THE NEOCORTEX, THE ASTROCYTES, AND THEIR FUNCTION

 

 The Three Great Ages

Primitive Times: In Primitive Times, Society is a community, and nothing bothers the man who vegetates in the pastoral and nomadic life with which all civilizations begin and which is conducive to solitary contemplations and whimsical fantasies.

Reptilian brain

Man’s brain in these primitive times is a reactive, action brain in charge of controlling muscles and balance. Regulates vegetative or unconscious functions such as heartbeat, digestion, or breathing. Its operation is instinctive or automatic, so it is the most basic. It is responsible for the physiological changes the body needs for survival.

Ancient Times:

 When ancient civilizations abandoned hunting and gathering and began organizing themselves, agriculture was how such organizations developed. Thus, from the division of labor, which allowed citizens to dedicate themselves to different productive tasks in their day-to-day lives, to the very supply of civilizations, which allowed their subsistence, all of this, as well as much more, is linked to the emergence of agriculture. It is in this period where primitive times and ancient times overlap with each other. The man of primitive times is the cattle herder who depends on rain and green pastures for the well-being of his cattle. On the other hand, the man of ancient times is the man who, depend on agriculture where he obtains the products for his subsistence.

The dual (good-evil) Brain

Although there were thousands of religious practices and experiences, all of them were summed up in these two aspects, gods of heaven and gods of the earth. The religious experience is not the same for those who worship abstract heavenly gods and those who worship earthly gods. Those who worship earthly gods can see and perceive their gods with their five senses in the immediate reality and participate in the bread, wine, and cereals the earth provides them. The idea of visual omniscience is adequate to the celestial being because of the luminosity of the sky; on the contrary, the earth is opaque, dark, gloomy at night and full of mysteries in its midst. There is a long tradition of pastoral and patriarchal civilization in the idea of a supreme celestial being, while behind mother earth is an agrarian and matriarchal civilization. The heavenly father is the supreme being typical of nomads who live off the products of their herds, those who depend on the pastures, and these, in turn, depend on water, the sun, and the rain that comes from the sky. On the other hand, mother earth is the supreme being typical of farmers who live off the fruits of the earth, a supreme being typical of the farmers who live off the fruits of the earth.

The Biblical story of Cain and Abel illustrates these two societies, the pastoral society of primitive times and the agricultural society of ancient times. Abel became a sheep herder, while Cain was a soil tiller. And it happened in the course of time that Cain brought an offering from the fruit of the soil to the Lord. And Abel, too, had brought from the choice firstlings of his flock, and the Lord regarded Abel and his offering but did not regard Cain and his offering. And Cain was very incensed, and his face fell. And the Lord asked Cain, "Why are you incensed, and why is your face fallen? For whether you offer well or do not, at the tent flap sin crouches and for you is its longing, but you will rule over it."

Cain offered the wrong offering to the Lord. Had he known that the Law says: without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness. “(Hebrews 9:22).

The Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance

Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance is the transmission of epigenetic markers and modifications from one generation to multiple subsequent generations without altering the primary structure of DNA. Thus the regulation of genes via epigenetic mechanisms can be heritable; the amount of transcripts and proteins produced can be altered by inherited epigenetic changes. For epigenetic marks to be heritable, however, they must occur in animal gametes. However, since plants lack a definitive germline and can propagate, epigenetic marks in any tissue can be heritable.

            Epigenetic

Epigenetics (sometimes called epigenomics) focuses on changes in DNA that do not involve alterations to the underlying sequence. The DNA letters and the proteins that interact with DNA can have chemical modifications that change the degrees to which genes are turned on and off. These changes may occur by environmental or internal factors, as in the case of Cain. Cain, Abel, and all subsequent generations were marked by the epigenetic marks of Adam’s fear, disobedience, and spiritual death, which led to the separation from his Creator, God. Both of them, Abel and Cain, were born with the epigenetic stain of sin by the Transgenerational inheritance, because as (Romans 1:21-23) says: “For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, ^{exchanging the immortal God's glory} for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.”

