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<b>The Place to Network:</b> Mind Over Matter

By Olivia Fox Cabane
February 28, 2006

“Imagination is more important than science,” said Albert Einstein. As usual, Al knew what he was talking about ' the mind can do amazing feats when it truly believes something. Some schizophrenic patients so firmly believe they are two different people that they actually change eye color and make birthmarks appear and disappear on their skin as they switch personalities. Pure mind power can make many things come true. No, it won't make you win the lottery, but it can certainly be all-powerful on one person's behavior ' you.

One interesting fact about the mind is that, per se, the brain has absolutely no actual connection to reality. It relies on chemical signals from other organs to decide what's happening out there. Picture this ' if one interrupted the input of the other organs, the brain would be so thoroughly oblivious to everything, that one could be opening the skull and working on the brain itself, and it would have no way of knowing it, remaining blissfully unaware of the proceedings (this is exactly what general anesthesia does).

The fact that the brain is ignorant of reality is precisely what makes it so susceptible to suggestion. Have you ever felt your heart pounding and your blood curdling during a scary movie? Consciously, you know it's just a movie ' the actors you're seeing on screen are probably delighted to look like they're having their heads chopped off in exchange for a couple million dollars. Yet your brain sees blood and guts on the screen, and it sends you straight into fight-or-flight mode, adrenaline rushing through your system.

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