Dissection Diaries: The Wrap Up
Day 8-10
Thank you if you’ve been patiently awaiting the conclusion of my dissection workshop experience!
The last 3 days of the class were a breathtaking blur.
A blur of textures, layers, sights, sounds, smells, emotions.
Muscle shredding, nerve hunting, rib sawing, skull cracking, disassembling the most intricate puzzle while trying to preserve as much of the nerve tree as possible.
So much to see and so little time!
64, 69, 74 were numbers of years the donors were students in the school of life.
10 is the number of days they were on the table as our teachers in the school of anatomy.
Each moment exploring these magnificent forms was a gift.
Each body an irreplaceable child of nature.
One of a kind in all of history.
No other bodies on earth have existed exactly like these.
Each a unique and precious snowflake.
Crafted from the same Source Code.
Molded from the same physical substrates.
Imbued in life with the same force of continual restoration and renewal.
Same pattern different flare.
Life Force, Innate Intelligence, God, Source, Creator has a template from which all things are created.
As above, so below.
As within, so without.
(Link to my YouTube video describing how the 5 Biological Laws fit in with the 7 Universal Laws)
If you were going to create a fantasy world of imaginary characters would you want them to all look exactly alike?
Would every character have the same story line?
Would all the characters die at the same time?
Or would you give each characters different qualities, different appearances, different gifts, different abilities, different challenges, different timelines?
Nature is the expert at ‘the same, but different’.
The same pattern, the same fractals, the same germ layers, the same substrates, the same life force, but infinitely different expressions.
No two flowers are exactly alike, but every flower expresses its biological code.
We are biologically coded for life and to seek greater life.
Your body is biologically coded for survival and reproduction.
Your body is a transformer that will adapt its tissues as necessary to ensure survival and reproduction.
When something is happening in your body are you curious about the tissues involved and how the change is intended for your survival or your reproduction?
That thought was in my mind each day as we explored the bodies.
How did this body adapt to the unique challenges of this woman’s life?
As we took the organs out piece by piece I quietly connected with the wisdom that built each one.
I meditated on the embryological tissue layer, the brain relay, the function of the organ, and the specific life experience that causes it to transform. (I will be speaking on the Adaptive Brilliance of the Tissue Layers at the upcoming GNM Weekend event in Columbus, Ohio)
The parenchyma of the liver is made from the endoderm germ layer, its relay is in the brainstem, and adapts when there is a starvation biological conflict shock.
For the woman who had half her liver removed, what starvation experience did she go through?
Was it a restrictive diet that she thought would heal her breast cancer? Was it a financial conflict about being able to afford the treatments and surgeries?
The small curvature of the stomach, the bile ducts, gall bladder, pylorus, pancreatic ducts, and duodenal bulb are all built from the ectodermal germ layer share the same brain relay in the right temporal lobe and adapt when there is a territorial anger conflict.
For the missing gall bladder, what anger was experienced in her territory?
Was someone crossing her boundaries or threatening her space?
The intestines are made from endodermal tissue, relay in the brainstem, and adapts with cell proliferation when there is an indigestible morsel conflict to better digest the morsel.
For the section of the small intestines that were removed or the diverticuli found on the sigmoid colon, what indigestible situation was happening in her life that she could not process?
Every organ, every tissue is built for a specific survival function and capable of changing to suit the challenges of life.
And every bit of it is communicating through the nerve tree.
The psyche-brain-organ connection works synchronously and when a conflict strikes simultaneously on all three levels the body responds to the shock.
Every part of the body is connected through the nerve tree and its branches.
Dr. Hamer has an entire chart that describes the cranial nerves that has not yet been translated into English. (Cranial Nerve Chart)
Holding these precious, fragile tissues in your hands is a surreal experience.
One of my classmates arranged a tableau on his palm that included the pineal gland, the pituitary gland, the brainstem, and an eyeball attached to the optic nerve.
The fleshy conduits of perception.
So much experience is transmitted through such small and soft lumps of clay.
The miracle of life is mind boggling!
In 1925 2 students at the Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine took 1500 hours to dissect the entire nervous system in the picture.
We had 70 hours in the lab and I’m amazed at the patience and expertise it must have taken to accomplish this!
It gives you such an appreciation for every sensation, every movement, every function, and the ever present life force that allows this experience to be felt.
Life force builds the body.
It doesn’t build it piece by piece and then assemble it like we do with a car.
As Alan Watts said…
“The human individual is not built as a car is built. He does not come into being by assembling parts, by screwing a head on to a neck, by wiring a brain to a set of lungs… Head, neck, heart, lungs, brain, veins, muscles, and glands are separate names but not separate events, and these events grow into being simultaneously and interdependently.”
Every part is integrated with the whole.
Every part is necessary for the physical journey of sustaining life - survival and reproduction.
The structure formed from the idea Nature had in Mind.
The body is materialized consciousness.
It’s such a humbling trip to be inside a body contemplating how it all works.
I’m eternally grateful to Gil Hedley and the team at the Institute for Anatomical Research for creating this space to explore.
I highly recommend joining Gil’s online explorer membership where you have access to hundred of hours of video recordings of his anatomical explorations and if you have a chance to do the in-person dissection class, go for it!
