• 1Etymology
• 2Definition
• 3Development of the meaning of spirituality
  • 3.1Classical, medieval and early modern periods
  • 3.2Modern spirituality
    • 3.2.1Transcendentalism and Unitarian Universalism
    • 3.2.2Theosophy, anthroposophy, and the perennial philosophy
    • 3.2.3Neo-Vedanta
    • 3.2.4“Spiritual but not religious”
• 4Traditional spirituality
  • 4.1Abrahamic faiths
    • 4.1.1Judaism
    • 4.1.2Christianity
    • 4.1.3Islam
      • 4.1.3.1Sufism
  • 4.2Indian religions
    • 4.2.1Jainism
    • 4.2.2Buddhism
    • 4.2.3Hinduism
      • 4.2.3.1Four paths
      • 4.2.3.2Schools and spirituality
    • 4.2.4Sikhism
  • 4.3African spirituality
• 5Contemporary spirituality
  • 5.1Characteristics
  • 5.2Spiritual experience
  • 5.3Spiritual practices
• 6Science
  • 6.1Relation to science
  • 6.2Quantum mysticism
  • 6.3Scientific research
    • 6.3.1Health and well-being
    • 6.3.2Intercessionary prayer
    • 6.3.3Spiritual care in health care professions
    • 6.3.4Spiritual experiences
    • 6.3.5Measurement
• 7See also
• 8Notes
• 9References
• 10Sources
  • 10.1Published sources
  • 10.2Web-sources
• 11Further reading

Meditation

Transport System – Delivery

• The organization of the many of the structures in the body in the form of a tree like branching system with  tubular components, is a recurring and highly successful system of organization that  ensures delivery to and removal from many structures.
• As the body grows, its volume increases more than its surface area and the branching system accommodates this discrepancy so that all cells are ensured an adequate delivery of nutrients.  The liver for example has about 7 billion cells – as many people as there are people in the world.  Each of these cells is kept healthy, supplied with what they need to allow them to function and sufficient circulation.   Branching systems can maximize the surface area covered overcome space constraints posed by organ
•   By tree like organization of many structures is a recurring branching out and forming cellular or tissue extensions,
  • branching systems can maximize the surface area covered
  • overcome space constraints posed by organ
  • size.remodeling of epithelial or endothelial sheaths into multicellular tubular networks. In recent years, the combination of m
• Xylem cells transport the water
• Flow in tubes
  • Architecture Design principles
    • Vascular System
      • Ramifying network leading to a
      • reticulated network
  • Functional Considerations
    • Distribution to organs
    • Distribution to the Cells
  • Flow w = momentum
  • mass in fluids represented as density (p) (rho? ) measured in  kg per metre cubed
  • velocity = u
  • W= p X  Velocity
  • V = volume
  • How to calculate flow rate? Flow rate formulas
    1. Volumetric flow rate formula: Volumetric flow rate = A × v. where A – cross-sectional area, v – flow velocity.
    2. Mass flow rate formula: Mass flow rate = ρ × Volumetric flow rate = ρ × A × v.    where ρ – Fluid density.
•  Examples
  • Vascular system
  • Nervous system
    • Nerves
    • Brain Cells
  • Respiratory system
  • GI
    • Liver
      • Biliary
    • Pancreas
    • Glands
  • GU
    • Kidney
      • Parenchyma
      • Collecting System
    • Prostate
  • Breast

• Efficiency of Delivery
  • Flow Pressure Gradients
    • Pump
    • Hydrostatic Pressure
  • Tubes
  • Embryogenesis
    • Branching morphogenesis is critical to the development of organs such as kidney, lung, mammary gland, prostate, pancreas, and salivary gland.
      • an epithelial bud becomes an
      • iterative tip-stalk generator (ITSG)
      • able to form a tree of branching ducts and/or tubules.

• Links and References

• Flow in Tubes Physics You Tube

  Ochoa-Espinosa A  and Affolter  M Branching Morphogenesis: From Cells to Organs and Back Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol. 2012 Oct; 4(10)
• Lu P, Werb Z 2008. Patterning mechanisms of branched organs. Science 322: 1506–1509 [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
•  morphogenesis of the vascular system. Nature 432: 179–186 [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
• Gibson and Ma 2011

Whole Being Bigger than the Parts

Parts and Bonds

Consistent From the Atom to The Universe

Molecules

Macromolecules and Organelles

Organelles and The Cell

Cells and The Tissue

Tissues and The Organ

Organs and the Body

Atoms, Macromolecules, Organelles, Cells, Organs Systems  The Body and the Mind make the Person

People Apply the Same Principles to their Athletic. Creative and Cultural and Biological Endeavours – Consciously and Unconsciously

Notes Bars and Music

Letters Poetry and Literature

Paintbrush Strokes and The Painting

Man Woman, Sperm and Egg and The Baby

.. and  then it continues as  natural human endeavours

People and The Family

People and The Community

Families and The Community

Suburbs Towns The City

Towns Cities States and The Country

Water Molecules, Droplets, Rain, Rivers, The Ocean

And in our environment

Cells,  Leaves, Flowers,Trees and The Forest

The Birds Bees and the Animal Kingdom does it

Continents The Earth

Planets and The Solar System

Physical Principles

Helen Keller Speaks Out

Mandy Harvey Deaf Singer

https://youtu.be/GydJy2Psoj4

Emma Fae Rudkin – Deaf Texas Singer

https://youtu.be/WpJElTrpEIk

Andy Dexterity Singing Imagine in Sign Language

What is The Common Vein?

The Common Vein is a web based educational project that explores complex issues by identifying the underlying principles and recurring patterns of the world around and in us.  The observation that the whole is bigger than the parts is seminal, and is a recurring pattern  from the atom to the universe.  Similarly universal is the conscious and unconscious need to pursue whokleness or oneness.  In human biology the  most miraculous example of this, which is within the grasp of all human experience, is conception. Two cells meet and bond at the right place at the right time and a new life is created.

For Whom?

TCV makes the principles of life and biology accessible to anybody. It is designed with the belief that the complexities of life and biology in order (health ) and disorder (disease), have roots in simple principles. TCV lays down these foundation tenets in the opening pages, and then advances in step-wise fashion to complexity.

Why?

To promote not only learning, but also understanding and appreciation of nature, biology, medicine, art and culture within the context of basic pursuits of  wholesomeness .

How?

Fewer words more images.

Why Common and Why Vein?

Common Principles