From Pulse to Portal - The Science of Heart Intelligence - Screener

One day ago, this human egg was fertilized by a sperm. Today, it begins the process of dividing itself first into two cells and then into four, then eight, then 16 until there are over 100 cells.

On the fifth day, the cells begin to differentiate themselves into clusters. It's these clusters that will eventually become the organs and other parts of the human body.

21 days after conception, something truly remarkable occurs. In one of these clusters, a group of dormant muscle cells barely the size of a poppy seed, a single cell spontaneously contracts. Our best science and technology still cannot explain how or why this happens. The contraction triggers the neighboring cells to do the same, which sets off a chain reaction which affects the whole cluster. This becomes the first heartbeat.

This now beating mass of cells will become the human heart. The brain is still forming and will only show neuronal activity on day 23, but the heart is already pushing fluids and nutrients to the other parts of the developing embryo.

According to western medicine and modern thinking, this is the primary purpose of the heart: to pump. And pump it will for the next 80 years or so. In a normal person, the heart beats 70 times a minute, 100,000 times a day. That's 40 million times a year. During a single day, a ventricle pumps about 11,000 quarts of blood. That's 265 million quarts in a lifetime.

But what if the heart is more than a pump? The world's languages are filled with expressions and metaphors that instinctively suggest the heart is more than just a pump, that the heart is connected to some essential unseen part of ourselves. Even our gestures indicate we give importance to the heart.

The role of the heart as the center of morality and a source of wisdom is found throughout ancient cultures and religions. The ancient Egyptians believed the heart was the most important organ in the body. The heart was the seat of emotions, memory, the soul, and the personality itself. It was through the heart that the gods would speak to a person. This is why the heart was the only organ not removed during the mummification process. They believed the heart would be weighed by Anubis and one's fate in the afterlife would be determined by the heaviness of the experiences stored in the heart.

The early Greeks considered the heart to be the moral center of one's being and the container of intellectual life. Later, the emphasis was on reasoning, and the heart was seen as the center of rational thought. The Babylonians maintained that the heart was the central organ directing our morality and decision-making ability.

Robert Ree is an author and educator who has studied the role of the heart in ancient cultures for over 40 years. He has taught at UCLA, UC Santa Cruz, and is currently teaching at UC Berkeley. Louisa Young says, "Before we knew anything about ourselves, we knew we had a heart."

A good example or illustration of that is 50,000 years ago in the wall of a cave in Spain, one of our ancestors out hunting a mastodon came in and with red paint, probably made from plants or from the soil, drew a large outline of a mastodon on the cave wall. The only other detail besides that outline was a big red heart right in the middle. So think about that. Long before we had books, long before we had language, even perhaps we had a sense that at the center of our being was this organ that was, you know, beating. We could feel it.

I speculate that one of the reasons why we turn to the heart is that we can feel it. We can put our hands on our chest. We can feel our heart beating. We can feel it racing when we're running from a saber-tooth tiger. We can feel it feeling joy when we touch somebody's hand or when we embrace somebody. From the beginning, we knew there was something powerful and mysterious at the center of our being. And so you see this in these primitive cultures, this importance of the heart.

What we know now, of course, from neurocardiology is that the heart has a kind of intelligence. That the idea, the very ancient idea of pondering in our heart, thinking with our heart. Jesus said, "As a person thinks in his heart, so is he or so is she." How, how we think in our heart says a lot about who we are. But that idea of having some kind of cognitive capacity in our heart is a very old idea.

In fact, the heart is mentioned in the Bible hundreds of times, not as a physical organ, but as a center of perception, intention, and spiritual awareness. Jesus repeatedly spoke of the heart as a place where transformation occurs and where deeper understanding begins. By the 4th century, Christian monks were practicing forms of contemplative prayer designed to bring the mind into the heart through rhythmic prayer and quiet attention. Practitioners sought a state of inner stillness in which heart and mind moved together.

In the 17th century, the French nun Margaret Mary Alacoque described visions in which Christ revealed his heart, radiant and a flame of divine love for humanity. Her visions were the seed for devotional practices that have lasted centuries and a powerful reminder that the heart is both vulnerable and transformative, a source of compassion capable of reshaping the world.

This idea that the heart plays a deeper role in human awareness appears again and again across cultures and spiritual traditions. The Chinese symbol for heart and brain is the same. And we find it in Buddhism, we find it in Judaism, we find it in Hinduism. We find it in Islam. So you have these wonderful images in Sufism. You have a winged heart. And the idea is the winged heart flies between earth and heaven. It is the bridge. It also is the bridge between our spirits and our bodies.

Sufism is often called the religion of the heart. They believe the heart is the seat of intelligence, the abode of the soul. A Sufi seeks a connection to the one being through the shrine of the heart. Since the 8th century, the Sufis have been the mystical branch of Islam. One of their most influential philosophers was Abu Hamid al-Ghazali. Late in the 12th century, he wrote his great work *Ihya' 'ulum al-din* or *Revival of the Sciences of Religion*, a 40-book collection meant to revitalize the teachings of Muhammad. It is second only to the Quran as the most read work in the Muslim world. The 21st volume is called *The Wonders of the Heart*. It is one of the most remarkable commentaries on the spiritual aspects of the human heart ever written.

Al-Ghazali teaches that the heart is a mirror, able to see the real essence of things and reflect divinity into the world. However, this mirror can become clouded by the ways of the world unless polished and kept clear. This mirror needs to be aimed in the right direction to work properly and is key to the intimate relationship between the soul and this earthly realm. Perhaps the concepts that he taught 900 years ago are finally beginning to be understood by modern researchers and scientists, rediscovering what these ancient religions have always known.

Today, Islam is one of the world's major religions with over a billion followers who find deep meaning and guidance in its teachings. Modern Muslims engage with their faith in diverse ways, balancing traditional practices with contemporary challenges. One devoted follower of the Prophet Muhammad is Abdullah al-Abdul Gada. Dr. Al-Abdul Gada is one of the top heart surgeons in the world and an expert on congenital heart disease. He holds four advanced degrees in cardiology and electrophysiology and has completed multiple board certifications from leading international institutions. He's a senior consultant and medical leader, has trained teams, published widely, and helped shape cardiac care policy across the Gulf region. His reputation is built on rigorous science, disciplined inquiry, and a lifelong pursuit of clinical excellence.

As nice as all this sounds, it has created a bit of a dilemma for Abdullah Abdul Gada. On one hand, there is a doctor with decades of education, research and practice, international awards, achievements, recognition, and this wall of medical books that all view the heart as a very sophisticated pump. On the other hand, we have a devout spiritual tradition which views the heart as so much more. In the Quran, the most sacred book to Islam, the heart is mentioned 192 times, but not once as a pump. Some phrases describe the heart as the center of reasoning, intention, and decision. Others refer to the heart as the seat of the soul, the center of the human being, the holder of consciousness itself, and the way a human being receives guidance from God.

