Neurocluster Brain Model demystifies and explains all religious and occult phenomena

Abstract



Neurocluster Brain Model is the brain model based on neuroscience which demystifies, reveals and explains all religious and occult phenomena.

Millions of people have experienced various religious and occult phenomena however skeptical scientists deny even the existence of such phenomena. The denial of the phenomena is not the solution because the denial provides no explanation why so many people claim to have experienced various religious and occult phenomena. Instead of denial the scientific explanation of underlying mechanisms is needed.

Neurocluster Brain Model provides the scientific explanation of underlying mechanisms of religious and occult phenomena. Neurocluster Brain Model succeeds where other scientific models fail.

For the first time ever all religious experiences (communication with Gods, angels, demons, etc) and psychic powers (mediumship, psychography, telepathy, etc) are revealed and explained in the scientific way.



Description



The human brain contains billions of neural cells however the man perceives himself as having only one(1) consciousness, and people who believe in the existence of the soul perceive themselves as having only one(1) soul. Human brain contains billions of neurons however vast majority of people strongly believe that all these billions of neurons contain only one(1) personality, one(1) consciousness, one(1) soul. This “one human body contains one consciousness” model is sufficient to explain the majority of events in casual normal routine life and this is the reason why this model has become de facto accepted model in all human cultures and societies without ever doubting its validity. Medieval scholars were debating the question “how many angels can fit on the head of a pin?” (a.k.a. “how many angels can dance on the head of a pin?”), however nobody has ever raised the question “how many souls can be contained in one human body?” assuming by default that one(1) human body contains only one(1) soul.

However let’s raise a simple question: does this “one human body contains one consciousness” model really can explain all phenomena which happen with human consciousness?

The answer is: “one human body contains one consciousness” model actually fails to explain the vast range of phenomena which happen with human consciousness as it will be shown in this website.

Let’s begin with the simple example.

All religions claim that the soul is immortal and indestructible, the soul is unbreakable, and the soul can not be divided into small pieces.

Some religions (like for example Hinduism) claim that besides humans all living creatures have a soul – all animals, plants, trees do have a soul.

What is the source of these claims about soul properties? All religions claim that their sacred texts are divinely or supernaturally revealed or inspired.

Let’s analyze these claims a little bit.

Hinduism claims that every plant has a soul and that the soul is unbreakable and can not be divided into small pieces (Bhagavad-gītā. 2.23-24).

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2.23: The soul can never be cut to pieces by any weapon, nor burned by fire, nor moistened by water, nor withered by the wind.

2.24: This individual soul is unbreakable and insoluble, and can be neither burned nor dried. He is everlasting, present everywhere, unchangeable, immovable and eternally the same.

Bhagavad-gītā As It Is. 2.23-24

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However let’s analyze a simple phenomenon like plant propagation from cuttings. Plant cutting (a.k.a. as striking or cloning) is a technique for vegetatively (asexually) propagating plants in which a piece of the stem or root of the source plant is placed in a suitable medium such as moist soil, potting mix, coir or rock wool. The cutting produces new roots, stems, or both, and thus becomes a new plant independent of the parent.

Using plant cutting technique we can divide one plant into many pieces and every such new piece now has become a separate plant. Since every plant has a soul, this means that one soul of the original plant was divided into many souls using such primitive technique as plant cutting.

As we can see from this very simple example, religious knowledge (which is claimed to have been originated from divine and supernatural sources) about soul properties contradicts very simple well known experimental facts like plant propagation from cuttings.



Now let’s go to the animal kingdom. The male paper nautilus (a.k.a. argonaut octopus) possesses a specialized, extended tentacle, called a hectocotylus, where packets of sperm are stored. When a male paper nautilus detects a female, the hectocotylus detaches from the octopus body and swims towards the female under its own power. The hectocotylus inserts its load into the female’s mantle and can remain active, depositing sperm in her even as its owner goes on his way. The male, essentially, has sex in absentia. The first scientists to observe the hectocotylus in action actually misidentified it as a parasitic worm attached to the female paper nautilus.

Let’s raise a simple question: has hectocotylus a separate soul or not? Religious sacred texts fail to answer such question.



Those were examples about plants and animals, but what about humans? Anyway, there are many people who believe that only humans have souls and these people believe that plants and animals do not have any soul whatsoever.

Let’s raise a simple question: how many souls are contained in conjoined twins (a.k.a. Siamese twins): one or two souls? Religious leaders get very confused when being asked such a simple question because the fact of multiple human souls residing in one physical body contradicts their religious doctrines.

