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Dr. Michael Levin is a biology researcher at Tufts University who is doing some of the most interesting academic research in the world right now. He and his team have developed ways to control where organs and limbs grow on animals just by manipulating bioelectric fields around the animals body, with no genetic changes.

A few highlights of his research:
- They can get planarian worms to grow two functional heads without any genetic changes, just by manipulating electric fields in the worms cells.
- These planarian worms can regenerate any part of their body, and when their lab cuts off the head off a worm that has been reprogrammed to have two heads, it still has two heads. This raises the question of where the memory is stored that the worm has two heads since it is genetically identical to a normal one-headed worm.
- They've also gotten animals like tadpoles to grow eyes on their tails through the same bioelectric manipulation techniques, and the eyes are fully functional. Their bodies somehow adapt and create all of the wiring for the new eye to work just like its normal eyes would.
- They have also taken human trachea cells and just by putting them into a new environment outside of a human body, these cells self-organize into novel animals that they call anthrobots. They exhibit goal-directed behavior, they can move around, and they even heal damaged neurons. These creatures have human DNA, they are made of human trachea cells, so how are they able to assemble into a novel creature with novel behaviors without any genetic manipulation?

Levin's research seems to be pointing at the idea that genetics is not the whole story, an animal's morphology is not actually stored in the DNA but somewhere else. This raises interesting questions for this sub, could an alien be genetically identical to a human but still exhibit wildly different morphology? When we think of aliens bioengineering hybrids with human beings, we've always assumed that involved genetic manipulation, but Levin's research opens the door to a whole other type of bioengineering that we've barely just discovered, one that can create a completely new creature from the exact same DNA of an existing one.

I can go through the neti neti exercise and see how I am not my senses, my body, or even my mind because those are all within my awareness so I must be that awareness itself and this is self-evident so it requires no proof.

But it seems that I can’t prove anything else through direct experience, like the law of karma or the subtle body or even Atman=Brahman. Do these just need to be accepted on faith? Is there anything else that can be known through direct experience or that is self-evident?

I love the philosophy woven into these fables and stories and was wondering if there are any other texts like these.

If the Self is not the body-mind, then why does the body-mind need to be dispassionate and unattached to the senses in order to achieve Self-realization? Couldn’t the body-mind be a sense addicted fool and still be Self-realized? The body-mind and maya don’t touch the Self, and the body-mind is not even the one who becomes Self-realized, so why do the texts say the body-mind needs to perform all these austerities?

At the press conference today, someone asked David Grusch how many species of NHI is the US government aware of and he claimed one category of them are "sentient plasmoid life."

Dr. Rudy Schild, a Harvard astrophysicist, published papers in 2024 and 2025 in the Journal of Modern Physics documenting such phenomena especially in NASA archival footage:

Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, Extraterrestrial Life, Plasmoids, Shape Shifters, Replicons, Thunderstorms, Lightning, Hallucinations, Aircraft Disasters, Ocean Sightings (2024)

ABSTRACT: As documented by NASA space shuttle films and detailed in this report, self-illuminating, pulsating, plasma-like UAP/UFO (“plasmoids”) have multiple shapes and sizes, are attracted to electromagnetic activity, and travel at different velocities from different directions, making 90 to 180-degree turns, as well as colliding, intersecting and piercing other plasma; and have been filmed by U.S. Navy personnel and a U.S. Customs and Border Protection DHC-8 flying above and diving/sinking beneath the ocean; and by NASA following, circling, and hovering near the space shuttles, satellites, and the MIR International Space Station and congregating above and descending into thunderstorms and the lower atmosphere, which is the air corridor favored by commercial and military aircraft; and this may account for reports of UAPs following, harassing, chasing, and “toying with” aircraft. Plasmas also have explosive properties, negatively affect electronics and mental activity (possibly inducing hallucinations of “alien abductions”), pass through glass, plastic, metal, and enter the cockpits of airplanes and have been observed by astronauts inside spacecraft, the MIR and ISS. It is hypothesized that given their propensity to collide, plasmoids may be responsible for at least some unexplained,inexplicable aircraft disasters. Thunder-lightning-storms are the main drivers of Earth’s GEC and direct positive currents into the ionosphere, which attract plasmas. The troposphere also has a positive charge, and the ocean surface under white water and turbulent conditions develops a positive charge, and we hypothesize that this accounts for sightings of UAP in the lower atmosphere and soaring above and diving into the oceans, including, as reported here, shape-shifting UAP replicons that split into or generate additional shape-shifting UAPs as filmed by NASA and U.S. Customs. Plasmoids appear to purposefully interact and engage in complex behaviors, and it is suspected they are sentient and represent a fourth domain of life. Although plasmas in the lower atmosphere may be responsible for UAP sightings over the centuries, including those that appear to “battle” over cities or follow and harass military ships and planes, plasmoids cannot account for all UAPs, which may include extraterrestrial spacecraft from other worlds.

