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Book summary “Human heart, cosmic heart”: summary

Thomas Cowan

2,341 words · 14 min read

You face a medical system that treats heart disease with statins and mechanical interventions while rates continue to climb. You might wonder if conventional cardiology misunderstands the fundamental nature of the cardiovascular system.

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2,341 words · 14 min read

Introduction

You face a medical system that treats heart disease with statins and mechanical interventions while rates continue to climb. You might wonder if conventional cardiology misunderstands the fundamental nature of the cardiovascular system.

Thomas Cowan argues that the heart is not a mechanical pump pushing blood through miles of rigid tubes. Instead, the heart acts as a vortex-forming hydraulic ram powered by structured water and light energy.

You will discover how blood circulates independently of cardiac pressure, how heart geometry creates suction, and why metabolic and nervous system health matters more than cholesterol.

  • How does water circulate blood without a pump?
  • Why do coronary blockages rarely cause heart attacks?
  • What role do cosmic rhythms play in human health?

1. Circulation and the Fourth Phase of Water

William Harvey published De Motu Cordis in 1628. This work established the modern mechanistic view of circulation and the heart as a pump. Harvey rejected Galen's ancient theory that venous blood originated in the liver and arterial blood carried spirits from the heart.

William Harvey served as physician to King James I and King Charles I, and later defended women against allegations of witchcraft.

William Harvey's mechanical pump model is incomplete because capillary blood flow is actually driven by fourth-phase structured water and environmental energy.

The Mechanical Model

You might assume that blood needs a powerful mechanical pump to travel sixty thousand miles through the vascular system. However, physics shows that a single pump cannot push fluid through such a vast network of tiny friction-filled tubes.

Blood flow actually stops at the midpoint capillaries. It cannot be pushed by the heart alone. Instead, venules act as narrow hydrophilic tubes energized by sunlight, Earth energy, and infrared warmth.

A flashlight held against the palm in a dark room demonstrates that light easily travels through living human tissue.

Exclusion Zone Water

Water contains a fourth phase near hydrophilic surfaces that forms structured layers and separates electrical charges without external power. Research by Gerald Pollack demonstrates that when hydrophilic surfaces like gelatin or nafion are placed in water, they form a structured zone called the exclusion zone. This zone is denser, more viscous, negatively charged, and possesses a different pH and voltage compared to bulk water.

Mixing hydrophilic proteins like gelatin in water under proper conditions creates a solid gel that remains over 96 percent water by volume without leaking. This structured water forms best at 4 degrees Celsius.

When hydrophilic substances are rolled into tubes, the interaction with water creates a negatively charged structured inner lining and a positively charged bulk water center. The resulting electrical charge separation causes bulk water to flow continuously from one end of the tube to the other without mechanical input.

When a hydrophilic tube with water is placed inside a completely lead-encased box, flow stops, but ambient sunlight, infrared frequencies, or the Earth's electromagnetic field resume the flow.

Viktor Schauberger observed that healthy rivers rely on spiral vortex flow and low temperatures to balance gravity with natural levity. Schauberger noted that healthy streams require vortex flow patterns and temperatures near 4 degrees Celsius to generate a force of levity. This force allows trout to hang motionless in stream currents and sustains natural water purity.

While patrolling the forest at night, Schauberger observed a visible channel of light within a suitably formed waterfall representing the energy used by trout.

2. The Geometry and True Function of the Heart

Standard medical texts teach that your heart is a high-pressure mechanical pump. This view ignores the true architecture of the organ. You can discover a different reality by studying the actual shape and movement of healthy tissue.

The human heart corresponds structurally to a seven-sided chestahedron and functions as a hydraulic ram that creates suction and vortex flow.

The Chestahedron

Sculptor Frank Chester used Platonic solids and anthroposophical principles to develop the chestahedron. This is a seven-sided form composed of four equilateral triangles and three kite-shaped quadrilaterals.

When you place this polyhedron inside a cube, it sits at a 36-degree angle off-center. That exact position matches the anatomical position and ventricle architecture of the human heart.

Frank Chester spun a wire model of the chestahedron in a vat of water. It generated a primary vertical vortex and a secondary horizontal appendix vortex that precisely mirrored the left and right ventricles.

Hydraulic Ram Mechanics

Your heart does not push blood through the body by sheer muscular force. Instead, it functions like a hydraulic ram where incoming blood builds volume and pressure behind valves.

This process creates suction and transforms linear flow into swirling vortices. You can observe this action in medical imaging without relying on mechanical pumps.

