Crystal Heart

The brain, in fact, is infused with crystalline minerals.  Unlike glass, crystal is a structured sub-atomic substance, which conducts electricity and can transmit or receive information.  The brain and the human nervous system are connected via a network of neurons and nerve centers which communicate via electronic impulses.  Thus the body is united via this communications system as one.

The brain is the seat of human consciousness, the mind.  However, the mind is a much grander entity than just the brain.  It connects to the brain and thus the body through the same electro-magnetism that animates our universe.  The body symbolizes key facets of human attributes, the mind at the top and the heart at it's core.  However, these attributes all reside in the mind.

When we speak here of the heart, we speak symbolically of the human heart, an organ, which is known to suffer physically when the heart or the mind is injured.  We also speak of the core of human feeling.  The connection is not just symbolic, but also physical, due to the psychological association.

Time heals all wounds it is said. A heart breaks many times in the course of a person's life.

Each time it is bruised, the heart will harden. The man, woman or child learns to steel the inner self against more misfortune.

The mind takes action to shield its tender heart or core. It builds a wall around the injury.

Each time this happens a little piece of the heart is cut out; it no longer communicates with the rest of the persona. No more tender memories of that person may dwell in the forefront of mind, for they hurt far more than the bad memory of whatever pain was inflicted.

The mind has built another wall around the heart. Each time it hardens to keep from breaking, for inside that wall it is shattered.

Over time, we forget the pain. We forget the love. We forget compassion, mercy and tenderness. Empathy cannot penetrate the wall.

The only way to redeem a broken heart is to tear down that wall and grieve for the person once loved - ourselves.

The memories are locked up inside that core, the heart of the mind.  The much-maligned book Dianetics hinted at this process, the process of becoming a clear.  In Dianetics, a clear is a person who has remembered and relived all the past trauma, reclassifying and understanding what has happened in the past and then moving on.  The key concept here was in facing the memories of the past, and allowing them to enter present conscious awareness.  The emotions locked up behind the wall of consciousness, the memory block, contain massive amounts of energy.  This emotional energy must be released for the persona to be whole again.  Until this is done, emotional energy will be limited and relationships will suffer.  The mind that has faced it's memories can begin to repair itself.



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Here's a little treat:
Take Another Piece of My Heart

 by Janice Joplin