(Excerpts from book:
MIND POWER (1980) CH 10, Author - Swami
Vijnananand (S.V.), Manashakti publication)
While examining
the origin of life, we have so far seen a chain starting from coaservate drops
to virus, virus to single cell organism and the role of non-matter (mind) in
each step. We have also examined the “free will” aspect of the mind
(non-matter) starting from electron.
The next step of evolution was the
group life of cells as a single organism. It presupposes the existence of a
group leader or ‘organizing mind’. Without the leader the chaotic
conditions may prevail.
10.1 “Metazoan”
(multi cellular) presupposes qualitatively different extra mind.
Protozoa is in the category of a
single cell animal. Metazoan includes all the multiple cell chain including
man.
A system of
enforced communism
Once multi-celled organism is
conceded, it cannot be done without a system. Unless the group of cells agrees
to submit a single entity in a given system, the individual (multi celled)
organism cannot come into existence. The eventuality (of formation of multi
cellular single organism) ordains (makes a rule) that the cells have to agree
to come together for whatever advantages or disadvantages.
In evolution we have seen cells
living in community. The book Cine Biology (chapter 5, page 57) under the
heading “an experiment in communism” speaks about hydra and lobelia. (Delicate
moss like growth on rocks) .Whatever food is captured by one polyp (a sedentary
type animal form) goes to the nourishment of a colony as a whole and is thus
shared by every other polyp. It is, in fact, a system of enforced communism.
Going to the
root of this aspect of multi minds and multi cellular (individual) organism, we
have to note following important statements.
(1) A single cell must have the
capacity to accommodate more than one mind.
(2) If not earlier, such an
extra mind must be conceded at least at the time of cell division, without
which cell division cannot take place.
(3) These two minds ought to be
unequal (different/distinct). Oparin has pointed out the inequality in pre
organic state. (Origin of life -1P –page 78 to 83):
“Even those (coacervate) drops
which appear simultaneously in a solution differ somewhat from one another as
regards composition and internal structure.” Oparin goes on with his
explanation at length and then mentions “For all our advanced techniques
we have yet not approached the level of rationalization possessed by living
nature.
(Mind and desire for inequality:
S.V. says: - We have already established
non material nature of mind. Here we have shown how scientists encounter
obscure inequalities in pre organic state).
(4) The psychical developments at the cell stage retained their
obscurities, since they were inherent in them.
(5) Mind at each cell, after the development of the respective
cell was to face its co-existing friend or rival.
(6) The extra mind must be either superior or inferior. In
quality, possibly, it may be superior, perhaps because of latent period of rest
it enjoyed. Unless that is conceded, the progressive evolution is not possible.
Unless the later development of cell is more progressive, the development or
replication will only be mechanical.
(7) Moreover, evolution is a spiral development and this requires
extra mind to be superior, which in turn may assume the role of organizing mind
in the multi cellular development.
(8) Unless there is such a spare mind to spare, the very plan of
cell division cannot set foot.
(9) Once the psyche is hypothesized with proof, possibility of
many minds occupying the space of a single cell, if needed, cannot be
questioned. Of course, mind occupies no space and therefore, it can
remain attached or detached in nucleus of cell as the need be.
The hypothesis
of multi-minds in a single organism with “organized mind” can be solved so
logically. Without the acceptance of this condition, the phenomenon of cell
division shall relegate (be Dismissed or cancelled).
10.2 Inequalities
persist in plant and animal cells. (Plants feel)
With the advance of science, it has become more and more
difficult to find clear cut differences between plants and animals. Inequalities
in the cell persist in multi cellular organism. That is logical explanation as
if a bio-mirroring.
Plant feelings (Ref. Plant
Autograph, Dr. J. Bose)
(i)When animals, plants and metals have been subjected to
the same questioning shocks, they have in all cases given similar replies. They
exhibit similar fatigue and similar exaltation.
(ii) Executive center: - In animals, the essential
difference between the sensory and motor impulse is that:
Sensory impulse --- travels towards the center
Motor impulse --- travels away from the center
It is impossible to tell whether they travel with same or
different velocity.
