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Nicolai Levashov. Spirit and mind. Vol.1

So what is missing from the "blackboard" upon which our brain has created a
picture of the apple? Only some attributes which the brain is not capable of
reproducing without additional information. In most cases, for example, we cannot
tell from its outward appearance whether or not the apple is wormy. However, this
information does not alter our main impression — an apple still re-mains an apple.

The brain is like a sponge soaking up information from the surrounding world. It
differs from a sponge in that, as it absorbs data, it is qualitatively transformed, which
of course is not true of a sponge. As a result of this process, quantitatively and
qualitatively varied information, incoming from the environment, enters the brain
through the senses. This leads to the development on the etheric and astral brain

levels of a system consisting of hundreds of thousands, sometimes millions of chains
of etheric and astral bodies linked together in a single unit.

Within the brain, new chains are constantly appearing as a result of the
continuous informational input from the outside. Each chain is incorporated by the
already existing system and be-comes a part of the whole system, thereby creating
new, additional links between the chains. More and more of these linking

"crossroads" appear between the chains in the system. This causes the primary
matters traversing these crossroads to saturate the etheric and astral bodies of the
neurons contained in the system; and, also, to begin circulating on the etheric and
astral levels of the brain as a whole. This circulation results in the saturation and
accumulation of primary matters in the neuronal bodies on the etheric and
astral levels of the brain. And when the SATURATION REACHES THE
CRITICAL LEVEL, the miracle of CONSCIOUSNESS is born.

Thanks to the "crossroads" of chains, all the active neurons of the brain become

saturated with primary matters, resulting in the creation of an adequately complete
picture of the surrounding world.

But that is not all. There also occurs a saturation of the etheric and astral bodies
of the active neurons (i.e., those neurons which participate in the development of
chains). This leads to changes
in the self-dimensionality levels of these neurons: thus, ADDITIONAL
DEFORMATION OF THE ACTIVE NEURONS' SPACE DIMENSIONALITY
OCCURS. This creates a DIFFER-

ENCE between the dimensionality levels of the etheric and astral bodies of the
active, as com-pared to the passive, neurons.

And when saturation by primary matters of the etheric and astral bodies of the
active neurons causes them to reach a critical value, the additional distortion of
space dimensionality becomes so great that ADHESION BETWEEN THE
ETHERIC AND ASTRAL BODIES OF THE ACTIVE AND PASSIVE
NEURONS OCCURS.

And what is the significance of this? It means that in the brain, NEW CHAINS
OF ACTIVE NEURONS CAN ARISE WITHOUT THE HELP OF EXTERNAL
SIGNALS. In other words, man's brain begins to generate thoughts and reactions
which are NOT A DIRECT REFLECTION OF REALITY. We acquire the
capacity TO THINK BY OURSELVES. This heralds the birth of

CONSCIOUSNESS.

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