This question of how to bridge that gap between the scientific medical paradigm and his deep spiritual beliefs led to the creation of an international conference on the heart. Heart: The King of Organs conference launched in 2007, bringing cutting-edge experts in the fields of neurocardiology, electrophysiology, electromagnetism, endocrinology, and cardiac stress management together to discuss and present their latest research and discoveries.

In 2008, while researching online, Dr. Abdul Gada found an organization that had spent decades applying hardcore scientific research to the very questions that most interested him. He had discovered the HeartMath Research Foundation in Boulder Creek, California. The HeartMath Institute has pioneered almost two decades of research into heart intelligence, emotions, biofeedback, and stress management. Their research has significantly advanced the understanding of heart-brain interactions, heart rhythm patterns and heart rate variability analysis, emotional physiology, and the physiology of optimal learning, performance, and health.

Dr. Rollin McCraty is the director of research at HeartMath and has been with the institute since its inception in 1991. He's a recognized authority on heart rate variability, heart rhythm coherence, and the effects of positive and negative emotions on human psychophysiology and health. And he is widely published in those areas.

"Well, our research over the past 28 years has been investigating how the heart and brain communicate, the dynamic language. And the heart and brain are more interconnected through the nervous system than any other systems in our body. And the heart actually communicates with the brain and also the body through four primary ways. One is through, obviously, through the nervous system. In fact, the heart sends more messages through the nervous system, the autonomic nervous system. So, more information sent from the heart to the brain than the brain sends to the heart. And that could sound like a new discovery, but that's actually been known for many, many years, since, in fact, even the late 1800s.

And then the heart also communicates biochemically. So the heart was reclassified as part of the hormonal or endocrine system when it was discovered that this, the heart actually manufactures and secretes various hormones. The first one was called atrial natriuretic peptide or ANP, which is kind of nicknamed the balance hormone because it has a balancing effect and actually reduces the stress response when there's more of this heart hormone being produced. It prevents the adrenal glands from secreting as much of the stress hormones, for example, but has a general balancing effect through the whole arterial system and many receptors for it in the brain. Then later it was discovered that the heart also secretes many other hormones, dopamine and these types of hormones, and a whole class of those. And then the most interesting one and the most recent is oxytocin, which of course a lot of people talk about in the media as the love or the bonding hormone. And the heart secretes as much of that as the brain does. And the most recent work in neurocardiology suggests that it might even be the neural, the main neurotransmitter of what's called the intrinsic cardiac nervous system. So the heart, human heart, in fact, does have its, what is nicknamed by the neurocardiology community is the heart-brain. The nervous system in the heart has all the types of neurons to qualify as a functional independent little brain in the heart. So these neurons in the heart are very similar to the ones in our brain. They have been proven to have short-term memory, long-term memory, neuroplasticity, meaning in the heart they change their wiring and connections, neurogenesis. In other words, they generate and create new neurons.

The other way that the heart communicates is through the pulse. So every time the heart beats, a pressure wave is sent through all the arteries. We can measure your pulse anywhere in the body. It's pretty clear now that that pulse wave itself is a synchronizing signal because all the cells in the body feel that pressure wave and that pulsing, and we can see profound changes in the brain just from the pressure wave.

The other way that the heart communicates with the brain and entire body is, we all call it energetically. So when you measure the electrocardiogram, you put electrodes across the chest. What we're measuring there is the flow of electrical current. It's why it's called the electrocardiogram. And the heart is by far the largest source of rhythmic electrical energy produced in the body. Those currents travel through the blood and called volume conduction through the whole body as well. So there's an electrical system, but also whenever we have current flow like produced by the heart, that creates—this is basic physics right now, kind of physics 101—is whenever there's a flow of electrical current, we also create a magnetic field. And magnetic fields have the quality of being, they penetrate right through the tissues and things. In fact, that's why cell phones work inside of a building. We all know that they work. How the cell phone carries information is the voice, your text message is riding on the electromagnetic signal, but it's the magnetic component that goes through the walls so that our phones work indoors. So the heart works the same way. Every time it beats, the current flows. We create a magnetic field which literally radiates external to the body, and that's measured with a different type of device called a magnetometer. We know these exist. We can measure them. And with today's equipment, we can measure the energetic or magnetic field of the heart about 3 feet away from the body.

Now, if we take the same instrument, the brain and the electrical activity of the brain also, those current flows create magnetic fields as well, but they're much weaker. So you can measure the magnetic fields produced by the brain about an inch away from the skull. So clearly, at the energetic level, the heart's the primary player here.

Like with cell phones, we can measure the information being carried by the fields, you know, our voice and text. It works the same way with the heart. So, we know for sure, we've proven in the lab by using very similar techniques that I used to use in my communication engineering days to see what the information being carried by our phone or any kind of transmitter is. Use those same techniques to show that the magnetic field of the heart that's radiating out is carrying information about our emotional state. We can measure the magnetic field of the heart and look at that information being carried and tell with about 75% accuracy these days what a person's emotional state is, whether they're conscious of what they're feeling or not. What we're feeling inside not only affects the brain, right, for the sending connections to the brain, but it also radiates externally. We can, with pretty good accuracy, measure how somebody's feeling. The information riding on the carrier wave, the way I think of it, of the magnetic field produced by the heart is directly related to what's called the heart rhythm or the heart rate variability patterns.

So, I'm going to plug the ear sensor into the round hole on the bottom of the device. Then, Bob, if you put the ear sensor on the fleshy part of your ear. Neural information being sent from the heart up through the nervous system to the brain. Those signals go to almost every major brain center. They have profound effects on how well the brain's working, our reaction times, our motor skills, our cognitive capacities in the brain. The effects that they have on brain function were observed back in the late 1960s, 1970s. So, this is not necessarily new information. And two terms were introduced back then. The first is called cortical inhibition. Cortex, part of our brain, we get paid to go to work for our thinking brain, or what's called executive functions are inhibited when the heart rhythms are what we call incoherent. The other term that was coined back in the early '70s is called cortical facilitation, so that part of our brain is facilitated, works better. But at that time, the mechanisms weren't really understood of how the heart and brain communicate, how this all works.

We know now that one of the main centers that these ascending signals from the heart go to in the brain is called the thalamus. The thalamus is at the very core of our brain. And it has many important functions and roles. And one of those is that it synchronizes the global neural activity in the brain. For us to really be able to perceive things through our sensory systems and for that information to flow through the brain and become a conscious perception, those neural structures have to literally be synchronized. In fact, it's the key to being awake, conscious people. So all these neural signals flowing from the heart go directly through the brain stem, one or two synapses away to the thalamus. So it's a very direct pathway.

