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Dan Roach's avatar

Beautiful Shaun. Thank you. I have worked in cardiology research for the past 30 years, though I did my PhD in numerical geology many, many years ago. I wrote a cardiology paper last decade where I sort of played with the notion of entrainment and coherence within the cardiovascular/autonomic system. I include this link, https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1161/CIRCEP.112.971986, if you want to take a look at it. I didn’t consider any quantum interactions, but I did show how lack of coherence and entrain-ability, (which both might be tied to quantum interactions?) is an unfortunate prognosticator of poor cardiac outcome. What you just wrote resonated well with me, and made me think of coordinated myocyte ion channels and gap junctions. Looking forward to reading more. -Dan

Vlad Tverdohleb's avatar

This was a fascinating read. Whether one embraces the metaphor literally or symbolically, I think it points toward an important intuition: our inner life becomes remarkably different when resistance gives way to coherence. What I find especially compelling is the possibility that many traditions have been describing the same transformation in different languages: physics through fields, contemplative traditions through presence, and psychology through integration. The challenge, as always, is to remain both imaginatively open and intellectually rigorous as we explore those connections.

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