But the environmental factor of religion changed from a pastoral one, whose supreme celestial being was Jehovah up there in heaven to an agricultural one, whose supreme terrestrial being was the gods of the down here, earth. So, the epigenetic factor found fertile soil to activate the gene stained by the transgenerational sin dormant in Cain’s genome. Therefore, “God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.” (Romans 1:24-26). That transgenerational epigenetic inheritance’s stain was so encrypted in man’s genome that the Prophet said: “Although you wash with soap and use an abundance of cleansing powder, the stain of your guilt is still before me, “declares the Sovereign Lord.” (Jeremiah 2:22).

Just the blood of Jesus Christ can cleanse us from the stain of sin. “But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.” (1 John 1-7). 

“With what shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before God on high? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?  Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousand oil rivers? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?”  He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness and to walk humbly with your God?” (Micah 6:6-

The hippocampus 

The hippocampus is involved in storing long-term memory, including all past knowledge and experiences. In particular, the hippocampus plays a significant role in declarative memory, involving things that can be purposely recalled, such as facts or events. Much of those memories are the transgenerational epigenetic inheritance from Primitive Times traumas of genes carrying the stain of disobeying God’s laws and all the evil things brought with it.

The Amygdala

The amygdala is involved in autonomic responses associated with fear and hormonal secretions. Scientific studies of the amygdala have led to the discovery of the location of neurons in the amygdala responsible for fear conditioning. Fear conditioning is an associative learning process by which we learn through repeated experiences to fear something. This heightened perception is deemed distressing, unable to think or act clearly because you are extremely worried, angry, or excited by something, and memories are formed associating the sound with unpleasantness.

“And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.” (Genesis 3:8).

The couple in the Garden had lost the ability to think and act with the knowledge and wisdom that the  Creator made them, and in this time of peril, they acted, and behaved like the animals the Lord entrusted them to care for.

How many times, the man from Primitive Times, his amygdala gets automatically active and triggered the emotion of fear by something he saw, smelled, or heard unconsciously, associating it with a traumatic past experience.

Post Modern Times

Science and technology have been applied toward fostering continuing growth and prosperity during the twenty-first century. The actual impacts of this era on humans have yet to be fully realized. Still, its influence on what is known as the "postmodern society" is essential as humanity continues to evolve with its technologies and their applications in the twenty-first century. 

The Neocortex (The New Cortex)

The neocortex is the newest part of the cerebral cortex to evolve (hence the prefix neo meaning new); the other part is the allocortex. The cellular organization of the allocortex is different from the six-layered neocortex. In humans, 90% of the cerebral cortex and 76% of the entire brain is neocortex.

The neocortex, also called the neopallium or the six-layered cortex, is a set of layers of the mammalian cerebral cortex involved in higher-order brain functions such as sensory perception, cognition, generation of motor commands, spatial reasoning, and language. In the human brain, the neocortex is the most significant part of the cerebral cortex (the outer layer of the cerebrum). The neocortex is the most significant part of the cerebral cortex, with the allocortex making up the rest. The neocortex comprises six layers becoming the 7^th sense of Executive Perceptions.

In the sixth day of Creation (in God’s times, “A thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night.” (Psalm 90:4) – “But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day”. 2 Peter 3:8 NIV).  God said: “Let the earth bring forth living creatures”

God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds—livestock and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so. And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that creeps on the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

            “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness”

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the heavens, the livestock, all the earth, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So, God created man in his own image; in the image of God, he created him; male and female, he created them. And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens, and every living thing that moves on the earth.” ²⁹ And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food. ³⁰ And to every beast of the earth, every bird of the heavens, everything that creeps on the earth, and everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so. ^{31, God saw everything} he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning, the sixth day. (Genesis 1:24-31)

Notice that in the animal creation, God said: “Let the earth bring forth living creatures.” But in man’s creation, God said: “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.

