The Heartbeat of Intelligence [Paperback]

Elaine Matthews (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 10, 2001

The Evolving HeartNature's Astonishing Evolutionary Intention for HumanityThe Heartbeat of Intelligence shows why we are not fulfilling our potential, as individuals and as a species. It shows how and why we stepped off the evolutionary path intended by Nature, a path which would have put us several evolutionary steps ahead of where we are now had we not strayed from it. The book shows how stepping off the path has severely jeopardized the mysterious connection between the heart and the brain, a connection which is essential for our continued evolution as a species. The author believes that we will not continue evolving or even survive as a species without that understanding.The book explains:?The theory of neoteny and why this is the most crucial aspect of human evolution. ?Why synchronicity is the law by which human beings will live in the future. ?How left-brain dominance has led to nearly all of the problems we face today. ?Why Nature is far more profound and mysterious than science allows. ?Why seeing the Universe as a hologram answers so many puzzling questions.Love and compassion, passion and joy, goodness and beauty, are the birthright of every human being, built into our genes and intended by Nature to speak in every beat of our heart. The book shows us the delightful steps of joy and lightness which will not only take us several evolutionary steps forward, but will help us save our beautiful planet. Astonishingly, this could all be accomplished in less than a generation.

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

THE HEARTBEAT OF INTELLIGENCE brings illumination to the confusion of a seemingly out of control world.

Not only does the author offer a unique, fresh perspective on how we arrived at our present dilemma, but she offers solutions which are full of hope for our future, solutions that can potentially turn things around in a generation or less.

Weaving together a colorful tapestry of such seemingly disparate subjects as the connection between the heart and the human brain; the theory of the Universe as a hologram; Synchronicity as an acausal law; Rupert Sheldrake's theory of morphogenetic fields; Nature Spirits; David Bohm's theory of explicate and implicate orders of energy; and neoteny (the theory of the retention of juvenile characteristics into adulthood as an evolutionary advantage), the author clearly reveals Nature's unmistakable intention that a second level of intelligence exists, heart intelligence, "designed" by Nature to provide a balance to the nearly infinite potential of our human intellect.

However, as we evolved out of instinct and into choice we gradually interrupted the evolution of our heart intelligence by believing that our mind choices have more weight than our heart choices. As a consequence, our heart intelligence has not evolved in concert with brain intelligence as Nature intended.

The mysterious manner in which both the brain and the human heart each access the same higher, non-local Infinite Consciousness, one cognitively and the other emotionally, reveals Nature's astonishing evolutionary intention for the human race. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Elaine Matthews is an artist and writer living in Burbank, California. She has been involved in New Consciousness research for over 25 years.

Product Details

• Paperback: 148 pages
• Publisher: iUniverse (July 10, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0595186483
• ISBN-13: 978-0595186488
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,576,375 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Reader's review of The Heartbeat of Intelligence, October 21, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: The Heartbeat of Intelligence (Paperback)

This is definitely a book written for our time, especially considering the recent disasters suffered by the United States.
Starting from the very basics, the human brain and human birth, the author advances to many problems of todays society. With well researched and quoted documentation, she takes the reader into worlds as small as quantum physics and as large as the cosmos. This is not another doom and gloom prophecy, for Elaine Matthews sums up her arguments by showing that there is hope based on the fact that we are not finite, but continually advancing entities. We have the choice as to the future world we will bring into existence.
This is a book effecting all of humanity. A "Must Read" for parents raising children in todays society. Especially recomended for all expectent parents.

5.0 out of 5 stars The book is the key to our future., June 25, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The HeartBeat of Intelligence (Paperback)

The author presents and builds on, with great skill and knowledge, the scientifically researched and verified conclusion that in addition to brain intelligence, Nature intended us to have heart intelligence as well and how we have effectively blocked that evolutionary intention.

Through conclusions presented by the author in this well written book, the reader learns that only with a combination of heart intelligence and brain intelligence can we claim the right to call ourselves homosapien sapien.

Without beating the drum of any particular religion or group, the author points the way to solutions to many of the ills of body, mind and spirit which plague us all on this sick, polluted planet, solutions which can result not only in an expansion of our individual brain capacity and intelligence, but supply us with the intelligent, compassionate leadership which we so sadly lack. The solutions can stop any of our children from growing up to be criminals; give every human being a jump-start in intelligence and health (by returning to more natural birthing practices); slow down the aging process and greatly extend our lives. These are just a handful of the problems and solutions illuminated in this book.

No thinking person who reads this beautiful and insightful book could fail to be elevated in spirit, and inspired by the author's information and conclusions.