"This book does away with the idea of the heart as a machine--the
heart is not a pump! In many animals, blood moves without blood
vessels and heart. The scientific facts, properly thought through, show
today that the human heart beats as an organ of perception for the whole
of one's life." -- Dr. Armin J. Husemann
To recast modern science as a science of the human being, to change the
paradigm with which we perceive and understand life in all its
attributes, including the physical human body, is and will be a mighty
task for some time to come. Perhaps the most obvious, and also weakest
pillar of the view of the human being as a kind of machine, is the
metaphoric assumption, seemingly beyond questioning, that the human
heart functions as a pump. In this book, Dr. Armin Husemann approaches
the activity of the human heart and the blood that moves from a
perspective grounded in the spirit and practice of natural science, but
unbiased by either received truths or conventional dogma.
What does it look like to approach the phenomena of beating heart and
flowing blood from a wholistic perspective? What does it mean that, in
the human embryo, what is to become the circulatory system functions
prior to the formation of the heart? Does the human heart really have
something to do with our emotions? With love? Understanding? A kind of
knowing qualitatively different from yet related to what we might call
"brain knowing"?
This book builds a much-needed bridge between natural science and a
universally human spiritual science, while also providing a
comprehensive, accessible view of the human heart and how blood moves in
the human body.
Originally published in German as Die Blutbewegung und das Herz
(Verlag Freies Geistesleben, Stuttgart, 2019).
