I'm not sure what happened but I left this comment 4 hours ago, and went back and it had disappeared so here it is again.
Thank you for reviving and sharing this much-needed knowledge at a crucial time, when man needs to reconnect with nature and understand that everything carries spirit, that we are all connected and part of one consciousness, the noosphere. In the West, they may call it Hylozoism; in Peru and Ecuador, it's the foundation of spiritual life, from the Andes to the rainforest, and part of the Mayan and Andean Shamanism belief system, which, according to my shaman teacher, was handed down from the Pleiades and Atlantis.
Its fascinating to learn that Morley Martin wasn’t alone in his experiments and observations which he shared when he published his small brochure in 1934 called 'The reincarnation of animal and plant life from protoplasm isolated from the mineral kingdom'. Trevor discussed the Morely Martin experiments, where he observed life crawling out of Precambrian Azoic Rocks, and was correct when he said we need to rewrite all the biology books: these creatures predate life on Earth. Other scientists criticized his findings, saying he didn't use a properly sterile environment. He did everything to sterilize, and still these things appeared. 115 C: In Trevor James Constable’s words: “It is not where there is life, it is where there is not life”.
And in biology, we still find species that challenge conventional ideas of where life springs from or might be found. This reminds me of the recently discovered Vent Shrimp (Rimicaris-related, discovered and described in 2025
A mind-boggling species that challenges all scientific ideas of where life is expected, and not expected, to dwell. The Vent Shrimp--Found at a depth of ~4,000 meters, they thrive amid the extreme conditions of hydrothermal vents. These “blind” shrimp effectively replace their traditional digestive system with a thriving community of symbiotic bacteria, farming their own food in near-boiling, metal-rich waters.
The Iron Vein Dweller, Rimicaris exoculata. This remarkable shrimp hosts a thriving community of symbiotic bacteria inside its body. These include iron-oxidizing Zetaproteobacteria (such as Candidatus Ghiorsea rimicarensis and relatives of Mariprofundus ferrooxydans), along with sulfur- and methane-oxidizing partners. The bacteria live in dense clusters within an enlarged cavity in the shrimp’s head (the branchial chamber) and on specially enlarged mouthparts.
There, they perform chemosynthesis, oxidizing iron, hydrogen sulfide (H₂S), methane (CH₄), and hydrogen from vent fluids to produce organic matter—essentially turning toxic, inorganic chemicals into food for their host. In return, the shrimp provides the bacteria with protection, oxygen, and a steady supply of the raw compounds they need. As a byproduct, the shrimp deposits iron oxides, giving a red tint.
Marine Biologists recently described this new shrimp species as a living “bacterial farm,” or even a single “holobiont” (a unified host-symbiont superorganism). Recent findings reveal clear niche partitioning among the bacteria, with Zetaproteobacteria leading iron oxidation—a first-of-its-kind symbiotic partnership documented in this group.
• Lives in near-boiling water (vent fluids up to 400°C, with rapid mixing to tolerable gradients).
• Tolerates heavy metal concentrations (including iron, sulfides, and others) lethal to most life, thanks to specialized detoxification via gills, copper-based hemocyanin, and symbiont activity.
• Reduced eyes detect infrared thermal contrasts instead of light, guiding them to active venting zones.
• Hosts a dual digestive and ectosymbiotic system, with contrasting acquisition strategies post-settlement (horizontal from environmental pools for cephalothoracic symbionts; potentially involving release from adults for digestive ones).
These shrimp communities carry reddish-tinted colours (from iron oxides and symbionts) and live clustered on the black smoker chimney heat vents on the sea bed. They evoke a “living carpets” of thousands per square meter in this hostile, chemosynthesis-driven world, now increasingly at risk from emerging industrial pressures to feed the new hunger for AI, for driving deep sea mining which is why such newly discovered species may vanish unseen, marine life scientists also estimate thousands of species that lay undiscovered, possibly more like these examples by mining targets the very vents it depends on—polymetallic sulfides at black smokers are prime resources for deep-sea extraction.
Projects like RimiOmics (led by University of the Azores, studying mining toxicity on R. exoculata) and DEEP-REST (2022–2025 European effort yielding 10 conservation recommendations) raise alarms: sediment plumes, habitat destruction, chemical disruptions, and heavy metal releases could wipe out these fragile, highly localized populations.
Coincides with "Elemental Spirits in Native American Spirituality", Steiner's "Way of Initiation", and Huxleys "Doors of Perception," among many other enlightenments, which extend into Hermeticism, Steiner’s spiritual science, Astrology/Astrophysics, ie: Lily Kolisko, Walter Russell, even scripture metaphor etc.
