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Nicolai Levashov. Spirit and mind. Vol.1

The joining through channels makes possible what might otherwise seem
impossible. By the same token, the joining of external signal imprints on the etheric
and astral levels, enables disintegrating primary matters, that are released by a brain
neuron through the process of disintegration, to start saturating the chain of etheric
and astral neuronal bodies that are linked to it.

Thus, the circulation of primary matters begins ON the etheric level and

ON the astral level, but not between them, such as occurs with cerebral neurons
that are chained together.
Linkage on the etheric and astral levels can only occur between adjacent
neurons. Therefore, the incoming external signals which create etheric and astral
imprints need to be qualitatively close, but not identical — as, for example, emerald
and green, or blue and indigo colors. Likewise, external signals should be similar
enough to cause changes in adjacent neurons but still possess some dissimilarities.
Even just minute differences between external signals ensure the creation of etheric
and astral level imprints between neighboring neurons, thus enabling them to stick
together. We may liken this kind of joining to connecting sections of a bridge across
a river. The result is the linkage of two adjacent neurons into one system, one

unit. New, qualitatively similar external signals erect a "bridge" between neighboring
neurons, from one neighbor to another, and so on and so on.

Thus, with this kind of "bridge construction" into one system, into one chain,
non-adjacent neurons on the physical level (located at some distance from each other)
— that otherwise could never constitute one unified system — now become
connected. In other words, physically solid brain neurons, each of which is part of a
fixed system and not mutually interactive, are now able to acquire new qualities.
They are stuck together — conjoined — by means of imprints on the etheric and
astral level of the neurons.
As a result of this process unfolding on the brain cells' etheric and astral levels,
chains of mutually interactive etheric and astral neuron bodies appear. As the brain
accumulates information by reacting to the environment through the sense organs, the

number of such chains grows. The richer the information from the environment,
the higher the number of brain cortex elements that develop their own chains.

However, these chains remain isolated from each other. Only when the brain
absorbs a critical volume of qualitatively varied information, do the etheric and
astral chains of neurons merge into one system. This enables the brain cortex
elements that are connected to the various sense organs to become joined together.

For example, when we see an apple, it is not at all difficult to imagine its taste,
smell, consistency, moisture content, temperature, etc. and to experience the flow of

gastric juices that they trigger. Our previous experience with the apple enables us,
when perceiving even just one of its at-tributes, to get an idea of the object as a
whole. And this image would be many-sided and virtually complete.

That is, we would be able to derive about ninety-nine percent of the information
about the apple just by judging its outward appearance, or its smell and taste. Our
brain by itself supplies the rest of the data because the entire spectrum of information
about it is united into one system on the etheric and astral level of the neurons.

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