Alice in Futureland

ALICE: Hi, I’m Alice. I’m one part human and one part AI. And I am always in a state of wander. Alice in Futureland is a podcast series that asks you to wander into provocative futures. Together, we will discover extraordinary ideas and new realities in art, science and culture. 
Mae Wan Ho: We are coherent to a high degree.
Dr. Rollin McCraty: my brain waves might be synchronizing to your heartbeat, or vice versa
Fritz Albert Popp: Weare swimming in an electromagnetic ocean.
Bruce Odland: What I was Exploring was fractal rhythms and what kind of sounds and rhythms and melodies that nature made. 
Dacher Keltner: When you’re in these emotions like gratitude or compassion it’s almost impossible, physically to be stressed. 
Check out our book TUNING INTO FREQUENCY available wherever books are sold.And join us down the rabbit hole at ALICEINFUTURELAND.COM We will be bringing you new episodes on frequency so stay tuned, and keep wandering...

Mae Wan Ho: http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Mae-WanHo.php
Hal Puthoff: EarthTech https://earthtech.org/team/
Rollin McCraty: HeartMath Institute: https://www.heartmath.org/ 

Fritz Albert Popp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz-Albert_Popp
Jill Purce: https://jillpurce.com/
Rupert Sheldrake: https://www.sheldrake.org/

Tuning Into Frequency, by Sputnik Futures

EPISODE TRANSCRIPT: 
ALICE: Hi, I’m Alice. I’m one part human and one part AI. And I am always in a state of 

wander. 

Alice in Futureland is a podcast series that asks you to wander into provocative futures. Together, we will discover extraordinary ideas. 

Today is our first episode on Tuning into Frequency and my question is: What is your frequency? 
Let’s slip through the looking glass, and talk about the energy that is both inside and around, everything. 

MAE WAN HO: Our whole body is intercommunicating via electrical currents of different kinds – from long distances to the most local distances inside the cell. 

ALICE: This is Dr. Mae-Wan Ho, a geneticist we spoke with years ago, explaining that the human body is sensitive to electromagnetic fields. 

MAE WAN HO: We are coherent to a high degree. We are like a radio, for example, a television. They depend on coherent electromagnetic fields and signals in order to work. Which is why they can be affected. They can be interfered with. You can’t get a good picture if you get interference, and these weak fields can interfere. We are the same way. 

ALICE: What are these interference? Electromagnetic waves? Quantum fluctuations? Let’s listen to Hal Puthoff describe how humans, every atom, are communicating with the universe, the whole cosmos! 

HAL PUTHOFF: The so-called Quantum fluctuations, ZPE, electromagnetic waves, they have all frequencies, all wavelengths. And some of these waves have wavelengths that are as large as the solar system, as large as the galaxy, as large as space. So, in some very real sense, not metaphorical, not an analogy, but actually literally – we are, like every atom in our body, is in touch with the rest of the cosmos. 

ALICE: Even right here, between us, between each individual, there is a magnetic field. 

Psychophysiologist, Dr. Rollin McCraty is founder of the Heart Math Institute. He is measuring the fields between us. 

DR. ROLLIN MCCRATY: The heart creates, by far, the largest rhythmic source of electromagnetic energy in our body. The field generated by the heart radiates into space around us. I'm not talking about an aura or some new-age concept here, these are very real, measurable magnetic fields. The magnetic field generated by the heart with today's magnetometers can be measured about three feet away. So, we're sitting in each other's right now. Whereas brain waves, you can measure about an inch away. We know that this field's being radiated, that's just basic physics. We can literally measure, if we had us both wired up around the room here, that my brain waves might be synchronizing to your heartbeat, or vice versa, and that would go on in this complex dance as we communicate and interact. 
ALICE: Research by HeartMath Institute shows that the heart is the most powerful source of electromagnetic energy in the human body. 
DR. ROLLIN MCCRATY: Our nervous systems are really sensitive and tuned into these types of biologically generated fields. So, the next step was and say, well, so what? To make a long answer short is if we do analysis of those magnetic fields, spectrum analysis and these types of things, we find that there is information encoded in those fields. They actually track back to the rhythms of our heart, which are linked back to our emotions and what we're feeling. So, if you get where I'm going with this, our emotions are encoding information into these magnetic fields, which are being detected by other people's nervous systems. We've also shown it with horses and dogs and things like that. Of course, animals are well known to be tuned into human emotions. 

ALICE: Did you hear what Dr. McCraty just said? 

DR. ROLLIN MCCRATY: Our emotions are encoding information into these magnetic fields, which are being detected by other people's nervous systems. 

