Sublime

ANTHONY PEAKE, AUTHOR OF THE INFINITE MINDFIELD AND OPENING THE DOORS OF PERCEPTION AND COAUTHOR OF THE IMMORTAL MIND

When the alarm bell of the emotional brain keeps signaling that you are in danger, no amount of insight will silence it.

brains are already organized and knowledgeable.

neuroscience research has shown that we possess two distinct forms of self-awareness: one that keeps track of the self across time and one that registers the self in the present moment.

Our most surprising finding was a white spot in the left frontal lobe of the cortex, in a region called Broca’s area. In this case the change in color meant that there was a significant decrease in that part of the brain.

Memory is shown to be not so much a library but more a repository of ready-to-run routines that enable our daily living.

Our brains are more than tangled cassette and video tapes or computer hard drives.