In 1990 Dr. Frank Meshberger noticed in Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam that God and the angels appeared against a brain shaped background (see above image of original and brain overlay). The discovery was published in The Journal of the American Medical Association. Well, there’s room for interpretation here; maybe it’s a large walnut in cross section and the artist didn’t mean to imply anything sacrilegious—like “For God’s sake use your brain when you read the Bible.” But then just recently in the journal Neurosurgery two Johns Hopkins anatomists, Suk and Tamargo show further evidence that Michelangelo meant it. In Sistine Chapel’s The Separation of Light From Darkness, God’s “Adam’s apple” is in unmistakably shaped like the brainstem all the way up to the optic nerve in the brain.
At the time (~1500 AD) no one was allowed to desecrate the human body by dissecting dead people. Religious censorship went so far that you weren’t supposed to try to find out what people looked like on the inside. Michelangelo dared enough to do it, but not enough to share the secret openly or there’d be no Sistine Chapel fresco.
IRI censorship isn’t as strict; you can cut up as many people as you want. Though you’re still not allowed to see what certain writers are thinking on the inside, even if they’re dead. But if a fresco was ever allowed on the wall of the Jamkaran well, the lucky commissioned artist should keep in mind the hidden message of a great Renaissance artist, “For God’s sake people, use your brains.”
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by i_support_khamenie on Mon May 31, 2010 04:16 AM PDT...but condemns Ali Vakili who to this DAY, ON IRANIAN LAND, MAINTAINS HIS INNOCENCE REGARDING THE DEATH OF BAKHTIAR................................even though all anti- IRI folks say that IRI wanted Bakhtiar killed................sounds to me if your analysis is accurate, A Vakili should be boasting he killed Bakhtiar in order to get some position or power or money.....but NO, he maintians his innocence!
humanbeing
by Ari Siletz on Sun May 30, 2010 08:44 PM PDTYes, to be historically fair, religious institutions helped preserve knowledge which would have been lost otherwise. In fact, to what extent did the Western university system--now adopted by most of the world-grow out of the Christian monastic tradition?
great blog and thread
by humanbeing on Sun May 30, 2010 03:22 AM PDTthanks.
khar, you are right and progress has been held back because of religion. but some of the books of the work on anatomy by galen were lost in the original and would not have been preserved had it not been for the translation movement in the 9/10 c. and the patronage of the rulers of the time. the continuum of some of what we know about greek anatomical science was due to the translation by hunayn b. ishaq. ok he was a chrisitan, not a muslim. it was a cultural thing more than a religious thing.
ciphered link
by Ari Siletz on Sun May 30, 2010 03:10 AM PDTKouroshs,
You will need Illuminati 7.2 or later versions to access this website.
Deevaneh,
You may have hit upon Michelangelo's real message.
As you know, Adam had no concept of nakedness until he ate the fruit. Despite reports to the contrary--and I'm sure he never told Eve-- he felt it was worth getting expelled from Eden. Naked vs. garden? A no brainer.
Ari
by KouroshS on Sat May 29, 2010 10:39 PM PDTThe Illuminati Link does not work...Or could it be my Windows 7 that is acting up!
Naked Emperor
by divaneh on Sat May 29, 2010 04:47 PM PDTThe emperor is not wearing anything.
Mr. Siletz
by Khar on Sat May 29, 2010 03:24 PM PDTThanks for the informative PBS link you sent me:
//www.pbs.org/wnet/brain/history/4000bc.html
* And as far as the Illuminati link, I'll get back with you on it :-) :-)
//www.antichristidentity.com/Illuminati-New-World-Order/Obama-New-World-Order.htm
Khar: The Illuminati has sent you this link.
by Ari Siletz on Sat May 29, 2010 02:47 PM PDTHere's a very efficient presentation of the history of brain anatomy which covers 4000 BC to 2000 AD in about 30 images.
www.illuminati.vat has been operational since the time of Christ.
to the author of the blog
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Oh No, not another Da Vinci Code! People please
by Khar on Sat May 29, 2010 02:46 PM PDTFYI, ancient Greeks were very advanced in anatomy based on the science of the era, Anatomy (from the Greek word ἀνατομία anatomia, from ἀνατέμνειν ana: separate, apart from, and temnein, to cut up, cut open). So knowing what brain or it stem looks like dates back way before renaissance and Michaelangelo, at least by 2 thousand years.
But do I agree with fact if it wasn’t for religion’s thought repression (today's example IRI), science and humanity as a whole would have been more advances than what it is today, perhaps we would have had trip to the moon, e=mc2 and Newton laws at least by a thousand years or so earlier.
Couple of links for those of you who seek the truth not historical MAGHLATEH:
HISTORY OF ANATOMY
//www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=aa05
//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatomy
Immortal Guard
by Ari Siletz on Sat May 29, 2010 02:07 PM PDTYes. That's how I read Michelangelo's possible message in Creation. The Sistine Chapel already has a huge spiritual component, he simply added the element of physical (mental) intellect--ie. observation and reason-- which his Renaissance artistic intuition told him was lacking. As you know this trend of thought eventually led to a state of human understanding where today we can imagine creation in terms of the Big Bang, Theory of Evolution etc. As you may be suggesting, the intuition of some modern artists may now be telling them that the balance again doesn't feel right, because we went too far and now there isn't enough spirituality. Needless to add, the kind of spirituality that can balance Science will have to far transcend whatever the Church had to offer in the 16th century. And I'm not talking about Deepak Chopra. To stick my neck out, not even Rumi.
