Acts 2:1-4 - The Day of Pentecost

 

(Acts 2:1-4) - The Day of Pentecost

“When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting.  They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them.  All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.”

“And when the day of Pentecost now came…

Shavuot, also called Pentecost, in full Ḥag Shavuot, “Festival of the Weeks”, is the second of the three Pilgrim Festivals of the Jewish religious calendar. It was originally an agricultural festival, marking the beginning of the wheat harvest. During the Temple period, the first fruits of the harvest were brought to the Temple, and two loaves of bread made from the new wheat were offered. This aspect of the holiday is reflected in the custom of decorating the synagogue with fruits and flowers and in the names Yom ha-Bikkurim, “Day of the First Fruits,” and Ḥag ha-Qazir “Harvest Feast.”

During rabbinic times, the festival became associated with giving the Law at Mount Sinai, which is recounted in the Torah readings for the holiday. It became customary during Shavuot to study the Torah and to read the Book of Ruth.

 

It is, too, to commemorate the night when the people of Israel were liberated from Egypt. In that night, God instructed the Israelites to sacrifice a lamb and put its blood on their doorposts so that the angel of death would pass over their houses and spare their firstborn. (Exodus 12:21). 

 

Celebration of Shavuot occurs on the 50th day, or seven weeks after the offering of the harvest celebrated during Passover. The holiday is, therefore, also called Pentecost from the Greek pentēkostē (50th).

 

…they were all together in one place (locked up and full of fear).”

 Jesus, their Master, had been recently crucified. He had told them, before his death, “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper to be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive because it neither sees him nor knows him. He dwells with you and will be in you. (John 14:15-17).

 

“You know him, for he dwells with you”. – Jesus had been dwelling with his disciples, teaching, counseling, and helping them for three years. “…and will be in you.” –  Fifty (50) days after Jesus resurrected and before He ascended to heaven, he commanded his disciples to go to the Upper Room and wait there for the Promise. “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about. For John baptized with water, but in a few days, you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.” (Acts 1:4,5).

God is Light

As the Christian teachings say, God is Light; the first thing He created was light, and everything in the universe was created by light. In man’s creation, he was created in the image of his Creator. “So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” (Genesis 1:27). We were created in the image of God (Spirit, like angels). “You made him for a little while lower than the angels; you have crowned him with glory and honor.” (Hebrews 2:7). 

We cannot confuse man’s creation in God’s image (Spirit) of (Genesis 1: 27), with man’s formed out of dust from the ground of (Genesis 2:7) and becoming a living creature. – “Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.”  While there in (Gen. 1:27) the Scripture presents a “spiritual man”, here in (Gen. 2:7) the Scripture presents the natural man, formed out of the dust of the ground.  

Image

An object produced on a photographic material, a picture produced on an electronic display (such as a television or computer screen. The optical counterpart of an object produced by an optical device (such as a lens or mirror) or an electronic device, a mental picture or impression of something. A mental conception held in common by members of a group and symbolic of a basic attitude and orientation.”

Likeness 

Similarity, resemblance, similitude, and analogy mean agreement or correspondence in detail.

Primitive Times

Many civilizations in history have spoken of a blissful civilization in its beginning. The ancient Greeks, for example, believed that the first humans lived in a state of blissful ignorance. Similarly, the ancient Egyptians believed that their civilization was founded by the gods and that it was a time of great prosperity and happiness. The ancient Chinese also believed in a golden age of peace and prosperity called the “Great Unity”. However, it is essential to note that these beliefs are often based on myth and legend rather than historical fact. While many civilizations may have experienced periods of prosperity and happiness, they have faced challenges and difficulties throughout history.

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. Like his life, his thought is like a cloud that changes shape and path depending on the wind that blows it. Behold the first man, behold the first poet. He is young and lyrical; his prayer condenses his religion, and the ode is all his poetry. In this state of mind, man communed with God, the Universe, and the earth.

 

The Fear Factor

In the Garden, man disobeyed God’s laws and His image, His Spirit (left man). The neocortex, that part of the brain responsible for higher-order brain functions such as sensory perception, cognition, generation of motor commands, spatial reasoning, and language, was no longer active, and man began to behave seized by the reptilian brain. The reptilian complex is the animal's instinctual and impulsive actions.

“Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?  He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so, I hid.” (Genesis 3:8-10).

The fear suffered by Adam left marks in the genome of his DNA, which was transferred by genetic inheritance to his son Seth, begotten in his likeness and his image (and the subsequent generations (transgenerational trauma). Transgenerational genetic memory is a concept that describes the transfer of history marked in the genetic material of an individual or a species, their knowledge, skills, and traumas that were experienced throughout their lives or in that of their ancestors.

