There’s an old joke that tells us all to think with our brains more because our hearts are stupid. But real research about the nature of our hearts may indicate that it might be the other way around.

Ancient Egyptians, during their embalming and mummification process of the dead, took great care in removing most of the organs from the body and storing them separately in earthenware jars. But in order to avoid damage to the head and face of the deceased, they pulled the brain out through the nose in small bits. In a process where they took great care in preserving a person’s body for the next life, it seems they regarded the brain as less important than other organs.  And certainly less important than the heart, which was carefully left intact inside the body. It was believed that the heart was the central part of a person’s entire being, knowledge, wisdom, and consciousness. Did they know something we, to this day, still don’t know? Scriptures and ancient spiritual teachings make almost no references to the brain but many references to the heart. Why?

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You’re talking with someone you just met, and as you listen, you realize you don’t feel good about him/her. You don’t know why, but something about this person bothers you and you suddenly feel the need to get away. But you stick around and dismiss your feelings, (because they’re just feelings. Right?) only to find out later that he/she has a criminal record and may have been a danger to you. And you gasp at what you may have narrowly escaped. This was an incident of intuition, but your human brain failed to process it because of conditioning.

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