Child development is dependent on adult development, one of Joe’s seminal insights. Continuing adult development is the challenge we face raising the bar in terms of development beyond the mechanical, reflexive conditioning we call normal. Normal is not optimum. Why is normal so mediocre. Not because of the child. It’s the environment. And that means you and me. The mother’s emotional state determines the type of brain the infant will develop: a larger frontal lobe with the capacity for love and compassion if the mother feels safe and nurtured, and a larger hind brain for survival if the mother feels threatened and unsafe.

One of the things we find in development of the infant from birth on is what we call the model imperative.  We speak here constantly now about role models.  A constant model or a stable model is necessary for any development in the newborn infant.  We speak of face constancy, even faces at a certain point need to be a fairly stable face there for the infant to stare at and so forth.  If an infant is brought up let’s say by a French speaking family, they develop French language.  If they’re brought up by a French speaking family and suddenly this is interrupted and you have them exposed to Spanish speaking for a while and then all the sudden no, let’s have them exposed to German, then there’s extreme confusion and the new life doesn’t know which one of these models to follow and so you get a very scrambled response.

In the same way if the mother is at one moment in one emotional state and the infant starts patterning according to that emotional state, say a very benevolent emotional state, and it starts that patterning, and all of the sudden that isn’t who the mother is.  She’s in a violent state and shows a great deal of anger, then the infant is going to try to conform and pattern according to a violent world he’s got to get used to.  And all of the sudden, no, that isn’t the case.  He’s got another kind of a model appearing all from the same mother.  So if the mother thinks one way and acts another way and speaks another way and so on, if she’s a house divided against herself, it’s a pretty good bet that the infant has no choice.  The infant child will grow up to be the same thing, divided within themselves and having no dominion or their own life, which is all simply saying the same thing over and over and over.  They bond according to whatever their environment gives them to bond to.

The great poet scientist, Wolfgang von Goethe disputed the idea of the heart as a pump a long time ago.  Early Physiologists were seriously influenced by the invention of the steam engine which was brand new and the fact that it operates by a series of pumps, and they look on the heart as simply a pump.  That’s all it has to do.  Recently a group of Physicists and medical doctors looked into this idea of the heart as a pump and they found that the heart is involved in a certain pumping action between the chambers of the heart and the lungs and back again.  But as for the body itself, the heart has little to do with the pumping action. The pumping action of the body is handled by a whole raft multifaceted, every blood vessel in the body is surrounded by a sheaf of muscles and these muscle contract and expand on signals from the heart and they all contract and expand right together in sync to the heart and that’s where the circulation and so on comes from.

They computed on what energy it would take to pump actual fluid through 15 miles of tubing which is the average of the veins in the arteries, 15 miles of it, and the tens of thousands of miles of capillaries which make up the whole circular system in the body and they found that it would take the energy of a diesel engine big enough to power a great Mac truck.  And of the course the heart is not quite that at all so the circulation is carried by a multitude of different forces in the body and not just the heart.

n fact from the first 10-12 weeks of life in uteral, the heart has no chambers formed at all and can’t possibly be pumping blood.  It’s all handled by capillary action and arterial action.  During that entire time the principle job of the heart is to produce the electromagnetic field, which it does, which carries within it the information that is going to be followed by the glutei cells and the DNA and so forth.  You’ve got the fact that the heart is a major carrier of electromagnetic fields of information which enter into the determining of the kind of environment that the infant is in right from the very beginning.