Things are Verbs Not Nouns

5 Surprising Ways Flow Shapes Your Reality

1. Introduction: The Illusion of the Static

We have been conditioned to view ourselves as fixed entities—solid “nouns” moving through the containers of space and time.

Yet, when we peel back the layers of our biology and look through the lenses of both advanced fluid dynamics and ancient Vedic philosophy, a more breathtaking reality emerges: you are not a thing, but a process.

You are not a static object; you are a rhythmic event.

In this view, “Form” is not a permanent state but an emergent property of “Flow.”

Just as a whirlpool maintains a consistent shape even as the water passing through it is ever-changing, your body is a temporary manifestation of an underlying, continuous movement.

By bridging the gap between the radical cardiac breakthroughs of Francisco Torrent Guasp and the metaphysical architecture of the Mandukya Upanishad, we can begin to see that we are localized expressions of a universal current—living proof that existence is a verb, not a noun.

2. Your Heart is a “Single Continuous Rope,” Not a Pump

For over three centuries, the “Harvey Model” dominated medical thought, reducing the heart to a four-chambered mechanical pressure pump. This anatomical “Gordian Knot” was finally unraveled by Francisco Torrent Guasp, who proved through meticulous dissection that the heart is actually a Single Continuous Rope—the Myocardial Ventricular Band.

This band is not a collection of separate boxes but a singular muscular rope that twists and loops from the pulmonary artery to the aorta, creating a helical space-time event. Torrent Guasp’s work reveals two vital functional segments:

• The Basal Loop: This forms the outer shell or structural buttress of the heart.
• The Apical Loop: This is the internal helix forming the heart’s apex. Within this loop, fibers cross at a critical 60-degree “Gothic” angle.

This specific geometry generates extraordinary rotational power. The contraction of the apical loop isn’t a simple squeeze; it is a “serpentine strike.” Like a cobra writhing as it lifts its head, the heart’s internal helix twists and untwists, transforming blood flow into a sophisticated “cardiac dance.”

“Your form is like a whirlpool in a river. The river is the Source; the whirlpool is you. The most fundamental connection between the whirlpool-you and the river-source is the flow of your breath and your blood.”

3. The “Twist-and-Suck” Efficiency of Life

The helical structure of the heart completely redefines how we understand life’s fuel delivery. In the old model, blood filled the heart passively. In the helical model, the heart functions as an active vacuum, utilizing a “twist-and-suck” cycle that mirrors a piston and cylinder.

Feature	Passive Filling (Harvey Model)	Active Suction (Helical Model)
Primary Mechanism	Transverse pressure filling	Active helical vacuum (Suction)
Filling Efficiency	Inefficient; relies on atrial pressure	90% of diastolic blood is sucked in
Fiber Angle	Horizontal (Romanesque)	60-degree (Gothic)
Geometry	Spherical (Basketball-shaped)	Elliptical (Football-shaped)
State of Diastole	Passive relaxation	Active untwisting and lengthening

The distinction is a matter of life and death. A healthy heart is “Gothic” and elliptical, using its active untwisting to suck blood into the chambers with massive efficiency. When the heart fails, it becomes “Romanesque”—spherical like a basketball. In this state, the fiber angles shift toward the horizontal, destroying the heart’s ability to “suck” and reverting to the inefficient, mechanical pressure model of a failing pump.

4. 1 Billion Years of Evolution in 50 Days

The human heart is a living history book, a phenomenon known as “Evolutionary Recapitulation.” The “Master Plan” of evolution, which took a billion years to unfold across the planet, is condensed into a miraculous 50-day journey within the womb.

• Day 20: The heart functions as a simple peristaltic worm.
• Days 30-40: The heart transitions through the structural stages of fish and amphibians.
• Day 50: The heart achieves its complex, human helical form.

There is a profound sense of wonder in this condensed history. Even in your mature state, your heart retains the wisdom of the ancient worm. The wave of contraction is not a simultaneous burst but a sequential, peristaltic pulse that follows the Myocardial Ventricular Band, proving that we carry the entire lineage of life’s flow within our own chests.

5. The Grammar of Existence: Space and Time as Verbs

To understand ourselves as flow, we must turn to the etymology of Prana. Derived from the roots Pra (forth/constant) and Ana (to breathe/move), Prana is literally “constant movement.” It is a verb. Through the practice of Vaisvanara Vidya (Universal Body meditation), we see that our anatomy is not separate from the cosmos.

