The nervous system is a complex and vital network within the human body responsible for transmitting signals, processing information, and coordinating various physiological functions. In bioenergetics, we recognize many common views about the nervous system, but also challenge some ideas about it and extend into new ideas as well.
In this article, we’ll first discuss conventional views about the nervous system before looking at the bioenergetic point of view.
Two Main Divisions of the Nervous System
The nervous system has two main divisions: the central nervous system (CNS) and the peripheral nervous system (PNS). Each division serves distinct purposes and plays a crucial role in maintaining overall bodily function.
The Central Nervous System
The central nervous system consists of the brain and spinal cord and is often referred to as the control center of the body. Its primary functions include:
- Processing Information: the brain is responsible for processing sensory information received from the body and the external environment. It interprets this information and generates appropriate responses.
- Coordination and Control: the CNS coordinates and controls all voluntary and involuntary bodily functions, including motor activities, thought processes, and emotions.
- Memory and Learning: the brain stores and retrieves information, allowing for memory formation, learning, and cognitive functions such as problem-solving and decision-making.
- Reflexes: the spinal cord plays a key role in generating reflex responses, enabling rapid, involuntary reactions to potentially harmful stimuli.
The Peripheral Nervous System
The peripheral nervous system extends beyond the CNS and consists of nerves and ganglia. It is responsible for connecting the central nervous system to the rest of the body and carries out several essential functions:
- Sensory Input: the PNS gathers sensory information from various receptors located in the skin, muscles, organs, and other tissues. This input is transmitted to the CNS for processing.
- Motor Output: the PNS conveys motor commands from the CNS to muscles and glands, enabling voluntary movements and involuntary actions such as digestion and heart rate regulation.
- Autonomic Functions: the autonomic nervous system (a division of the PNS) controls involuntary bodily functions, including heart rate, digestion, respiratory rate, and the fight-or-flight response.
- Peripheral Reflexes: reflex arcs, involving sensory and motor neurons, allow for quick and automatic responses to external stimuli without the need for conscious thought.
Components of the Nervous System
Nerve cells, glial cells, and myelin are essential components of the nervous system, each playing unique roles:
Nerve Cells (Neurons):
- Function: Neurons are the fundamental units of the brain and nervous system, responsible for receiving sensory input from the external world, sending motor commands to our muscles, and transforming and relaying the electrical signals at every step in between.
- Structure: They consist of a cell body (soma), dendrites, and an axon. Dendrites receive signals from other neurons, the cell body processes these signals, and the axon transmits the signals to other neurons, muscles, or glands.
- Types: There are multiple types of neurons, including sensory neurons, motor neurons, and interneurons, each with specific functions.
Glial Cells:
- Function: Glial cells, or “glia,” surround neurons and provide support and insulation between them. They are crucial for the general maintenance of the nervous system and are involved in processes such as nutrient transport, waste removal, and immune defense in the brain.
- Types: There are several types of glial cells, including astrocytes, oligodendrocytes, Schwann cells, and microglia. Each type has a specific function, ranging from providing structural support to insulating neurons.
- Role in Diseases: Glial cells are involved in various neurological diseases. For example, the malfunctioning of astrocytes is linked to Alzheimer’s disease, and anomalies in microglia are associated with Parkinson’s disease.
Myelin:
- Function: Myelin is a fatty substance that wraps around the axons of some neurons. It acts as an insulator and increases the speed at which electrical impulses (action potentials) travel along the axon.
- Composition: Myelin is produced by oligodendrocytes in the central nervous system and Schwann cells in the peripheral nervous system.
- Importance: Myelination, the process of forming myelin, is crucial for the proper functioning of the nervous system. It enables rapid and efficient signal transmission.
- Related Disorders: Diseases like multiple sclerosis are characterized by damage to myelin sheaths, leading to a slowdown or blockage of electrical signal transmission, which manifests in various neurological symptoms.
Bioenergetic Views on the Nervous System
Bioenergetics sees an even more profound role for the nervous system across a number of areas, and the first of these is simply in communication. Rather than relying wholly on electrical transmission, we see it as setting up an electric charge involved in establishing the human body-field itself, allowing for instantaneous wireless communication to take place.
The heart itself – which also includes neurons – has a strong electric charge, and has been shown to detect information before the rest of the nervous system, giving credence to the idea that the strength of the electric field contributes to the communication process. As if an interaction with its larger field allows it to assess the environment more rapidly than the brain can.
We’ve discussed in other articles that researchers have shown a wireless communication system in the brain, even where neurons have been surgically severed and cannot possibly communicate in the traditional “wired” sense. We’ve also spoken of the nature of wireless communications via resonance, much as a WiFi router sends information via frequencies to the devices in our homes. And sometimes, for increased signal strength, we use WiFi boosters to grab the initial signal and send it further on.
