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tromagnetic field. Those things charge up the hydrophilic surfaces, making a more robust gel phase, which makes for more robust separation of charges, which puts more positive ions in the middle—which makes more flow.
The fourth phase of water explains a sci- entific anomaly called the barometric limit. If you take a column of water, no matter how thin the column is, at a certain height—thirty-three feet—gravity prevents the water from going up anymore. In other words, water can’t flow up any tube higher than thirty-three feet before the weight of the water causes it not to be able to go up any further. Given this barometric limit, how is it possible for there to be trees more than thirty-three feet high? Maybe there could be trees that are about forty feet high because of transpiration, evaporation from the leaves, the pull of the sun, and so forth. But how do we explain trees that are three hundred feet high? The problem here is that we have been taught not to believe our own eyes or our own experience of the world. The answer is that the xylem sap that transports water from the roots to the aerial parts of plants is a hydrophilic tube. It makes a gel phase with positive ions squished in the middle. The sap can’t go into the ground so it starts flowing up, and it will go up practically forever because of this hydrostatic pressure.
What is a capillary made of? It is made of a hydrophilic tube with a protective gel coat- ing. All the vessels have a protective coating in them, which is very convenient because the coating is negatively charged and repels most poison while protecting the lining so it doesn’t get inflamed or corroded. The positively charged protons formed during the creation of the gel layer are pushed into the inner fluid part of the blood. These protons repel each other (as do any positive charges when they meet) and this causes the blood to begin moving up the venous tree. No energy is required except exposure to sunlight, earth energy and human touch—all that charges up our cells and starts the flow moving. The blood then goes faster and faster until it gets to the heart.
In short, the blood pumps the heart, not the other way around. The blood rushes in and expands the heart, the gate (valve) opens, the blood is suctioned out, the aortic arch collapses
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because of the suction, the blood essentially falls down with some spiral action of the arteries to finally reach the capillaries. There the blood cells come to a brief stop before hydrostatic pressure begins moving the blood back up to the heart through the veins. That’s how the circulation works.
SEVEN-SIDED FORM
When you read Rudolf Steiner, it’s like having the answers to the
test before the test. Steiner said the heart is a seven-sided regular form that sits in an imaginary box in the chest. A “seven-sided regular form” means a three-dimensional form, and the “regular” part means the surface areas are all identical.
Plato described the five platonic solids, and said the earth was cre- ated as permutations on these five regular platonic solids. Steiner said that there is a sixth one, but nobody discovered that until Frank Chester, a geometrician from San Francisco, began looking into the subject. He spent fifteen years trying to figure how to sculpt a seven-sided regular form and then finally he did it. The form, called a chestahedron, has four sides that are equilateral triangles and three sides that are kite-shaped quadrilaterals, all with equivalent surface areas.
That discovery was a huge achievement in and of itself because the chestahedron had never previously existed as far as we know. Even more interestingly, when Chester made a model of the chestahedron and rounded off the edges, it fit right into the cavity of the left ventricle. Moreover, fitting the seven-sided form snugly in a cube, Chester found that the chestahedron sits at an angle of 36 degrees off of center and to the left, which is exactly the same angle at which the heart sits within the chest. (Rudolf Steiner said that this is the same angle the earth tilts its axis on to the left although science says it is 23 degrees.) The normal human temperature in centigrade is 36 degrees, and ancient physicians said the heart is the generator of warmth. Most people have a low body temperature, which means they have a weak heart.
Leonardo da Vinci also drew the heart at 36 degrees off center to the left with the cavity looking like the chestahedron. However, he believed the wall to be the same thickness the entire way around. You can still see da Vinci’s anatomy drawing in medical textbooks, and I think most doctors would still say that the heart is the same thickness all the way around, but it isn’t.
If the heart is a seven-sided regular form that sits in an imaginary cube-shaped box in the chest, why is that? What is it doing there? Frank Chester made a cast of the heart, put it into a vat of water and spun it to see what would happen. What happens first is that it creates a vortex, a spiral within the chestahedron itself, like the Milky Way. If you do it long enough, you’ll see an appendix form that creates its own horizontally shaped vortex off the edge of it. The horizontal vortex closely resembles the shape and attachment of the right ventricle to the left ventricle of a human heart.
Frank Chester was not the first to identify the flow inside the ven- tricles. Leonardo da Vinci got a cow heart, made a mold of it, blew glass around it, put water through it and found that there is a vortex created in the water in the left atrium and the left ventricle. Da Vinci said that the
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