I went to Australia last month and visited with a
family. We did a group fast of 3 days. I was hoping for 7. Evidently
you need to be doing a great deal more than not eating during a group fast. Though
we did have prayer along with our fast, it did not produce the results that I
had desired, at least for me.
I have been thinking a great deal about DNA and
fasting. I will impart an example and do my best to tie them together.
In a 1993 study reported in the journal
Advances, the Army performed experiments to determine precisely whether
the emotion/DNA connection continues following a separation, and if so, at what
distances? The researchers started by collecting a swab of tissue and DNA
from the inside of a volunteer’s mouth. This sample was isolated and
taken to another room in the same building, where they began to investigate a
phenomenon that modern science says shouldn’t exist. In a specially
designed chamber, the DNA was measured electrically to see if it responded to
the emotions of the person it came from, the donor who was in another room
several hundred feet away.
In his room, the subject was shown a
series of video images designed to create genuine states of emotion inside of
his body. The idea was for the donor to experience a spectrum of real
emotions within a brief period of time. While he was doing so, in another
room his DNA was measured for its response.
When the donor experienced emotional “peaks”
and “dips,” his cells and DNA showed a powerful electrical response at the same
instant in time. Although distances measured in hundreds of feet
separated the donor and the samples, the DNA acted as if it was still
physically connected to his body.
The Army stopped their experiments with
the donor and his DNA when they were still in the same building, separated by
distances of only hundreds of feet. Following those initial studies,
however, Dr. Backster and his team had continued the investigations at even
great distances. At one point, a span of 350 miles separated the donor
and his cells.
The time between the donor’s experience
and the cell’s response was gauged by an atomic clock located in Colorado.
In each experiment, the interval measured between the emotion and the cell’s
response was zero—the effect was simultaneous.
The experiment showed 4 things:
1. A
previously unrecognized form of energy exists between living tissues.
2. Cells
and DNA communicate through this field of energy
3. Human
emotion has a direct influence on living DNA.
4. Distance
appears to be of no consequence with regard to the effect.[1]
"Veljkovic and Cosic
proposed that molecular interactions are electrical in nature, and they take
place over distances that are large compared with the size of molecules. Cosic
later introduced the idea of dynamic electromagnetic field interactions, that
molecules recognize their particular targets and vice versa by electromagnetic
resonance. In other words, the molecules send out specific frequencies of
electromagnetic waves which not only enable them to 'see' and 'hear' each
other, as both photon and phonon modes exist for electromagnetic waves, but
also to influence each other at a distance and become ineluctably drawn to each
other if vibrating out of phase (in a complementary way)."
All growing matter responds to light.
DNA is no exception. The existence of internal photons—internal light— is
the basis of virtually all cellular and systemic function, for all living
forms.[2]
DNA is not only responsible for the construction of
our body but also serves as data storage and communication. The Russian
linguists found that the genetic code, especially in the apparently useless
90%, follows the same rules as all our human languages. To this end they
compared the rules of syntax (the way in which words are put together to form
phrases and sentences), semantics (the study of meaning in language forms) and
the basic rules of grammar.
One revolutionary corollary of this research is
that to activate DNA and stimulate healing on the cellular level, one can
simply use words. [3]
The power of reading the Holy
Scriptures, listening to the voice of the prophets[4],
mighty prayer, and singing of the hymns all have a powerful effect upon us.
It can have such a profound effect upon us, not only spiritually, but
physically. Through these mediums we are called to God. Our very
DNA responds to the word. No wonder John tells us that in the beginning was the
Word. We responded to it then, and we respond to it now. The information given
to us in Malachi about the hearts of the fathers turning to the children isn’t
just hyperbole. Words hissing forth from the dust[5]
as well as blood crying[6] from the ground
has scientific evidence that our ancestors have a very real connection to us,
even when they have departed from their physical bodies.
An autosome is a chromosome
that is not a sex chromosome – that is to say there are an
equal number of copies of the chromosome in males and females. For
example, in humans, there are twenty-two (22) pairs of
autosomes, and, in addition, there are the X
and Y sex chromosomes.[7]
The ancient Hebrew language consists of 22
characters. Understanding that words have a profound effect upon our DNA,
the very words of the language given to the covenant people, consisting of 22
characters to effect the transformation and assist in the mission of the
Israelites to fulfill their mission on earth is supplied to us here today as we
have learned the power of the word on our DNA.
It would then stand to reason that if DNA follows
set grammar rules, just like our language, and if it is influenced by words and
phrases, then DNA would also influence a person or a people to correspond in
like language—the language and purpose of the DNA. Recurrence is rampant in
nature. Evolution relies on gene duplication.
Now, I have been praying for my family, and my
greatest concern right now is for my children. I have also spent quite a bit of time contemplating my
ancestors. I know for a surety that they are aware of me and my efforts in all
the research I have been doing, as well as my goal to understand and come
closer and closer to my Savior.
As I have contemplated what I could do to make a
difference in the lives of my children and my grandchildren, as well as the
lives of my mother and siblings, the words have come to me to remember Alma,
the Elder, when he was concerned about his son, Alma the Younger. He fasted and prayed many days.
Was fasting and praying enough? I think there is a critical part that
is missing in the brief explanation of words. His belief in Christ and his perfect hope that all would be
well. We can fast all day long, or
go without food for that matter.
We can pray to all kinds of beings, whether they be idols or false and
powerless beings.
But when we begin to have faith in Christ that he
will heal us and our posterity, I believe that what we see happening in our
family line is the same thing that happened to the subject of experimentation,
only on a much grander scale.
I believe I will see a greater change in my family
as I put my full faith in the Savior during my fast. I can only imagine that the change that takes place in me as
I am healed, nurtured, taught, lifted, and brought into a closer proximity with
Christ will greatly affect a healing for my children and perhaps others as
well. I seek for wholeness,
balance, understanding and the ability to love more than anything. When I am filled with the Love of God,
I believe I will be able to impart that to my family. I am working on that with this fast.
The paragraph inserted is from Discoveries in
Chiasmus, by Yvonne Bent and Scott Vanatter.
[1]Greg Braden, The Divine Matrix,Hay House, Inc.,
Carlsbad, California, 2007, pgs. 46-50.
[3] Sol Luckman, Sound, Intention, and Genetic Healing, http://www.bodymindwisdom.com/article_sound_intention.html.
2006
[4] Moro. 10: 8, And again, I exhort you, my
brethren, that ye deny not the gifts of God, for they are many; and they come
from the same God. And there are different
ways that these gifts are administered; but it is the same God who worketh all in
all; and they are given by the manifestations of the Spirit
of God unto men, to profit them. ,
D&C 1: 38 What
I the Lord have spoken, I have spoken, and I excuse not myself; and though the
heavens and the earth pass away, my word
shall not pass away, but shall all be fulfilled,
whether by mine own voice or by the voice
of my servants,
it is the same.
[5] Moro. 10: 28 I declare these things unto the
fulfilling of the prophecies. And behold, they shall proceed forth out of the
mouth of the everlasting God; and his word shall hiss forth from generation
to generation
[7] Griffiths, Anthony J. F. (1999). An Introduction
to genetic analysis. New York: W.H. Freeman. ISBN 071673771X.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?highlight=autosome&rid=iga.section.222,
2010.
[8] President Gordon B. Hinckley, “God Hath Not Given Us the
Spirit of Fear,” Ensign, Oct. 1984.
