despondent about the country, its leaders, wondering where it was all going to end, seeing only a steady downhill slide, busy analysing, reasoning and filled with endless questions to which there was no answer. She, on the other hand, exuded enthusiasm. 'Look how beautiful the country is. Have you experienced how wonderful the people are? Our president is wise and he is making many improvements but my husband doesn't think so.' The husband was sitting in the car gloomily looking out of the window, obviously anaesthetised to the beauty of the environment. She continued, 'I love it here. You should come and live here too.' I hope that over the years they will grow, learn and remain open to each other for their responses revealed diametrically opposite experiences of life. It is not my intention in this article to lambast the head and deny its value. The mind is a wonderful tool, a device. I am not even suggesting we subdue it and let it fall into disuse. It has, however, been leading us for the last few thousand years and this form of intelligence, when it is in charge, has proved itself to not always be so intelligent. Look at the way our world has been run and the consequences of mental creations. Had the mind been servant to the intelligence of the heart, our planet would be flourishing. A research group, connected to Stanford University in the US, has made some remarkable discoveries. As the foetus grows in the womb, the human heart begins to beat before the brain is formed. The researchers wondered from where the intelligence was sourced that began and regulated the heartbeat. They discovered – and this is amazing – the heart has its own brain, a real brain with brain cells. There are only approximately 40? 000 cells but obviously that is all the heart needs to function. Isn't it fascinating how, in so many fields, science now corroborates what the mystics have known for centuries when they referred to the intelligence of the heart? These researchers also discovered that the aura, an electro-magnetic field, is about 2-3m in diameter and toroidal-shape, like a donut. Drunvalo Melchizedek believes these toroidal magnetic fields are generated by the sacred point in the heart and this was proved by the scientists. Similar fields are to be found everywhere in nature and they surround the planet, the Solar System and possibly the Universe. This means that at any time, if your heart is open, you are connected to any other part of the planet through love. It means we can have access (through what
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