EMBRYO IN MOTION

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It is now that my life is mine
I’ve got this short time on earth GABRIELAS SANG
And my longing has brought me here,
all I lacked and all I gained
And yet it’s the way that I chose
My trust was far beyond words
That has shown me a little bit
Of the heaven I’ve never found
I want to feel I’m alive
All my living days
I will live as I desire
I want to feel I’m alive
Knowing I was good enough,
have never lost who I was
I have only left it sleeping
Maybe I never had a choice
Just the will to stay alive
All I want is to be happy being who I am
To be strong and to be free
To see day arise from night
I am here and my life is only mine
And the heaven I thought was there
I’ll discover it there somewhere
I want to feel that I’ve lived my life!
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Thalasso Bain Bebe par Sonia Rochel

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Abbildung 4.1

PEOPLE IN MOTION

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Valencia Spanien 2009 5
Mechanicville NY USA 2007

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 John Chitty

Boulder Colorado School of Energy Studies CO USA 2014 7

EMBRYO ON A FRONT ..

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www.embryo.nl

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PUBLICATIONS

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Der Mensch als
Embryo zwischen
Himmeln und Erde
With English abstracts

Dynamic
Morphology
and
Embryology
Chapter 4

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 PROGRAM EMBRYO in MOTION
DAY 1 DAY 2 DAY 3 DAY 4

Undivided Polarity Threefold Universal

Embryo 1 Embryo 2 Embryo 3 Embryo 4

MODULE 1 MODULE 3 MODULE 5 MODULE 7

EMBRYO LIFE CONCEPTION: WEEK 2 & 3 PRENATAL
The Speech of Heaven and The ‘vegetative’ Psychosomatic
MORNING
the Embryo. Earth? Embryo. Embryo.
Mind and Body Life between Interaction and Human Life:
are one. Chaos & Cosmos. Innerness. the fourth way.

MODULE 2 MODULE 4 MODULE 6 MODULE 8

TO BIRTH FIRST WEEK WEEK 4 - 8 FIRSTBORN
What do we do as In the beginning The ‘animal’ The embryo of
AFTERNOON
embryo? Big Bang? Embryo. Freedom.
The Embryo The twofold Incarnation and The evolving
in Us. Embryo. Individuation. Embryo.

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‘A NEW DAY’

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 ALEPH
EX-act en EN-act
Future and Past
Realising and Realised
The Hebrew alphabet (“aleph-bet”) is
composed by ‘ and \ or Yad en Wav. The
symbol ‘ is still in space (heavens), does
not have connection with the horizontal line,
(earth), symbolizes seed / germ., the
Becoming and represents future. The sign \
has performed the connection between
upper and lower, is on the horizontal cline,
has come to earth, represents what has
become, the past..

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 IS THE
MOON
COMING
ALONG
WITH YOU?

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 EN-ACT
MIND
SPIRIT
EN-ACT

EX-ACT

EX-ACT
BODY
MATTER

… THE TWO IN
ONE ….
LEMNICATOSCOPE
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 TWO BODIES?

(subject)BODY (object)LICHAAM
MY BODY MY ANATOMY
FOTENOTE: And that is not
the same as
SPIRIT versus BODY!!!!
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PARTICIPATOR ONLOOKER
 TWO BODIES?

• Anonymous und
‘eternal’
• Present
• Obstacle - hindering
• Divided
• Discussed
• Injured
• The ‘Object body” of
the ONLOOKING
consciousness
• Inanimate
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DO YOU ALSO HAVE A HEART LIKE THIS?
Is a heart then flesh, mommy??

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 TWO BODIES?

• Personal and mortal

• Transparent
• ‘Non present
• Serving
• Undivided
• Functional
• The ‘Subject body’ of the
PARTICIPATING
consciousness
• Animated
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TWO BODIES?

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 A DUALITY WITHIN REALITY?
DUALITY # DUALISM
DUALITY OR TWOFOLDNESS

“GESTALT-SWITCH” 25
 HOLISM
and / or
DUALISM

PARTICIPATOR ? and/or ONLOOKER ?

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TWO DEADS ?

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IT IS ALL ABOUT ..
 Pre-science is not (only)
history, it is actuality i.c.
Lebenswelt
 It is the reality of experience
that you start with.
That is why it is PRIMARY.
 The undivided ‘subject-body’
is the primary theme. The
object-body’ is derived from
that.
Therefore: SECUNDARY

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 TWO LOOKS
TWO VIEWS
TWO BODIES

The opening of
the human
body by
Vigevano
(14th century)
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 TWO LOOKS
TWO VIEWS
TWO BODIES

The presentation
of the human body
by Andreas
Vesalius (1543)
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 OVER A THRESHOLD WITH A NEW
LOOK, WITH A NEW MIND

• De humani corporis
fabrica
• Vesalius, 1543
• It is the year in which
Copernicus turns our
image of the world
upside down (from
geocentric to
heliocentric).
SEHEN und ZEIGEN sind
phänomenologisch gesehen die
schärfsten Gegensätze. 31
A DUALITY WITHIN REALITY?

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 Reduktion

Foaming

to
Making equal reduced
MONISM?

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 THE RIGHT EYE?
The eye of the ‘Cartesian’

“THE RESULT
OF THE
EXPERIMENT
DOES NOT
PROVE THAT
ONE UNDER-
STOOD IT
CORRECTLY”
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Intermezzo: DO YOU HAVE A BRAIN?
The God Delusion
God as concoction
=
The Spirit Delusion
Spirit as concoction

God as concoction?
Brain as illusion?
Brain as concoction?

Who actually looks at

his / her brain?

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HOW CAN A BRAIN SEE SOMETHING?

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 BRAIN SCANS AS A
METHOD TO STUDY
CONSCIOUSNESS?

INTROSPECTION
AS A METHOD TO
STUDY A BRAIN?
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WHAT HAS A BRAIN TO DO WITH MY INNERNESS?

But even the neurophysiologist

stays an „Outsider“, an
onlooking observer.
Who is able to watch his own
Innerness (or brain)?

QUOTE OF A NEUROMANIAK: After

thousands of years nowadays introspection
has been proven to be the wrong method to
study our soul, the brain scan is a much
more superb and reliable instrument to do
so”
 ‘PRIMARY’ Reduction
KNOWLEDGE
‘SECONDARY’
KNOWLEDGE
FROM FROM THE THE Foaming
LITTLE
BOX
= REDUCTION
Making equal
‘LARGE BOX’

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 CARTESIAN
Prof. Swaab NL: ‘GHOSTING’
“Like kidneys produce urine,
SPIRIT brains produce consciousness”
SPIRIT
Do kidneys produce urine?
SOUL Are lungs producing CO2?
How can imponderable SOUL
illusions been produced
by a ponderable organ?

MIND Its I NOT ME and My brain,

It is ME and My BODY MIND
& It is ME and the WORLD
&
BODY
My head is NOT my brain BODY

Context Isolation
‘Holism’ ‘Reductionism’ 40
“Man does not HAVE a soul (spirit),
he IS soul (spirit)”
(DelaMettrie ‘extended’)
SPIRIT

• The body as a
SOUL
necessary but not
sufficient condition
• Not causal but
conditional and MIND

contextual thinking &

BODY
• Hierarchal ‘Dualism’

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THE LIVING BODY HAS A MIND AND IS ‘EN-SOULED’

• PRIMARY • SECUNDARY
BODY BODY
• of the • of the
FIRST SECOND
ORDER ORDER
• PARTICIPANT • ONLOOKER
• ‘subject body’ • ‘object body’

NOT A SEPARATED DUALITY,

BUT A (HOLISTIC) HIERARCHY
Which means ‘MONISM’ 42
 IMAGE OF MAN
– from
SPIRIT / SENSE / GOAL
REDUCTION
BRAIN to
ENLARGEMENT

GENES/DNA
FINALITY / MEANING
GOD/CREATION

CONCEPTION DYING
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 IMAGE OF MAN
– from
SPIRIT / SENSE
REDUCTION
BRAIN to
ENLARGEMENT

GENES/DNA
FINALITY / MEANING
GOD/CREATION
“Does God still
CONCEPTION DYING speak to us..?”
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 HALF or PARTIAL TRUTHS
… Consequence of a
INTELLECTUAL ASCESIS

• Not ‚against‘ natural science

as a method but against the
images that come with it as
‚objective truths‘.
• Erweitern is the theme, not an
alternative, at the most
(complementary)
‘enlargement’
SEEING THE ’INVISIBLE’?

START THINKING IT !

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 LOST HORIZON?

In childhood they show us so many things,

that we nearly lose the real capacity to see.

SEEING and SHOWING , most glaring

contrasts one can imagine in phenomenological
respect.

And how should the adults show us the world,

the reality that they have lost themselves!

