Before exploring the brain’s unique role in connecting a human being to what many call God, it is essential to honor new scientific information about the human heart that identifies it as the very first connection point between the physical body and its Creator source.
Amazing recent evidence indicates that the heart begins to beat in the unborn fetus even before the brain is formed so it appears that the heart truly holds primary status as the initiator of human life. Even so, scientists have yet to discover what causes the human heart to automatically begin this essential “auto-rhythmic” beating function that grants us physical existence.
Although previously unknown, neuroscientists have now discovered that there are over 40,000 nerve cells (neurons) in the heart alone, indicating that the heart has its own independent nervous system sometimes called “the brain in the heart.” In addition, the heart has an electromagnetic energy field 5,000 times greater than that of the brain and this field can be measured with magnetometers up to 10 feet beyond the physical body. This provides support for the spiritual teachings that indicate we humans have energy fields that constantly intermingle with each other, enabling healing (or negative) thoughts to be extended and exchanged.
Since the heart’s energy field is greater than that of the brain’s, we presume that feelings and information sent from the heart to the brain can have a profound effect on the brain’s functions, introducing heightened intuitive clarity and increased feelings of well being. Gratefully, this welcomed state of balance or coherence between the heart and the brain eliminates stress and permits the personal condition we have called creativity as well as peace of mind!
Because this powerful coherence starts in each individual’s heart rhythms, the heart may be considered the conduit or vessel through which soulfulness, higher consciousness, or spiritual energies enter the human being at birth. This scientifically identified condition of heart coherence supports the teachings of many world religions that state the human heart is the seat of the soul. Spiritual teachings also suggest that it is humanity’s task to join together their individual coherent heart energies into one unified peaceful heart, one spiritually inspired healing intention.
To begin appreciating more about the brain’s role in supporting the heart energy intentions of love, imagine you are standing in a laboratory where scientists are showing you pictures of a human brain flashing on and off with speeding neuron impulses lighting up its many regions and innumerable activities. As you actually observe those uncountable neural light activities in the various brain areas are you wondering how this human brain was designed to function? Can you imagine that this brain cooperates with the heart in providing a light link with your Creator?
How do you feel as you watch this mysterious light activity in the brain? Is any part of you wanting to deny and disbelieve what you are seeing? Or do you feel a growing curiosity to know more about this brain and how it really works?
Do you feel willing to explore the idea that both the heart and the brain were actually created so humans could always know “their Maker?” Would you want your loving heart and fantastic brain to be healthy and connected with your Creator during physical life for essential spiritual guidance and support?
Fortunately, among the many scientific and technical discoveries recently made, there are several which have helped us identify the major purpose of the brain as a spiritual receptor of light, of God energy. Newly developing medical fields such as neurobiology, neurochemistry, and neuropsychology are using technical “imaging” equipment such as PET (positive emission tomography) and SPECT (single photon emission computed tomography) to identify various regions of the brain, their activities, and especially those frontal parts of the brain which must develop “God capacity.” And must immediately develop that spiritual capacity during the first critical months and years of childhood growth! At last science can join spiritual teachings in proving that humans have the capacity through coherent hearts and proper brain development to attain the mystical expression of feeling love, of knowing God.
What is absolutely vital to remember is that the soul’s energy connection with physical life is not fully formed at birth and is not fully accessible during the first few years thereafter. When a baby is born, its brain has just about 50% of the neurological connections it must have as an adult, and this rapid growth must occur in the next several years. This spiritual capacity must be developed by the constant infusion of light (heart love) from the mother and family if the brain’s normal physical growth is to be attained. Should this essential “growth fuel” be missing during its early months and years, the infant’s brain development will likely be curtailed by lack of this essential light, or love energy, causing a variety of serious repercussions.
Scientific reports are announcing that if the frontal lobes of a person’s brain are not properly developed by light and love at a young age then the resulting lack of light will probably cause a dysfunctional brain with a variety of possible physical, emotional and behavioral problems. This apparently occurs because the brain contains both more primitive regions from earlier evolutionary development and more modern additions in the frontal lobes and cortex regions designed to operate on light. Indeed it is this lack of light that causes disruptions and imbalances in one or many regions of brain area activity. In recent years, newly created PET and SPECT brain scan equipment have helped those enlightened doctors dedicated to healing the brain assist individuals with epilepsy, Attention Deficit Disorder, injuries, innumerable emotional conditions and much more. Their work also discourages alcohol and drug abuse in teens and adults by showing images of their negative effects on the brain.
It is also believed that an increased amount of stress, from the chaotic nature of modern living, creates a toxic brain hormone called cortisol. It is deduced that if high cortisol levels are maintained in the brain over an extended period, certain critical brain areas can become totally devoid of neural activity. When neural activity falters, the brain’s light activity darkens in the frontal lobes and there is a decreased ability by the person to control aggression and regulate negative thoughts and feelings.
