True coherency in a massively incoherent system

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True coherency in a massively incoherent system

 

** Modern neuroscience has been making some startling discoveries about

the

human heart. The idea that we can think with our hearts is no longer

just a

metaphor, but is, in fact, a very real phenomenon. We now know this

because

the combined research of two or three fields is proving that the heart

is

the major center of intelligence in human beings. Molecular biologists

have

discovered that the heart is the body's most important endocrine gland.

In

response to our experience of the world, it produces and releases a

major

hormone, ANF - which stands for Atriol Neuriatic Factor - that

profoundly

effects every operation in the limbic structure, or what we refer to as

the

" emotional brain. " This includes the hippocampal area where memory and

learning take place, and also the control centers for the entire

hormonal

system. And neurocardiologist have found that 60 to 65% of the cells of

the

heart are actually neural cells, not muscle cells as was previously

believed. They are identical to the neural cells in the brain, operating

through the same connecting links called ganglia, with the same axonal

anddendritic connections that take place in the brain, as well as

through

the very same kinds of neurotransmitters found in the brain.

 

Quite literally, in other words, there is a " brain " in the heart, whose

ganglia are linked to every major organ in the body, to the entire

muscle

spindle system that uniquely enables humans to express their emotions.

About

half of the heart's neural cells are involved in translating information

sent to it from all over the body so that it can keep the body working

as

one harmonious whole. And the other half make up a very large,

unmediated

neural connection with the emotional brain in our head and carry on a

twenty-four-hour-a-day dialogue between the heart and the brain that we

are

not even aware of.

 

The heart responds to messages sent to it from the emotional brain,

which

has been busy monitoring the interior environment of dynamic states such

as

the emotions and the auto-immune system, guiding behavior, and

contributing

to our sense of personal identity. The emotional brain makes a

qualitative

evaluation of our experience of this world and sends that information

instant-by-instant down to the heart. In return, the heart exhorts the

brain

to make the appropriate response. Of course all of this is on the

non-verbal

level.

 

In other words, the responses that the heart makes effect the entire

human

system. Meanwhile, biophysicists have discovered that the heart is also

a

very powerful electromagnetic generator. It creates an electromagnetic

field

that encompasses the body and extends out anywhere from eight to twelve

feet

away from it. It is so powerful that you can take an electrocardiogram

reading from as far as three feet away from the body. The field the

heart

produces is holographic, meaning that you can read it from any point on

the

body and from any point within the field. No matter how microscopic the

sample is, you can receive the information of the entire field. The

intriguing thing is how profoundly this electromagnetic field effects

the

brain. All indications are that it furnishes the whole radio wave

spectrum

from which the brain draws its material to create our internal

experience of

the world.

 

Perhaps most importantly, we now know that the radio spectrum of the

heart

is profoundly affected by our emotional response to our world. Our

emotional

response changes the heart's electromagnetic spectrum, which is what the

brain feeds on. Ultimately, everything in our lives hinges on our

emotional

response to specific events.

 

People's emotional experience, how they feel about themselves and the

world

around them, has a tremendous impact on their growth and development.

It's

the foundation on which all learning, memory, health and well-being are

based. When that emotional structure is not stable and positive, no

other

developmental process within them will function fully. Further

development

will only be compensatory to any deficiencies.

 

So, the first and foremost thing that must occur, if you want

intelligent,

successful and healthy people, is that they must have a positive

emotional

experience. There is forty or fifty years worth of research from places

like

Harvard University, the University of Arizona's medical school with

people

like Schwartz and Russick, and HeartMath out in California to back this

statement up. It all begins with people feeling unconditionally wanted,

accepted and loved. This is the key to the entire operation. You can

have

everything else: a high standard of living, the most expensive school

system, the finest teachers in the world; but if the people are lacking

that

initial experience of being unconditionally loved by at least one

person,

and if they do not feel safe and secure in their learning environment,

then

nothing is going to happen very positively. *This cannot be overstated.*

 

If you want true learning, learning that involves the higher frontal

lobes -

the intellectual, creative brain-then again, the emotional environment

must

be positive and supportive. This is because at the first sign of anxiety

the

brain shifts its functions from the high, prefrontal lobes to the old

defenses of the reptilian brain.

 

The new research around this issue is quite intriguing. In England,

researchers have come up with the hypothesis that the environment

profoundly changes the genetic structuring within us, that it is the

biggest influence

of all on our DNA. There are studies now that show that our genes are

not at

all locked into unchanging programs as previously thought, but in fact

are

profoundly affected by our environment, particularly our emotional

environment. In the May issue of Science, there was an article that

discussed how the mother's emotional state during pregnancy determined

the

direction that evolution would take place within her developing fetus.

Her

state of well-being determines whether fetal brain development

concentrates

on the frontal loves or the ancient reptilian brain involved in

survival.

 

This is probably the most explosive information to come along in quite a

while. And this makes perfect sense because the heat is the first organ

to

form in the fetus, within ten days after conception, and it has to be

because it furnishes the electromagnetic spectrum upon which DNA itself

depends for its instructions.

 

After birth as well, you continue to see a shift of emphasis between the

reptilian brain and the emotional and cognitive brains. Not only do you

have

these shifts occurring during the first eleven years of life, you also

have

this huge redundancy of stuff in the brain. Around the age of eleven or

twelve the brain undergoes a fine tuning and begins to decide what it

can

get rid of. The brain begins to shed the excess neural connections in

either

the ancient survival brain or in the new intellectual brain. What is

removed

depends upon children's life situations at that time. The question of

whether they feel safe and loved, or whether they feel like they must

protect themselves against a hostile world has a profound effect on the

intelligence of the child.

 

So what about kids who were raised in negative households and who

haven't

had that unconditional love? What can we do to reverse this process and

empower them to grow up to be whole persons?

 

They have been operating in an environment of deep deprivation and the

only thing you can do is to somehow or other provide them with a

nurturing

environment where they feel safe and loved and wanted.

 

I know it sounds too simplistic, but really that's the whole story.

 

Adapted from an Interview with Joseph Chilton Pearce from JOURNAL OF

FAMILY

 

LIFE magazine, Vol. 5 #1 1999

 

For nearly half a century Joseph Chilton Pearce, who prefers to be known

simply as Joe, has been probing the mysteries of the human mind. Author

of

The Crack in the Cosmic Egg, Exploring the Crack in the Cosmic Egg,

Magical

Child, Magical Child Matures, Bond of Power and Evolution's End, one of

his

overriding passions remains the study of what he calls the " unfolding "

of

intelligence in children. He is a self-avowed iconoclast, unafraid to

speak

out against the myriad ways in which contemporary American culture fails

to

nurture the intellectual, emotional and spiritual needs and yearnings of

our

young people. Part scholar, part scientist, part mystic, part itinerant

teacher, Joe keeps in close touch with the most brilliant men and women

in

each field of inure relevant to his guest.

 

He creates a unique synthesis of

their work and translates the results into a common language-such a

valuable

contribution in these days of increasing scientific specialization. Then

Joe

travels the world wide to share his painstakingly gathered wisdom -

freely

if necessary - with anyone he feels can make a difference. We were

fortunate

enough to catch him by phone at his home in central Virginia.

--

http://www.appliedmeditation.org/The_Heart/articles_joseph_chilton_pearce.shtml

 

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