However let’s raise a simple question: how many souls can be contained in one human body? Humanity did not possess tools and technologies which would allow to investigate this question up until the twentieth century. However in the late 1950s things has dramatically changed when neurosurgeons began experiments with the human brain. Some people have epilepsy. Epilepsy is a phenomenon when a small number of neurons in the brain excite themselves via positive feedback neural circuits which leads to the excitation of nearby neurons and this excessive hypersynchronous neuronal activity spreads through large areas of the brain. There are many ways to treat epilepsy however all these treatments share the same common working principle – in order to eliminate the epileptic seizures you need to suppress the excitement of neurons and you need to suppress the spread of the neural excitement through the large areas of the brain. However in some patients all known treatment methods fail and the patient continues to have frequent and strong epileptic seizures. In the late 1950s neurosurgeons decided to try out new drastic method for dealing with such extra hard epilepsy cases. The hypothesis of new treatment method was the following. Human brain consists of two hemispheres which are connected via link which is called corpus callosum. During the epileptic seizure the synchronous neuronal activity originates in one hemisphere and then via corpus callosum it reaches the another hemisphere thus spreading through the whole brain. If we would cut corpus callosum then synchronous neuronal activity which originated in one hemisphere would be stopped from spreading into another hemisphere and this would eliminate epileptic seizure. Several patients with hardest epilepsy cases were chosen to test out the hypothesis and corpus callosum was cut in these patients. Such patients who have their corpus callosum cut are called “split-brain patients”. The hypothesis of neurosurgeons was confirmed to be correct – the cutting of corpus callosum eliminated or greatly reduced epileptic seizures in split-brain patients. However experiments with split-brain patients revealed very interesting side effect of corpus callosum cutting. The left hemisphere controls the right side of the body and the right hemisphere controls the left side of the body. When interconnection between hemispheres (corpus callosum) is cut then both hemispheres begin to act autonomously from each other. For example, when split-brain sits near his wife, the left hand of the patient hugs and fondles the wife, however at the same time the right hand of the patient angrily beats the wife – different hemispheres of the split-brain patient have made different judgments towards the wife and both hemispheres act independently from each other. In other words, the cutting of corpus callosum created two(2) autonomous personalities, which think differently and make different decisions on the same subject and these decisions might be even diametrically opposite. Experiments with split-brain patients revealed that the cutting ofcorpus callosum produces two(2) autonomous personalities, two(2) autonomous consciousnesses, and for those who believe in the existence of soul - two(2) autonomous souls. Split-brain experiments revealed that one(1) human consciousness can be artificially divided into two(2) consciousnesses by simple cutting of corpus callosum.



When two hemispheres of the (healthy) brain are connected via corpus callosum link then such man is unable to accomplish two different independent tasks with two hands simultaneously because one hemisphere hinders another hemisphere by sending commands via corpus callosum link. For example, if a man takes a pencil into each of two hands and tries to draw two independent pictures with both hands simultaneously (for example a circle with one hand and a square with another hand) – the man will be unable to cope with such task. You can try doing that yourself and see if you will succeed. However when corpus callosum link is cut then after such surgery the man has no troubles to accomplish two different independent tasks with both hands simultaneously – as for example, drawing a circle with one hand and a square with another hand is an easy task for split-brain patient.

Search youtube for title “Severed Corpus Callosum” which contains documental movie which shows experiments with split-brain patient.



In psychiatry there is one rare disorder called „multiple personality disorder“. „Multiple personality disorder“ is the disorder when several (2, 3, 5, 10, etc) different personalities “live” in one(1) human body and these different personalities switch between each other unpredictably in very similar way like TV channels are switched on TV. For example, a man with a name “John” who is a musician sits still in a chair and suddenly a phone rings (trigger stimulus) and in a moment the personality of the man switches into another personality with a name “Thomas” who is a sculptor. John knows nothing about Thomas, and Thomas knows nothing about John. After some random time Thomas unexpectedly switches back to John. And these personalities switch back and forth the same way like TV channels are switched on TV.

The main difference of „multiple personality disorder“ patient from “split-brain” patient is the following. In the case of „multiple personality disorder“ only one(1) personality is available at one moment of time, while in the case of “split-brain” patient both two(2) personalities are available simultaneously.

„Multiple personality disorder“ is among the most controversial of the dissociative disorders in psychiatry, and among the most controversial disorders found in the DSM-IV-TR. Psychiatry has no clear consensus regarding neither the diagnosis of „multiple personality disorder“ nor its treatment. In year 1994 American Psychiatric Association renamed „multiple personality disorder“ into improper name „dissociative identity disorder (DID)” which clearly reveals that official psychiatry has no clue whatsoever about underlying mechanism of „multiple personality disorder“. The only thing which psychiatry admits is the existence of patients in which multiple personalities switch back and forth like TV channels, however psychiatry has neither the model of „multiple personality disorder“ nor the understanding of underlying mechanisms of „multiple personality disorder“.



What is the underlying mechanism of „multiple personality disorder“? It is very simple. Some part (zone) of the brain (“piece” of the brain, cluster of neurons, i.e. neurocluster) “declares independence” from the rest of the brain and starts to “think” autonomously.

If several such autonomous neuroclusters exist then two scenarios are possible:

1) autonomous neuroclusters compete with each other for which one will take over the control of the body. In this scenario only one personality is available at one time for the outside observer. If another autonomous neurocluster takes over the control of the body, then personality changes in a man in similar way like TV channel is switched on TV. This switching of personalities can be back and forth – at one time one neurocluster takes over the control, at another time another neurocluster takes over the control.

