Page 201 - Spirit and Mind. Vol 1

Nicolai Levashov. Spirit and mind. Vol.1

As they consume this spark and start to evolve, the carriers of consciousness
themselves begin looking after the development of life on their planet, including the
creation of viable, artificial eco-systems. That, unfortunately, cannot be said of
today's mankind...

And now, to return to our "theme." I trust the significance of the quantity and
quality of in-formation absorbed by the brain has been sufficiently clarified. Still not
cleared up is the question about "how much time the Almighty has left us" to earn the

right to receive that spark of conscious-ness. Does the Lord grant every one of us a
limited time period for accomplishing our major task — to accumulate just enough
power to pierce the apple's skin as we attempt biting the fruit from the Tree of
Knowledge — and, on doing so, gratefully quench our thirst with that life-giving
juice of enlightenment?

Let us encroach on the rights of the Lord once more — at the very worst, we
have nothing to lose.

It is simple to explain the age limit, the window of time, in which a child must

soak up a certain volume of quality information in order to ignite a spark of
consciousness inside himself. There is a significant difference between a newborn and
an adult brain with respect to head size and therefore to the number of neurons
present. After birth, there is an intense growth of the cranial volume and continuous
neuronal cell division. In general, this process is completed by six to eight years of
age.

It is well known that during cell division two completely identical cells are
formed: this applies to neurons as well. Let us recall that the brain neurons comprise
two categories -active and passive. Active neurons undergo qualitative changes in the
structure of their etheric and astral bodies under the impact of signals from the outside
world. Passive neurons undergo no qualitative changes and are qualitatively
identical to one another, because as products of cell division they are identical
"twins." Consequently, all passive neurons have identical dimensionality levels. For
this reason, though their division is followed by an increase in cranial volume, the
new passive neurons which result have only a minimal evolutionary level.

At the same time, the active neurons, under the impact of the outside
informational flow, keep changing qualitatively and therefore, compared to the
passive neurons, have a higher level of evolution. Thus, when active neurons replicate
themselves through cell division, the new, identical cells provide a "legacy" of an
additional level of evolutionary development.

Precisely for this reason, the level of information which a child's brain absorbs
during the first six to eight years of life has decisive importance for the emergence of
intelligence. This is because active and passive neurons, during the period of brain
growth, are undergoing cell division with equal intensity. And during cell division,
the number of active neurons grows in geometrical progression. Thus, as the human
brain, under the influence of the outside informational input, acquires a certain
critical number of active neurons — the following pivotal development occurs: as
soon as the brain volume stops growing actively and the number of active neurons
reaches a certain level, the cells undergo a qualitative leap in evolution — i.e.,
they acquire the capacity for COLLECTIVE thinking.

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