The disobedience of having eaten the forbidden fruit not only produced a change in the couple but, through the modification in DNA genetics, survived them to the subsequent generations by genetic inheritance. The transgression removed the man from the Garden, from communion with his Creator, from his knowledge, from his science and wisdom, and left him at random, like the animals of Darwin, guided by their instinctual drives. With the "transgression," DNA was altered, its genome not its sequence, and epigenetic marks emerged that would modify its expression in himself and in his future generation.

Those epigenetic words, distorted and confused, spoken or suggested by the snake to the woman, tinged with irony and half-truths, brought confusion and doubt into the couple's mind. The man already began to think and act according to his thoughts, not those of his Creator, and already started to think and act according to his thoughts.

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the LORD. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways.” (Isaiah 55:8,9).

Discarding the words of his Creator, man lost all that information of the mysteries and the wisdom and the science of God, and 80% of his brain’s neurons went out and became "junk," as some scientists declare.

God communicates with man using light, the electromagnetic spectrum.

God used the weak force of the electromagnetic spectrum, the radio waves, the sound of His footsteps. “Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?  He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so, I hid.” (Genesis 3:8-10).

When the couple experiences fear, their brain re-routes energy to the amygdala, slowing down processing in other areas. That is why it was difficult for them to speak or make rational decisions when they were seized by the fear factor.

“For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile, and their foolish hearts were darkened.   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, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.” (Romans 1:21,22).

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 from agriculture, where he obtains the product for his subsistence.

The Biblical story of Cain and Abel illustrates these two societies, the primitive pastoral society and the agricultural society, offering to Jehovah God offerings.

And it came to pass as time passed that Cain offered Jehovah the fruit of the ground. And Abel also brought some of the firstborn of his sheep, the fattest of them. And the LORD looked with favor upon Abel and his offering; but he did not look kindly on Cain and his offering. (Genesis 4:1-5)

It was that Cain brought the incorrect offering of the gods of the earth, almost always of the feminine gender, while Abel brought the correct offering of the firstborn of his sheep.

Adam’s transgenerational inheritance trauma of fear, guilt, and disobedience found a fertile ground to open up in Cain’s attitudes.  The Bible indicates that God looked at the heart and the attitude of the person who offered the sacrifice, not just the outward appearance. Abel brought a lamb and the fat portions of his flock’s firstborn as a symbol of faith and sacrifice, while Cain brought a bloodless sacrifice that did not reflect the kind of sacrifice accepted by God. The Scriptures say: “Without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness” is a quote from the Bible, specifically from the book of Hebrews 9:22. Therefore, God had regard for Abel and his offering, but he had no regard for Cain and his offering (Genesis 4:4-5). Cain offerings were offered to pagan gods for ground fertility and abundant harvest.

The olfactory bulb

The olfactory bulb transmits smell information from the nose to the brain, thus necessary for a proper sense of smell. As a neural circuit, the glomerular layer receives direct input from afferent nerves, made up of the axons from approximately ten million olfactory receptor neurons in the olfactory mucosa, a nasal cavity region. 

The olfactory bulb that recognizes smells is part of the limbic system, the part of the brain that deals with emotion, memory, and feelings. When you smell things, the olfactory bulb talks to the rest of the system, allowing your brain to connect the smell and what you’re feeling or experiencing. That’s why childhood experiences are often brought back up when you smell something you encountered early and why people often like different smells.

Smells can trigger vivid memories from the past. “Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. And when the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, the Lord said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man's heart is evil from his youth.” (8:20,21).

Cain could have gotten more pleasant feedback for his offering. His fruit of the ground offering did not have that pleasant aroma like his brain connection between the smell he experienced of a lamb and the fat portions of his flock’s firstborn since childhood with his father and brother Abel.

Modern Times

 Modernity emerged in the fifteenth century after emblematic changes were brought about worldwide, such as the Conquest of America by the Europeans, the development of the printing press, the Protestant Reformation, the Renaissance, and the Scientific Revolution. An anthropocentric system of thought was imposed in Europe. This conception trusts in the power of human reason to access world knowledge through intellectual activity and experience.

The cerebral cortex and the Limbic System

The cerebral cortex works by receiving and processing information and sending signals to the rest of the body to control movement and other functions. It also plays a crucial role in higher cognitive functions such as language, thought, decision-making, and emotion. The cerebral cortex can perform these functions through the complex interactions between its many nerve cells. The limbic system is a collection of structures involved in processing emotion and memory, including the hippocampus, the amygdala, and the hypothalamus.

With this mechanism, humans know, reason, think ... and, most distinctive, have, in addition to the five natural bodily senses, "the 6^th sense of spiritual perception," with which he can choose between good and evil, choose between what suits him or not (ethics) behaving with the impulses and the unconscious of the reptilian brain and the ancient brain experiences and memories.  Man behaves with the instincts and the drives of his brain's limbic system.

