Quantum Conversation. Dr. Michael Ruggles

stress response. (The stress response will be covered in great detail in a following chapter).

      Pituitary Gland – secretes chemicals that activate hormones in the body, and is considered the “Master Gland”.

      Pineal Gland – controls the biorhythms, or the “Internal Clock”, that is affected the amount of light (photonic data from the sun), stimulating the release of serotonin during the day, and melatonin at night.

      Hippocampus – The clearinghouse for long and short-term memory, and the associative learning of new experiences. It assists in the memory of “persons, places, times, things, and feelings”, in order to make the unknown known and remembered.

      Amygdala – stores highly charged emotional experiences and primitive emotions into long-term memory. It alerts the system to precognitive survival responses, and is a fear and/or contentment generator.

      Basal Ganglia – integrates feelings and thoughts with physical responses to the environment. It assists to suppress and control automatic impulses and anxiety.

      3. The neocortex, or the thinking brain, developed over the last 200-300 thousand years, and is found in primates, whales, dolphins, crows, and human beings. This third brain molded itself around the previous two brains, and is responsible for language, reason, thinking, free will, analyzing, logic, planning, creating, communicating, and conscious memories. It is an interpreter and the “Seat of Conscious Awareness”. The human brain contains the record of our entire evolutionary past, including memories from all three modules of the brain, encoding our cosmic experiences and adaptation to the environment and matrix of the Earth and galaxy. It is all enfolded and mapped into our neurons and into our DNA (which is encoded by periodic pulses of Universal Morphic Field information).

      My purpose here is not to give the reader a detailed explanation of the brain, but only an evolutionary overview of its development in regard to our present status and understanding. For a more thorough review of brain anatomy and function, I highly recommend Dr. Joe Dispenza’s book, Evolve Your Brain, to gain some appreciation for this extraordinary organ.

      Life on this planet has evolved from single cells, to communities of single cells, to multicellular plants and animals consisting of billions and trillions of symbiotic, coexisting systems of cells; to thinking, feeling, and creative human beings, to Earth as Gaia – a single living organism in a greater cosmic body; all part of a whole and united ECOSYSTEM of organic and inorganic intelligence. Biological organisms appear to have evolved toward a broader complexity of conscious and intelligent shifts – from the biological evolution of cells and plants, to the mental evolution of mammals and primates, to the spiritual evolution of Self-awareness, appreciation, and consciousness in humans.

       Gaia

      The two main groups of Gaia’s living units are plants and animals. Plants absorb carbon dioxide, sunshine (light energy/photons), and water – releasing oxygen and energy materials of carbohydrates, proteins, and fats, etc. Interestingly, animals absorb oxygen, carbohydrates, proteins, and fats – releasing carbon dioxide, water, and “fertilizer”. What a perfect set-up for survival! These two multicellular life forms completely support and depend upon one another for food, air, water, and Life existence. We live through SYMBIOSIS with all other Earthly forms – cooperation, community, and coexistence is how we live and thrive! Cooperation is perhaps more essential for evolution than is competition; in fact, intelligent cooperation has been part of the development of everything from atoms and molecules to human beings. At some level cooperation is even older than life itself. Love is a universal urge to reunite the many with the Original One.

      Our bodies have an UNIMAGINABLE WISDOM AND POWER to arrange and control trillions of cells – consisting of an infinite number of molecules, atoms, and subatomic particles. All ALIVE and dancing and moving and flowing and shifting, changing and cooperating in a harmonious function called homeokinesis (homeostasis) – Life adapting to thrive and survive, and to become more fully conscious and aware.

      Contemporary thought has turned to the acquisition of new senses and the idea that Life is a continual process of learning, growth, increased understanding and creativity, and a vision of greater inner unfoldment and potential. Filled with an appreciation of historical and evolutionary perspective, the new humanity is reaching for quantum dimensions from within a sea of infinite possibility. As we evolve out of old, non-growth and unsustainable cycles, many people are beginning to re-evaluate their worn-out attitudes, and are replacing them with fantastic ideas of greater growth, expansion, possibility, and personal responsibility. We are seeking what Martin Luther King, Jr. referred to as the “beloved community”. We are seeing the possibility of evolving beyond our current mindset and environment. We are all related. We are all in this TOGETHER!

      Dr. King spoke of it this way: “We must learn to live together as brothers, or we will all perish together as fools. We are tied together in the single garment of destiny, caught in the inescapable network of mutuality. And whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. For some strange reason, I can never be what I ought to be until you are able to be what you ought to be. And you can never be what you ought to be, until I am what I ought to be…”