Gradients. Membranes. Life. Evolution.

I think I wrote a long time ago about a model of health based on the idea of the individual as a cellular-like unit. The idea is that, in order to live, an organism has to allow things in through its membrane. However, if it allows too much through, or allows the wrong things through, it can become sick or die.

Therefore a lot is invested by an organism in its membrane. This model I think applies not only to literal cells, but to other things as well.

Being more open gives one more possibilities, but also entails more overhead and exposes one to more potential harm.

Not only that, but the idea of diffusion, of gradients of compounds between the environment surrounding an organism and what is within it it is significant. For example, if one is very, very pure but living in a very impure environment, it will be much more difficult than living in a pure environment.

Conversely, if one is not pure, then the gradient between an equally impure environment and inside is not that great.

This leads to considerations of what it really means to be damaged or harmed. Normally one would think that to be pure is good. But if, being in an impure environment, one who is pure is harmed that leads to consideration about what, actually, harm is.

This has significance for psychology. A person may hold to some high belief, or they may strive towards an exceptionally high spiritual standard, yet because of that disposition may suffer because of it. But is this type of “suffering” really suffering? Is it the same suffering as, for example, the suffering that results from crude ignorance or folly?

The answers to these questions matter. They matter because this has a lot to do with the human soul and there is no one-size-fits all, boilerplate psychology method that can fit all, in all circumstances. Isn’t this along the lines of what humanist psychologist Frankl and others discussed? Its not just a matter of having some condition – for simplicity’s sake let’s just say “unhappiness” – but how and why there is that unhappiness. What is a consequence of. In fact it might be that the factors responsible for a state that is called “unhappiness” can be almost the exact opposite of each other.

That is to say, there could be a good unhappiness and a bad unhappiness – or a healthy unhappiness and an unhealthy happiness – which are vastly different. And these types of differences make a huge difference with people and how they, as souls, evolve.

A human being is complex. A human being is not a dog. Not a lowly beast. The lives of human beings can vary greatly from very exalted to very base. There is a huge difference and vast realms in between extremes of the human soul and its conditions.

Enough of all this. Getting back to the whole membrane/cell idea.

One basic concept is that there exist gradients, as I’ve just mentioned above. A membrane is a critical part of an organism – its interface between it and not-it – which deals with gradients. When the organism is healthy it is in a situation where it can healthily make use of gradients for its benefit. This leads to the fundamental idea of sustainability – another deep topic that actually springs from this. Sustainability can be viewed as a healthy balance that involves gradients and membranes.

I’m writing about all of this because there has just been published a wonderful article in the news about a study on the very first organism which were common to all living beings on Earth, called the Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA). LUCA was a one-celled organism and, even though it would have existed roughly 4 billion years ago, based on things with certain cells today, it is possible to know certain things about LUCA and how it must have lived. And the information is wonderful.

I will just quote here from a few parts of the article. While reading these, think of the deeper, more philosophical aspects which I discussed above:

All life on Earth came from one common ancestor — a single-celled organism — but what it looked like, how it lived and how it evolved into today’s modern cells is a four billion year old mystery being solved by researchers at UCL using mathematical modelling.

Findings published in PLOS Biology suggest for the first time that life’s Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA) had a ‘leaky’ membrane…

The leakiness of the membrane allowed LUCA to be powered by energy in its surroundings… whilst holding in all the other components necessary for life.

… the membrane changed, enabling… descendants to move to new, more challenging environments and evolve…

“I find this work just beautiful — it constrains a sequence of steps going from the strange cell that seems to have been the ancestor of all life today, right through to the deep division between modern cells…”

source: alphagalileo.org, “Our ancestor’s ‘leaky’ membrane answers big questions in biology”

This even goes into politics. Healthiness and unhealthiness depend on how membranes deal with gradients. There are very powerful, almost satanic, vested interests in society which deliberately scramble distinctions between things, hence making the ability to deal with gradients in a healthy manner impossible.

The satanic interests don’t want there to be clear distinctions between good and bad things, between healthy and unhealthy things. They don’t want there to be clear, strong models (which will condemn much of the vested interests that they are trying to “protect” in what is a horrific contortion of that word).

And as I wrote before, in order to destroy someone or a people, its important to destroy their models. That is exactly what the satanic, mind-control stuff does in this sick, poisoned society as it ensures that is replicates and propagates by destroying souls.