Electromagnetic Manipulation of Worms & Tadpoles

(Selected excerpts from Cellular Mind)

   Biologist Michael Levin and his colleagues found that electromagnetic fields guide body structure during worm regeneration. They discovered an electromagnetic pattern in the head region of worms during regeneration, and simulated the pattern on the tail regions of other regenerating worms, creating heads on both ends of the worms [1].  When small pieces were taken from both head regions and the mid-section of a two-headed worm, all of the pieces regenerated into more two-headed worms.  Likewise, simulating a tail pattern on one head region during regeneration resulted in a single-headed worm.

Credit to Tufts University Center for Regenerative & Developmental Biology

     It is important to note that no DNA was manipulated in these experiments, only exposure to abnormal electromagnetic fields during regeneration. If DNA encodes body structure, then pieces of two-headed worms should regenerate into single-headed worms that remain encoded in their unaltered DNA. They did not. These experiments clearly demonstrate that electromagnetic fields play an important role in guiding organism development and in transferring body structure information to future generations that does not involve DNA. These patterns can only be generated by the worm cells collectively, providing a wireless electromagnetic communication systems connecting all cells in regenerating worms when they are collectively constructing the organism's body. This includes the most complex parts of the worm such as its eyes, nervous systems, and brain.

     Levin's team also imposed electromagnetic patterns from different worm species during regeneration and literally changed the worm’s species without DNA modification. Once again, small pieces from these modified worms regenerated heads of their new species, ignoring whatever information their DNA contained about their species. These experiments definitively prove that DNA is less important in defining . They state:

“This permanent editing of the encoded target morphology without genomic editing reveals a new kind of epigenetics, information that is stored in a medium other than DNA sequences or chromatin.”

     The information related to the worm's species and number of heads must be stored in cells throughout the worm bodies in an undiscovered memory storage system beyond DNA.  This information is used by cells to communicate electromagnetically with other cells, providing clear evidence of an unknown cellular-scale electromagnetic language.

Cells appear to communicate and transfer information to offspring via electromagnetic mechanisms that remain a mystery to science.

NASA partnered with a group of researchers including Levin to test worm regeneration aboard the International Space Station (ISS). They found that worms sometimes regenerated with multiple heads in outer space.[2]   The ISS has an earth-like atmosphere and temperature and is shielded from the extreme radiation of space, leaving the absence of the earth’s electromagnetic and gravitational fields as the sole differences between ISS and Earth environments.  The absence of these fields appears to disrupt cellular communication in regenerating worms, causing some worms to grow multiple heads.

Upon returning to earth, pieces of multi-headed worms continued to regenerate with multiple heads, like the two-headed worms discussed earlier.  The similarity between these two experiments on earth and in space suggests that it was more likely the absence of earth’s electromagnetic field, as opposed to the absence of its gravitational field, that influenced these mutations.  The earth’s EM field is created by rotating molten iron and nickel in the inner and outer cores of the earth. It protects us from cosmic radiation, keeps our atmosphere from escaping into space, and causes compass needles to always point north.  The earth's EM may also provide a common ground reference point for communication between cells, just like it does for all manmade electrical and electronic systems, which simply cannot function at all without a common ground reference point.

“There is substantive scientific literature demonstrating that physiological regulatory systems in humans and animals are also affected by and even synchronized to environmentally generated fields.”[3]

The Earth’s electromagnetic field appears to provide a common ground reference point that enables cells to communicate with each other.

Another Levin team scrambled the eyes, nose, and mouth locations of developing tadpole embryos, creating what they called “Picasso tadpoles.”  Despite starting with a Picasso embryo face, the cells still assembled a normal tadpole face in the finished organisms, demonstrating that cells can detect defects in body structure and take corrective actions to get body parts to their correct locations so the finished organism achieves the target body structure.[4]  These researchers concluded that the embryonic cells used a “goal-oriented approach to problem solving to achieve target morphology.”  

