The Quantum Electro-Magnetic Nature of Qi John Quinn July 14, 2013

In Traditional Chinese Medicine, revered ancient sources tell us that, Blood is The Mother of Qi, and Qi is The Commander of Blood. Down through the ages in many subsequent texts, this has often been stated as fact, but in my opinion, it was never explained how this could be so. I will now hope to at least shed some illumination upon it Michael Faraday brilliantly attempted to unravel the marvels of electro-magnetism, and his accomplishments were many, yet there was one particular mystery that continued to elude the reach of the technology of his time. He requested that after his death, as soon as the means became available, someone should investigate more fully the magnetic properties of blood, specifically the iron-carrying hemoglobin molecules within it. <

By the mid 1930s, a brilliant young chemist named Linus Pauling -- who would go on to win the Nobel Prize, twice -- had begun looking into hemoglobin. He, like Faraday, apparently had been intrigued that the pole of a magnet could repel the blood in arteries, while the blood in veins was attracted to it.

Using his knowledge of chemistry and physics, he wanted to devise an explanation of how the four heme units in the molecule are able to achieve the successive binding and unbinding of oxygen that gives us life. He wanted to know how the atoms seemed to communicate and co-operate in this. It must have been a surprise for him to find that as soon as a single oxygen molecule bonds to hemoglobin, the other three in the configuration can bind more readily. The same is true for the unbinding of oxygen molecules: after the first oxygen molecule dissociates from the hemoglobin, the rest always disconnect more easily, as if an electro-magnetic switch is operating in marvelously synchronized oscillation somewhere, and connected by means of what, exactly?

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Pauling had already famously put together and published how and why ordinary water molecules are anything but ordinary, with their exquisite hundred-and-five degree hydrogen bonds and dual-polar affinities that account for many odd and miraculous behaviors, such as a tendency to expand instead of contract at the freezing point, as well as an unmatched ability to absorb and yield tremendous amounts of energy between states.

After some preliminary work, he stated that the hemes were not only attached to the globin, but also that the four hemes must be arranged in a square, and bound to two other hemes. The exact nature of such bonds was not yet clear, though

Pauling entered collaboration with a fellow researcher, Charles D. Coryell, and in 1936 they devised a radically new approach for examining the hemoglobin through its magnetic properties. They determined that the iron in hemoglobin apparently chooses to form ionic (charged) bonds with nitrogen and the globin, whereas to make oxy-hemoglobin or carbon-monoxy-hemoglobin, it forms covalent (shared) bonds. They remarked, "It is interesting and surprising that the hemoglobin molecule undergoes such an extreme structural change on the addition of oxygen or carbon monoxide," but since our lives are inextricably tied to this profound surprise, it seems disappointing to me that they did not go on to register much wonderment at it beyond a typically detached scientific curiosity.

They also wrote that oxy-hemoglobin and carbon-monoxy-hemoglobin have no magnetic moment -- in other words, no evidence of any field-exerted torque so it can be determined that all electrons must be paired, whereas hemoglobin, as it goes through its contortions, exhibits a surprising phenomenon that he called para-magnetism, meaning that there are brief, fluctuating manifestations of magnetism, indicating unpaired electrons. As the molecule swings back and forth through its cyclic energy transformations, as the oxygen is so warmly embraced and then sent packing as it is so cleverly and successively bound and unbound, Pauling reported that the property state of the hemes seemed to alternate from that approaching completely non-magnetic to one nearing perfectly magnetic, and back again, ad infinitum. Here, I believe, is proof of the mysterious switch that enables the boosted binding and unbinding of oxygen, and provides

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that the beneficial side-product and return of the physical energy investment is in the form of this thing called qi.