In the plant – It is comparatively easy to measure the two
speeds and it is surprising fact that the outgoing motor impulse is the quicker
of the two. The speed of the nervous impulse, usually speaking decreases with
the distance traveled and one winkle think that after the arrival of sensory
impulse at the center, the speed of the reflected impulse would be diminished,
since it had to travel a longer distance.
My (Dr. Bose’s) investigation however shows that the speed
of the outgoing motor impulse is at least six times greater than that of the
incoming sensory impulse. The change of a sensory into motor impulse in the
reflex arch therefore connote (additionally suggest) not merely reversal in the
direction of propagation, but a greater discharge of energy at the center by
which the motor impulse becomes far more intense than the feeble sensory
impulse. (In plants) It would thus appear that the center has a specific
executive function and that a considerable amount of energy is stored there. Executive
center extract energy six times more.
(iii) Matter/ non-matter sensitive. The dust
particles and the earth, the plant and the animal, are all sensitive.
(iv) “Perceived in them one phase of all pervading unity
that bears within it all things – the mole (small dust) that quivers (shakes,
tumbles slightly), in the ripple of light, the teeming (to have in great
numbers continuously) life upon our earth and that rational sun that shines
above us………. It was then that I (Bose) understood for the first time, a
little of that message proclaimed by my ancestors on the banks of Ganges thirty
centuries ago”.
(v) When microscopic vision fails, we have to still explore
the realm of the invisible. “I (Bose) have been able to make the dumb plant the
most expressive speaker telling a record of historical events in order they
occurred about its inner life and experiences by making it write down its own
history. The self-make-record thus made shows that there is no life reaction in
even the highest animal which has not been fore shadowed in the life of the
plant. The plant and animals are appearing as the multiform unity in the single
ocean of being". (Plant Autograph preface)
Dr. Bose satisfied his British scientist’s critics in London
Royal society who objected his theory where Dr. Bose demonstrated that;
plant and animal responses are similar.
10.3 “Purposive cell proves UNEQUAL
MINDS
Cell and Virus, their Chemical
composition is similar but “purpose” is vast varied.
Cell biology tells us that even
in a single organism, there are hardly any perceptible differences in the cell.
The differentiations in the purpose are vast and varied.
Because of exact duplication and
segregation of DNA during cell reproduction, all of the cells in
multi-cellular organism contain the same type and amount of nuclear
information, have same capacity, but they use it differently. Since the nucleus
is the control center of the cell, all cells should have the same potential and
be capable of manufacturing all the proteins of the body. Obvious fact however
is that, they do not do so.
Non –matter
created Matter. (Creator is “mind”) One is more or less forced into the
view that living things come from the material which was not living.
10.4 Organizing
mind, Organizer Recognized by noble price winners.
When a certain restricted bit of
the embryo in what will be the embryo’s back, has a curious power as so called
“organizer” If it is transplanted to some part of another embryo, it sets going
and seems to direct a wholesale scheme of development almost tantamount (equal
in effect) to starting a new embryo. Something like this at times happens
naturally.
Twines,
Quintuplets: There are two kinds of twins. One kind is traceable to the
fertilizing of two eggs. The twins then are not more like each other than are
other children of the same parentage. In the other kind of twins both come from
one and the same fertilized egg. The egg implanting itself as usual and drawing
nutriment from the mother, its beginning (initial) cell mass, probably first as
usual just one embryonic rudiment (basic or essential fact) then proceeds to
start a second embryo. These twins are always puzzlingly alike.
The Canadian quintuplets (five
children birth at a time) are of this kind. In their case, the same fertilized
egg produces an accessory embryo not once, but four times more.
The “organizer”
explains how this might have happened. Please note these are the observations
of Dr. Sherrington, the noble prize winner scientist.
10.5 Single
organism accommodating two or more minds
Dr. fredland , Russian scientist refers
to “Double Life “. The findings indicate that cells in the body are more
sensitive than when they are outside the body. The capacity variation of the
cell within and without body is not understood and remains secret.
The advantage gained by a single
integrated system, (in the body), must have some disadvantage that creates
incompatibility. Temporary advantage and long term advantage are always notable
to live together. The advantages of single integral system, once admitted, then
the organizer in the body must be recognized. So, the secret of
“incompatibility” can thus be understood logically. (Additional details refer
10.8.)
