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The Three Brains
(Developing listening so one can hear Intuition)
The Three Brains-(From workshop in Port Orange, Florida)
(Audience participation in parenthesis)
[Brackets for clarification]
First off, let's look and see if we can find something else about us
human beings-strange creatures. This one we'll talk about the brain
situation.
You have three of them-we're called three brained creatures. So we'll
consider what each brain does and what we can do with them if need be.
The first brain, number one, is called a primitive brain.
They call it primitive because the most primitive creatures on earth have
it. They only have one. The primitive brain looks after the
body-it does a very good job of taking care of it. If you get excited, it
runs the heart rate up, blood pressure up and digestion stops and all that
good stuff. So it knows exactly what to do for it. If you exercise, it makes
the muscles stronger. If you goof off, it makes 'em weaker-so it won't do
anything for you if you don't need it. If you go out and lift big weights,
it will build big muscles on you. It digests food, tells you when you're
sleepy; and when you go to sleep, it tells you when to wake up. It takes
perfectly good care of the body; and I suppose it laughs a lot when it hears
people say they should do this for their health and that for their
health--that they should take a little exercise and they should eat some oat
bran and what-have-you-it knows exactly what you need if you just listen to
it-it takes good care of the body. So number one is the primitive
brain.
Number two is the brain of logic and reason. It works real
well to work math problems. It does a few other things but not near as much
as we ask of it. We ask it to tell us "what to do in the future", and
"what to do to get rich", and "what to do to be peaceful" and
all this kind of stuff; and it winds up with a lot of confusion and conflict
and a lot of noise inside.
So if we look at it as the brain of logic and reason, we would use it for
logic and reason to work math problems and whathaveyou, and we wouldn't try
to use it for living purposes. But everybody tries to use it as a living
ordinance and it doesn't work very well.
Number three brain is called the intuitive brain. Now it
has intuitive action, and it only works when everything else is quiet.
So you hear about a quiet mind. This is what you work for is to have a
quiet mind, and then intuition takes place.
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