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An experience I had 20 years ago inspired me to investigate the power of the brain to alter our life. As I describe in the book, much of my spine was crushed in a bike accident, and four surgeons said my only option to avoid paralysis was a type of surgery that would have left me with a permanent disability and possibly, lifelong pain. I had to make the toughest decision of my life, but I turned down the surgery and turned instead to the innate intelligence that constantly gives life to everyone… Continue

Everything that makes us up from a conscious standpoint is embroidered in the three dimensional network of our brain. Our hopes and dreams, our personality, our memories, our secrets, our strengths and weaknesses and our perceptions of the world are located, as if on a map, within this web of neurological tissue. We know this is true because once the brain is damaged, injured, or diseased, the state of affairs of mind and of body is altered. Experiments have been performed on human beings… Continue

Each neuron in the cerebellum has a thousand times more connections than the neurons in the rest of the brain. That means a scraping of cerebellum the size of your little fingernail has more neuron connections than the whole neocortex. What’s going on down there? And can we make better use of it? Thinking.pdf

“THE METAPHOR OF AN OPEN MIND NEVER MEANT SO MUCH. THINK OF AWARENESS IN THIS VAST SEA OF POTENTIALS AS IF YOU WERE WALKING IN THE DARK WITH A FLASHLIGHT AND SHINING YOUR LIGHT ON THE REALITY THAT HAS BEEN THERE ALL ALONG.” The Throne of Our Divinity.pdf