Jacobo Grinberg, "the Látiz" and Transferred Potential: Bridges Toward Biodynamic Perception

Jacobo Grinberg-Zylberbaum was a Mexican neurophysiologist and psychologist whose work challenged the boundaries of conventional scientific thinking. His most well-known proposal, the Syntergic Theory, stems from a profoundly integrative vision of reality, in which consciousness is not a mere epiphenomenon of the brain, but a fundamental organizing principle. For those of us immersed in the world of biodynamic osteopathy, his vision offers a language and framework surprisingly coherent with our experience of presence, tissue, and the field.

"The Látiz": the fundamental fabric of reality

Grinberg describes the existence of an underlying energetic field which he called the Látiz (from the English word lattice). This field is not directly perceivable by the senses, yet it constitutes the foundation of all manifestations of matter, thought, and perception. In some ways, the Látiz resembles the “Field of Potency” that biodynamic osteopaths perceive when we enter into relationship with stillness and the Breath of Life.

According to Grinberg, the Látiz is deformed by neuronal and perceptual activity. Every time a human being perceives, thinks, or feels, a distortion is created in the Látiz; a structural modification that shapes experience. What we call “reality” is nothing more than the result of these deformations, organized and sustained collectively.

Transferred Potential: resonance beyond the body

One of Grinberg’s most intriguing proposals is the concept of Transferred Potential. In his experiments, he discovered that two individuals trained in meditation or coherence states could share information beyond normal sensory channels. When in emotional or energetic coherence, one could perceive stimuli that were actually being presented to the other. Communication did not occur through physical space, but through the field: the Látiz functioned as a medium for non-local transmission of information.

This phenomenon closely resembles what we experience in biodynamic sessions, when the therapist’s body becomes a receptive space, attuning to the patient’s system without the need for direct touch. In that deep listening, beyond form, a shared field is activated where information flows through presence, not through analysis.

Biodynamics and Syntergic Theory: consciousness as field organizer

What unites osteopathic biodynamics and syntergic theory is the understanding that consciousness is not limited to the physical body nor the rational mind. Both disciplines begin with the recognition of an implicit order—an underlying intelligence that sustains life and organizes form. Both Grinberg and the masters of the biodynamic tradition (Still, Sutherland, Becker) invite us into a mode of perception that goes beyond the mind-body dualism, and into a cultivated sensitivity that listens to the field beyond the symptom.

In these times when science and spirituality are reconnecting, the work of Jacobo Grinberg emerges as a necessary bridge. His legacy, though incomplete due to his mysterious disappearance, leaves us with an essential key: the reality we perceive depends on the state of our consciousness. And by transforming it, we also transform the very fabric of reality.