Phrenology first originated in India 5000
years ago in the times of Vedic era, people were focused on just one issue, how to develop the human consciousness. Phrenology: (samudrik shahstra) to understand the state of the body, mind & soul from the physical features
of the individuals.The thought waves we get from the universal mind and the thoughts which manifest
in our conscious mind along with our actions, influence the shape, size, color and appearance of our physical features. Any
major variation in our thinking patterns or any action which overwhelms our Psyche trigger a change in the characteristic
of a particular body feature.But the Word Phrenology was taken from greeks. (from Greek: φρήν,
phrēn, "mind"; and λόγος, logos, "knowledge") is a sceince Through which one is able to
determine character, personality traits, and criminality on the basis of the shape of the head (reading "bumps").
In The west it was Developed by German physician Franz Joseph Gall around 1800, and very popular
in the 19th century. Phrenology has however received credit as a protoscience for having contributed to medical science the
ideas that the brain is the organ of the mind and that certain brain areas have localized, specific functions.
Its principles were that the brain is the organ of the mind, and that mind has a set of different
mental faculties, each particular faculty being represented in a different part or organ of the brain. These areas were said
to be proportional to a given individual's propensities and importance of a mental faculty, and the overlying skull bone to
reflect these differences.
Phrenology, which focuses on personality and character, is to be distinguished from craniometry,
which is the study of skull size, weight and shape, and physiognomy, the study of facial features. However, these fields have
all claimed the ability to predict traits or intelligence. They were once intensively practised in anthropology/ethnology
and sometimes utilized to "scientifically" justify racism. While some principles of phrenology are well-established today,
the basic premise that personality is determined by skull shape is almost universally considered to be false.
In the introduction to his main work The Anatomy and Physiology of the Nervous System in General,
and of the Brain in Particular, Gall makes the following statement in regard to the principles on which he based his doctrine:
- That moral and intellectual faculties are innate
- That their exercise or manifestation depends on organisation
- That the brain is the organ of all the propensities, sentiments and faculties
- That the brain is composed of many particular organs as there are propensities, sentiments and faculties
which differ essentially from each other.
- That the form of the head or cranium represents the form of the brain, and thus reflects the relative
development of the brain organs.
These statements can be considered as the basic laws on which phrenology was built. Through careful
observation and extensive experimental measurements, Gall believed he had linked aspects of character, called faculties,
to precise organs in the brain Continue On........ Phrenology : The Science Of Knowing Humans & Future By Head Part-2