Gaston Bachelard (1884 –1962)

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 ANATOMY ‘DESTROYS’

Wer will was Lebendig’s erkennen und beschreiben,

sucht erst den Geist herauszutreiben,
dann hat er die Teile in der Hand.
Fehlt, áeider! nur das geistige Band.

J.W. von Goethe, Faust

Those who want to study life,

first have to throw out (think away) spirit.
Next you have the parts in your hand,
what now fails, is the context of spirit (and wholeness) 49
UNDERSTANDING NOT EXPLAINING
FINALITY versus CAUSALITY

HOW MANY FISTS CAN A HUMAN BEING MAKE50?

 SPIRIT AND MATTER
THE UNDIVIDED REALITY
• “Human form • “Keine Geist
(matter) and Ohne Materie,
function (spirit) keine Materie
are inseparably ohne Geist”
intertwined”.
– A.T. Still – Rudolf Steiner)

MAN IS MIND, MOTION AND

MATTER.
A.T. STILL
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A.T. STILL: THE HUMAN BEING (MAN) IS
MIND, MOTION AND MATTER

MIND

MOTION

MATTER

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ONE, TWO, THIRD

SPIRIT ENACT

LIFE LIFE
SOUL SOUL

BODY
EXACT

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 FORMS COMES FORTH FROM
ENACT
MOTION “In the Beginning the Act“
MOTION PERFORM
ACT(ION)

EXACT GESTURE
GEST

MOTION
PROCESS
• We are not
built up by…”
• „Anatomy FORM
destructs more
than you like“
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THE BRAIN KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT THE MUSCLES

ACTING

MOTION

EFFECT

‘MUSCLES’
PLS

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THINKING IN
HIERARCHIES PERFORMANCE
ACTING

MENTAL BODY
• Vitalism is the refusal to
derive /deduce the so- EXPRESSION
GESTURE
called ‘higher’ / ‘upper’
levels from the ‘lower’ / ANIMAL BODY
‘down’ levels.
MOVEMENT
• He who denies the MOTION
existence of ’Higher’ and BIOTIC BODY
‘Lower’ (levels and
hierarchies) in living
MECHANISM
nature (and human FORM
organization) is by
PHYSICAL
definition a materialist or BODY
mechanicist (i.e.
mechanistic thinker).
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HIERARCHIES
ARE ALSO
‘OPPOSITIONS’ MENTAL
• BODY
Between the levels
or hierarchies there ANIMAL
exist oppositions BODY
according to the
principle Keine
BIOTIC
Leistung ohne BODY
Widerstand (Erich
Blechschmidt).

• Life > < ‘Death’ PHYSICAL

BODY
• Psyche > < Life
• Spirit > < Psyche
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(spirit – Mens Lat.)
 THE
I may not be born yet.
EMBRYO
Heaven extends from my forehead on, OF THE
A membrane belonging to my growing.
POET

My feet dance in the pain

that is called labor, see I am bound

to cords, as long as life.

A magnificent Madonna blue

perfects me inside this woman.

G. Achterberg
Dutch poet
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 STAGES
(1)
Foetale periode
Embryonale
periode

15 dgn, 15 mm 21 dgn, 25 mm 30 dgn, 4,5 mm

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 STAGES
(2)

45 dgn, 17 mm 60 dgn, 30 mm

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 RELATIONS
“The embryo
lives in hours”

6 months

4 months

2 months

1 month

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 At the border
between
embryo and fetus
11 weeks
2 inch
(5 cm)

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 At the transition
between
embryo and fetus
9 weeks
1,6 inch
(4 cm)

See, I am bound
to cords, as long as life
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 A ‘bride’ of
approximat
ely
eight weeks
old
1,2 inch
(3 cm)

About
fingers,
nostrils,
lenses and
retinas65
 A little face of
eight weeks old

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‘DIE LEIBSCHAFFENDE SEELE’
• ‘Just’ a piece of glass to
look through
Or?
• A lifelong performance of
clarity to look with?
• ‘Blood as fluid?’
• The body as a process
and a performance -
Gestaltung
• The body shaping activity
of the ‘soul’
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Five weeks old

About becoming
‘visible’
Blood and skeleton68
 IS THERE ‚LIFE‘ BEFORE BIRTH?
DOES THE EMBRYO HAVE (A) SOUL?
• At the most the fetus is a kind of
mini-human being with phenomena
related to something like ‚psyche‘. .
• But the Embryo ... ? A brain dead
being?
• What are we doing when we are
embryo?
• Is the embryo a ‘past that has gone‘
or is it ‚actuality‘?
• Is the embryo still a ‚not yet being‘.
And what about the fetus? What
about a child?
• When did Goethe become Goethe?
 PRENATAL
STAGES

Embryo in motion
Gestalt in motion
Growth-behavior?70
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 From
sections
to
toto-
recon-
struction

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A heaven for embryologists
in Göttingen, Germany
Blechschmidt
Collection

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 End
2nd month
0,7 inch
(17,5 cm)
Blechschmidt
Collection

The ‘law’
of the
craniocaudal
gradient
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 Middle
2nd month
0,4 inch
(10 mm)
Blechschmidt
Collection

Fins?
Gills?
Tails?
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 Approx.
5 weeks
0,3 inch
(6,3 mm)
Blechschmidt
Collection

Is this
‘animal
li(f)ke’?
Homology
Who resembles
whom?76
 Begin
2nd month
0,2 inch
(4,2 mm)
Blechschmidt
Collection

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 Begin
2nd month
0,2 inch (b)
(4,2 mm)
Blechschmidt
Collection

Is this
‘primitive
life’?
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 End
1st month
0,2 inch
(3,4 mm)
Blechschmidt
Collection

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 Approx.
3,5 weeks
0,1 inch
(3,1 mm)
Blechschmidt
Collection

Upright?
Or ‘extended’
like a ..
tree, plant?80
 End
2nd month
0,7 inch
(17,5 cm)
Blechschmidt
Collection

The ‘law’
of the
craniocaudal
gradient
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 Ende
2. Monat
17,5 mm
Sammlung
Blechschmidt

The ‚law‘
of the
Cranio-caudal
Gradient
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THE POLARITY GRADIENT?

CRANIOCAUDAL
DISTOPROXIMAL
DORSOVENTRAL
…...
……...
………….
THE ‘AXIS’ OF
CONSCIOUSNESS

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 THE POLARITY GRADIENT?

…… to form …… to adulthood

CRANIOCAUDAL
DISTOPROXIMAL
DORSOVENTRAL
…...
……...
………….
THE ‘AXIS’ OF
CONSCIOUSNESS

from motion ... from embryo ...

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WHO (WHAT)
RESSEMBLES
WHOM (WHAT)? …

MORULA:
‘a clod of
cells’

YOU DO NOT 85
‘START’ AS A CELL
 Approx. 6 weeks - 0,4 inch FACE
OR
SNOUT?

Middle 7th week

Stage 19 - 0,6 inch

End 7th week

Stage 18 - 0,6 inch

End 2nd month

1,2 inch 86
 EXTENSION
AND
INSPIRATION

Growth-movements
Growth-gestures
Growth-behavior 87
 EXTENSION
AND
INSPIRATION (b)

“Das Seelische übt

sich im voraus”
E. Blechschmidt 88
 HUMAN BEHAVIOR

• The embryo (still) functions in forms

(‚Gestaltung‘).
• The gestures of growth represent the
motions and actions.
• The ‘Gestaltung’ of the embryo is a
performance in course of time.

• A living being is an
appearance in time! 89
 THE LANGUAGE OF THE EMBRYO
• The speech / language of forms, motions and
gestures.
• The interface between forms, functions and
actions (behavior) is gesture.
• GESTALT and SHAPING are the key words
(Blechschmidt): A morphology of the soul?
• Brains, genes, bodies cannot act. Organisms
act, organisms are ill. And so on.
• The risk of metaphors is to stifle what is
essential: TO CONFUSE THE CONDITION FOR A
MATTER WITH THE MATTERS ITSELF. 90
 LIVING AS AN EMBRYO
• “Is it possible for we cells, before
and after specially neural tissue
arise, to reproduce in later phases
of the life cycle transforms, or
variations of our first experiences?
May our prenatal experiential
patterns function as templates for
some of our patterns woven into the
complex knit of postnatal design?”
Robert Laing in Facts of life. 91
 WHO IS GOING UPRIGHT, STRAIGHT?
• Motion is primary, forms are processes that
have come to rest (shape), are per-formed.
• ‘Entirety as performance’.
Die Erhaltung der Individualität (Blechschmidt 1 ‘erweitert’)
• The body is an continuous performance, not
cause (causative principle).
• ‘Going upright (straight) as expression of the
soul, of spirit, not of the body’.
• ‚Das Seelische übt sich im voraus‘
(Blechschmidt 1 ‘erweitert’). 92
AN INTRAVERT EXISTENCE .. ?

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AN EXTRAVERT EXISTENCE .. ?