CASE – 1
Bacterial cell ----------
Simultaneously infected by two (closely related but) different phages (phage =
virus that destroys bacteria) ---------- Progeny (offspring) --------- The offspring
includes both types in proportion similar to the infesting mixture.
(CASE 1): A + B = C (A + B)
CASE – 2
Similar mixed infection when the
infecting phages are unrelated types yield a pure brood (number of offspring
produced of one type simultaneously), other type of infesting phage is lost.
Bacteria cell -------- Infected
by two not closely related (unrelated) phages ------------ offspring -------- Only one type of
infesting phage.
(CASE 2) A + B = A OR B.
Inequality at
very root
In case 1, we saw virus A +virus
B produced virus C (A+B) though A and B were not in same proportion, thus C
must have both A and B in unequal proportion
Description: - When a bacterial
cell is simultaneously infected by two closely related but different phage
types, the progeny includes both types in proportions similar to infesting
mixture. This may not sound especially startling but it could not of course
have been predicted. Particles and the appearance of new ones, particles and
infesting activities are both temporarily out of sight. Presumably, the substance
of virus becomes mixed infection with substance of host cell. In a double
infection, however, everything seems to straighten itself before the deadline
and from temporary “disorder” re-appears high order. A mixed infection with
unrelated types yields a pure brood of one type only. The infecting particle of
other type is lost.
Compare this with human birth:-
Mother + Father = Son
Virus A + virus B = produces C (a
+ b virus)
Son is a third mind, since we
can show father and mother in addition to son, visibly. In case of virus the
resulting “C” is the end of all. It must be assumed to have included A and B,
though in an unequal proportion. But that inequality is the very root of
manifest existence. “C” might be a temporary or permanent merger of “A” and
“B”. In any case, from material point of view, “A” and “B” are fused into one,
whose psycho accommodation has taken to be granted.
Apart from the references
disclosing two viruses in one cell, (i.e. more minds in one body) other
references appear (in the book) as follows:-
1) 10.11 - Child birth, a super
material effect.
2) 11- over lapping mind and
multi-layered ness. (Insect with 14 lives)
3) 11.3 - Qualitative layered
differences of mind. (Cell structure as only a vehicle)
4) 12.0 - Paradoxical living
together.—Cell minds and Organized Mind.
5) 13.4 - Three paradoxes of
viruses. (Lower dictates)
6) 13.10 Cell – Virus desire
pleasure.
7) 14.2 - at birth, Mind and
Matter meet as they deserve.
8) 14.7 Birth phenomenon, (ghost
literally attached)
10.6 Studies about
“ORGANISER” in twins. A story of Armadillo, a typical mammal
Here is a reference from an
eminent authority in the field of “twin study”, Pages 69, 70. Dr. H.H. Newman,
who has unsolved mystery of so-called “single” life unit (or single mind)
dividing its little empire into four life units (or multiple minds), because of
the “organizer” inside. The reference indicates, how at the instance of the
organizer, four offshoots at psychic (mind related) level make a mark.
The basis of the ‘one egg
twinning study’ is the development of nine-banded armadillo. (An earth hole
living mammal in South America with a body encased in bony plates and often
with habit of rolling itself into a ball when captured.)
·
Armadillo is a curious mammal that regularly produces one
egg quadruplets. (Four children to same mother in one birth.)
·
It was discovered by Paterson that after a few days
development, the early embryo of this animal, stops developing entirely,
without having acquired any nutritive connection with the maternal uterus.
(From this connection supply of nutrients comes from mother for the development).
For some months, no development takes place, but a time comes when the embryo wakes
up, as it were, establishes connection with the uterus and then undergoes
rather quickly two twinning divisions.
·
The first division produces a pair of embryos and then each
of these divide again two produce double twins or quadruplets.
·
Since every step in this twinning process in the armadillo has
been observed, the fact cannot be doubted.
Don’t know: We don’t know
for sure, however, what causes the embryo to stop developing, then to resume development,
and almost at once to undergo two twinning divisions.