John 11:11 After he had said this, he went on to tell them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I am going there to wake him up.”
While acknowledging that you’ve clearly opened the alchemical connection here through Jollivet-Castelot and your later discussion of calcination and plant palingenesis, I have been thinking for a while now that so-called “animal alchemy” could add considerable depth to this conversation. There’s a rich historical body of laboratory observation, experimentation and analysis within that tradition that might shed further light on these processes, fill in parts of the picture, and offer a different angle on the more explicitly scientific interpretations you discuss. I’ve been meaning to connect several of these threads, especially Béchamp and Enderlein, with the fascinating accounts in Joseph C. Lisiewski’s Israel Regardie & the Philosopher’s Stone and Frater Albertus’s work.
Lisiewski recounts his work under Frater Albertus’s guidance with the “Water Work” of The Golden Chain of Homer, centered on Gur, or “pre-Adamic earth.” Within that framework, Gur is understood as a primordial generative matrix from which the mineral, vegetable and animal kingdoms can differentiate. Reading your account of Morley Martin’s “primordial protoplasm,” I kept thinking that these two conceptions would be particularly fruitful to examine together.
With Béchamp and Enderlein, I’m particularly interested in comparing their accounts of elementary living units, the forms those units assume, and the changing conditions of the medium with Albertus’s understanding of putrefaction and generation. What does each account understand to persist through the dissolution of an organized body, and how does that persistence relate to the development of subsequent forms?
There are some striking details in Lisiewski’s laboratory accounts. Electrified rainwater occupies a central place in the Water Work, which immediately recalls your connection between Crosse’s experiments and Bastian’s thunderstorm observation. Lisiewski describes the appearance of small, motile, worm-like organisms in the Gur, including an elongated form with four tentacle-like projections, two at each end. One detail that stayed with me was the importance he eventually assigned to a residue he had initially regarded as insignificant. Its inclusion precedes the appearance of the organisms in his account.
The subsequent chapter on the homunculus develops another side of this inquiry. Lisiewski’s journal follows a gray mass gradually acquiring markings he identifies as capillaries, an eye-like structure, a crescent-shaped body, and appendages with finger-like growths. The account eventually ends with the dissolution of those features back into the Gur. Your description of Martin observing anatomical structures taking shape within his preparations brought this passage strongly to mind. The emergence of bodily organization, its dependence on a sustaining matrix, and its eventual dissolution are especially rich points of comparison across these accounts.
Albertus’s The Alchemist’s Handbook supplies a broader framework through his discussion of the respective Mercuries of the three kingdoms, which he describes as originating from the same source and manifesting differently in each realm. His treatment of animal Salt and Essence and the “arcanum of blood” could also be read alongside the blood-centered investigations you discuss. Your section on Bose adds another dimension to that comparison through its attention to continuities of response across animal, plant and metal.
The Béchamp passage on the changing fermentative behavior of an egg has an intriguing counterpart in the material published by Albertus’s circle. Their journals contain observations on eggs, preservation and putrefaction, including Arthur G. Fehres’s account of egg oil appearing through intact shells after prolonged storage. In Essentia, Albertus’s statement that “any fermentation frees spirit” appears in an answer about egg white, alongside his identification of evolution as the encompassing law of laboratory alchemy. I’d be interested in exploring what that language might illuminate about the relationship between decomposition, the release of a substance’s constituents, and their capacity for further organization.
Your formulation that “life is the intensification of what matter already is” seems an especially productive starting point for this comparative work. This piece has renewed my interest in putting these accounts alongside one another and following the connections in greater depth.
A wonderfully instructive comment, Nathan, much appreciated. I'm not familiar with Lisiewski’s writings, and your account of the Water Work, the Gur as a primordial matrix, and the forms that arise in it and dissolve back again opens some rich areas of thought, ones that look to confirm the thesis from the alchemical side. Electrified rainwater beside Crosse’s current and Bastian’s thunderstorm, and Albertus’s “any fermentation frees spirit” beside Béchamp’s egg, are just the kind of convergences worth following. I for one would very much appreciate any article you do along these lines; it would widen the discussion considerably. Thank you for your valued input.
In the Plasma Universe, everything is connected. Matter and energy are not isolated lumps of substance, but expressions of a single, electrically active whole.
There is no assumed ultimate beginning and no predetermined final end — only cycles of transformation. Galaxies give rise to galaxies; stars are born, evolve, and are recycled; currents flow continuously through immense cosmic circuits. The universe, in this view, is not a clockwork mechanism wound up once and left to run down, but a dynamic, self-organising system — breathing, pulsing, and evolving.
