Theos-Talk Archives (April 2005 Message tt01040)

Hi Leon
Went to Zeropoint.com web site. How fantastic. I thought he had 
swiped your ideas and then there you were! Finally the ears are 
about to open for you.  
Feel quite chuffed about knowing someone famous.
Regards
Cass

In The Heart's Code, psychologist Paul Pearsall (1998) maintains 
that, energetically speaking, the heart–rather than the brain–is 
clearly the centre of the psychological universe. Indeed: 
  

The heart's EMF (electro-magnetic field) is five thousand times more 
powerful than the electromagnetic field created by the brain and, in 
addition to its immense power, has subtle, non-local effects that 
travel within these forms of energy. ... the heart generates over 
fifty thousand femtoteslas (a measure of EMF) compared to less than 
ten femtoteslas recorded from the brain. (p. 55)

The profound significance of these facts leads Gary Schwartz and 
Linda Russe, in the forward of Pearsall's book, to comment: 
  

The Heart's Code points the way to a new revolution in our 
thinking. Metaphorically, the heart is the sun, the pulsing, 
energetic center of our biophysical "solar" system, and the brain is 
the earth, one of the most important planets in our biophysical 
system. One implication of the energy cardiology/cardio-energetic 
revolution is the radical (meaning "root") idea that energetically, 
the brain revolves around the heart, not the other way around.  
(1998, p. xii)

The heart is the largest source of biophysical energy in the body 
and within our psychological life. In Pearsall's view, the heart 
involves energy and information that comprises the essence or soul 
of who we are. 
The idea, that the heart is the centre of the psychology of the 
individual, instead of the brain, would indeed revolutionize our 
understanding of normal and supernormal psychology. Adopting this 
view would be analogous to the Copernican revolution, wherein 
scientists realized that the Earth, rather than being the centre of 
the universe, travelled around the sun within the solar system. The 
egocentric attitude of humans was shattered. Likewise, the 
acceptance of a deeper conceptualization of the heart, consciousness 
and the nature of Self would constitute a revolutionary development 
in modern psychology, philosophy and the life sciences. 
Pearsall states that we have been too "brain focussed" in the 
search for mind, and that instead of thinking in terms of a dual 
mind and body, a more rewarding and appropriate approach would be to 
adopt a triune model: that is, of a thinking brain, the material 
body and the energetic and emotional heart. The heart is the 
primary energy centre within the individual, and in Pearsall's 
terms "conveys the code that represents the soul." Mystical and 
spiritual psychologies abound describe human beings as having such a 
triune nature--with head, heart and hands. Whereas modern 
psychology examines only the mind and the body in the dualistic 
paradigm, mystical psychology connects third force, the emotional 
and soul nature to the Heart. Further, consciousness is not simply 
produced by the brain, but it has connection to the Heart and Soul! 
Pearsall examines the nature of cellular memory, life fields and 
non-local information fields in attempts to account for the various 
clinical and psychological evidences that are emerging about the 
mysterious qualities and role of the human heart. # The heart's 
attributes and functions are much more mysterious and significant 
than conventional scientific thinking supposes. Therefore, Pearsall 
argues that, through the psychology of the heart, modern psychology 
is "beginning to make its first tentative contacts with the soul."  
(p. 6) 
The isomorphism between a Microcosm and the Macrocosm involves 
the whole being, and not simply brain processes in the head. The 
Heart is the electromagnetic centre of the living being, and 
consciousness may well originate from sub-atomic realms of light 
through its inner dynamics. The supernal nature of consciousness as 
light is a dominant theme in mystical writings, and the self-
illuminating element described within the Cave of Brahman is truly 
the Sun of the body, and not the Mind. Mystics compare the Mind to 
the moon, which only reflects the light of Self, or the Sun within 
the Heart.