When I was 7-years old, I suffered an accident; a long splinter became lodged in my foot, shutting down vital growth energy to various parts of my body. This accident changed me…physically. Literally, I imploded. I was a child prodigy in math and an excellent singer, the soloist in the choir. After my accident, these talents disappeared. No one around me connected the loss of my talents with this accident. They told me the loss was due to the school time I’d missed by being in the hospital. Because they sloughed it off, I let it slide. I was only seven, so I buried it away in the lower depths of my consciousness. Twenty something, I began to wonder why I had limitations others didn’t have. Why there was nothing I excelled at…because in the past I knew I had excelled at math and music. Poof! My talents had evaporated. I didn’t know where to find the answer, but some impulse kept me trying to find a way to transform myself back into the person I once was and pushed me to transcend the self-destructive, negative person I had become.
Thanks to my accident I found the answer. This accident turned out to be a kind of neuroplasticity experiment in reverse, in that a part of my brain actually deteriorated due to the lack of normal growth energy, a direct effect of my accident. How is this possible? The splinter shut down a vital nexus in my nervous system, denying growth energy to that whole synaptic neural circuit. You see, each part of the body is governed by a specific area of the brain. If either the part of the brain or its corresponding body part is damaged, the related part also suffers. The answer lies in the way the two are connected. How are they connected, by the way? The nervous system. That’s right, when one node — the brain or the limb it governs — is damaged, the other atrophies either because it’s deprived of vital growth energy or it no longer has any work to do. In the case of brain damage, it is no longer able to govern the related body part because the neurons themselves are damaged. In the case of a damaged limb, the brain simply shuts down that part of itself because it no longer has to use the particular neurons to control a limb that can no longer function.
What's more, damage to a part of the brain affects size and shape of overall gray and white matter, and consequently affects the shape of the head and the symmetry of the entire body. Normally, human growth is accomplished in a relatively linear pattern. In my case, because the splinter affected my development, my growth started to deteriorated quite rapidly, shown by the curve in this graph:
My brain matter developed asymmetrically, which affected the size, shape, and symmetry of my head, which changed my bodily symmetry, which also affected my behavior, sexual prowess, self-image, personality, and outlook. Deciphering the Golden Flower One Secret at a Time chronicles how I started to regain it at the age of 35, and how regaining it altered my abilities and personality once again:
According to neuroplasticity theory, it is possible to transfer control of a limb to another part of the brain. But, if that occurred in my case, it wasn't enough. The conductor of vital growth energy to both the body and the brain is our central nervous system. This network — the conduits that contain the nerve fibers — can also be damaged and interrupt the process. How do I know this? Because I proved it in the laboratory of the body. My own body. And I had to find a way to revitalize the affected body parts. Of course, after my accident I didn't think about regenerating brain cells or neuroplasticity. I was too busy stumbling through life with a damaged, deformed body. In fact, I stumbled considerably. For many years, I looked in all the wrong places. Deciphering the Golden Flower One Secret at a Time is a testament to my follies. It is also a testament to overcoming the obstacles to self-realization.
Eventually, I found a system that revitalized my brain from the inside-out. A kundalini meditation system for triggering the autonomic self-healing and restorative mechanisms of the body. For 40 years, I have practiced the method in that masterpiece of Chinese alchemy, The Secret of the Golden Flower, the book many adepts recognize as the Buddha’s own meditation system, a system that Gopi Krishna, the 20th Century’s great elucidator of Kundalini, described as “containing unmistakable hints about the sublimation process.” A process that uses sexual energy to wake up the nervous system and revitalize the brain and the body. Sexual sublimation is the key to the enhanced neuroplastic activity that has entirely reengineered my nervous system, body, and brain. Moreover, Kundalini energy is responsible for slowly reshaping my head and body to their original symmetrical proportions. Don't believe this is possible? Google the terms "Evolutionary psychology symmetry" to find out more about how symmetry can be measured and how asymmetry affects behavior, sexual prowess, self-image, and outlook.