The Hive Mind

The term The Hive Mind comes from the reference to the Bee Hive, where bees are presumed to know what each other are thinking as if they are one mind.

• Ralph Waldo Emerson described the same thing for all of humankind, saying that we tap into the Universal Mind.
• Leonardo Da Vinci decribes the how the Golden Mean (or Golden Ratio) appears in many plants, animals, and even in the Fibonacci Sequence of numbers (see the notes on the Golden Mean). This makes Mother Nature look like she has connections between many of her parts.
• Bruce Lipton says that the cells in our body are smart enough to conciously connect to each other and act as one whole body. He calls this wisom and describes it in his book, The Wisdom of the Cells.
• Walt Whitman writes a very strange kind of poem in his large poem/book, Leaves of Grass. When you read him, you often find long lists of the things he is looking at or thinking about. I think he is trying to get us to connect the parts of things to see the whole grouping.
• Lewis Thomas describes animals that use the conncetedness of cells as a hive mind in his book, The Lives of a Cell.
• Henri Bortoft culminates his life's work in his book, The Wholeness of Nature, where he totally agrees that there is one whole mind to all of the humans.
• Michael Faraday is one of the greatest scientists of all time. He may have been Einstein's hero. He came up with the inventions of the Electric Generator and the Electric Motor (and also the Electric Transformer). His inventions caused more change in our world than perhaps any other single technological advance in recorded history. The funny thing is that humankind hardly played with the technology of electricity until Faraday's time (1800's). But when the hive mind of man started to look at electricity - no less than 13 great scientists in no less than 6 countries simultaneously made discoveries in electricity. Humankind had the resources, the ingenuity, and the time to invent electrical stuff all throughout recorded history - but did not. This seems to be a powerful example of the human hive mind focusing on something - where several, separate individuals got the same idea.

Alignment
Do you want to demonstrate how separate things can have a connection that we cannot see? Let's try to show that the separate cells of the human body can have connection or alignment. You will see that when the separate cells of your body are in agreement or alignment, then they should act differently from when they are in disagreement or non-alignment.

'Margaret'
One way to demonstrate alignment within the physical body is to test whether you have more strength when you are aligned with yourself or not. Try this.

• Say, "My name is ________ (your name)."
• Stretch you arm out to the side.
• Have someone press down on your arm while you resist.
• ___________________________________________
• Now say, "My name is Margaret (or some name that is definitely not yours - preferably of the opposite sex)."
• Stretch out you arm, again.
• Have someone press down on your arm again.

Was your strength the same both times? Does this suggest that when there is disagreement within yourself, you cannot muster the same strength as when you are in alignment or one with yourself?

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Wholeness and The Hive Mind
Let's see what Dr. Bruce Lipton has to say about how the connection among the cells of our body. And let's also look in on another award winning author, Lewis Thomas, who writes about how cells of various animals work synchronously as if they are a single community.

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Community
Lipton says that his research shows that the cell membrane controls the cell from the outside in- not from the inside out. In other words, there is no command center. Lipton claims that the cells are a community of sentient beings (beings that have feelings). There is no absolute ruler of the human body - and there is no absolute command center of the cell. They both are ruled by concensus or agreement. This is another case of alignment. Perhaps there is a hive mind to the group of cells of the human body. And perhaps all of the humans also have a hive mind.

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Lipton's Most Profound Discovery
Lipton says that the genes in your cells are just blueprints, like programs in a computer. He says that the membrane of the cell is the brain, like a computer keyboard. And in your body, you (your consciousness) is a signal, like the person typing on the computer keyboard.

Lipton’s most profound discovery is that you are not your body. You ask your community of cells to agree and align.

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