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Cellular resonance
Every science student knows what molecular resonance is: the great discovery which led to the invention of the laser. But very few people know about cellular resonance, to which we introduce our readers today.
Cellular resonance is one of the great forces of the biosphere which guides the genetic mutations according to the secret cybernetics of the universe so that they proceed, in orderly and continuous ways through hundreds of generations, to the formation of a new organ, a new capacity, a new sensitivity, to a new knowledge, a new awareness of reality. To give one example: the capacity to fly was introduced several times into different species of living beings. The insects developed it; fishes developed it and became flying fish; reptiles developed it and became birds; mammals developed it and became bats; and finally man developed it and built airplanes and rockets.
But always at the beginning of these different and separate evolutionary developments of wings, there must have been active for countless generations in the preparatory stages before even the first wings could appear, that force we are speaking about, cellular resonance.
In each of us this cellular resonance is at work, as we know by our own experience. We have often felt it at work in us, only we did not know that it was a cosmic biological force. We thought it was simply an individual, personal feeling. In ourselves, for want of a better name we call this foce longing, or aspiration. Of course what man calls longing is the mental formation this longing creates in his mind: ideas, ideals, images; but in its psychic origins longing is one of the most elementary energies of the universe.
Let us not mistake this primeval force for a personal desire. It is very impersonal and very ruthless, as ruthless as the spirit described in another article of this issue.
For how many generations had man longed to fly before he was able to build his first airplane? Before even Leonardo started his famous drawings there was a story of a little tailor in the medieval city of Ulm who built himself wings of cloth and jumped to his death from the tall steeple of the Ulm cathedral. And long before that was the legend of Icarus. How many mice jumped to their death before they could become bats! There is also the story of the dodo, the bird who lived so peacefully on a tropical island that he lost his capacity to fly. But long before he lost this capacity and became a wingless bird (and eventually extinct) he had lost his longing to fly, that powerful psychic vibration which had forced the genetic cells of his ancestors to mutate until they could build wings.
Then before the series of mutations started which ended in man, the naked ape, how many generations of primates had longed for a greater capacity to know, to understand, to comprehend their surrounding world? And how strong that aspiration must have been, that even today, after almost a million years of evolution of homo sapiens, it is still one of his strongest longings! The same curiosity of his primate ancestors is at work in him and pushes him not only to build laboratories, giant telescopes and computers, but also to add a few hundred brain cells every year to the million-year-long evolution of his brain. Even if the great majority of men feel in themselves only a mild primate curiosity, there are a few individuals whom we might call “the great psychic vibrators”, those who strengthen that force field of longing sufficiently to induce mutation in the genetic field of mankind, to make its chromosomes resonant, and to produce the changes which result in bigger and better brains and ever more childlike curiosity. It is in the psychic force fields of those few individuals - thinkers and artists - that the genetic material of coming geological ages for the superbrains of the future are prepared. We speak of thinkers and artists because they can induce this longing by their poetry, their paintings, their statues, music, mathematical formulas and kindle in us that secret flame, that burning desire.
What is important is that this fire, this longing should not die out but continue to burn in order to fulfill the cybernetics of our biosphere, to produce that superawareness, that superconsciousness toward which life has been moving since the first trilobite in the mud of some ancient sea started longing for an eye.
And what makes man man and what gives him the right to stand on the crest of the evolutionary wave of life is that in him that longing is stronger and more vibrating than in any other form of life. It is not merely guess work to feel it in a dolphin, in a whale, or in a horse: animals who have also been busy in the last million years evolving giant brains. Man is only one life form on one little planet among trillions of others. And we are all in the same race, a race which the one with the strongest aspiration will win.
Our physical body has its own desires, for food, for sleep; our vital, nervous body has its desires for excitement, company, etc.; our mental being longs for mind foods: books and periodicals, ideas, ideals; and our psychic also has its longings. When all these parts of our being come together and agree on a common aspiration then the miracle of cellular resonance takes place, that leads to the great mutations of life.
In order to experiment with cellular resonance the first thing to do is to learn how to aspire in such a way that the little spark of longing becomes a flame, a flaming vibration carefully and lovingly kept alive till every cell of our body vibrates with it. Then we will know the ecstasy of cellular resonance, the reward for those who obey the cybernetics of life, the bliss of being in resonance with the destiny of the universe, of being one with the light of the stars, the song of hydrogen and the call of that ever-advancing future which gave eyes to the trilobite, wings to the birds and brains to mammals.