Recognition Award Letter

Theoretical discussions

2013

BIOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATIONS CONTROLLED BY THE MIND By Christian MURESANU A new physiological approach for old empirical knowledges transmitted by « ancestral traditions ». Didier JAMBOU, MD, PhD Nice University Hospitals – France After a period of intensive development of science and technology during XXth century, more and more humans want now to explore and practice again ancestral ways of life (biological agriculture, yoga practice …), with the feeling that science is not the sole possibility to obtain responses to their fundamental questions. In that way, exploring the body and mind functionning appear as a possible way to reach happiness, in harmony with nature and its respect. New means of communications allow the circulation of informations between cultures, with no more barriers between occidental and oriental ones. Recent progresses in neurophysiology have underlined the power and potentials of the brain, and have opened a wide field of future discoveries in its functionning. We could classify the data exposed in this original book in these new fields. Indeed, the author tries here to elaborate a new theory on the physiological functionning, of our body, first based on a personal experience of health recovery after years of illness. His approach fieds from an analyze of what he experienced, but also in the light of yoga and zazen study, the testimonials found in other traditions, compared to the actual comprehension of the universe structure by the way of quantum physics. Even if the concept of transbioplasma described here, allowing the transmission of vital enegy during some particular states of the body to the brain cannot be, at the moment, physically measured, it opens a « new door » in the comprehension of the effect of our way of life on our body and brain. The phenomena analyzed in this first volume of book concerning transformed sexual energy could be applicable to other states of the human physiology. But it necessitates further research development in areas which are not yet explored, and more important, to elaborate new ways of body physiology evaluation. BOOK REVIEW by Didier JAMBOU, MD, PhD - Nice University Hospitals – France - French Society of Hematology and Thrombosis, GEHT, - Member of the Scientific council of Nice Faculties of Medicine, - International societies: ISTH, ISLH, MLTD. - New York Academy of Sciences, and more

The paper refers to a personal experience on biological transmutation processes. It describes different types of cytotransformations, occuring in various emotional and psychic states; they result in deep biological recovery from long chronical diseases which raises up the level of life quality by using consciously biological resources. The terminology, a basic mathematical model, the biochemical and transient biochemical mechanisms of biological transformations are described. The book also presents the main dangers of a possible conscious or unconscious wrong approach to such phenomena. It also describes five practical attitudes for achieving a higher biological transformation efficiency. It presents some hypotheses on the amplification of vital energy, by using cytotransformations with similar releases of energy in the body. Some health advantages are mentioned.

Russian Academy of Sciences, 2015

The Journal of Cognitive Science, 2020

The Third Workshop on Biological Mentality was held from September 23, 2019 to March 2, 2020 as a series of twenty-one Monday online conferencing sessions, each consisting of a talk followed by a Q&A discussion. Like the two previous workshops [1, 2], the objective of this workshop was to seek a deeper level of understanding the physical foundations of biological mentality (whether conscious or nonconscious).

1998

Journal of Cognitive Science, 2019

The Second Workshop on Biological Mentality was held at the Michigan Tech Research Institute (www.mtri.org) conference facility in Ann Arbor, Michigan on September 24-26, 2018. Four papers by authors who gave workshop talks follow in this special issue of Journal of Cognitive Science. Scientific Scope of the Meeting The second Workshop on Biological mentality focused on interdisciplinary collaboration in understanding biological mentality and improving our concept of the physical foundation that underlies and enables mentality. The term biological mentality covers the nonconscious and conscious capabilities of living organisms. These capabilities require a physical foundation, one that perhaps transcends the computer metaphor and our current understanding of physics.

Perception, 1999

The Journal of Cognitive Science, 2018

The Workshop on Biological Mentality took place on August 7-8, 2017 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The term biological mentality encompasses the presumably non-conscious capabilities of our biological ancestors as well as our own non-conscious and conscious mentality. Biological mentality requires a physical foundation, one that perhaps transcends the computer metaphor. This Special Issue describes much of what was covered in the workshop. A second workshop is scheduled for September 24-26, 2018. The papers presented here stem from a Workshop on Biological Mentality that took place on August 7-8, 2017. The Workshop was sanctioned by Michigan Technological University and held at the MTRI conference facility in Ann Arbor, Michigan. As the workshop organizer, I chose the term biological mentality for the title of the workshop. I wanted to back away from trying to find a direct link between human consciousness and physical processes such as quantum measurement. In the history of the Earth, lif...

Annual Review of Psychology, 2013

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