In emergencies, the Guardienne bypasses the frontal cortex, and the signal path is roughly 50 cm, from eye to brain stem, saving ~15 cm travel.
[EDITED; see below] Previous posts have introduced the concept of The Guardienne, an unconscious, autonomous protective region in the brain that can bypass the frontal cortex and take action in an emergency. More information is posted at ResearchGate, here: bit.ly/2tnFyhv It occurred to…
Reblogged from 8GreatStoryTellers.com The Mind of Hitler, continued… There were twelve important questions about Hitler that needed to be answered in my historical novel, In the Mouth of the Lion. Question 1 was addressed in a previous post. Questions 2, 3, and 4…
Reblogged from 8GreatStorytellers.Wordpress.com The Mind of Hitler As stated in the previous post, The Guardienne [link], there were twelve important questions about Hitler that needed to be answered in my historical novel, In the Mouth of the Lion. They were: Did Hitler have…
Reblogged from 8GreatStorytellers.WordPress.com. The Guardienne Every writer should be an amateur psychologist. If your characters act in ways inconsistent with human behavior, your readers will throw up their hands and say, “Nobody would do that!” Their suspended disbelief will drop like a dead…
Synopsis: It’s June, 1942 and the German blitzkrieg in Russia is stalling and Hitler’s behavior is becoming increasingly eccentric. The German High Command (OKW) suspects Hitler has become insane and approaches Carl Jung to request an evaluation of “The Fuehrer’s” mental state. Neither…
The Forger, by Cioma Schoenhaus, reads like a scary novel. There is tension from start to finish as Schoenhaus navigates the treacherous world of 1940s Berlin. The book illustrates all too clearly how pervasive Nazi control was, infecting every facet, every tiny crack…
Berghof Hitler’s Berghof (“Mountain Farm”) was at an elevation of 3022 feet, about 9000 feet due east of Berchtesgaden. It was Hitler’s main residence away from Berlin. Located in the Obersalzberg, it was in an area Hitler knew well, having vacationed there before…
Schattenburg is an actual castle in Feldkirch, Austria. I placed part of the action for In the Mouth of the Lion in Schattenburg partly because of the name, Schatten, or shadow, + burg, or castle. Given that one of the more important archetypes…
In the Mouth of the Lion takes place primarily in 1942 Switzerland, Austria, and Germany. The major action, the Jungian analysis of Adolf Hitler, occurs near Bludenz, Austria, not far from Liechtenstein. Why Bludenz? Bludenz is a reasonable driving distance from Zurich for…
