BEYOND THE ELECTROBIOMAGNETIC MAN
Buryl Payne

There has been so much hoopla about biomagnetism, electrobiomagnetics, and so forth in the recent news that we might be mislead to think that there is nothing more to a human except tiny oscillators, and DNA electromagnetic coils, moving ions in blood and lymph vessels, charged ions shuttling to and fro in neural switching networks, or pulsating biomagnetic fields.
This is not correct.

This kind of thinking is almost like the older idea of humans as complex stimulus response mechanisms like Pavlov’s salivating dogs, carried one step down to the electronic level.

Pavlov’s theories formed the basis of Karl Marx’s dialectical materialism; the idea that humans are just mechanical—chemical machines influenced by their chemistry and by social factors of the society as a whole. This idea in turn led to the communist system, which as we know, has not been viable. Humans are more than machines, more than complex electronic structures, swayed or controlled by power line frequencies, geomagnetic variations, or solar particle radiations.

We are creative beings. Every creative thought moves trillions of ions, atoms, and molecules around in our bodies. This is not stimulus-response, if it is truly a creative thought. There must be another force at work directed by creative thought. We could call this force a kind of internal psychokinesis. Humans have free will to be creative and bring forth new actions, events, structures in the world. Free will is not really free, though, it does take some effort on our part. The power of love may also be another freedom that we have; another type of force which is not measurable in electronic or mechanical terms. When we ‘love’ another, forces are set up in the world which may influence atoms, molecules, ions, and eventually behavior, but love isn’t necessarily that force.

Although human lives may be influenced by stray or permanent magnetic and electric fields, our real power comes from emotions, creative thoughts, and possibly even so-called ‘spiritual’ forces which operate independently of bodies.

We are more than complex patterns of electromagnetic waves, more than stimula-response networks, more than complex biochemical reactions.
We are not just electrobiomagnetic puppets. Here’s to us!