THE MIND
A TREASURE OF POWER
The human mind is an extraordinary system. Though smaller than an orange, it can record 800 memories every second and continue doing so for an average lifespan of seventy-five years.
Modern scientific research has revealed that once an idea enters the mind, it becomes a permanent part of it. Whatever information reaches the human brain is fully stored and never truly forgotten. Even if we cannot consciously recall all of it, everything remains preserved in the brain’s permanent files.
If a computer were built with the same capacity as the human brain, its infrastructure would be so vast that it would fill a structure the size of the Empire State Building in New York—1,250 feet high and 102 stories tall. To operate such a supercomputer would require one billion watts of electrical power, and its cost would be beyond estimation.
As noted by a writer: “The brain is a fabulous mechanism. About the size of half a grapefruit, it can record 800 memories a second for the average 75 years many of us live, without exhausting itself. The human brain retains everything it takes in and never forgets anything. Even though we don’t recall all the information received, everything is on permanent file in our brain. If a computer to match the brain’s potential was built, it would occupy space comparable to the size of the Empire State Building (1,250 feet tall) and need 1,000,000,000 watts of electrical power to run. The cost would be equally immense. The mind is one of God’s most amazing gifts to man. Yet most people use only a small fraction of their mental ability. For many, the power remains largely untapped.” (The Plain Truth, October 1988, p. 29)
The brain is indeed one of God’s most astonishing gifts to humankind. Yet even the greatest scientists use only a fraction of its potential. The vast higher capacities of the human mind remain largely untapped.
A research article titled “Our Amazing Mind” was published in the September 1989 issue of the American magazine Span. Written by William F. Allman, Senior Editor of U.S. News & World Report, it explains that research on the brain has expanded so rapidly that it has become a separate scientific discipline known as “brain science.” The discoveries made in this field represent nothing less than an explosion of knowledge.
One scientist has described the brain as a “thinking engine.” Yet this description is far from adequate. The way in which the brain’s hundred billion neurons work in perfect harmony, making distinctions between countless things in a fraction of a second, is beyond the capability of any mechanical device. In its astonishing efficiency, a single human brain outweighs all the world’s machines and computers combined.
“An explosion of recent findings in brain science—aided by new computer programs that can simulate brain cells in action—is now revealing that the brain is far more intricate than any mechanical device imaginable.” (p. 24)
Summarizing these modern findings, the author concludes:
“Though 20th-century scientists have tried to make machines that mimic the brain’s functioning, even the most powerful supercomputer falls far short of the real thing.” (p. 28)
The human mind is an inexhaustible treasure of power—a treasure granted to every person by birth, freely and without effort. No one who possesses a mind can truly be called poor or weak, regardless of outward circumstances.
Within you lies the most powerful mechanism in existence—one for which there is no equal in the known universe. Use this immense reservoir of energy. Awaken the hidden possibilities within it. Then you will never again have reason to complain of failure.
Every person who has achieved greatness or success has done so by harnessing the power of the mind. That same divine power exists within you. In potential, you stand at the same threshold of achievement where every successful person once stood. Why, then, should there be despair or complaint? Turn your potential into reality. Every height of success awaits you—rise to it, and take your place upon it.