So when the heart rhythms are incoherent, these kind of jaggedy-looking patterns that are reflected in our heart when we're feeling things like frustration, or irritation, impatience, anxiety, and those types of emotions, basically inhibit or interfere with the thalamus' ability to synchronize the global activity of the brain. Now, on the other hand, if we're able to shift the heart rhythm into a coherent rhythm, those signals also, of course, go to the thalamus, and they actually facilitate and improve the thalamus' ability to synchronize global activity more so than our normal walking-around state, because we're normally somewhere in between coherent and incoherent. So by taking a moment to pause and really focus into the area of the heart and shift our heart rhythms into coherence, we're sending a very different neural signal to the brain. Then that now is facilitating global cortical synchronization and functions. So, not only are our reaction times improved, our coordination, which is why a lot of athletes and people in law enforcement really like HeartMath and these approaches because it allows you to have a simple technique to shift into coherence and really sustain our composure, you know, when the life outside may not be so coherent.

"358 Street." "I need a second service number on a walk-in 1709." "Soon as he gets out of his car and is walking to wherever he has to go, he can be doing a technique called heart-focused breathing. And that's shifting the rhythms of the heart into this coherent rhythm. And now we're sending a very different neural signal to the brain that helps stabilize our emotions, facilitates the frontal cortex, our executive functions. So he's going to be a lot more balanced, and his reaction times are going to be faster, and he's going to have a wider field of vision and be a lot more stable and have more accurate perceptions of the situation that's going on."

When we begin to grasp the greater activity and dimensions of the heart, it can only deepen our experience of our own heart beating within our core. What greater potential do we have available to us by paying attention to the heart's capabilities? How do I affect the world around me by these signals my heart is constantly sending out? When I was talking about the heart's magnetic field and how it carries information like our cell phones carrying information, the heart's field is carrying emotional information and probably much more about our physiology than we currently understand. So the next question we asked in the research path was, "Okay, well, that's nice. Is there a 'so what' to that?" And the answer is clearly yes, in that not only are we radiating these fields, but our nervous systems are like an antenna to these other biologically generated fields. So we receive these fields from other people, and they have measurable effects. For example, we could measure my brainwave synchronizing with somebody else's heart rhythms and vice versa. And the more connected we are emotionally, the more the likelihood of that synchronization occurring. And that synchronization between people in social settings is really critical for good communication, empathy, and really understanding what other people are like and being able to really connect at a deeper level. What we call heart connections.

When you understand the deeper physiology of it, there's a lot going on in terms of it's not just about synchronization. That's part of it, an important part of it, but there are many more factors. So, we needed to find the term that could really embrace a larger essence of what this was about. Coherence was a term we finally ended up on after several years of dialogue and discussion and some arguments in some cases.

Coherence, first of all, at the street level, if you look it up in the dictionary, the first definition is almost always regarding somebody's speech. Is this a coherent statement? Hopefully, I'm able to put my words together now where I'm able to convey a coherent statement. There's a lot embedded in that. It means that the meaning of what I'm saying is past the individual words. If I'd had a little bit too much to drink and a little tipsy and I'm uttering nonsense, I would be called incoherent.

Coherence is also a term used a lot in physics. And in this context, coherence also embraces a lot of other concepts that are embraced under it, just like we were looking for. So the term in the sciences and physics always implies that things are connected. So it's describing all the parts within a more complex system. Those parts of a system to function have to have some way of communicating with each other. So connectedness and communication amongst parts is embedded and implied within that term. That not only are the subparts of a larger system communicating well, but that there's harmonious order, that there's connection, and that the system is operating in an energy-efficient way. So those are all things at a high level that coherence implies and means. So it embraces things like, are things synchronized? Are they working together well? And so for us, it was perfect because we were seeing that these heart rhythms, simple little heart rhythms, you could say, are reflecting much deeper levels of harmony or disharmony within the body. All these different deeper levels and layers of the activity within the body have to be working together in a more harmonious way for the heart rhythm to become this coherent signal. So there's a lot implied by that.

And coherence is also a term that we can apply across scales. So certainly about our personal coherence and physiology. So we can talk about the activity in the body, but also how coherent are we mentally and emotionally, you know, the capacity to maintain our composure, to flow through life's challenges and events, or to create flow when things aren't flowing out there. But it's also a term that is just as appropriate when we're talking about social interactions or teams or groups or families. How coherent are the relations amongst the members of the group? So a coherent group or team means that the relations between all the individual members of that group or team are harmonious. There's appropriate positive bonds, that there's cooperation, collaboration, good communication. So these are all some of the high-level elements that have to be present in a coherent group, whether that's, like I say, a family, a work team, a sports team.

"Very recently, the Brazilian skydiving team set the Brazilian record, anyway. I'm not sure it was a world record for the number of skydivers who were connected in formation in one dive."

"We were 54 people and we met to set a new Brazilian record building as a formation during freefall. This usually takes about a week. So we spend a few days together making a few attempts, and all the athletes have all the skills to actually make the record happen. But in the first couple of days of attempts, we were not quite getting together in freefall. There was a little bit of rush and some stress, and people were not really getting in sync."

"In the third day, I was feeling this kind of feel. We weren't like in sync. So we are ready to go. We are going to their plane, and then I call everybody, 'Hey, stop!' And then all people look to me, 'What's going on?' Come on, come on. And everybody stands in front of me. And then I use one technique that we learned here with HeartMath, quick coherence for five, six minutes. And then when I felt the field, the energetic field was kind of quiet, and then I felt, 'Okay, we are ready to go.'"

"Coincidence or not, that jump, we made it. We made it. We broke the record. And the cool thing about it is that we could feel it in the air, the quietness. And when we landed, like a bunch of people, like they said to us, like, 'Wow, we could feel the quietness.' And we were in ease, in flow, in flow. And everything was kind of slow. It's perfect. We call it the field."

We've been following this idea, the Earth's field, the heart's field. But what exactly is a field? Biologist Dr. Robert Sheldrake has spent decades exploring the nature of fields. Educated at Cambridge, his early research was grounded in plant biology and developmental science. Over time, he began to question whether the patterns of nature are shaped not only by physical laws, but by organizing fields that carry memory and influence across time and space. His ideas challenge conventional thinking, suggesting that nature may be shaped not only by fixed laws, but by evolving patterns of memory within fields.

"A field is a region of influence in its most general sense. A magnetic field is a region of influence within and around a magnet. The gravitational field of the Earth is a region of influence of the Earth, and its gravitational field of influence extends far beyond the surface of the Earth, which is why the moon stays in its orbit around the Earth. The fields of quantum physics, the quantum matter fields, are fields which organize the vibratory activity of electrons, protons, atoms, and so on. Morphogenetic fields, which were first proposed in the 1920s, are fields which organize animals and plants and living systems. They're like molds or shapes or patterns that include a living organism and organize its form and shape, and those contain subfields. The field of the whole body has the field of the organs. Those have the fields of the tissues. Those have the fields of the cells within them.

