It has been a corner stone for many arguments between scientists and spiritual teachers. What is more important – intellect or emotions, rationality or feelings? Our logic acts as a filter for information and our feelings are often very hard to interpret and understand. It seems that both of them can’t really exist together in the same room, much like fire and water. Too much water would put the fire down and too much fire would vaporize water. However, if you really know how to use both, you can create something similar to a steam engine, where both fire and water are used to create power.

Most scientists would probably argue that the human brain is more important than the heart. After all, they can give a quite logical explanation of why it is true. First of all, the human brain seems to be much more complicated than the human heart. Some claim that we use only 10% of our cerebral brain capacity (films like “Lucy” and “Limitless” are great examples of what happens if you tap into more than those few %).  Perhaps at this moment of our evolution, we can only give an explanation (or give scientific model) to mere ten percent of human brain work. Even with all the modern equipment and devices, there is still a lot of mystery as to how the brain really works.

Thanks to our brain we can communicate with the world, we can perceive and transmit information. Because of our brain we know how our skin feels when we touch something, we know how the birds sing when they do, we know how a rose smells, we know how an apple tastes, we know sunrise, sunset and then again sunrise when we see it. We need the brain to express our thoughts in words and move different parts of our body. We really do take for granted a lot of things that human brain can do.

The human heart, on the other hand, seems to have only one major function in our body – to pump blood. Yet, it is an amazing organ that works as long as we live. If we are involved in complicated brain work, our heart sends extra blood to the areas of the brain that need more power. If human brain shuts down our heart can only beat for few seconds and if our heart stops, then supposedly we have up to 5 minutes to turn it back on. Many people use this fact as a proof that human brain is more important than a human heart. However, the heart is what makes us feel and be human.  Through our heart, we can interact with the world on the emotional level. Thanks to our heart we can be compassionate, we can express kindness and care for something other than our own survival. More importantly because of our heart, we can feel Love. Many people on their spiritual path believe that Love is the only true way to the “enlightenment” and that brain should always listen to the heart, but that is just tilting the vessel to one side and making it go in circles without noticing the need for a balance in order to go forward on a spiral of spiritual growth and evolution.

There is really no sense in claiming that one is more important than the other. A more effective way will be finding a model that can explain the work of both without giving more importance to one or the other.