Journey To The Centers Of The Mind

How do our personalities and mental processes, our " states of consciousness" , derive from a gray mass of tissue with the consistency of a soft-boiled egg? How can mere molecules constitute an idea or emotion? Some of the most important questions we can ask are about our own consciousness. Our personalities, our individuality, indeed our whole reason for living, lie in the brain and in the elusive phenomenon of consciousness it generates. Thinkers in many disciplines have long struggled with such questions, often in ways that have seemed incompatible, if not downright contradictory. Philosophers have meditated on the subjective experience of consciousness, with little attention to the physical realm, while scientists have sought to establish a causal relation between brain function and mind, often ignoring the qualitative aspects of experience. In Journey to the Centers of the Mind, neuroscientist Susan Greenfield offers an intriguing, unifying theory of consciousness that encompasses both phenomenological mental events and physical aspects of brain function. Using information gathered from clues in animal behavior, human brain damage, computer science, neurobiology, and philosophy, Greenfield offers a " concentric theory" of consciousness, and shows how certain events in the brain correspond to our qualitative experience of the world. Demonstrating the ways in which we can interpret the experience of consciousness in terms of interactions among neurons, she explores how much we can learn by continuing to find the links between our physical and mental inner worlds.

This guided tour deep into the human brain reveals a long-hidden secret: the actual mechanism and logic by which mind emerges from matter. The implication is stunning and inescapable: creationism, not evolution, is the more scientific perspective – a seemingly religious bias that is staunchly confirmed by a second look at fossil, geological and other evidence. This conceptual breakthrough is derived from a new and deeper understanding of an image from which understanding we learn that God, not matter, is fundamental – this being the only way to explain the light of self and how this light is the immediate consequence of an accelerating, probabilistic relationship to the infinitude of nonexistence, against which the self sees itself as finite or "conscious." Indeed, this relationship to nonexistence allows us to appreciate that consciousness, invariably of a finite image, is the actual means by which order, and therefore matter itself, is formed – in the image of God whose creative essence is responsible for the existence of something over nothing. The central insight is twofold. First of all, the perception of an image, being highly specific, needs to be recognized as an extremely creative process requiring expectant scanning, matching, and the logical channeling of energy into movement, the movement by which we see an image. This logic explains consciousness in a manner not yet acknowledged by mainstream science – that mind is fundamental in overseeing a relationship between the finite and the infinite, something only possible if as the Bible teaches, "we live and move and have our being in God." Secondly, every image is fused with an awareness of the body mass as a whole by which it becomes apparent that perception is the very act of containing a universal tendency toward dissolution and nonexistence. Dudley analyzes the stunning similarities between the motor development of humans and that of much simpler organisms such as the salamander to show how in fact the regressive release and channeling of energy into anticipated form is tightly bound to the movement of the body mass as a whole through space and time. Indeed, space-time itself defines the very essence of an image which means that the perception of an image, every image, is the very act of creating and sustaining the body mass. The clear implication is that awareness is literally a vector between the finite and the infinite as encoded within neural design and that creation, the immediate result of an image, cannot have occurred by a succession of "tooth and claw" steps over millions of years – a claim robustly supported by a closer look at the evidence, including fossil and geological data. Dudley frames the big picture philosophically: the light of self, in a God-centered universe, derives from an accelerating tendency toward nonexistence. An image, on the other hand, represents the successful restraint of this tendency – thereby defining an oppositional system in which the contrast between self and other is, in a God-centered universe, quite literally the relationship between order and disorder, and equivalently between "past" and "future" – in the eternal "now" of time, the very habitat of God. By applying this reasoning to the brain, Dudley identifies the mechanism by which an image thwarts the Second Law – a mechanism housed, most notably, in the connection between the visual system and the brain's thermoregulatory core. It becomes apparent that transformations between energy and mass, expressed by the equation E = mc2, are meaningless apart from an image, and that the universe must then be an image in the mind of God. As a minimum, it becomes clear from this well-referenced study that good science cannot exclude God.

The Adventure of I is one of the most complete, logical and practical books written about the power of the human mind, Universal Consciousness, the Laws and Principles of the Universe, and your ability to direct your mind and create the life you desire with the power of your will. This book will take you on a journey to the centre of your reality where you will discover the mighty I within, and in so doing, you will come to understand just what is meant by the greatest maxim of all time, 'Know Thyself'. It is unlike other books on the subject in that it is founded on what is called Top-Down-Living, which is to live life from the higher vantage point of your Real Self. Only by raising your degree of consciousness above the Physical Plane of your physical experience and the Mental Plane of your thoughts, desires and emotions, can you have directive power over them. Trying to change your physical experience at the degree of consciousness of the physical you is akin to manipulating an already printed photograph and expecting the changes to be reflected when you print it out again from the original negative. The Adventure of I teaches you how to change the 'original' so as to create lasting change in your life. You will gain an unparalleled understanding of the underlying mental nature of the Universe and how your mind creates your reality through It. You will discover the masculine and feminine principles of your mind and how they work together for the same purpose that is creation. You will learn precisely why your mind must, by definition, be one and the same with the One Universal Mind of The Absolute in Its entirety, for which nothing is impossible. You will learn about the seven Universal Laws and other Principles that govern everything and everyone in the Universe, and how to use the Higher Laws to master the Lower Laws and transcend the influence of polarity and rhythm in your life. You will learn practical techniques for consciously creating your experience of reality, one desire at a time, under the direction of your will and the knowing of your intuition. You will discover long-lost secrets about the nature of the Universe and your mind's central place within Its Omnipotence, and much more. Ultimately, The Adventure of I will empower you to utter the most profound statement, 'I AM I', with full authority, and in so doing, you will become the master of your destiny.

How does the human brain produce your private world? Critically acclaimed neuroscientist and author Susan Greenfield, who holds the prestigious position of Director of the Royal Institution in England, weaves together a thought-provoking examination of childhood experiences, primal emotions, such as fear and euphoria, and the effects drugs have on our personalities to probe the most intriguing mystery facing today’s scientists: How does the human brain create consciousness and a unique sense of self? In this absorbing, lyrical exploration, Dr. Greenfield presents a provocative new theory that treats emotions as the building blocks of our consciousness and provides an illuminating glimpse into the human brain that reveals the astonishing essence of who we are.

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