively, openly and consciously engage life's bountiful lessons, albeit in forms often difficult to transition through or hard to process and manage, I more readily experience the graceful marital art of living, can feel how everything I experience is, in essence, informing my evolutionary course in necessary ways.

Recently, a spirited friend and eco co-worker strongly recommended a book. His recommendation was accompanied by many a delicious account of cathartic transformations he had experienced post-read. When he had decidedly swallowed the somewhat tart medicine-wisdom offered by the book's cauldron brew, he had radically shifted an internal perception of himself, a particularly long-standing one, and this shift was now infusing his actions with apparent unleashed and passionate purpose. He had empowered his passionate Will. He could not endorse the book enough.

But something in the title initially triggered me. It was the word 'Superior'. In my ongoing, deep desire to transform socio-political hierarchies (especially patriarchal ones) in my own life, those comparative/ competitive systems of measure based on ranking definitions of importance, role, power and personal/ collective authority, I cringed in the face of this key word. My feminine warrior had her golden sword raised to the cover, ready to challenge the macho stance of this "man's man" author ........

'THE WAY OF THE SUPERIOR MAN' by David Deida
(yaya, here we go....another psycho-spiritual attempt to elevate a new kind of man-of-the-times......just give him a crystal trophy and tell him to 'om' himself into self-empowered-shakti-bliss..............uh huh, tell me more pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeez.)

Well, I opened the book to the introduction and immediately read this quote from David Deida,

"This newly evolving man is not a scared bully, posturing like some King Kong in charge of the Universe. Nor is he some New Age wimp, all spineless, smiley and starry-eyed. He has embraced both his inner masculine and feminine, and he no longer holds onto either of them. He doesn't need to be right all the time, nor does he need to be always safe, co-operative and sharing, like an androgynous Mr. Nice guy. He simply lives from his deepest core, fearlessly giving his gifts, feeling through the fleeting moment into the openness of existence, totally committed to magnifying love."

Is THIS what he means by the Superior man??? Well then, I'm in love with that Superior man already..........tell me more! My fire of curiousity was piqued!

I brought the book home that very night, and believe me, it was not merely a one night stand. I left it out like a big, bold italic punctuation mark on the coffee table. At first, my man kept kinda shuffling around it. Wasn’t sure about its assuming, territorial arrival in our home turf, so he had to pick it up and put it down for a few days and sniff it, circle it and eventually face it eye to eye. He had to be sure it wasn't going to make him feel less-than, wasn't going to intellectually castrate him somehow. I really did want my heart-ner to read it with me.so I read a few chapters aloud, chapters like:
"Praise Her"
"Stop Hoping For Your Woman to Get Easier"
and "She Needs Your Consciousness to Match Her Energy"

We were both pulled into the power, potency and raw, vital energy of this book. It is a no-bullshit and no-nonsense journey from the solar-plexus straight into the realms of Heart. And it is not always an easy read because it does not pamper to dead habits nor does it coddle the lullaby of long-expired comfort zones.

Though it is a book written primarily for a common male audience, I found it ignited my inner feminine to a burning degree. I came alive, shucked off the crusty layers of my over-compensatory masculine essence, which has helped me manage the many deficiencies in my own life all these years and I ecstatically danced to Peter Murphy's 'Cascade' album (what an amazing, masculine voice that man has) I started making my sensuous, cosmic art again, and boldly asked my heart-ner to step up to his masculine, because mine was and is now officially sipping pina coladas on the inner beaches of my gaia-woman-soul.

I later relayed all this to my friend who had given me the book. He was delighted and none-too-surprised. We work together with the local public community and as serendipity would have it, the woman who first introduced him to the book wandered into our stall this past weekend. I noticed her before I even realized the interconnection because of her beautiful, sexy radiance and shining, bright eyes. After being introduced to her, she and I danced around in a warm embrace like long-lost soul-sisters and then spent a good 10 minutes in a concentrated, candid dialogue about our mutual experiences of the book. She and I had very similar experiences and we resolved to continue connecting together to share our insights. It was most refreshing and lovely......

In summary, this book has affirmed to me that my inner feminine essence in relationship is best expressed, fulfilled and enlivened with a man who is deeply empowered in his own will-centered masculine essence, a man who knows his true soul mission in life like he knows his own spine, and is daily driven to fulfill it in a direct, active and immediate way, without procrastination, inertia, or waffling indecision. He is a man who can openly and lovingly ravish me with his passionate love for life, without abandonment fear and the need to possess me. Anything other than this is diluted and mediocre and breeds chronic imbalances within any dynamic. All healthy relationships require the masculine and feminine balance to be in ecstatic harmony with one another........

However, most modern relationships are HUGELY imbalanced. Many modern women tend to be yang-polarized and over-masculinized and their men, steamrolled by a cool woman wielding a fierce testosterone edge, become stagnant and too malleable or simply retreat entirely into an ineffective lalaland. Or perhaps they become agro and resentful of their women wearing too much pant and not enough lace.......We've been playing musical polarities around and around, circling the various chairs of the daily roles we play, desperately hoping that the music, the very soundtracks of our lives will just keep on playing so we don't have to fight for the only chair left when the music stops.......Yet there is a different way, a different play, if only we are bold enough to embrace it-together.

David Deida does not suggest following a fossil-trail back to outmoded, traditional gender roles of generations past. What he does offer, however, is a powerful recipe for reestablishing integral gender synergy, the reintegrated harmony between masculine and feminine essence, and the divine conjunctio. For it is the fervour of living a life full of heart, heat and wonder which is where we will inevitably find our own divine creativity. The guiding principle for our relationship's success awaits this ignition.

I highly recommend it, with a disclaimer:
Be prepared for change.

A Summer Poem For You

never can my love for you leave the horizon

each passing step

every torrential downpour

and fallen dreams landing firm

presses the soils deeper

harder and stronger

and ever still it grows

growing into mountains

it grows.

and once you have traced mountains in you

marveling how they hold you steady

the memory remains.

-Amaya O'Duir-