The nervous system is uniquely set up to do just this, with its “nodes of Ranvier” or gaps in the myelin sheath at regular intervals along the axons of the nerves. Traditionally, this is said to speed up nerve transmission, but more than that, it creates areas where a quantum field message can be emitted from the nerve, relayed from node to node throughout the body. Where there is myelin, these messages are blocked from escaping.
Professor Peter Fraser, who established today’s human body-field theory, suggested that these messages were magnetic in nature, and that they were created by interference patterns.
From this theory, it is no surprise that the nervous system has the remarkable ability to make myelin sections thicker or longer, or to create wider gaps, all of which not only affects nerve transmission, but also the relationships between the gaps. This alters the interference patterns and provides the body with different information about the state of its health.
Relying on this idea, we can easily see how a breakdown in myelin due to certain diseases – allowing fields to escape from the nerve where they should not, and establishing chaotic interference patterns – would impact communication and function in the body.
We also note that a hologram – that is, an apparent 3D reality – is produced by two light beams interacting. According to Fraser, the nervous system itself sets up a quantum hologram of our reality; perhaps it is the interaction or interference pattern of these fields setting up such a hologram. Indeed, Fraser pointed out that the inside of the axon matched bioenergetically with photons (light).
Based on their structures and therefore their resonant fields, different areas of the brain are in resonant communication with different parts of the body, allowing the brain as a whole to have instant feedback at all times about everything that’s happening. It connects directly in this way through what we call Energetic Integrators – resonant communication channels that relate to our conscious emotions; it also connects via resonance through the body’s germ layers, connecting to our subconscious emotions.
The Morphic Field
In the overall body-field, there are three primary aspects of it. These are related to the heart field, the connective tissues field, and the nervous system field and its communication across the germ layers. The latter is called the morphic field, and it not only relates to the subconscious emotions, but also to the shape of the body.
Because of this, in bioenergetics theory, when we cannot fully process emotional events – such as shocks and traumas – they cause a distortion in the brain field, altering information to the body and potentially causing diseases of improper growths or wasting away.
We discussed the powerful field of the heart, and such shocks initially register on the heart, then into the brainstem, and then to an area of the brain associated with the type of shock or emotional event that has occurred. In other words, the heart plays a central role in these events, and in fact the heart driver field is related to the four major parts of the brain: the cerebral cortex, cerebral medulla, cerebellum, and brainstem. These, in turn, relate to the rest of the body through the germ layers.
Further links between the heart and brain occur in the fields of the heart integrator (EI4), kidney integrator (EI6) and spleen / shock integrator (EI12). And the heart imprinter field (ED2) connects to nerve plexuses throughout the body, allowing it to take information from the nervous system and imprint this into the blood itself. Interestingly, Fraser claimed that there was little difference bioenergetically between kidney and brain tissue, thus the EI6 connection.
Fraser once observed that you might not run into health issues until you had two or more emotional fields essentially stuck in the brain field. We are meant to process emotions, so it’s reasonable that it’s designed for exposure to one emotional field event at a time. The issue, he believed, was when you had two or more emotional fields interacting with one another; this goes back to interference patterns that aren’t meant to be present in the brain. He said this set up an oscillation that could cause damage to nerve cells in the brain and have a cascading effect on the related parts of the body.
The Body-Field and Memory
As the brain is commonly considered the house of memory, we’ll briefly point out that bioenergetics believes memory is distributed throughout the body through its many fields, and perhaps especially in the muscles. Fraser described it as “a bioenergetic phenomenon which cannot function without energy, waves, heart imprinting, and central nervous system processing of some kind.”
In this sense, the brain may indeed be a receiver of the field’s information; perhaps it draws something from our true memory storage into conscious awareness. But the brain is not the lone storehouse of this information.
The Nervous System and Immunity
Bioenergetically, the glial cells in the brain match with or communicate with all of the energetic terrain fields, which provide the defensive and healing messages of the body’s energetic immune system. Thus, the glial cells not only provide physical support to the nerves, but act in a way that helps the nervous system to drive immune activity.
The terrains have always shown the strongest bioenergetic match to DNA and RNA, but Fraser once wrote that the nervous system carries genetic messages about protein replication. So the theory holds that the glial cells provide such messages to the terrain fields.
Now this may be a means by which the body as a whole receives genetic instructions at least in regards to immunity. But there also appears to be a bioenergetic match from the glial cells to the dendrites of the nerves, which then communicate to the nerve cell body.