The sacred vibration of Om (AUM) provides a map of this non-dual reality:

• A (Space/Feeling): The waking state. Space is the first “outward thrust” of flow. We experience this biologically during Inhalation, as internal space arises.
• U (Time/Thought): The dreaming state. Here, flow narrates itself, creating the “sequence” of duration. This is mirrored in the Pause between breaths, where presence gathers.
• M (Dissolution): The deep sleep state. The “whirlpool” of identity returns to the river. This is the Exhalation.
• The Crescent (Maya): The illusion that space and time are containers rather than movements of the Flow.
• The Silence (Turiya/Bindu): The “Timeless Now.” This is the pulse—the absolute ground of being from which all rhythms arise.

Note: “The heart does not ‘pump’ blood as a separate object; rather, the Pranic current organizes itself into a rhythmic pulse.”

6. Whirlpools, Spirals and Helices

The Primary Geometry of Prana

Whirlpool, Spiral, and Helix point to the same reality. These three terms are different ways of describing the primary geometry of flow as it organizes itself into physical form across all scales of existence.

Specifically, the spiral—or more accurately, the helix—is the primary geometry of Prana. Whether it is the double-helix of DNA, the logarithmic spiral of a seashell, or the immense rotations of galaxies, these forms all reveal how the “life force organizes itself into vortices”.

The Whirlpool: Form as “Energy-In-Formation”

Whirlpools Reveal how Things are Verbs Not Nouns.

Whirlpools illustrate that what we perceive as a solid “things” are actually dynamic processes.

• Emergent Flow: A whirlpool appears only when the river’s flow is “in formation”. While it has a distinct shape, it is made entirely of the river’s water (the “Source”).

• The Human Whirlpool: Your BodyMind is a “localized whirlpool in the river of Prana”. Your heartbeat and your biological rhythms are the “verbs” that allow this whirlpool to exist within the universal current.

• Internal Vortex Structures: This is not just a metaphor; physical “secondary vortex structures” actually form within the human lungs during the pulsatile flow of respiration.

• Constant Change in Form: While the whirlpool maintains its appearance, the water passing through it is ever-changing. Similarly, the human “BodyMind” is a temporary manifestation of an underlying, continuous flow of energy, Prana.

• No Separation from Source: A whirlpool is made entirely out of the water of the river. By identifying the river as the “Source” (or God, Silence, or Love), you see that you are not a separate object “having” a life, but are a localized expression of the universal current.

Spiral and Helix

• The Helical Heart: A key example is the human heart. Far from being a mechanical pump (a noun), it is a “Single Continuous Rope” that twists and loops to create a “helical space-time event”. Its “twist-and-suck” rhythm is described as a “cardiac dance”—a verb-like action that mirrors the cosmic vibration of Om (AUM).

• Biological Efficiency: The helix and the spiral (often following the Fibonacci sequence) represent nature’s “strategy” for growth. For instance, the 60-degree crossing angle of the heart’s fibers allows for maximum rotational power, illustrating that “structure is simply flow ‘rewriting’ itself in space and time”.

• Universal Self-Similarity: This geometric logic applies equally to the microcosm and macrocosm. The “unexpected agreement levels” between the neuronal network of the brain and the cosmic web of galaxies, show that both evolve following the same principles of flow.

The Fibonacci Sequence: Nature’s Growth Script

The Fibonacci sequence (0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8…) is called “nature’s little secret”—the mathematical alphabet used to organize flow into efficient forms.

• Efficient Growth: In plants, this sequence manifests as the 137.5° golden angle, a “local rule” that ensures new growth (primordia) positions itself in the largest available gap for maximum efficiency.

• Ubiquity: This mathematical script is responsible for the specific arrangements seen in flower petals, pinecones, and the arms of galaxies.

• The “Gothic” Heart: The heart’s efficiency depends on these mathematical constants; a healthy heart maintains a 60-degree crossing angle in its fibers (a “Gothic” form) to facilitate its “twist-and-suck” rotational power.

The Synthesis: From Noun to Verb

Ultimately, whirlpools, spirals, and helices point to the same truth: that all so-called “things” are actually “Flow in Form, through Form, and out of Form”. They are rhythmic events that arise from Silence, are sustained by Flow, and eventually return to Silence

7. Conclusion: Return to the River

Knowing that you are a continuous, dynamic flow rather than a fragile entity experiencing it, how might you live differently? When you realize you are the river, the fear of the whirlpool’s end begins to dissolve into the silence of the flow.