The above statement represents the core of a scientific truth that believe will soon result in Structural Integration (SI) being recognized as a major scientific breakthrough. This intuition is based on the fact that the most comprehensive models of the universe emerging from the “new physics” (based on Einstein’s vision of a unified field theory) are entirely consistent with the fundamental principles of SI. A major scientific revolution based on this new scientific paradigm is already well under was because the new paradigm can better explain what is presently unexplainable using the old models- e.g.. the nature of consciousness and so called paranormal phenomena such as clairvoyance, psychokinesis, telepathy, psychic healing, precognition, and astral projection.

I will briefly list some of tile general characteristics of this emerging model of reality those which I consider especially relevant to SI.

1. All things are interconnected (e.g.. Mach’s principle states that the mass of a single particle is determined by the mass of the entire universe).

2. Our normal perception of reality is a composite of an inlet iniee number of universes in which we coexist.

3. All space-time is constructed by consciousness.

4. Gravity is the master field: there is a hierarchy of finite-range gravitational Gelds, One fill each major scale of organization of titter in spare time. (SI is particularly concerned with self organizing bio gravitational fields, which control events on the scale of organization of biological processes.)

5. Time and space are not absolute but are distorted by gravitational fields (according to Einstein’s theory of general relativity the true of time now and the size of space depend on the strength of the gravitational field).

6. Matter is gravitationally trapped (E=mc²); self organizing generate matter: bio gravitational fields organize living matter.

7. Gravity can act speeds greater than velocity of light instantaneously the paranormal channel ) as well as less than the velocity of light (normal sensory perception).

8. Everything is living; there is consciousness in everything.

9. Tension and compression are inseparable and (“Ordinate functions of all structural systems: they arc coexistent and complementary behaviors in nature. Tension is continuous, comprehensive, attractive, and gravitational. Compression is discontinuous, local, temporary, and divisive. Gravity is the tensional principle of the universe.

10. The universe is like a hologram every part contains the whole.

From this brief overview we see that universes consist of vibrating energy fields chat together form one unified whole that is, they are completely interconnected and intercommunicating. We see that gravity and consciousness are inextricably related (perhaps mutually causal?) and that a deeper understanding of the relationships between living, systems and the self organizing biogravitational fields associated with them might well result in the human species transforming itself to a higher state of consciousness. So, my inituition is that SI is a tool for systematically transforming the physical structure of man into a more harmonious relationship with the gravitational fields that envelop him and that ultimately this results in an evolutionary transformation human consciousness. More precisely SI facilitates human evolution (which is the only game in town!).

In terms of general systems them, life is a manifestation of the general principle in nature called syntroy or negative entropy. Syntropy is the tendency to reach higher and higher levels of organization, harmony, and order, Entropy, the opposite principle is the tendency of organized furors to gradually disintegrate into lower and lower forms of organization. Living organisms are self-organizing, open systems-that is, they maintain then highly ordered spatial Structure by a continuous input and output of energy and information. When a living system tonics to rest there is an increase in randomness thus function keeps the living system in its loss entropy state (in thermodynamics, we say that an open system reaches its energy minimum
that is its greatest stability-by working). Living systems give out energy as they improved and form more orderly stable structure a structure is a self-stabilizing pattern: structures are not things: structures are event constellations). Growth often takes the form of self structuring hierarchical shifts in which unstable conflicting subsystems reintegrate at a higher level of orderlines via structural transformations (e.g., one called organisms evolving into multicellular organisms).

