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«The Final Appeal to Mankind» by Nicolai Levashov

these levels are absent, the system containing the etheric, astral, and first mental
bodies of the cell can continue to exist for a considerable length of time.

Let us bear in mind that we have been considering the cell of a multicellular organism

with a complicated structure and, consequently, all the above should be looked at
from the standpoint of the organism as a whole, which we will now do.

All processes in multicellular organisms occur synchronously and interdependently.
There exists a unified system of cooperation among all the cells of the entire
multicellular organism on all levels, physical, etheric, astral and first mental. It is
impossible to consider cellular functioning independent from that of the entire

organism. If, for some reason, a cell or cell group drops out of the communication
system, the entire organism is disrupted. The resultant dysfunctions (diseases) lead to
the disintegration and death of the organism. We will examine these processes later.

A healthy multicellular organism is a unified system that operates harmoniously not
only on the physical level: the etheric bodies of its cells are also a unified, balanced
system, which we will call the organismic etheric body.

Likewise, the astral bodies of the cells create their own system on the astral level —
the organismic astral body. Similarly, the first mental bodies generate an analogous
system on the first mental level — the first mental body of the organism.

And, in their turn, the physical, etheric, astral and the first mental bodies of an
organism constitute a unitary system, which is in effect a living organism — living

matter, LIFE. When the unitary nature of this system is fragmented, so is that of
the life process, to be restored only when the wholeness of the system is reinstated.

Nerve cells and the brain hold a special place in the system of life. Because of their
level of development, nerve cells of the brain have a dominant position in multicellular
organismic functioning; they affect, control, and orchestrate the functions of all the
other types of cells in the organism. They provide well-balanced functioning of all the

cells in an organism’s physical body — a necessary condition for the life of the
organism and the unity of the physical, etheric, astral, and first mental bodies.

It should be noted that neurons have mental bodies only in some complex multicellular
organisms; however, the neurons are developmentally dominant over all the other types
of cells in an organism. Each neuron, in particular, and the brain as a whole, in all
multicellular organisms, generates an energy field (a “psi–field”) that controls all the

functions of an organism.

Additionally, the brain, through the psi-field, monitors other functions, without which
the life of the organism would be highly problematic. One of these is to keep the
functions of the etheric, astral and first mental bodies of an organism in safety and
balance. Just as a cell has a protective membrane to shield it from environmental

impact, so does each living organism elaborate a protective shield — a kind of psi-

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