Plasmas: A Fourth Domain of Life? RNA, DNA, Consciousness and Statistical Analysis of “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena” in the Thermosphere (2025)

ABSTRACT: The data presented here, combined with our previous reports, challenge all conceptions of what constitutes “life,” the origins of life, consciousness, and UAP. Self-illuminated plasmas (AKA plasmoids/UAP), with a nucleus and double cellular layers, engage in complex behaviors in the thermosphere and display multiple forms of communication, mutual awareness, purposeful contact-seeking, and cellular-mitosis and ejection-secretion of interactive plasmoid-clouds and additional plasmoids that contact other plasmas. Plasmas communicate by signaling via oscillations in size and illumination and turn, follow, target and collide, merge or pierce other plasmas, whereas yet others form thick glowing plasma bridges linking multiple plasmoids together; reminiscent of colonies of algae and colliding galaxies and release glowing plasmatic clouds in their wake; reminiscent of a comet’s tail; and upon descending into the lower atmosphere are perceived as UAP/UFOs. Dusty plasmas display mutual awareness, engage in life-like, intelligent behavior, have cellular membranes and a nucleus, and may have generated RNA then DNA via the assimilation of all necessary elements available in space; and fashioned a plasma genome via the incorporation of the genomes of bacteria, algae, fungi, lichens, etc. propelled into the upper atmosphere by bolides, hurricanes and powerful winds; and as such have biological attributes and are alive. Plasmas represent a fourth state of matter, and it is believed 99% of the universe consists of plasma in various states and which repeat patterns from the micro to macro-levels. Statistical analysis supports all hypotheses and quantifies differential and unique morphological and behavioral characteristics of plasmoids that were filmed by NASA space shuttle missions over 250 Km above Earth. Morphological and behavioral analyses were made of 91 consecutive freeze-frames (T1 - T91) taken every 0.2 s. In addition to distinct and diverse forms of morphology, it was determined that plasmas accelerate to exceptional velocities (up to 35.6 Km∙s^(−1)), and make abrupt 163˚ turns in trajectory, turn, follow and appear aware of each other. In addition to morphology, four “collision events” were analyzed in detail and all plasmas altered velocity, trajectory, and/or shape either before, during, or after the collision event. Additional analysis revealed what resembles networks and chains of filamentary plasmatic magnetic flux ropes and cables in the thermosphere. These vast plasma macro-tubules and neural networks may be producing plasmoid entities. Ganglia-neural networks may have also been detected in some plasmoid specimens. Plasmaoid have electrical and electromagnetic properties similar to the brain. Macro-tubule plasma flux capable may serve similar functions as micro-tubules, and coupled with behavioral data, support the hypothesis that plasmas/plasmoids are alive and have consciousness.

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Here's a YouTube video one of the coauthors of the papers put together showing some of these phenomena:

Rhawn Gabriel Joseph Ph.D. UFO-UAP Plasmas In The Thermosphere A Fourth Domain Of Life

At the press conference today, someone asked David Grusch how many species of NHI is the US government aware of and he claimed one category of them are "sentient plasmoid life."

