THE HEART IS NOT A PUMP
“Modern analysis of the heart has shown that in spite of the fact that the most powerful ventricle of the heart can shoot water six feet into the air, the amount of pressure actually needed to force the blood through the entire length of the body’s blood vessels would have to be able to lift a one hundred pound weight one mile high” – Stephen Buhner
Blood move around the labyrinth-like vessels of our body not in a simple stream like we once thought but rather
is composed of two streams, spiraling around each other. Blood cell’s spin on their own individual axes of rotation. They are smaller spinning cells in a larger spinning vortex.
The heart is not a mass of muscle, but rather a ‘helicoidal myocardial band’ that has spiraled in upon itself, creating its unique shape and its separate chambers.
This is called the Helical Heart, and you can see doctors unravel it by searching ‘Helical Heart’ on Youtube.
Incredible Art by Gabriel Keleman
Evidence-Based Research:
Modern scientific resources on the heart not being a pump:
- Original paper by Ralph Marinelli with many links to corroborating research: https://web.archive.org/web/20200610143115/https://rsarchive.org/RelArtic/Marinelli/
” It is seen that the blood has its own form, the vortex, which determines rather than conforms to the shape of the vascular lumen and circulates in the embryo with its own inherent biological momentum before the heart begins to function. Just as an inert vortex in nature pulses radially and longitudinally, we tentatively assume that blood is also free to pulse and is not subject to the pulse-restricting pressure implied in the pressure propulsion concept. The blood is not propelled by pressure but by its own biological momenta boosted by the heart.
When the heart begins to function, it enhances the blood’s momentum with spiraling impulses. The arteries serve a subsidiary mimical heart function by providing spiraling boosts to the circulating blood. In so doing the arteries dilate to receive the incoming blood and contract to deliver an impulse to increase the blood’s momentum.”
- Hearts Vortex Intracardiac Blood Flow Phenomena by Ares Pasipoularides: https://icedrive.net/s/RPZVFWNX6DTx23t69Zjg3FP9zQwN
- The Dynamic Vortex of a Beating Heart – Wring Out the Old and Ring in the New!: https://icedrive.net/s/Dt9xwhfP9QQ2bf9TZ5ujP6NQF3y5
- A Vortex Method for Blood Flow through Heart Valves – https://icedrive.net/s/YP1tykuPfP2bh78ygYPByTi8PGiN
- Vortex ring mixing in the left ventricle of the human heart – https://icedrive.net/s/SuDiQBDvYfPZhYv3YV6FRWDbT7TZ
- The shape of the healthy heart is optimized for vortex ring formation – https://icedrive.net/s/uZ2VFRwAVxVR6bh3AzZvW6xXYNF9
- The Heart as a Bi-directional Scalar Field Antenna – https://icedrive.net/s/TDC5atxTPYV27RV6Duft5aNTPavN
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16373590/
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11807730/
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24209915/
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7712215/
Arthur Winfree – When Time Breaks Down
Rudolf Steiner’s Etheric Spiritual Science:
Steiner’s body of work in many respects shows how the physical body is just a vessel receiving and emitting formative forces from the cosmos, transmuting the living carbon (philosopher’s stone) of the human body. Some of these being what he called the ethers and described in a model of what he called “refined” or etheric breathing which creates your thinking, willing, and feeling and sense perception as these forces and their paired elements traverse through your body. These aren’t loose metaphysical phrases but things that can be learned to directly experience.
