Heart of Hearts
From an often overlooked perspective, the heart is not just an organ that pumps blood.
Windows into this mystery are captured beautifully by some early 1920s Rudolf Steiner lectures, where cosmic mythology and the esoteric traditions collide with scientific exploration.
We are presented with the reality that the heart and the blood—though connected and part of an interdependent system—function from their own Life impulse. They have their own kind of momentum and propulsion of lifeforce.
In other words, the blood is moving autonomously; and so the pressure is not the cause of blood flow but the result of it.
In 1932, anatomist J.L. Bremer at Harvard filmed the blood and heart functions in early chick embryos. He became fascinated by witnessing two spirals of separate blood flow streams dancing around themselves and each other within empty space. And this was all before the formation of the heart valves.
As the heart pulses, the spirals seem to become amplified, but without creating any turbulence in the blood. So it's almost as if the beating heart and the spiral streams of blood are communicating or sensing each other from within their own rhythm, dances, and momentum.
And so as this tale unfolds inside the world of the human heart, imagine this happening cosmically.
Imagine Sagittarius A, the black hole at the center of the galaxy is the autonomous beating heart, and the invisible passageways of dark matter are the blood flow.
Then imagine from another perspective, Sagittarius A—once the beating heart at the center—becomes just a small particle in the cosmic body of dark matter because the scale of the dark heart knows no end.
M87 sits in the Virgo cluster of galaxies and TON 618 sits between the constellations Canes Venatici and Coma Berenices—two enormous black holes that make the size of our own hearts seem practically non-existent.
Yet the human heart, as Buckminster Fuller would say, is "not a thing — a noun."
The heart is "a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe."
So here we are. This moment in time. Sentient human beings on Earth, coming from a long lineage of the mysteries of the heart as they unravel within our own flesh and bone.
We can speak about mass in relation to continents, oceans, atoms, nuclear bombs, black holes and dark matter.
But then there is the unique kind of mass—of density—that makes up the human heart.
This weight can come in many forms of emotional crisis, pain, aloneness, self-worth, abandonment, conflict, and all of those fabrics we know somewhere are universal to the human/soul blooming, even as they grace us with a personalized version.
But there's also the weight and density of the black hole finding itself through the sentience of the human being going through the crisis.
The very thing we call 'weight' can be both a burden as well as a gravitational pull—a landing strip—for a new piece of the unknown to find its way into manifestation.
Buckminster Fuller also says, "“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.”
Perhaps we are on our way to truly letting a new civilization rise from a place we've never known before.
Led by nothing other than our sentience through the unknown.
Forward into the abyss, with the Antarctic compass of the human heart.