Because of this, if dendrites are damaged by the presence of mercury compounds, this function of the nervous system is inhibited. Fraser found a match specific to the growth cones of these dendrites, and found that these also matched to all of the energetic terrains – not surprising given that they match to the glial cells that share this connection to the terrains. He referred to this dendritic field as matrix regulator 8, or MR8.
We discussed earlier the connection between the heart imprinter (ED2) and nerve plexuses, but it also connects to MR8 and the energetic terrains. More specifically, Fraser said that when ED2 and MR8 were tested together, they did not match to the energetic terrains, but independently, they did. Fraser suggested that they act together as a kind of switch as to when information of the terrains needs to be imprinted. (Also, incidentally, that the hypothalamus played a key role in determining which terrain to activate at any given time.)
I would propose another interpretation. When the glial cells and MR8 are matching to the energetic terrains, they are updating them with defensive and healing information to communicate to the body’s DNA. We then have a switch to a match with ED2, which receives this update and communicates it to the rest of the body, so it can respond accordingly. In this way, you don’t have an update occurring while the imprint message is being received, which would change the imprint message in the middle of the process. Perhaps the body is constantly switching back and forth between these two activities. This is, again, simply my interpretation of the data Fraser discovered.
In any case, this connection between the dendrites and the terrains is important in bioenergetics, as Fraser found combinations between MR8 and specific terrains could match to diseases, which could provide a framework for future support mechanisms. For example, he found that MR8 and either ET4 or ET15 would match with multiple sclerosis (MS), leading him to believe that there must be two types of MS. Of course this was simply a hypothesis from his observations, yet it underscores the ways in which bioenergetics can introduce new pathways for future medicine to explore.
On a final note, Fraser introduced one more connection to both MR8 and the energetic terrains, and this was the body’s nerve driver field (ED4). He felt this only supported this entire view connecting the nervous system to our energetic immune system, and he wrote: “It is abundantly clear that correcting the nervous system functioning, with the [glial cells] included, must help the [energetic terrains] to work more effectively. This makes ED4 a key in correcting information in the body-field.”
An Overview of Bioenergetic Nervous System Support
Overall, we want to look at any aspect of the body-field related to the nervous system when looking to support someone who is seeking better nervous system health. Here is a summary of the primary and secondary fields with this relationship:
Primary Fields:
- Nerve driver
- Neurosensory / large intestine integrator, connected to the overall nervous system
- Neurotransmitters / heart integrator, connected to the midbrain and neurotransmitters.
- Central nervous system terrain
- Nerve terrain
- Neurological terrain: this includes tissues of the coating of axons, many vertebrae, the cerebellum, medulla oblongata, gray matter of the brain and spine, and spinal nerves. It may be associated with slowness or degeneration of the nervous system as well as lack of coordination.
- Memory imprinter star: links to the four parts of the brain, and has sometimes been referred to as a “brain driver.”
- Nerve star
Secondary Fields:
- Vertical axis – has a strong connection to the nervous system, and appears correlated to the autonomic nervous system’s control of functions like blood pressure, heart rate variability, and sleep.
- Polarity: supports the firing of nerve impulses.
- Daytime match to circadian rhythms: matches to the sympathetic nervous system.
- Nighttime match to circadian rhythms: matches to the vagus nerve and the parasympathetic nervous system.
- Heart imprinter driver: matches to nerve plexuses throughout the body
- Heart driver: connects the heart to the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems. The heart also includes many neurons. Links to the midbrain (auditory, visual, and motor function).
- Bone driver: matches with calcium metabolism, needed for nerve transmission.
- Mucous membranes / small intestine integrator: matches with calcium metabolism, needed for nerve transmission.
- Lymphatics / bladder integrator: matches to spinal nerves and intervertebral discs.
- Blood field / gallbladder integrator: matches to motor neurons and gray matter function.
- Circulation / heart protector integrator: matches to the hypothalamus and midbrain.
- Broad spectrum virus terrain: includes tissues of the neural ganglia and motor cortex.
- Chronic fatigue terrain: includes tissues of the central nervous system.
- Bacteria terrain: includes tissues of the cerebral nerves and frontal lobes of the brain.
- Lymphatic immunity and general radiation star: connects to viral problems of the nervous system.
- Shock / audio processing star: shocks can store in energetic memory systems, affecting cells, muscles, nerves, etc. Matches temporal lobe and the corpus callosum.
- Stress / visual processing star: matches to the visual cortex, thalamus, and motor neurons (but not the motor cortex). It also correlates with the optical interpretation center of the cortex, supporting visual interpretation that has been impaired by shock.
- Heavy metals detox star: especially appears to support dendrites damaged by mercury.