Here again two scenarios are possible:

a) if autonomous neurocluster has friendly symbiotic attitude towards rest of the brain, then we have „multiple personality disorder“ or holy spirit possession (angel/etc);

b) if autonomous neurocluster has hostile attitude towards rest of the brain, then we have demonic/satanic/black spirit possession – and such cases are very common – lunatic asylums are full of such patients.

2) autonomous neuroclusters act simultaneously dividing the brain into several spheres of influence – in such case we get independent subject/personality (“homunculus”) which lives in the human brain and is able to generate and send sounds and pictures to the main personality. In such scenario man is absolutely sure that he is communicating with spirits/extraterrestrial beings/angels/demons or even with the God or voice of the universe. Human brain fMRI scans show that when man hears hallucinatory sounds and/or sees hallucinatory images – at that time brain zones which are responsible for hearing/seeing are active – the man really hears and sees them.

The existence of autonomous neuroclusters can be clearly seen in split-brain patients. The most important and interesting result from split-brain experiments is when different information (text or picture) is provided into different hemispheres simultaneously. The technical accomplishment is very easy. The right eye provides information for the left hemisphere and the left eye provides information for the right hemisphere. If different pictures are provided into different eyes then different hemispheres get different information. The split-brain patient can easily tell what the left hemisphere has seen because the language production zone (Broca's area) is located in the left hemisphere. However when information is provided for the right hemisphere then the split-brain patient is unable to tell what he has seen, the split-brain patient claims that he saw nothing. The most important and interesting part of the experiment is when a sheet of paper is given to the split-brain patient and he is asked that left hand (i.e. right hemisphere) would draw a picture of what it has seen. And the left hand draws on the paper the object which was seen by the right hemisphere. During the drawing process the left hemisphere tries to recognize the object in drawn picture – sometimes it recognizes drawn object quite easily however sometimes it fails to recognize the object in the picture. The right hemisphere does not have the access to the information which is at the disposal of the left hemisphere and the left hemisphere does not have the access to the information which is at the disposal of the right hemisphere.

However the right hemisphere can transfer information into the left hemisphere via picture drawn on the paper, i.e. via exterior and not via internal link in the brain (because corpus callosum is cut). I.e. the right hemisphere can communicate with the left hemisphere only as two separate independent personalities via external outside link. For more details please see the documental movie bellow “Severed Corpus callosum” starting from 2 minutes 51 seconds. During the experiment the word “phone” was shown to the right hemisphere and the right hemisphere has drawn the image of phone on the sheet of paper which clearly shows that the right hemisphere is able to convert words into images.

The main personality which resides inside the left hemisphere does not know what will be drawn on paper by the right hemisphere. The main personality observes and sees that information for the first time, the main personality has never seen this information before.

This experiment provides a very good model for explaining psychography (a.k.a. automatic writing) phenomenon during which independent autonomic neurocluster takes over the hand control and writes a text on the sheet of paper while the main personality does not know what will be written on the sheet of paper. Exactly the same underlying mechanism is in channeling (a.k.a. mediumship) when autonomic neurocluster takes over the voice control while the main personality does not know which words will be told during channeling séance.

Experiments with split-brain patients clearly show that the brain is made up of a constellation of independent or semi-independent agents, and these agents, these processes can carry on a vast number of activities outside of the main personality’s conscious awareness.

Another way to prove the existence of autonomic neuroclusters is the analysis of features of the dream characters. During the dreaming process the man sees various characters (people/animals/etc) in the dream scenario. Let’s ask a simple question – do these characters (which are seen in the dream) have their own consciousness or not?

Let’s suppose the answer this question is “no, dream characters do not have their own consciousness”. Such answer raises a simple question – if the dream characters do not have their own consciousness, then how can it be that these dream characters can communicate with you, talk with you, ask questions to you, answer your questions, etc – how the dream characters can accomplish such tasks if they do not have their own consciousness? If the dream characters do not have their own consciousness, then this leads to the conclusion that agent (dream character) does not need to have the consciousness in order to appear like it has consciousness.

Now let’s analyze another scenario. Suppose the answer is “yes, dream characters do have their own consciousness”. Such answer raises a simple question – who is the physical carrier of dream character’s consciousness? The most common answer which people give to such question is “non-material spirits hover beyond the material world and these spirits come into the dream where they meet other non-material spirits and these spirits communicate between with each other.” However let’s analyze the following situation. Suppose you go to sleep and you see Susane in your dream. However while you are sleeping and while you are seeing Susane in your dream, the real physical Susane is located in the next room where she is cooking food, reading book, etc. If Susane would be asleep while you are sleeping, then the explanation would be that your spirit and Susane’s spirit have met beyond the material world. However problem lays in the fact that Susane is not asleep, Susane is awake and Susane’s spirit is inside the physical body of Susane and Susane is busy with some action. If you are seeing Susane in the dream, then how can the spirit of Susane be in two different places simultaneously – in your dream and in the next room? These are very simple questions which lead to insolvable paradoxes.

