Vocabulary English - German:
cleft Spalte
foreboding dunkel vorahnend
veins Venen
coherent zusammenhängend, sinnvoll
incubate ausbrüten
vast weitläufig
victimization Opferhaltung, Schikane
conscious bewußt

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I now present to you... - Mr. and Mrs. Richard ''Buck'' Filipowski.
The brain, when it fires its thoughts is likened unto the landscape of a thundercloud. And the synaptic cleft is the sky between - the storm and the earth - the earth receptor site. And you see this foreboding dark cloud boiling in the sky and you see electrical impulses moving through it veins of electric light and then you see it hit the ground. The brain looks like a thunderstorm when it is presenting a coherent thought. So no one has ever seen the thought. What they do see in neurophysics is that they see a storm raging around different quadrants of the brain. Those are areas that are mapped in the body and what a person must be responding to a holographic image, rage, murder, hate, compassion, love.
The brain does not know the difference between what it sees in its environment and what it remembers because the same specific neural nets are then firing. The brain is made up of tiny nerve cells called ''neurons''. These neurons have tiny branches that reach out and connect to other neurons to form a neural net. Each place where they connect is incubated into a thought or a memory. Now, the brain builds up all its concepts by the law of associative memory. For example, ideas, thoughts and feelings are all constructed and interconnected in this neural net and all have a possible relationship with one another. The concept and the feeling of love, for instance is stored in this vast neural net.
But we build the concept of love from many other different ideas. Some people have love connected to disappointment. When they think about love, they experience the memory of pain, sorrow, anger and even rage. Rage may be linked to hurt, which may be linked to a person which then is connected back to love.
We build up models of how we see the world outside of us. And the more information that we have, the more we refine our model one way or another. And what we ultimately do is tell ourselves a story about what the outside world is. Any information that we process, any information that we take in from the environment is always colored by the experiences that we've had and an emotional response that we're having to what we're bringing in.
Who is in the driver's seat when we control our emotions or we respond to our emotions? We know physiologically that nerve cells that fire together wire together. If you practice something over and over again, those nerve cells have a long-term relationship. If you get angry on a daily basis, if you get frustrated on a daily basis, if you suffer on a daily basis, if you give reason for the victimization in your life, you're rewiring and re-integrating that neural net on a daily basis and that neural net now has a long-term relationship with all those other nerve cells called an ''identity''. We also know that nerve cells that don't fire together no longer wire together. They lose their long-term relationship because every time we interrupt the thought process that produces a chemical response in the body every time we interrupt it, those nerve cells that are connected to each other start breaking the long-term relationship. When we start interrupting and observing not by stimulus and response and that automatic reaction but by observing the effects it takes then we are no longer the body-mind conscious emotional person that's responding to its environment as if it is automatic.