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YOUR FINGERPRINTS Your Life Purpose Map was printed on your body, as fingerprints, five months before you were born. Like examining the acorn to know the type of oak tree that may emerge someday, by looking at your fingerprints you can see a coded picture of the person you had always intended to be.
BURIED IN THE ARCHIVES Thirty-two years after my own fingerprints took shape, a profound shift in my Life Purpose occurred. Only time revealed how much my life had changed in an instant.December, 1979: having already read over 12,000 pairs of hands and pretty much everything printed in the English language on Palmistry, my unquenchable thirst for new data led me to the Jessie Jones Medical Library in Houston Texas. There, nestled in my cubicle, white smocks and stethoscopes passing by in my peripheral vision, I eagerly poured through the extensive literature on hand morphology, line formations, and fingerprints. It wasn't long before a growing city of haphazard piles sprouted up around me; medical books and genetic journals, anthropological studies and AMA articles in dizzying towers that threatened to avalanche down with each new addition. Here's what I learned. The study of fingerprints by doctors and other scientists is called Dermatoglyphics: dermato=skin, glyphics=carvings, skin carvings; a name coined by Dr. Harold Cummins in 1926. Dr. Cummins is commonly referred to as the father of Dermatoglyphics, and his seminal work (with Dr. Charles Midlo), ironically titled Fingerprints, Palms, and Soles (souls?), is considered the standard in the field. Studying embryonic hands, Dr. Cummins and others found that as the fetus develops, it grows eleven ball-like structures called volar pads: six on the palm, and five more that will later be the thumb and fingers. Fourteen weeks after conception the skin corrugations (fingerprints) appear, forming a topographic-like map of the developing hand. This map is complete around the sixteenth week and will remain fixed throughout the rest of life. A permanent topographic map! The implications were staggering. Let me explain. Modern hand analysis is divided into two areas: the interpretation of line formations (chiromancy), and the study of comparative shapes (overall hand structure, finger, palm, and thumb shape), called chirognomy. Though the "rules" of line interpretation are still controversial, hand analysts are more or less in agreement about chirognomy and it is quite accurate. Each portion of the hand represents a different section of the personality: proportionally large areas reveal traits in abundance, small areas the reverse. Now, in the medical stacks, I was learning about a second topographic map hidden in the fingerprints. Unlike hand shapes and lines on the palm which can change, this "new" map is unalterable from prior to birth. If this map followed the same logic as chirognomy, the present day fingerprint patterns would reveal the percentages and type of each of the original ingredients of its owner; kind of like reading the side of a cereal box. Apparently, the hands contain two types of systems, one dynamic (lines and shapes), one fixed (fingerprints), which reveals hand shape in utero. One you are born with, one changes as you do. The Nature / Nurture controversy comes easily to mind. Excited as I was at this point, the biggest revelation was still to come. I moved quickly through article after article (there were over 6,000 of them in English alone, plus tantalizing titles of research pieces still not translated from German, Chinese, etc.). Fingerprints and lupus disease, Alzheimer's, tuberculosis, heart disease and cancer; fingerprints and mental disorders, hyperactive children, retardation, schizophrenia; twin studies in abundance. Researchers had found that various medical and psychological conditions have unique fingerprint traits in common. All agreed that dermatoglyphics should be added to the broad spectrum of diagnostic indicators. Wow, doctors reading hands! Almost breathless, I felt like someone nearing the end of a great mystery novel. Dermatoglyphics: a third branch of hand analysis? I had to know more. Hours passed in an instant. I couldn't believe the library was closing and I would have to wait until 7 AM tomorrow to resume. I was at the door at 6:45. Bear with me as I pass on some more technical information from the medical texts. DOWN TO THE CORE Reading on, I learned that each fingerprint is composed of between fifty and one hundred lines, each line having its own signature. There are stops and starts to the lines; forks, bubbles, etc.; a series of easily classifiable formations called pattern minutiae. The FBI does not need all ten of your fingerprints to identify you. Comparing the pattern minutiae of one line of one fingerprint may well do the job. 1 1 The fact that each fingerprint is unique, unalterable, and the patterns so regular is what makes fingerprint identification so useful. But listen to this: the same patterning system appearing on fingerprints shows up elsewhere in nature; on sand dune ridges, for instance. Sand dunes are not smooth, they are ridged; and the ridges of sand dunes have stops and starts, forks, bubbles, etc., just like fingerprint lines. So too, at the beach. When the water recedes, we see a ripple pattern in the sand with markings matching those on sand dunes and our fingerprints. The medical literature revealed an entire series of natural phenomena with similar characteristics. Here's another example. Electricity is passed through a chemical suspension. As the solids of that suspension drift slowly downward, they collect on the bottom of the beaker in roughly parallel lines with forks, splits, bubbles, etc.; just like fingerprint lines. The experiment is repeated with different electrical currents. The