Man is a living system is a energetic synthesis of cells, tissues. and Organs the whole of which is greater that the sum of its parts. He is not only the atoms or molecules that make up his physical body but also the structural relationships of these parts which, are organized by his biogravitational field. (Ida Rolf. “An understanding if the integrative factor in man implies; an awareness of the vital urgency of relationship. It is through the creation of appropriate relationship in three dimensional space that a man may be freed to a higher higher and more truly human functioning).3

From the systems point of view the goad of SI is seen to he to increase order and harmony in the human body (and thereby the person as i whole) by transforming the relationships among all the parts of the body through the manipulation of die deep fascia. A random disorganized body may be ”stuck” (an rest) in a variety of ways (e.g intrinsic-extrinsic musculature imbalances, pelvic rotation. Flexor extensor imbalances, etc.) and these it imbalances are always reflected throughout the whole system. A useful analogy is this: A 10-watt hulk bulb doesn?t provide very much light because the photons that are emitted arc nut of phase with each other which results in constructive interference (this is called how a laser) them we would generate more energy than on the surface of the sun! Random bodies or out of phase with gravity and therefore torn down by it: structurally integrated bodies are in phase (or resonating) with gravity and therefore supported by it.

This last statement is a hypothesis that could be tested empirically. Now, I am fortunate to be working with one ill the leading cosmologists forging the new model ill real lily described previously. His name is Ben Bentov he is a gifted inventor and he has developed an instrument (he calls it a “transcendometer”) which is capable of measuring the micro motion of the hotly a it is reflected in the vibration of the aura surrounding the body.
He measures the electrostatic field flux with this antenna-like sensor (no bodily electrodes) that he places approximately six inches away From the body (the aura is bilieved to be a reflection of the bio gravitational field). Bentov originally designed this instrument to serve as a “meditation meter for determining physical correlates to the “transcendent” state of consciousness. His research with Transcendental Meditation has resulted in some truly remarkable discoveries thin are clearly relevant to SI.4

What Bentov has discovered is that the human body is a musical instrument it is constantly vibrating and emitting ”sound:’. He has discovered one major oscillators in the hotly heart spinal column and skull, third and fourth ventricles of the brain, cortex and an electromagnetic field around the head) that can be rhythmically entrained by inductive resonance. Resonance is another general principle found in nature. For example, if two grandfather clocks are connected by a wooden board and one of them happens to he ticking slightly faster than the other, then very shortly they will both be synchronously ticking at the higher frequency. I lighter frequency oscillators entrain lower frequent oscillators so that they resonate (vibrate in phases) at the higher frequency.

This is not the place for a detailed description of Bentov research but let us briefly consider fill most powerful oscillation in the body, the hears. Each time the heart because a pressure pulse is transmitted through the aorta. I his pressure wave is partially reflected back towards the heart when it hits the bifurcation of the aorta. In a “normal” state of consciousness this oscillator is not “tuned” that is the pressure wave from the next heartbeat and the returning pressure wave the next heartbeat and the returning pressure wave destructively interfere with each other, resulting in a loss of energy from the body as heat. However, in deep meditation, a feedback loop develops (this involves breathing and muscle tension) which results in the next heartbeat occurring exactly as the returning wave reaches the heart that is, a constructive interference is set up (the waves reinforce each other ) and no energy is lost. A standing wave of 7 cycles per second (cps) is created in the aorta. This is a remarkable scientific fact.

When the heart oscillator and the other oscillators are all resonating together the electromagnetic field surrounding the head is untrained by the earth’s electromagnetic field, which oscillates al 7.35 cps (remember that gravity is the basis of all energy fields), so than the individual is resonating with the planet, which is resonating with the sun, which is resonating with the galaxy… etc. This state of consciousness is sometimes called transcendence.

The body is a musical instrument with five major oscillators. When the body is “tuned” the bio gravitational field of the body is locked into and reinforced by the gravitational field of the earth. Higher states of consciousness ran be viewed then as a resonance with the higher order systems of nature. And gravity is the instantaneous (paranormal) communication channel our direct link to the Whole.

One other interesting discovery that Bentov has made is that when these oscillators of the body are all resonating, the vibrating of the sensory cortex of the brain creates a piezo electric current an electrical current caused by pressure on the neurons) whose path follows the sensor homunculus (toes. knees, pelvis, spine. heart. throat, top of head, and forehead) and eventually stimulates one of the pleasure centers of the brain (bliss consciousness!). He hypothesizes that this is the physical basis for the “noising of the Kundalini energy” which is described as starting in the toes and moving through the seven chakras (energy centers) of the body. There have been ninny reports of people experiencing intense heat and energy over the “third eye or crown chakra during Rolling sessions and Valerie Hunt’s latest research includes electronic monitoring of energy changes in the chakras, with a special high Frequency (20,000 Hz) electrode over the crown chakra.