So then, if you say, well, what does a field consist of? What is it made of? This is a difficult question. When Faraday first came up with the idea of fields, he deliberately used a term that's familiar from ordinary language. A field is what you plow and cultivate. A field is a region of activity because if you don't cut down the forest and cultivate it, you don't have a field. So a football field, a field of interest, a field of trade, a field of view. These are all the kinds of usages that Faraday had in mind.

People said to him, 'What are these magnetic and electrical fields? What are they made of?' And Faraday said, 'Well, I don't know, but there are two possibilities. One is that the field is a modification of mere space. They're patterns in space, self-subsistent patterns in space. The other is they're made of matter. They're made of subtle matter, a subtle matter which the field imposes a pattern or structure upon.' And that subtle matter was called the ether. When Maxwell made up his equations to explain the fields and activities of electromagnetism, he took these fields to be made of the ether, a subtle matter. Einstein, in 1905, his special theory of relativity got rid of the ether. They said it doesn't exist. The fields are just made of fields. And so in the attempt that Einstein had to make a unified field theory, and in the ongoing attempts to have a unified field theory in superstring theory and M-theory, if you say, 'What is a field?' then you say, 'Well, it's made up of other fields, and they're ultimately made from the primal unified field which has 10 or 11 dimensions, depending on the theory.' And basically, it's fields all the way down. It's not as if these fields are made of stuff. It's not as if these fields are even made of spacetime, which, if the gravitational field is made of spacetime, it is spacetime according to Einstein's general theory of relativity. But what is the nature of these other fields? We know them through their effects. They organize energy. They organize the rhythmic patterns of energy. But the field itself has a rather mysterious nature. The ultimate explanation in contemporary physics through superstring and M-theory is in terms of other fields or other dimensions of fields. So it's fields within fields, made of fields, which are in regions of influence in spacetime. They're not made of stuff. In fact, stuff is made of fields because the primary reality in the materialist worldview is matter. But it turns out that matter is itself made up of vibratory patterns of energy within fields."

If each of us exists within our own region of influence, our own field, what happens when those fields come together? Do they simply overlap, or do they begin to form something larger? And when they do, do they fall into coherence or into conflict?

In most traditional societies, there are ways of promoting the cohesion of the whole social field. One of them is through shared activities, bringing people into resonance. And the simplest way of bringing people into resonance is through literally resonating together. And that means through singing together or chanting together. All tribes have singing together and dancing together as part of their community building. All traditional cultures have festivals, holy days, or holidays. And that usually involves singing and dancing, which brings people into a literal resonance. When you're singing together, you breathe together at the same time.

"So, your breathing rhythms are synchronized. Maybe your heartbeats become more synchronized. There are some studies that show that's the case. When you're dancing together, you're dancing to the same rhythm and the coordination and linkage of the society. That's one form of connecting groups. And one of the interesting things about the modern world is that very few people sing or dance together. Groups can dance together in sort of raves and parties. You know, in traditional, in square dances and communal dances two or three centuries ago, the whole community danced the same dance. Then, as Wendell Berry points out, by the 18th century, it had come down to couples dancing together. And now, in many modern forms, people are basically dancing alone, although they're in a group, but they're not actually dancing with the whole community like you do in the Scottish reel or a square dance or strip the willow, those kinds of dances. So singing and dancing together are one way of traditionally building communities.

Another is through participation in rituals, which are repetitive cycles of activity, like, well, the American Thanksgiving dinner is one example, which is a community-building ritual. Celebrating Christmas in families and communities is another. Festivals, rituals, the Passover festival for Jewish people, Holy Communion for Christians, the observation of festivals like Holi and Diwali for Hindus, the fasting together in Ramadan for Muslims and the celebration of Eid, the festival of breaking the fast at the end of Ramadan. These collective activities build communities and hold them together. But again, in secular societies, many people no longer take part in these traditional community-building rituals and therefore become unrooted, fragmented, and separated. So I think that rebuilding communities must involve rebuilding them through mutually resonant activities, singing, dancing, chanting, and rituals, which by their very repetitive nature connect people with those who've done them before. And by morphic resonance, connect people not just with others in the present, but with past generations and give a sense of rootedness, connection, and cohesion."

One of the experiences that most HeartMath trainers have who facilitate group work is that they find that when people are doing a technique like a heart lock-in or any of the coherence-building techniques, it's much easier for people to shift into a coherent state and sustain it for longer when they're in a group setting versus on their own. There are so many examples of how this group field environment is created and helps lift others within the group. The foundation of group coherence is individual coherence because the group is really made up of all the individuals. So to the degree that those individuals are coherent, that allows group coherence to emerge. A literal group field is formed among those group members, and information is shared across those fields. And in fact, that's the focus of our current research is social coherence. And we've been developing new programs just for facilitating more coherent relationships within groups and teams. And that could be a couple, or family, or a larger community, state, society, culture.

Dr. Abdullah was elated with his new connection with HeartMath and Dr. McCraty. He was grateful to find researchers with such a strong scientific approach to studying the energetic aspects of the heart. He was so encouraged by what he was finding that he invited Dr. McCraty to speak at the next international conference on advanced cardiac sciences that he was organizing. Dr. Abdullah organized a conference to bring like-minded researchers together and introduce these findings to a larger audience. This was the second international conference and the only one in the world to focus on the energetic aspects of the heart. Dr. Rollin McCraty was a keynote speaker. The conference was a success and received international media coverage, igniting numerous collaborations. And just as important, it was the start of a relationship between two men of science with a strong drive to understand the deepest aspects of the human heart.

The timing of this conference was synchronistic for HeartMath as they had just launched GCI, the Global Coherence Initiative, a project created to research and understand collective human consciousness and our interconnectedness to the planet we live on.

"The Global Coherence Initiative, well, we turned this special project that we started here within the HeartMath Institute around 12 years ago. Well, there's really two halves to GCI. One is science and measuring, really, the ultimately the interconnectivity between humanity as a whole and the Earth itself, the Earth's energetic systems. Then the other half is really the membership and in the Global Coherence, the people who are learning to become coherence builders. Science side. One of the first things we had to do is we're going to measure this, to measure the Earth, what I'll call energetic systems, but more specifically the magnetic field activity of the Earth. We spent several years developing various versions of magnetometers to measure the rhythms and frequencies in the Earth's magnetic fields. So there are many magnetometers around the Earth that are measuring magnetic fields, but most of those are a type of magnetometer that's measuring the strength of the magnetic field. And from engineering terms, it's kind of the ripple on the field, which reflects magnetic field disturbance. And that's important because if you're wanting to save technology, satellites, and things, you need to know when you've got disturbed fields or big solar storm hitting. But they don't measure, at least very well, what's called the time-varying magnetic fields, the moving fields, the oscillating fields. Fields that are moving take a different type of magnetometer. So we had to develop this, what's now called the Global Coherence Monitoring System, which is a global network of magnetometers around the Earth. So these are very specifically designed and ultra-sensitive magnetometers that are designed to measure the moving magnetic fields. Now, this is important in terms of understanding the relationships between the Earth's fields and humanity, people, animals, and other living systems.

