CONSCIOUSNESS is still considered, by most neuroscientists, to be located and created entirely in our physical brain tucked safely inside our skulls.
This persistent worldview is reinforced by our body language in describing having a thought, by people pointing upward to their heads.
But native cultures never engaged in such self-serving, skull-duggery. The Native American view, according to their traditions, always looked to the heart as the seat of the moving force of thought and spirituality.
Confusing matters more are the familiar ‘gut-feelings’ we often have. These compelling instincts, recent studies show, are far more often than not accurate depictions of a situation, causes, a person’s character, or even foretelling of some future event.
Ritual divinations, mythical Norns, or crystal balls are not required.
Undeterred, many neuroscientists continue to diligently catalog what they insist are ‘the neural correlates of consciousness’ in our brain, and seem determined to prove those billions of correlates are the creators of our thoughts and feelings, located exclusively in the fatty workshop between our ears.
In this view when we die everything disappears forever — including our soul and our individual ‘I am I’ awareness. But this reductionist view of mind and consciousness is losing favor with many research scientists on the leading edge today, and is about to radically change.
THEOSOPHY isn’t in the world solely for the spiritual benefit of its member groups. It aims to reach far more than helping a few individuals. 
WHEN our thick brains get all heated up worrying life’s complexities, that’s often the best time to kick off our shoes, and give it a rest.
MAINSTREAM scientists looking for the source of consciousness, insist its origin must be located in the physical brain.
ASTROLOGY is just unscientific superstition many skeptics insist. Real philosophy, Theosophy counters, seeks “rather to solve than to deny.”
MESMEROMANIA is how the Paris press reported it. 
IN the surreal landscape of Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass, Alice wonders what the world is like on the other side of a mirror.
THE Cheyenne say that “our first teacher is our own heart,” but mainstream science offers few apples to our inner instructor.
GROWING numbers of new thought leaders, and frontier scientists 
ELECTRICAL and magnetic signatures are generated, occult teachers say, whenever there is physical touch, the sound of a voice, or even a meaningful look
EASTERN metaphysics proposes the existence of an astral substance, or matrix, patterning the physical world.
