The Heart is A Lonely Universe

David Price
3 min readJun 28, 2021
From Thich Nhat Hanh gems

The Heart is Not a Pump

Many of us live under the medical myth that the heart is a pump, an idea borne of an industrialised culture that views the body as a machine….

“Modern analysis of the heart has shown that in spite of the fact that the most powerful ventricle of the heart can shoot water six feet into the air, the amount of pressure actually needed to force the blood through the entire length of the body’s blood vessels would have to be able to lift a one hundred pound weight one mile high” — Stephen Buhner

So how does the blood move around the labyrinth-like vessels of our body?

It moves of its own accord….

It is in fact composed of two streams, spiralling around each other much like the image of a DNA double helix, at the centre of which is a vacuum.

“Blood flow through living vessels is much more like a tornado than anything else: Such a vacuum is necessary for producing a vortex” — Stephen Buhner

Blood cells in fact spin on their own individual axes of rotation. They are smaller spinning cells in a larger spinning vortex…

The heart itself has recently been discovered not to be a mass of muscle, but rather a ‘helicoidal myocardial band’ that has spiralled in upon itself, creating its unique shape and its

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David Price

I write about creativity, loving, language learning and psycho/spirituality. I’m a longtime painter and reader.