The Earth has a what's called the geomagnetic field, right? So that's comes way out in space around the Earth. And this is, of course, the field that our compasses are tuned to, you know, North Pole and South Pole. It's a stationary or static field. So we think, and it is pretty static or stationary in terms of the strength of the field. If we time travel back to when we were in science class and we got to dump iron filings on a glass plate and then you put a magnet under the glass plate and kind of wiggle and tap it a little bit, those iron filings all line up in a way that show you the pattern of the shape of the magnetic field, they line up in lines, right? And those are called magnetic field lines or flux lines. And the Earth's magnetic field is the same way. Of course, it's like a big donut around the Earth, North Pole and the South Pole. Well, these field lines are very long, and they literally act just like a string on a guitar or any stringed instrument that when you pluck the strings, they vibrate. So, the strings of Earth, the magnetic field lines, get plucked by the solar wind, which is rushing by on a quiet day about a million miles per hour. And then meanwhile, Earth is turning, and of course, so is the sun, which creates the solar wind. So the field lines are always being plucked and vibrating. So the strings of Earth, the magnetic field lines, get plucked by the solar wind, and beams are so long, they have a very low frequency or what we call ultra-low frequency in magnetic field terminology. And what's fascinating is that the resonant frequencies that they tend to vibrate at, you know, on a normal kind of day, is in the same range as our heart rhythms and autonomic nervous system. In fact, one of the primary resonant frequencies is a frequency of 0.1 Hertz. And that equates to a 10-second rhythm in time, one cycle every 10 seconds. That is exactly the same frequency as the human heart rhythm is when we're in a coherent state. This is kind of amazing that the Earth's primary resonant frequency is the same as our heart rhythms when we're coherent.

Another set of magnetic waves and frequencies that's important, but a completely different mechanism, are called Schumann resonances. So around the Earth, you could think of it as a big soap bubble around the Earth, is a thing called the ionosphere. The ionosphere starts about 50 miles up or so from the bottom of the Earth and goes out to about 100 to 150 miles. So you can think of this protective shield. Now, one of the qualities of the ionosphere, which is a plasma, it's considered the fourth state of matter in physics, and plasmas have very special properties that they do. The bottom of the ionosphere acts like a mirror to magnetic waves, to low-frequency magnetic waves. So any large magnetic waves that get created in this cavity between the surface of the Earth and the bottom of the ionosphere, they bounce off of it, and they're all around the planet if they're the right frequency that fits the geometry of going around the Earth in a way where they support each other. The analogy most people have heard when you drop pebbles in a pond or in a body of water, you see the waves go out, and if you drop them in at the right rhythm, the waves support and build on each other, right? And if you drop them in kind of incoherently and at random intervals, the waves interfere and dissipate. It's exactly the same way with the human resonances. So the ones that fit the geometry, right, become what are called globally propagating standing waves. So translate that into people language, it just means they're everywhere all the time. There's eight of these, and the frequency of the first is 7.83 Hertz, and then the second one is 14, and they go on up to about 59 Hertz. All of them overlap the same rhythms and frequencies as the human brain. And experiments have been done now that show that our brains do synchronize to the human resonances.

Now, the reason that this is kind of important is we also know from basic physics, and again, we can time travel back to science class to demonstrate the principle of what's called resonance or resonant coupling, more specifically. If you have your two tuning forks and you tap on one and it starts to vibrate the other tuning fork, if it's the same frequency, will start to vibrate even though you didn't physically touch it. Now, in that case, we're vibrating the air molecules back and forth, and they go through the air and start moving the other one and start to vibrate in resonance. The same principle occurs with magnetic waves, only you don't need the air molecules. In fact, in this room right now, around us here, or wherever you are now, there's probably hundreds, if not thousands, of cell phone calls going on and TV stations and radio stations. All those magnetic waves and visible waves are right there around you in the room now. So, you get out your cell phone and you want to make a call, or you turn on your radio, or whatever. Quite literally, the way that works is you tune the receiver of your device. You're changing the resonant frequency of the receiver. And as soon as it tunes to the frequency of interest, boom, you transfer the energy information from these invisible waves. You go in and amplify them, and you're having your call or listening to the radio station or whatever. So resonance basically means we can transfer energy and information between things that vibrate at the same frequency.

Now, with our tuning fork example, another important point is that those are highly coherent systems. Without coherence, you can't have resonance. And that's why us, when we're in a coherent state, is so important because it creates a stable system that can resonate. But when we have resonance, we can transfer energy and information between two systems that operate at the same frequency. So basically, what we're seeing from our global network of magnetometers and so much work in measuring human rhythms is that our hearts and brains operate at the same frequency as the Earth. So we have, certainly, the physics understanding of how energy and information can be transferred between humans and the Earth."

What Dr. McCraty is saying is profound. It invites us to really take this in. We can actually hear and feel what the Earth is saying. We can communicate with her, and she speaks to us through our heart. Perhaps today's scientists are only now able to validate what the ancient mystics and living indigenous traditions have always known to be true. These traditions see Earth as a sacred living entity. The water, rocks, rivers, and plants are alive and conscious, all part of an intelligent system. Humans are not separate but one strand in the larger web of life. Perhaps we are connected to the Earth in ways we are only beginning to understand.

In 1998, a researcher from Princeton University set out to test this idea scientifically. Dr. Roger Nelson launched a unique experiment to measure what he called a shared mental field, global consciousness, and explore whether moments of collective human attention might influence physical systems. The Global Consciousness Project, as it became known, uses a worldwide network of random number generators to investigate whether major global events, moments that move humanity together, leave measurable signatures in the physical world.

"The Global Consciousness Project has a network of random number generators spread all around the world. What we're about is constructing, acquiring, registering a long-term data matrix of scientifically sound random numbers and a data set that we expect might possibly change under certain circumstances. And the circumstances that seem to matter are when human beings come together, especially emotionally driven by maybe a big event in the world, a tragedy, or maybe by an intention to get together, like world-scale meditations or religious pilgrimages. All those kinds of things bring people into a kind of synchronous state emotionally, intellectually to some degree. But we think what counts is the heart and the connection that people have with each other. I think it's probable that the changes that we see in the data are driven by something like a global consciousness that develops when people become synchronized."

There is a phenomenon described by astronauts that occurs when they leave the Earth and view the planet from space. There is a profound shift in perception. They see no borders, no divisions, only a single living planet protected by a thin blue atmosphere, vast and fragile at the same time. Many describe an overwhelming sense of connection to the Earth and to all of humanity. This experience has come to be known as the overview effect.