Dr. Rudy Schild, a Harvard astrophysicist, published papers in 2024 and 2025 in the Journal of Modern Physics documenting such phenomena especially in NASA archival footage:

Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, Extraterrestrial Life, Plasmoids, Shape Shifters, Replicons, Thunderstorms, Lightning, Hallucinations, Aircraft Disasters, Ocean Sightings (2024)

ABSTRACT: As documented by NASA space shuttle films and detailed in this report, self-illuminating, pulsating, plasma-like UAP/UFO (“plasmoids”) have multiple shapes and sizes, are attracted to electromagnetic activity, and travel at different velocities from different directions, making 90 to 180-degree turns, as well as colliding, intersecting and piercing other plasma; and have been filmed by U.S. Navy personnel and a U.S. Customs and Border Protection DHC-8 flying above and diving/sinking beneath the ocean; and by NASA following, circling, and hovering near the space shuttles, satellites, and the MIR International Space Station and congregating above and descending into thunderstorms and the lower atmosphere, which is the air corridor favored by commercial and military aircraft; and this may account for reports of UAPs following, harassing, chasing, and “toying with” aircraft. Plasmas also have explosive properties, negatively affect electronics and mental activity (possibly inducing hallucinations of “alien abductions”), pass through glass, plastic, metal, and enter the cockpits of airplanes and have been observed by astronauts inside spacecraft, the MIR and ISS. It is hypothesized that given their propensity to collide, plasmoids may be responsible for at least some unexplained,inexplicable aircraft disasters. Thunder-lightning-storms are the main drivers of Earth’s GEC and direct positive currents into the ionosphere, which attract plasmas. The troposphere also has a positive charge, and the ocean surface under white water and turbulent conditions develops a positive charge, and we hypothesize that this accounts for sightings of UAP in the lower atmosphere and soaring above and diving into the oceans, including, as reported here, shape-shifting UAP replicons that split into or generate additional shape-shifting UAPs as filmed by NASA and U.S. Customs. Plasmoids appear to purposefully interact and engage in complex behaviors, and it is suspected they are sentient and represent a fourth domain of life. Although plasmas in the lower atmosphere may be responsible for UAP sightings over the centuries, including those that appear to “battle” over cities or follow and harass military ships and planes, plasmoids cannot account for all UAPs, which may include extraterrestrial spacecraft from other worlds.

Plasmas: A Fourth Domain of Life? RNA, DNA, Consciousness and Statistical Analysis of “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena” in the Thermosphere (2025)

ABSTRACT: The data presented here, combined with our previous reports, challenge all conceptions of what constitutes “life,” the origins of life, consciousness, and UAP. Self-illuminated plasmas (AKA plasmoids/UAP), with a nucleus and double cellular layers, engage in complex behaviors in the thermosphere and display multiple forms of communication, mutual awareness, purposeful contact-seeking, and cellular-mitosis and ejection-secretion of interactive plasmoid-clouds and additional plasmoids that contact other plasmas. Plasmas communicate by signaling via oscillations in size and illumination and turn, follow, target and collide, merge or pierce other plasmas, whereas yet others form thick glowing plasma bridges linking multiple plasmoids together; reminiscent of colonies of algae and colliding galaxies and release glowing plasmatic clouds in their wake; reminiscent of a comet’s tail; and upon descending into the lower atmosphere are perceived as UAP/UFOs. Dusty plasmas display mutual awareness, engage in life-like, intelligent behavior, have cellular membranes and a nucleus, and may have generated RNA then DNA via the assimilation of all necessary elements available in space; and fashioned a plasma genome via the incorporation of the genomes of bacteria, algae, fungi, lichens, etc. propelled into the upper atmosphere by bolides, hurricanes and powerful winds; and as such have biological attributes and are alive. Plasmas represent a fourth state of matter, and it is believed 99% of the universe consists of plasma in various states and which repeat patterns from the micro to macro-levels. Statistical analysis supports all hypotheses and quantifies differential and unique morphological and behavioral characteristics of plasmoids that were filmed by NASA space shuttle missions over 250 Km above Earth. Morphological and behavioral analyses were made of 91 consecutive freeze-frames (T1 - T91) taken every 0.2 s. In addition to distinct and diverse forms of morphology, it was determined that plasmas accelerate to exceptional velocities (up to 35.6 Km∙s^(−1)), and make abrupt 163˚ turns in trajectory, turn, follow and appear aware of each other. In addition to morphology, four “collision events” were analyzed in detail and all plasmas altered velocity, trajectory, and/or shape either before, during, or after the collision event. Additional analysis revealed what resembles networks and chains of filamentary plasmatic magnetic flux ropes and cables in the thermosphere. These vast plasma macro-tubules and neural networks may be producing plasmoid entities. Ganglia-neural networks may have also been detected in some plasmoid specimens. Plasmaoid have electrical and electromagnetic properties similar to the brain. Macro-tubule plasma flux capable may serve similar functions as micro-tubules, and coupled with behavioral data, support the hypothesis that plasmas/plasmoids are alive and have consciousness.