During systole, routine angiograms show that the flexible aortic arch bends inward rather than straightening out. This movement demonstrates that the heart creates negative pressure suction instead of forceful pushing.

3. What Causes and Does Not Cause Heart Attacks

Coronary artery blockages do not directly cause most heart attacks, which are instead driven by autonomic nervous system imbalances and metabolic acidosis.

Flaws in the Cholesterol Theory

The conventional view that progressive cholesterol plaque and coronary artery blockages cause most heart attacks is largely incorrect. 735000 Americans suffer heart attacks each year according to the CDC, and 610000 Americans die each year from heart disease. This toll drives an estimated 818 billion dollars projected in direct medical costs by 2030.

Pathology autopsies show that significant stenosis is absent in the majority of heart attacks, and oxygen measurements reveal no oxygen deficit during an evolving heart attack. Furthermore, the heart naturally develops an extensive collateral network of small vessels that compensates for blocked major arteries.

A Mayo Clinic report from 2003 concluded that bypass surgery relieves chest pain symptoms but does not prevent future heart attacks, benefiting only high-risk patients whose lives are in acute danger.

The first major pathology study in the 1970s found only 20 percent of stenosis sufficient to cause a heart attack. The 2004 Baroldi and Silver autopsy study of heart attack patients found 41 percent of stenosis.

Arteriosclerosis and plaque formation represent the body's structural compensation mechanism for a weakened, inflamed arterial wall lacking adequate structured water. The inner lining of blood vessels relies on a negatively charged exclusion zone of water for protection. When this layer deteriorates and inflammation ensues, the body deposits a calcium plaster cast to reinforce the vessel under pressure.

Vitamin K2 directs calcium away from soft tissues and arteries into the bones and teeth, helping resolve calcified deposits. Identified by Weston A. Price as Activator X, vitamin K2 is abundant in butter fat from cows eating rapidly growing green grass. High doses of butter oil or emu oil help reverse arterial calcification as inflammation subsides.

Weston A. Price used a centrifuged butter oil product to successfully remineralize decayed teeth.

Autonomic Imbalance and Ouabain

Heart attacks are driven by an imbalance in the autonomic nervous system, specifically a chronic drop in parasympathetic activity followed by an acute sympathetic surge.

Risk factors like diabetes, smoking, stress, and being male all downregulate parasympathetic activity. When a sympathetic surge occurs without adequate vagal tone, the heart shifts to aerobic glycolysis, producing an excess of lactic acid, localized acidosis, cellular edema, and eventually tissue necrosis.

One third or more reduction in parasympathetic activity is seen on average in patients with ischemic heart disease. 80 percent of ischemic events are preceded by chronic reductions in parasympathetic activity.

The author experienced supraventricular tachycardia and went into heart failure during a canoe trip in the Boundary Waters after getting anxious while setting up camp.

G-strophanthin acts as a powerful protector of heart health by supporting the parasympathetic nervous system and converting metabolic poison into fuel. Produced naturally in the adrenal cortex, g-strophanthin stimulates acetylcholine production and uniquely converts lactic acid into pyruvate, serving as a vital heart nutrient. The author notes that in his years of using ouabain in practice, not a single patient taking it suffered a heart attack.

Enhanced external counterpulsation uses timed external pressure to grow new collateral heart circulation without surgery. Pneumatic balloons placed on the legs and pelvis inflate during heart diastole, using blood flow mechanics to create a natural bypass that resolves angina symptoms in the majority of patients. 80 percent of people are helped by EECP to avoid coronary bypass or stenting, and 3 to 7 years is the typical duration of symptom resolution.

You can perform this therapy through specific actions:

  • Lie on a bed while inflated balloons are placed on both legs and around the pelvis
  • Sync the timing of balloon inflation with an EKG so they squeeze the legs and pelvis when the heart is relaxed in diastole
  • Perform this procedure for a little over an hour five days a week for seven consecutive weeks

4. Treating the Heart and Cosmic Connections

Medical treatment must begin with deep empathetic listening to your personal story rather than a cocktail of pharmaceutical drugs. Inquiring about emotional losses and daily stresses helps uncover suppressed parasympathetic activity.

Effective heart treatment requires deep empathetic listening, metabolic restoration, and recognizing the heart as a quantum organ embedded in cosmic rhythms.

Ask the patient: So what happened to you? Ask the patient to tell about when they last felt well and bring the story up to the present time. Inquire about diet, sleep patterns, daily activities, body movement, and family relationships.

A colleague air force flight surgeon experienced amnesia while taking the statin drug Lipitor, but his doctor dismissed the connection. The doctor eventually wrote the book Lipitor: Thief of Memory after researching thousands of similar stories.