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IRANdokht, acute of you to appreciate the substance of this discovery.
dbl post- so I will leave you with this
by WhamBam on Sat May 29, 2010 01:51 PM PDTThe world cares very little about what a person knows;
it is what the person is able to do that counts.
(Booker T. Washington)
Study Einstein
by WhamBam on Sat May 29, 2010 01:48 PM PDT//www.pickthebrain.com/blog/einsteins-theory-of-religion/
He also has a few quotes referring to a higher power.It's even infused in some of his theory's.It's oh so easy to find online but I don't have time for your study,you can continue this with rest of the brainac's that think's there is a scientific explanation for everything,only because you've not the thought room to question.....
And last to you ID before I go
We all change.We experience ups and downs,.I have read your comments for years now and one thing,you have not changed.Even all that has changed in Iran,you have not changed.Your politics hasn't changed,logic and your idea of yourself.The only thing that seems to have changed is time and age..
Ayatollah Einstein!!!!!!!!!
by Immortal Guard on Sat May 29, 2010 12:47 PM PDT//iranian.com/main/2010/may/ayatollah-einstein
So could emotional intelligence and spiritual intelligence and intellectual intelligence be all interrelated? So far the word intelligence was used to mean "mental and intellectual intelligence". I guess no more!
Did you look at the painting before commenting?
by WhamBam on Sat May 29, 2010 12:14 PM PDTMankind knew for centuries beforehand what a brain looked like because they 'cut one open' to study it..
The Church banned the practice because it was primitive and inhumane.
Brain Surgery was then a Last Resort,as it is now,a Last Resort.
The Whole article is an entertaining age old absurd conspiracy.Yes It's amazing for centuries people knew what brains looked like but didn't see that those legs are brain stems..
You could be right,it may be a brain,it may be the skull of man,what a revelation..It could also other things as well,like an apple,a heart,a palette,whatever you want to see.What does it prove to say things like if we only used our brains we could be as smart as God,is absurd.
Fascinating
by benross on Sat May 29, 2010 11:07 AM PDTFor God's sake -or whoever' sake- people, use your brain.
But does it need to be demonstrated in such fantasmologic (fake word) way? Fascinating.
amazing
by IRANdokht on Sat May 29, 2010 10:28 AM PDTDoes everybody comment without reading and understanding the article?
@wham.. Michelangelo, despite the dangers involved with dissecting cadavers, was very much aware of the human anatomy. At least read this part:
"Michelangelo dared enough to do it, but not enough to share the secret openly or there’d be no Sistine Chapel fresco. "
here's a couple of more articles for you to not read, you know it'll just sound absurd anyway:
//www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-douglas-fields/michelangelos-secret-mess_b_586531.html
//www.thecaveonline.com/APEH/michelangelosbrain.html
IRANdokht
Oh you want the Big Bang Arguement
by WhamBam on Sat May 29, 2010 09:52 AM PDTSince you are all knowing (Sarcasm) please explain to me where the First DNA came from?
And tell me where the Universe came from to have the Big Bang? Why was it there? Where did it come from?
Why does anything exist at all?
If you've no answer for these questions let me tell you beforehand,you are a fool indeed to come make these statements to me.
And you've no room mention educational brainwash, this is a total free thinking opinion while someone has taught you to believe everything is explainable and you stopped questioning them.
nothing fascinating about this nonsense.
by fooladi on Sat May 29, 2010 09:23 AM PDTSorry to break the bad news to you, but God did not give us brains, because there is no such thing as God, or behesht or Jahanam, or 12 emams, or any of that mumble jumble you have been fed with during your so called "education" under IRI system. I suggest you use your brain for a change, and read a few basic scientific articles, then you find there is something called evolution which teaches all why we as human beings look the way we look and why we have brains.
Who? Gave us the Brains?
by WhamBam on Sat May 29, 2010 09:06 AM PDTI read this comment today and was amazed..Back then,Just how would we know what brain's looked like without ever cutting someone up? What technology did mankind have,some kind of 'brainy x-ray'? Is this using your 'brains'? Do you really think we can be God if we use our brain's?
These are absurd statements.And If it is too rude to state the truth and call this absurd I don't care.What is absurd is absurd whether it is spoken or not.You have the right to be absurd and I should have the right to call you so.
And so Daughter of Iran,you are absurd.Over a simple drawing of a Adam's Apple and the 'Palette' background in the shape of a human skull in a brillant painting of creation.What you mean to do is to depict religion as foolish and as yourself as all knowing.Which is not only disrespectful but also untrue,classless and juvenile.
Fascinating
by IRANdokht on Fri May 28, 2010 11:56 PM PDTHow many people looked at the Sistine Chapel for centuries and didn't make the connection even though so many grew up knowing what a brain looks like without having to cut anyone up.
I saw this report today and was amazed. Imagine if someone, hundreds of years ago, with all the social restriction imposed by the church was so advanced in his art, his science and his thought process, how many people since then, with comparable brain power have quietly left clues for the future generation to discover...
Use your brains, or maybe even God is what you can be if you use your brain, it's still left to interpretation. Fascinating either way.
These graphics are awesome, much better than the ones in other articles, thanks Ari jan
IRANdokht