However all these paradoxes can be easily solved using neurocluster brain model. Susane which you see in your dream is not the Susane’s spirit, but instead a neurocluster into which the model of Susane is written and stored. This neurocluster simulates all the behavior of Susane: how Susane moves, how Susane talks, etc. The more accurate and the more detailed the model of Susane is, the more realistic the dream scenario becomes.

The characters (which are seen/met in the dream) have different intelligence level – one characters can speak fluently, while other characters are incoherent, and third characters are unable to stammer out a single word. Why there is such difference in the intelligence level? The underlying mechanism is very simple.

If the neurocluster which models character X contains low number of neurons then character X will have low intelligence level.

If the neurocluster which models character X contains big number of neurons then character X will have high intelligence level.

The good analogy for the model of object X stored into neurocluster is the computer file. However such neurocluster is not a simple computer data file, this neurocluster also can act as executable (EXE) computer program file.

During the dreaming process the models of various characters become “alive” autonomic personalities which are able to act independently from the main personality.

Under some conditions the character which is stored inside the neurocluster can become able to communicate with the man’s main personality while the man is awake.

If the neurocluster is located nearby the hearing/vision areas inside the brain, and neural links reach hearing/vision areas, then such neurocluster may begin “tele-radio” translation for the man’s main personality and the main personality with begin to hear the voice of “God/angels/cosmos/etc” and see images of “God/angels/cosmos/etc”.

If the neurocluster is located nearby the motor areas inside the brain, then such neurocluster can take over the control of the man’s body – and this is the classical scenario when “demon possessed” man can attack nearby people and/or accomplish some other actions with the man’s body. As a rule, the neurocluster which contains the model of the “demon” has very limited and relatively small number of neurons at its possession and this is the reason why the intelligence level of such “demons” is very low – the “demon” can only induce shaking convulsions or physically attack somebody nearby, however maintaining meaningful highly intelligent conversation with such “demon” is not possible at all. During sleepwalking (somnambulism) when autonomic neurocluster takes over control of man’s body usually the intelligence level of autonomic neurocluster is also very low and this is the reason why it is not possible to carry meaningful highly intelligent conversation with the sleepwalker.

If the neurocluster is located nearby the areas of the brain which control the mouth and voice, and neural links reach voice control areas, then such autonomic neurocluster can take over the man’s voice and begin talking via man’s mouth – this phenomena is known under the name of “channeling”.

If the neurocluster has huge number of neurons at his disposal and if the neurocluster has full access to the control of the man’s body, then this manifests itself as „multiple personality disorder“.



In order for animal to survive in natural environment the animal’s brain must be constantly modeling the surrounding physical world. As for example when the squirrel wants to jump from one branch of the tree to another branch, at first squirrel’s brain must calculate and model the physical processes – the trajectory of the jump, the effect of gravitation, the power needed for the jump, the effect of wind/rain/obstacles to the trajectory of jump – and only after the brain has modeled the physical surrounding and has made necessary calculations – only then the squirrel accomplishes the jump. No matter which action the animal is doing (walking, running, flying, etc) – its brain always needs to model the surrounding physical world. If the animal’s brain would not model the surrounding physical world then such animal would perish in the next moment – as for example by hitting a rock with its head, by choking with the water which it is drinking, and so on.

In other words, the brain contains neural circuits (neuroclusters) which are responsible for modeling of the surrounding physical world. These neural circuits simulate the virtual copy of the real physical world and in this virtual world a whole bunch of different actions with different parameters are simulated and after these calculations are completed the option with the best outcome result is chosen for implementation into the real surrounding physical world. All this modeling is constantly done inside the brain and consciousness is not involved in this modeling, all modeling happens at the subconscious level. The consciousness simply gets the results of the modeling and that’s all.

When a man goes to sleep, all sensory inputs (sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch) are disconnected from the consciousness and consciousness is thrown into virtual simulated world. Neural circuits which are responsible for modeling of the surrounding physical world begin to generate virtual worlds and virtual objects which are presented to the consciousness and as a result man sees a dream. Usually the man cannot control this process and man can only passively dizzily observe these virtual surroundings in similar way like watching the movie in the theater. However there some special techniques which allow to act actively in the dream scenario while remaining fully conscious – these techniques are called “lucid dreaming”. A lucid dream is a dream in which one is aware that one is dreaming. In a lucid dream, the dreamer may be able to exert some degree of control over their participation within the dream or be able to manipulate their imaginary experiences in the dream environment.

The objects and surroundings in the lucid dreams can be unrealistic. In other words the neural circuits which are responsible for modeling of the surrounding physical world can create and present unrealistic objects for the consciousness.

And in the case when neural circuits generate very realistic objects for the consciousness, then such phenomena is called “astral journey”, “astral projection”, “out-of-body experience”, etc.

By using the techniques for leaving physical body one can exercise his brain in all possible areas and the skills acquired in such out-of-body training will remain even after the man returns back to his body. As for example, the tennis player can train to play tennis when being in out-of-body mode and his tennis skills will be actually improved when he will return back to his body (after awakening). All this is possible because the neural circuits can fully simulate the real physical world with all physical laws. However such training when being in out-of-body mode is useful only if neural circuits simulate the physical world accurately enough. When a man drinks alcohol in “cultured way” or cripples his brain in some other ways, then training when being in out-of-body mode is not possible, because even in the best case scenario the consciousness will be thrown into hallucinatory world which will be created by alcohol crippled brain.