Analysis of
“Don’t know”. It was natural to guess that the twinning might be a
consequence of the stoppage of the development.
Hypothesis
trial at other places
This hypothesis was tried out by
Stockard on the eggs of fish and by Newman on those of starfish.
·
Stockard found that when he kept fish embryos at low
temperature for about an hour and then returned them to normal temperature, a
number of twins were produced.
·
Newman found that almost any agent that slowed down the
early development of starfish embryos would endues a fair percentage of twins.
·
A number of other workers, notably, Arey, Hinrichs and
Genther have helped to support this theory.
Theory: --
Primary cause of one egg twinning is a temporary stoppage of development at a
critical stage. Why a stoppage
of development should be the cause of twinning is another question to which, we
can offer only a pure theoretical answer.
Theory
(Organizer):-- According this theory, there is present in young embryo, a
certain organizing region, a region that unifies and holds together the
development cells and makes them behave like an organism. Organizing center in
embryos is well known to be more susceptible to inhibiting or retarding
influences than are the other parts of the embryo.
When anything slows down the
life process of the embryo the organizer feels it first and since it is the
organizer that unifies or holds together the embryos and interference with the
organizer may let the organizer come apart, as it were, so that its two halves
start to go independently and gives rise to two whole individuals.
Theoretical
explanation: -- Based upon the Embryological principles. - Although this
is purely a theoretical explanation of an egg twinning, it is based upon
embryological principle and is the only explanation that has so far been
offered.
10.7 Siamese
twins also prove separate psycho.
Dr. Newman has focused on the
psychological aspect of one of the Siamese twins joined body to body.
Unexpected dissimilarity in the
Siamese twin pair (Two children attached)
Such twins have not only a
common heredity but a common environment. (They must be in the same environment
all the time being attached.) So one would expect such twins to be strikingly
similar even more than the pairs of separate twins that are not so intimately
associated.
The fact
however that Siamese twins are almost without exception more different in
various ways than any but a very few pairs of separate one egg twins. This dissimilarity
is not understood. One of the most difficult problems faced by the
twinning specialists is that of accounting for this unexpected dissimilarity of
the component of Siamese twin pairs.
Hilton Siamese
Twins: Both were found to have different mental ability
Dr. Helen Koch made a
psychological study of the Hilton twins when they were about 15 years old. And
found that they differed in mental ability and in temperament considerably;
more than the average of separate one egg twins.
10.8 Purpose of
“out word ness” of the Organizer.
·
In a body, each cell group has different sustaining capacity
at the time of death.
·
Cerebral cortex cell dies early (*Paths of Science,31P,pg
56,)
·
Skin, hairs, nails (of the body) these cells live longer
than the cells of the cerebral cortex.
·
But so long as the body lives, the coordination of all the
body is effective.
Perfect
coordination in the body for preserving and developing life
·
Faced by a sudden danger, a living being must turn and flee
or summon its strength to attack its foe. But the body muscles cannot
accomplish either
·
The heart must be mobilized
·
The spleen must contract and eject its blood reserves into
the general stream.
·
Adrenals must intensify their function to secret more
adrenaline.
This in turn increases the
consumption of the sugar by the muscles for additional energy. The remaining
organs must also take part in the body’s struggle for the safety.
And that is what exactly
happens. It is an old adage (say) that strength multiplies in time of
danger. At such a time, a man is able to jump over a fence, for instance,
which he would not have been able to negotiate under ordinary circumstances. Or
resist (fight) a stranger adversary (rival), who would have easily overpowered
him at another time.
Single center
To put all organs, internal and
external alike, into simultaneous operation at small notice, they must be
governed by a single center. It is this oneness of all their functions that
preservers and develops life, and creates most favorable condition for body’s
adjustment to its environment.
We (Human
being) are unaware of some of our own (his) body functions. * (Paths of
Science, 31P, Page 277)
Cortex is the center of our
consciousness. Why we are unaware of some of the streams of impulses from
our internal organs to the cortex? Why we do not feel them? And do not know
of them? Would it be better to know each second the state of our liver,
stomach, spleen, kidneys, adrenal, pancreas, thyroids and vessels? (Lung,
hearts)?
