What do you amplify?
I was listening to Dr. Kary Mullis answer questions in a talk from 1997. Kary Mullis was the winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1993.
He won it for inventing the polymerase chain reaction method – otherwise known as the PCR test, which is now used to test for the SARS-CoV-2 virus, of COVID-19 fame.
The PCR test allows a small amount of DNA to be copied in large quantities, over a short period of time.
Dr. Mullis said:
“The PCR, if you do it well, you can find almost anything in anybody. It starts making you believe in the sort of Buddhist notion that everything is contained in everything else.
“So if you can amplify one single molecule to something you can really measure, which PCR can do, then there’s very few molecules that you don’t have at least one single one of in your body.
“It’s just a process that’s used to make a whole lot of something out of something … it doesn’t tell you that you’re sick, and it doesn’t tell you that the thing you ended up with, really was going to hurt you or anything like that.”
What a beautiful concept – that each of us, within us, has every molecule you can imagine, both “good” and “bad” ones.
In PCR test nomenclature, the higher the amplification that it runs on, the more measurable that minuscule amount of DNA is.
So, to relate it to who we are – everyone has a murderer in them, and everyone has a martyr. You are not just one or two things. You are everything.
Everything is within you – it’s just a matter of amplification. On which part do you want to focus?
If you have a negative quality that you haven’t been able to shake off, remember that we all have that quality. It’s just more minuscule in some others. And what is minuscule in you is a giant amplification in someone else.
You can choose what you want to amplify. First accept that every molecule, every quality is already within you and now magnify – not who you want to be, but who you already are.
