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In the following picture we see two riders joking along the way.  It must have been a good joke.  But why is the horse not laughing?

Levels of cognitions

 Here is another dilema.  He does not understand what she has written.

There are Levels of cognitions
These are of course basically material level differences.

Every culture understood these facts.

But are there dimensions which are not accessable to material based signals which cannot be discerned because they don’t depend on the physical world of sensations.  We certainly know that even in the physical level there are areas of physical realities which we cannot observe with our senses. 

Man have extended our vision of range of light in spectral areas beyong ultraviolet and and infrared and have successfully used them by machines.  X-rays, microwaves, radiowaves etc are now common realities of such extended material realms.  In sound dogs have greater sensitivities beyond human ears and we use it to make dog whistles

But are there other dimensions that not material and cannot be observed in material world?

 All ancient cultures realized that there are more to this cosmos that meet the eyes.

In the ancient Hebrew culture the cosmos was classified as four dimensions with sentient beings in every dimensions sometimes spanning several dimensions at a time.

These dimensions are the four worlds:

Asiyyah (Action) - the material universe in which we live.  This is the world of sensations

Yezirah (Formation) - the abode of the "lower angels," men's souls and the Garden of Eden.  This is the world of mind, thought and patterns.  The mental realm. The first heaven

Beriah (Creation) - considered "Heaven" proper, it is the first separation from the Divine, and "location" of the Throne of God and archangels.  This is the spiritual realm – the second heaven

Azilut (Emanation) - the eternal unchanging Divine world.  This is the divine realm – the third heaven

It is a convenient way of thinking.

These can be represented as a tree as is usually done in Hebrew mystic tradition. 

A traditional pictorial representation is given in the next page. We can think that Man is living in a four level mansion.  We usually live on the ground floor and seldom ascend to the higher floors.

 The Hebrew Cosmology

Here is the Hebrew understanding of the cosmos

We live in four floors

Since man lives in a multidimensional world, we have other senses of perceptions which are not just material.  We learn through them also. All learning comes through communication within the various realms of existence.

Augustine of Hippas

(354-430 A.D.)

"All instruction is either about things or about signs;

but things are learned by means of signs,“

(On Christian Doctrine, I:2).

A sign, is “something that shows itself to the senses and something other than itself to the mind”
(Signum est quod se ipsum sensui et praeter se aliquid animo ostendit) (Augustine De dial. 1975, 86) 

Symbol communicates meaning purely through arbitrary conventions. This is the way natural language carries meaning.

“To speak is to give a sign in articulate voice” (Loqui est articulata voce signum dare) (Augustine De dial. 1975, 86).

“Without Signs nothing is conceivable”

Sless, 1986

Eye sees things because light of different frequencies and different intensities reach the retina through a lens and then the brain makes sense out of it as some form of image.

Similar argument follows for every sense perceptions of ours.

What the brain receive through the senses are some form of impulse which are simply signs  connected with what is perceived.  Hence every thought that you have is the product of a sign and is in itself a sign.

 ...'reality' is always encoded,

 or rather the only way we can perceive and make sense of reality is by the codes of our culture.

There may be an objective, empiricist reality out there,
but there is no universal, objective way of perceiving and making sense of it.

What passes for reality in any culture is the product of the culture's codes, so 'reality' is always already encoded, it is never 'raw'.

Fiske (1987 )

Incarnation was nothing but the encoding of the divine into human realm  so that we may be able to understand what is otherwise not directly knowable.   God is in our realm and beyond and above all our dimensions.  We can make some sense out of it only when God can be understood by us in our world. This is what incarnation did. “The Word became flesh and tabernacled among us”

Communication is not merely a characteristic of humans. It is fundamental for all living organisms.  Though we many not be able to decode them we can still discern their existence.

Here a mother and child communicates love just as humans do.

Below  is a school of fishes which move in unison because they somehow communicate each other.

We see the same sort of communication among the flock of birds in their flight formation.

Changing of the colors of a chameleon is an example of how nature communicates. This is not a conscious communication. We do not even know how the communication is made between nature and the chameleon. 
But it does communicate effectively and with great sensitivity

Communication,  is present at the deepest levels of our material universe.

Communication,  is present at the deepest levels of our material universe.

It exists from the smallest particle levels to the cosmic level. We give special names for these communication process as force and fields. Thus our model of the cosmos is a series of signs by which we assign codes for our signs.  We call them by name.

The wide communication within our body itself is a marvelous network.  Because of the nerve cells that surround the body like a net, messages from the brain reach the most remote areas of the body with great speed.  Neurons are specialized cells that convey sensory information into the brain, carry out the operations involved in thought and feeling and action, and transmit commands out into the body to control muscles and organs. 