As part of the Apollo 14 mission, astronaut Edgar Mitchell became the sixth man to walk on the moon. He became one of just 24 human beings to see the whole Earth from deep space. On the return journey, he had a rare opportunity to simply look and take in the Earth from space. What he experienced would change his life forever. Helen Wapp explains, "Returning home, he had this incredible transcendent experience, what some people call samadhi, where he felt that in his body, he had a deep knowing that he was connected to everything, that everything was all one. And this was so profound that when he returned home, he committed his life to study that, to evaluate that, to see what does that mean? How..."

Does it work? How does it support us to live more fully and compassionately and loving ways on our planet? So he founded the Institute of Noetic Sciences in 1973. And since then, IONS has been looking at this interconnectedness in a variety of different ways.

Most recently, we have focused on this guiding premise that we are all interconnected. And when we acknowledge that, we can access information and energy from beyond time and space. This idea of connection beyond time and space, of oneness, can sound beautiful, almost poetic. But for some, it may also raise questions. What does this really mean? Is this just a metaphor or something more?

In a groundbreaking study conducted by HeartMath, researchers explored the connection between the heart, brain, and body by documenting test subjects' physiological response to random imagery. The images were selected to evoke a response either nice, cheerful, and pleasant, or negative, violent, and distressing, or completely neutral with no charge at all. The selection of images was completely random. Even the technician conducting the exercise did not know what type of image would appear. The results were astounding. Researchers found that the heart's electrical activity reacted to the emotional content of the images. Not only before the brain responded, but before the image was even displayed. The heart knew that the image would be positive, negative, or neutral before the image was even on the screen. How is this possible? This study has been peer-reviewed and repeated with similar results by many other institutions.

The way I got those initial studies published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal was then kind of pretty close to the exact language I used was: "It appears that the heart and and brain have access to a field of information outside the boundaries of time and space." At that time, that was perfectly acceptable language for scientific journals because, uh, things like non-locality and entanglement and in the quantum physics world had been experimentally proven beyond a shadow of a doubt. So that these kind of where concepts were not, you know, too strange. But at that time, this was only supposed to happen at subatomic scales, certainly not in hot, wet, messy systems like hearts and brains. And then since that time, in the quantum physics community, that's, uh, they kind of blown way past that now to to demonstrate that these non-local connections and entanglement occur at macroscopic scales and many groups of atoms together and and that you can create entanglement through different ways than was known at that time.

But when you think about, well, what is a field of information outside the boundaries of time and space? Well, what might that be? And and that's a question I often ask audiences and I'm presenting to. But basically, it's what most cultures already have terms for and already words for. Quantum physicist David Bohm, famous quantum physicist, called it the implicit order, the deeper part, the energetic part of us within. Here at HeartMath, we call it our larger self. So these are things that you can't put under a microscope. We can't put a thought or an emotion or an intuition under a microscope. In other cultures, it might be called your higher self or your soul or your spirit, right? Or the voice of God in in in some cultures, but it's really that inner voice. So to me, the real intuition that we're talking about here and what we mean actually by heart intelligence is that flow of information from that higher part, that higher aspect of our self, our larger self down through the energetic heart and into the physical heart into the mind-brain system. And as we get more coherent, we become more aligned. The heart and brain become more aligned. But more importantly, we're also opening that channel and aligning more with that higher aspect of who we really are.

If this sense of unity is real, if we are truly connected, then it must hold. Not just in theory, but in the real world. Because here on Earth, humanity is anything but unified. Divisions of culture, religion, politics, history still shape how we see one another. And few places carry more of that weight than the Middle East. So when an international conference on the heart was announced in Saudi Arabia, for many Western participants, the location came as a surprise, even hesitation.

I'm Jack Dinsburg. I'm a licensed clinical psychologist and neuropsychologist and I work for the VA. I'm in Saudi Arabia right now. If you had said to me two months ago that I would be in Saudi Arabia at this time, I I would have said, "Just what are you talking about?"

I am Dr. Abdul Kahar Sari. I am from Afghanistan. I've done some, uh, studies. I have published some papers on human communication variability in heart coherence.

My name is, uh, Patrick Selka, and my background is mathematical physics, and the goal of the company that I'm driving now is really to provide a system that actually mixes pulse wave analysis with ancient knowledge.

My name is Peter Granger, and I'm from England, and I'm an independent researcher. I've been studying how two people's hearts who are in a relationship synchronize, both close to and at a distance.

I am Alonas Ruseckas from Lithuania. My main topic of work and there is cardiology and diagnostic systems in cardiology and the investigation of magnetic field interaction with human physiology.

I'm Paul Rosch. I'm clinical professor of medicine, psychiatry at New York Medical College and chairman of the board of the American Institute of Stress, and I've been involved in stress research for almost 70 years.

First time I got on...

Dr. McCrae and Dr. Abdullah have assembled speakers from around the globe. One part of the conference examines the latest research on traditional cardiology, genetics, surgery, and the cholesterol debate. The other part explores new and emerging branches of study: heart rate variability, pulse wave analysis, geomagnetics, and heart-brain communications. Hosted by Dr. Abdullah, this remains the only international gathering with a large focus on the energetic aspects of the heart. With over 30 presenters and thousands in attendance, this would become the largest conference to date.

On opening day, the conference received the blessing of the Saudi royal family. Leaders, scientists, physicians from representatives from all around the world gathered together, united by a single focus. IONS' guiding premise is that everything is interconnected. We can look to quantum physics to help us attempt to understand this.

This pretty profound data I'm about to show you. This is a Russian astrophysicist. He created what he called the index of mass human excitability.

And I think this is one of the small number of studies which will show the, uh, uh, relation between heart rate variability and cosmic rays. We can literally measure one person's brain waves synchronized into another person's heart, you know, 5, 6 feet away from each other. We've actually been able to prove that the magnetic field is carrying information relative to our emotional state. So you'll see that the score as is people are feeling love for each other. This is an actual experiment. The meetings that I've been at, the meetings where I've given talks in the past several years have all related to the research I'm doing collecting outcomes data using this biofeedback intervention and looking, uh, at the same time at changes in heart rate variability and its effect on the autonomic system. So it's very straightforward. It's very quantitative. It's very scientific in the sense that you can take a a simple design and show effects.

The red triangle demonstrates the atrisisk population. So...

The conference here has a whole different additional overlay to it because it's in Saudi Arabia. It also has now expanded to include, uh, the cultural perspectives of of Allah, of the Quran and wisdom, knowledge, how we know about the world, how we know about the universe, how we know about people, and all of that is being woven into or integrated to one degree or another with this straightforward idea about physiology and heart rate variability.

You have an emerging wave coming out of the heart and actually going through the brain.

