Richard Grossinger - Embryos, Galaxies, and Sentient Beings: How the Universe Makes Life

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Cover photographs: The human fetus after eleven weeks, Nestle/Petit Format/Photo Researchers and the Horsehead Nebula, ROE/AATB/Photo Researchers, photography by David Malin. Photo collage by Paula Morrison. Editor: Kathy Glass. Indexer: Victoria Baker. Cover design: Paula Morrison.

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eISBN: 978-1-58394-698-5

The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:
Grossinger, Richard, 1944
Embryos, galaxies, and sentient beings : how the universe makes life / by Richard Grossinger.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Life (Biology) 2. Embryology. I. Title.
QH341.G76 2003
576.83dc21

2003008751

v3.1

For Bob Bagwell, January 25, 1938, Chicago, Illinois4 December 2002, Portland, Oregon:

He started my first tai chi class (Plainfield, Vermont, 1974); he introduced me to psychobiology and neuro-Darwinism; he was always a reassuring and hopeful voice; his teasing so often saved us from earnestness; he helped me track my own life and the lives of my kids, even when I didnt see him for years; he made exchange of ideas and friendship expressions of each other.

For Richard Handel, 4 January 1949, Springfield, Massachusetts5 December 2002, Binghamton, New York:

Through his acts Mount Desert Island became sacred ground; he modelled a life of service and playful witnessing of our various plights; he found buddha-nature in everyone, not only swamis and lamas; he was fearless, even daredevil, because he was light as a feather; he taught that being oneself is the purest spiritual practice, kindness to others its sole measure.

Selected Other Works by Richard Grossinger

Book of the Cranberry Islands

Book of the Earth and Sky

The Continents

Embryogenesis: Species, Gender, and Identity

Homeopathy: The Great Riddle

The Long Body of the Dream

New Moon

The Night Sky: The Science and Anthropology of the Stars and Planets

Out of Babylon: Ghosts of Grossingers

Planet Medicine: Origins

Planet Medicine: Modalities

The Provinces

The Slag of Creation

Solar Journal: Oecological Sections

The Unfinished Business of Doctor Hermes

Waiting for the Martian Express: Cosmic Visitors, EarthWarriors, Luminous Dreams

As Editor or Co-editor

The Alchemical Tradition in the Late Twentieth Century

Baseball I Gave You All the Best Years of My Life

Ecology and Consciousness

Into the Temple of Baseball

Nuclear Strategy and the Code of the Warrior

Olson-Melville Sourcebook: The Mediterranean

Olson-Melville Sourcebook: The New Found Land

In my opinion the author of this book, Richard Grossinger, is a man far ahead of his time, perhaps a genius. In fact, the rest of humanity may never catch up with him. Richard is also the publisher, through North Atlantic Books, of my own most recent manuscript entitled Cell Talk in which, as a clinician (not a biologist, mind you), I put forth the concept that cellsand protein molecules, as well as tissues, organs, and systemshave individual consciousnesses and are able and ready to enter into a dialogue, using human verbiage, with a therapist and/or the owner of the body of which they are constituents. In carrying out this dialogue, the owner of the body must be willing to allow the cells to freely (without editing or censorship) use his or her vocal apparatusthat is, to speak through a cellular voice. This dialogue can then beand often isquite successful in illuminating methods for reversing disease processes, enhancing health, and correcting bodily, emotional, spiritual, and cosmic imbalances.

Since I am a practicing physician, I have included a lot of functional biology, patient perceptions, and patient responsiveness in Cell Talk. I speak from that experience rather than from the point of view of a professional cell biologist who might presume he had no reason to look for cell intelligence. My perspective is one of asking cells for their own point of view on this matter rather than imposing a belief system on them. Keeping an open mind on cell talk is not that different from keeping an open mind on interspecies communication between humans and plants or sea mammals. If you want to hear, you have to tune into available channels, not just those that science deems most likely. You have to trust intuition and not just depend on what the rational mind tells you is possible.