It is vital to grasp that the purpose of learning this information about the heart and human brain’s needs for light & love is not to focus on blaming mothers and families whose children are exhibiting negative behavior and suffering from a lack of connection to their higher consciousness. Rather it is to finally understand that both the heart and the brain require light & love to attain spiritual connection to God. This is critically true during a human’s infancy phase of physical growth – but also throughout its adult years thereafter.
Then, with this knowledge that we human beings were created to live with the constant fuel of light/love during physical life in both our hearts and our brains, we must educate ourselves and do everything in our power to fulfill our heart’s and brains’ ability to function properly. Health will be seen in a different way once scans of the brain’s interior condition and functioning reveal any damaged or unbalanced areas, and new approaches for rehabilitation can be applied. The long-standing question about whether heredity or environment is the most essential ingredient in human behavior can be better understood through use of recent discoveries about the heart as well as new tomography scans and available brain imaging information not known in earlier decades.
Now is the time to profoundly understand what causes the human species to maintain heartfelt ethical attitudes and positive emotional behaviors and to discern what vital role both play in humanity’s spiritual development. We need to know the pattern from which we human beings were created, our present evolutionary status, and how we can best express that pattern in physical life. This may be the designated moment when we can be empowered to improve our loving behavior toward all people, but especially babies and children. Many creative hearts and minds are needed to discover how we can correct our present negative personal and societal problems and develop a brighter future in which every person gains expression of the spiritual nature that is the human hallmark.
In the meantime, those of us with relationships to babies and children can read broadly about the heart and brain connection, discuss ways of parenting and teaching based on love and on what PET and SPECT photographs reveal about the brain’s incredible design. We can agree to implement deliberate changes for the good of all. Parents, day care individuals and centers, educators of public and private schools, home teachers, and every adult who relates to a child, represent an important link in the sharing of 21st century information about the heart and brain in human life.
We will also be drawn to explore the ways adults who have not had a light enriched heart and brain experience, themselves, can recover from various neural and electrical imbalances and even the stress-induced cortisol damage they may have endured. Surely this is the exciting threshold of a new era in natural healing, at the least, and an enormous spiritual expansion of human consciousness as we birth new generations of heart centered and brain-healthy children with telepathic and other unusual abilities.
Yes, this is an incredibly hopeful time! For we already have tools such as meditation and prayer, music and sound, nature and her innumerable health-giving products from the earth, and the current positive scientific and technical equipment to assist us. Our challenge now is not merely to stay informed about these many developments that can aid us, but to use them! And to implement them both individually and in our local and global community relationships. Peace is the prize. The challenge is whether we will accept our responsibility and earn this heart-sought prize both for ourselves and for our children.
As names like the Indigo children, the Crystal children, the children of Oz, etc., suggest, our human evolution is being upgraded by wise and loving souls returning to earth. While heart and brain exploration continues to enrich our understanding of ourselves as creations of God’s design, perhaps we will finally understand how identical we humans really are in our basic essence and then begin applying our extraordinary hearts and brains to accept each other as one family.
Because the information on understanding what the brain really is and how it functions, there are a myriad of new books and DVD’s rapidly flooding the market you should be aware of. Here are a few of them having enormous value that you may wish to explore.
The Brain Fitness Program as presented on the Public Broadcast TV stations KQED and KTEH in Northern California in late 2007 was designed by 80 neuroscientists to strengthen the brain by increasing its speed, agility and comprehension. This package has 3 parts... a 60 minute DVD called Brain Fitness written by Dr .Michael Merzenich and Lennlee Keep...a book called The Brain That Changes Itself by Dr. Norman Doidge... and a computer program that you install at home to practice a program that helps you gradually improve your cognitive function by increasing your brain’s ability to attain greater cognitive function and neuronal strength. If you can’t see it on PBS TV you can contact the San Francisco company called Posit Science at www.PositScience.com or 800 514-3975 for more information.
Also watch for companies called: Brain Gym...Brain Alert...One Brain System... and many others soon to emerge at this helpful time when many people are suffering from dementia, Alhzeimers, and other debilitating conditions.
Since so much is happening at once, please stay alert to the brain topic and share with others and myself those things about the brain you have experienced that are beneficial. Since many brain games are also burgeoning for sale either online or in the marketplace, please remember to only buy items from well-qualified producers of brain material. Our brains are a precious tool that must be protected as we seek to strengthen them and help our children evolve their brain capacity for the betterment of all humanity.
Aha! Study Finds Eureka Moments Light Up Brain. Julia C. Keller, Science & Theology News, June 2004, page 9.
Ass’n for Prenatal & Perinatal Psychology & Health. One Hundred Books (And Videos Too), 1987-2002… plus www.birthpsychology.com has many books, videos and teaching materials explaining how the baby’s brain forms in its early years in response to the quality of interaction with the mother and other caregivers.
