The Brain/Body Conundrum
Current Openings #4
Perhaps the most serious predicament facing the human race may be easy to spot by its toxic and destructive effects on our life and the planet, but why is its core cause so hard to see?
It’s a critical puzzle to ponder, which means it’s also an excellent topic for our special series “Current Openings — What the World Doesn’t Quite Get Yet.” This collaboration with David Price Francis, author, spiritual teacher, and co-founder of Energy Worlds, explores what’s appearing in the flow of newly emerging intelligence and evolutionary possibility.
The predicament: environmental and cultural crises that seriously threaten life on this planet; a level of disharmony, discord, and disconnect that would have been hard to imagine even a few years ago.
In this conversation, David and Aviv Shahar explore the predicament’s origins in what is known as the brain/body conundrum. Our brain, a marvel of engineering and power, continually seeks stimulation and excitement, often in the extreme. And often to the detriment of our bodies, which by design are naturally tuned to the regenerative rhythms and energies of the planet.
Imagine the predicament when human lives governed by the brain’s drive for constant stimulation — rather than the body’s natural connection to planetary regeneration — are multiplied on a global scale.
But… there is a promise in the predicament, and a way out of the conundrum, as David and Aviv reveal. Among their insights:
There is a way out of our predicament because we have the superpower of conscious choice
There’s nothing wrong with our brain; our brain is not to blame. It’s the programs that have gotten into it
The myth of the Selfish Gene, which is a fallacy, because we are wired to survive individually through collective survival. We were sold on the theology of self-interest, which is not true
How did we get to a situation where the most profitable industry on the planet is weapons of war, the second is drugs, and only the third is food?
I’ve been wondering for years about the differentiation between being a person of the world and a person of the planet. I realized to be a worldly person is to be pickled in what the human race has already been doing and the precedents that have been set. A planetary person means actually connecting into the energies and frequencies of the planet as she is today, including the planetary forces within us.
- David Price Francis
The Portals Un-Mystery School
What is the fundamental human challenge?
Not according to psychology. Not according to politics. Not according to the latest trend.
What if we asked 16 of the greatest teachers in human history? In this first session of The Portals Un-Mystery School we will reflect on how great teachers of humanity each illuminated the core human challenge, and what empowered them to bring forward their work, their insight, and their pathways of awakening.
Together, we will also ask:
What are the new pathways of inner development and human becoming in our time?
Can there be a deeper collective emergence, one that activates many?
If something in this speaks to you, if it awakens a deeper intuition, a sense of purpose, or the feeling that your voice may belong in this inquiry, perhaps this gathering is meant to find you.
Space is intentionally limited to support depth, presence, and meaningful participation.
The Portals Un-Mystery School | Session One
Saturday, June 27
11:00 AM – 3:00 PM EST
Seating is limited