In the brain of one individual| one quadrillion   (1,000,000,000,000,000) communications can occur simultaneously

Human body is a marvellous communication system using signals. We describe them in terms of neurons and electric potential variations through the nerves.

Genes are stranger forms of encoded transmission of properties, characters, traits etc in many dimensions  from one generation to the other.  It is like a documentation made through out ages from the beginning of creation.

A gene is the basic unit of heredity in a living organism.

All living things depend on genes.

Genes hold the information to build and maintain their cells and pass genetic traits to offspring.

Long range generational communications are achieved through the genes in the animal kingdom.

DNA transmits inherited experience in coded form.  It is decoded in organism’s physique, Character and behavior

Decoding of the coding of DNA : codon-to-amino acid paradigm

The genetic code is the set of rules by which information encoded in genetic material (DNA or RNA sequences) is translated into proteins (amino acid sequences) by living cells. The code defines a mapping between tri-nucleotide sequences, called codons, and amino acids  Here is the three-letter code employed to encode the 20 standard amino acids used by living cells to encode proteins  where informations are stored.

The human genome is the full complement of genetic material in a human cell; it contains instructions for making all the protein molecules for all the different kinds of cells of the human body – neurons in the brain, red blood cells, bone tissue, liver cells, etc.

In decoding DNA, researchers determine the "sequence" or exact order of the individual chemical building blocks, or bases, that make up the DNA.

Human DNA contains 3 billion base pairs.   The total length of DNA in 1 human equals 70 round trips from the Earth to the Sun.

You are the decoded reality of your DNA in all dimensions.

The information goes back to
Adam and Eve
or even to the creation

This is the study of inheritance,  the passing of traits from on generation to the next.  Genes are the units of hereditary, found at specific loci on each chromosome.  Genes are made up of DNA, and DNA replication in meiosis passes on the genes to offspring.

Meiosis produces genetic recombination,

because each daughter cell is given half of the genetic material as the original dividing cell.

Sacraments are the DNA codes in the transmission of Faith from one generation to the other.

The God gene hypothesis proposes that human beings inherit a set of genes that predisposes them to believe in a higher power. The idea has been postulated by geneticist Dean Hamer, the director of the Gene Structure and Regulation Unit at the U.S. National Cancer Institute.

The God gene hypothesis is based on a combination of

•           behavioral genetic,

•           neurobiological
and

•           psychological studies.

"I was attempting to understand whether or not there is a biological basis of spirituality," writes Hamer in his book. His research led him to affirm a biological basis for one's spiritual orientation. "I argue that the answer is, at least in part, hardwired into our genes. Spirituality is one of our basic human inheritances. It is, in fact, an instinct."
 

Hamer thinks the biological mechanism of spirituality must be intertwined with the social, cultural, and historical influences in our lives in order for the spirituality gene to be made manifest in some sort of religious expression. Spirituality is transmitted genetically and is the basis for religion that is transmitted culturally.

We do not know how they communicate at those lower levels.  But the surprising thing is they are and that is one of the fundamental defining property of Strings, Quarks and all others.

Our brains mathematically construct "concrete" reality by interpreting frequencies from another dimension, a realm of meaningful, patterned primary reality that transcends time and space.

Actual messages from the human brain are not a function of the human brain itself – they are not generated by the brain. There is a world of reality outside of us.  But we know them only through our sensations.  How do we sense other dimensions in our dimension. As the Hebrew model indicates, there has to be a contact point running from the topmost divine realm to the material realm through spiritual and mental level.  This point of contact is one of our genes.

The Vesicular Monoamine Transporter 2 or VMAT2 is an integral membrane protein that acts to transport monoamines—particularly neurotransmitters such as dopamine, norepinephrine, serotonin, and histamine—from cellular cytosol into synaptic vesicles. In humans, the VMAT2 protein is encoded by the VMAT2 gene.  A single change in a single base of the gene seems to be directly related  to the increased probability that that individual will identify as spiritual

The major arguments of the theory are:

(1) spirituality can be quantified by psychometric measurements;

(2) the underlying tendency to spirituality is partially heritable;

(3) part of this heritability can be attributed to the gene VMAT2

(4) this gene acts by altering monoamine levels, and

(5) spirituality arises in a population because spiritual individuals are favored by natural selection.

Hamer proposes that the God gene changes the level of these neurotransmitters so as to alter a person’s mood, consciousness and, ultimately, self transcendence. He goes so far as to say that the God gene is, along with other faith-boosting genes, a product of natural selection. Self-transcendence makes people more optimistic, which makes them healthier and likely to have more kids.