ADULT:
CENTRIFUGAL
ORIENTATION –
THE AIM IS
THE WORLD,
THE
ENVIRONMENT

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 AN INTRAVERT EXISTENCE .. ?

EMBRYO:
CENTRIPETAL
ORIENTATION –
THE AIM IS THE
ORGANIZATION
OF THE BODY
ITSELF

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 AN INTRAVERT EXISTENCE …?

EMBRYO:
CENTRIPETAL
ORIENTATION –
THE AIM IS THE FROM WHERE?
ORGANIZATION
OF THE BODY
ITSELF

Where are my ‘roots’? Where do I come from? 96

 When grapes
turn to wine,
they long for
our ability to change.

When stars
wheel around the North Pole,
they are longing for
our growing consciousness.

Wine got drunk

with us,
not the other way.
The body developed
out of us,
not we from it.

We are bees,
WE ARE THE BODY WE HAVE and our body is a honeycomb.
We made
We have the soul we are .. the body,
cell by cell
Rumi (1207 - 1273) The enlightened Heart, ed. by Stephen Mitchell we made it.
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 An embryo
is a human being.
EMBRYO
A phase,
a chapter
in the unique biography
of a human creature.

We are expecting a child:

Who is it going to be?
Not:
Whát is it going to be?

Who only recognize the

recapitulation of a species:
for those the mystery
is not meant.
They already read
what has to be
written yet.
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 PRENATAL SCAN of
MICHAEL SCHUMACHER

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 FIRST WEEK OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

Differentiation:
From the ‘óne’ comes the ‘two’:
The prenatal body
is two-fold. 100
AFTER IMPLANTATION
(NIDATION):
DAY 6 TILL 9

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 STAGES OF
PERIPHERY AND
CENTER BODY
Day 6,7

Fourth month
Begin 3rd week

The names and the

structures change
but the principal
plan of organization not Second month 102
Am Anfang ANFANG
Silvia Siegenthaler, 30.9.2004
war und ist der Klang
als schöpferischer Urgesang.

Im unendlich weiten All

ertönt es,
wie er durch die Feuer geht,
über Wasser und die Winde schwebt,
da Vokal und Form
im Widerhalle singt und lebt.

Das Klanglicht
zaubert Ungeformtes
In die dichte, formbetonte Sicht.

Wer hört es nicht?

Ist das Hören uns verloren?

Und die Klänge
schwingen
und
Gelangen

zu den schlafenden und wachen Ohren

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After the En-velopment
the DE-velopment

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 STOP THE MEDICALISATION OF BIRTH
Dear Mr. Jaap,
Her I am with my beautiful daughter!
I gave birth at the 15th of November 2013.
It was not a home birth but it was a natural birth.
I decided to deliver in hospital, because I had a birth plan
and thanks to the birth plan I could change a little bit the
mind of most medical doctors. In my birth plan I asked
not to use oxytocin and no other drug to speed up my
birth, and I asked also not to cut the umbilical cord but
only after some minutes ( so that all the blood can go from
the placenta to the baby), and at last I asked for my
placenta.
The placenta, a magical tree of life which gave nutrition to
my babe for 9 month, the placenta is buried in my garden
now, under an olive tree.
Thanks to my request a lot of woman are trying to do the
same in hospital…for an peaceful birth.
The Placenta is ours and not a garbage or a refuse but
something sacred.
Attached a picture of my lovely daughter Ena Kai.
Cristina La Villa 105
BIRTH AS IT WAS
MEANT

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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant,
gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.
Our Deepest Fear
by Marianne Williamson from A Return To Love:
Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles
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 I am a Pharaoh I

ANATOMICAL
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POSITION
 I am a Pharaoh II
Monument for a biography

SILENTIO ET
TENEBRIS
SPIRITUS
ALITUR 109
 I AM A PHARAOH III
WHAT A PERFORMANCE110
Biography: The shadow of Mandela
 „WHERE DO WE (DO I) COME FROM?“
IS THE QUESTION FOR THE SOUL
• The answers that we give our children to this
question are mostly based upon HERE, on our
BODY and on the PAST: we are caused, produced,
made and are to be considered as a consequence
(of conception, fertilization): a CENTRIFUGAL
existence.
• Egg cells
• Genes
• Brain
• Body
• The body as a consciousness
producing machine
 PRODUCT or PLAN? CONSEQUENCE or CAUSE
BEGIN END

CONNECTING SEPARATION

CONSEQUENCE / PRODUCT

EGG CELL >> ZYGOTE LIVING BODY >> CORPSE

CONCEPTION DYING
APPEARANCE 113
 PRODUCT or PLAN? CONSEQUENCE or CAUSE
BEGIN END

CONNECTING SEPARATION

CONSEQUENCE / PRODUCT

EGG CELL >> ZYGOTE LIVING BODY >> CORPSE

CONCEPTION DYING
APPEARANCE 114
PRODUCT or PLAN? CAUSE or CONSEQUENCE?

MIND

MOTION

MATTER

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INCARNATION EXCARNATION

BINDING SEPARATING

BREATH
OF
LIFE

CONCEPTION DYING
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LIFE AS THE IN-BETWEEN

* EVERYTHING IN MODERATION

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 HEART FUNCTION *
SYSTOLE DIASTOLE
100% CONTRACTION 100% RELAXATION
Cardiac ‚NS‘ ‘stimulus’ Cardiac ‚NS“ ‘refractory‘
empty of blood filled by blood
acidosis - acidifying alkalosis-
(‘astralisation’) (‘etherisation’)
salting Na desalination Ka
ECG depolarization pattern ECG ‘silent’
Aware, consciousness unaware
Death pole - fibrillation Death pole - asystole
STRUCTURE – FORMED -
MOTION – ‘FORMLESS’- CHAOS
KOSMOS
‘upper pole effect’ ‘lower pole effect’
‘NERVOUS SYSTEM MAN’ ‘METABOLIC MAN’

* # MECHANISM
 HEART FUNCTION
SYSTOLE DIASTOLE
The heart functions as an organ of revolution and changing over
Life does not originate from systole neither from diastole but from the
POLARITY INVERSION (POLE REVERSAL)
RYTHM – LIFE – BREATH
TIME as well as SPACE. Neither TIME nor SPACE
LIFE (- MOTION)
’ Death into structure’ ‘Death into chaos’
Coldness – cramp - sclerosis Los of structure and form
IN THE PROCESS OF AND IN THE MIDDLLE SPIRIT
MAY COME TO DIALOGUE (interface) WITH MATTER
Dying COURAGE Being
‘upper pole effect’ ‘lower pole effect’
‘NERVOUS SYSTEM MAN’ ‘METABOLIC MAN’
 INTERMEZZO? UNMOVED MOVER
HEART, HEAD OF THE ‘BLOOD ORGAN’, BRAIN, HEAD OF ‘NERVOUS SYSTEM’

FIBRILLATION RHYTHM CYCLE

TACHYCARDIA HEART MUSCLE BRADYCARDIA
Rhythm quickens RHYTHM Rhythmus slows down,
‘Time’ approaches SPACE and TIME time blends and becomes
Simultaneity neither TIME nor SPACE continuity (eternity)
SPACE- STRUCTURE MIDDLE FLOWING - PROCESS
Simultaneity Rhythm is the primary Successivity, sequence
‘at the same time’ motion ‘after each other’
“Pure space is death” “Pure space is eternity”
‘UPPER POLE’ ‘LOWER POLE’
Skeletal muscles Heart muscle is ‘primeval Metabolic muscles
Striated muscle’ Smooth
muscular tissue muscle ‘connective tissue’ muscular tissue
connects & shapes space
Motion in form Rhythmical motion Flowing motion
(‘Gestaltung’) Form and Flow (waving)
 “Nicht Leben und Tot sind die Gegensätze,
aber Geburt und Sterben. Leben ist ewig“
Eckhart Tolle
“Not Life and Death are the oppositions, but Birth and Dying.
Life is eternal“
Eckhart Tolle
WAT GESCHEHT AN DER „SCHNITTSTELLE“?

MIND
SPIRIT

BODY
MATTER

(VER)BINDEN ENTBINDEN
WURZELN DIALOGUE! FREILASSEN
 LIFE AS THE IN-BETWEEN

BEGIN END

MIND SPIRIT

BINDING PASSING
MOTION SOUL
CONNECTION SEPARATION

MATTER BODY

CONCEPTION DYING

124
 GOETHEANISTIC PHENOMENOLOGY
A BIOLOGY OF DIALOGUE

• „Was ist wertvoller als das Gold?

