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By Jim Cline
(ISSS = International Society of Systems Sciences; this talk I gave to the Los Angeles chapter
of ISSS on May 21, 1997)
In the Triune Brain concept, each individual person has not one, but three brains; each with
its own intelligence, its own sense of time and space, its own subjectivity, and its own
memory. The three looselycoupled brains of each individual form a strong influence on
human social systems.
Neurobiological comparative anatomy suggests that parts of the human brain correspond to
similar ones in lower animals. The Reptilian Complex neural chassis, or RComplex, is like the
brain which exists in reptiles. In the human, the RComplex is responsible for such things as
physical action, territoriality, obsessivecompulsive behavior, and it survives by routine and
ritual. The RComplex brain can be accessed through muscle tone measurement processes.
Along came the mammals and added the Limbic group of brain structures, which provides
for personal identity, emotional script, mammalian herd group position behavior, sociability,
and broad based responses to learning. The limbic brain can be accessed through the
emotions.
Then along came we humans, adding to this totem pole of brains the highly developed neo
cortex level, which is responsible for rational highly specific responses to each stimulus,
strategy planning, inner speech to regulate activities on the conscious level and store complex
ideas, reading, writing, math, and tends to see care of self as byproduct of the wellbeing of
the total group. The cerebral neocortex can be accessed through symbols such as words.
Like a totem pole stack of three creatures, we humans interact with our environment. Like a
magical wizard sitting atop a pack wolf sitting atop an alligator, we each form a group mind
system which socially interacts with other similar group mind systems, other people. That
which appears to be a social system made up of individual human beings, actually is made up
of these triune brain critters; all three of which are busy, somewhat independently, in social
interactions.
The triune brain concept was originated by Paul MacLean, of the NIMH, and amplified by
Carl Sagan in "Dragons of Eden." It is no surprise that such a fundamental conceptual
understanding would power educational businesses, and several have already emerged. The
Educational Kinesiology Foundation has used it to create a powerful set of neurological
balancing processes. Wayne Topping's Biokinesiology processes, and ThreeinOne
Concepts Inc, have each produced workshops based on individual communication to each of
the three brains that each person has. These sophisticated triune brain processes assist a
person in discovering one's own solid goals, and to provide a congruency among all three
brains toward those goals. Although in general human societies are hierarchical and ritualistic,
the potential for improvement in human social systems by using these processes provides
new hope for humanity's future.
REFERENCES
1. Richard M. Restak: "The Brain"
2. Sagan, Carl; The Dragons of Eden; Ballantine Books, 1977
3. Topping, Wayne; Biokinesiology Workbook; Topping International Institute, 262 Birchwood
Ave #7, Bellingham, WA 98225; 1985
4. Cole, Jan; Repattern Negative Personal Life Controllers; Jan Cole, 24 Evergreen St,
Broomfield, CO 80020, 1989
5. Dennison, Paul & Dennison, Gail, EduKinesthetics InDepth: The Seven Dimensions of
Intelligence; EduKinesthetics, Inc; P.O. Box 3395, Ventura, CA 930063395 8056503303;
1990.
6. Patterson, Erik T., Methexis & Extraterrestrial Medicine, Space Manufacturing 10,
Proceedings of the 12th SSIPrinceton Conference, 167181, 1995.
7. Stokes, Gordon and Whiteside, Daniel; Improve Learning Awareness; Three in One
Concepts, 2001 West Magnolia Blvd, Burbank CA 915061704 8188414786, 1996.
James E. D. Cline, 19970521, Los Angeles Chapter of International Society of Systems
Sciences
P.S.:
Although page 2 and three have not yet been located in current file archives on this computer,
a related diagram I made while exploring a similar subject five years later in 2002, is shown
below.