The nervous system

Modern theory holds that the structure of the body is programmed by the DNA in the cell nucleus. This explanation isn't very helpful when trying to visualise how DNA in a cell knows what to do, how it works to repair the broken flesh of a cut, or lay down nerve and bone in the appropriate position after a surgery.
Modern stem cell surgery enables many wonders of regrowth ... how does the stem cell know which way to grow and what tissue to lay down?
The following observations on the human body are a small portion of an unrehearsed talk [Body Wisdom]
given by Eugene Halliday that we're presently working through.
The whole talk should be ready for download
in a couple of weeks.
The recording is freely available at eugene-halliday.net
Diagram is from Wiki.
[square brackets] indicate the time slot on the recording
Love,
John
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And then look at your nervous system.
Those of you who have studied any nervous physiology
have probably been taught that the nerves
are means whereby you can communicate,
send messages from the brain to parts of the body.
Is that right Dr. clover?
[Dr. Clover responds, but he is inaudible, the following indicates that she agrees.]
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In fact it isn’t so. Something quite different. Before you had a nervous system, your protoplasm was able to send messages all over itself, wasn’t it? You know that, because an amoeba can do it can’t it? Has it got a nervous system, Dr. Clover?
[Dr. Clover] Not defined as such.
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Not defined as such. That's very careful.
She's a little bit canny. Perhaps ten years ago
she might have said, certainly it has not!
She's a bit wary now. "Not defined as such,"
... it doesn’t show under the microscope, does it?
No, not the ordinary sort.
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Not the ordinary sort [Repeats the answer, followed by audience laughter].
And yet this amoeba, which is only a mono cell spreading itself out in search of food and delights, carries messages all over itself ... throughout its protoplasm. And this same protoplasm has laid down the nervous system Why has it done it? Answer: Dr. Clover? ..why has it done it? [34:37]
[Dr. Clover] Economy.
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Economy, yes. As a matter of fact, once you've
laid down a nerve track, you can insert
a little bit of energy at the top end,
and it will go down without bothering
and wiggle your finger.
It's an economic method of separating out functions.
It is not actually a method of communication at all.
It's a method of non-communication
to the other parts that you don’t
wish to communicate with.
Because all the nerve lines are insulated.
So that energy inserted at the top end does
not leak out on the way down,
until it comes to its particular term.
Is that right? Is there a doctor in the house?
Trevor! You know a lot about the nervous system don’t you?
[Trevor] Something, yes.
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"Something." Is the nerve line insulated?
[Trevor] It has a sheath.
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"It has a sheath!" What's the function of that sheath?
It is so the messages that go along the nerve so it doesn’t leak out sideways... yes ...and this insulation was laid down by the intelligence that generated this protoplasm.
So we have to say that just as the bones are an economic method of saving energy, so the nervous system is an economic way of saving energy. [36:11]
[Question from the audience] Does it also mean that energy can be used more specifically?
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More specifically? No, remember you could
use it more specifically before you
had the nervous system.
All it’s done is enable you to
lay a habit pattern, so that you
don’t need to attend to them anymore.
When you see a little baby trying to walk,
he uses a lot of muscles that he
doesn’t need in order to walk,
including pulling its tongue out,
rolling its eyes and so on,
grabbing at the air.
It progressively eliminates
those that do not conduce to walking,
and it leaves the ones that conduce to walking connected up.
So the moment the idea, I will walk, comes in,
immediately there is a programmed direction of a nervous impulsation, and walking occurs. [37:08]
So the actual separation out of the functions is
already inherent in the protoplasm,
made by that intelligent power.
Now that being so, we are faced with
a peculiar thing, and that is that the field of energy
... because when we are talking about
living substances as protoplasm, we know they are held together by bio-magnetic fields ... that field of energy
must be already structured.
We can’t lay down these bones
except within a pattern.
We can’t lay down this nervous system
except within a pattern. [37:48]
Think of those eggs lying comfortably in mother,
waiting to be born. You are an empirical scientist.
You steal one in the night, put it
under the microscope and peer down it.
What do you find you find?
You don't find any visible bones or nervous system,
and yet if you treat it very carefully and incubate it,
and feed it, it will grow them.
Now where is the pattern of the human being,
when physically we cannot see it in the
physical body of that protoplasmic egg.
Where is it?
[Voice from the audience] In the field.
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It must be in the field. So the field itself must be structured. So that when we are talking about this solar power, this universal power, we are not talking about ploppy energy meandering. about ... we are talking about a power which is infinitely structured.
It's got its own structure which can be
the plan on which later it lays down a nervous system.
Yes? So we have to say that the
field of the infinite power is infinitely structured.
When we say infinitely structured,
we mean that it contains every conceivable form.
Whatever you can imagine,
no matter how funny it is ... whether it's centaurs
or millipedes, elephants, butterflies ...
whatever it is, that infinite field of power
already has within it the structure of that being. [39:27]