No. That would be disastrous. The
ceaseless streams of signals to the brain would fill in with chaotic sensation.
There would be no room (to do) for anything else. It would distract animals
from the realities about them. They would be helpless in the face of the outer
world. The same is true for the human being.
Protective
adjustment – Result of millions of years of Natural selection
It is good that intercepting
signals reach no further than the threshold of consciousness and pass it
(consciousness) on rare occasions only. That is the result of millions of
years of natural selection and should be regarded as a protective adjustment of
living being to their environment.
Prerogative of
cortex – Discriminatory authority
The psychic region of cortex
only admits only signals; both of the external and external world, essential at
any given moment. The brain does not respond to all signals indiscriminately,
many of them are inhibited. (Prevented / restricted.)
Cortex wisdom
is at price (more susceptible).
Brain cells refusing code
message received from their internal juniors in the name of “wisdom” must pay
their price. Earlier we have seen that a blood cell within body remains more
susceptible than outside the body, i.e. e. it has to pay the price for
remaining in the body. It remains in the body for other advantages like
protection etc.
Selective
liking of organizer Vis-a- Vis body cells
If the brain cells were purely
mechanical system, then they would not have been able to do selective refusal
to the feedback signal from the body organ cells.
The cell has their own liking in
the body. The chief organizer as a dominator (having power, control, and strong
influence) has own selectivity. It may be different from cell.
10.9 Example
of Organizer’s decisions.
Some more examples of how the
(unaccepted) Organizer plays a role:
·
Under anesthesia i.e. comparatively undetached stage, oxygen
consumption is less.
·
Cortex cells die earlier: - Cells of the cortex at dying
moment die earlier, being unable to endure hardships and adversities; they try
to save themselves by ceasing their function from ruin.
Organizer gets
proved.
Her two paradoxes are born.
Ceasing the function “saves” the cells in a notion which gives that cell,
Independent Mind and survival. The other fact is that when cortex cells die
earlier, some body “remains” to die later. That cannot be anybody except
“Organizer” himself.
New born mouse
experiment:
-- Tetanus toxin was injected to a new born in a fatal dose, the dose by which
a fully grown animal would have died. Nothing happened to the new-born.
Psychologically and chemically, there was nothing to resist such an onslaught
except the Organizer.
10.10 A non-organizer hypothesis cannot
explain
work change in fatigue.
In practical day to day life,
you feel tired reading a brain taxing book, you take a picture book and relax
yourself. In both the cases, vital mechanism involves the same cells. In the
brain, as a pure mechanical action, there should be no difference unless you
assume “organizer” beyond brain that accepts or rejects books or actions.
10.11 Child Birth, A super
material effect.
If each intricate cell composing
the body of an infant could be fashioned by a skilled worker, and he needed
only one minute to create one cell then – Five hundred thousand years (500,000)
of ceaseless work would be necessary for him to complete the task.
(500,000 * 365*24*60 =
262800000000 = No. of cells in the orphan) If every person living in this world
today could contribute one cell to the making of an infant, there would not be
enough people on the face of the earth to complete one tiny foot. See the
wonders of Nature. Yet every mother accomplishes this within her womb
(uterus) in mere matter of 265 days. How this is done? Science has only begun
to perceive the complexity of the miracle.
Organizer
cannot be denied.
If a fold of dogmatic scientists
want to substitute the words “complexity”, “miracle”, or “unknown” for the
world “organizer”, then nobody can help.
They have to help themselves!
10.12 whole greater than parts. Mysteries and
mysteries.
Ref: The cerebral cortex and the internal organs by
Bykov
·
Page 238:- Discretionary power of cortex is suggested.
·
Page 237:- Cortex is said to have ‘initiating influence’.
·
Page 243 :- ‘so many miracles’ of body related to cortex are
noted
Ref: On the track of discovery (page 218 – 264)
The Russian book is aptly
illustrating: -- How one organ can be substituted by another organ.
The fingers can “see” only when
the mind and subject under experiment is encouraged. Does the matter need
encouragement?
You will give some mysterious
words in future as explanation, with another promise of explanation. But
unfortunately these post-dated promises have remained overwhelming (Promises
have remained promises). The point below and particularly its conclusion
provide one such excellent example.