According to Pauling and Coryell, it was most likely the formation of covalent bonds, in which outer-shell electrons are somehow shared simultaneously by two different atoms (rather than simple ionic bonds, exchanges whereby one is given or taken away and a positive or negative charge is retained or conferred) that most likely explained why hemoglobin bonded more readily with oxygen and carbon monoxide than with other substances, even at the expense of molecular efficiency and energy. As to why or how they thought that it should do such things, they were at a loss or unwilling to share. In any case, the structure seems to alternate between one of magnetism, with the ionic-bonded and charged iron allowed to fling its fields around (ensuring translation of the energy into elsewhere, by the way), and one of nonmagnetism, with the electrons somehow simultaneously shared and held tight, with fields collapsing until nearly rendered null, but only for an instant, before switching back to one of holding a charge that flings the fields out once again, which begin to collapse even as another alternate state is advanced and manifested, and so on, at least, until the similarly linked and elaborate multi-dimensional mechanisms that bring the raw materials into play are brought to a halt.

Could the ancient Chinese have comprehended the quintessential quantum truth of our inherent entangled electro-magnetism all the way down at the blood level millennia ago? They have, after all, been expressing it to us all along; hitting us in the head if not the heart with it, again and again, with that odd and paradoxical maxim, Blood Is the Mother of Qi, and Qi Is the Commander of Blood. Can we get it at last?

I believe that in todays vocabulary, this type of oscillating behavior -- where forms of energy seem to wink in and wink out of state and meanwhile go along a subtle gradient against a background that implies the existence of some form if not also mechanism for return of the energy invested -- would be called quantum behavior. Pauling himself was reputed to have come close to suggesting that blood might be thought in some ways to exhibit hints of such properties in talks given throughout the 1970s, although he never seemed to let on that he had ever gone any further in his explorations of it.

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Although he stated that he valued hemoglobin's potential, and concluded that 1936 paper with a plea for more research into it, Dr. Pauling evidently did not make it a priority in Caltech's Chemistry laboratory after he became the Department Chair in 1937. As far as we know, nothing more was ever done or reported on it.

Ill try to forgive him, because I have come to the conclusion that peering into the quantum nature of anything is analogous to the concurrent contemplation of something vast yet vital that is equal parts mind-bending enigma and gob-smacking revelation. After all, even Albert Einstein was said to be famously disinclined or unable to discuss concepts at the core of quantum mechanics.

With regards to the electromagnetic nature of blood, we may observe that the magnetic properties of each basic unit of it are in continual flux. In fact, I believe that it is precisely this state of flux that is at the root of the animating forces generated within us, for, by the laws of induction, without a supply of alternating current there can be no magnetic fields, and vice-versa; without the changing fields, no currents or potentials can be induced in nearby wires or channels, and so on.

Cellular processes reportedly served as models for the invention of the semi-conductor and its modern offspring, microminiaturized circuitry, so it is no co-incidence that at the most basic levels the functions of these exhibit many striking parallels to the behavior of electronics; they would therefore presumably be governed by such verifiable and applicable laws, including those of electromagnetic induction and quantum mechanics -- are they? Lets have a closer look...

According to the Britannica Concise Encyclopedia, Electromagnetic Induction is the induction of an electromotive force in a circuit by varying the magnetic flux linked with the circuit. It also explains, the phenomenon was first investigated circa 1830-31 by Joseph Henry and Michael Faraday, who discovered that when the magnetic field around an electro-magnet was increased or decreased, an electric current could be detected in a separate nearby conductor.

By extension, A current can also be induced by constantly moving a permanent magnet in and

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out of a coil of wire, or by constantly moving a conductor near a stationary permanent magnet. The induced electromotive force is proportional to the rate of change of the magnetic flux cutting across the circuit

In simpler and more directly applicable terms, an alternating current in a wire produces a magnetic field in flux, and a magnetic field induces current in a wire or field that cuts across its flux.