• „DAS LICHT!“

• „Was ist wertvoller als das Licht?“

• “DER GESPRÄCH!“

J.W. Goethe
126
 CONSEQUENCE or CAUSE?
BEGIN PRODUCT or PLAN? END

BINDING APPEARING SEPARATION

PASSING ON
EGG CELL >> ZYGOTE LIVING BODY >> CORPS

CONCEPTION DYING 127

 “I ám a consciousness LEVITATION and
and I háve a body” GRAVITATION

BINDING SEPARATION
= =
LEVITATION GRAVITATION

128
 CONCEPTION
ACCORDING TO
HIERONYMUS
BOSCH

129
CENTRIFUGAL OR
CENTRIPETAL?

FROM HEAVEN
OR FROM EARTH?

MAKING OR
GETTING?

130
AN HOMUNCULUS
WITHIN A CELL?

HUMAN SEED
DOES NOT ’EXIST’

131
 The seed of (a) man?

'Semen' is Latin To call it

for a dormant, fertilized, semen
plant ovum, is to thrust an insanity
a seed. deep inside our culture:
Men's ejaculate is chemically spoken that men plow women
more akin to plant pollen. and plant their seed
See, when, in fact,
it is really what they are doing
more accurate is pollinating
to call it flowers.
mammal pollen.
Now.
Doesn't that change
--Stephen Harrod Buhner ( from "The Secret Teachings everything
of Plants: The Intelligence of the Heart in the Direct
Perception of Nature) between us?

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IMAGES of CONCEPTION I

134
 ICSI
INTRACYTOPLASMATIC
SPERM INJECTION

135
MAKING HUMANS

136
CONCEPTION ‘AS IT ÍS’

137
IMAGES ABOUT CONCEPTION II

138
IMAGES of CONCEPTION II

139
 WHERE DOES
THE EGG CELL
COME FROM?

140
THE EGG CELL
A WORLD
ON
ITS OWN ..

141
 The
egg
cell
is
A(L)-
LONE

142
 THE EGG CELL IS AL(L)ONE

It (she?) is:

• a ball, a sphere
• a “loner”
• large (expansion)
• cytoplasmatic
• “open” and vulnerable
• passive
• and ….. dynamic
• and THE ONE
HEAD and EXTREMITIES
SPHERES and RADII

144
145
SPERMATOZOA IN DETAIL

146
 THE SPERM CELLS
ARE
THE OPPOSITE

It (he?) is

• a radius
• not alone
• small (concentration)
• “closed” and invulnerable
• active
• and … “passive”
• the MANY
147
 Spermatozoa are never alone….

BUT ONLY ONE GGMPIE

148
THEY ARE POLARITIES # more than
OPPOSITIONS
MANY VERSUS ONE

THE REVERSE INSIDE OUT

149
TWO GESTURES

150
DANCE OF LOVE

151
 PRECONCEPTION ATTRACTION COMPLEX

Where ‘everything’ might be

and nothing ‘has to’ . 152
FUSION OF THE CELLS, NOT PENETRATION

153
 capacitation
FERTILISATION

ZP3 - binding acrosome reaction

zona pellucida

ZP2 - binding
extrusion of
2. polar body
zona penetration
fertilization
zona block
extrusion of
cortical granules

154
 IN THE
MIDDLE:
RIBS AND
VERTEBRAE
CONSTITUTE

155
 IN THE
MIDDLE:
RIBS AND
VERTEBRAE
CONSTITUTE

156
 LEMNISCATE
AND THE MIDDLE

157
 IN THE ‚MIDDLE‘:
RIBS CONSTITUTE (‚PERFORM‘)

IN THE MIDDLE THE

DIALOGUE: ‘FUNCTIONAL
ELEVATION’ (OFTEN) AND
MIXING (SOMETIMES)
158
“LOOK, THERE IS YOUR THORAX”

159
 IN THE ‚MIDDLE‘:
‘VERTEBRAE CONSTITUTE (‚PERFORM‘)

160
“LOOK, THIS IS YOUR VERTEBRAL COLUMN”

161
 POLARIZATION
‘Primordial germ cell’

‘Sperm cell’ ‘Egg cell’

‘Nucleus’
‘Cytoplasm’

162
‘Zygote’
 “THE PCAC” “DE-BIOLOGICALIZATION”
‘DE-MATERIALIZATON’

“NUCLEUS”
“CYTOPLASM”

“THE CELL” 163

 “The zygote”
STEIGERUNG
or FUNCTIONAL
ELEVATION

“NUCLEUS” “CYTOPLASM”

“THE CELL” 164

 ENCOUNTER
AND
METAMORPHOSIS

165
I wish to give us a child.
Not just CONCEPTION
nothing but a sum* Not just an amalgam
of two kinds of genes, of two kinds of genes
or just an accident random
in a sea of time. in a sea of time

But
a wonder. floating in the safe blue
Suspended of your womb
in the safe blue
ocean of your lap.*

Become,
created
At the very one moment
that I was you In: Cosmic Child
and you were me by Eve Olive
and we found and met Wrightwood Press,
the Other 2013, translated
by Annelies
JvdW Davidson
166
 SUN
OF
CONCEPTION

Conception
as it cán be’
167
7 miljard incarnerende zielen? 01 01 2011

168
 CONCEPTION
ANNOUNCEMENT-
OF BIRTH

169
170
171
THREE AND ONE

172
MAN IS NOR RE-PRODUCING!
HE OVERCOMES IT!

Reproduction is
not ‘human’ 173
To make babies?

174
 TWO HANDS
OF CREATION
B’RSCH’T

175
CREATION AS A HEAVENLY SPARK?

176
 WHAT IS IN THE BEGINNING?
CONCEPTION AS A DIALOGUE

BEGIN END

MIND SPIRIT

BINDING PASSING
MOTION SOUL
CONNECTION SEPARATION

MATTER BODY

CONCEPTION DYING

177
FROM HEAVEN?

178
179
INTERMEZZO: TURNING INSIDE OUT

STILL POINTS

180
 PRIMEVAL BEGIN
CENTER AND PERIPHERY

TERRESTRIAL and CELESTIAL

181
 VERBUM
AND
CREATION
by
ESCHER

182
 THE
HUMAN SHAPE
GESTALT
L.F.C. Mees
Also a
lemniscate

183
184
 SPACIAL
DYNAMICS
Jaimen
McMillan
THE
LEMNISCATE

185
 HEAD, TRUNK AND LIMBS

THE CLASSICAL TRIMERIA

186
IMAGES of CONCEPTION III

187
Child’s cake?

188
INTERMEZZO

189
Priest Jaap? Vienna 2012
 I am a Pharaoh I

ANATOMICAL
191
POSITION
ANNUNCIATION
ANGELS COME
FROM BEHIND?

Si non esset vera,

fabula pulchra est

192
 DAY 1 TO 3 OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
Nót ‘a cell’ of ‘zygote,
but an UN-divided
human body!
MORULA 8 cells

Nó growth but subdivision

and -organization of cells
193
Differentiation, the basis principle
of embryonic existence ? DAY 4 TO 6
Trophectoderm
> Trophoblast

Inner Cell Mass

> Embryoblast

‘HATCHING’

COMPACTION BLASTULA (Blastocyst)

194
 DAY 1 TO 3 OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
Nót ‘a cell’ of ‘zygote, NOT THE CELL, BUT THE ORGANISM
but an UN-divided IS THE UNIT OF LIFE’ –
human body! NOT THE PARTICLE BUT THE WHOLE

MORULA 8 cells

CELLS DO NOT DIVIDE,

ORGANISMS SUBDIVIDE THEMSELVES
CELLS MULTIPLY,
THE ORGANISM ORGANIZES

Nó growth but subdivision

and -organization of cells
195
Differentiation, the basis principle
of embryonic existence ? DAY 4 TO 6
Trophectoderm
> Trophoblast

Inner Cell Mass

> Embryoblast

‘HATCHING’

COMPACTION BLASTULA (Blastocyst)

AN ORGANISM IS NOT BUILT UP FROM”
PARTS, CELLS OR OTHER ANALYTIC COMPONENTS
AN ORGANISM DIFFERENTIATES IN(TO) ITS PARTS

196
 THE FIRST WEEK
“When time is not there yet’?

BLASTULA STAGE
BLASTULA PHASE
BLASTULA PAUSE

A LIVING BEING APPEARS IN TIME

TIME, LIFE SPAN, AGE
How ‘old’ is the human being?
GOETHE:
“REINER RAUM IST DER TOD
REINE ZEIT IST DIE EWIGKEIT” 197
 DIFFERENTIATION OUTSIDE > INSIDE
GENES DO NOT PLAY AN ACTIVE ROLE IN THIS!

198
199
 “Such stuff that
dreams are
made of …” ?

We are (NOT) made

by cells and organs
200
 DIFFERENTIATION:
The organism differentiates, cells do not “know”

201
 THE FIRST WEEK IN VITRO
THE ZYGOTE AS BIG BANG ?

202
 NIDATION – NESTING
DIALOGUE?
Trophectoderm
> Trophoblast

Inner Cell Mass

> Embryoblast

BLASTULA (Blastocyst)

Befóre nidation (implantation)

‘HATCHING’

the ‘game’ of the adplantation 203

 NIDATION – NESTING
A war of genes?

