We are complex people who are destined to be great and powerful, especially when we work together for the common good. Because we don't understand how we are made, however, although that is a wonderful reality, we have been turned away from our Destiny to become Love, at least until recently. Many humans are finding ways to bring all of our component parts of our brains together into one functional being that is living in the set of thoughts and emotions called Love. We have four separate brains, developed over time as we evolved from reptiles, through two stages of mammalian evolution and, finally, developed a pre-frontal cortex that allowed us to think logically. We can use that last brain to not only be conscious, but self-conscious, as well as aware but also self-aware. These abilities allow us to do wonderful things, but also allow us to understand that we are mortal and that these bodies will die in time. Fortunately, we can also choose to learn that we are spiritual beings having a human experience, so that death of this particular body is no big deal. Most of us do not understand that about death, largely because others distorted the proper teaching, usually for less than admirable reasons. Each of our brains has an ego. The reptilian brain is very self-centered and has a motto of "Me first"or even "Kill or be killed." Actually it only wants to help its own survival, but we come along for the ride. We do not want to kill this ego, since it helps keep our body alive - we will have to transcend (go beyond) it, however. The second ego is small-group focussed, as is the early mammalian brain. Its motto is "One for all and all for One," and that can be useful at times; but a problem at other times. A group of soldiers, off on their won, uses this ego to survive, even thrive. The third ego is always a problem. The third brain is tribal-centered, or tribal-state centered, and its motto is "We are right and they are wrong." We must learn to disable that ego, or replace its motto with something like "We are all One with everything and we cannot hurt any part without hurting all parts." The fourth ego is logic centered, and self-centered as opposed to being inclusive. It was responsible for our falling from the "Garden of Eden" when it was not used to bring all parts of our brain into one, functioning, whole super-brain. Poorly-educated scientists use its motto of "Logic is the only true skill." to deny that there is anything other than narrowly-focused logic. This motto is being disassembled by those who choose to live in Love. Our pre-frontal cortex is both problem and a great tool for our 'salvation;' if properly used. In it is Hope for all, but now it is a serious problem until we meld it with our other brains. We have many minds, but it is easiest to think of having two sets, one the conscious mind and the other the subconscious (or unconscious, since most of us have not been taught how to access it) mind. Most of the conscious mind operates in the prefrontal cortex and most of the subconscious mind operates in the three earlier brains. Of great importance is the recent understanding that the subconscious mind is about 200 times faster and 20, 000 times more powerful (in computations performed per second) than the conscious mind. The conscious mind is capable of very complex tasks, but is slow and not very powerful in brute power type processes. The conscious mind has produced many processes that go way beyond the subconscious mind, however, using tools to overcome brute power. Mathematics, languages, scientific formula, etc., are very useful tools in most of the processes that will matter to us as an integrated society of one people and One creation.
About the Author: The author, Jim H. White writes as Jesuis Laplume; which stands for "I am the pen" or scribe, since I am not always the only author of some of my writings. I find this to be simultaneously exciting and scary. I am driven to write so that others may hear about what I have learned by and through writing. I was trained as a Scientist, but in an Engineering faculty, so that I learned the basics that would help me understand Science and Mathematics, but help move it into updated Engineering. I then spent four decades helping to move leading-edge Science into practice in eight different fields, finding out that the person who told existing experts that they would have to learn new things was not welcomed - nor was his troubling information. I studied both the evolving Science, at very large and the very small scales, plus the spirituality part of the Philosophy of Religions, to form an overview of how Science and spirituality are coming together for the first time since the ancient Greek scholars. They pictured Science and Philosophy (spirituality is a part of Philosophy) as two sides of one coin - still a useful concept. I found from my studies that, for almost two millennia we have been fed lies to prevent us from knowing who we really are, spiritual beings having a human experience. That human journey brings us ongoing chances to learn lessons that we will need if we are to grow in spiritual power; towards our Divine Creator. Both Science and spirituality, which is the basic reason for Religions in the first place, are needed as we humans continue our evolution from the thinking but fearful Homo sapiens into the loving Homo spiritus. Many humans are now well along the way in that evolution and can help us follow them if we choose to do so. Most of us, however, will choose to continue to live in fear, with the devil that we know being more acceptable than any form of change, even change for the very much better. As a result these reluctant people will be left behind, as part of a failed experiment in mind over spirit, with spirit being the more powerful and desirable. Love and Above to those who will follow!