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The Mystery of the Human Brain

Researchers have been trying for many years to understand and discover how the human brain works. We have seen much progress in this field – today we are able to "photograph" the cerebral impulses and determine in which areas of the brain are concentrated the receptors of many stimuli and abilities connected with the human body’s various actions, use of language, the ability of distinguishing shapes and colours, etc.

Eighty-six years ago the following information was published in the work "Toward the Light":

The physical brain – the receiver and communicator – is apparently the only factor in the human personality that, being an organ, is easily subjected to scientific investigation by human beings. But since the other two factors cannot be subjected to such material investigation as can the physical one, mankind has hitherto been unable to recognize these two non-visible but highly important factors – important, because very many factors of human personality can only be explained and understood through their existence.

(Pages 282 and 285 of "Toward the Light".)

In the book follows a precise description of the various tasks due to the three factors/brains of human personality.

In the beginning, when scientists began to investigate the brain, many animal experiments were carried out.

However, animals cannot be placed on the same level as human beings, as they lack one of the three brains, which in reality all cooperate to make of mankind what we are: independently thinking beings, each one of us possessing his/her own unique personality. Today, the experts think they are close to a plausible explanation of many facts which have not yet found satisfactory answers: once we have a map of the human brain, on the basis of impulses captured by sophisticated electronic equipment – surely we will finally know all about man! Or...?

Probably we will not see any such total scientific revelation on the human being and our patterns of behaviour. But if one day someone decides to investigate the above factors, perhaps a quantity of extraordinary news will ensue.

The astral brain – which is also an element of the animal organism – resides in a reality that is not visible to our direct observation, if we do not possess the faculty of clearsight. Any person who is only modestly clairvoyant is able to see the astral brain: a kind of transparent, or white, casing – a bright halo surrounding the body of the human being, presenting a stronger white light around the head and the shoulders. Often the person who is able to see this white halo mistakes it for the "aura" of the observed human being – but in reality the aura, which distinguishes itself by its great variety of colours, cannot be seen but by an extremely gifted clairvoyant person.

The Italian Capucine monk Padre Pio was such a person. Further back in time, Jesus of Nazareth himself surely belonged to this category of very special and extremely gifted human beings.

However, the astral brain is but a "container" where each learned movement, every gesture and manual ability we have been taught are placed, "for future use".

In our everyday gestures – like driving a car, dancing, playing the piano, peeling potatoes – we all recognize the absentminded quality of doing these things "automatically". Why, then, do we sometimes "jam"? An example: perhaps it is our habit to go and do the pools each Saturday morning, and then go and buy our favourite weekly magazine at the newsstand afterwards. One Friday evening we decide to buy the magazine at once, because we happen to be close to the newsstand. On Saturday, as usual we go to do the pools – only to head straight to the newsstand afterwards. Here we face the newspaper seller, without realizing precisely why we have gone to see him, because in fact we had bought the magazine the day before. Habits, habits... Exactly! The habit is immediately absorbed by the astral brain, after having repeated any action only a few times – and then, when our mind is occupied with other thoughts, our astral brain leads us along the "path" that we usually follow, without being able to realize that it is superfluous to do so, on that special occasion. We actually have to apply our mind – our psychic brain – in order to direct our body where it is most rational that it goes!

Who is wondering about for example, how the birds of passage are able to find their way to warmer areas, far from where they came into the world – or how salmons "know" how to swim against the current up the same river where they themselves "once were eggs" – will find the answer in the existence of the astral brain: the animals follow the astral trails which generations of members of the same species have left "hanging in the air", so to speak. Probably also the mystery of whales stranding in great numbers on beaches everywhere may be solved in the same way: perhaps the whales follow a very ancient, but still active "trail", uncaring that in the meantime an island has appeared or the coastline has changed, in that place. (In some cases, the "trails" remain in the ether for centuries – and here we find the explanation of many of the strange things which may still be observed in old houses and "haunted" mansions.)

So, the astral brain is also part of the animal. However, animals have no psychic brain. This is the "organ" where all that makes the human being so special and independent resides: our character, our recollections, our will, our sentiments. The mentioned "aura" (we will use this term to name it, as this word is far the most widely known), is the "visible" expression of the psychic brain (though is it so only to clairvoyant persons). In reality, all our thoughts and sentiments – those who bring us into contact with our conscience, as well as old humiliations and grudges which may lead to diseases – take their point of departure from the psychic brain. If we learn to be more conscious of our inner life and begin to listen to the increasingly clearer advice from our conscience, the result will be a more healthy life and a responsible, ethical outlook, which will take us even further, in our new-found harmony with our innermost personality.

U.S. Qvistgaard, revised January 2006