We can easily say that there are multiple intelligences. The body has it somatic intelligence. The emotions express relational intelligence. The intellect expresses its imaginative capacity which is completely different the earlier brain centers. Up to 60% of the heart is made up of neurons. The heart is a center of intelligence, the primary intelligence life is based upon. Pearce explores how our failure to recognize and develop this intelligence is the primary cause of the human condition being what it is.

The word intelligence of the heart is in trouble right from the very beginning because everyone wants to play with some hearts and flowers and so forth and it’s looked on simply as a nice poetic metaphoric slightly spiritual sweet sentiment.  With the new field of Neural Cardiology and terms means the brain and the heart, is the discovery that about 60-65% of all the cells of the heart are neurons exactly like in our head and one of the major roles of the heart is to function as a brain structure.  And this brain in the heart is connected with the emotional brain up in our head by actual neural connections.  It’s the work of John and Beatrice Lacey.  They spent 30 years on this, research grants from the National Institute of Health. They were the first ones to talk about this intelligence of the heart and the role it plays in the intellect of our head.  But the major way of expressing this intelligence of the heart is through the prefrontal cortexes.  And there again, they’re the ones that are damaged most often by failure of nurturing of the infant.  They don’t develop the prefrontal cortexes as they are needed to express and act out the intelligence of the heart.

So the heart is really a fifth brain system in the body and it functions on three major levels; hormonal, the heart is a major endocrine gland of the body and is a direct governor and maintains homeostasis of the body between all the different organs. The heart is what keeps them all orchestrated in perfect function and together.  And it’s designed to make all the organs of the body function in coordination with the brain in our head.  But this is what breaks down and the other is the heart is an electromagnetic generator which generates a electromagnetic field which is extremely powerful in the immediate vicinity of the heart or about three feet away and it stands on 12-15 feet away. And it’s this electromagnetic field of the heart which the infant is breathed in through our uteral and then must be in the first 9-12 months after birth, must maintain constant contact with that heart, not constant but periodic renewal of the mother’s heart field in order to stabilize the infant’s heart field which is then going to be critically necessary later on for the development of an intelligence of the heart which can help modify and moderate the whole body brain interaction or what we call entrainment.

If this works right, then we are kind of a, we’re in command of ourselves.  We have dominion over our own life and if this breaks down, we really have three or four different structures competing with each other in the brain and the heart trying to do something about it down in the chest and we’re a house divided against itself.  We’re our own worst enemy. And we live the life made of thinking one way, feeling something totally different, and acting the behavior different from either of those.  So we’ve become a great paradox to ourselves and the great puzzle is why is it that we have all sorts of nice ideas but our behaviors are so abominable?  Why is it we talk on one hand about love and charity and on the other hand we can’t stop building bombs fast enough?