Harold Saxton Burr
Michael Levin and the Bioelectric Code: The Software Layer of Life
If DNA is the source code of biological life, then bioelectricity is the compiler that turns it into a living organism. For decades, molecular biology has operated under a central dogma: DNA encodes proteins, proteins build structures, and the genome is the master blueprint of form.
Morphogenetic Fields and Bioelectric Validation: When the "Spooky" Becomes Measurable
For nearly a century, two ideas haunted the margins of biology. Harold Saxton Burr at Yale University measured electrical fields around living organisms in the 1930s and 1940s, calling them "L-fields" (life fields) and claiming they served as organizational templates for biological form.
Measuring the Electromagnetic Fields of the Human Body: From Burr's L-Fields to Modern Bioelectromagnetics
You are an electromagnetic being. This is not a New Age metaphor.
SQUID Magnetometry and Biomagnetic Fields: Measuring the Invisible Force of Healing Hands
Somewhere in a basement laboratory, shielded by layers of mu-metal and aluminum designed to block the Earth's magnetic field and every stray electromagnetic signal from the civilization above, sits a device cooled to four degrees above absolute zero. Inside its cryogenic chamber, a tiny loop of...
Harold Saxton Burr: The Yale Professor Who Discovered the Electric Blueprint of Life
In the 1930s, at a time when molecular biology was in its infancy and the structure of DNA was still decades from discovery, a professor of anatomy at Yale University School of Medicine was making measurements that, had they been taken seriously, might have redirected the entire trajectory of...
Vedic Cosmology and Modern Physics: How Ancient India Mapped the Architecture of Reality
In 1935, Erwin Schrodinger — the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who formulated the wave equation that describes quantum mechanical behavior — gave a lecture at the University of Cambridge in which he described his intellectual debt to Vedantic philosophy. "This life of yours which you are living...
Conception and the Entry of Consciousness: Where Biology Meets Spirit
When does consciousness enter the body? The question stands at the intersection of biology, philosophy, theology, and indigenous wisdom — and it has no answer that all traditions agree upon.