20 Questions arising from discussions and my thoughts about "Accessing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve" by Stanley Rosenberg
1. What really is a nerve?
2. Is it a device to hook up with everything?
3. How much of all disease and stress is attributable to inflammation esp. within the nervous system?
4. Inside the nerve sheath can one imagine light, electricity, heat?
5. What really is meant by social engagement?
6. Is that the collective nervous system? The collective unconscious?
7. Is it related to co-regulation? Social learning?
8. Is there really no separate nervous system – more accurate to say neuro-endocrine system?
9. If there’s a genetic code, isn’t there also a transmittable soul’s code?
10. What really is the enteric nervous system?
11. Is there an esoteric nervous system?
12. Is there an “extrinsic” nervous system in which case the spaces between us are synapses or like the “saltation”, which is the leaping of electricity from node to node of the neuron?
13. Is music is an acoustical manifestation of the extrinsic nervous system?
14. Why is moving the eyes so influential on the vagus nerve?
15. What did Wilhelm Reich refer to as ocular block and how it occurs?
16. What is heart math?
17. Are there magnetic lines of force in the universe that are more or less strummed?
18. What more can we do to more deeply appreciate and benefit from sleep and rest?
19. Why do we so underestimate the incredible power of safety?
20. What is the significance of 90+% of our serotonin being distributed in the enteric nervous system (but produced by the pineal gland!).