- An Introduction
Life is a mystery and is not fully understood. We all wonder about things we don’t understand, and assume somebody else will know the answer. We can only marvel at the achievements of science. Motor cars; aeroplanes and electric light are accepted as part of life. Scientists tell us about the big bang; black holes; bacteria and all the details of a human body; its brain; immune system; digestion system; etc. etc. But there are things in life we don’t understand which should be explained by science.
Life Seems Mysterious
From time to time, we all think about life and wonder how and why various things cannot be explained. I am constantly surprised that some people do not believe in telepathy but we are all entitled to our own beliefs. Some scientists believe that telepathy happens, although it has no possible explanation. On the other hand, the scientific establishment says ‘it can’t happen – so it doesn’t happen’. This dogmatic refusal to accept the evidence is exactly the same as the flat earthers who do not acknowledge that the world is round. This highlights a fundamental difficulty in science. Another is, that we all know DNA controls who we are, but biologists have no idea how DNA controls life as it is clearly not a list of instructions. The object of this book is to show that these two difficulties are self-cancelling problems in science.
When I was about four years old something happened that I didn’t understand. My mother suddenly said to me think of a number and I’ll tell you what it is, which she did several times correctly. Even at that age, I knew it was very strange, things like that just don’t happen, so I asked my mother how and why it worked, but she had no answer. The next day I asked her again and I got the same reply, so I assumed that somebody else knew the answer. Over the years I realised, to my surprise, nobody really knows how telepathy works. Unfortunately, I am one of these people who cannot accept that a problem has no answer; if the problem exists, then there must be some way it can be resolved but it took many years of determined study.
The purpose of science is to resolve anomalies but scientists have never been able to resolve the problems of life. This is because they can’t see or measure things they cannot detect for subsequent analysis, so the system fails. Anomalies have remained, forgotten; overlooked or accepted as a strange oddity. I am a retired engineer who has been able to look at the problems of life in a different way to scientists, by thinking outside the box; anomalies do not exist in engineering.
A eureka-moment came to me suddenly, 37 years ago, when I realized that instinct, which is in the mind of all animals, must get there by some process of information transfer from mind to mind, the same as telepathy. This simple but profound idea led me to realise that life is an eternal copying machine, copying all the time from the previous generations. How is it, our DNA, which is mostly scrambled nonsense, provides the information to build our bodies? We are like a house which is built of 30 trillion bricks (cells). I believe DNA cannot possibly be a book of instructions; the information to build the house must come from somewhere else – but where, I was compelled to ask?
Making sense of life has been my goal for the past eighty-nine years, and it has involved the personal study of meditation, healing, spiritualism, ghosts, and dowsing; looking for answers, as well as an exploration of many sciences. It was similar to doing a jigsaw puzzle; the parts fitted together making a new extraordinary picture.
Through the course of my studies, I discovered that DNA controls life in a totally different manner to what we have been told. I was quite unprepared to learn that, for the past seventy-seven years Schrödinger, a Nobel prize winner for physics, has led biologists astray and the obvious solution to the difficulties they face solves many other mysteries and affects other theories. These include the mystery of inheritance, which solves the difficulty Darwin had with his theory of evolution.
We all have difficulty accepting the possibility of telepathy and the paranormal but could it be that the paranormal is actually part of the normal mechanism of life which telepathically transfers brain and mind information from parents to offspring during the process of growth. When my mother casually said, ‘Think of a number and I’ll tell you what it is’ I asked ‘How could that happen’? She had no answer, and it was never spoken of again. That started me on a lifelong search for the facts. How does telepathy work and how does it relate to the other mysteries known collectively as the paranormal? And how does that relate to the mystery of life? If taken separately, the individual parts of my proposed theory may appear questionable, but when taken as a whole, the evidence and science of each radical element fits together to form a single hypothesis. If you are unable to accept the paranormal as a possibility, will your beliefs be altered by an explanation of why and how these things happen?
