A standard human brain with its regions marked, the Sephiroth set among them, and the neural systems the Corpus names: its networks, the hidden paths, the corpus callosum and the tracts. From above, standing back, it lies on the Vitruvian Soul as on the cover of the Neurological Qabalah. Drag to turn it, scroll or pinch to zoom, and tap anything to name it.
The surface is the Conte69 template brain (Van Essen and colleagues, 2012), divided into the regions of the Desikan–Killiany atlas (Desikan and colleagues, 2006). The deep structures are FreeSurfer’s subcortical segmentation, from the ENIGMA Toolbox (Larivière and colleagues, 2021); the brainstem, cerebellum and the five segments of the corpus callosum are FreeSurfer’s segmentation of its MNI152 template subject, as packaged with AtlasReader (Notter and colleagues, 2019), the callosum widened from its midline slab into the white matter on either side. Seen from above, the brain lies on the Vitruvian Soul (Neurological Qabalah, Plate 1: the Tree of Life laid over Leonardo’s figure, each Sephirah at its station in the body) as on the book’s cover: its frontal pole at Daath and its anterior cingulate on Tiphareth, which brings its Kether, the vertex, to the solar plexus. Kether, Chokmah and Binah sit at the centres of the regions given them in the Neurological Qabalah, the vertex and the two hemispheres, and Daath at the cervical junction. The seven below stand where the Vitruvian Soul’s Sephiroth fall on the brain, each at the depth of its own tissue: Geburah and Chesed in the middle frontal gyri, Tiphareth in the anterior cingulate, Hod and Netzach on the postcentral gyri, Yesod in the precuneus and Malkuth straight below it in the cerebellum. Each pair is balanced across the midline. The networks are drawn on the atlas regions that carry their nodes, and the tracts along approximate anatomical routes rather than from tractography.