The numerology of microtubules...

From rhett@teleport.comSun Oct 29 15:34:35 1995
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 1995 12:52:46 -0800 (PST)
From: Rhett Savage <rhett@teleport.com>
To: swan@leonardo.net
Cc: Ezio Insinna <emi2@world-net.sct.fr>,
    Stuart Hameroff <srh@ccit.arizona.edu>
Subject: Re: microtubules

On Sun, 29 Oct 1995 swan@leonardo.net wrote:

> To Rhett Savage:
>
>         I am currently writing a Masters Thesis for Pacifica Graduate
> Institute in Santa Barbara, California to complete my requirements for a
> degree in Counseling Psychology.  I have chosen a subject that has taken me
> into areas I never would have thought I would be fascinated with but which
> have totally captivated me.  Since my graduate education is based on the
> foundation of depth, archetypal and imaginal psychology as developed by
> Carl Jung and James Hillman, I am not surprised at how I have come to find
> your page on the Web or why I am now wanting more information on the role
> of microtubules and consciousness.
>         I have printed out your page on microtubules and have found Stuart
> Hameroff's recent letter to PSYCHE-D, as well as an abstract on the Theory
> of Brain Function, Quantum Mechanics and Superstrings by D. Nanopoulos.  I
> have read many books on psychology and quantum physics and neurobiology
> including authors such as Fred Alan Wolf, Nick Herbert, Larry Dossey, and
> Ernie Rossi, and recently finished Psyche and Matter by Marie-Louise von
> Franz.  I found mention of Stuart Hameroff in an article in Scientific
> American July 1994 as I was doing research for my thesis and this led me in
> the direction that finds me here now searching the Internet for
> information.
>         My thesis is entitled Quantum Choreography of Soul: The Actualizing
> Potential of Authentic Movement Therapy.  I am interested in elements of
> shamanism, silent body language, witnessing, and kinaesthetic imagery as
> ways to expand consciousness.  I have attended lectures on
> psychoneuroimmunology and am beginning to feel that this microtubule
> lattice work that looks on cross-section like a mandala just might be the
> place of the psychoid function that Jung wrote about.
>         When I read the following paragraph over the past weekend in Psyche
> and Matter I decided to write to you to ask you what you meant on your
> microtubule page under section iii.b.  "the numerology of tubulins and
> tubes are interesting".
> 
> Pg. 59 of Psyche and Matter (1988) : "If a tunnel breakthrough between
> psychology and atomic physics were to take place, confirming Jung's
> intuition of the archetype of the natural number as the joint ordering
> principle of the domains of psyche and matter, we would thus emerge at a
> place where lie the most ancient knowledge and traditions of the East,
> which in part have even long been forgotten there".
> 
> If you could direct me to material on the subject of microtubules that a
> lay person could handle, I would appreciate your help.  My question is :
> how is the numerology interesting?

the web pages are just place-holders for other pages i'd like to create 
along such lines ...most of what i know about the numerology of the 
tubes i learned from Roger Penrose's book Shadows of the Mind, pp.
357-377, and from watching an obscure lecture given at the Tucson
conference on consciousness by a Hungarian name Koruga - Koruga was
interested in all sorts of ideal numbers found in the packing of the
cytoskeleton: you may want to look for his papers, for example from
Penrose's bibliography. Penrose himself only mentions in passing that
various aspects of the tubes are related to the famous Fibonacci series,
in which each number is the sum of the two previous numbers. it is not
well understood how the numerical relations from one level, such as 
the cytoskeletal level, interface with related archetypes from other 
levels (eg. the pychic)... 

perhaps Ezio Insinna knows some deep things about this? (he is also
a student of Jung and has studied the phenomenon of synchronicity 
and the numerology of the tubes.)

natural relations between these levels there surely are, of course.
there is evidence that microtubules self-assemble in a lovely least
action quantum dance: a clue, perhaps!?

rhett

Microtubules