Adepts of the eastern esoteric tradition (various yogis, etc) devote their lives and spent many years struggling their way towards “nirvana” (or out-of-body state) using various techniques like ascetics, yoga, pranayama, etc. Despite huge endeavors and decades of practice only very small percentage of eastern-adepts succeed in reaching the desired goal, and the ones who have reached this goal are considered as great “gurus” (spiritual teachers) and thousands of disciples flow to such gurus with the desire to learn to reach this goal.

The highest spiritual state which is accessible only to the greatest gurus who exercise titanic endeavors and decades of time can be easily reached in several hours without any ascetics, yoga, pranayama or any other “spiritual techniques”. The technology is very simple. All you need to do is to disconnect the consciousness from all sensory inputs and after several hours a man will be thrown into “nirvana” and/or other “spiritual worlds” automatically. The technical implementation is very simple. All you need to do is to put a man into special tank called „sensory deprivation tank“ (a.k.a. isolation tank, flotation tank, John C. Lilly tank, REST tank, sensory attenuation tank, and think tank) – a lightless, soundproof tank inside which subjects float in salt water at skin temperature, which results in elimination of all sensory inputs. When a man is put into sensory deprivation conditions, such man will be thrown into “nirvana” and/or other “spiritual worlds” after several hours and he will be able to meet and speak with various “spiritual beings” like angels, demons or even God himself. Astronauts in space also sometimes experience sensory deprivation, as for example, Edgar Dean Mitchell Sc. D., (an astronaut who walked on the Moon) claims that on his way back to earth during the Apollo 14 flight he had a powerful Savikalpa samādhi experience (in Hinduism Savikalpa samādhi is a state of samādhi in which one's consciousness temporarily dissolves into Brahman).

When a man is put into “spiritual world” state, the neural circuits which do the modeling create pictures and sounds in a concordance to the belief system of that man. Let’s illustrate with several examples. The majority of so called “astral travel experts” claim that physical human body is connected with “astral body” through an “astral (silver) cord”. “Astral travel experts” claim that this astral cord is quite thick when the astral body is located near the physical body and this astral cord becomes thinner and thinner when the astral body wanders away from the physical body. If this astral cord becomes broken then the astral body is unable to return to the physical body and a man dies or in some cases some alien spiritual being (like demonic spirit) can attach itself to that broken astral cord and thus can incarnate into the human body replacing the original human soul (such phenomenon is called “demonic possession”). Such are the claims of “astral travel experts”. However the reality is completely different. If a man had been instructed about astral cord existence before this man was taught the techniques of astral traveling then such man will see and feel the astral cord during his astral traveling, such man will confirm that the astral cord surely does really exists. However if a man had never heard about astral cord existence before this man was taught techniques of astral traveling then such man will never see and will never feel any astral cord during his journeys in the “astral world”. The conclusion is simple. When a man is put into “spiritual world” state the neural circuits which do the modeling create pictures and sounds in a concordance to the belief system of that man. For example if a man believes in the existence of Jesus Christ, then such man during the travel in “spiritual world” will surely meet Jesus Christ. If a man believes in the existence of Krishna/Buddha/etc then such man will meet Krishna/Buddha/etc during his travel in “spiritual world”. The belief system of a man determines the images which he will see during the “spiritual travel”. As for example, famous Bulgarian clairvoyant Baba Vanga always saw and communicated with “saint virgin Mary” and not with Vishnu/Shiva/Krisha or whatever else non-Christian deity. Bulgarian clairvoyant Baba Vanga in her childhood was imprinted with Christian dogmatism and thus as the result Baba Vanga communicated only with Christian characters like “saint virgin Mary” in her “spiritual visions”.

Many people have experienced leaving physical body (a.k.a. OOBE – out of body experience). When being outside of the physical body some people are able to see their own physical body, however other people do not see their own physical body. What is the cause of such difference? The answer is simple. People whose brain contains clear detailed model of their own physical body do see their own physical body while being in OOBE. The detailed model of the physical body is formed in the brain when a man spends countless hours in front of the mirror examining himself from all sides, examining every spot, every hair and other small details. However other people spend minimum of their time in the front of the mirror – such man glances briefly into the mirror to check if his nose is not smudged with tomato ketchup or if cheeks are not stuck with crumbs of cake – and that’s all he needs to know – in such case the model of the physical body in such man’s brain is very rough and smeared – and when such man experiences OOBE, there is very small probability that he will be able to see his own physical body from aside because of the simple fact – the neural circuits in his brain have too few data in order to be able to model and create image of his physical body viewed from aside (viewed from third person perspective).

