James Knox Millen

Your Nose Knows James Knox Millen

WE HOLDThat the real divisionand conflictin mans mind is between his primitive, still-paramount animal brain, now as ab initio under smell-dominance; and his lately acquired, super-imposed consciousness, under eye-and-ear control That there are no physical signs of degeneracy in the nose-nosebrain apparatus. It can and unceasingly does receive incredibly faint intero- and exteroreceptive smell-messagesfor the most part subconsciously That the mystery of why a specific odor affects different persons differently, and the same person differently at different times can be explained by the realization that mans animal brain is concerned solely with the organisms own condition, welfare, needs; that it is continually advised thereof by exhaled air and blood-borne messages; and that no external odor-stimulus is ever received except in fusion with and hence altered by these varying inward messages. AND OUR HYPOTHESIS IS1. Sleeping or awake, man has a functioning sense of smell, acted upon by combinations, always, of objective and subjective odors. 2. Smell messages consciously tabooed, are subconsciously accepted. 3. The total of these acceptancespast and presentis the Subconscious. And, principally: 4. The automatic actions of the body are smell-responses.