Hi All,

When my microwave oven counter hit 14 seconds today while warming a cup of coffee I took a pause to remember how 15 seconds after Loma Prieta felt. As I continued to poor water into my coffeemaker and it seemed to go by so fast and yet, those other 15 seconds after Loma Prieta created a mental imagine that is strongly etched in my memory.

Mental perception of events during a lifetime will depend largely on what value you place on certain events, traumatic experiences and general memory skills. What is important for one person to remember may not mean little or nothing to someone else. As an example, I noticed over the years when you ask couples what happened during a marriage proposal, women will remember it quite vividly and men not quite so well.

While men and women have commonality in memory selection, women are definitely more left brain (creative) and men are more right brain (scientific) in their thinking skills. Today a person who uses the left brain more often will be more creative in the arts and more open to psychic phenomena than people who are right brain centered. However, in the distant past this was not the case. In ancient times and throughout Native American culture, the most gifted and highly respected positions were held by men who were intuitive. An entire tribe for instance, would be directed by a Shaman who guided its members both personally and as a whole.

First thoughts by many when thinking about Albert Einstein would be that he was a scientist, however, he was highly intuitive and used his intuitive skills in problem solving. It is well known that when he faced a problem he would take a twenty minute nap and awake with the solution. So would one say that he was a psychic scientist or a scientist who used left field inspiration? And what should we make of Jim Brune, U.N.R. when he has been honored for his intuitive problem solving skills?

As I see it, the future of the world may depend on whether or not people use expanded awareness in problem solving skills. We have to ask if science would be more beneficial if scientists were taught how to meditate. In meditation one will focus on the problem at hand and be willing to open the mind to alternative thoughts. Though not as intense as the Shaman who fasts for three days and goes out into the wilderness seeking the answer, it does provide a very short term mental break from everyday repetition.

Scientific advancements for the betterment of mankind today and in the future could be limited by those who only live inside of a narrow corridor of the mind or to others who see beyond those walls and use everything that is at their disposal. What we think; we shall become.

Petra