And so there's this difference in worldviews that's coming together here. Some of the speakers are taking the point of view that all of our wisdom and knowledge is pre-existing in the Quran, while other speakers take the point of view that we are creating a new scientific field or new discovery. Comparing the fluctuation of the first line, second line, and third line, you can see when the cosmic ray is countless is compatible with higher solar activity. The idea is to try to put these together to find some common ground, which I think there is. Discovery and scientific understanding is creating another language or a translation of what is ancient wisdom and knowledge and giving us a new, uh, framework to talk about things that have been already known. At the same time, opening questions that to a Western way of thinking seem almost preposterous or unbelievable. Questions about consciousness and questions about the universe, questions about the relationship between the physical world and the internal environment or human behavior and what we think and feel. I'm getting kind of excited about trying to answer, at least in a small way, some of these new questions that I haven't thought about before. And that's what this conference is doing. It's it's motivating people to continue looking at questions using data that before this time, people have been afraid, I think, to approach.

We have major global field changes. So this major change is not speculation. It is, uh, measurement. Sometimes, let me say it, Roland. Sorry for that. Sometimes we are a little bit, uh, hesitant to mention something because of the reaction expected, but I can see it in a very clear language. We have strong signal indications of the global field change during the major events, and this is very clear that our emotions and our hearts and our fields are affecting the outside fields. This is a fact. Now.

There is a larger framework for this, and it is Dr. Abdul Ghaffar, who's the moving force on this. His his level of energy and his his compassion and his vision, and he has yet to run out of new tricks, so to speak, that are just so terrific. I mean, it's made the whole trip on a personal level, an enjoyment level, as well as scientifically validating.

He's an amazing person. First of all, I think he's very courageous because to go into the line of where he wants to go now, challenging the planet with whatever ideas it can be coherence, global consciousness, he will have a hard time. So I think it's, uh, it's very courageous for him to go there. They are the best in the whole world.

On the same line.

I mean, he's not judging people by the color, by the dress, by whatever. It's just, "Okay, let's talk. What do you have to say?" If it makes sense. Yeah. I mean, it's it's really nice. The thing that really impresses me about Dr. Abdullah is that he has time for everybody. I've watched him this week, and he's just gone around the room, and he's been responsive to everybody. He knows everybody's names. He knows what they're working on. But more than that, he's got he's got this vision for the heart and a true understanding of of the importance of the heart in in the human condition. He is a very heartful person. I mean, this is no doubt he's very generous, and, uh, he wants to do the best he can for his community here, for his, uh, country, and for the planet.

So let's go to food. Thank you very much. Heat. Heat.

Beyond the academic and scientific exchange, these international conferences also create an opportunity for another kind of connection: cultural and human. Dr. Abdullah has invited speakers and their families on a tour of Al-Ahsa. Well, because, you know, this oasis, this is very important to history. When you speak about Al-Ahsa, you are speaking about the eastern Arabian Peninsula.

The first stop is Qasr Ibrahim, an ancient fortress built in 1556. Its architecture blends Islamic grace with military strength: domes, arches, and stout defensive towers. Recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage site, it is celebrated for both its historical significance and architectural integrity. Artifacts and museum placards offer fragments of the past, but it's in the explanations of the young guides and the reverence of the space that breathe the stories to life. For many of the visitors, this is their first encounter with the architecture of the ancient Islamic world. A geometry of spirit carved into stone. It's easy to forget, or perhaps too easy not to know, that long before the Enlightenment stirred Europe, the Arabic world was already a light. In cities throughout the Middle East, art, architecture, and philosophy flourished. Huge advances were made in science, medicine, and mathematics. Algebra was born here. The algorithm was named here. Hospitals were invented here. Physicians developed medical texts that would guide Europe for centuries. Philosophers and scholars preserved ancient libraries and forged new paths forward. Astronomers charted the stars, and architects raised domes that still inspire all today. In the West, science was born under extreme pressure from the church. Forced to separate itself from spirit to survive, the mind was given dominion over matter. But the soul became off-limits. Over time, this uneasy truth became a cultural divide. A world where the heart was poetic but never empirical, a metaphor but not a method. But here in the Middle East, that fracture never fully took hold. For centuries, reason and reverence have coexisted. It's no coincidence that this conversation, this inquiry into the intelligence of the heart is happening here in the very region where science and spirit first walked hand in hand, where the mind did not silence the soul, but sought to understand it.

The bond between Dr. Abdullah and Dr. McCrae, rooted in mutual respect and a shared vision, became the seed for much of what we see unfolding now. This film, this conference, this moment, this gathering of researchers and physicians is not just a modern event. It's a return, a rekindling. Beneath the vaulted arches of Qasr Ibrahim, heart meets history. And the next chapter begins.

The second stop on the tour is Souk Al-Qaisariya, one of the oldest traditional markets in Saudi Arabia. First established in 1822, it still pulses with the color, textures, and sounds of the region. Here, history isn't preserved. It's alive and bustling.

One of the speakers looks for a bracelet for his wife. Dr. McCrae is interested in some sandals, but it appears that Dr. Abdullah has something else brewing. Oh.

Huh.

Roland. Yes. Come here.

Why am I coming here?

Yeah. Go there.

Oh, this is not bad.

This is not bad.

We need to give you something like this. Come.

Ah. Yes. Congratulations for being Saudi.

Saudi traditional clothing holds significant cultural and religious meaning. The designs are also efficient for the desert. This long robe called a thobe, and the gutra, the head covering, have been around for centuries and can be traced back to ancient Arabia. You're great. Don't be dust any. In Saudi culture, to be offered tribal clothing is a symbol of trust, a cultural embrace. The thobe is not a costume. It's an invitation to belong, to be seen not as a visitor, but as kin. What began as a collection of individuals earlier this evening has quietly transformed as we return to the hotel. No one walks alone. Robes sway in step, and the line between guest and host has blurred.

Excellent. It's happy to have you here in.

This is social coherence, not in theory, but in practice, not data, but the living resonance of unity.

Well, the Heart as the King of Organs conference 2019, 19, is now officially over. It was a great conference. We had speakers from all over the world covering a wide range of topics, uh, from how the heart and brain communicate, and also how the the energetic aspects of the heart, the magnetic, uh, radiate out and affect others in the social, uh, environment. There was a whole segment just on social interactions and the heart, in fact, and then we expanded that into the global aspects. So in in this one conference, we really covered how the heart's a central, uh, conductor of our internal body processes is also involved in the social world and also globally. In fact, we even had a a presentation from research being done showing how the heart connections between others can happen in a measurable way, even non-locally, with many thousands of kilometers between people with people who have a loving relationship and are intentionally connecting with each other. Their heart rhythms will actually synchronize at these great distances. So, it was a very successful, uh, time and a lot of new cutting-edge research presented here at the the conference. So now it's time to shift gears, and we're going to visit Dr. Abdullah in his hospital, watch some of the the most advanced surgeries in the world taking place there in his hospital, and we'll probably even take a trip to the desert to see the Global Coherence Monitoring System, the second site we installed out in the middle of the desert. Um, so it should be a fun ride.

That was a trip.

Dr. Abdullah has been called to the hospital. Dr. McCrae and two other conference presenters, researchers Patrick Selga and Peter Granger, are headed there to observe him at work.