I theorize that the frenzied quantum square dance that the iron in hemoglobin does within our pulsing blood induces magnetic fields, which can alternately translate and manifest as currents flowing within other conductive systems. Thus we have a mechanism for the generation and quantum-exchange transformation of the fundamental forces that enliven us, for I think that it is well within the reach of educated speculation to surmise that whatever magnetism is being thrown off by the actions of moving charged particles of iron surging through our bloodstream must be going somewhere; perhaps coming back down in subtle flows of current that ideally might boost the nerves, which the body uses as the very wires with which to disseminate its instructions and obtain its observations via currents of ions, which are, of course, charged particles

I find it highly unlikely that this could be some sort of co-incidence, and it occurs to me that this could in turn explain that if someone is running an energy deficit, they are not getting their nerve signals and/ or life-giving processes properly boosted; therefore the smooth flow of energy is disrupted, and, without or until some means for reversal, this allows electrical charges to build up in body tissues. Such charges might well collect at local nodes -- localities which happen to be called Acupuncture Points in TCM -- and since these charged potential differences often carry along with them physical manifestations that are detrimental and discomforting, some attenuation or tonification at these nodes may occasionally be necessary.

Such an action would merely require a tool with means to disperse and redirect, input or ground a charge such as a magnetic steel acupuncture needle in a persons hand, for example, or, as is sometimes sufficient, merely the pressure and conductive properties of a living persons finger, so that the clear and unimpeded underlying proper frequency of that organ and/ or channel could resonate once again within,

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and, ideally, resume contribution to the concerto of other resonances of other organs and channels of the body so that the whole vibrates at the prescribed frequencies and hums along in splendid synchronous fashion within and without, all the way up and down through the quantum layers that feed in and fade out at the edges of the phenomena of existence.

I postulate that a symphony of energy that is at once the product and parent of a perpetual storm of magnetism and its equivalent and counterpart orchestra of intricately synchronized vibrations is happening within and around every layer of the body, including and especially within the purely energetic and invisible ones. By the way, the Chinese Medicine/ Qi Gong idea of qi flowing in the meridians also corresponds to the ancient Hindu notion of an energy called prana emanating and flowing through key nerve plexuses in the body called chakras.

A basic example of this thing called quantum behavior can be glimpsed when we consider how light can seemingly and mysteriously travel simultaneously as a beam of particles and as the propagation of a wave. It also seems that this apparent flip-flopping of state can be modulated at whatever energy level and frequency it can be loaded, sent and decoded with. Since it has been found that even the infinitesimal fluctuations within the tightly coherent beams of laser light can in turn generate subtle magnetic fields perpendicular to their direction of travel, there may be even further propagations and reverberations of these elemental and fundamentally interlinked oscillations of magnetic fields and states of matter in more dimensions than we might imagine.

One of the more intriguing effects of quantum mechanics is the phenomenon of entanglement, whereby one object gets connected to the other in ways so that even if separated, what is done to one will also affect the other. This was in fact the idea that Einstein once said was so weird that he called it spooky action at a distance. It was tentatively accepted to govern the microscopic realm of the very small, such as at the sub-atomic level, and only theorized to work at larger separations, but physicists have recently succeeded in demonstrating that such effects are not limited by scale.

In 2011, a team of Oxford researchers demonstrated quantum entanglement between two

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diamonds separated by space. When both were hit with pulsed beams, sometimes the beams changed color to a lower frequency, indicating a loss of energy. But the energy in a closed system must be conserved, so it was predicted that any that turned up lost would be translated as motion within one or both of the diamonds, and this is indeed what happened, since at least one diamond registered detectable vibrations.

Once they were thus entangled and with the system now in resonant vibration, when the two diamonds were again hit with the pulsed light they began to behave as one; subsequently, when one was struck by a beam the other emitted it at a higher frequency and different color, indicating it had gained the energy that had been transformed into vibration.

I find this type of behavior to be strikingly parallel to exactly what Pauling and Coryell found but could not explain in regard to the strange antics of hemoglobin, specifically the binding and unbinding of oxygen. I think it can also be extended to many other energy exchange processes going on within the body.

Physicists know that harnessing the power and capabilities of quantum phenomena would make many processes more efficient than previously possible, and the chief goal of many scientists now working in this exciting area is the development of a new type of high-speed computers called photonic processors.