10.13. Whole greater than part; proves
Organizer.
·
We know the well-known principle, ‘the whole is greater than
the sum of its parts.’
·
This opens another brand of mysticism. This goes beyond
physics as well as arithmetic.
·
Coincidentally, ‘Modern Science and Nature of Life’ has
mentioned the similar axiom.
·
Nangal makes a vigorous and long overdue attack on the
verbal reefs, which surround the world “sum”. He accepts the familiar use of
sum such as ‘sum of two plus two’ or the ‘sum of forces’.
·
But what is meant when someone says “The function of the
kidney is more than the sum of the function of its cells, blood vessels,
tissues etc.”?
·
The answer to the above question depends upon the body of
theory underlying one’s concepts. (In this example only mechanistic theory
can’t be applicable.)
·
Clock: Using a clearly mechanistic theory, the behavior of a clock
can be easily explained as sum of the behavior of its cogs, wheels and
pendulum.
Thermal behavior of the solids
Nangal says – Though the thermal behavior of solids is not
the sum of its parts relative to the classical kinetic theory of matter, it is
such a sum relative to the modern quantum mechanics.
Behavior of the Organism
To say that the behavior of the organism is not the sum of
the behavior of its parts and its total behavior cannot be understood
adequately in physio chemical terms , even though the behavior of each of its
part is explicable (can be explained) mechanically.
No theory available to derive the total behavior of the
organism.
From the above it is clear that no body of general theory is
now available from which statement about the total behavior of the organism is
derivable. So, we shall probably, never know all there is to know about the
living organism.
10.14 Why should science choose word ‘miracle” to
Mind?
A science book explains a
miracle: The average protein must be boiled for twenty four hours in a solution
of 20 % hydrochloric acid to be thoroughly broken down. The body does the same
thing in four hours and without high temperature and strong acid. The above
power of the body poses a challenge. Author says the most challenging question
is how the human body or any organism body manufactures enzymes? (Which help
bring about digestion)?
Postdated hopes
and promises of further check-up (S. V.): On every occasion, the first
un-understood world is to be explained by the promise of the next un-understood
word. And therefore the same article on enzymes has mentioned: - Yet the cycle
of breakdown and synthesis (in the body) proceeds in the face of an apparent
paradox.
10.15 Story
of the Parrot and the Organizer.
There is an old story. A pet
parrot was very dear to the king. He has asked all his servants to take proper
care of the pet. One day the parrot died. Since with this news the king would
get annoyed, servants dared not report its death to the master directly. So the
servant who has ultimately to report says – ‘the parrot does not eat, does not
speak… Does not move, and so on!! In the
present context, we encounter a reverse story. Dogmatic scientists are avoiding
the birth of a parrot (mind). They want to avoid the world “mind” and
substitute all its attributes in the name of mystery. …….. Perhaps new kind of
parrot is their reward.
Summary:
-
In a multi-cell organism since the
body functions are divided between the body organs, the co-ordination or the
organizing of the overall body function is the function of the ‘organizer’ or ‘organizing
mind’.
-
Though the physical and chemical
composition of the cells may not differ significantly, yet their functions are
distinctly different. Thus the existence of multi-minds in the single body can
be inferred by logic.
-
The mind power is super-material
which is illustrated in the amount of energy required for the birth of a child.
-
‘Whole greater than part’ is proved
by the working of the body.
-
Behavior of the Organism: To say that the behavior of the
organism is not the sum of the behavior of its parts and its total behavior cannot
be understood adequately in physio chemical terms , even though the behavior of
each of its part is explicable (can be explained) mechanically.
-
The mechanical or material
explanation of body function or the life activities ends in gaps. These are
often termed as, riddles, paradoxes or mysteries.
-
Acceptance of ‘mind’ as a scientific
entity and studying this non-matter mind (as done by S. V.in his new way
philosophy), would solve such mysteries.
(Note: This is an attempt to
make reader friendly interpretation of the book “MIND POWER” based on my
perception. Inquisitive readers are requested to refer to the original book to
cross check their understanding.)
Vijay R. Joshi.
