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Multi-axial relationships of the central neural system with its surrounding environments often masks the real source of disturbance in cerebellar structures. The mind is apt to misinterpret the source of the problem, and mount an improper or inadequate response to abate a mistaken cause for its torment. Many unwise acts may then be undertaken by the sufferer, because he was misled by the complexity of his being and the several environments within which his neural organ must function. For example, a psychological cause of distress to the brain may be mistaken for a physiological cause. Moreover, a toxic chemistry, either acute or chronic, may create a brain stress misinterpreted to be of sociological derivation. Violent anti-social responses, which are projected as a physical and traumatic malstructure in the bioductory system, may cause chronic stresses believed by the sufferer to be of psychological or theological genesis. Here are the seeds for religious fervor or various atypical psychological mechanisms. Finally, a mental malstructure may distort judgment and evaluative capability of the afflicted. This may easily lead to severe cerebellar tensions felt by the person to be inspired variously by divine disaffection, social disapproval, or poisoned food and air.

Legion are the chances for serious misjudgments of the source of personal distress, if the afflicted or his physician have not a Pleneurethical background.

To appreciate fully this chapter, the reader must have had an extensive multi-disciplinary background. The topics treated here are surveyed in a very cursory manner. For more depth in any particular topic please refer to previous volumes of Pleneurethics or to standard reference texts.
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Neurochemical Coaxiality
The brain cells are surrounded by a sea of blood brought to the brain by an exceptionally vast network of arteries, arterioles, and capillaries. The blood and its lymph are chemically coaxial with organic brain.

The health of the brain is in large part determined by the quantity and quality of the blood. The ability of the brain to direct digestion, assimilation, and transportation of nutriment to itself and various other portions of the organism is included in the concept of chemical coaxiality. Neurochemical coaxiality encompasses diet, and the soil from whence the food is obtained. Chemicals in food provide raw essentials for microstructure of the human organism, thereby influencing function, and even macrostructure during developmental stages. Chemical coaxiality also includes the nature of the soil upon which food is grown, farming practices which deplete or enrich soil, and poisons used to control bugs and weeds.

Chronic chemical imbalances found in the chronically ill body result from chronic brain imbalance rather than the presence of germs. The body truly represents a vast chemical system of interlinking chemical substances. However, in chronic illness, the pattern of tenacious chemical irregularities may best be correlated with a concomitant pattern of chronic irregularity in the central neural system. From this initial brain tissue upset comes the drive for the persistent disorder in the chemical systems of the body.

Chemical imbalance in the body, then, is not the first cause of chronic disease. Rather chronic organic dysfunction causes such malchemistry, and the central cause of chronic organic upset is chronic brain turbulence and degradation. Chemical imbalances in the stricken organism deteriorate as the chronic condition worsens and subsequently reinforce the overall momentum of degeneration in chronic illness.
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Neurophysical Coaxiality
The brain has a dimension in physical structure as well as a chemical formulation. The health of the brain rests substantially upon the goodness of its physical support. If the physical support for the brain and its major extensions are impaired, the brain will suffer.

The first coaxial layer of the brain’s physical world is the bioductory system. Beyond that comes the layers of muscle and skin and connective tissues, all of which are intimately associated with the exterior of the bioductories.

The second layer of the physical world of the brain is the outer world composed of stone, steel, and other persons. This second layer may comfort or injure depending upon the nature of the contact with it.

Neurophysical coaxiality considers the brain in relationship with its physical housing, more specifically, the entire bioductory system and supporting mechanisms namely: certain bones, organs, glands, muscles, ligaments and pelvic substructures. Mechanical coaxiality also includes the physics of the external world which impacts comfortably or injuriously upon the physical self.

Mechanical coaxiality is concerned primarily with gross or macroanatomy as it affects microanatomy. If seriously chronic disorder exists in gross structure, the microstructure will be degeneratively and pathologically affected. No matter how much attention is given to therapy addressed to the microstructural level, the cure of chronic disorder will not be achieved until the gross structure is corrected.

Of all facets of the brain’s physical world, the most immediately important and, prior to Pleneurethics, the least understood is the bioductory system. A chronic structural disorder in the bioductory system installs a chronic burden directly on the brain by way of its neurological tracts. It interferes with the blood supply. The brain then commences to deteriorate, and its ability to receive normal input or proliferate a normal output is curtailed. The result of such
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chronic brain degradation is chronic mental and physical disease, nightmarish dreams, and perhaps anti-social conduct. Chronic anxiety, depression, loss of confidence, hyper-excitability, and religious fervor are also characteristic of various stages of brain disorder.

After the chronic illness process is set in motion, the organic system of body fails to provide proper biological support for the brain which further weakens and destroys its ability to operate at a normal range of ability. Tensions, which were at one time easily handled, now elicit overresponse, discoordination, or apathy in the final stages.

Chronic illness does not heal with the passage of time. It continues to deteriorate through successive stages of pathology, because the power of the brain to engineer or orchestrate recovery has been chronically forfeit.

Chronic illness is a continuum of pathology which commences with the original injury, and continues with a historical procession of various manifestations of deterioration until death terminates the series of exacerbatory events. Very often the series of pathological events as recited by the patient, and as viewed by the orthodox physician, seem unrelated and mysterious, unless Pleneurethical analysis is undertaken.

