Mae-Wan Ho

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The Meridian System as a Bioelectric Network

The meridian system — the twelve primary channels (jing luo) of classical Chinese medicine — has been dismissed by mainstream biomedical science as pre-scientific metaphor. Anatomists have looked for discrete tubes or vessels corresponding to the lines drawn on acupuncture charts and found nothing.

20 min · 1 researchers · 23 concepts
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Meridians as Real Anatomy: From Bonghan Ducts to the Fascial Internet

For decades, the standard Western dismissal of acupuncture meridians went like this: "There is no anatomical structure corresponding to meridians. Therefore, they do not exist." The logic seemed airtight.

9 min · 1 researchers · 4 concepts
UP frontier consciousness researchers

Fritz-Albert Popp: The Light Inside Living Cells

In 1975, Fritz-Albert Popp was a theoretical biophysicist at the University of Marburg in Germany, investigating the carcinogenic properties of certain chemical compounds. He was studying benz[a]pyrene, a potent carcinogen found in coal tar, cigarette smoke, and grilled meat, when he made an...

16 min · 4 researchers · 10 concepts
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Mae-Wan Ho: The Organism as a Liquid Crystal Rainbow

In 1993, Mae-Wan Ho pointed a polarizing microscope at a living fruit fly larva and saw something that should not have been possible according to conventional biology. The entire organism glowed with brilliant, iridescent colors -- like a living rainbow.

16 min · 3 researchers · 10 concepts
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Valerie Hunt: The UCLA Professor Who Measured the Human Energy Field

Valerie V. Hunt was a professor of physiological science at the University of California, Los Angeles, for over forty years.

14 min · 3 researchers · 8 concepts