{"product_id":"the-chemical-being-in-search-of-the-mystery-behind-the-chemical-suppliers-in-the-human-brain-9798197719843","title":"The Chemical Being: In Search of the Mystery Behind the Chemical Suppliers in the Human Brain","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Beaugrun School\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat kind of thing is a human creature?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDust into which a breath was placed, the oldest text said. Modern chemistry has accounted for the dust. The breath remains an open question.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Chemical Being\u003c\/i\u003e reopens cases that modern science has tended to consider closed. Across fifteen chapters and a closing afterword, it calls to its courtroom an unusual range of witnesses - neuroscientists who reversed themselves late in life, jurists who could not locate a guilty mind, mothers whose grief reshaped their hearts, mystics whose chemistry was eventually measured, and the older traditions of every civilisation that observed the same human creature in different vocabularies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book proceeds by what the author calls the \u003ci\u003ereverse approach\u003c\/i\u003e - not anti-science, not theological in the strict sense, but investigative interpretive inquiry. Each chapter walks slowly through a question the modern verdict has tended to close too soon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmong the witnesses called: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cli\u003eCharles Whitman, whose tumour pressed against his amygdala\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cli\u003eDaniel M'Naghten, whose persecutory delusions made law in 1843\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cli\u003ePhineas Gage, who was \u003ci\u003eno longer Gage\u003c\/i\u003e after the iron rod\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cli\u003eHelen Keller, whose soul awoke at a water pump in 1887\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cli\u003eHenrietta Lacks, whose cells did not die when she did\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cli\u003eAndrea Yates, whose two juries reached opposite verdicts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe slime mould that solved the Tokyo rail network\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe acacias of the Transvaal that warned one another through the air\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe questions reopened: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy the same molecule produces opposite outcomes in different bodies. What becomes of \u003ci\u003emens rea\u003c\/i\u003e when the courts cannot locate the guilty mind. How words enter the body and reshape the chemistry they enter. Why coordination alone has never guaranteed wisdom. How the older traditions held chemistry and meaning together before modernity separated them. And what becomes of the breath when the body returns to dust.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book is written for the educated general reader. It does not require any prior background in chemistry, neuroscience, philosophy, or theology. It asks only one thing: the willingness to keep looking after the case has been declared closed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Facts rarely argue. Interpretations do.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- from the opening chapter\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLet Us Crack All Odds!\u003c\/b\u003e is a continuing interdisciplinary series exploring spirituality, consciousness, thought, discernment, and the unseen dimensions of human experience. \u003ci\u003eThe Chemical Being\u003c\/i\u003e is Book II.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47891212107927,"sku":"9798197719843","price":1357.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798197719843.webp?v=1781182732","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-chemical-being-in-search-of-the-mystery-behind-the-chemical-suppliers-in-the-human-brain-9798197719843","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}