It does not specify what type of religion or spirituality is defined genetically.  Whatever the religion it is the result of the communication within the cosmos on to the humans and one of point of contact on humans is this gene. 

There are other areas of brains which are also pointed out as the point of contact.

PINEAL GLAND

The pineal gland hangs from the roof of the completely dark cave of the 3rd ventricle of the brain and is constantly bathed in cerebral spinal fluid (CSF). This gland was called "Seat of the Soul" by French philosopher Rene Descartes and Alice Bailey. It is thought that the pineal gland is the connection to our Soul.  

 "The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light."

Matt 6:22 

The pineal gland is  bio-luminescent and is sensitive to light. Like a cell phone, it has a built in wireless transmitter and is the connecting link between the physical and spiritual worlds and  higher frequencies. 

By awakening our pineal gland, we can speed up our learning and memory abilities, enhance our intuition and creativity, trigger our psychic healing abilities and experience bliss.

What is transmitted is a message of the universe that represents a certain meaning. Upon receiving such a command, our brain will process this into our present language or other forms of expression.

In Sacramental Symbols which are in our present language and forms, the brain tries to interpret it in terms of the universal dimensions and codings.   These form part of the future person, behavior and decisions.

Sacraments thus form the anchoring force of faith and beliefs.

Pribram's Holonomic Theory of Memory

The Holonomic Brain Theory describes a type of process that occurs in fine fibered neural webs.   Here some form of  Fourier transformation occurs in the field that changes a space-time coordinate system into a spectral coordinate system within which the properties of our ordinary images are spread throughout the system. The brain goes beyond into a new dimension where everything becomes here and now. The brain thus behave, like a hologram.

The essence of the technique is the interference of light, the principle that two separate but converging wave patterns can produce a third pattern - an interference pattern - which bears no obvious resemblance to either of the originals. The pattern thus stored is called a hologram

Holographic images has the property of three dimensionality, that is to say, they have - or at least appear to have - depth. As we move the head they reveal areas that are not otherwise visible.  You can thus recreate a three dimensional image with a hologram.  Another strange property of the hologram is that if we break it into two each will be able to produce the image.  Thus every portion of the hologram contains the totality of the image except for its intensity.   Half a hologram shows the entire image at half clarity. (Half a photograph, on the other hand, shows half the image at full clarity.)   

Taking the visual system as an example, the form of an optical image is transformed by the retina into a quantum process that is transmitted to the visual cortex. Each dendritic receptive field thus represents the "spread" of the properties of that form originating from the entire retina. Taken together, cortical receptive fields form patches of dendritic local field potentials described mathematically by Gabor functions. Note that the spread of properties occurs within each patch; there is no spread of the Fourier process over the large extent of the entire cortex. In order to serve the perceptual process the patches must become assembled by the operation of nerve impuses in axonal circuits. Processing the vibratory sensory inputs in audition and in tactile sensation proceeds somewhat similarly.

But Gabor and similar wavelet functions, though useful in communication and computations, fail to serve as the properties of images and objects that guide us in the space-time world we navigate. In order to attain such properties an inverse Fourier transformation has to occur. Fortunately the Fourier process is readily invertable; the same transformation that begets the holographic domain, gets us back into space-time. The inverse Fourier transformation is accomplished by movement. In vision, nystagmoid movements define pixels, points which are mathematically defined by "Point Attractors". Larger eye and head movements define groupings of points which can readily be recognized as moving space-time figures. Such groupings are mathematically defined as "Symmetry Groups". The brain processes involved are organized by a motor cortex immediately adjacent to the primary visual cortex. Similar motor strips are located adjacent to other sensory input systems. The details of the evidence for how these processes work are described in Lectures 3, 4, and 5 of Pribram, Brain and Perception.

In the case of the memory, the two beams are:

1. Reference beam – the state of man which is created by history and all inputs from all dimensions of existence.
2.  Object beam which is the current experience

Current experience interferes with the Past history from  all dimensions of  human existence produces a new image as understood by the brain.    Just as a hologram functions as a sort of lens, a translating device able to convert an apparently meaningless blur of frequencies into a coherent image, the brain also comprises a “lens” and uses holographic principles to mathematically convert the frequencies it receives through the senses into the inner world of our perceptions.

Thus  often meaningless blur of rituals are transformed into a coherent image by the spiritual lens which convert the frequencies it receives through the senses into the inner world of our perceptions.

“But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised.”1Co 2:14

Only the Spiritual Man has the decoder reference beam.