A Harvest Season for Every Mind

This book will empower you with the knowledge of your uniqueness, and the principles you need to activate and cultivate your inborn gifts and talents. In the end, you become the product of your thoughts, feelings and actions. A major factor in the inability of many individuals in our society to fulfill their life goals is the disconnection between their sense of self-determination and their faith in the guiding ability of the universal intelligence. The diverse nature of our thoughts, feelings and actions impinges on our inborn developmental processes to create differences in the timing and degrees of maturation of critical body structures, including the brain.

Although nature holds an individual responsible for their actions, nature has charged mankind with the collective responsibility to promote and support for the proper actions of every individual. The premise for this assertion lies in the fact that there cannot be life without diversity. Simply, if all things were to be the same, there would be no life. The fact is that each of us exists because we need each other in one way or another. Hence, nature holds each of us responsible for the care and welfare of others.

Many renowned scientists who once believed in the evolutionary theory of human existence have come to realize that the marvelous nature of the universe is the work of a divine intelligence. Albert Einstein even proclaimed the need to harmonize one’s thoughts, feelings and actions with this divine intelligence. He recognized that "Spirit manifest in the laws of the universe", and admitted to "a sincere belief in a God who reveals Himself in the harmony of all that exists." It is easier to cultivate the faith that you need to persevere in the achievement of your goals when you appreciate the interdependence between the processes of development and the influence of the environment and your own thoughts, feelings, and actions. This book will help you to acquire such an appreciation. Faith in nature and the harmony of the mind with the laws of nature allows the divine intelligence to intercede and protect your goals from opposing forces.

As a neuroscientist and a physician, my work in understanding development, degeneration and regeneration in the central nervous system (the brain, including the eye and spinal cord), and my daily interactions with patients have contributed to my steadfast faith in the supreme creative power of God. God is nature, and God is the infinite, divine and universal intelligence. You cannot achieve our full potential without a connection to the universal intelligence. You can make this connection with the universal intelligence through disciplining your mind to stay in harmony with the laws of nature. Many who deny the existence of God do not dispute the presence of universal intelligence. It is all perspective.

This book will equip you with the knowledge that you need in order to transcend opposing distractions as you endeavor to achieve your highest potential and maximize your inborn gifts and talents. Contrary to the view of many that creationism is not compatible with science (which promotes evolutionary theory) this book explains how science supports faith in God. New groundbreaking research in neurobiology of the brain supports the idea that we are hard-wired for faith in a universal intelligence. This has led to the emergence of a new discipline of study called neurotheology. "The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without" (Ralph Waldo Emerson).

           CHAPTER ONE:   ADAPTATION TO NATURE AND NURTURE