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Here's a YouTube video one of the coauthors of the papers put together showing some of these phenomena:

Rhawn Gabriel Joseph Ph.D. UFO-UAP Plasmas In The Thermosphere A Fourth Domain Of Life

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To Mods: Just in case this looks like a dupe, I posted one of these papers earlier, it was deleted by Reddit filters, I sent you all a message and someone reinstated the post, but then I believe it was deleted again by Reddit filters. It seemed to be related to the paper links I used before, so I'm trying different links to ResearchGate this time.

My dog has a spinal disease that is being treated by veterinary neurologists but I have been trying to learn and do supplementary pranic healing for the last couple weeks as well and was looking for some advice.

To give a senses of where I'm at skill-wise, I can feel prana or chi currents in my body from years of practicing vipassana meditation, I can induce the chill/shiver feeling up my spine by meditating and I'd say it's about 1/4 as strong as the real thing, and I do feel this magnetic ball type of thing when I do the hand sensitizing exercise where you move your palms closer and further apart. I feel this kind of electrical sensation in my fingertips even more than my palms though. I don't feel the energy body around him as well as these other things, I definitely don't feel the multiple layers of the energy body, it feels like a vague magnetic cloud around his body, but it's been getting a little better with practice.

A few questions I have:

- How do you get feedback on if it's working? It's hard to tell when I'm actually improving my sensing abilities or just imagining it, and even harder to tell if I'm having a healing effect. Sometimes I try this test where I close my eyes and move my hands towards his body and try to stop before I touch him, and I figure the closer I can get without actual touching the better my ability is to sense his energy body. But after a couple tries I sort of just know where his body is so I can cheat.
- How do I know if he's accepting of the energy? I do try to ask first, but I don't really get a good read on if he's saying yes or no. Unfortunately he's very reluctant to move right now because of his health issue so I can't use him moving away or not as a signal.

Any other tips or advice would be helpful. Thank you.

I wanted to clear up some misinformation that folks have been confidently passing around in the comments on this sub, claiming that David Grusch only interviewed 4th hand and 5th hand (!) whistleblowers who just read reports and stories from other people. This is false, some of Grusch's whistleblowers were firsthand witnesses who were in the facilities and have touched recovered craft:

From Grusch’s congressional testimony [1]:

>Mr. GRUSCH. I know the exact locations and those locations were provided to the Inspector General and some of which to the intelligence committees. I actually had the people with the firsthand knowledge provide a protected disclosure to the Inspector General

From an interview he just did with Judicial Watch [2]:

>Grusch: the evidentiary threshold was high and the people I brought to ICIG, you know, were hands-on, they touched it, they were in the facilities, um, and they, you know, they were well cleared people, and they weren't misconstruing a recovered adversarial aircraft for something else [or] some of that gaslighting that's been going on which I find honestly amusing

[1] https://www.congress.gov/118/meeting/house/116282/documents/HHRG-118-GO06-Transcript-20230726.pdf

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3BpTZXmDns

My dog has lumbosacral degenerative stenosis in the L4-S3 segment (a herniated disc) and was limping on his back right leg, had leg shaking, and was dragging his toes a little. We’ve been seeing doctors and neurologists for three months now and they’ve had us try all these different medications, steroids, and a steroid epidural. He’s doing a little better, his limp is gone when he moves slowly but reappears if he moves faster, he’s still uncomfortable on his back right leg, he barely touches the ground on that leg when he’s standing, and he gets uncomfortable lying on his side.

The doctors are calling it a success and moving on, they’re saying even surgery wouldn’t get better results. I was wondering if there are some Ayurvedic remedies I could try. I’m really worried for him, he’s all I’ve got and I would do anything to heal him so he can run and play again.