Connecting with the Core
In the Core novels:
The Core is a layer of energy that exists throughout the whole Universe. All intelligent life in the Universe has the ability to interact with the Core. All life, intelligent or not, is born with the physiological equipment necessary to interact with the Core.
Humans have a cluster of brain cells that facilitate interaction with the Core. Unfortunately, like most other races that exist in the Universe, these cells lose sensitivity to the Core a few years after birth, if the cells are not exercised.
This is not a far fetched concept. It actually happens with cells in the human brain that are used for binocular vision. Many years ago, while doing my BA, I learnt about these cells in a Perception or Sensory Psychology course I took. I tried to find the actual paper/text that discussed this feature of the cells, when I used the idea in my novel Hosting, Book 1 of The Core.
My memory told me the concept was reported in one of the books by R.L. Gregory, either 'the intelligent eye' (1970) or 'Eye and Brain' (1966). Fortunately, I still have copies of these book. Unfortunately, I couldn't find the reference I was searching for.
I turned to the Internet but I was frustrated again. There are lots of references to current work currently being done with binocular cells. I reviewed an article about identifying which cells are binocular and how they were identifying the cells in the brain. There was also lots of references to retraining the brain to undo the perceptual losses that occur when the cells stop functioning properly due to lack of stimulation from both eyes. Loss of depth perception is one of the problems. The retraining work wasn't a big surprise, considering that the 'plasticity of the brain' concept has made it from academia to popular science reporting.
I figured if the concept was so old that it was no longer referenced in modern research, I would try again by looking through a 'Readings from Scientific America, Perception: Mechanism and Models text that dated back to my University time. Again I couldn't find the reference, so I gave up.
If you find it difficult to believe what I have said about binocular cells losing their functionality, if they are not stimulated properly, and the research being done to correct the visual problems isn't enough to make you a believer then you either have to accept it as science fiction or forget about reading my novel Hosting, Book 1 of the Core.
If by chance you know where the reference I was searching for is located please drop a comment here and help me out.
To summarise, in the Core novels, we are born with a cluster of cells in our brains that allow us to interact with the Core. These cells facilitate things like seeing auras, and sensing emotions. The cells lose their sensitivity to the Core as we get older because they are not exercised as much. In modern societies, we don't need them as much as we did when our societies were primitive. But, the cells can be re sensitised through stimulation and meditation.
Meditation will be discussed in another post.
The Core is a layer of energy that exists throughout the whole Universe. All intelligent life in the Universe has the ability to interact with the Core. All life, intelligent or not, is born with the physiological equipment necessary to interact with the Core.
Humans have a cluster of brain cells that facilitate interaction with the Core. Unfortunately, like most other races that exist in the Universe, these cells lose sensitivity to the Core a few years after birth, if the cells are not exercised.
This is not a far fetched concept. It actually happens with cells in the human brain that are used for binocular vision. Many years ago, while doing my BA, I learnt about these cells in a Perception or Sensory Psychology course I took. I tried to find the actual paper/text that discussed this feature of the cells, when I used the idea in my novel Hosting, Book 1 of The Core.
My memory told me the concept was reported in one of the books by R.L. Gregory, either 'the intelligent eye' (1970) or 'Eye and Brain' (1966). Fortunately, I still have copies of these book. Unfortunately, I couldn't find the reference I was searching for.
I turned to the Internet but I was frustrated again. There are lots of references to current work currently being done with binocular cells. I reviewed an article about identifying which cells are binocular and how they were identifying the cells in the brain. There was also lots of references to retraining the brain to undo the perceptual losses that occur when the cells stop functioning properly due to lack of stimulation from both eyes. Loss of depth perception is one of the problems. The retraining work wasn't a big surprise, considering that the 'plasticity of the brain' concept has made it from academia to popular science reporting.
I figured if the concept was so old that it was no longer referenced in modern research, I would try again by looking through a 'Readings from Scientific America, Perception: Mechanism and Models text that dated back to my University time. Again I couldn't find the reference, so I gave up.
If you find it difficult to believe what I have said about binocular cells losing their functionality, if they are not stimulated properly, and the research being done to correct the visual problems isn't enough to make you a believer then you either have to accept it as science fiction or forget about reading my novel Hosting, Book 1 of the Core.
If by chance you know where the reference I was searching for is located please drop a comment here and help me out.
To summarise, in the Core novels, we are born with a cluster of cells in our brains that allow us to interact with the Core. These cells facilitate things like seeing auras, and sensing emotions. The cells lose their sensitivity to the Core as we get older because they are not exercised as much. In modern societies, we don't need them as much as we did when our societies were primitive. But, the cells can be re sensitised through stimulation and meditation.
Meditation will be discussed in another post.
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