Assessing the autonomic nervous system balance involves listening to heart sounds across the sternum.

  • Start listening at the upper border of the left side of the sternum and work down the left sternal border to the apex across five distinct sites
  • Check for equal sound intensity near the bottom of the left side of the sternum
  • Feel the abdomen for a congested liver and examine the legs for edema or swollen veins

Evaluation of cardiac health relies on minimalist testing focused on blood sugar control, inflammation, and heart movement.

  • Review HgbA1c results for blood sugar and metabolic control
  • Check high-sensitivity C-reactive protein as a marker for inflammation
  • Perform a stress echo to assess the heart's ability to move and flex under physical exertion

An Integrative Clinical Approach

Metabolic restoration combines specific dietary changes, targeted movement practices, natural medicines, and enhanced circulation therapies.

  • Eat a Nourishing Traditions-type diet of liberal fats and low carbohydrates
  • Engage in thirty minutes per day of barefoot walking, preferably on a beach, or vigorous outside walking
  • Perform once-per-week high-intensity strength training such as Ken Hutchens's SuperSlow program
  • Take g-strophanthin at three milligrams two to three times per day, or Strophanthus extract at five to twenty drops three times per day, holding it in the mouth for one minute before swallowing
  • Take six capsules of emu oil per day
  • Complete a seven-week course of EECP if possible

A diabetic Russian immigrant and former Siberian camp prisoner in his midseventies suffered from severe shortness of breath and chest pain. After two months of diet and Strodival, his diabetes resolved and he resumed cross-country skiing.

The Cosmic Heart and Gold

Biological nerve transmission occurs virtually instantaneously through quantum coherence and superconducting impulses rather than slow electrochemical ion gradients.

  • Put both index fingers out in front, close eyes, and have a partner say right or left
  • Wiggle the designated index finger as soon as the word is heard to test the instantaneous transmission speed

Heart transplant recipients frequently experience profound personality and memory changes that mirror the organ donor. Dr. Paul Pearsall documented that patients receiving a new heart often take on the traits and preferences of anonymous donors.

A white factory worker with racist views received a heart from a young African American violinist killed on his way to music academy. Afterward, the recipient befriended African Americans and secretly began listening to classical music and violin concertos.

Conclusion

Conventional cardiology fails because it treats the heart as a mechanical pump driven by cholesterol and plumbing blockages rather than as a vortex-forming hydraulic ram powered by structured water, metabolic vitality, and cosmic rhythms. You can transform your cardiovascular health by shifting away from pharmaceutical fear and mechanical interventions toward a vitalist understanding of biology.

  1. Drink pure water enhanced with minerals, green juices, or chia seeds to support the fourth phase of water in your tissues.
  2. Adopt a low-carbohydrate, ketogenic diet combined with intermittent fasting to repair your metabolism and eliminate mitochondrial stress.
  3. Cultivate parasympathetic tone through deep listening, quiet reflection, and time spent outdoors connected to natural light and cosmic rhythms.
  4. Consult a knowledgeable practitioner about using botanical remedies like homeopathic Strophanthus to support your heart's energetic and muscular function.
  5. Reject the chronic fear of dietary saturated fats and cholesterol, recognizing them as essential building blocks for your cells and hormones.

10 Key Ideas

  1. Capillary blood flow is driven by fourth-phase structured water and environmental energy rather than by a mechanical pump.
  2. The human heart corresponds structurally to a seven-sided chestahedron and functions as a hydraulic ram that creates suction and vortex flow.
  3. Heart attacks are driven by autonomic nervous system imbalances and metabolic acidosis rather than directly by coronary artery blockages.
  4. Arteriosclerosis and plaque formation represent the body's structural compensation mechanism for a weakened, inflamed arterial wall lacking adequate structured water.
  5. Enhanced external counterpulsation uses timed external pressure during diastole to grow new collateral heart circulation without surgery.
  6. Effective heart treatment requires deep empathetic listening, metabolic restoration, and recognizing the heart as a quantum organ embedded in cosmic rhythms.
  7. Assessing autonomic nervous system balance involves listening to heart sounds across the sternum, checking the abdomen, and examining the legs.
  8. Metabolic restoration combines specific dietary changes, targeted movement practices, natural medicines like g-strophanthin, and enhanced circulation therapies.
  9. Heart transplant recipients frequently experience profound personality and memory changes that mirror the organ donor.
  10. You can transform your cardiovascular health by shifting toward a vitalist understanding of biology that rejects the chronic fear of dietary saturated fats and cholesterol.

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