Mind Control
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What’s So Important About a Body Temperature of 37°C?
More important, each reaction
in the body has an “activation energy” that is temperature dependent. Activation energy is the energy required to initiate a reaction rather than the energy (or heat) produced by a reaction. Moreover, activation energy can vary markedly from one reaction to another. Imagine the difficulty of performing coordinated movements and complex thought processes if the millions of reactions (with their different activation energies) required to perform these tasks occurred at different times as a function of varying brain temperatures. The emerging concept therefore is that the organizational complexity of the brain and the need for complex interaction of neuronal activity require homeothermy. In support of this concept, it is common knowledge that hypothermia is associated with drowsiness and confusion; and that elevations in brain temperature significantly impair mental performance (Engel et ale 1984;Hancock 1981). Although fever is associated with impaired mental processing, even a nontoxic rise in core temperature produced by exercising in the heat significantly increases the frequency of errors on an attention-stress test. Further evidence supporting the importance of homeothermy for normal brain function is the poor temperature regulation (as an example of neuronal processing) in the newborn compared with an adult.
This excerpt from: The Hot Brain. Carl V. Gisolfi and Francisco Mora. © 2000 The MIT Press.
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Circular Structures
Governments tend to be organized in pyramids. An individual rules from the top, then a series of bureaucratic layers that fatten and
sprawl as
you get further and further from the leadership. In contrast, religious
cults and secret societies tend to be organized in circles.
These groups usually have a large outer circle, often consisting of
people with only a casual interest in the society’s goals. Within that
circle are a finite number of increasingly exclusive degrees, made up
from agents and members who are increasingly informed about the
society’s real goals and methods.
Circular organizations are more resistant to assault than pyramid
hierarchies, in part because their internal mechanisms are hidden. The
point of a pyramid is to create a clear path to a visible apex, a single
leadership position that dominates the structure. The pyramid structure
is therefore largely transparent. Standing at the foot of a pyramid,
you can see its tip.
Circular structure hides and protects the center. Standing on the
surface of a globe, you cannot see its center. It’s difficult to strike
at the center without burrowing into the structure.
There are other advantages. Gravity, for instance, works to the
advantage of a spherical structure, but acts to the detriment of a
pyramid.
When you attack the structure of a globe, everything falls in toward the
center, consolidating strength at the middle and healing ruptures in
the exterior, a mechanism which experts see working in al Qaeda as it
recovers from a U.S. onslaught.
In a pyramid, however, the vitally important apex rests on top of the
subsequent layers. By hacking away at the middle, or the bottom, the
structure can become so destabilized that the apex may fall.