When we come home to Nature, we want to bring to Nature our original brilliance, which is contained within all of us. Unfortunately, via the Christian faith, we have been indoctrinated to believe that we come from original sin, which basically means we are born sinners with a proclivity to sinful conduct. Jesus never spoke of original sin; it was developed centuries later. This doctrine was popularized by St. Augustine, a Berber from Northern Africa, who converted to Christianity in 386 CE at the age of thirty-two and published the Confessions of St. Augustine. The truth is we are born as beings of light, not sinners.
Original brilliance is the light each and every one of us is born with. This is not just a metaphor. Each of us contains light that exists at our DNA level in the form of biophotons. Dr. Fritz-Albert Popp, the German biophysicist who built upon the work of Alexander Gurwitsch, was able to prove that biophotons exist. As quoted in a Premier Research Labs blog, Popp states: “We know today that man [and woman], essentially, is a being of light. And the modern science of photobiology is presently proving this. We are still on the threshold of fully understanding the complex relationship between light and life, but we can now say emphatically that the function of our entire metabolism is dependent on light.”
For years, I have contemplated the phrase “to be enlightened” and wondered about the origins of this concept. I have found various definitions, each with a different slant, such as “spiritually aware,” “free from ignorance and misinformation,” and “the state of having knowledge or understanding, self-realization, and awakening.” Yet none of these definitions addresses the word light, which is at the center of enlightenment. The etymology of enlightened comes from the old English word inlihtan, meaning “to illuminate or to become brighter.” With this original understanding, we begin to see that being enlightened has to do with being more brightly illuminated. Is it possible that we are designed to be enlightened by the very quality of our biophotonic essence—our original brilliance?
Our DNA, where biophotons live, is found in the nucleus of the cell. One percent of all of our DNA presents in two intact strands that are in a double helix spiral, and these two strands carry our inherited genes. The rest of the DNA in our cell is noncoded and is not in intact strands but still contains particles of light, our biophotons. There is an assumption that we have the capacity for twelve intact strands of DNA or six double helixes.
Dr. Zach Bush, a medical doctor, educator, and thought leader, suggests four groups of three strands. Strands of biophotons act like a beam of light and are often referred to as a “laser” that functions with coherent quantum intelligence and has the ability to communicate with all biophotons in the biological world. Popp, in his published paper “About the Coherence of Biophotons,” writes that “it cannot be ruled out that an electromagnetic field of a surprisingly high degree of coherence may be accumulated to such an extent that each molecule in the system is connected (or has the capacity to get connected) to every other one.”
What if we could have twelve intact strands of DNA, six times more than we have now? Is this what it means to be fully enlightened? And could our DNA that is not encoded become encoded epigenetically? Epigenetics is the study of how our behaviors and environment can cause changes that affect the way our genes express themselves. This includes our intentions, thoughts, feelings, and communications. If our external and internal experiences (where, how, and with whom) could go into encoding the remaining 99 percent of the DNA in the nucleus of all of our cells, could this play a part in creating our own reality? What if expressing peace, kindness, happiness, gratitude, cooperation, unity consciousness, beauty, friendliness, sacredness, and co-creative partnership with Nature could become encoded into how our species expresses our DNA and passes it onto future generations?
The possibility for us to be all we can dynamically be, living to our full potential as the light beings we are, sounds like a dream I have had my whole life. Is this dream starting to move from the internal landscape of my heart and mind to external reality? If we can dream it then it is not only possible but probable.
Through the study of epigenetics, we find that to understand evolution, we must focus on how we evolve, the active process. There is a significant difference between these two terms. Evolution is a noun and suggests that change is slow-moving and beyond our control, whereas evolve is a verb that suggests rapid adaptation is possible through our own actions and choices. Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods, two researchers from Duke University, have written a book titled Survival of the Friendliest. Hare and Woods take a deeper look at Darwin’s survival of the fittest theory of evolution and suggest that a misguided interpretation of his theory has created a false narrative that stands in the way of us living collectively and cooperatively on this planet. They suggest that Darwin’s theory of natural selection, the process through which populations of living organisms adapt and change, has nothing to do with dominance and being the “fittest” but that, actually, we have survived and thrived as a species through friendliness and cooperation.
The Genetic Science Learning Center, a website that provides tools for teaching genetics, notes that “it takes many generations for a genetic trait to become common in a population. The epigenome, on the other hand, can change rapidly in response to signals from the environment. And epigenetic changes can happen in many individuals at once.” The research of epigenetics suggests that we can evolve in a short amount of time, not over eons. We have the ability to make a massive change in consciousness within one generation. The same amount of time it takes to forget is also the same amount of time it takes to awaken and become the fully enlightened beings that we are designed to be. What path will you take—continuing to forget or awakening? The choice is yours.
by Pamela Montgomery
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