We got the call to come to, uh, the hospital 'cause he has several surgeries that he's getting ready to do. And and here it is. In the heart of Saudi Arabia's Al-Ahsa region stands the Prince Sultan Cardiac Center, the Middle East's first dedicated hub for advanced cardiac care.

Yes. So, thank you very much for coming. Of course.

Yes.

With the support of the late Royal Highness Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz, Dr. Abdullah helped found this landmark institution and make it a regional leader in cardiac science and innovation.

The center has a remarkable 100% success rate in heart transplants and the Global Healthcare Accreditation Certification of Excellence, along with many other awards. Dr. Abdullah is proud to show these achievements to his colleagues.

Yeah, of course.

One of Dr. Abdullah's lasting contributions to cardiac sciences was creating the first congenital heart disease registry in the Middle East. By gathering critical data across the region, he laid the foundation for a deeper understanding of the root causes of heart defects. We have one of the largest banks of data related to congenital heart disease risk factors, genetic and environmental, because if you go to the major textbooks of congenital heart disease, you will see most of the time causes are unknown. So we are trying to create or open doors for the international community to discover the causes of congenital heart disease, and the aim of of our project at the end of the day is the prevention of congenital heart disease. For Dr. Abdullah, medicine is not an abstract science. Every day, cherished hearts are placed in his hands. He's truly on the front lines when it comes to understanding the many layers of the human heart.

Can we have just a minute? Five-lane testing. Go.

Go, go, go. Feed me. Show me down. Show me down. Okay. Go. Make sure that you're down.

Today, Dr. Abdullah and his team are putting a small stent in the heart of a young boy. This small wire tube, when positioned correctly, will allow the blood to flow fully from his heart. He'll be able to breathe better, not tire as easily, and even participate in sports again. In short, he'll have a new lease on life.

Why do you call Roland your heart brother? Well, in 2008, we met, uh, in a conference, and there was a sort of very strong affinity between me and him, and within a few days, uh, we visited the desert with Prince Adlazi. Remember?

Never forget. At that time, somebody was videoing, and Roland said, "Uh, this is my, uh, desert brother." Then, in a very short time, when we divide the desert brother to heart brother. You know, Bedouins, they can trace this and know the direction of the wind, and they can trace the steps and know who this is. Is he local or foreigner? Male or female? A female pregnant or not pregnant? Girl or married? They can deduce it from, really, from distance.

Dr. Abdullah and Dr. McCrae are on their way to the Saudi sensor site built in 2010. This was the second monitoring station established for the Global Coherence Initiative, a research effort that measures the subtle resonances of Earth's magnetic field. Today, there are 12 monitoring locations around the globe. Dr. Abdullah was the first to sponsor a GCI monitoring site. Each site must be carefully maintained and monitored.

Later. No, no, no. We did the drilling with you.

Yeah. No, I remember the drilling. Sand.

Too much sand.

Too much sand. Buried deep in the earth, these sensors are part of a network of ultra-sensitive magnetic field detectors. The magnetometers measure fluctuations in Earth's magnetic fields, including Schumann resonances, Alvin waves, and other field line resonances. Data from here is transmitted to a global server and analyzed in real time, offering insights into how collective human coherence or dissonance may interact with Earth's rhythms.

So speaking about, uh, GCI2 here in the middle of the desert of Saudi Arabia, as we are doing and measuring the, uh, Schumann resonances and the ultra-low frequencies, and in the same time, we are measuring also our feelings to each other. We feel very comfortable here. We feel we are much more connected to the higher powers when we are here. It's something that we cannot, uh, ignore.

Feels so good to be back to to a site here, and it's just something about it's such an appropriate place for a site to be measuring the earth. That something about the desert.

Yeah.

And, uh, in fact, we are starting to see from the analysis of the different sites that there is something unique here in Saudi Arabia. There's something different about the magnetic field here. It is. It is. It is. I think, you know, there are secrets that we don't know, but the position of the Arabian Peninsula between all the world's continents. I think it's a very strategic location. Secrets behind that may be discovered in the in the future.

Beautiful.

Yeah. Yeah. You will have the most beautiful time of the day. Okay.

Yes.

It's actually kind of nice having this drift here. We can walk up and sit on the top of the wall like this, you know.

Oh, this is the.

The drone.

Oh, excellent. And they're being filmed here.

Ah, we are being filmed. Huh? Ah, this is great. Oh, this is great.

Today, the Arabian Peninsula is a vast desert, but beneath the sands lies an ancient history. Long called the cradle of civilization, fossilized remains reveal a land once rich with rivers, lakes, and lush vegetation. Archaeologists continue to unearth ancient sites that challenge our timelines and expand our understanding of the past. Even the Earth's magnetic field carries echoes of this history. This region exhibits subtle anomalies shaped by a geological story that stretches back into the ancient past.

As the sun falls and stars appear, two men, drawn together by science and spirit, share a simple moment. Camel's milk under a rising sky, as travelers have for thousands of years. God. Here where Earth and cosmos meet, the past speaks quietly to the present, and the heartbeat of the planet can be felt by those who listen. In the stillness beneath the stars, this journey becomes personal. We all share the same rhythm, a heartbeat, not just within ourselves, but between us, among us, with the earth. When the heart enters coherence, when we quiet the mind and center in the heart, an invisible web comes alive. We begin to resonate with those around us. And more than that, we begin to sense the living field of the earth itself. This is where the journey turns inward. A threshold is revealed. The heart is not just a pulse. It is an access point, a portal.

Dr. Abdullah has found his bridge between the measurable and the mystical, between rigorous science and the sacred space of the heart. Backed by HeartMath research, he has ventured into uncharted realms. Shortly after the last conference, he published "Quantum Consciousness and the Heart-Based Resonant Frequencies Theory." More than academic, it's a radical invitation to rethink the nature of consciousness. The heart, he shows, is not a secondary player to the brain. It's the conductor. Your heartbeat is more than a mechanical rhythm. It's an electromagnetic signal, measurable in space, encoded with information influencing not just your brain but your entire system. Research shows that when your heart enters coherence, a state of rhythmic harmony, it can synchronize with the magnetic fields of the earth itself. These fields, once thought to be passive, now appear to carry subtle imprints of collective emotion, intention, and awareness. The heart is a sensory organ, a communication hub, a resonant gateway. And as coherence builds, the boundary between self and world begins to blur. We are only beginning to comprehend this, to find the language for what it means. But what is becoming clear is that the heart allows us to participate in something larger. You are not separate. You are part of a living field, connected, responsive, intelligent. This is not poetry. This is physics. And yet, beneath the data, beneath all we can measure, something persists: subtle, alive, and undeniable. The findings themselves are asking us to expand our language, to evolve our concepts, to contain a reality greater than we could have imagined under the old set of rules. The heart, grounded in science, is a threshold. Not metaphor, but mechanism. Not escape, but return.