Der Kampf beginnt wenige Tage nach der Empfängnis, wenn sich
der Embryo der Gebärmutterschleimhaut nähert, um sich
einzunisten. Keine anheimelnde Umgebung erwartet ihn, sondern
das mütterliche Immunsystem. Um sich einen Platz zum
Heranwachsen zu erobern, muss er Angriffe der Killerzellen
unterlaufen. Danach gilt es, möglichst viele Nährstoffe zu
erbeuten, gegen den Widerstand des mütterlichen Körpers. Die
Frau will ihre Ressourcen schonen, das Ungeborene will seine
Überlebenschancen erhöhen. Neun Monate dauert der
Schlagabtausch; nur wenn er unentschieden ausgeht, kommen
Mutter und Kind heil davon. Der Krieg im Mutterleib könnte gar
der Hauptgrund dafür sein, dass weltweit jedes Jahr zehn
Millionen Frauen während der Schwangerschaft erkranken.
204
Voor de innesteling (Implantatie)
het ‘gesprek’ van adplantatie
 VOM EI ZUM EMBRY
Nidation and formation of the entocyste

Befóre nidation (implantation)

the ‘game’ of the adplantation 206
 AFTER
NIDATION:
DAY 6 TILL 9

Syncytiotrophoblast

207
Cytotrophoblast
DAY 9

208
 POLARITY:
Dorsal - ventral
Ectoderm en
Endoderm
Hypertonic en
Hypotonic
Antipathy en
Sympathy

209
HOUR GLASS NEBULA
DAY 10
OR 11

210
 END
SECOND
WEEK

211
 END
2ND
WEEK

Vegetative
existence?
No ‘inner
content’
yet?
212
Tat tvam asi: “THAT THOU ART”

213
NIDATION
AND
SECOND
WEEK

214
 VOM EI ZUM EMBRYO
Impansion en expansion
in twolayered germ disc

215
 VOM EI ZUM EMBRYO
Dorsal and ventral entocyste

216
 END 2ND WEEK,
BEGIN 3RD WEEK

217
THREE REALMS, THREE GESTURES
THREE WAYS OF BEING

218
 1+1=3
GERM LAYERS: IT IS ABOUT TWO

EPIBLAST – ECTODERM

HYPOBLAST - ENDODERM
219
 INNER TISSUE OR „INNEGEWEBE“
“INNERNESS”, THE MATRIX TISSUE

220
 2 LIMITING TISSUES AND 1 INNER TISSUE

 Erich Blechschmidt
(1904-1992) introduced
the principle of limiting
tissues vs inner tissue.
 The classical triad
Ectoderm, Mesoderm
and Endoderm should
be interpreted as a
twofoldness with
meso(derm)’ as the
‘INNER’, the IN-
BETWEEN (not the
viscera, they represent
the INSIDE)

221
 TWO EXPONENTS OF THE
MESO: BLOOD AND FASCIA
‘FASCIA’ IS AN ORGAN
• The primeval dimension • It connects
of the mesenchyme as
the matrix tissue is and it shapes
CONNECTING and space
SHAPING SPACE
• Morphologically this is • It enables
represented by the
tendencies like
motion
‘compaction’ versus and
‘dilation’ (formation of
body cavities) it mediates
222
Tendencies in THE INNER
or MATRIX TISSUE
• Phenomenologically one
could describe two
organizing tendencies in
the primordial Inner tissue
of Mesenchyme:
– Concentration,
centering,
CONNECTION

– Decentration,
peripherizing,
DIS-CONNECTION
223
 TWO EXPONENTS OF THE
MESO: BLOOD AND FASCIA
‘BLOOD’ IS AN ORGAN, ‘FASCIA’ ALSO

• ‘Blood’ is here defined as • The primary aspect of

the organ of mediation blood: capillary system
• Blood as a tissue, blood • Out of that develops
as cardiovascular system the heart as a ‘head’ of
• Blood formation and the cardiovascular
vessel formation always
go hand in hand system
• Heart, arteries&veins and • FUNCTION:
capillaries represent the • BLOOD MEDIATES
threefold organization of
blood as an organ BLOOD IS
• ‘Blood’ is the PRIMARY
‘EVERYWHERE AND
ORGAN NOWHERE’

224
EVEN BLOOD, EVEN BONE IS ….. MESO
Tensegrity, tensional integrity or
floating compression, is a structural
principle based on the use of isolated
components in compression inside a net of
continuous tension, in such a way that the
compressed members (usually bars or
struts) do not touch each other and the
prestressed tensioned members (usually
cables or tendons) delineate the system
spatially. The term tensegrity was coined
by Buckminster Fuller in the 1960s as a
portmanteau of "tensional integrity". The
other denomination of tensegrity, floating
compression, was used mainly by Kenneth
Snelson. Tensegrity as "The Architecture of
Life" is an idea developed by Donald E.
Ingber, explained in a January 1998 article
in Scientific American.
Wikipedia 2013

Needle Tower by Kenneth Snelson, 1968,

Sculpture Garden at Kröller-Müller Museum, The Netherlands
Photograph by Saku Takakusaki
 METABOLIC FIELDS & KINETICS
ERICH BLECHSCMIDT
Densation fields (d) are characterized by
the loss of intercellular fluids and the
resulting close packing of cells as the tissue
consolidates. All skeletonization in the
embryo arises in densation fields.

Dilation fields (f): In such fields, the living

tissue cells become extended and aligned
in bundles (fascicles) and sheets. Such
cells develop into muscle fibers.

Retension fields (h): Inner tissue that

becomes stretched and tensed during
development. Growth resistance lead to a
tensing of the tissue. The ceils in a retension
field become spindle-shaped and their nuclei
ellipsoidal. Tendons, ligaments, joint
capsules are examples of such stretched
tissue
 METABOLIC FIELDS & KINETICS
according to ERICH BLECHSCMIDT

Dilation fields in thigh region of 32 mm long fetus (right thigh, lateral view).
Still-cartilaginous parts of thigh skeleton stippled.
Diverging arrows with cross-tails: piston like growth of cartilage.
White arrows: growth dilation of muscles

Thom Myers:
“Islands of Compression floated in a balanced sea of tension”)

230
 DILATIONSFELDER UND
DYNAMENTEN
• „In the human body never there
are purely mechanical
procedures, (......) probably
however biomechanical stress,
thus stress effects as
achievements of living cells and
cell conglomerates. Biological
processes are always more than
purely physical procedures”.

The idea that the body can manage something like leverage
doesn’t mean that it contains levers. In biotensegrity forms –
i.e. non-linear biologic architectures, such as ours,
there are no levers, no shear, no bending moments.
Joan Avison 231
 70 70 90 thousand km Capillaries vs heart
GRAVITATION, ANTIPATHY, ‘UPPER’, FORM POLE
BLOOD IS AN UNSELFISH MATRIX

LEVITATION , SYMPATHY, ‘LOWER’, PROCESS POLE

SHARK Von Hagens ALL BLOOD
BLOOD
AS
MESO and
INNERNESS

233
 END
SECOND
WEEK

234
 REVOLUTION
MIDST OF THE
3RD WEEK

235
 REVOLUTION
MIDST OF THE
3RD WEEK

Revolution to
an‘undividable’
existence
236
REVOLUTION:
MIDST OF THE
3RD WEEK
Formation of
MY Centre and
Periphery with
the formation
of the Heart:
HERE I AM

Revolution to
an‘undividable’
existence
237
THE CHORDA AS POINT OF REVERSAL

Lemniscate:
inside-
out
238
 FROM
BLOOD
STREAM
TO A HEART

239
 The haert: head (or brain) of the blood system
The heart does not process the blood in a metabolic way (like it happens in the
capillaries) but it reverses the blood in an hydrodynamic sense.
It impulses and inverts the blood.
Flow of time becomes Form – Rest Rest becomes
‘rest’ / Form Head pole Motion / Flow
Via the veins the blood Via the arteries the
flows in one great ‘heavenly’ blood ,
‘systole’ (‘contraction’) to dynamically refreshed ,
the heart. It comes to flows, in one great
form, ‘earthbound’. In rest ‘diastole’ back to the
and structure it reaches organs in centrifugal
the heart in centripetality gesture.
VEINS CARRIERS ARTERIES CARRIERS
OF LIFE OF IMPULSE / SOUL
afferent efferent
Antipathy Stofwechselpol Sympathy
Earth strömen - bewegen Heaven
GRAVITATION-Heavy Lightness-LEVITATION
In the capillaries the blood moves
In the capillaries the blood is ‘opened’ to the dimension of the organs
241
FROM MINERAL LIKE

VIA
VEGETATIVENESS
TO
ANIMAL LIKE
 FROM
SECOND
TILL
THIRD
WEEK

‘Growing in:
animalization en
individuation
243
244
‘GROWING IN’:
CHORDA
(notochord)
AND
MESODERM,
3RD WEEK

245
 TRANSVERSE
FOLDING
FOURTH WEEK

1 2

3
246
VENTROLATERAL FOLDING

247
DELAMINATION IN
TWO DIRECTIONS
CRANIOCAUDAL
(HEAD TAIL)
FOLDING

248
CRANIOCAUDAL FOLDING

249
ABFALTUNG - DELAMINATION

250
 OPPOSITION
and
CONFRONTATION

251
 OPPOSITION
and
CONFRONTATION

252
 A WORLD
ON ITS OWN ..

253
 AFTER
NIDATION:
DAY 6 TILL 9

Syncytiotrophoblast

254
Cytotrophoblast
 A WORLD
ON ITS OWN (2)

255
 Approx.
5 weeks
0,3 inch
6,3 mm)
Blechschmidt
Collection

Is this
‘animal
li(f)ke’?
Homology
Who resembles
whom?
256
EGG CELLS IN STONE?