The situation with the chakras is identical to the situation with astral cord. In “spiritual journeys” chakras are seen only by those people who knew and believed in advance that chakras do exist. The concept of “chakras” belong to the eastern tradition and this the reason why during “spiritual journeys” chakras are seen only by the adepts of the eastern tradition. In other religions there is no concept of “chakras” (like for example in Christianity, Islam, etc) and for that reason adepts of such religions do not report seeing “chakras” when being in “spiritual journeys”. A man can see chakras only when the model of chakras is written into brain in advance. The writing of model into the brain is accomplished when a man studies pictures with chakras, reads texts about features of chakras, listens lectures about chakras, etc.

Neuroclusters in the brain usually store models of real-world-objects, however neuroclusters can also store models of non-real-world objects (a good example or non-real-world object is “chakras”).

Models of the objects can be copied from one human brain into another human brain in the similar way like computer files can be copied from one computer into another. The model of object X is copied from one human brain into another brain when man A tells to man B the features of object X, draws and shows the pictures of object X, makes statuette of object X and shows it, etc.

When two or more people have the same identical (or very similar) model of object X written in their brains – this phenomenon is called the “egregor X”.

Egregor is the same identical object X model which is multiplied and written into the brains of two or more individuals.

Egregor is the equivalent of the computer program and has many features of computer program (it can be copied, overwritten, deleted, etc), however there are some differences from computer program.

As for example egregor has a feature called “the strength of egregor”.

The strength of egregor increases when increases the number of people who have the same object X model written in their brains. The bigger the number of people who are the carriers of egregor – the stronger the egregor.

The working principle of the egregor strength is very simple.

Suppose we have a man A whose brain has no data about object X.

If man A meets man B whose brain contains object X model, then copying of model X from man’s B brain into man’s A brain meets great resistance because of high suspicion if the model X is reliable and if the model X can be trusted.

However if man A meets two(2) other men who are the carriers of object X model, then copying of model X into man’s A brain is done more easily because the fact that two other men trust the model X decreases the suspicion that the model X is unreliable.

If man A meets ten(10) other men who are the carriers of object X model, then copying of model X into man’s A brain is done more easily because the fact that ten other men trust the model X decreases the suspicion that the model X is unreliable.

And so on.

If man A sees that a million men are carries of object X model, then copying of model X into man’s A brain is done almost without any checks of model X validity.

The strength of egregor X is directly proportional to the number of people who are the carriers of object X model.

The strength of egregor has no correlation with the truthfulness of facts which are contained inside the egregor.

The egregor can be very strong, however facts which are contained inside the egregor can be absolutely false.

And vice versa. The egregor can be weak, however facts which are contained inside the egregor can be true.

Strong egregor has a power to force a man into accepting ideas and claims which contradict real world data.



In year 1976 British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins coined new term “meme” which has roughly equivalent meaning to the word “egregor”. Evolutionary biologists naively believe that the “meme” is a new revolutionary invention of twentieth century, however actually this is not true at all. Richard Dawkins invented new term “meme” because he did not knew that the word “egregor” had been already in use for at least several thousand years and that “egregor” has roughly equivalent meaning as the word “meme”. The word “meme” is simply the reinvention of the bicycle. We use the term “egregor” because the word “egregor” was already in use at least several thousand years before the introduction of new term “meme”. However there is one little technical problem with the word “egregor” – for hundreds of years the word “egregor” has been extensively used in various occult and pseudoscientific texts which mutilated, garbled and distorted the meaning and definition of the word “egregor”. We will repeat again the definition of the “egregor” in order to dispose of occult and pseudoscientific legacy – egregor is the same identical object X model which is multiplied and written into the brains of two or more individuals.



A “cluster” is a group or bunch of several homogeneous elements, which can be considered as a separate unit, which has certain properties. As for example, in physics cluster can be a small group of atoms or molecules, in astrophysics there are star clusters consisting of stars and galaxy clusters consisting of galaxies, and so on. The same physical element can be assigned to different unrelated logical clusters. As for example, in human population we can divide the people in clusters using different criteria – as for example we can divide people by their religion and we will get cluster of Christians, cluster of Muslims, cluster of Buddhists and so on, however we can divide the same exact population by the favorite color which a man likes and we will get cluster of people who like red color, cluster of people who like blue color, cluster of people who like green color and so on. It is obvious that the same exact man will get into absolutely different clusters when filtered out by religion and when filtered out by his favorite color. There will be many Christians, Muslims and Buddhists who like red color, there will be many Christians, Muslims and Buddhists who like blue color, and so on. In exactly the same fashion the neurons in the brain can be grouped into different logical clusters. The neurons can be grouped into the same cluster by the color to which these neurons respond, the neurons can be grouped into the same cluster by the same orientation visual bar stimulus to which these neurons respond, and so on.



Important notice: when we use the term “neurocluster” (neural cluster) in the context of Neurocluster Brain Model – the default meaning is “egregoric neurocluster”, i.e. neurocluster which stores information about the egregor (object X model).



Egregoric neurocluster which has “declared independence” from the rest of the brain and which can communicate with the main personality as a separate entity in scientology is called as “demon circuit”. For as long as people have been speaking they have been hearing voices in their head. The founder of scientology L. Ron Hubbard in his “Dianetics” book described the source of these voices or “demons”. He described that these voices are stemmed not from another entity but from a heretofor unsuspected part of the mind. Definition of “demon” from the book “Dianetics” is bellow.

