The Brain And The Structure Of The Cosmos

From The Book: Transcending The Speed Of Light - Consciousness, Quantum Physics, And The Fifth Dimension

We are transducers and organizers of conscious energy radiating from all the stars,and our brain arranges these myriad photons in a highly structured electrophysical spacetime network. This neurological grid is also possibly a holographic reflection of the cosmos. It is truly composed of all the forces of the universe, and each reflects the whole.

In general, we can pair the left brain to "consciousness" and the right brain to the "unconscious." Perhaps our brains reflect the cosmic interplay between day and night, Sun and Moon, just as they are split between logic and intuition, conscious and unconscious. Consciousness would be linked to daylight and thus the Sun, and the unconscious would be linked to the night and the Moon. Taking this a step further, the brain is 85 percent water and therefor highly susceptible to subtle changes in electromagnetic fields. Just as the tides are affected by the Sun and the Moon, it is possible that the day and night circadian cycle of the brain hemispheres, monitored by the pineal gland, may also be affected by these two heavenly bodies. During the day, the Sun rules, and our conscious left brain, which thinks in wods, is dominant. At night, when the Moon is out a reversal takes place, and we sleep and dream. The left brain, which was conscious, becomes unconscious, and the right which was relatively unconscious, becomes conscious."
One of the functions of sleep is to place the mind in a state whereby the day's events can be cataloged. To accomplish this, the conscious mind must be asleep. The theory is that this occurs during the REM cycle. We know that dreams often reflect the day's events. That is a key reason why students often fall asleep in the library, why people are exhausted after visiting a new city for the first time, why infants spend so much time in REM. In each case significant amount of newly acquired information has to be electronically stored. Information that has been accumulated in the mRNA in the cell body of the neurons (messenger RNA, which holds the day's events in short-term memory) must be transferred to the corresponding different parts of the brain. Motor memory will be stored in the motor cortex, visual memory will be placed in the temporal lobe, and so on. This transferring of information from mRNA to long-term memory located at the ends of the dendrites most likely takes place when we dream. A person who learns a lot in life will actually have a more complex brain and more dendrite connections than a person who learns very little. Purged of this information in the morning, or after a powerful nap, the mRNA can be ready again to take on new data.

The Sense Of I
Although some theoreticians want to place the sense of identity in a particular locale-Francis Crick, for instance suggests the claustrum, an off-shoot of the amygdala that is involved with coordinating cerebral processes-Nobel Prize winner Eric Kandel states that it is by no means clear how the brain creates the "unity of consciousness." He suggests that it is more likely that the sense of self is linked more globally to frontal lobe/thalamic interactions. Located in the center of the midbrain, the thalamus is, in a sense, the Grand Central Station of the brain. All input first goes to the thalamus and then is rerouted to whatever lobe the information is supposed to go to. If the thalamus is damaged, the person losses his or her sense of identity.

The role of the thalamus in combining the two separate ways of thinking of the two hemispheres of the brain is not totally understood. The thalamus, however, is directly related to the numinous subjective sense of self. Combined with the total brain in an evolutionary sense, it is a culminating structure that allows, in some way, for an aspect of the universe, to observe and reflect upon itself. Gurdjieff would go so far as to say that one of the key roles for the human is to be a conscious mechanism for the evolution of the cosmos.

The process of becoming conscious, or being conscious, is further complicated by the fact that the brain operates with an alternating, current. As you read this page and are awake, your mind is not all aware that the field that is generating cerebral activity is alternating its electronic charge at somewhere between fourteen to sixty-plus cycles per second. This is to say, in a mere second, your brain has changed its charge from positive to negative to positive to negative at least fourteen times as rapidly. Yet the subjective feeling of a single consciousness persists. Put another way, one does not detect a flickr. This persistence of a stable sense of awareness during such a complex electronic proces may have application to this new etheric view of the universe we are constructing, whereby our very substrate, the ultimate energy that compromises the All, is also oscillating at a very rapid rate, but when we look out at the physical world, those ubiquitous polar reversals remain undetectable.

Properties of mind permeate everything, but when the mind is highly structured, as in human beings, it becomes an individualized thinking entity. It remains part of the whole but is also volitional monad that is both self-contained and interpenetrates all other minds.