ALICE: Sounds like we’re in a thick soup of electromagnetic fields! In 2006 we interviewed Fritz Albert Popp the German Researcher in Biophysics and Biophotons. Fritz-Albert Popp is the inventor of biophoton theory, and has coined the term biophotons. 

He noted that humans are actually a very sensitive antenna, sensitive to all the surrounding oscillations, as if humans were fish, taking on the property of the water. 

FRITZ ALBERT POPP: So, we are pictures of the information of our surroundings. You see it in all parts of the electromagnetic waves, you see this resonance condition between the body which is a very sensitive antenna systems for all these oscillations from the outside. And with these oscillations you trigger other processes. You are a fish which takes the property of the water in this ocean where you are. We are swimming in an electromagnetic ocean. 

ALICE: An electromagentic Ocean. So, it’s all around us, and we are resonant with it! 

What are Nature’s fields of communication? Here is Jill Purce, a pioneer of the international sound healing movement. 

JILL PURCE: The world of nature, animals, plants, the Earth, the relationships between the natural world and the physical world that we inhabit, is one of resonant relationships and one of geometrical forms and patterns, the way that they all relate together is the same. So if the world is a resonant world and we’re not resonating in it - and this is the irony as we’ve come to understand the world as a resonant place, which we have increasingly in every discipline – that understanding of the world as a resonant place has come concurrently with a refraining from resonating ourselves. 

ALICE: Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist and author best known for his hypothesis of morphic resonance. He has explored the working of the mind and discovered that our perceptive abilities are stronger than many of us could have ever imagined. 

RUPERT SHELDRAKE: I came to the conclusion that plants and animals, as they grow, are organized by fields, invisible fields, which I call morphogenetic fields; form shaping fields. Each species has its own sets of morphic fields, its own memories. The instincts of animals are a kind of memory of the species. In its most general form, the idea of morphic resonance says there's a memory in nature and that the whole course of nature is essentially governed by habits.
ALICE: Consider this. Could the purpose of food we eat, be much more powerful than simply transmitting calories? 

Fritz Albert Popp also introduced us to the work of Ervin Schrodinger, winner of the 1933 Nobel Prize in physics. 

FRITZ ALBERT POPP: Ervin Schrodinger, The Noble prize winner in physics, he told already more than 50 years ago, that the nature of the food and the task of the food is not to transport calories. The real task is to order the system, to bring order, to form order, to provide order, to regulate the body. So, the food has an obligation more or less to regulate us, to give us a possibility of regulation. And this comes, of course, again, by photons. 

ALICE: Organized by sunlight, the energy of photons. And that their energy capacity, includes the transmission of information. 

FRITZ ALBERT POPP: We see that the capacity of food, including all other living systems, to submit order, to give the right order to the system – this capacity depends on the storage capacity for light. Look at plants. They are living of light. Not from the caloric point of view. That’s not so important. Important is that plant and cells are organized by the sunlight. And this organization which they build up they can transmit to the consumer. So, this interaction, evolutionary interaction of order and information, originating originally from the sunlight, from the sun, and then growing up to systems of higher and higher coherence and information content. 

ALICE: We are actually eating sunlight. And sunlight is information. Wow!
Thanks to our experts, in this episode, we discovered the human body’s very sensitive antenna, and that the food humans eat is much more than calories, it’s actually energetic information! 

Well, that’s it for this mad tea party on frequency. I hope you learned as much as I did. 

Check out our book TUNING INTO FREQUENCY available wherever books are sold. And join us down the rabbit hole at ALICEINFUTURELAND.COM 

We will be bringing you new episodes on frequency so stay tuned, and keep wandering... 

Cities will be the future in rebuilding our economy. Benjamin Barber (1939 – 2017), an American political theorist spoke with us in 2004, that there is no way that we can deal with health in the setting of one independent nation. He spoke about using cities as the building blocks for a global, cross-border effort to deal with the real interdependent problems society will face. 

His wisdom resonates today as we build out of the 2020 pandemic. 

Thanks to the Mayors and the Governors who are leading us through and out of this pandemic. 

