The Brain

Enclosed within the skull is the central organ of the nervous system--the brain. There are "three major divisions of the brain: the forebrain, the midbrain, and the hindbrain." The appearance of the brain is made up of both grey and white matter.

[(pg. 324), Webster's New International Unabridged Dictionary, by G.& C. Merriam Co.,(c) 1953, 2nd Edition]

What is Matter?

"[Dr. Kinley]....I been trying my best to convey to your mind what matter is. What is it anyhow? What is the source from whence it derived? Where is it going to? Where did you come from? And where are you going to? And how do you know that whatever it is? You wanna talk about philosophy, metaphysics, and divine psychology, that's what you wanna do, and if you don't wanna do that, you should. Matter is, one of the lexicographers said this, "Anything that occupies space." I take the position of an etymologist I'll go get the roots. Matter is spirit materialized. God is spirit, and everything comes from spirit, it doesn't make any difference what it is it derives from spirit. What's the source of its final destiny? Where is it going to? It's going back to where it comes from."

[Extra Sensory Perception, by Dr. Henry Clifford Kinley, 1967]

Grey Matter

The grey matter of the brain is "made up largely of nerve cells". At first glance, the surface of brain is made up of grey matter and forms what is "convolutions of the cerebrum, and the laminae of the cerebellum"...."grey matter is found in the interior of the brain, collected into large and distinct masses or ganglionic bodies, such as the corpus striatum, optic thalamus, and corpora quadrigemina." Under this first layer, the "...grey matter is found intermingled intimately with the white, but without definite arrangement..."

[(pg. 324), Webster's New International Unabridged Dictionary, by G.& C. Merriam Co.,(c) 1953, 2nd Edition]

[(pg. 47),  Gray's Anatomy, by Henry Gray F.R.S, (c) 1995, 15th Edition]

White Matter

The white matter of the brain is "made up chiefly of nerve fibres arising from the nerve cells of the brain". And in the third layer "the white matter of the brain is divisible into three distinct classes of fibres: diverging, comissural, and associations fibres."

[(pg. 324), Webster's New International Unabridged Dictionary, by G.& C. Merriam Co.,(c) 1953, 2nd Edition]

[(pg. 47),  Gray's Anatomy, by Henry Gray F.R.S, (c) 1995, 15th Edition]