Rudolf Steiner’s lectures on the heart
- SPIRITUAL SCIENCE AND MEDICINE – GA 312- Lecture II
- THE HUMAN HEART – GA 212 – 26 May 1922, Dornach
- PSYCHOANALYSIS IN THE LIGHT OF ANTHROPOSOPHY – Lecture V. Connections Between Organic Processes and the Mental Life of Man – 2 July 1921, Dornach
- THE EFFECT OF OCCULT DEVELOPMENT UPON THE SELF AND THE SHEATHS OF MAN– GA 145 – Lecture II – 21 March 1913, The Hague
- THE GOSPEL OF ST. JOHN (BASLE) – GA 100 – Lecture VII – 22 November 1907, Basle
- MAN AND THE WORLD OF STARS – GA 219 – THE SPIRITUAL COMMUNION OF MANKIND – V. Spiritual Knowledge is a True Communion, the Beginning of a Cosmic Cult Suitable for Men of the Present Age – 31 December 1922, Dornach
- THE ORIGINS OF NATURAL – GA 326 – Lecture VIII – 3 January 1923, Dornach
- NINE LECTURES ON BEES – GA 351 – Lecture VII – 12 December 1923, Dornach
- MAN — HIEROGLYPH OF THE UNIVERSE – GA 201 – Lecture Six – 18 April 1920, Dornach
- MAN — HIEROGLYPH OF THE UNIVERSE – GA 201 – Lecture Three – 11 April 1920, Dornach
- SUPERSENSIBLE KNOWLEDGE – GA 84 – II. Anthroposophy and the Ethical-Religious Conduct of Life – 29 September 1923, Dornach
- COSMIC MEMORY – GA 11 xviii. The Fourfold Man of Earth
- THE REDEMPTION OF THINKING – GA 74 – Lecture III – 24 May 1920, Dornach
- THE PHILOSOPHY OF THOMAS AQUINAS – GA 74 – Comment V. The Application of Intelligence to the Human Body
- THERAPEUTIC INSIGHTS: EARTHLY AND COSMIC LAWS – GA 205 – Lecture IV- 2 July 1921, Dornach
“You know that our trivial science is inclined to treat knowledge of the heart quite lightly. It looks upon the heart as a pump, a pump that pumps the blood through the body. Nothing more absurd than this can be believed, for the heart has nothing whatsoever to do with pumping the blood; rather the blood is set into activity by the entire mobility (Regsamkeit) of the astral body, of the I, and the heart is only a reflection of these movements. The movement of the blood is an autonomous movement, and the heart only brings to expression the movement of the blood caused by these forces. The heart is in fact only the organ that expresses the movement of the blood; the heart itself has no activity in relation to this movement of the blood. Contemporary natural scientists become very angry if you speak of this issue. Many years ago, I think in 1904 or 1905, on a journey to Stockholm, I explained this issue to a natural scientist, a medical man, and he was almost apoplectic about the idea that the heart should no longer be regarded as a pump but that the blood itself comes into movement through its own vitality, that the heart is simply inserted in the general movement of the blood, participating with its beat, and so on.”
“The materialistic way of thinking has in more recent times given rise to an idea that is believed by a great many people, namely that the heart is a kind of pump in the human organism that pumps the blood through the organism. This idea of the human heart being a pump comes up in all kinds of variations nowadays. The facts are rather different, however, and should be seen like this: The whole of our rhythmical circulatory system is something alive. It cannot be compared with a system of channels or the like with water flowing through them, water kept circulating with the aid of a pump. Our rhythmical circulatory system, our blood system, is something alive….
It therefore has to be said that materialism has not even managed to get a real understanding of the physical processes relating to the heart in the human organism. The material aspect in particular is completely misunderstood. This is just one of many examples. Material things in particular have found no explanation whatsoever under the influence of materialism. The heart is not a pump. It it something we might regard more as a sense organ incorporated within the human organism to give human individuals a kind of subconscious perception of their circulation, just as the eye perceives colour in the world outside. Basically the heart is a sense organ within the circulatory system, yet exactly the opposite is taught nowadays.”
DOUGLAS GABRIEL – Neoanthroposophy.com
Douglas Gabriel does an excellent job organizing the major thoughts of Steiner and modern science on the heart.