One application of the incredible power that can be unleashed by means of quantum-energy boosting was unfortunately already found and proven in 1952: It is in fact a principle essential to the operation of modern thermonuclear weapons, where a set of tightly-focused initial uranium fission reactions release enough electromagnetic radiation in the form of heat (vibrations) and X-rays within an ingeniously designed resonant cavity to simulate the core of a star, which endows it capable of then pulling off a fusion reaction with fuel supplied in the form of a hollow, compressible rod of plutonium surrounded by a cylinder of heavy isotopes of hydrogen, with a yield of more than 700 times the power of the bombs used in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Obviously, this is a reckless, irresponsible, and utterly useless application. In this paper, Id like to contemplate some of the other uses of harnessing quantum energetics, such as boosting and benefiting our own internal circuits.

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Id like to assert that such miraculous boosting processes are probably taking place down at the sub-cellular level, too, in such progressions as the electron transport chain, for example -- the mysterious furnace behind the generation and transformation of ATP (adenosine tri-phosphate), the life-giving process going on within the mitochondria of every cell and in the chloroplasts of plants, as well along yet another subtle energy gradient which similarly seems to defy attempts at easy or clear explanation.

Moreover, I would have to say that if the bones behave as magnets or solenoids, as the properties of the materials and behavior of charged particles held within them would imply, then they should also be giving off significant fields and/ or inducing currents within conductors passing through them. These could represent yet another layer that would not only add to but also cut through all the others so as to induce additional currents and eddies in still other layers, and these in turn, in others, and so on

Additionally, the long bones in the human body can act as piezoelectric generators, producing small but measurable amounts of electricity when torqued by movement and impact. This is but one reason that we benefit in many ways if we move around as opposed to remaining sedentary. I would also surmise that since the properties of bones and the nature and structures of the substances contained in them are conductors, capacitors and insulators, then necessarily, helpful currents would and should be induced and discharged in relevant parts and manner if and only if they are moved so as to cut a vigorous swath through the Earths subtle but enormous magnetic fields a clear reason why our systems benefit from movement, whereas they tend to stagnate if we just sit around.

Surely one of the more useful functions of any energy that might be given off and returned to the body via quantum state fluctuations would be to maintain a feedback loop so as to augment part and parcel of just such a process; lack of such support could well evince what happens when it does not or does so in a defective manner. In fact, every system in the body -- from the heartbeat and blood pressure rates to the levels of many different hormones from an assortment of separate glands -- has ingenious feedback loops, so why would it be any different for the energetic and electro-magnetic ones? I believe and intuit that they surely do have and operate by such resonant systems

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At the same time as the hemes in the hemoglobin are busy doing their quantum-assisted jitterbug with the electrons of the iron to bind and unbind the oxygen dissolved in our bloodstream, meanwhile, a subtle and parallel gradient is unfolding within the mitochondria of every cell throughout the body. Since each of these processes is profoundly essential and life-giving in nature, I will go out on a limb and say that I think that this is highly unlikely to be a co-incidence. Here again, we see elemental and elegant parallel patterns and resonances reigning supreme at every conceivable level, in mind-blowing quantum fashion.

At his lab in Colorado Springs in 1899, Tesla found that the frequency of the Earths global electromagnetic resonance was 7.8 Hz, or just less than 8 cycles per second. This helped him understand the electrical properties of the Earth and led to advances in his work on resonant circuits and wireless energy transmission (is this not also a form of quantum exchange?) that the greedy industrial giants who were backing Edison shut down -- and actually smashed, in typical blunt, brainless mafia-style and yet, in ultimate irony, without which we could scarcely imagine enjoying life today. His calculations also hinted at the existence of the ionosphere, though it was not proven until 26 years later.

It is worth noting that much of his work with resonant circuits, including the famous Tesla Coil, employed radical quantum-mechanical concepts such as boosting a looped system already set into vibration, and all of it relied entirely upon his firm and enviable grasp of the interchangeable nature of magnetism and electrical current.