By 1984, I had decided that understanding biology was the key, and I lectured to the Society for Psychical Research about a ‘rationale linking biology with psychic phenomena (psi)’. Although this was received with interest, I had little evidence to back up my proposal at that time. My evidence only came very slowly, by reading books, personally studying meditation, hypnosis, healing, spiritualism and telepathy, and doing twenty hours of broadcasting on the topic Paranormal is Normal. (You can listen to them all; links are in the appendix).
Scientists say our genes are the blueprint for life and a book of instructions that directly control our growth and behaviour. However, although genes appear to be the blueprint, there is evidence to show that they cannot work that way. The results of a published experiment in 1928, by Griffiths, led to an incorrect assumption which is with us to this day. This is biology’s great conundrum – my view of the evidence gives a new solution to the problems of biology, even though it goes against scientific thinking. Is it possible that our genes indirectly control growth and behaviour I ask?
We all take for granted the miracle of childbirth and the way a single cell grows into a man or woman by inheriting mannerisms and personal features from our DNA. We are told that our genes and DNA directly instruct growth to make us like our parents as if DNA were a book of instructions. The truth is that biologists are aware that DNA is not like an instruction book but have no alternative proposal. I have suggested that our DNA controls life indirectly by copying growth of body and mind by information and instructions from the parents, not from our DNA which has been incorrectly said to be an instruction book. This is a fundamentally different way of looking at all Life.
This new meaning to biological inheritance explains the unsolved mysteries of life and evolution. Also, the evidence of the supernatural will be seen as a by-product of the growth system by which a brain, with all its instructions for growth, is downloaded from the species and parent’s families by quantum biology.
I am aware that evidence and many arguments, in areas of questionable science, are spread throughout this book. In consequence they may seem unconnected as the connections are difficult to appreciate. Only by putting them together, like a jigsaw puzzle, may a logical new theory be appreciated.
The Royal Institution
I spent many years trying to understand the relationship between instinct and biology realising this was the link that was missing. In 2018, I attended a conference at The Royal Institution in London about contemporary biology, which was sponsored by the European Research Council. It was a report on a six-year inconclusive project into how to fill a huge gap in the science of biology with leading scientists and researchers from around the world. The aim was to ‘rethink the philosophy of biology’, where the seventy-seven-year-old belief that DNA is a book of instructions was severely questioned, but no alternative suggestions were made. All they did was to go over the evidence showing that the philosophy of biology is unsound. Although none of the lecturers dared to say that genes are not a book, it was clearly in the minds of the lecturers. At that final conference to present the main findings, Denis Walsh, a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto summarised their failed attempts saying ‘Biology is in a mess, so we need a new core theory’.
The foregoing makes it clear that there is a fundamental problem with the doctrine of biology which is appreciated by the majority of biologists and scientists working in that area. Furthermore, they are reluctant to admit it, and they reject anything that suggests a change in their dogma. The fact is that we now have to rethink the philosophy of biology by correcting the fundamental science.
My idea from 1984 is what is now necessary; the evidence I had accumulated over the years all supported a new theory. If DNA is not a book of instructions, then what could it be? We all know the answer – even children know it. We are copies of our parents; the only question is how does it work? I am convinced that DNA is little more than our personal identity code, which again is public knowledge. I am now proposing ‘a new core theory’, showing that genes do not control life directly as if it were a book, they are only the key to opening a gate through which the growth information passes. I will show that genes and DNA enable each new generation to be a replica of the last, where the information flows directly from the members of the previous generation by quantum biology, and not from DNA.
This revolutionary idea differs from the 77-year-old dogma which is at the very heart of modern biologists thinking. I make no apology for this because it is based on solid evidence. Biologists need a new core theory, even after 77 years; and it offers a solution to solve many other unanswered questions in the science of life.
The Unsolved Problems of Biology
Making Sense Of Life 