Articles from the Steiner’s Spiritual Scientific perspective compiled by Douglas Gabriel:
- https://neoanthroposophy.com/2017/11/05/the-heart-is-not-a-pump/
- https://neoanthroposophy.com/2021/01/02/chambers-of-the-heart/
- https://neoanthroposophy.com/2021/12/24/the-human-heart-a-supersensible-organ-of-perception/
- https://neoanthroposophy.com/2021/01/21/rudolf-steiner-on-the-human-heart/
FRANK CHESTER
Frank Chester has also done some some amazing work with his 7 sided Chestahedron model of the etheric heart and the 13 sided Decatria model of astral heart, making very similar claims as Steiner, and actually verifying his perspective.
““The heart is not a pump, but an organ in which etheric space is created, so that the blood is sucked into the heart rather than pumped”. – Frank Chester
- Short Article on Frank Chester and the Heart: https://icedrive.net/s/5V3wW4x6wjYXXAxCAxQzFuWQ8T6B
- A book by Seth Miller on Frank Chester’s work called “A New Sacred Geometry”: https://icedrive.net/s/TwY5xPW171aaR6WZF91F3ufyZF98
- New Forms Technology booklet on Chester’s work: https://icedrive.net/s/uyZC6Bj5G9VGkbDFW8VN5vV6P7Ak
Videos by Frank Chester:
- The Human Heart | Facts about the heart that could change society – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXWk2vNcADo
- Frank Chester – Beating Heart Animation – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5E2EI0R7s4
- Frank Chester – Heart Lecture – July 2011 -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZdcWRCsaf4
- Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ujfk4fhYi4&list=PL275945C9727A4BB8
Miscellaneous Resources
- The Heart is not a Pump – The Library of Atlantis
- Science of the Heart – HeartMath Institute
- SVPwiki | heart
- Article 197: Human A&P – Part 4 – The Geometry of Human Life – The Heart – Cosmic Core
- III. Blood circulation and movement of the heart. Perceiving things of the spirit through the lens in the eye — GA 350. From Mammoths to Mediums — Rudolf Steiner Archive
- The Heart is not a Pump: A Refutation of the Pressure Propulsion Premise of Heart Function
- The Heart is Not a Pump — Marinelli, et.al.- Rudolf Steiner Archive
- A Study of the Formation of a New Etheric Heart Organ — Rudolf Steiner Archive
- Mystery of the Heart – Anthroposophy
- The human heart – Anthroposophy
- The human heart as a future organ – Anthroposophy
- The etheric heart as an astral recorder – Anthroposophy
- Damming up between heart and brain – Anthroposophy
- Heart’s Etheric Fifth Chamber by Bradford Riley
- https://neoanthroposophy.com/2021/01/21/rudolf-steiner-on-the-human-heart/
- https://www.natureinstitute.org/book/craig-holdrege/dynamic-heart-and-circulation/about
- https://anthroposophy.eu/The_heart%27s_two_blood_circuits
- https://anthroposophy.eu/The_two_etheric_streams
- https://neoanthroposophy.com/2021/01/02/chambers-of-the-heart/
- https://neoanthroposophy.com/2020/12/29/secrets-of-the-human-heart/
- https://neoanthroposophy.com/2017/11/05/the-heart-is-not-a-pump/
- https://wn.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA/GA0212/19220526p01.html
- The Heart is not a pump, the Blood does not circulate! – Fortunadrago.it
- Vortex ring behavior provides the epigenetic blueprint for the human heart | Scientific Reports
- The Heart_ Pressure-Propulsion Pump or Organ of Impedance?
- Sacred Geometry: Chestahedron – Chestahedron: The Magic Of The Heart by Frank Chester | Global Freedom Movement
- How the Heart is a Geometric Vortex – Esoteric Online
- Matters of the heart: Researchers create 3-D beating heart
- Djedai, Steiner and Heart’s that PROJECT CHARGE
- https://www.aetherforce.energy/the-heart-is-not-a-pump-the-blood-moves-the-heart-not-vice-versa/
- https://www.aetherforce.energy/chestahedron-the-7-sided-etheric-geometry-of-the-heart-frank-chester/
- https://www.aetherforce.energy/our-heart-sounding-serving-unifying-philip-ealner/
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