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A dianetic demon is a parasitic circuit. It has an action in the mind which approximates another entity than self. And it is derived entirely from words contained in engrams. <...> All these demons are parasitic. That is to say, they take a part of the analyzer and compartment it off. A demon can think only as well as the person’s mind can think. There is no extra power. No benefit. All loss. It is possible to set up the whole computer (analyzer) as a demon circuit and leave “I” on a tiny and forlorn shelf.

Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. Chapter IV. The “Demons”, page 106

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Egregoric neurocluster which has less power than the “demon” and which is unable to broadcast voices to main personality (nevertheless which affects and controls the man’s behavior in negative way) in scientology is called as “engram”. Scientologists claim that they have working techniques (in scientology they are called “auditing”) which enable to get rid of the engrams.

In the highest stages of scientological “bridge to total freedom” (which are called “operating tetan” or OT levels) scientologists recieve working techniques to get rid of “alien thetans” (in scientology the “soul” is called “thetan”). “Alien thetans” are also the same egregoric neuroclusters which have slightly different parameters from engrams and demon circuits. In other words, scientology claims to have working techniques to deal with various types of egregoric neuroclusters (which in scientology are called engrams, demon circuits and alien thetans).



Eastern tradition has a concept of “kundalini”. Adepts of eastern tradition believe that the power of kundalini lies coiled at the base of the spine and special training and special techniques can free kundalini power – can lift kundalini power upwards in the spine towards the top of the head. Gurus of eastern tradition claim that kundalini is very powerful force and that incorrect handling of kundalini will cripple or even will kill a man. Spiritual gurus claim that correct handling of kundalini can turn human into semi-god, who for example can turn off the Sun using his power of will. And here we have very important moment. It is obvious that if somebody would turn off the Sun even for a second, then the Earth planet would fly out of its orbit and even if the Sun would be turned on again, the orbit of the Earth would be changed irreversibly which would cause cataclysms and life on Earth would perish and so on. It is obvious that super-yogis who claim that they can turn off the Sun using their kundalini power, turn off the Sun not in the real physical world, but instead they turn off the representation of the Sun in their brain. In other words, the Sun stops its existence only in the brain of super-yogi however the physical real Sun remains shining for all other remaining people.

In the highest levels of yoga yogis learn to turn off/on the representations of objects in their brain and learn to manipulate these representations in various possible ways.

And this is the underlying mechanism of so called “siddhi powers” – supernatural magical powers like telekinesis, teleportation, levitation, etc.

All these “siddhi” phenomena happen inside yogi’s brain and not in the real physical world.

In the highest stages of yoga yogis learn to induce artificial controlled hallucinations inside their own brain – yogis are able to create, to destroy and to manipulate in all possible ways the representations of objects inside their own brain.

The same yogic “siddhi powers” in scientology are called “superpowers” which are attained at “operating tetan” levels (the highest stages in scientological “bridge to total freedom”). The founder of scientology L. Ron Hubbard coined an acronym MEST which stands for matter, energy, space and time, the component parts of the physical universe. Scientologists claim that by completing scientology courses, it is possible to eventually attain "cause over MEST" — the ability to control matter, energy and spacetime in the physical universe, free of the encumbrance of the body.

Yoga schools have detailed techniques and exercises for mastering the highest stages of yoga and yogis spend decades of life trying to evolve skills for inducing artificial controlled hallucinations inside their own brain. Only very small percentage of yogis achieve this desired goal.

The food plays an important role in achieving the heights of the spirituality and for this reason special diets are recommended which disturb the equilibrium of biochemical reactions inside the brain which greatly helps to induce hallucinations, however the starvation is even more effective technique than special diets. It is important to note that short duration starvation will not carry the man into the “spiritual worlds” because the body will use the accumulated recourses to keep the equilibrium of brain’s biochemical reactions intact, and only long enough starvation will knock out the biochemical equilibrium when some of vital biochemical substances will be depleted.

Almost all spiritual gurus teach that in order to increase spirituality one needs to starve himself, and some spiritual gurus claim that 40 days of starvation without the food and water guarantees the entrance into the “spiritual worlds”. Long starvation disturbs the equilibrium of biochemical reactions inside the brain which result in the blockade of sensory input signals and invokes the dream simulator which carries a man into “spiritual worlds”.

It is well known fact in the medicine that long starvation induces hallucinations. Medicine has a huge number of documented facts about consequences of long starvation, as for example when a ship sailing the ocean becomes uncontrollable (engine breakdown, etc) and people in the ship are forced into the long starvation, then when such ship is found and rescued, then the people who are still alive and did not die from starvation – all such rescued people will ramble in hallucinatory visions.

