John F Brain is the literary pseudonym and Internet signature of John F Brinster who graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University in 1943. He was associated with the Department of Physics and pursued an underlying interest in Neuroscience and the study of the human mind. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was instrumental in promoting expanded study of Neuroscience, Molecular Biology and Psychology at Princeton, Rutgers and Drew Universities and is a supporting member of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study.
Mr. Brinster was part of the World War II team of Princeton physicists, working under the Office of Research and Development and other US Government agencies, who were assigned secret war related projects in nuclear research, ordnance and missile instrumentation. He was responsible for the development of theory and techniques of early Multichannel Radio Telemetry and related instrumentation for transmission of data from missiles and space vehicles. He worked with Wernher von Braun in the use of captured German V-2 missiles for early American rocket research and development. He was the founder and chief executive officer of several small companies involving research, development and manufacture of electronic and electro-mechanical devices.
Under his pen name, Brinster had previously contributed several non-fictional works in science, religion and philosophy. In 20034 he published The Natural Bible for Modern and Future Man: The Ultimate Theology of the Still Evolving Mind, 180pp., Hamilton Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield. This book employed contemporary knowledge of the three principal development stages of neural evolution in humans to explain the wide range of religious beliefs and related behavior among cultures of the global community. It emphasized possible long term danger in retention of early imaginative notions of belief and the need for greater understanding in the exercise of leadership in legislative and judicial proceedings.
In 2001 Mr. Brinster published The Way Things Are: The Changing Perspective of Human Existence, 493 pp., Xlibris Press. This book was intended to review the current position of Man, emphasizing his changing nature over the million or more years since his emergence from ancestral animal form. It further, considered the continually changing perspective of human existence as the result of newly acquired knowledge.
This book is the third in a series of publications that, together, constitute the first comprehensive effort to modernize and update religious philosophy and theology in terms of new understanding of the structure and function of Man and the overt reality of his world. These publications envision the most significant and radical social reformation of recent millennia. They anticipate a changing expression of human spirituality reflecting evolutionary enhancement of neural reasoning and the eventual rejection of imaginative aspects of religious notions despite their current widespread emotional appreciation. They also suggest that such neural maturation may be accelerated by appropriate actions of Man, himself, hastening improved quality of life and more peaceful human coexistence.