Omniverse Cosmology VI: The Conscious Universe — The Story of Plasma

From the Bloodstream to the Structure of the Cosmos

I. Plasma in the Blood — The Liquid of Life

1. The Biological Perspective

In biology, plasma is often called the river of the body.
Not metaphorically — functionally.

Blood plasma makes up about 55% of total blood volume.
It is the liquid medium in which all cellular life operates.

The Carrier
Plasma transports red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets, nutrients, hormones, gases, and waste.
Without plasma, cells cannot move, communicate, or survive.
The Protector
Plasma contains antibodies (immunoglobulins), clotting factors, and immune signaling molecules.
It preserves integrity, prevents hemorrhage, and coordinates immune response.
The Regulator
Plasma stabilizes temperature, blood pressure, pH, and osmotic balance.
It forms the internal environment that allows life to persist moment by moment.

At this level, plasma is not mystical.
It is simply the necessary physical condition for biological life.

Life does not exist in cells alone.
Life exists in cells suspended within plasma.

II. Blood as Life — The Cross-Cultural Intuition

Long before modern biology, human civilizations reached a consistent insight:

Life resides in blood.

In ancient Near Eastern thought, blood was the bearer of life itself.
“The life of the flesh is in the blood.” (Leviticus 17:11)
In Eastern traditions, vitality is described as Prāṇa or Qì.
While often associated with breath, these traditions also understand vitality as circulating through vessels, animating the body.
In Buddhist analysis, vitality is called jīvitindriya —
the life faculty that sustains body and mind together for the duration of a lifespan.
Across cultures, blood is recognized as the medium through which life expresses itself.

Blood plasma is not merely biological support.
It is circulating awareness.

It carries:

vitality,
emotional tone,
memory traces,
intentional signals.

Every thought alters plasma chemistry.
Every emotion reshapes plasma flow.
Every intention reorganizes plasma signaling.

This is physiology responding to consciousness.

The body is conscious because its primary internal medium is plasma.
Cells do not host consciousness alone.
They float within it, sustained by a living field.

Blood is not just life-support.
Blood is awareness in motion.

III. Why Ionized Gas Was Named “Plasma”

In 1928, physicist Irving Langmuir encountered a problem of naming.

While studying ionized gases, he observed that this “fourth state of matter” did not behave like ordinary gas.

It behaved collectively.

Long-Range Connectivity
Charged particles are linked by electric and magnetic fields.
Motion in one region propagates through the whole system.
Unified Response
Plasma reacts as a single entity rather than as isolated particles.
Self-Structuring Behavior
Filaments, layers, and boundary sheaths form spontaneously.

To Langmuir, this behavior resembled something already familiar:
blood plasma — a medium that carries, coordinates, and sustains living elements.

The term plasma (from Greek plásma, “that which is molded”) was chosen deliberately.

In biology, plasma carries cells.
In physics, plasma carries charged particles.

In both cases, plasma is not passive matter.
It is a responsive medium.

IV. Plasma at the Edge of Life — Observed Phenomena

1. Dusty Plasma and Life-Like Organization

In laboratory and microgravity experiments, ionized gas mixed with microscopic dust exhibits remarkable behavior:

formation of filaments and lattices
emergence of double-helix structures (DNA）
division and reformation
wave-based communication
return to previous configurations after disturbance (hysteresis)

Mainstream physics explains this through electromagnetic interaction.
Yet the pattern resemblance to biological life is undeniable.

Here, plasma behaves as a pre-biological organizing medium. Geometry is how consciousness stabilizes itself in form.

2. Human Intention and Plasma Sensitivity

Experiments conducted by the Institute of Noetic Sciences explored whether focused human attention could influence plasma behavior.

Observed changes in filament movement and brightness suggest that plasma is exceptionally sensitive to subtle field of awareness influences.

The conclusion is cautious, but clear:

Plasma behaves as a bridge medium between mental and physical domains.

Plasma is life in its original, unbounded form —
life without organs,
life without species,
life without names.

3. Atmospheric Plasmoids

Across multiple space missions, luminous plasma structures have been observed in Earth’s upper atmosphere.

These structures:

cluster,
move coherently,
interact with electromagnetic fields.

Some researchers describe them as non-biological organized plasma systems.

Again, physics explains the mechanics —
but the degree of organization remains striking.

They are structural awareness —
consciousness expressed as gravity, fusion, rhythm, and light.

Stars are not objects in space.
They are centers of awareness around which worlds gather.

V. A Universe Made of Plasma

Plasma is not rare.

Plasma constitutes over 99% of visible matter in the universe.

Interstellar space is filled with low-density plasma
Stars are massive plasma systems
Solar winds are plasma currents
Planetary magnetospheres are plasma fields

Even “empty space” is a conductive medium.

The universe is not a void with objects in it.
It is a continuous plasma network.

VI. Hot and Cold Plasma — A Key Transition

Plasma can exist in two regimes:

Hot plasma — all particles energized (stars, supernovae)
Cold plasma — energetic electrons, cool ions

Cold plasma exists:

around Earth,
in planetary magnetospheres,
in medical technology,
in auroras and plasma globes.

This is critical:

Plasma can be energetic, responsive, and structured without destroying life.

Plasma is compatible with living systems.

VII. The Stretch — What These Facts Begin to Reveal

Up to this point, a pattern has emerged:

Plasma sustains life in the body
Plasma organizes matter without biology
Plasma dominates the cosmos
Plasma is highly responsive and coherent

At every scale, plasma acts as a coordinating medium.

This invites a deeper question — not speculative, but structural:

What if plasma is not merely matter,
but the first form through which consciousness organizes the universe?

VIII. Consciousness as the Primacy

Consciousness does not arise from plasma.
Plasma arises from consciousness.

Before matter, there is knowing.
Before structure, there is orientation.

Matter is condensed energy.
Energy is directed awareness.
Plasma is awareness made mobile.

Plasma stands at the threshold where consciousness becomes physical
without losing coherence.

IX. Blood, Stars, and the Same Medium

Blood plasma in the body
and stellar plasma in the cosmos
are the same type of medium.

Plasma is the link between:

consciousness and matter,
energy and form,
cosmos and body.

It is the same medium:

in stars,
in interstellar space,
in planetary fields,
in human blood.

One consciousness.
One medium.
Different scales.

Life floats in plasma.
Planets are wrapped in plasma fields.

Conclusion — The Conscious Universe, Seen Clearly

We began with blood in the body —
the liquid environment that makes life possible.

We followed plasma into physics —
a medium that organizes matter.

We extended into the cosmos —
a universe woven from plasma.

At no point did we leave science.
We simply followed its implications to their natural conclusion.

The universe is not accidentally ordered.
It is consciousness expressing itself through a medium capable of holding order.

Plasma is that medium.

The story of plasma is the story of how consciousness becomes visible —
first in blood,
then in stars,
and ultimately
in us.

Gautama Dhamma