Recapturing Magnetism & Reawakening Genius

The sun shined bright and the park was bustling full of people. Kids and dogs frolicked in the fountain; musicians sang their songs, jazz music played while the acrobats announced the start of their next performance. I sat in Washington Square Park revering the hot spring day, people watching, invigorated by the cacophony of sounds.

A mother and her young son sauntering across the park were also enjoying the exquisite day. Taking a ball from her bag, she tossed it to him. The boy, who could not have been more than four years old, caught the ball and the mother took a few steps back so he could throw it back to her. He threw the ball toward her but out of her range. When she turned to recover the ball, he turned and ran in the opposite direction. “What a little rascal”, I thought to myself and chuckled. After recovering the ball, she realized that he had tricked her and quickly ran and caught him. She scooped him up and tickled him; they laughed together. The scene touched me; it was beautiful. I looked around and realized that I was not the only one touched; at least a dozen others of various ages and ethnicities had smiles on their faces after witnessing this scene. What was happening here? What was it that drew my attention and the attention of so many other seemingly different people? I became intrigued by how this magnetic power that infants and happy children share alike, inadvertently elicited smiles from people around them, especially when they’re expressive and animated. After further examination and much contemplation, I came to realize that two things were constant: a magnetic attraction, and inadvertent smiles.

Magnetism is a blind force of nature, like electricity or gravity; in the Oxford Dictionary of English, it is defined as “1) a physical phenomenon produced by the motion of electric charge, which results in attractive and repulsive forces between objects, and 2), the ability to attract and charm people”. The inadvertent smiles are manifestations of the natural genius of children. The original meaning of the word “genius” is “to give birth”, (related to the word genesis) and “to be zestful or joyous”, (related to the word genial), so in essence, “genius” is to “give birth to the joy”.[1] We all began life with wonder, curiosity, awe, spontaneity, vitality, flexibility and many other characteristics of a joyous being. So this genius and this magnetism are powers actually inherent in all human beings; we all possess them.

Inevitably while growing up, there were some things that should have happened that didn’t, and other things that happened that shouldn’t have.[2] It’s not hard to see how forces working at home, school and the broader culture itself repress the genius of children. The mass media with its constant onslaught of violence, mediocrity, and repugnant role models, poverty, depression, anxiety and rigid ideologies based on hate and fear, all stifle and actively subdue playfulness, creativity and wonder; they are the significant factors that actively damper our natural genius qualities.

We start life being 99% water, as fetuses. When we are born, we are 90% water, and by the time we reach adulthood we are down to 70%; if we die of old age we will probably be about 50% water.[3] Just six elements: oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium and phosphorus, compose 99% of the mass of the human body; most of the body is made up of water.[4] The brain is composed of 70% water, and the lungs are nearly 90% water. Lean muscle tissue contains about 75% water by weight while body fat contains 10% water and bone has 22% water. About 83% of our blood is water, which helps digest our food, transport waste, and control body temperature.[5] Babies and kids have more water (as a percentage) than adults do and the relationship between the blood and the tissues is optimally charged to spark growth. An infant has twice as many brain connections as an adult; the nerve impulses traveling through the nervous system and brain are the electricity of the body that creates electro-magnetic energy waves and human magnetism. After the first year, the percentage of water drops. As water and pH levels change, the ionic charge of the blood and body are affected and consequently, our innate electro-magnetic energy field changes.

Consider that as the earth is but a cell within the body of the universe and the human being is but a cell within the body of the earth. The ionosphere surrounding our planet is positively charged, whilst the earth's surface carries a negative charge. Between the ionosphere and the earth’s surface is the human body, which, like the Earth, carries a positive charge. Blood cells have a negative charge on the outside and a positive charge inside; this is what keeps them healthy and far apart from each other [6], so that there is ample room between them for oxygen and nutrients to flow and for the white cells to perform immune functions. Contemporary science has confirmed that the electromagnetic field generated by the heart is the most powerful rhythmic energy field produced by the body; it can be detected by other individuals, producing measurable effects in a person up to five feet away.[7] The human body is an electromagnetic system. The magnetic attraction, our power of magnetism, is actually a physical phenomenon produced by the motion of electric charge.

It’s the accumulations that age us and keep neotony or “holding youth” beyond grasp - making it difficult to be present and proactive here and now. Accumulations of thought, emotion, experience, food, not to mention the chemicals and toxins we’re inadvertently exposed to on a daily basis; these are what wear us down in every aspect of existence. Surely, what we put or allow inside is important, but what we hold on to is what ages us. Holding on to what is old and useless will eventually kill us, perhaps not as quickly as ingesting a deadly poison, but it will kill us just the same. In the meantime, life’s’ journey will certainly be uncomfortable.

From mouth to anus, the total volume of fluid is approximately eighteen liters (six gallons). This fluid nourishes the entire body and is the basis for all the cells, blood, fluids and tissues of the body. The operative word here is fluid; as this intestinal fluid solidifies, it deoxygenates, becoming acidic and nutrient deficient. Every day, seven liters (1.85 gal) of fluid are secreted by the digestive system and each day we must replace a minimum of approximately 2.4 liters (.63 gal) of water, some through drinking and the rest taken by the body from the foods eaten. In an average healthy adult, the volume of water averages 60 percent of total body weight, 40% of body weight is intracellular fluids (in the bones, muscles and tissues), and 20% of body weight is extracellular fluid.[8] The volume of blood is about one-eleventh (9%) of the body weight.[9] The cells, blood, fluids and tissues can only be as oxygenated as the fluid within the gastrointestinal tract.

The human body is about two-thirds (66%) oxygen, which fluctuates with environment, activity, state of mind, and water and food intake and elimination. Oxygen is absolutely vital to human survival; most of it we get through our lungs but a majority of it is in the water that makes up our cells and tissues. Magnetism, well-being and health decline as intestinal fluids deoxygenate and solidify. It’s interesting to note that whenever any cell is denied 60% of its oxygen requirements, it becomes cancerous.[10] When oxygen levels diminish and the body's pH becomes acidic, the acid strips blood cells and fatty acids of their negative charge, and vitamin and mineral absorption and assimilation are compromised.[11]

In recapturing magnetism, water consumption is a significant factor; the body’s pH balance is behind its electromagnetic system. An abundance of oxygen and vital force are reflected in magnetism, well-being and vibrant health. Regardless of your diet, when intestinal fluids solidify and accumulate in the gastrointestinal tract, the oxygen and vital force content of the body diminishes. Eliminating these accumulations retards the physical changes associated with aging, and restores inherent magnetic powers.

Reawakening natural genius is just a thought away. There’s now and the future (what one would like to have happen), and there’s now and the past (what has happened, the things that should have happened that didn’t and the things that happened that shouldn’t have). At every moment, one represents their perspective on which side of that paradigm they exist. Identity is defined with every step along the way. Who you were yesterday is not who you are today and the potential of tomorrow is limitless. Every passing moment is another opportunity to “give birth to the joy”, creativity, vitality, playfulness, and wonder within.