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ISBN: 1-882152-23-9

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I dedicate this booklet to The Pleneurethics Society
and its dedicated members.
Their support has been valuable.
Their friendship has been invaluable.
—Richard Collier—

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        At the outset I wish to place Pleneurethics in a philosophical context. More than a hundred years after Descartes and Galileo had laid the foundation for modern science in a mechanical universe, Immanuel Kant codified metaphysics into a new world view in his Critique of Pure Reason. It defined the meaningful questions for the next hundred years, even for Ludwig Wittgenstein in this century. Modern  philosophers, however, have moved beyond Kant. They deal in configurations. They deal in perceptions beyond the mechanical, beyond the biological. They seek new philosophical syntheses. Richard Bangs Collier is one of those modern searchers, seeking to give this age the philosopher’s touch.
        Mr. Collier asked me to prepare for publication this booklet, including the Glossary of Pleneurethical Terms. The narrative is based on the eight basic volumes (2nd Edition) written by Richard Collier between 1964 and 1972. Needless to say, not all the material could be included. My guideline was the basic principles. Hence, this booklet can serve as an introduction to Pleneurethics, but it is not a substitute for the original eight volumes in the second edition. In those volumes, the reader will find a thorough presentation of Pleneurethics.
        I wish to acknowledge the encouragement of Richard Collier who believed a short booklet on Pleneurethics, especially on the basic principles, was needed. Since Pleneurethics has its own vocabulary he also wanted a glossary of terms readily available to the reader. Collier prepared the glossary himself.
        I wish to thank James F. Carroll for his permission to include his article “Ten Principles of Pleneurethics” which appeared originally in The Journal of Pleneurethics.
     Dan Small managed the many details related to the printing. Ruth Hansen expertly transformed my draft into an acceptable manuscript. Donna Waltner at Pine Hill Press managed the final production.
        Many years ago a student of mine dedicated her term paper to the “Puget Power and Light Company without whose energy this paper would not have been possible.” I now more fully recognize her insight.

John N. Terrey
Seattle, Washington
December 1988

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       I did not develop Pleneurethics from an outline. In fact, I have always been at a loss to explain Pleneurethics neatly and clearly. Its expanse and its intricate, interlocking mechanisms simply defy easy explanation.
        I perceive Pleneurethics as a vast system of thought. It transcends all boundaries and all barriers. The system achieves its results through intelligent use of practical methods. Pleneurethics is both massive and complex. If one can master it in theory and in successful application, one will have gone where few people have gone before. To comprehend Pleneurethics, one must reverse the conicular process that I employed in its creation.
        Pleneurethics unites the disciplines of science, humanities, and religion into a manageable field of learning with a practical philosophy of life. The study of Pleneurethics provides access to a perspective on life that is not achievable through any other extant discipline. Its approach is what Edward O. Wilson has termed “consilience.” (See Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, 1998.)
        The writing of Pleneurethics involved an intense creative effort. It could not be outlined in advance because much of the material came as breakthroughs or insights appearing effortlessly in my mind at random at any place or any time. Enormous amounts of time and effort were then required to refine the new ideas and to state them clearly and succinctly.
        This brief booklet is drawn from the eight volumes collected under the title Pleneurethics: A New Concept of Healing. Below I have briefly outlined the concepts of each of the eight books.

Volume I: This first book introduced the new notion of the “total individual.” The major topics discussed were anatomy, physiology, and cells. Each was discussed from my special perspective. At the end of the chapter on physical exercise, I introduced the novel notion that
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chronic illnesses were often caused by an inability to relax due to tension (stress) within the individual. The structural approach to understanding the complete person was thereby established. The anatomy of the psyche was introduced. I also carefully set forth my strong objections to modern medical theory. This was done in the section of the book dealing with the “Postulates of Koch.” My ideas on the subjects of truth and logic were outlined. The term “chronic anxiety” was coined, and the importance of the neural system (brain system) was introduced. The terms “acute” and “chronic” illness were explicated.
        The first book on the subject of Pleneurethics was important. Not only did it get me started writing, but it also  introduced the idea of the “total individual.” Other highlights in the book appear in the chapter on cells (Chapter IX). This chapter commenced my discussion on the circulatory systems with the capillaries rather than the heart. The chapter (Chapter VIII) on “Truth and Logic” was a breakthrough. But, perhaps the most important breakthrough in the first book was the notion that both chronic physical illness in the body and chronic mental problems in the mind occur concurrently and spring from a chronic source—chronic trauma in the brain system. The cause of this chronic problem must be addressed before a cure can be achieved. Chronic problems in the brain system are not often caused by collateral problems of a structural nature in the bioductory system.

