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Nicolai Levashov. Spirit and mind. Vol.1

neurons reaches a critical level. In analyzing the birth of consciousness, we need to
stress that diversifying the quality of the informational input produces various
qualitative changes in the etheric and astral bodies of the brain cells.
During this phase of cumulative change, the higher the dimensionality levels
reached by the etheric and astral bodies of the active neurons, the greater the
evolutionary potential of the brain. This will become clear if we bear in mind the role
of the brain cell's qualitative structure and its effect upon the condition, including the
potential for rupture, of the qualitative barriers between the etheric and astral, and
between the astral and first mental levels (see Fig. 40, Fig. 41, Fig. 42). This effect
depends, of course, upon the dimensionality levels of the etheric and astral neuronal
bodies.

So, how do the active neurons keep changing their dimensionality levels? The

answer is quite obvious. We have only to recall that the sense organ receptors
transform the signals from the environment into an ionic code. The latter, upon
reaching the brain cells, triggers a host of chemical re-actions, effecting, over a
certain period of time, a change in the molecular weight of the DNA/RNA molecules.
Molecules in the vicinity then encroach upon the cell's microspace, which, in turn,
leads to a change in the degree of influence which the DNA/RNA molecules, along
with the neurons as a whole, can exert.

And, this makes possible the changes in the qualitative structure of a neuron's
etheric body, and, under certain conditions of the astral body as well. (See Ch. 5 on
short- and long-term memory formation). In turn, the etheric and astral bodies of the
neurons, also become heavier, and the degree of their impact on the state of the

surrounding microspace changes as well.

In the case of long-term memory formation, the changes in qualitative structure
of the etheric and astral bodies become permanent, or, at least, of very long duration.
In this way, the signals from the external environment qualitatively change the
cerebral neurons. And, therefore, the extent to which the etheric and astral
neuronal bodies undergo qualitative change depends upon the source of the
external signal.

And so we come to appreciate how important the quality of the informational
input is to the brain and its role in producing the qualitative changes in the etheric and
astral neuronal bodies,

without which the qualitative barriers between the etheric/astral and astral/first
mental levels could not be opened. The quality of the information establishes and

determines the potential for brain development in every living human being.

Let us now clarify the role played by the volume of information.
We may recall that active neurons develop chains on the etheric and astral levels
of the brain. In such chains the active neurons are joined together by their etheric and
astral bodies. As a result, primary matters, released through the disintegration of the
practically solid matter of the physical neuronal bodies, begin to overflow

consecutively from the etheric and astral bodies of one neuron to another, and so on
until the end of the chain.

Naturally, only a part of the released primary matter branches off from the
vertical circulation between the levels to make up the horizontal movement between

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