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THE POWER OF THE MIND (1)              While embarking on a research one day, I came across a puzzling question that I saw on one of the editions of Awake! (a monthly publication of the Jehovah’s Witnesses). The question bordered on if instincts guide animals, what guides humans? Hmmm!!! Since then, I have been thinking on it. In fact, I didn’t even want to go into the details of their own opinion about the question because I was bent on generating a more satisfying answer myself. Though unconsciously, this question lingered in my mind for years until now that I have been able to unveil a ‘probable’ answer to it and hope to get your own opinion from it.             As a science educationist, I have come across several aspects of science that have exposed me to life generally. Most animals (and even micro-organisms) have brains just like humans or at least ‘brain-like’ structures yet their functions in the world are minimal even though they are co-sharers of the world with huma