The Biology of Transcendence. Joseph Chilton Pearce, Park Street Press, 2002. (Also other titles such as Crack in the Cosmic Egg and The Magical Child)
*The Body Has a Mind of Its Own: How Body Maps in Your Brain Help You
do (About) Anything. Sandra & Matthew Blakeslee. 2006.
Brain Respiration. Dr. Ilchi Lee, Hamptons Road Pub., 2001(?). (This peacemaker has 17 books including Healing Society); also has an online Brain Respiration class at www.Healingplaza.com.
Brain Scans May Determine Success, But Ethical Questions Still Abound. Ashley Lawson, Science & Theology News, June 2005, page 32.
Brushes With Death Transform Life & the Brain, Julia C. Keller, Science & Theology News, June 2004, page 8.
EMDR: The Breakthrough Therapy for Overcoming Anxiety, Stress and Trauma. Francine Shapiro, Ph.D. & Margaret Silk Forrest, Basic Books, 1997.
The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness. Antonio Damasio, Harcourt, 1999.
The First Three Years of Life. Nina R. Lief , and others, Southmark Publ., 1997. (Early Childhood Development Center – N.Y. University - College of Medicine.)
Healing the Hardware of the Soul. Daniel Amen, M.D., Free Press, 2002. … also Healing ADD, the Breakthrough Program That Allows You to See and Heal the 6 Types of Attention Deficit Disorders, Putnam, 2001. …also Change Your Brain, Change Your Life: The Breakthrough Program for Conquering Anxiety, Depression, Obsessiveness, Anger and Impulsiveness. Random House, 1998. *** 2 excellent web sites www.amenclinic.com for an online video introduction of his work….. plus many photos of light operating inside the brain at www.brainplace.com... plus his Oct. 2005 book called Make a Good Brain Better.
The Healing Mind: The Vital Links Between Brain & Behavior, Immunity and Disease. Paul Martin, Ph.D., St. Martin’s Press, 1997.
The HeartMath Solution. Doc Childre, Howard Martin, et al, Harper, S.F., CA, 1999.
How to Know God: The Soul’s Journey into the Mystery of Mysteries. Deepak Chopra, M.D., Random House, 2000. (& many other titles about spiritual topics.)
Inside the Adolescent Brain, reporting by Alice Park, Time Magazine, May 10, 2004, pages 60-65.
The Intelligent Heart: Transform Your Life with the Laws of Love. David McArthur and Bruce McArthur, A.R.E. Press, 1997.
Molecules of Emotion: Why You Feel the Way You Feel. Candace B. Pert, Ph.D. Scribner, 1997. Pioneering research on how chemicals inside our body link mind/body.
The Mystical Mind. Eugene d’Aquili, M.D. and Andrew B. Newberg, M.D., Fortress Press, Minneapolis, MN,, 1999.
The New Brain: How the Modern Age is Rewiring Your Mind. Richard Restak, M.D. Rodale/distributed by St. Martins, 2003.
The Power of Light. Joel Achenbach & photographer Joe McNally, National Geographic Magazine, October, 2001, pages 7-29.
**The Promise of Energy Psychology. David Feinstein, PhD, Donna Eden, and Gary Craig. Penguin Group, 2005
Reading Your Baby’s Mind: New Research Finally Begins to Answer the Question…What’s Going on in There? Pat Wingert & Martha Brant, et al, Newsweek Magazine, August 15, 2005, pages 33-39.
Researcher: Evolution Encourages Altruistic Brain. David Peat, Science & Theology News, December 2003, page 11.
Searching for God Amid the Ganglia. Andrew Newberg, M.D., Science & Theology News, July/August 2004, pages 28/29.
The Soul of the Child: Nurturing the Divine Identity of Our Children. Michael Gurian, Atria Books, 2002. (& other titles.)
*The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist's Case for the Exisitience of the Soul. Mario Beauregard, PH.D and Denyse O'Leary, 2007.
A Symphony in the Brain: The Evolution of the New Brainwave Biofeedback. Jim Robbins, Atlantic Monthly Press, 2000.
Transformed Lives, Transformed Brains. Andrew Newberg, M.D., Science & Theology News, September 2005, page 30.
Ultimate Journey. Robert A. Monroe, Doubleday, 1994 + Journeys Out of the Body. Doubleday, 1971 + Monroe Institute Hemi-Sync sound materials, Lovingston, VA.
What the Bleep%$*! Do We Know? Film. Discussed by Mark Stanford, Ph.D., New Times, November/December 2004, pages 10+.
Why God Won’t Go Away: Brain Science & the Biology of Belief. Andrew Newberg, M.D.. Eugene D’Aquili, M.D., and Vince Rause. Ballentine Publishing Co., 2001
Your Child’s Brain. Sharon Begley, Newsweek Magazine, Feb. 19, 1996, pages 55-58.
Your Miracle Brain. Jean Carper, First Amendment Books, 645 Pennsylvania Ave. SE, Suite 100, Washington, D.C. 20003... 2005.