Recently, I watched a dragon-fly flitting from bush to flower to tall grass and marvelled at how an insect with such a tiny brain could so easily move itself through our three dimensions – it can hover, fly up, down, forwards and backwards with a precision that I suspect we couldn’t match – especially when you consider the slight distances it can move and needs to move when avoiding obstacles and hunting prey.

If a tiny, tiny brain can do all this. What is ours doing? Are some portions of our brain unused?

Ages ago, I had read that we only use ten to twenty percent of our brain and in my book, The Messenger Within, I make use of this idea. The reason I use it, at the risk of tooting my own horn, is rather clever and helps to make the story interesting and ultimately exciting. After I published the novel, someone told me that the concept was a myth and not true. Since then I have read that, in fact, we use one hundred percent of our brains, although not necessarily all at the same time (there’s been times where I’m pretty certain I haven’t used any of mine.)

But after watching the miraculous dragon-fly, I’ve begun to wonder. Our brains are gigantic compared to a dragon-fly and when you see what this insignificant insect can do, you wonder if there are some dormant parts of our brain that are waiting to be activated in some astonishing way.

It might be worthwhile reading The Messenger Within…

All the best,

PG.