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Author: [[Georges Lakhovsky and Jessica Düber]] Full Title: The Secret of Life Category: #books You know better than I do with what eagerness we all welcome the hope of a clearer explanation, the hope of an advance in the knowledge of the Absolute. that the cell, essential organic unit in all living beings, is nothing but an electromagnetic resonator, capable of emitting and absorbing radiations of very high frequency. What is life? It is the dynamic equilibrium of all cells, the harmony of the manifold emanations that react to each other. What is disease? It is the oscillating imbalance of the cells that comes from external causes. It is mainly the struggle between microbial radiation and cellular radiation. Because the microbe, the unicellular organism, also acts through its radiation. If the microbial radiation predominates, disease is the result, and when vital resistance is completely overcome, death occurs. If the cellular radiation gains the upper hand, the restoration of health follows. From such I can pick out self-inductance, which characterizes the electromagnetic induction of a circuit; capacitance characterizing its electrostatic induction; electrical resistance, which means opposition of the circuit to the passage of current; wavelength and frequency, which characterize the nature of radiation. CHAPTER I   THE PROBLEM OF INSTINCT OR SPECIAL SENSE IN ANIMALS The instinct of orientation   At the beginning, I devoted my attention to investigating the causes of the ease with which certain animals manage to orient themselves so unerringly even on the longest journeys. These are, for example, homing pigeons, which return to their loft after flying several hundred kilometers. It seems increasingly obvious, as the following observations make clear, that the sense of direction comes from special ultra-short wavelength radiations emitted by the birds and insects themselves.

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The Secret of Life by Georges Lakhovsky and Jessica Düber presents wisdom from the contemplative traditions.

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