The process may run its course to death in a matter of hours or years depending upon the pattern of brain disruption and the severity of the disorder. Chronic physical illness from chronic brain disorder, manifests all symptoms known to man, ranging from rash to cancer, stomach upset to ulcer, general weakness to feelings of exceptional strength, lack of appetite to excessive craving for food, carious teeth to sinus headache, abnormal stools to sexual abnormalcy.

It must be emphasized that because chronic illness is a product of brain disruption, symptoms of the ensuing illness will be reflected in the mind, physical body, blood chemistry, and social conduct.

Chronic patterns of brain disturbance may be altered by a succession of bioductory channel changes. New patterns of brain
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distortion will be imposed by new accidents to the bioductory system. Old patterns of chronic brain disturbance may be eliminated by correcting the chronic pattern of bioductory disorder which causes them.

Neuromental Coaxiality
The health of the brain is in part determined by the structure of the mind which embraces it. The reverse is also true. The mind is deeply influenced by the general state of the brain. The mind is neuromentally coaxial with brain. The mind permeates the brain. The mind is dependent upon brain capability to supply it with raw ingredients of experience. The mind is also dependant upon brain capability to transmit decisions of the mind to various body tissues to achieve an effect in the physical environment external to the brain.

The mind structures itself to form a mental desire. This desire becomes the trigger which releases energy of the brain (neural energy) to accomplish the act leading to fulfillment of the desire.

Neuromental coaxiality, then, is concerned with the ability of the brain to transmit impressions with sufficient vigor to be impressed upon the mind tissue, and reciprocally with the structure of mentality which both incites the brain to meaningful activity and assists in interpretation by the mind of brain sensations.

Stressful problems imbedded in the structure of mind can and do elicit acute stress in the microstructure of brain tissues. Once the brain is acutely stressed, it transmits its tension to tissues of the body and to emotional moods. After the brain and body are acutely or chronically affected, the mind loses its stable base and suffers reduced efficiency.

The mind is associated with the organic brain in somewhat the same manner—as the blood which filters through the liver, or the air which comes up against the walls or the lungs. In other words, the mind and the brain are dissimilar despite their close working relationships. This is a basic Pleneurethical Postulate.
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Abnormal thought and atypical behavior associated with chronic illness are not the cause of chronic illness. Rather chronic distress in the brain is the cause of distress in the mentality which leads to chronically inadequate thinking and peculiar behavior. Moreover, chronic disturbance in the brain reduces the energy available for use by the mind. Even if desire is high, this desire will be useless unless the brain is capable of responding.

There is a little substance in psychiatry or religiousity which teaches that chronic mental and physical illness stem from conflict or abandonment in an unconscious precinct of mind. There is instead a brain that, when chronically traumatized, does form a subverbal, subliminal cause of chronic mental and physical illness. Therapy, therefore, is not psychiatric on a psychological and verbal level, but rather it is Pleneurethical and on a structural level so as to communicate effectively with the chronic physical cause of chronic mental and somatic illness.

There is a clear Pleneurethical distinction between chronic mental unrest caused by chronic brain disturbance and acute mental upset caused by stressful psychological problems accumulating one upon another. The cure for the first comes by communication of corrective physical force to the bioductory structural disorder. The cure for the second is psychological and involves new insight into problem solution and restyling attitudes.

Feelings or emotions are a product of brain activity and mental interpretation of this activity plus glandular involvement. The brain does not operate perfectly upon all occasions. Mentality is more than a pure mind. It includes the entire volume of belief. Thus, feelings become a product of the general state of the central neural system and a particular structure of the individual mentality, plus the experience of the moment which provokes a specific feeling. This is why the same thing or incident will affect people differently if they are tired or well-rested, healthy or ill, and elicit a wide variety of feelings throughout a sampling of people.

Pleneurethics normalizes one’s horizon of decision. Life is dependent upon decisions, and, when the life force has dwindled to zero, all capacity for worldly decision has been terminated. By
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restoring brain capability to normal, the stricken person is shed of his freedom restricting chronic illness.

Neurosocial Coaxiality
The brain is imbedded sociologically in a matrix formed by society and its culture. Society may decapitate the wrongdoer or banish him from the comforts of social acceptance as punishment for real or imaginary escapades.

Neurosocial coaxiality reveals a relationship between the brain and the civilization within which it must survive. Contact of the brain with society is usually by way of the special senses of sight and hearing and smell. However, society also has its impact upon culture which, in turn, has its effect upon the individual in diverse ways.

Not only does the brain suffer at the hands of a hostile society which creates tensions in it and depresses it, society also suffers because of a brain which has been allowed to deteriorate. Under achievement of the afflicted is one of the lesser results, and murderous activity is a major result.

The ailing brain may also cause exaggerated outbursts of temperment and emotional response. The person with a chronically irritated brain may respond to trivial acts of society with intensely anti-social acts. Society clearly suffers when madmen declare war or bomb the neighborhood bank. The cure for many social ills is ethical. Ethics are the concern of the next chapter.