BACK when Frank Sinatra wooed audiences with the song “All of Me,” and psychoanalyst Theodor Reik was writing Listening with the Third Ear, we were still on the fringes of holistic medicine – and the received wisdom was that our brains are the only source of consciousness.
A century earlier the Voice of the Silence taught two kinds of sentience – the brain or “Eye Doctrine,” and the feelings or “Heart Doctrine.” Robert Crosbie, Founder of the United Lodge of Theosophists, described concepts for connecting these separated systems.
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Our perceptions come not only from the brain, he says, but also “from the impressions of the organs or cells of the body.”
The Friendly Philosopher continues: Continue reading