I'm not sure what happened but I left this comment 4 hours ago, and went back and it had disappeared so here it is again.
Thank you for reviving and sharing this much-needed knowledge at a crucial time, when man needs to reconnect with nature and understand that everything carries spirit, that we are all connected and part of one consciousness, the noosphere. In the West, they may call it Hylozoism; in Peru and Ecuador, it's the foundation of spiritual life, from the Andes to the rainforest, and part of the Mayan and Andean Shamanism belief system, which, according to my shaman teacher, was handed down from the Pleiades and Atlantis.
Its fascinating to learn that Morley Martin wasn’t alone in his experiments and observations which he shared when he published his small brochure in 1934 called 'The reincarnation of animal and plant life from protoplasm isolated from the mineral kingdom'. Trevor discussed the Morely Martin experiments, where he observed life crawling out of Precambrian Azoic Rocks, and was correct when he said we need to rewrite all the biology books: these creatures predate life on Earth. Other scientists criticized his findings, saying he didn't use a properly sterile environment. He did everything to sterilize, and still these things appeared. 115 C: In Trevor James Constable’s words: “It is not where there is life, it is where there is not life”.
And in biology, we still find species that challenge conventional ideas of where life springs from or might be found. This reminds me of the recently discovered Vent Shrimp (Rimicaris-related, discovered and described in 2025
A mind-boggling species that challenges all scientific ideas of where life is expected, and not expected, to dwell. The Vent Shrimp--Found at a depth of ~4,000 meters, they thrive amid the extreme conditions of hydrothermal vents. These “blind” shrimp effectively replace their traditional digestive system with a thriving community of symbiotic bacteria, farming their own food in near-boiling, metal-rich waters.
The Iron Vein Dweller, Rimicaris exoculata. This remarkable shrimp hosts a thriving community of symbiotic bacteria inside its body. These include iron-oxidizing Zetaproteobacteria (such as Candidatus Ghiorsea rimicarensis and relatives of Mariprofundus ferrooxydans), along with sulfur- and methane-oxidizing partners. The bacteria live in dense clusters within an enlarged cavity in the shrimp’s head (the branchial chamber) and on specially enlarged mouthparts.
There, they perform chemosynthesis, oxidizing iron, hydrogen sulfide (H₂S), methane (CH₄), and hydrogen from vent fluids to produce organic matter—essentially turning toxic, inorganic chemicals into food for their host. In return, the shrimp provides the bacteria with protection, oxygen, and a steady supply of the raw compounds they need. As a byproduct, the shrimp deposits iron oxides, giving a red tint.
Marine Biologists recently described this new shrimp species as a living “bacterial farm,” or even a single “holobiont” (a unified host-symbiont superorganism). Recent findings reveal clear niche partitioning among the bacteria, with Zetaproteobacteria leading iron oxidation—a first-of-its-kind symbiotic partnership documented in this group.
• Lives in near-boiling water (vent fluids up to 400°C, with rapid mixing to tolerable gradients).
• Tolerates heavy metal concentrations (including iron, sulfides, and others) lethal to most life, thanks to specialized detoxification via gills, copper-based hemocyanin, and symbiont activity.
• Reduced eyes detect infrared thermal contrasts instead of light, guiding them to active venting zones.
• Hosts a dual digestive and ectosymbiotic system, with contrasting acquisition strategies post-settlement (horizontal from environmental pools for cephalothoracic symbionts; potentially involving release from adults for digestive ones).
These shrimp communities carry reddish-tinted colours (from iron oxides and symbionts) and live clustered on the black smoker chimney heat vents on the sea bed. They evoke a “living carpets” of thousands per square meter in this hostile, chemosynthesis-driven world, now increasingly at risk from emerging industrial pressures to feed the new hunger for AI, for driving deep sea mining which is why such newly discovered species may vanish unseen, marine life scientists also estimate thousands of species that lay undiscovered, possibly more like these examples by mining targets the very vents it depends on—polymetallic sulfides at black smokers are prime resources for deep-sea extraction.
Projects like RimiOmics (led by University of the Azores, studying mining toxicity on R. exoculata) and DEEP-REST (2022–2025 European effort yielding 10 conservation recommendations) raise alarms: sediment plumes, habitat destruction, chemical disruptions, and heavy metal releases could wipe out these fragile, highly localized populations.
Coincides with "Elemental Spirits in Native American Spirituality", Steiner's "Way of Initiation", and Huxleys "Doors of Perception," among many other enlightenments, which extend into Hermeticism, Steiner’s spiritual science, Astrology/Astrophysics, ie: Lily Kolisko, Walter Russell, even scripture metaphor etc.