Tesla calculated the time for a pulse of light or electro-magnetic energy to travel around the Earth to be slightly less than 1/8 of a second, meaning it makes the trip 8 times in slightly less than one second. It therefore vibrates at about 7.8 Hz identical to the Earths resonant frequency a fact that strikes me as something well beyond co-incidence.

The conductive ionosphere acts as a boundary layer, creating a resonant cavity, or closed waveguide capable of oscillating at certain standing waves (called its resonant frequencies) with higher amplitude than others. One of the phenomena this creates is something called Schumann Resonances, named after physicist Winfried Schumann (who mathematically predicted it in 1952), with several peaks

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occurring at various low frequencies, one of which is -- perhaps not surprisingly -- 7.8 Hz.

Perhaps Tesla himself never knew it, but we have found that the predominant standing wave within the body perhaps thanks to the resonant cavity of its Wei/ Defensive Qi, or chakra, or energy shell -- is also 7.8 Hz. I also find it exhilarating to know that a pulse or stream of energy at a frequency approximating this value can be emitted from the point known as Zhong Chong -- Middle Rushing, superbly apropos by its Chinese name, or the rather dull and empty Pericardium-9 as its called in Western terminology, located at the tip of the index finger, which in Buddhism symbolizes the Middle Way, or Eight-fold Path of Righteousness.

The resonant frequency of the human heart also happens to be around 7.8 Hz. Studies have shown that humans deep underground, in space, or otherwise shielded from the Earths Schumann Resonances soon become out of sorts. When exposed to the proper frequencies, they immediately recover. Such oscillating equipment is now standard payload on most long-term spacecraft or subterranean missions. It would seem that the human body, for optimum performance, must receive both signals -- the one from within and the one from outside. This could be, I theorize, due to their combinatory function as a comparison/ feedback circuit, like those used to regulate quartz-timed clocks, and/ or as a quantumboosting requirement, since within such a system there should and likely must be full quantum energy entanglement and exchange.

A standing wave in a resonant cavity can be thought of as the wave itself and its reflection. This also matches up quite nicely with the concept of Yin and Yang. I propose that by Nature, each of us is living, breathing, and personified proof of quantum-mechanical linkage to the nth and infinite degree.

In addition to the possibility of adjusting the bodys electric system to compensate for or counteract shortages or malfunctions, it would certainly be beneficial if an herb or naturally-occurring substance known to bear a harmonizing and healing resonance could be brought directly to the source of the imbalance to address and correct the corresponding interruption of energy flow. Such a system would be

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an invaluable means for improving the quality of our lives.

With Traditional Chinese Medicine, we truly do have such a system; one that not only effectively uses multiple tools and methods as means to boost, drain, connect or disconnect the circuits and conduits involved in the bodys interlinked chains of supply, distribution, and regulation, but as a bonus, if used properly and fully, this precise but flexible system also allows for the fine-tuning of delicate and subtle energies, much in the same way as the tuning circuit of a radio helps pull in and isolate the desired frequency to decode the signal of a station through layers of environmental interference. If we can finetune and boost the signals at the most basic levels of the body, all levels benefit, and we shine. If we fail to pay attention to or correct the imbalances that occur naturally within our lives, we may suffer.

In summary, I theorize that as our wild and swinging hemes do their oscillating routines with magnetically modulated iron, our blood in its quantum transformational phase throws up its corresponding moving array of pulsating magnetic fields, and these ideally in turn induce proportional currents not only in nerves (acting as wires) but also within the oscillating fields and conductive mediums of organs and tissues nearby. I believe that these tissues and channels can also be nudged into harmful polar states of excess or deficiency by the piling up of electrical charges or by the drain of stagnating pools and eddies collecting in charge-bearing fluids or fields, each with various corresponding physical manifestations.

I also believe that the entire matrix of acupuncture meridians and points -- that are in fact a circuit of nodes which have been measured and found to be more or less exactly where the Chinese have said they were for the last several thousand years or so -- can be used to access, bridge, program, or override part or all of the system, perhaps merely by means of unblocking and employing the elemental information and forces held and transmitted within them.

