Kirt asked the following question on the forum:
Gloria, when God makes statements pertaining to the heart like: "I am sowing seeds of love in your heart", "Your heart will sing a song of love again", "Your heart cannot be filled with emptiness" or when we say statements like: "I love you with all my heart". "In my heart, I know", "You're breaking my heart", what heart is being referred to? Obviously not our physical heart, as it is just a organ and no more able to harbor Love than say a pancreas. So is the word "heart" symbolic for mind? Is it in each individual or in the mind of God? Or how about in the Son of God's mind? Does the physical brain connect to this mind?
Dear Kirt, my understanding is that there is a center of the physical heart in which the soul resides. When God speaks of heart in Heavenletters, I believe He is literally referring to what we call the heart, but also to love itself, and to the concept heart that we mean when we say heart and mind. Deep in the heart lies the connection to God.
Bernie Siegel, M.D., says in his foreword to Heavenletters™ Love Letters from God, Book One:
As studies are showing, the heart contains nerve cells very similar to the brain and endocrine cells. The heart is more than a pump, believe me. I am speaking as a physician and scientist…The heart is the cord that binds together the spiritual and the physical, the soul, and the finite world. Heavenletters is like that cord…"
I also read somewhere, Kirt, about people who have received heart transplants and that their personalities undergo some kind of change, even to their likes and preferences changing to what the heart donor's preferences had been.
Now I just came across something I have been wanting to write about, and now your question, divinely provided, motivates me to sit down and do it. How intricately connected each thought is! It is like you were prompted to ask your question so I would get this down on paper!
Someone gave me a book for Christmas called Where God Lives by Melvin Morse, M.D. Dr. Morse talks about an area of the brain that seems to be the connector to God. Here are a few quotes from his book:
In 1997, neuroscientists from the University of California at San Diego bravely proclaimed that they had found an area of the human brain that may be hardwired to hear the voice of Heaven …They found that certain parts of the brain — the right temporal lobe, to be exact — were attuned to ideas about the Supreme Being and mystical experiences.
Dr. Morse called this area of the brain the God Module. Later he refers to it as the God Spot:
… an area of untapped and unlimited potential [emphasis added] where God lives in each of us. This region is instrumental in facilitating mind-body healing. It is responsible for visions as well as psychic powers and vivid spiritual experiences … In short, the right temporal lobe allows us to interact actively with the universe.
Then he adds:
The neuroanatomy necessary to perceive the Divine is all there. Our reliance on the 'rational world' comes from the fact that modern man is truly not using the right temporal lobe … Religion was born because most people no longer heard the Voice of God, and only certain individuals were recognized as having that ability. This evolved to the present day, where only people who lived in earlier times are recognized as having heard the true word of God. People who claim to hear God's voice these days are considered crazy. By not using our right temporal lobe, we are cut off from one of the most important sources of information we have — nonlocal reality, or, in spiritual terms, God's grace…
The dear doctor then says what I believe we all feel:
Connecting with this universe is my personal challenge. I do not want to wait until I die to learn to hear God's voice.
Do we not live in a wonderful time when all these wonderful things are coming to light?
From my point of view, heart and/or mind, doesn't matter. We are connected to God, and we know what love is.
Thanks for your great question, Kirt.