257
 Meso is the „INNER“ tissue:
it creates space and connects

VON DORSOVENTRALE
LAMINARITEIT

NAAR
PARIETO-
VISCERALE
ABFAL-
TUNG

258
 INTROSPECTIVE “ANATOMY”’

• Anatomy goes • Anatomy goes

from outside from outside to
to outside INNEREN outside

INNERLIJK

259
 FOURTH WEEK:
Parietal and Visceral
PARIETAL VISCERAL

LOCOMOTION INTESTINE

SOMATIC
SPLANCHNIC
(voluntary,
(smooth
striated
musculature)
musculature)

ANIMAL VEGETATIVE
NERVOUS NERVOUS
SYSTEM SYSTEM

SYMPATHETIC
ANTIPATHETIC
N.S.
N.S.
PARA><ORTHO

260
 Steven Porges
Polyvagal Theory

261
 THREE KINDS OF MUSCLE
THREE WAYS OF MOVING
SMOOTH HEART

STRIATED

VIBRATION RHYTHM CYCLE

Skeletal muscles Cardiac muscle is ‘primeval muscle’’ Stofwechselmuskel
Striated M Tissue Muscle as connective tissue: Glattes MG
connecting and shaping space
Motion in form Rhythmic motion Flowing motion
(‘posturing) forming and flowing (waves) 262
 THREE LEVELS IN A
TWOFOLD ORGANISATION
• Two ‘body walls’ or
interactive boundaries
(i.e.. ‘DERM’ !) with /
against environment
– PARIETAL BODY WALL
– VISCERAL BODY WALL
• And an ‚IN BETWEEN’
as ‚INNER‘- dimension:
MESO (so actually NOT
a ‘-derm’!)

263
GERM LAYERS ARE FUNCTIONAL
PRINCIPLES, NOT ‘ANATOMY’

• Ectoderm
– ANTIPATHY
– SEPARATING
– OPPOSING
• Meso(derm)
– EMPATHY
– INNER ROOM
– MEDIATING
• Endoderm
– SYMPATHY
– CONNECTING
– ROOTING
264
SPIRIT
ECTODERM
LIFE
BEWEGUNG
SOUL
MESO
BODY
MATERIE

ENDODERM

265
NEURAL TUBE
CLOSES
ITSELF OFF

266
 Anencefalie
Baby born without brain turns two

267
‘ANTIPATHY’
AND
‘SYMPATHY‘
268
TUBES
NEURAL TUBE DEVELOPMENT

269
SLOTCANYONS

270
FROM HYPEREXTENSION TO FLEXION?

271
 FROM TIP TO TOE
FROM HEAD TO TAIL
FROM CROWN TO RUMP

272
THREE GESTURES OF BEING

273
1 ‘ENTBINDUNG’
(DECOMPOSITION)
AND
INDIVIDUALIZATION
THREE
STAGES
2

3
274
INSIDE-
OUT
THREE
GERM
LAYERS

In all
directions
‘Process-
Morphology’
275
MIDWINTER

276
 EMBRYOS
IN
HERAKLION?

277
EMBRYOS
IN YOUR
COFFEE?

278
EMBRYOS FROM …
THE OCEAN?

279
 EMBRYOS
IN THE
ATMOSPHERE?

280
 CAUSE
OR
CONSEQUENCE?
HANDS
AND/OR
CLAY?

281
 THE HUMAN FIGURE IS A FORM
WHICH HAS COME FORTH FROM MOVEMENT..

282
 GERM LAYER ARE FUNCTIONAL
PRINCIPLES, NOT ‘ANATOMY’

• Ectoderm
– ANTIPATHY
– SEPARATION
– OPPOSING
• Meso(derm)
– EMPATHY
– INNER ROOM/SPACE
– MEDIATION
• Endoderm
– SYMPATHY
– CONNECTION
– ROOTING
283
 GERM LAYERS ARE FUNCTIONAL
PRINCIPLES, NOT ‘ANATOMY’
• Topography and locality
fail as comprehensive
principles to describe or
define the functional
dimensions of the three
germ layers represent
• Nervous system & sense
organs
– Locomotion system
– Blood & cardiovascular
system
• Digestive system

Not only germ layers

Also three functional principles or three ´ways of being´ 284
 GERM LAYERS ARE FUNCTIONS
• Structural derivatives • Basal functions
• Ectoderm: • External and internal
Nervous system, skin communication a.o.
and appendages perception & control
• Meso(derm): Blood, • External and internal
connective tissue & movement & motion
derivatives, locomotor • Metabolism and
system exchange of ‘matter’
• Endoderm: metabolic, and substances incl.
endocrine system defense (immune)
285
 GERM LAYERS ARE
ALSO PSYCHOSOMATIC
PRINCIPLES

• Germ layer morphology also

represent, mirrors a
psychosomatic ‘morphology’
or organization.
• Three ways of being, three
ways of interacting with
environment, with ‘the world’.
• Therefore a Dynamic
Morphology or Process
Morphology helps better to
understand the ‘types of
constitution’.
286
PSYCHOSOMATIC THREEFOLDNESS

287
THREEFOLD ORGANIZATION ACCORDING TO
J.W. ROHEN (Functional Morphology)

• Information Exchange
– (Form processes)
– Light
• Transport and
distribution
– Rhythmic processes
– Fluid
• Metabolism
– Material processes
– Chemical substances

288
 THREEFOLD ORGANIZATION ACCORDING
TO J.W. ROHEN (Functional Morphology):
UPPER AND LOWER POLE WITH A MIDDLE

FOOTNOTE: Be aware of Cartesian Locality and Localization! 289

 IN ALL DIRECTIONS
HOLOGRAFIC OR MAGNET PRINCIPLE

290
‘‘HEADS ARE FUNCTIONAL PRINCIPLES‘
MY HEAD # MY BRAIN

291
 FORGOTTEN’ AIR
THREEFOLD SKULL ORGANIZATION
• ‘HEAD AIR’
Pneumatisation of the
skull
NEURO-
• ‘BREAST AIR’
Rhythmically moved air
in the airways (brought
to vibration during
PNEUMO-
speech
• ‘BELLY AIR’
Gas exchange in the
alveoli
VISCERO-

292
PNEUMATISATION

293
 ‘FORGOTTEN
THREEFOLD ‘AIR ORGANISM’

• ‘HEAD AIR’
Pneumatisation of the
skull’- ‘form air’
• ‘BREAST AIR’
Rhythmically moved air
in the airways (brought
to vibration during
speech (‘Kehlkopf’)
• ‘BELLY AIR’
Gas exchange /
metabolism in the
alveoli

294
RHYTHM BETWEEN STRUCTURE /
FORM AND PROCESS / CYCLE

• ‘HEAD AIR’
Larynx (‘Kehlkopf’)
SPEECH
vibration /
• ‘BREAST AIR’
bronchial tree
BREATHING
‘DEAD SPACE’
rythm
• ‘BELLY AIR’
alveoli
GAS EXCHANGE
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 HEAD, TRUNK AND LIMBS

THE CLASSICAL TRIMERIA

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THE HEART IS (also) MIDDLE / ‘MITTE’
- that depends on your ‘scope’-

UPPER
MIDDLE
LOWER
is too
poor !
INTRACELLULAR
INTERSTITIAL –
MATRIX
CAVITY FLUIDS

298
 THE V OF SYMMETRIE
CROSSING AND BECOMING AWARE OF SELF

TheV of
Symmetry

299
 In mir lebet das Weltensein als
Menschenform und (die) Menschengestalt
(lebet das Weltensein)
REFLECTION - MIRRORING

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MIRRORING:
OUTSIDE
AND
INSIDE

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WHAT IS A TEAR?