John 11:11 After he had said this, he went on to tell them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I am going there to wake him up.”
While acknowledging that you’ve clearly opened the alchemical connection here through Jollivet-Castelot and your later discussion of calcination and plant palingenesis, I have been thinking for a while now that so-called “animal alchemy” could add considerable depth to this conversation. There’s a rich historical body of laboratory observation, experimentation and analysis within that tradition that might shed further light on these processes, fill in parts of the picture, and offer a different angle on the more explicitly scientific interpretations you discuss. I’ve been meaning to connect several of these threads, especially Béchamp and Enderlein, with the fascinating accounts in Joseph C. Lisiewski’s Israel Regardie & the Philosopher’s Stone and Frater Albertus’s work.
Lisiewski recounts his work under Frater Albertus’s guidance with the “Water Work” of The Golden Chain of Homer, centered on Gur, or “pre-Adamic earth.” Within that framework, Gur is understood as a primordial generative matrix from which the mineral, vegetable and animal kingdoms can differentiate. Reading your account of Morley Martin’s “primordial protoplasm,” I kept thinking that these two conceptions would be particularly fruitful to examine together.
With Béchamp and Enderlein, I’m particularly interested in comparing their accounts of elementary living units, the forms those units assume, and the changing conditions of the medium with Albertus’s understanding of putrefaction and generation. What does each account understand to persist through the dissolution of an organized body, and how does that persistence relate to the development of subsequent forms?
There are some striking details in Lisiewski’s laboratory accounts. Electrified rainwater occupies a central place in the Water Work, which immediately recalls your connection between Crosse’s experiments and Bastian’s thunderstorm observation. Lisiewski describes the appearance of small, motile, worm-like organisms in the Gur, including an elongated form with four tentacle-like projections, two at each end. One detail that stayed with me was the importance he eventually assigned to a residue he had initially regarded as insignificant. Its inclusion precedes the appearance of the organisms in his account.
The subsequent chapter on the homunculus develops another side of this inquiry. Lisiewski’s journal follows a gray mass gradually acquiring markings he identifies as capillaries, an eye-like structure, a crescent-shaped body, and appendages with finger-like growths. The account eventually ends with the dissolution of those features back into the Gur. Your description of Martin observing anatomical structures taking shape within his preparations brought this passage strongly to mind. The emergence of bodily organization, its dependence on a sustaining matrix, and its eventual dissolution are especially rich points of comparison across these accounts.
Albertus’s The Alchemist’s Handbook supplies a broader framework through his discussion of the respective Mercuries of the three kingdoms, which he describes as originating from the same source and manifesting differently in each realm. His treatment of animal Salt and Essence and the “arcanum of blood” could also be read alongside the blood-centered investigations you discuss. Your section on Bose adds another dimension to that comparison through its attention to continuities of response across animal, plant and metal.
The Béchamp passage on the changing fermentative behavior of an egg has an intriguing counterpart in the material published by Albertus’s circle. Their journals contain observations on eggs, preservation and putrefaction, including Arthur G. Fehres’s account of egg oil appearing through intact shells after prolonged storage. In Essentia, Albertus’s statement that “any fermentation frees spirit” appears in an answer about egg white, alongside his identification of evolution as the encompassing law of laboratory alchemy. I’d be interested in exploring what that language might illuminate about the relationship between decomposition, the release of a substance’s constituents, and their capacity for further organization.
Your formulation that “life is the intensification of what matter already is” seems an especially productive starting point for this comparative work. This piece has renewed my interest in putting these accounts alongside one another and following the connections in greater depth.
A wonderfully instructive comment, Nathan, much appreciated. I'm not familiar with Lisiewski’s writings, and your account of the Water Work, the Gur as a primordial matrix, and the forms that arise in it and dissolve back again opens some rich areas of thought, ones that look to confirm the thesis from the alchemical side. Electrified rainwater beside Crosse’s current and Bastian’s thunderstorm, and Albertus’s “any fermentation frees spirit” beside Béchamp’s egg, are just the kind of convergences worth following. I for one would very much appreciate any article you do along these lines; it would widen the discussion considerably. Thank you for your valued input.
In the Plasma Universe, everything is connected. Matter and energy are not isolated lumps of substance, but expressions of a single, electrically active whole.
There is no assumed ultimate beginning and no predetermined final end — only cycles of transformation. Galaxies give rise to galaxies; stars are born, evolve, and are recycled; currents flow continuously through immense cosmic circuits. The universe, in this view, is not a clockwork mechanism wound up once and left to run down, but a dynamic, self-organising system — breathing, pulsing, and evolving.
https://plasmacosmology.substack.com/p/the-living-universe-f10