Part 19: Self Discovery Series

Transcript:

There was an interesting statement by Dr. Penfield. Dr. Wilder Penfield was not an ordinary materialistic scientist. He... his point, he was a neurologist, neurosurgeon. He probably did more experimenting on the brain than any person in history: live patients, live human patients.

So, he ultimately came to conclude at the end of his work, at the end of his life he concluded that the brain is not the controller, that the brain is like a computer. That the mind, he's calling the mind... he's saying that the mind uses. Instead of saying self, he's saying mind.

So he's saying the mind, which is really you, uses this computer the brain, okay? So he wasn't identifying the person with the brain, okay? He wasn't identifying the mind with the brain. But even Penfield did not understand. Even Penfield's understanding was not perfect.

Basically Penfield's idea was that there was the self, which he called the mind, okay, who was the person, okay? And this mind, this person, okay, who's he's calling the mind, used the brain. There's just a person and then the brain. In which case, of course, what this means in other words, is that when the person leaves the gross physical body, the brain, then all that's left is the person, right? So then you have a liberated person simply by leaving the body, you have someone who's liberated. You understand that? There's just the brain and then the self and... who's then using the brain, okay? He didn't know about the mind, that there's a subtle material body there called the mind, okay?

That's also covering the self and it is, it is this mind that is somehow hooking up to the brain, you see, and using the brain. It's connected to the brain. Or if there is no brain, it connects up with something else, some other part of the body, okay? Like in plants, amoebas, and bacterias. There's no brain, but there's obviously some intelligence. There's some purpose. There's some memory, as rudimentary as it may be.

So anyway, Penfield made however a statement that maybe he's saying because there's no need for there to be a continuation of the memories, therefore, he's saying that all the memory was in the brain, okay? That somehow the brain contained all the memories, that the memory banks are somehow in the brain, right?