Here is the difference in the DNA sequence between chimpanzees and Humans, just 1-7% of the difference. In the creation of man, God used the same DNA’s tiny animal molecule and codified neurophysiological support containing all the information of His image and likeness – the neocortex.

The man was expelled from this “Garden” the day he disobeyed God’s Supreme Law and became like the animals that earth brought forth, behaving by their limbic unconscious impulses. Not by his neocortex, involved in higher-order brain functions such as sensory perception, cognition, generation of motor commands, spatial reasoning, and language, among others.

(Next blog – The Neocortex, the Astrocytes and its functions. – It would be interesting to conduct a “Neurophysiologic Verification Experiment of Spiritual Worship”

 In the instructions given to Subject #1, it included that he keeps his meditation on the sublime things of the Spirit of the living God and the Power of the Spirit of God and in prayer, not in the meditations like of the Eastern religions of "yoga", centered on the self, without transcendence or essence whatsoever. With great expectation, we observed that the activation of Alpha waves was constantly reflected in the lines. These waves are usually compatible with mental states where the border of the conscious with the unconscious coincides. It is a state where meditation on matters of spiritual transcendence, the process of prayer, and inner relaxation, has ample place. Also, because many areas of the brain are synchronized, states compatible with the feeling of absolute peace are produced. This is in harmony with the type of activity that was done when the participant was worshiping in spirit indeed.

In these waves, a high synchronization of the cerebral cortex is reflected, which translates into an incredibly special cerebral state, because it allows us to continue having a conscious activity at the level of thought; that is, be fully in control of this activity. Meanwhile, on the other hand, it allows us to access the information that lies in the unconscious state.

Traces of the Encephalogram to Subject #2

In the tracings of Subject #2… the activation of auditory zones was recurrent because of listening to songs of adoration while she, along with us, also worshiped God. At the beginning of the songs "Halleluya" and "Your fidelity is Great", (Plots I and II in Annexes III and IV). In the tracing of ‘’’ gamma waves, we observe the activation of said waves. The melody vibration of the sublime songs of adoration to the Creator, accompanied by the musical instruments in perfect harmony, is reflected in the strokes of …encephalogram, constant activation of the brain waves as an earthquake occurs. Chanting and music produced great activity of "gamma" waves in …brain, producing a spiritual state of mind linked to the segregation of adrenaline and cortisol, similar to that of the 120 on the day of Pentecost, mentioned above.

There are about 2.4 billion Christians around the world. The only person that can reach those people is Elon Musk. That is if he is willing to be in charge of assembling the personnel conducting such an experiment and have its copyright. All those personnel should be “born again Christians” who believe in Pentecost because that is what the experiment will look for: the effects of the Holy Spirit on the neocortex and the astrocytes. “

The Bible says that God is Light (fire), “This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness.” (John 1:1:5).

John the Baptist said: ”I baptize you with water for repentance. But the one who comes after me is mightier than I. I am not worthy to carry his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire” (Mathew 3:11) – (So, the Holy Spirit is Fire).

 “When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place.  And suddenly, there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, filling the entire house where they were sitting.  And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested^[a] on each one. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.” (Acts 2:1-4).  

While in the Garden, the couple heard the Lord’s footsteps (analogous to the weak signal of an AM radio wave); here in Pentecost, God wants to dwell inside man, as His temple.

Now God visits a man in the vital force of the electromagnetic spectrum. “A sound, not like the weak sound of footsteps walking in the Garden like an AM radio wave, but like a mighty rushing wind, that filled the entire house where they were sitting.”

Tongues of fire (like the strong force, “X Rays” or “Gamma Rays” of the electromagnetic spectrum appeared to them and rested on each one of them over their heads.

 They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and Fire, and (when the Holy Spirit and Fire activated the parietal lobe) they began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. The parietal lobe is a part of the brain involved in many functions, including sensation and perception, spatial awareness, and sensory information. The left parietal lobe has been proposed as a significant language area.

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