In Wikipedia, THE (free) Encyclopedia

Tear is a droplet eye liquid. The liquid from

which tears are made of is called tear liquid.
Tear liquid is a liquid that mainly serves to
moisten the eye Moreover this substance
carries away particles that have passed
along eyelashes. It also contains lysozym, a
protein that breaks down the cell walls of
microbes so that they are made harmless. 303
 FOUR REALMS
FOUR WAYS OF BEING
FOUR GESTURES

AFTER THE ..
GROWING ON GROWING OUT GROWING IN … THE
GROWING BEYOND ?
304
A NECK AND A WAIST

305
STRETCHING YOUR BACK

306
‘RETURN’ OF THE ORGANS

307
FROM 6th WEEK ON: Head and
pelvis; Head and Limbs

308
‘HEAD POLE’ versus ????????

‘METABOLIC
LIMB POLE’?

309
 Approx.
3,5 weeks
0,1 inch
(3,1 mm)
Blechschmidt
Collection

310
 Begin
2nd month
0,2 inch
(4,2 mm)
Blechschmidt
Collection

311
 Approx.
5 weeks
0,3 inch
(6,3 mm)
Blechschmidt
Collection

312
 Middle
2nd month
0,4 inch
(10 mm)
Blechschmidt
Collection

313
 End
2nd month
0,7 inch
(17,5 mm)
Blechschmidt
Collection

314
 ASCENSUS
(ASCENDING)
(cns)
AND
DESCENSUS
(DESCENDING)
(viscera)

Segmental relationships
315
EXTREMITIES
NEW FORMS?

316
ARMS & LEGS ROTATIONS
APPROX. 8 WEEKS, 8 INCH
(20 mm)

317
 ROTATION
OF THE
EXTREMITIES

318
ROTATION OF THE EXTREMITIES

319
ROTATION OF THE
EXTREMITIES

320
INVERSION AND
REVOLUTION?
Jaimen McMillan
Spacial Dynamics

321
 INVERSION AND
REVOLUTION
METAMORPHOSIS
L.F.C. Mees
Metamorphoses
of the skeleton

322
METAMORPHOSES
of the skeleton
Another view?
POLAR GESTURES

324
CREATING
ROOM
IN AND
OF THE
MIDDLE

325
 EMBRYO – ONE – BODY
HEAD POLE - CRANIAL AND – AND CAUDAL – PELVIC POLE
FORM-Pole - Structure NEITHER – NOR Vitalität – PROCESS-Pole
Hyperconsciousness < Sleeping – “Uncoscious” >
Conscious – Waking up Nonconsciousness
1 “Center”- EMBRYOBLAST- TROPHOBLAST – “Periphery”-
Separation 1 Connecting
MESO
ECTODERM –Antipathy ENDODERM – Sympathy
Fascia – Blood
Nervous System Metabolism
Movement and motion
2 DORSAL VENTRAL 2
RHYTHM – Metameria
3 CRANIAL CAUDAL 3
Somites - TRUNK
4 LEFT - Arteriality RIGHT - Venosity 4
5 PARIETAL striated HEART – MIDDLE VISCERAL – smooth 5
Vibration Rhytm Cycle
6 HEAD BREAST ABDOMEN 6
neuro pneumo viscero

7 HEAD TRUNK EXTREMITIES 7

Sphere - centripetal Cylinder Radii - centrifugal
8 MAGNET PRINCIPLE
Holographic principle
„Threefoldness everywhere“ 326
 POLARITIES IN ALL DIRECTIONS
‘HEAVENS’ ‘EARTH’
1st
1. PERIPHERY WEEK CENTRE .1
SYMPATHY ANTIPATHY
CONNECTING / ROOTING SEPARATION / DISCONNECTING

2nd
2. VENTRAL WEEK DORSAL .2
3. CAUDAL 3rd CRANIAL .3
WEEK
4. RIGHT LEFT .4
5. VISCERAL 4th PARIETAL .5
(‘OUTSIDE’’) WEEK (‘INSIDE’)
6. PELVIS (ABDOMEN) From HEAD.6
6th
7.LIMBS WEEK HEAD (SKULL).7
‘in all directions en dimensions (‘magnet principle’)
METABOLIZE PERCEPTION
‘THERE’/‘BEYOND’’ ‘HERE’

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 POLARITIES

HEAVENS EARTH
CENTRIFUGAL CENTRIPETAL
‘’SPERM CELLULAR’ ‘EGG CELLULAR’
DISPERSE/PERIPHERIZE CONCENTRATE
RADIATING CENTERING

PERIPHERY CENTRE
THERE HERE
OPENING – DISCONNECTING -
CONNECTING SEPARATING
SYMPATHY ANTIPATHY

328
 MIND
MAN:
BALANCE
MOT ION IN
MOVEMENT
MATTER

329
ECCE HOMO

330
 FROM ONE TO MANY

• The Tao brings forth the One

• The One brings forth the Two
• The Two brings forth the Three
• The Three brings forth all Beings
• All beings carry the resting Yin in
themselves and contain the moving Yang

331
 RUMI
I have again and again grown like grass;
I have experienced seven hundred and seventy moulds.
I died from minerality and became vegetable;
And from vegetativeness I died and became animal.
I died from animality and became man.
Then why fear disappearance through death?
Next time I shall die
Bringing forth wings and feathers like angels:
After that soaring higher than angels –
What you cannot imagine. I shall be that.

I died from mineral and plant became

I died from plant and took a sentient frame
I died from beast and donned a human dress
Where by dying did I ever grow less?
Anon
332
FOUR GESTURES

333
MAN OR ANIMAL?

WARNING!
This lecture
can be
harmful for
your mental
health!
334
About Humanness
It depends
in what
drection you
want to look

335
 CLASSIC TREE OF DESCENT?
CHIMPANZEE AS MOST RELATED TO MAN

336
 2013 - The perfect middle? ?
Human, A. sediba and chimpanzee.
EMERGENCE OF MAN
7-4 million years ago: Several monkeys perhaps walked upright:
Sahelanthropus tchadensis, Orrorin tugenensis, Ardipithecus
ramidus.
3.7 million years ago: In Tanzania, three upright walking apes
leave a footprint behind in wet volcanic ash: unmistakable
evidence of bipedalism
Ca. 3.9 - 2.9 million years ago: In East Africa is Australopithecus
afarensis around, known from the fossil Lucy
Ca. 3-2 million years ago, Australopithecus africanus runs (walks)
in South Africa, characteristic are the developed hands
2.4 - 2.3 million years ago: First primitive tools in East Africa
1.9 million years ago, Australopithecus sediba in South Africa.
About 2 - 1.5 million years ago: First primitive hominids,
characterized by large brains
THE ‘ BIOGENETIC LAW’ OF ERNST HAECKEL

338
About missing links
“THE ANIMAL GIVES IN,
WHERE MAN
‘KEEPS STANDING”

340
‘DAS TIERISCHE IN SCHATTEN’ ?

‘Quote by Goethe’

“Im Menschen ist das Tierische zu

höheren Zwecken gesteigert und für das
Auge, wie für den Geist, in Schatten
gestellt“
In the human being the animal
principle is functionally elevated
(“gesteigert”) to higher purposes and
is for the eye, as well as for the
mind, more or less hidden.

J.W. von Goethe (1795)

“Erster Entwurf einer allgemeinen
Einleitung in die vergleichende Anatomie,
ausgehend von der Osteologie”

341
Bipedalism and going upright
Thee ‘upright going’ chimpanzee.
Skeleton of a kangaroo. 342
 LOCOMOTION IN BALANCE ?

Body weight (kg) versus net transport costs (ml of oxygen per kg N per m displacement). Note the
logarithmic scale. The yellow dots indicate the cost of a walking human, and the red and blue dots
the costs for bipedally respectively quadrupedally walking chimpanzees. The propelling charge
amounts in man approximately one-quarter of the costs, which are measured for the chimpanzee.
The dotted lines indicate the average cost that may measure in running and walking mammals and
birds in general. The figure illustrates the dramatic biomechanical superiority of the erect posture
of Homo sapiens. (M.D.Sockol, D.A.Raichlen, H.Pontzer “Chimpanzee locomotor energetics and the
origin of human bipedalism” PNAS 104, p.12265-12269, 2007).

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APE or MAN?

344
GRAVITY
CENTER
OF THE
SKULL

345
The human chin

346
 Milk teeth (left) and permanent
dentition (right) in the orangutan
(below) and man (upper)

Disto-(row of teeth)-proximal
(mandibular joint) growing
gradient: ramus grows ‘on’ longer.

Profiles of chins in children. Left: 6 and 7 years old. Right: 11 and 12 years old

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 Journal of
Anatomy,
april 2015
On the left we see the skull of a human
Chins do not
(being), on the right the skull of a
Neanderthaler. What is the difference?
have a function.
People have, otherwise than it is in
primates and prehistoric Man
(humans), a chin. And that chin does
not have any function (is not
functional), which is different from what
we thought until now, so write
researchers in the Journal of Anatomy.

