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A few vitalized individuals will still agree today with the old universal assertion that people are defined and directed by what they place within their hearts.

The majority of individuals, however, have a strong problem with this statement because of the simple fact that they have been mislead as to where and what the heart is as well as how it can be energized.  

Before the advent of the Dark Ages, the heart or center of an individual was known to be  within the generative region or bowels of the body. This heart center was called by a variety of names. Some of lesser known names are: the ulukhala or burning granary floor in the Indian Vedas, the tan t’ien or burning cauldron of the Chinese Tao, and in the West, the Christians used the Greek word tameion, as in Matthew 6:6 and 24:26, which meant a lower storeroom containing an inner hidden power. These centers all lay within the region of the sacrum or sacred bone as measured from the extended toes and the fingers. It is interesting that the old red heart symbol found on Valentine cards depicts either the shape of the sacrum or of the surrounding buttocks rather than the beating chest heart.

The hidden lower heart was considered as a control center (as many individuals still do). This can be argued for several reasons. The first is that the sacrum is a hollow bone containing the richest nerve center outside of the brain. It is not only filled with the gray matter found in the brain but also contains an unusual collection of nerve roots called 'horsehair', cauda equina. These nerve roots connect directly to the body’s peripheral nervous system and provide a more direct connection to the body than does the brain.

The other reason for considering the sacrum as a lower control center is its obvious control of many of the autonomic reactions of the body. Because of its central position to the limbs, it can direct and control their instinctive motions far faster than could the slower responding remote brain. The body, for instance, can respond instantly to a child in danger before the brain is even aware of the full situation.

The lower or sacral heart is perceived to have metaphysical properties. It is quite common for vitalized individuals, when meeting a crisis, to report how they knew, not only what was happening, but also how it was happening and what they had to do to counter it. Amazing success stories are also told of how the yearnings in the heart directed the life such that the dedicated goal could be reached. Similarly, many creative individuals report how their creativity seems to rise up from their bowels.

The modern world has considerable problem with accepting metaphysical powers. This can be explained by the early efforts of the Catholic Church to claim credit and control for the amazing feats of Constantine the Great. 

Constantine the Great brought about the reformation of the decaying Roman Empire primarily through his success with the vitalization of his subjects. He was quite unique in history since he not only tolerated and encouraged strong independent individuals but incorporated them within his government. For instance, he demonstrated to the world the increased power of his troops when they were encouraged to rely upon the inner guidance of their own hearts rather than the mindless synchronous thrusting and parrying of swords of the old Roman regimentation. With his trusting troops he was able to beat the far superior force of Maxentius. He had earlier become aware of the powers of the heart by observing the former enemies of Empire, namely the early followers of Jesus, whom he entrusted with such activities as setting up welfare and education facilities within the Empire.

He shocked the world when he denied the existence of pagan gods and their messengers and enforced the belief in the Christos of Sol Invictus that could directly fill and inspire the heart of a believer exactly like the warmth of the sun warming a basking sunbather.

This belief, which was considered more of a science than a religion by the later Catholics, was described as Henotheism. Henotheism is based upon experience as well as logic and starts with ascribing three attributes to the power of the sun, Sol Invictus, or God. These attributes are 1) having inner powers, 2) being able to radiate or emanate those powers and 3) the radiated powers being able to be assimilated or absorbed yielding the same original powers. It was also believed that the sun or source could transmit many different powers including intelligence by the same methods. Constantine utilized the term used by the followers of Jesus, namely Christos or Christ, to describe the emanation of the power. The Christians during his reign fully accepted these beliefs (later called the Arian Heresy) and even changed their day of worship to the Sun’s day and incorporated other important Roman holidays into their religious calendar.

After the death of Constantine and his ruling son, some Bishops managed to gain political power over the Empire and attempted to rewrite history. Fideism, or unsupportable faith, replaced logic and science. Only the Church and its priesthood had metaphysical powers and the authority to discuss them (explaining the reluctance of science, even today, to discuss metaphysical subjects).

To effectuate shift of power from individuals to the Church, the hearts of the laity had to become hardened and closed. This required a number of related changes. The first was the redefining of Christos back to the old anthropomorphic descriptions of physical gods requiring other physical entities such as angels or messengers to take their commands down to earth. Christos therefore became Jesus as a god. Secondly, the love taught by Jesus, described as agapao, had to be changed from being a transformational and evolutionary force to one of nurturing and caring which is suggested by the honoring of the nursing mother of Jesus.  Yet Jesus, as God, had to be the chief symbol of caring and nurturing, not Mary. He didn’t have breasts, therefore his nurturing had to be expressed by having a bleeding heart whose blood nourished worshippers. Hence the heart and its love had to be in the chest or bosom.

To insure the hardening of the true heart, stimulation of it had to be minimized. This was done by the enforcement of techniques well known to enforce obedience. Instead of teaching individuals to become ‘the light’ or ‘salt of the earth’ as described in the Greek Beatitudes and elsewhere, they were taught to become meek, mild and obedient as described in the translations and interpretations of the same Greek.

That the early Catholic Bishops were quite successful was evidenced in the rise of the power of the Church and the weakening of the individuals as the world sank into the Dark Ages.

The full extent of the physiological changes that took place under the Catholic training was not fully recognized until the physician, Arnold Kegel, reported how the perineal muscles in aging individuals were weakened and atrophying and producing the common urine incontinence problems. He gave some wonderful news to the world that these weakened muscles could be restored, in part at least, by exercises. His prescribed exercises had an unexpected additional value beyond correcting incontinence when they were noted to also produce increased vitality. These muscles therefore could be perceived as being important to well being.

Once the perineal muscles can be accepted as having a value, the required stimulation of infants as well as their extreme gyrations can be understood. Evolving children can be perceived as attempting to continue the stimulation of these muscles in their games using pratfalls and bouncing as well as using the retained breath and its downward pressure. Alert children become aware of the power of forced exhalation as the voice deepens and reflects a superior inner power that gains the attention of others. Later many adults become aware of the power reflected in the perineal muscles as they face some ‘gut wrenching’ challenge or find how their bowels react with sudden thoughts.

These observations and studies indicated the existence of the power in the bowels that were described by poets and in what are considered as religious writings. The perineal muscles can therefore be considered as the source of opening the true heart, girding the loins, bracing one’s self or letting the guts churn in order to face the goals of life.

Unfortunately, there are new forms of the institutional suppression of the sacral heart with the continued impossible denial of the metaphysical, even in classical science. Citizens are made to feel more and more dependent upon the government and institutions for their protection and welfare. A unique and modern threat is perhaps the loss of feelings as the brain is identified with being only a computer and life becomes purely mechanical with drug controlled neural responses.

Fortunately, there are still dynamic creative individuals who develop the inner power of the heart as they seek more in life and beyond.