The Brain

The brain controls the central nervous system, regulating breathing, heart rate, and digestion, as well as thinking and reasoning. For most animals, the brain is located in the head. However, some invertebrates (critters without a backbone, like insects) may not have a centralized brain, preferring to rely on collections of ganglia. Brains are very complicated collections of neurons – over a hundred billion of them! Early peoples saw the brain as “stuffing”. Ancient Egyptians removed it during embalming – for them, the heart was the home of intelligence. We know better now, though traces of the old belief remain in sayings like, “I learned it by heart.” The brain controls many systems. Without our knowledge, it regulates the autonomic nervous system, regulating breathing, heart rate, digestions, blood pressure, and body temperature. The brain is the source of all learning, emotion, and cognition. The brain looks after most functions of our body. Brains are divided into grey matter and white matter. Grey matter refers to the cell bodies of neurons – they make up the outer layers of the brain, called the cortex. White matter refers to the axons, fibers that connect neurons to each other. These axons are covered by … Continue reading The Brain →

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Richard Cassaro is a journalist, speaker and author of “Written In Stone: Decoding The Secret Masonic Religion Hidden In Gothic Cathedrals And World Architecture.” The book uncovers a lost Wisdom Tradition that was practiced globally in antiquity, found memorialized in pyramids, Triptychs, and identical images worldwide. The central tenets of this tradition have been perpetuated in Western Secret Societies. The most visible of these is the so-called “Masonic Fraternity,” an age-old chivalric Order whose ranks have included Europe’s Gothic cathedral builders and America’s Founding Fathers. Richard has two websites: www.DeeperTruth.com and www.RichardCassaro.com