Volume II: This volume amplified my views on chronic illness. It also carried forward the notions on tension and faulty structural posture with resulting chronic illness. Chapter III (“Categories and Levels”) contains a systematic introduction to the concepts of structure, function, and content as employed in Pleneurethical philosophy. Volume II projected the “complete person” idea by concentrating on the mind and the relationship of the mind to the neurological establishment. It introduced the notion that beneficial health increments were to be achieved through constructive conservation of neurological energies. It discussed the foundation of Pleneurethics inherent from a philosophical perspective in the concepts of structure, function, and content within their interrelationships. Tension and stress were shown to be products of distortion in all structures of the body and the mind. The anatomy of the mind was elaborated upon. The mentality was shown to develop as an intermediary between the brain and the mind. The terms “infrallect,” “ultrallect,” and “intellect” were introduced
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and defined. Adverse intellectual mechanisms were listed in Chapter XIX (“Intellectosis and Adverse Intellectual Mechanisms”), and the neural system (brain system) was thoroughly treated in Chapter XIX.
        One of the greatest breakthroughs in my thinking came in Chapter X when I was able to see that not all mental illnesses have an origin in the mind; some mental illnesses have their origins in the physical brain and the physical environments surrounding that great neurological organ.
        Another great breakthrough in thought was presented in Chapter XVI which dealt with the structured stresses in the brain that cause nightmares in the mind as the mind attempts to interpret the heavy efforts of a chronically stressed brain to relax itself. This was based on my earlier belief that the inability to relax because of somatic tension caused many illnesses.
        In addition, the terms “Neurosis” and “Psychosis” were explained and redefined from a Pleneurethical vantage. The concept of Ethics of Pleneurethics was related to the Ultrallect. I also discussed the metaphysical and introduced a new term “Metaconsciousness,” thereby setting the stage for a line of thinking that culminated in the diagram entitled, “Gentry of the Absolute.” (See Volume VIII, page 5.)
        This volume continued the line of reasoning that eventually led to the separation of the mind from the neural system. At this early juncture, I had not yet settled on the brain itself as the major focus of Pleneurethics. Pleneurethics was based upon natural law as opposed to man-made law issued by the state or the church.
         Volume II established the notion that Pleneurethics is a structural approach to understanding the problems of humankind. It took the first faltering steps in applying the concept of structure not only to the gross anatomy of the physical body but also to the mentality of the mind as well as to the dreams and nightmares. It broke new ground by showing that structural distortion causes tension (stress) in the structure thereby harming the proper flow of function. This was a major breakthrough in my thinking.
        Volume II also discriminated chronic illness from acute illness on the basis of structural problems in the neural system. Finally, this volume set the stage for Volume III by its discussion in the foreword of natural law versus man-made law.
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Volume III: The main thrust of the third volume was to explore the spiritual as it applies to the “total individual.” Spiritual healing was examined, as was the relationship between the Holy Spirit and chronic illness. Religion, sin, and evil were the subjects of individual chapters. Church, state, and the clergy were written about, as was ethics. The new term “Absolute Ethic” was developed and explained in Chapter XXI. The greatest breakthrough in thought occurring during the year devoted to writing Volume III was the identification of a new anatomical system—the nerviductory system—later to be identified as the bioductory system. The first attempt to define Pleneurethics appeared in Chapter III. On page 122, I advanced a new notion that people must accept personal responsibility for their own affairs, including their own character. This was a major breakthrough in my thinking, and within a few years the idea became accepted throughout the world. As simple and self-evident as this idea may seem, it was not in vogue when I conceived it.

