Living With The Cycle Of 7

The Cycle of Seven is inherent to all living beings that inhabit our planet earth. It’s applicable to a single cell as well as to the most advanced life forms !

The Cycle of Seven begins from the date of birth. In addition, it is remarkable that the number Seven has a special place among numbers used of God in Scripture. Till now we have had our focus on the seven day (circaseptan) cycle in living things, on the biblical creation account and on the significance of the seventh-day Sabbath. Seven-day week was a Jewish invention and was tied to the lunar cycles. Five, eight ands nine day weeks have been used by different civilizations.

Circaseptan Rhythm

Circaseptan rhythm (From the Latin circa (about) dies (a day), is a seven-day cycle in which the biological processes of life, including disease symptoms and development, resolve. Many physicians believe that transplant patients tend to have more rejection episodes seven, fourteen, twenty-one, and twenty-eight days after surgery. They further believe that medications administered to the patients at particular times may be more effective than at other times. These are all related to the circaseptan rhythm.

The biological base of seven day cycles (also called heptads or circaseptan) clearly gives this amazing building block priority in time: it existed before culture or religion ever recognized a seven day week in history. Such an intricate, indisputable base and such a fundamental common design require us to reconsider this double question: is there a common beginning, a common designer of all life?

What are the mysterious weekly rhythms?

The most intriguing of all biological rhythms are those set to a clock of about 7 days. In his chapter “The Importance of Time,” Jeremy Campbell reports: “These circaseptan, or about weekly, rhythms are one of the major surprises turned up by modern chronobiology. Fifteen years ago, few scientists would have expected that seven day biological cycles would prove to be so widespread and so long established in the living world. They are of very ancient origin, appearing in primitive one-celled organisms, and are thought to be present even in bacteria, the simplest form of life now existing.”

One of Franz Halberg’s amazing discoveries is that of an innate rhythm about seven days occurring in a giant alga some five million years old on the evolutionary time line. Because this microscopic cell resembles a graceful champagne glass, the alga (plant) is popularly known as mermaid’s wineglass. When this “primitive” alga is subjected to artificial schedules of alternating light and dark spans of varying length over many days, this single intact cell is somehow able to translate all that manipulation of light and darkness into the measurement of a seven day week!

As Campbell says, this inherent rhythm has to do with the internal logic of the body, not with the external logic of the world. Many more examples could be given. Involved experimentation with rats, face flies; plants and other life have revealed circaseptan rhythms similar to that of the mermaid’s wineglass.

If the seven day week is an invention of culture and religion, as most historians would have us believe, how do we explain innate circaseptan rhythms in “primitive” algae, rats, plants and face flies? These forms of life have no calendar, can’t read the Torah and don’t know Saturn from Santa Claus!
In his study into the human nature of time, Jeremy Campbell states:
“Inner time structure, in certain of its manifestations, seems to determine outer time structure, rather than the other way round. Rhythms of about seven days arose in living creatures millions of years before the calendar week was invented, and may conceivably be the reason why it was invented.”
With the implant of seed of life, God did “wind up the clockwork”- leaving his fingerprints all over the clock. The new science of chronobiology has had some of science’s most impressive successes in seeing back to creation with its discovery of “primitive origins” to the seven day cycle found in human cells and other life forms.

God somehow coded into the infinite complexities of life a clock that ticks to the time of a seven day rhythm. We humans have no control over these innate circaseptan rhythms and benefit best by simply living in sympathetic harmony with them. More importantly, the seven day cycle in its physical nature, points beyond temporal reality, to a far greater spiritual reality.

Seven-year cycles bring about a flow and a rhythm to ones life and yet it is not something cut and dry. You may feel it coming or going two years in advance or two years later as it builds, peaks, and wanes. The seven-year cycles are an evolutionary spiral. They belong to every living being that has ever lived on this planet earth. There is no one who does not go through this 7-year cycle. Your seven year cycle begins from the date of your birth it’s the time where your life is tuned to natures seven year cycle of change.

Every seven years there is, within the system, a total change. For the first seven years, you are pliable and pretty much accept as to what is said. At the age of seven, there comes a growing awareness that you must assert your inner self, cognitive functions grow enormously – more than at any other time in a person’s life. The age of seven is considered the age where common sense and maturity start to kick in and is termed as “The Age Of Reason” by child psychiatrists in a 1976 article.

At the age of fourteen comes the second series of defiance’s. Once again a total change of the system occurs. It is a creation of a private space and the physical preparation for adulthood. It is here that hormones change as puberty begins and one tends to be more aggressive. We make subsequent changes to our life style every seven years as we realize maturity. It’s a wildly held myth that human body replaces itself every 7 years.

The living cells operation is governed by a complex energy system that is at work- a system life could not exist without – Wait for the next article where you get to Experience My Spiritual Journey