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The implications of our collective story are woven into the very fabric of our society. They show up in everything from the food we choose to nourish our bodies, to the way we care for ourselves, our children, and our aging parents. But the implications of our story go even deeper. They inform the thinking at the foundation of civilization itself. Our story influences how we share the vital resources of food, water, medicine, and the basic necessities of life. It determines why, when, and how we go to war, as well as when we choose to accept peace. What we believe about ourselves even justifies our thinking for when we save a human life, and when we choose to end one. When we think about it, our answer to "Who are we?" is at the core of everything we do, and defines all that we cherish. It's precisely because the way we think of ourselves plays such a vital role in our lives that we need to get our story right. We owe it to ourselves to explain who we are as honestly and truthfully as possible. This includes crossing the traditional boundaries that have separated the sciences from one another, and from the wisdom of our past. This also includes changing the existing story when that story is no longer supported by the new evidence. A SPECIES OVER-ENDOWED New discoveries ranging from human evolution and genetics to the emerging science of neuro-cardiology (the bridge between the brain and the heart) have overturned 150 years of scientific thinking when it comes to the way we think of ourselves in the world. The new human story tells us that we showed up on earth approximately 200,000 years ago as what scientists today have named Anatomically Modern Humans, abbreviated as AMH. While the scientific community is largely in agreement with this date of our appearance, it's the way that we arrived that's the source of controversy. We are in direct violation of the evolutionary principle put forth by Alfred Wallace, Darwin's co-discoverer of evolution theory. The principle states "nature never over-endows a species beyond the needs of everyday existence." In other words, features that give us an advantage for viability and survival appear as the need for them arises throughout our existence. The problem is that we arrived with a host of capabilities and potentials that far exceed the needs of everyday existence. For example, when we appeared we already had a brain 50% larger than our nearest primate relatives. And within our brain, we already had neurons that are unique to humans, including the 'rosehip' neuron that regulates targeted information flow in our neocortex; We already had the mysterious fusion that created our chromosome 2, and gave us our uniquely human capacity for empathy, sympathy, compassion, and the self- regulation of our biology on-demand; We already had the 40,000 sensory neurites in our heart creating a unique neural network that thinks, feels, learns, and remembers independently of the cranial brain; We already had the uniquely human capacity to create coherence between our heart and our brain, and the ability to do so on-demand — to optimize our biology, physiology, and cognitive potential. And we already had much more. The key here is that these features did not develop slowly, gradually, over a long period of time, in response to a biological need as evolution theory suggests. We've had these features from day one. When we compare our DNA today to the DNA extracted from the remains of Anatomically Modern Humans of the past, we discover that we haven't changed physically. We have the same brain size, the same cranial capacity, the same body proportions, the same DNA, and the same extraordinary potential that the first of our kind had. And while the science does not yet tell us how these mysteries occurred, it tells us clearly that, while evolution is a fact in the fossil record for many forms of life, evolution is not the human story. OUR EXTR AORDINARY POTENTIAL The new story also tells us that each person has a unique key that unlocks their personal code of potential. The best science of today paves the way to do just that and shows us that from the time we arrived on earth, we've had the uniquely human ability to self-regulate our personal biology. That is, we are the only form of life that is known to have the ability to consciously trigger on-demand: • a super-immune response; • our potential for super-learning, super-memory, and super-recall; • longevity enzymes that reverse our markers for aging at the cellular level; • deep states of intuition; • much, much more! To unlock our awesome human potential, however, we must embrace the new human story that is emerging. HUMAN EVOLUTION: A THEORY IN TROUBLE More than 150 years ago, geologist Charles Darwin published a paradigm-shattering book entitled On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. His New discoveries ranging from human evolution and genetics to the emerging science of neuro-cardiology (the bridge between the brain and the heart) have overturned 150 years of scientific thinking when it comes to the way we think of ourselves in the world. December 2019/January 2020 21 Artwork by Douglas Taylor Continued on next page OUR STORY MAT TERS

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