To pull off this incredible feat, the cells had to communicate and coordinate their activity with millions of other cells.  These behaviors demonstrate that cells actively solve problems while pursuing a target body structure, skills that cannot be explained via information encoded in DNA nor by deterministic cause-effect molecular interactions occurring during embryonic development.  Solving problems in pursuit of a goal requires a collection of cells to (a) capture and share information about their current collective structure, (b) compare the information with a currently unknown but shared cellular memory system that contains the full details of the developing organism’s target body structure, and (c) communicate and coordinate the necessary corrective actions that must be taken to ensure the finished organism is constructed properly.  There are no scientific theories that explain how a collection of cells can execute any of these actions, much less all three, using known scientific theories.

Levin’s team also used electromagnetic patterns to delete the eyes from tadpole embryos while adding an eye to their tails.  The eyes in the tails developed normally, and the tadpoles were able to pass multiple vision tests successfully.  The eyes that developed in the tails ended up connected to a variety of locations along the spinal cords, in every case bypassing the visual cortex where vision information is normally processed. 

Credit: Tufts University Center for Regenerative & Developmental Biology

The term "epigenetics" increasingly appears in biology papers in recent decades.  “Epi” means “above or beyond” so epigenetics means “above or beyond the genetic code.”  Many cellular-scale discoveries are now routinely being attributed to epigenetic factors.  These biologists may believe that epigenetic factors can be explained by underlying physics and/or chemistry, but this is simply not the case.  There is no theory of epigenetics that describes where cellular memories are stored, how they are retrieved, nor how cells know how to access and used them when constructing multicellular organisms.  Likewise, the laws of physics and chemistry applied to molecules inside cells do not account for the causal factors that form and manipulate the complex electromagnetic fields that drive embryonic development.  No theory exists to explain how cells can send, receive, and understand the signals that are constantly exchanged between cells, nor how cells can solve problems individually and collectively.   “Epi-science” is a more accurate term than epigenetics to describe these highly complex and unexplained cellular phenomena.  Yet if one accepts the premise that cells are intelligent living organisms with cognitive skills and the agency to act in pursuit of goals, these unexplained phenomena can suddenly be understood.

Modern biology experiments provide strong evidence of cellular scale cognition.

     The obvious conclusion to draw is that cells are intelligent and communicate/coordinate their activities via electromagnetic fields that are collectively generated by all of the cells in multicellular organisms.  This hypothesis can be extended to more complex organisms such as humans, where logic dictates that human embryo cells must also be communicating and coordinating their activities via the electromagnetic field they generate to guide embryonic development. It is well known that all types of cells are constantly emitting and absorbing photons (increasingly called "biophotons") which collectively form an electromagnetic field that surrounds and pervades the multi-cellular organism (increasingly called "biofields"). These biofields provide a body-wide wireless communications network for cells to exchange information and communicate with other cells in the multicellular organism. Electroencephalogram (EEG) and Electrocardiogram (ECG) are examples of electromagnetic instruments that doctors use to diagnose a variety of human conditions, and they both work by detecting signals being sent through a patient's biofield.

Biofields play a central role in Fundamental Mind Theory (FMT), combining, powering, and enabling the minds of matter structures at various scales to communicate with one another. The next frontier in biology has arrived, and it involves understanding and manipulating biofields and the cellular communications that travel through it. Research in this direction holds the promise of one day being able to directly communicate with our cells in their native language(s), which will lead to massive breakthroughs in disease treatment, organ regeneration inside the body, and many more advancements in human health and life extension that have yet to even be imagined.

[1] Planarian Regeneration as a Model of Anatomical Homeostasis: Recent Progress in Biophysical and Computational Approaches.  Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology, volume 87, March 2019, Pages 125-144.

[2] Morokuma, J. et al. 2017.  Planarian regeneration in space: persistent anatomical, behavioral, and bacteriological changes induced by space travel.  Regeneration, June 13, 2017.

[3] Hammerschlag R, Levin M, McCraty R, Bat N, Ives JA, Lutgendorf SK, Oschman JL. Biofield Physiology: A Framework for an Emerging Discipline. Glob Adv Health Med. 2015 Nov;4(Suppl):35-41.

[4] Vandenberg, L. etal. 2012. Normalized Shape and Location of Perturbed Craniofacial Structures in the Xenopus Tadpole Reveal an Innate Ability to Achieve Correct Morphology. Developmental Dynamics 241(5):863-78.