– “The Reinvention of Self”
“Poverty and stress may not just be symptoms of society, but bound to our anatomy.”

“Eight years after Gould [Professor Elizabeth Gould, Princeton University’s Department of Psychology] defied the entrenched dogma of her science and proved that the primate brain is always creating new neurons, she has gone on to demonstrate an even more startling fact: The structure of our brain, from the details of our dendrites to the density of our hippocampus, is incredibly influenced by our surroundings. Put a primate under stressful conditions, and its brain begins to starve. It stops creating new cells. The cells it already has retreat inwards. The mind is disfigured.

The social implications of this research are staggering. If boring environments, stressful noises, and the primate’s particular slot in the dominance hierarchy all shape the architecture of the brain—and Gould’s team has shown that they do—then the playing field isn’t level. Poverty and stress aren’t just an idea: they are an anatomy. Some brains never even have a chance,” quoting Jonah Lehrer in SEED Magazine.
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– UPDATE: June 11, 2015
“Harvard neuroscientist: Meditation not only reduces stress, here’s how it changes your brain”
“Sara Lazar, a neuroscientist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, was one of the first scientists to take the anecdotal claims about the benefits of meditation and mindfulness and test them in brain scans. What she found surprised her — that meditating can literally change your brain. She explains:” quoting Brigid Schulte, Brisbane Times (Australia).
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– Excerpt from “Ramtha: The White Book”
“Your body is maintained according to your brain and your collective thinking, for every
thought you allow to enter your brain electrifies and feeds every cell of your body. Yet
from the time you were a child and could reason in social consciousness, you accepted the programming that you must grow up, become old, and then die. So because you accepted that thought, you began to degrade the life force within your body, because the thought of olderness sends a slow or low frequency, electrical spark to each cellular structure. The slower the rate of speed, the greater the loss of agility within the body, for the body is lessened in its ability to rejuvenate and restore itself. Thus age is permitted to occur and ultimately the death of the body. Yet if you allowed yourself to continuously receive higher thought frequencies, you would send faster and more high-powered electrical currents throughout your body and it would stay forever in the moment, thus never advancing in age or dying. But everyone here knows it will age and die, so slowly the current becomes less and less and less.”
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– The Closed Mind
Excerpt from Ramtha, The White Book
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