Volume IV: Volume IV saw the employment of a new term—“Biomechanics.” I employed it to offset the vague term “Biochemistry.” The new term was picked up within a few years and now is widely used. The same fate happened to the words “structure” and “restructure.” These words were not widely utilized when I first adopted them as the basis for my philosophy of Pleneurethics. Today these words are hackneyed. I hesitate to employ them any longer.

Volume V: Volume IV was a transitional volume, paving the way for a very productive Volume V. The fifth volume was a rewrite and an expansion of my first volume. The concepts of Pleneurethics were successfully brought into focus in the next three volumes.
        Although Volume V is concerned primarily with the science of Pleneurethics and the philosophy of healing, it also is concerned with the origin of the universe and the nature of life. I believe that there is an External Mind of unlimited power and capability. This mind is the creative force that planned and executed the formation of the cosmos.
        The Eternal Mind conceived the concept of limitless space and then proceeded to control, through its law, the injection of material objects into the cosmic reservoir. Whether celestial material such as the galaxies and spiral nebulae were caused to form instantaneously in an ethereal flash or were to evolve over countless eons from the matrix of
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Absolute Law is of no particular concern to me or to my Pleneurethics.

Volume VI: Readers have said that Volume VI is the best volume in the series. Many aspects of Pleneurethics fell into place in this volume. For example, I had come to realize that I must find a concept which would connect all of the earlier work into one integrated whole—something that the neural system was not doing. The great breakthrough in thinking occurred in Volume VI. It was the clear, inescapable realization that the brain was the common factor I had been searching for. In the earlier works I had mentioned the brain, but I did not settle on its true significance until I wrote Volume VI. In that volume I clearly discriminated between the brain and mind. In the years since my discovery many scholars have struggled to resolve what has been termed the MBP (Mind Body Problem). I concluded that the mind was the brain at work. Today, in the field of philosophy, a major subset is Philosophy of Mind.
        I also revealed that chronic guilt was a problem of a chronically maldeployed brain system, due to accidents to the bioductory system. The chapters on the “evolution of healing” and the “evolution of Pleneurethics” (Chapters III and II respectively) were powerful, synthetic chapters. In the chapter on ethics (Chapter VI) I explained why lying to others is unethical. This was twenty years before Sissela Bok’s landmark book—Lying.

Volume VII: I was pleased with this volume because it refined my theories on the brain and the mind, and it introduced a trenchant definition from a Pleneurethical vantage of the term “mentality.” This volume also provided the first attempt at enumerating all the Postulates of Pleneurethics. (See Chapter III.) Chapter IV sharpened structural analysis of the Philosophy of Pleneurethics as it applies to the bioductory and the mental systems.
        The brain with its major extension—the spinal cord—and the cranial nerves plus the peripheral skeletal nerves together constitute the brain system of Pleneurethics. The brain system is protected from external physical assault by the bioductory system. This system has other purposes as well, namely to support the brain system in its proper anatomical configuration and to provide surfaces of attachment for some skeletal and visceral muscles. The brain system cannot function properly if its anatomical posture is not correct.
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Volume VIII: This final volume in the Hong Kong Series was a successful book for two reasons: (1) I was able to diagram two of the major principles of Pleneurethics, and (2) I was able to create some succinct statements about Pleneurethics. It was a very short volume, hardly 70 pages, but it is exceedingly important in distilling some of the Pleneurethical concepts into terse language. I was particularly pleased with Chapter V—“The Rule of Ethics.” As any reader of Pleneurethics knows, Pleneurethics attempts to heal the spirit as well as the broken body.
        Pure ethics resides automatically in the righteous person. The moral character and the ethical conduct of the good person manifest itself effortlessly as an innate quality. Such a righteous person does not have to decide to be ethical. He is already ethical and has been since his birth.
        Since 1972 when Volume VIII was published in the original edition, ten additional books have been published based on the eight volumes in the Hong Kong Series. Between 1992 and 1994 re-edited editions of the Hong Kong Series have been published. In 1993 the Pleneurethics Society began publishing the Journal of Pleneurethics on an annual basis.