“The chin has nothing to do with

mechanical movements like chewing, but
comes forth from adaptations in the shape
of our face during evolution. Our face
became smaller, possibly caused by
hormonal changes and that is why the
chin became more prominent.”
348
APE or MAN?

349
 MAN
and APE

350
 RETARDATION and PROPULSION
HUMAN FACE and ANIMAL SNOUT

351
The primates hand
Early fetal hand macaque and human
Gorilla Hand (fetal and adult)
From left to right: Adult macaque, gibbon,
orangutan, chimpanzee and human.

‘Lower primate hands’:

Thumb is ‘long enough’ but not ‘emancipated’
From left to right: Adult Lemurian,
galago, capuchin, nachtaap, spider monkey.
352
Basic positions of the hand

Divergence en convergence

Basic functions of the hand

Prehensility (force) and

opposability (precision)

353
Look-alikes fig. 1 Coelacanth
The fin of the fish has inside
bones similar to that of a hand,
but however has gradually
become be more symmetric.

Look-alikes fig. 2 Hands

The human hand is less
symmetric: strangely enough the
hand is in this respect more
primitive than the fin of the
Coelacanth.
 The
primate foot
Adults foot
orangutan
chimpanzee
lowland Gorilla
mountain Gorilla
and of man

The primate foot

Early fetal foot of macaque and human
Fetal and adult hand of a monkey (Alouatta)
and of a human. 355
 BIOLOGY OF FREEDOM?

S
O
P
R
E A
I G
C D
G R
I A
I O
A P
N W
L T
A
I A
L B
S T
I E
A I
T Y
T O
Y O
I N
N
O
D
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356
RETARDATION or PROPULSION

357
Neural en cranial rotation Left: ventro-dorsal rotation van Right: Postnatal development of the
and de-flexion in man and ape the telencephalon in humans skull in Gorilla (1) and in man(2)
358
Schedule of a composition
of retardation
359
Oral cavity and pharynx
Human and chimpanzee
1. nasal cavity
2. Tongue
3. hard palate
4. soft palate
5. glottis
6. Pharynx
7. larynx
8. vocal cords
9. esophagus
10. trachea

360
 ‘FORGOTTEN
THREEFOLD ‘AIR ORGANISM’

• ‘HEAD AIR’
Pneumatisation of the
skull’- ‘form air’
• ‘BREAST AIR’
Rhythmically moved air
in the airways (brought
to vibration during
speech (‘Kehlkopf’)
• ‘BELLY AIR’
Gas exchange /
metabolism in the
alveoli

361
RHYTHM BETWEEN STRUCTURE /
FORM AND PROCESS / CYCLE

• ‘HEAD AIR’
Larynx (‘Kehlkopf’)
SPEECH
vibration /
• ‘BREAST AIR’
bronchial tree
BREATHING
‘DEAD SPACE’
rythm
• ‘BELLY AIR’
alveoli
GAS EXCHANGE
362
 BIOLOGY OF FREEDOM?

Verhulst (2001):

“THROUGOUT
EVOLUTION
SPEECH
COMES TO
APPEARANCE”

363
Skeleton of gorilla and
Man in typical
walking position

GORILLA RUNS ON FOUR LIMBS.

1. the arms are longer, the legs are shorter
2. large processes on the cervical vertebrae
for insertion of the powerful neck muscles
3 skull is not in the balance upon on the
spine but is carried (worn) in front of the
(ventral to the) body
4 thorax hangs below the vertebral column
5 the scapula is oriented horizontally
6 pelvic bones reach almost the ribs.
7 the sacrum is oriented less backwards
8, the knee is flexed
9 the big toe is too short

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“HIGHER” OR “FURTHER”?

365
 DEEP RETARDATION – HOX-genes

Denis Duboule a
remarkable article
(“The rise and fall
of Hox gene
clusters”
Development 134,
p.2549-2560, 2007)

• Although all bilaterian animals have a related set of Hox genes, the genomic
organization of this gene complement comes in different flavors. In some
unrelated species, Hox genes are clustered; in others, they are not. This
indicates that the bilaterian ancestor had a clustered Hox gene family and that,
subsequently, this genomic organization was either maintained or lost.
Remarkably, the tightest organization is found in vertebrates, raising the
embarrassingly finalistic possibility that vertebrates have maintained best this
ancestral condition”
In other words, vertebrates, amazingly, would be the only
animals in which the original genomic strucutre of this crucial
gene family has persisted throughout evolution”.
366
Deep retardation
Van upper to below: line of evolution
On the left: growing retardation and
Explicitation of humanness
On the right: specialization en acceleration367
CREATION OR / ÁND EVOLUTION

368
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THE EMBRYO IN US

371
Der Mensch als
Embryo zwischen
Himmeln und Erde
With English abstracts

Dynamic
Morphology
and
Embryology
Chapter 4

372
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377
378
The Secret Life of
Babies
Paperback –
March 19, 2009
by Mia Kalef
(Author)

379
The Heart and
Circulation. An
Integrative Mode

Branko Furst

Published by
Springer, 2013
ISBN 10: 144715276X
ISBN 13: 9781447152767

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The Fourth Phase
of Water: Beyond
Solid, Liquid, and
Vapor
May 1, 2013
by Gerald H.
Pollack (Author)

382
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ALSO AN
IMAGE
OF AN
EMBRYO

384
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THE ‘RIGHT’ EYE?

386
HOW TO METABLETE THINGS?

387
What’s on an ape’s mind?

388
Ladies and gentlemen, and now …..Coherence

389
 Marie Ackx
dochter van Merel
17 april 2012
cursus Lommel
maart 2012
in liefde ontvangen
onder water geboren
zonder verdoving
na 2,5 uur ‘arbeid’
En de placenta?
“Daar komt een
boompje op”
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 Cuando las uvas
se convierten en vino,
anhelan nuestra capacidad
de cambio.

Cuando las estrellas giran

en torno al Polo Norte,
están anhelando
nuestra creciente conciencia.

El vino se emborrachó
con nosotros,
y no al revés.
El cuerpo se desarolló
a partir de nosotros
y no nosotros a partir de él.

Somos abejas
y nuestro cuerpo es un panal.
Nosotros hicimos
WE ARE THE BODY WE HAVE el cuerpo,
célula a célula
We have the soul we are .. lo hicimos.

Rumi (1207 - 1273) The enlightened Heart, ed. by Stephen Mitchell

399
 Un embrión
EMBRION
es un ser humano.
Una fase,
un capítulo
de la biografía singular
de un hombre.
Estamos esperando un hijo:
¿Quién vendrá?
Y no:
¿En qué se convertirá?

Quien sólo puede reconocer

la recapitulación de una
filogenia,
nunca entenderá
el secreto.
Ya ha leído
lo que todavía tiene
que ser escrito.
400
 Quiero darnos un hijo.
No sólo la suma de
CONCEPCION
dos tipos de genes,
ni sólo un accidente
en el mar del tiempo.

Sino...
una maravilla,
suspendida en el océano
azul y seguro
de tu regazo.

Devenido, creado,
en ese mismo momento,
en que yo era tú,
y tú eras yo,
y nos encontramos
y conocimos
al Otro.
JvdW
401
Desde mi cabeza a mis pies
Yo soy la imágen de Dios;
Desde mi corazón a mis manos
Yo siento el aliento de Dios; (respiracion)
Cuando hablo con mi boca
Yo sigo la Voluntad de Dios.
Cuando veo Dios (’beyo’)
En todos partes, en mi madre, en mi padre
En toda la gente amada,
en animal(es) y flor(es),
en arbol(es) y piedra(s),
No siento miedo,
Soló Amor me llenara
Por todo lo que me rodea.
From my head to my feet
I am the image of God;
From my heart to my hands
I feel the breath of God;
When I speak with my mouth,
I follow God’s will.
When I see God
Everywhere, in mother, father,
in all dear people, (Ook: in all loving people)
in animal and flower, (Ook: in beast & flower)
in tree and stone,
No fear shall I feel, (Ook: No fear is mine)
Just love will fill me
For everything around me.
402
He crecido una vez tras otra como yerba
he experimentado setecientos setenta moldes
morí de mineralidad y me hice vegetal
y de vegetabilidad morí y me hice animal
me morí de animalidad y me hice hombre.
Entonces, porque temer desaparecer con la muerte?
la siguiente vez que muera
Creceré alas y plumas como los ángeles
después, cerniéndome por encima de los ángeles
lo que no podias imaginar. Lo seré

I have again and again grown like grass;

I have experienced seven hundred and seventy moulds.
I died from minerality and became vegetable;
And from vegetativeness I died and became animal.
I died from animality and became man.
Then why fear disappearance through death?
Next time I shall die
Bringing forth wings and feathers like angels:
After that soaring higher than angels –
What you cannot imagine. I shall be that. 403