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Most people give credit to Albert Einstein for making the rather casual and technically unsupported comment that we use only approximately 10% of our brain, implying that the other 90% is the future of mankind. The use of this other 90% has been sought after by various means and ways by many for eons. Gaining genius power and even para-psychological abilities, to say nothing of otherwise enhancing the quality of cognition and experience, is both the work of science fiction and the pursuit of many in everyday life. To that end, researchers have begun to ferret out some of the detail and further the potential.
At the forefront of a lot of this work is a collection of conservative researchers, biologists, neuroscientists, philosophers and theologians?all participating, albeit often tacitly, in a new frontier known as NeuroTheology. Each, often with their own agenda, have identified important contributions to understanding both how life suddenly appeared on this planet and some of the secrets hidden in the human DNA.
Much of the work is controversial, but no one disagrees with the central point of this article. That is, over 90% of the human DNA is dormant and silent and that these silent engines (Introns or silent genes) have yet to be expressed. Moreover, of the ?3% of genes required to build a human being, 20% of that is used to create the brain, and another 30% of that DNA is expressed in the process of running and maintaining the brain (Joseph 2002) Author R. Joseph, writing in NeuroTheology, comes to this possible inference: ". 50% of the 3% of DNA, which is coded, serves the human brain. Hence, since 97% of the 30,000 to 40,000 or more genes (and their 3 billion or more base pairs) that make up the human genome are repressed, up to 50% of that and thus perhaps as many as 25,000 repressed genes and over a billion base pairs of nucleotides may be available for future cerebral metamorphosis and expansion of the brain." (Joseph 2002).
That is ?food for thought!? Since the evidence clearly shows that the differing uses of the brain lead to structural and functional differences in the ever developing (evolving) brain, is it possible that one may just find that persistent mind training leads one little step at a time to a virtual Quantum leap'a sudden flash of new mind so different and advanced that a search for words comes up without reference?
Eldon Taylor, Ph.D. is currently director of Progressive Awareness Research. He is the author of over 200 books and tapes (). He received the 2005 International Peace Prize awarded by the United Cultural Convention for his work in improving the human condition.