That's especially true the more I/we learn how much vital information and pertinent life-giving facts have been intentionally hidden from us throughout time...and how we've been drugged for decades (fluoride) so we won't even care. Grrrr.
Oh man, I can see it's gonna be REALLY hard to stick to topic here. Everytime I communicate with you I feel a real 'tribal kinship'...and I almost explode with wanting to share everything I'm in the middle of researching and learning, and I want to know the same from you! Oooh, it's such a good frustration, but it's just SO frustrating.
And Star Wars too?! of course, grin/sigh. I've worn through and thrown away THREE "everything I needed to learn in life, I learned from Star Wars" t-shirts. HowEVer, I shamefully admit that 'grown up life' (well, 'grown up life' and the scathing reviews), totally prevented me from seeing or reading anything but the original triology (which I'm pretty sure I 'know by heart'). I was married the first time in 1978, and my first husband had seen Star Wars fifty-five times BEFORE we met.
You said:
The Star Wars Saga and human anatomy (I was a Science major) clashed one night when I realized that the Krebs cycle and mitochondria where analogous to midichlorians found in Jedi Blood.
"Without the midichlorians, life could not exist and we would have no knowledge of the Force"
Did you mean "clashed" or did you mean something like 'meshed'? Because if you meant 'clashed', I'm REALLY confused (or I missed something bigtime!).
So, along the topic of 'right sleeping & waking', the whole symbiotic relationship seems extremely important. It appears to me that it would be impossible to separate the health of the whole, from the health and well-being of the smallest part of the whole...which, of course, opens up a whole new 'door' for more 'growth, evolution, and research'.
Your advanced education and knowledge of science is something I truly envy. I've got a pretty good grip on it, basically - if I go slowly, give myself a chance to look up a few terms, etc., and then focus on that biology class I aced back in 1999 (but didn't pay NEARLY enough attention to because I didn't think I needed to know all 'that'). But OH how I wish I was in the "conversational stage" of my science learning! (Btw, hubby n' me took our 'forty-something selves' back to college together during 1998-2003).
So, is it because a mitocondrion has it's own DNA, that classifies the relationship of mitochondria to humans as a true symbiotic relationship? Two totally separate life forms depending upon each other? (Lol, I admit it, all I ever learned about Mitochondria I learned from 'Wind in the Door' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Wind_in_the_Door Madeleine L'Engle)
And then, what is your thinking on the significance this?
"Mitochondria developed from proteobacteria (in particular, Rickettsiales or close relatives) and chloroplasts from cyanobacteria"
...from an evolutionary perspective
...and from a perspective of symbiosis and health
(if those perspectives can be separated)
And speaking of 'cyanobacteria', here's some pictures (and close-ups) of fossil Stromatolite cabochons that we've cut from the rough rock and sold to jewelry designers, 'metaphysical rock folk' and fossil collectors over the years:
"Stromatolite is layer upon layer of cyanobacteria communities (blue green algae). As debris settled on top, it was trapped by the gumlike mats of algae. A layered, domelike structure eventually formed, which grew larger with each new generation of the organisms. How old is it? OLD! Stromatolites are Precambrian...that's 1,000 - 3,500 million years old! (and we all thought Dino Bone was old at a mere 50-250 million years of age!). (That's from one of our auction/ad descriptions).
Here's the "wiki": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stromatolite
The ones that are 'scenic' and/or have 'trees' are from Great Britain; the one (last) with the 'swirly' patterning is from the US/Pacific-NW. The stones are between quarter/half dollar actual size.
I just KNEW I wasn't going to be able to stay 'on topic'! I can relate almost ANYTHING to rocks
(...speaking of which, I hope nobody think this is some kind of a 'commercial' post...I'm NOT trying to sell anything, I'm just braggin' & showin' off what I think are some really neat rocks!). And since cutting and polishing rocks is basically what we do 'for a living', I have zillions of pictures of pretty rocks 'at the ready'.Grz, I'm sure looking forward to your response, but tomorrow/today is a real busy 'work day' for us, so I might not be able to get back to you as quickly as I'd like.
I'm off to harvest a super-good batch of red cabbage sprouts - talkatchasoon.
Blessings,
Unyquity