We may also deduce that if our blood is magnetic, or better yet paramagnetic that is, fluctuating in and out of its magnetic properties, then as it performs this magic at the atomic level, it simultaneously throws up a shimmering, oscillating array of magnetic fields outside or on the surface of the body that collectively might resemble a type of energetic force field, which corresponds astonishingly well

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to the Chinese Medicine concept of Wei Qi, or Defensive Qi.

Such an array could also form something akin to shell-like layers along the sets of points where it lies in intersection with the Earths own massive sets of magnetic fields and lines themselves thrown up by the movement of molten iron and nickel at its core and which serve as the Earths defensive shield against powerful cosmic radiation that would otherwise incinerate the planet. Such portable magnetic shells of our own around us would also necessarily by interaction have the ability to induce subtle but useful electric currents and vortices in wires and fields of the tissues and fluids in the body below, all of which matches up quite faithfully with the elaborate pathways and channels of the Acupuncture Meridian system, (which, like the concept of chakras, also usually line up with major nerve networks and plexuses).

Perhaps it is also useful to imagine that one overlying quantum-exchange function of qi could be that of protection from forces without, while an underlying one could be envisioned as that of boosting the circuitry and assisting the flow of energy within. Ideally, the whole system would be oscillating in synchronized, resonant flux, with the energy alternating in quantum states between that of electrical current within the body via the nerves and that of electro-magnetic energy fluctuating in fields through the spaces around them, and, quite importantly, with each cycle feeding into and growing out of the next.

By the way, this ingeniously subtle and effective system that sends and bends our inherent paramagnetism up and down through all its interlinking spheres of transformation does such a good job of diffusing and varying it that it simply, effectively, and naturally screens our delicate tissues and vessels from being damaged by the electro-magnetic resonance scanners at the airport or hospital, which are anything but subtle. As it turns out, their energies tend to be sent, focused and collected along fixed, manmade planes and axes, unlike the bodys, which conform to none but Natures Finest Divine and Sublime Equations which seem to imply an exquisite interplay of fractals (self-similar and nowhere differentiable shapes and patterns) and Fibonacci sequences (numbers always approaching the closest rational approximations of the Golden Ratio) -- and which are, of course, in the continual state of symphonic flux.

I maintain that inside and out, the body we live in relies and thrives primarily on that which is

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subtle and nuanced. Modern Western Medicine, on the other hand, once it has found that this or that cell has a receptor for a particular neurotransmitter or hormone, is happy to crudely smash a way in to unleash a veritable flood of them to bombard and bathe all surrounding tissues in untoward side effects when, ideally and elegantly, only a single one is all that is needed to get inside the cell in the first place. In many cases, more than that is not well tolerated and we suffer.

Anyone dealing with such things as simple stress, outside pathogenic factors, chemical or dietary imbalances, drug abuse or regimens, emotional upheavals, or just plain and simple overwork or fatigue can undergo a slow-down or stoppage of even such a well-designed mechanism as ours. Then, if the blood is not fully imbued with its proper charges and transformations, less energy is available for boosting the collateral processes, and less than optimal fields can be thrown up, resulting in less than effective shielding by our weakened and vulnerable Defensive Qi, thus quite possibly exposing us to the horrors of attack by external pathogens, or worse: leaving us to endure one debilitating infirmity after another as cascading effects move down through successive channels and layers, leading to an insidious decline of bodily resources and causing us to run into a deficit we eventually wont be able to recover from, (for example, a depletion of bone matrix, which is dissolved by a stressed kidney system via messengers in the blood to float an emergency supply of electrolytes to deal with such shortages at the first sign), leading to systemic disorders, tumors, and cancer.

In conclusion, I believe that the application of such knowledge as exists in Chinese Medicine, together with quantum electro-magnetic insights into the Nature of our being, may enable us to remain in good health longer and with more quality of life than standard stubborn extant thought systems might otherwise provide for. May our fields of flux remain strong and resonant, and our tuning forever fine!

John Quinn July 14, 2013