science

Thoughts Beyond Even a Crow Knows…, Ana’s Life Unfolding

by armidanagyrose

Ana’s Obsession

The main protagonist, Ana Tabbot, was obsessed with the properties of light since her early childhood and throughout her existence, especially by gaining more knowledge about light from her physics studies at MIT and later in pursuit of the light body discussed in ancient texts. 

While the novel Even a Crow Knows How to Crack a Walnut in Clear Light renders a simplistic explanation of Ana’s experiences, this blog discusses something fascinating about light, which renders another interpretation of when Jesus appeared before the temple courts at Jerusalem’s during the Feast of Tabernacles, a significant Jewish festival associated with light. In Jewish mysticism (Kabbalah), the Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot) symbolizes the spiritual journey of the soul or Self and the anticipation of “ultimate presence,” acknowledging the temporary nature of the material world that also includes the anatomical body of all beings and things.

As written in the Gospel of Matthew, to the gathering of celebrants at the temple courts, Jesus said that, “I am the light of the world” while he also admonished them that they, too, “are the light of the world” and to “let [their] light shine before others.”  His declarations are interpreted literally to this very day.

This blog will be the first of several on how to interpret “light is us” or “we are light.”  First of all, here is a review of how “light” was referenced in ancient texts: (1) In the Upanishads, “Light in the heart,” “light of lights.”  (2) In the Bhagavad Gita, “Light in all beings.” (3) In the Mahayana Sutras and treatise of Buddhism, “luminous mind.”  (4) In the alchemy treatises of Taoism, “Spirit’s brightness.” (5) In Zoroastrianism, “wisdom, goodness, and eternal presence of the Lord of Creation, (6) In the Gospel of Thomas and the Pistis Sophia of Gnosticism, “light within,” “spark of consciousness.” (7) In Sufism (Islamic mysticism), “Light of Lights,” the actual inner illumination that transforms the heart, mind, and soul (Self) of the seeker, acknowledging that “all existence is a manifestation of Divine Light and everything reflects it in varying degrees.”

And in the Higher Tantras of Tibetan Buddhism, light has several defined aspects—”innate purity and luminosity of mind” (for example, physical electromagnetic energy); “non-conceptual, “beyond senses” (for example, sensory phenomenon);

a metaphor for  “awareness and knowing” (for example, means to see objects); “spontaneous, unconditional timeless presence” (for example, beyond conditioned, time-bound reality; nonduality); and “direct experience” (accessed through wisdom seeing). In essence, “light” or “clear light” is a poetic term for the direct, pure, luminous essence of mind and awareness, recognizing the ultimate reality by being liberated from all conceptual and sensory overlays.

In all of these texts, “light” is used as a metaphor for consciousness and for understanding the mystery and illumination of awareness.

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The Science

For the first time, scientists have observed quantum communications of light within us that drive DNA replication. Life is driven by light and frequency.  Homo sapiens sapiens are not excluded from this reality. 

In his research, German biophysicist Fritz Albert Popp demonstrated that every living cell emits a ultra-weak, coherent stream of particles called a biophoton field, the central source of light. The biophotons form a system of colored electromagnetic energies that regulate metabolic processes.  It is a light that is beyond basic photosynthesis. The master conductor of the cellular orchestra is the DNA molecule, which constantly absorbs and emits light.

It is a high-speed communication network that governs all the metabolic processes of the body and that makes for a healthy body or a diseased body. The healthy body results for a harmonious laser-like biophoton field whereas the light of the diseased body is scattered and chaotic.

It may go without saying that this translates into the physical reality behind the spiritual concept of healing and of the light body.  One’s quality and condition through conscious living increases the coherent and intensity of the light that emanates from one’s genes. He said, “We know today that [we], essentially, [we are beings] of light,” thus shedding light on philosophical and scientific implications of light as defining the nature of all living organisms and future understanding of how the cellular functions relate to consciousness.