results: each type of electrical current leaves its distinct pattern on the bottom of the beaker. As each of these examples suggest, wave energy is capable of leaving its imprint in a denser medium, and we can tell the nature of that wave energy by the pattern left behind. At the beach, the sand is the denser medium imprinted differently by each wave, and in the floating suspension, the chemical fallout carries the imprint of the high frequency wave energy of the electrical current. Could it be that a higher vibrational energy leaves its imprint on the denser medium of our physical bodies before we are born? At that moment, looking at the photograph of the electrical current's unique "fingerprint", a wave of energy went across my shoulders and up and down my spine; a total body shudder. The experience was similar to waking in the middle of the night from the power of a technicolor dream, but without the disorientation. I felt sensationally calm; profoundly moved. I felt like I was remembering something long forgotten. The entire system of fingerprint identification appeared in my brain whole, intact. And I knew; I knew in my bones that the fingerprints are a soul level imprint. The premise of this book is based entirely upon this one fact: five months before we were born a pattern appeared on our physical body, a pattern matching high frequency wave energy imprinting. Call it soul energy, holographic imprinting, or DNA. Think of it as an unfoldment of the implicate order, remnants of a phase transition. Consider it a karmic map; our transcript as we begin a new semester at the Earth University. Or think of it as a genetic imprint if you like. Regardless of its title, this topographic pattern we call our fingerprints maps our unalterable core psychology in detail. 2 2 Years after my experience in the medical library a student told me that the Navajo Indians have a saying about fingerprints: "The Great Spirit breathes in the breath of life, and the tracks of that breath become our fingerprints." How elegant. The dynamics of fingerprint formation clearly points to a deeper connection to something larger than our conscious self. Whether this larger reality is the DNA legacy of our ancestors or some other plane of multi-dimensional existence, the fingerprints are our personal map to these otherwise uncharted waters. Our Life Purpose Map is literally at our fingertips. And that is a fortunate, because without a map a person could easily get lost. THE NEXT EXTRAORDINARY MAP Stephen S. Hall certainly knows the power of a good map. In his book, Mapping the Next Millennium, he points out that every major shift in human history has been preceded by a new map. Leif Ericson comes to North America, no map, the world stays the same; Columbus comes to North America, brings home a map, and the rest as they say is history. If Hall is right, if new maps indicate major shifts in human events, all evidence suggests that, as in the time of Columbus, today's world is in the midst of revolutionary change. From the mapping of the large-scale structure of the Universe, super galactic structures over 500 million light years in diameter, to the genetic code and subatomic particles, current maps are "bumping up against the unknown" and "redefining our frontiers." As Hall explains:
"Here, as we are poised to enter the next millennium, we find ourselves in the midst of what is arguably the greatest explosion in mapping and perhaps the greatest consideration of 'space' (in every sense of the word) since an anonymous Babylonian first attempted to organize human knowledge...by drawing a map of the world on a clay tablet twenty six centuries ago Like the best of old maps, however, these new maps [from the atomic…to the cosmic] are surprising, beautiful, revelatory, disquieting. They orient us not only spatially, but conceptually, culturally, historically, philosophically. They provide a record of where we have been and what we have believed, an inspiration to visit places we have not yet explored.Melville said that these destinations [the soul] are "not down on any map; true places never are." Perhaps Melville was right in his era; there was no map of the soul territory then. However, I propose that there is a soul map, it can be found in the form of your fingerprints, and doctors and other scientists have already explored it in detail. But, like a pirate's treasure map resting comfortably in someone's old pile of letters, its significance has gone unnoticed. So let's go exploring this inner terrain together. Let's unfold your personal treasure map and learn how to decode your soul's highest expression in you, your Life Purpose. To do so, we must first define our terms, understand our parameters a bit more completely.
1 1Six matching pattern minutiae are a ten billion to one possibility. For seven matches, multiply by ten billion again, for eight matches, times ten billion again, etc. Law enforcement uses twelve or fourteen matches to designate a positive identification. The possibilities are so numerous that, like snowflakes, no two fingerprints will ever be the same. 2 2Maurice Cooke, Body Signs, and Dennis Fairchild, The Handbook of Humanistic Palmistry, both refer to fingerprints as karmic indicators. I had read both and tried out their systems to no avail. Looking back, the missing ingredient is clear. Cooke and Fairchild, like other authors before them and since, treated each fingerprint as having meaning all by itself: a whorl on the index finger means this, a loop on the thumb means that. However, the fingerprints operate in a much more holistic fashion (as you will soon find out). No fingerprint carries a meaning without being related to its nine partners. A whorl on the index finger means something quite different on a hand with nine other whorls, or a hand with nine loops, etc. |