Elon Musk's fossil energy theory says that extracting fossil energy material from the depth of the earth and thrusting it into the atmosphere destabilizes the Creator's "Fine Tune Universe." This action is analogous to extracting energy from the lowest parts of the physiology in yoga exercises and bringing it up to the higher parts of the limbic system and the cerebral cortex, which involves the processing of emotion and memory from the hippocampus that 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.

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 humankind 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, 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.

The Seventh Sense of Executive Perception

Executive functions are a set of capacities capable of controlling and regulating other cognitive functions and behavior. Specifically, it is about the ability to selectively process information and its maintenance, at least about the most important ones, during the performance of a task.

Executive functions are related to the following scenarios:

In planning problem-solving strategies, tracking their behavior. Inhibition of inappropriate behavioral responses to the context, that is, self-control. In the ability to quickly switch from one task to another (gear shifting or cognitive flexibility). In the maintenance of information and its manipulation to perform a task (working memory). In the continuous updating of information. In the knowledge of the temporal sequence of events. In the capacity of abstraction and categorization of stimuli and events. In the will to initiate actions (volition). In carrying out actions that depart from habitual and stereotyped behaviors (strategic behavior). In maintaining attention over time. Executive functions allow us to mentally manipulate ideas, quickly adapt to constantly changing circumstances, reason, stay focused, and face new challenges. In addition, they allow us to make decisions and exercise control over what we do. All these neocortex tasks are done by the Astrocytes.

The Holy Spirit and Fire the Day of Pentecost – (Acts 2:1-5)

“And suddenly, a sound came from heaven like the rushing of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.” – In the Garden, God used the weak force of the electromagnetic spectrum, the “radio waves”, the sound of His footsteps, to catch the attention of man. In the day of Pentecost, God uses the strong force of the electromagnetic spectrum “like the rushing of a mighty wind that filled all the house where they were sitting.”

“And there appeared unto them tongues parting asunder, like as of fire; and it sat upon each one of them.” – Are those tongues, like fire that sat upon each one of them are the stronger energy of the electromagnetic spectrum (X Rays, or Gamma Rays)?

“And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.” - The lobes of the brain that control language are mainly the temporal and frontal lobes. The temporal lobe is responsible for understanding and processing speech and written language, while the frontal lobe is responsible for turning your thoughts into spoken words. These two lobes are connected by a band of nerves that helps you form words, speak clearly, and understand concepts in language form.

The parietal and occipital lobes also play a role in speech by integrating sensory and memory information.

Those tongues of fire over the heads of each one are analogous to the gamma rays, the most powerful energy in the universe.

 In the Electroencephalogram Experiment of "Neurophysiologic Verification Experiment of Spiritual Worship," in chapter XV of my book “Christianity and Quantum Physics,” gamma rays appeared while the subject was in profound meditation and adoration. While conducting an electroencephalogram we could see the gamma ray wave activation in the monitor as if it was an earthquake.

The experiment was conducted while worshipers sang in unison, singing melodies and songs alluding to the Pentecostal cult. A select group of musicians accompanied the singers and worshipers.

The subject was instructed that when the group began to sing, she would join and sing along. All in a low voice and in harmony. No commotion or shouting, just an exquisite melody that lifted the spirit in perfect harmony.

It was a wonderful experience to see the brain waves synchronized during the meditation, with sublime instrumental music in the background and the Gamma waves activated when the subject began to sing the Hallelujah hymn with the worship group.

The Local Field Potential (LFP) is the electric potential recorded in the extracellular space in brain tissue, typically using micro-electrodes (metal, silicon, or glass micropipettes). LFPs differ from the electroencephalogram (EEG), recorded at the scalp's surface and with macro-electrodes. It also differs from the electrocorticogram (ECoG), recorded from the brain's surface using large subdural electrodes. In contrast, LFPs are recorded in-depth from within the cortical tissue (or other deep brain structures).

Astrocytes

Astrocytes are non-excitable cells and can't produce action potentials. However, they can change their intracellular calcium concentration and produce calcium waves, which trigger gliotransmitter release¹. ATP mainly activates the P2y1 receptor from the P2 receptor family, which increases [Ca2+]i, and the release of D-ser also plays a similar role by binding with NMDAR².

Astrocytes are not capable of generating action potentials. Rather than firing an action potential in response to excitation, astrocytes respond with a sharp increase in intracellular Ca 2+ concentrations and the release of signaling gliotransmitters, such as glutamate and purines, or neuroactive steroids into the synaptic cleft to excite neurons, or to other astrocytes .

BECAUSE ASTROCYTES ARE NOT CAPABLE OF GENERATION ACTION POTENTIALS – ARE THE ASTROCYTES ACTIVATED BY THE SAME TYPE OF ENERGY APPEARING IN THE (EEG) EXPERIMENT IN ADORATION AND ON THE DAY O PENTECOST? BY WHAT TYPE OF ENERGY? -