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For five thousand years, the wisest men and
women of each civilisation and generation
have searched for the secrets of human
potential. More progress has been
made in uncovering the secret in the
last one hundred years, than in all the
centuries that went before it.
The secret of all human potential,
in health, happiness, prosperity and
fulfilment is to be found in the human mind.

The workings of the human brain are truly remarkable.
If our brain is the hardware, then our minds are the most
incredible piece of software you could ever imagine.

For many years now, we have accepted the principles of the
conscious and subconscious mind, however this was not always the
case. Prior to the human race arriving this level of acceptance and
understanding, the concept of conscious and subconscious activity
within the brain was simply too incredible for our less developed brains to
consider, let alone accept. Yet they both now have their rightful place in
neuroscience.

Paracelsus (a Swiss physician, alchemist, lay theologian, and philosopher) is credited as the first
to make mention of an unconscious aspect of cognition in his work Von den Krankheiten
(translates as "About illnesses", 1567), and his clinical methodology created a cogent system that
is regarded by some as the beginning of modern scientific psychology.

Sigmund Freud used the term "subconscious" in 1893 to describe associations and impulses that
are not accessible to consciousness.
Before any new idea or concept is unanimously accepted and embraced as fact, the nature of
the human brain is to reject it out of hand as unlikely, improbable or simply untrue.

Fifty years before each life changing new discovery or invention is revealed, the majority of us
would not have thought them possible, it was simply beyond our level of comprehension.

If we had been alive in the early 1900’s, how many of us would have embraced the possibility of
man landing on the moon, or the existence of the internet, or all that is possible with computers?
Going back further, how remarkable would electricity have seemed to those who had relied on
gas lamps? Advances in technology have been so rapid over recent years, that it is now
possible for a surgeon, with the aid of computers and robotics, to perform an operation without
actually being in the same country as the patient, let alone in the same room! Yet we now
accept these spectacular advances in human achievement as routine.
If more advances have been made in the last one hundred years, the advances in the last thirty
years have been truly phenomenal. This is the information and technology age and the two
combined have advanced human potential to a staggering level.

Very little is now beyond the grasp of man.