Amazing Brain, How Sweetly Made

Humans have been performing brain surgery on each other for at least a couple thousand years, but the brain is still one of the most profound mysteries. Then again, the liver isn't very well understood, either, nor are civics, ecology, or the laws of thermodynamics.

Our great medical gurus do know all sorts of bits of information about how some parts of the brain interact with other parts of the brain. For the most part, there just doesn't seem to be a visible pattern that the researchers can use to see how the parts work together to make the magic of consciousness happen. Now we've got electron microscopes to look at DNA, and still there isn't any decipherable mechanism to make this thing store memories and "think."

We also live in a society of intellectual turf wars. Even if someone does approach this subject with enough of an open mind  to begin to see the beauty and magnificence of how the brain works, he's almost certain to be ridiculed or even jailed for stating his observations. This has been the case for Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer and Glen Doman, whose bodies of work I study.

The territorial battles over the knowledge frontier of the brain are much more vicious than those over the mysteries of sex or the workings of the solar system. The brain is proprietary information, and don't you go around talking as though you know much about it. Not if you want to be taken seriously, anyway.

It's because even though many ideas about the brain are unfounded, whole industries have been built on these ideas, so there's a lot at stake in continuing to believe things that have been believed for a long time. Those industries that depend on secrecy and mysteriousness of the brain are the mental health and developmental disability industries.

The people who are trapped in that system provide a dark, sinister benefit to our society: they let the rest of us feel superior to someone.

Thank God it's a bunch of bullshit. And thank God for the handful of researchers out there who have fought ahead for the human spirit despite sanctions and outright threats from the prevailing culture. Those brave souls have learned and taught that:

• intelligence is not in the brain

• brain problems are not equivalent to stupidity

• brain injuries are in the brain, not in the affected body parts

• brains cannot be paralyzed or have “tremors”

• differences in child development are always related to the brain

• the brain runs every single event of the body, including cancer and infections, biochemistry and genetics

• the brain as a whole cannot be understood by looking at synapses, neurons, and responses to electrical stimulation of the cortex

• children do not learn better as their brains develop; their ability to learn diminishes. Therefore, the younger a person is, the faster a learner he is. All adults are hopelessly "mentally retarded" compared to neurologically-immature children.

• there is no such thing as brain cancer

• the brain is the most malleable and healable organ in the entire body.

Your Brain - Grand Mediator Extraordinaire
Every disease symptom, like everything else that happens in your body, is mediated by the brain. The brain acts as receiver-transmitter between experience (in the psyche) and response (in the body). Even plants have a sort of brain, one that is in every cell of the plant body to help the plant deal with environmental circumstances and to help the species itself adapt to changing conditions.

Your brain is the receptor between your experience and the actions that result; between divine intention for your existence and physical manifestation in your life. Your brain is the part of you that interfaces between un-manifest and manifest reality. This happens on four general levels of brain organization:

1. Through the area of the brain responsible for the archaic function of getting what we physically need into and out of our body (e.g. food, air, water);
2. Through the area of the brain responsible for the also-archaic function of protecting the physical integrity of the body, that is, protection from attack or compromise;
3. Through the more recently-evolved area of the area of the brain relaying to our capacity to take action in the world; and
4. Through the most recently-evolved area of the brain developed to deal with others in complex sets of relationships.

These areas of the brain, respectively, are 1. the pons of the brainstem, 2. the cerebellum, 3. the cerebral medulla (white matter), and 4. the cortex (grey matter). The limbic system coordinates between these four different brain zones.

Your Mind is in Your Brain... But Your Brain is Not Your Mind
The really unique part of us humans is the cerebral cortex of our brains –the wrinkly outer "bark" that wraps around the biggest part of the brain. Have you ever asked yourself what this part of the brain is? Obviously it's for “being human,” because this part of the brain is the most special thing about humans, but in what way does this part of the brain make us human?

This area of the brain is devoted to taking in a huge amount of subtle sensory information about our functional environment and processing it in relation to our belief system. Our day-to-day functional environment, like that of any animal, is mostly made up of interactions with others of our own species. This means that our human uniqueness in the biosphere is that we are a species with incredible abilities to form relationships with other humans.

Actually, it turns out that that's the only unique thing about humans. All our other unique qualities are by-products of our evolved ability to survive in large primate social groups.
Generally speaking, the sides, middle and back of the cortex are for taking in sensory information about our environment, and for acting in that environment in response to the information. But it is in the prefrontal cortex at the front of the brain - right there behind your forehead when you're trying to think through a tough test question - that all the processing between sensory input and conscious action takes place. The frontal lobes process the information from the environment and then make decisions about what that means.
Our brains do this by comparing the incoming information with a set of rules about reality. This area of the brain is the seat of our entire belief system or mental model of the world. It's the location of our context. Simple enough, right?
Within that prefrontal area of the brain is a zone that is used neither to receive information nor to direct action. And yet this area can get very, very busy. Out of this area arises imagination, generative thought, realization, recognition, and intent. This is the seat of the soul in the brain, the “psychic zone.” This is the part of your physical self where the Witness sits and where experience is had. It is the area in which you know things. It is where your mind is situated in your mind-body instrument.
But the "mind" part of your brain is no more developed than any other part of you when you are born. What your brain requires are the experiences of life that provide information from your environment and that provide accidental opportunities to take actions that create results in the manifest world.
The young child just new in the world has incredibly rapid brain development and learning takes place at a fantastic speed. In just one year, the deaf, blind, insensate little human has become a whirlwind of activity, talking, walking, and dominating his mother’s life. And his personality is there, too. He already has a mind of his own.
What a sacred duty it is to be anyone's trusted caregiver at this time.