And the brain: isn’t there more than
one brain, in fact?








Nitamo: Yes, we have three brains. First is the reptilian brain. This is the most primitive, being related to instinct — to sex, sleep, food, survival, aggression. Psychosomatically it is related to the area and activity of the abdomen.

Second is the mammalian brain, the emotional brain. It is psychosomatically related to the area of the chest.

Finally there is the mental or human brain — the part through which we can have a virtual picture of external reality. In this virtual, mental world we can create fantasies, heaven and hell. This brain controls and inhibits the mammalian and reptilian brain i.e. emotions and instincts. This a social /cultural hierarchy, which is very unnatural.

Scientists discovered that the three brains don’t work together; in fact they are really in a state of schizo-physiology. This is the normal state but not a healthy one. It means that even our body-mind is divided.

We revert to a normal state of functioning through meditation. When the brain works as a whole, the different parts of it are in deeper coherence or synchronicity.

The Osho vision of the “new man” is a human being that has no separation in the body-mind complex because he functions as a unity of consciousness. This means that in him the three brains are no longer working against each other but as a whole.