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Chapter XIX: The Control of the Involuntary System.1877
Chapter XIX: The Control of the Involuntary System.
In the preceding chapter of this book we have explained to you that the
human body is made of millions of tiny cells, each endowed with sufficient
matter to enable it to do its work—with sufficient Prana to give it the energy
it requires—with sufficient “mind-stuff” to give it the degree of intelligence
with which to direct its work. Each cell belongs to a cell group or family,
and the intelligence of the cell is in close rapport with the intelligence of
every other cell in the group or family, the combined intelligence of the
cell-group resulting in a group-mind. These groups in turn are each a part of
some other larger group of groups, and so on until the whole forms a great
republic of cell-mind under the direction and control of the Instinctive Mind.
The control of these great groups is one of the duties of the Instinctive Mind,
and it usually does its work well, unless interfered with by the Intellect, which
sometimes sends it fearthoughts, and in this and other ways demoralizes
the Instinctive Mind. Its work is also sometimes retarded by the Intellect
insisting that it take up foreign and strange habits of regulating the physical
body through the cell intelligence. For instance, in the case of constipation,
the Intellect being busy with other work, will not allow the body to respond
to the calls of the Instinctive Mind, acting in response to a demand from the
cells of the Colon—nor does it pay attention to the demands for water—and