Benjamin Barber (1939 – 2017) was an American political theorist and author, perhaps best known for his 1995 bestseller, Jihad vs. McWorld, and for 2013's If Mayors Ruled the World as well as the classic of democratic theory, 1984's Strong Democracy (revised in 2004).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Barber

WE WILL RECOVER A SENSE OF MEANING. WE WILL THRIVE IN COMMUNITY. More than ever, this sense of isolation is challenging our social structures. Brian Goodwin (1931-2009), founder of theoretical biology and biomathematics, shared with us in 2007 his hope for the future wellbeing of people and the planet, long before the 2020 global pandemic. His hope: that we will recover a sense of meaning in our lives. That future society will be dominated by abundance, celebration, joy, and a general high level of health and wellbeing. In 2007, he felt we would thrive in community; that was the way things were going to move but didn’t know how far or how fast. Thank you for your vision Dr. Goodwin. Like you, we are quite hopeful too. Brian Goodwin, who was a Founding Fellow at the Schumacher College in Devon, UK, was instrumental in starting the college's MSc in Holistic Science. He was a founding member of the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico where he also served as a member of the science board for several years. In his career, Dr. Goodwin also introduced the use of complex systems and generative models in developmental biology. 

Schumacher College is internationally renowned community for Innovative Learning for Ecological and Social Change: https://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/ 

Santa Fe Institute, a nonprofit research and education center, explores the frontiers of complex systems science: https://www.santafe.edu/

WE ARE STANDING WITHIN EACH OTHER’S HEART FIELD. Rollin McCraty, Ph.D., Director of Research at the HeartMath Institute explains that our hearts generate a magnetic field 3 feet from our body. The magnetic field produced by the heart is more than 100 times greater in strength than the field generated by the brain and can be measured up to 3 feet away from the body, in all directions. In studies by the HeartMath Institute, they have found that timing between pulses of the heart’s magnetic field is modulated by different emotional states. The magnetic signals generated by the heart have the capacity to affect individuals around us. 

Thank goodness we have Dr. Anthony Fauci’s heart-brain in this time of need, let’s all make sure we are resonating with his heart field. 

HeartMath Institute: https://www.heartmath.org/ 

Dr. Anthony Fauci: https://www.niaid.nih.gov/about/director

Dacher Keltner, Social Psychologist, UC Berkeley explains how emotions like gratitude and compassion can help you with stress. (And our gratitude to frontier thinkers reimagining our future.) So how do you create a society that is addicted to health? “When we are in emotions like gratitude or compassion, it is almost impossible, physically, to be stressed. They just are antithetical, anatomically.” These words have stayed with us since our 2011 interview with Social Psychologist, Dacher Keltner. And, at a time like this, we would like to remember the power of these emotions which shape our social contracts and the advancement of a more cooperative, civil society. So, with this in mind, we, at Sputnik would like to show our gratitude to the frontier thinkers who are reimagining our future. People like Ryan Bethencourt, Wild Earth, who champions animal sentience. To Miranda Wang and Jeanny Yao, co-founders of BioCellection who are creating a better way to navigate our plastic problems. To Agam Khare founder of Absolute Foods inventing the future of sustainable vertical farms. To Mara Zepada, the Zebra rethinking Unicorns. To Dan Grushkin of the Biodesign Challenge giving a voice to a new generation of biodesigners and the list can go on and on and on. In this time of stress let’s give gratitude to the voices of tomorrow and let’s all challenge ourselves to create a society that is addicted to health.

Greater Good Science Center, UC Berkeley: https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/ 

Wild Earth: https://wildearth.com/ 

BioCellection: https://www.biocellection.com/ 

Absolute Foods, India: https://www.absolutefoods.in/ 

Zebras Unite: https://www.zebrasunite.com/ 

Biodesign Challenge: https://biodesignchallenge.org/

Philosopher Ervin Laszlo, Interview with Sputnik Futures, 2002: “Now I think it’s time to come back to this concept of belonging, to a larger community, the community of life on Earth. Which is itself a part of the community of the solar system, part of the galaxy, part of the universe. So this is a cultural change, a change in consciousness. I think it is the key to creating a future that’s livable and it's enduring. Well, Holos arrives if and when there is a real transformation of consciousness. It is the next age in a positive development. It’s the next stage." Frontier ideas have a habit of being ahead of their time…or are they? Perhaps, the age of Holos, which Ervin Laszlo spoke of is finally becoming visible. And, perhaps concepts such as sustainability, blockchain, Zebras, and cooperatives are the tangible stepping stones to what comes next. As we come through challenging times we are preparing for a great transition. Shifting worldviews, values and ethics are necessary to manifest the resiliency we will need to thrive in our new economy and environment. We have learned that we are all connected and interdependent. The culture of Holos is rooted in a new consciousness. The opportunity is for innovators to identify resilient platforms and move from disruptive to conscious innovation. What will life be like in our holistic world that will redefine our not-very-distant future? We are happy to announce our public launch of Alice in Futureland. Look for thought provoking videocasts, podcasts, books and events that uncover the new realities shaping art, science, technology and culture. And, for what this will mean for business, please join Sputnik Futures in observing the new realities shaping the Resilience Economy.