Basically, DNA molecules emit biophotons that form an information field inside and around cells, thus acting like routers that distribute signals in transferring essential information for regulating biochemical reactions, cell cycle control, cellular metabolism, and tissue organization. Moreover, biophotons are involved in the communication pathways in the plant and animal kingdoms., including neural signaling.  Thus, a light body is possible under the right circumstances, conditions,  and abilities.

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Philosophical Implications

Philosophical implications were discussed earlier; however, this blog is merely introductory to the modern science of the many properties of light. For example, the properties of light include the following:

  • Its wave-like nature (wavelength, frequence, and polarization
  • Its particle-like nature (photons)
  • Its constant speed in a vacuum (approximately 300,00km/s)
  • Its ability to interact with matter (through reflection, absorption, transmission, refraction, dispersion, diffraction, and scattering)
  • Its electromagnetic nature (radiation, composed of oscillating electric and magnetic fields that propagate through space)

“Form is emptiness, emptiness is form”

Physicist David Bohn, described matter as “condensed or frozen light” (i.e., matter as “frozen light) trapped into patterns that move slower than the speed of light.  He concluded, “We are frozen light.” The spiritual implications of acquiring a Body Light is reserved for a later blog.  As Siddhartha Shakyamuni inferred earlier than Albert Einstein’s E = mc2, energy [light] and mass are interchangeable.   Siddhartha Gautama said, “Form is emptiness, emptiness is form.” “Emptiness” is just another way of saying that “form” is absent of inherent, independent existence in all phenomena. Emptiness, in this case, is neither nothingness nor void.

Energy cannot be created or destroyed. It can only be changed from one form to another.—
Albert Einstein

Thoughts Beyond the Armida Trilogy–The Y Chromosome

by armidanagyrose

Why the Y Chromosome?

This blog is best appreciated with a previous blog, “Homosexualism?”. It relates to a recent biological science (as of June 2025) from the Stanford University School of Medicine by Dr. Nirao Shah, MD, PhD, neurobiologist, and his team who have studied how the female and male brains differ and how those differences arise from different genes and hormonal diversity during fetal development. The gist of their finding, as it pertains to the earlier above-mentioned blog, is that hormones act on genetics in utero, which have both organizing and activating effects during two stages of life—in utero and in puberty.

There are 22 pairs of autosomes shared by the sexes, and then there are the X and Y that are gender specific.  Females have two X chromosomes (XX); males have one X and one Y chromosome. Basically, since chromosomes contain genes that contain information, there is one particular chromosome that makes up the male—Y in XY.

Generally speaking, the 22 pairs of autosomes determine traits and other non-sex-related characteristics. However, the Y chromosome carries the SRY gene that determines if the Y chromosome will have testicles or not.  Repeat, it is the SRY gene of the sex-determining region Y chromosome that determines if the embryo will hae testicles or not. It is the master switch for male sex determination in mammals, which encodes a protein that initiates the development of testes in a fetus. It, moreover, acts as a transcription factor, binding the DNA and triggering a cascade of gene activity.  Without a functional SRY gene, the development of the female embryo happens. It also may prevent the development of female reproductive structures like the uterus and the fallopian tubes.

Moreover, the SRY gene can lead to sex reversal. An embryo with a Y chromosome (XY) can develop female characteristics.  In rare cases, the XX embryo can develop male features. Nevertheless, without conclusive scientific evidence, it is presumptive to conclude that the SRY gene is a mutation; but the study of the SRY gene can provide insights into the development of sex-linked expressions and not necessarily disorders or good versus bad mutations. At any rate, a gene mutation that changes the nucleotide sequence of a single gene—such as a substitution, insertion, or deletion of one or a few DNA bases—can affect a single protein. 

Why question our differences; embrace them as we do the variety of birds and flowers and trees….

Postscript: Check out “Homosexualism?” Other links of interest: Gender Fluidity was Never a Phrase and The History of Two-Spirit Folks.

It is really important, in a world that is often very ‘either/or’, to remember there can be both, neither and everything–that is, other than the ‘binary’ of male or female.
-–Sally Goldner