The Spleen – Disassembling the Old Self: The spleen is located in the upper left abdomen, behind and to the left of the stomach.
In the embryo, the spleen creates red blood cells during the first five months. The spleen then turns this function over to the bone marrow.
While most of the gut viscera are derived from the endoderm, the spleen is derived from mesoderm.
The spleen develops between the sheets of connective tissue that support the position of the stomach.
The spleen is made up of two types of tissue, red and white.
The red tissue contains half of the body’s monocytes.
Monocytes are cells that migrate to injured tissue and transform their form into cells that promote tissue healing.
The white tissue produces an array of adaptive immune cells.
The spleen is part of the lymph system.
The spleen has in-coming and out-going blood vessels, but only has out-going lymph vessels.
As red blood cells age their surfaces begin to bind antibodies.
The spleen then disassembles these antibody-coated red blood cells.
The red blood cells are disassembled to their basic components of amino acids and iron.
From a subconscious self point of view, the spleen disassembles the old self.
From a traumatized subconscious self point of view, the spleen cannot transition the old self to the non-self.
From a traumatized subconscious self point of view, the psyche is compelled to identify with the past.
From a traumatized subconscious self point of view, change is not tolerated in the psyche.
When the subconscious self is empty, the spleen has disassembled the past and future.
When the subconscious self is empty, the spleen establishes the blood as a boundary.