It is probable that meditation is only one of mall tools that produces a refinement of the nervous system in the manner I have just described. My intuition is that this is also what is happening in Rolling. In other words, one would pi edict that SI produces more order in the body which would be reflected in the greater resonance of these physiological oscillators.
This of course can be treasured using tire transcendometer and similar instruments, and that is exactly what we intended to do (Rolf, Bentov and I are meeting to design a research protocol for several studies along this line). Our work will complement Valerie Hunt’s research measuring changes in the aura using Kirlian photography and EMG recordings: hopefully a more complete scientific understanding of SI will emerge.

But we cannot understand or explain the changes that we see and experience in SI using any of our old scientific models. It is imperative that we develop an awareness of the universe as a tensegrity structure for only then as Ron Kirkby has pointed out can we begin to scientifically explain how gravity supports the body and lifts it up.

The Universe islands its spherical compression aggregates and coheres the whole exclusive with tensiondiscontinuous compression and continuous tension: I call this tensional integrity of the Universe tensegrity… Tension has been secondary in all man’s building (and thinking) and compression has been primary, for he has always thought of compression as solid. Compression is that “realistic hard core” that men love to refer to and its reality was universal ergo comprehensive. Man must now break out of that habit and learn to play at nature’s garlic where tension is primary and where tension explains the coherence of the whole.5

A tensegrity structure is a structure the shape of which is guaranteed In the tensional behaviors of the system and not by the compression behaviors file human body is a tensegrity structure the “soft” supporting tissues (dense and loose connective tissues form a continuous tensional network and as such are the principal structural elements of the body. The bones and cartilage form ideal islands of compression which keep the soft tissues from collapsing.

This is not what any of the anatomy books tell its, but clearly this is what’s so. IF you simply play with a movable tensegrity structure like the vector equilibrium (every Roller should do this), it immediately becomes clear that changing the tension in the system asymmetrically results in bends and rotations throughout the system. Also the vector equilibrium assumes its maximum height when tension is evenly balanced throughout the amine tensional net. In the body this means that hands and rotations are due result of imbalances in the tensional (fascial) network.” Therefore restoring tensional balance in the fascial network will result in a straightening and lengthening of the body.

Ron Kirkby’s hypothesis is that “gravity supports the body by setting the correct tensions within the upright man. I believe that this is only partially true. Kirkby does not scan to be aware of the fact I hat there are different kinds of finite range gravitational fields. The earth’s gravitational field does not set or determine the tensions in the body it only interacts with the bush’s own bio gravitational field either (destructive interference).

My hypothesis is that there are a number of important variables that contribute to setting the tensions in the fascial network. Kirkby mentions one of them muscle tone. My intuition is (hat the most important tensional variable is the collagen molecules that are present in the intercellular substance of the fascia. My guess is that the tensile strength of the collagen molecule probably changes when a sufficiently strong force (perhaps one generated mutually by the Roller and the Rolled is applied to transform the steric conformation (spatial relationships) of the molecule. The body is a plastic medium. These structural transformations at the molecular level are possibly self structuring hierarchical shifts which result in a higher degree of order in the whole body. This is a more stable structure, which might account for why chances produced by SI are permanent.

Of course at this point most of these ideas arc just theory but I firmly believe that modeling SI from a holistic systems perspective will bear fruit in the very near future. I look forward to participating in the development of this frontier of human knowledge.

“We cannot understand or explain the changes that we see and experience in Structural Integration using any of our old scientific models.”

“When the body is tuned, the biogravitational field of the body is locked into and reinforced by the gravitational field of the earth.”

“The earth’s gravitational field does not set or determine the tensions in the body, it only interacts with the body’s own gravitational field either constructively or destructively-“Holistic Systems Analysis: Toward a Scientific Understanding of Structural Integration