Exactly the same working principle was used by American Indians. Indians had the ritual of initiation into the manhood which was mandatory for all Indian boys in order they become “true men”. The essence of the initiation ritual was the following. Indian boy must climb into the top of the mountain and he must sit there starving without food and without water day after day (which might take weeks) and he must wait until he will see the souls of the ancestors, and these souls of the ancestors must tell him his new manhood name. After the boy has met souls of the ancestors and after he has heard his new manhood name, he must climb down the mountain and tell his Indian tribe his new manhood name, and after that moment the boy becomes “true man”. However not all boys who climb on the top of the mountain meet the souls of the ancestors. Many boys starve themselves into the coma stage however the souls of the ancestors do not come to meet them. For that reason other Indians periodically climb to the mountain to check if the boy still has a consciousness or if he has fallen into the coma stage. If the boy is found in the coma stage, then he is brought back down from the mountain, revived, offered food and water and after some time the same procedure of climbing into the mountain is repeated again. The procedure is repeated the second time, the third time, etc – as many times as needed until the boy finally meets the souls of the ancestors and hears his new manhood name from these souls. Some boys who wanted to avoid this torturing ritual had cheated – after sitting several days on the top of mountain they climbed down and lied that they had met the souls of the ancestors and that these souls had told him his new manhood name. However this lie must had been kept a secret for the rest of the life, otherwise he would get death sentence for cheating in such an “important” ritual.



The founders of abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) also practiced long starvation which induced hallucinatory visions in which they met the God and other “spiritual beings”.

For example Moses starved himself without food and water for forty days and after these forty days of starvation in artificially induced hallucinatory vision Moses received the Ten Commandments from the God (Bible. Exodus 34, 28). It is very important to note that the most sacred object in all abrahamic religions – Ten Commandments of God – was the result of hallucinations which were artificially induced by forty days of starvation.



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27 And the Lord said to Moses, “Write these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”

28 So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights. He neither ate bread nor drank water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.

29 When Moses came down from Mount Sinai, with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand as he came down from the mountain, Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because he had been talking with God.

30 Aaron and all the people of Israel saw Moses, and behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come near him.

31 But Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the leaders of the congregation returned to him, and Moses talked with them.

32 Afterward all the people of Israel came near, and he commanded them all that the Lord had spoken with him in Mount Sinai.

33 And when Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil over his face.

34 Whenever Moses went in before the Lord to speak with him, he would remove the veil, until he came out. And when he came out and told the people of Israel what he was commanded,

35 the people of Israel would see the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face was shining. And Moses would put the veil over his face again, until he went in to speak with him.

Bible. Exodus 34, 28

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Jesus Christ also starved himself for forty days in the desert and after these forty days of starvation in artificially induced hallucinatory vision Jesus Christ met the Devil instead of the God (Bible. Matthew 4, 2 and Luke 4, 2).

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1 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

2 And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.

3 And the tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.”

4 But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

5 Then the devil took him to the holy city and set him on the pinnacle of the temple

6 and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written, “‘He will command his angels concerning you,’ and “‘On their hands they will bear you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone.’”

7 Jesus said to him, “Again it is written, ‘You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.’”

8 Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.

9 And he said to him, “All these I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me.”

10 Then Jesus said to him, “Be gone, Satan! For it is written, “‘You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve.’”

11 Then the devil left him, and behold, angels came and were ministering to him.

Bible. Matthew 4, 2

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1. And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness

2 for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing during those days. And when they were ended, he was hungry.

3 The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.”

4 And Jesus answered him, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone.’”

5 And the devil took him up and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time,

6 and said to him, “To you I will give all this authority and their glory, for it has been delivered to me, and I give it to whom I will.

7 If you, then, will worship me, it will all be yours.”

8 And Jesus answered him, “It is written, “‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve.’”

9 And he took him to Jerusalem and set him on the pinnacle of the temple and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here,

10 for it is written, “‘He will command his angels concerning you, to guard you,’

11 and “‘On their hands they will bear you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone.’”

12 And Jesus answered him, “It is said, ‘You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.’”

13 And when the devil had ended every temptation, he departed from him until an opportune time.

Bible. Luke 4, 2

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Other important techniques for achieving “spiritual heights” are various special physical exercises, like for example holotropic breathwork which hyperventilates lungs which causes oxygen disbalance in the brain which invokes “siddhi” powers like “remembering of previous reincarnations” etc.

Various yogic physical exercises which deform and strangulate veins/ lymphatic vessels/etc (by putting legs on the head, etc) disturb the equilibrium of biochemical reactions inside the brain thus invoking “traveling into the spiritual worlds”.

Eastern esoteric schools are superior to abrahamic religions because eastern esoteric schools have workable techniques and tools for “getting into the spiritual worlds” and “meeting spiritual beings”, while in abrahamic religions only few random adepts manage to “get into the spiritual worlds” and these “spiritual” adepts have no clue how did they managed to “get into the spiritual world” and they can’t teach these skills for other adepts. Adepts of abrahamic religions explain this situation in the following way – God acts in mysterious ways, God chooses some people in mysterious ways and God gives these chosen people the ability to get into “spiritual world”. In other words adepts of abrahamic religions have no control and no workable techniques and no working tools for “getting into spiritual worlds” – there are however some exceptions, like Pentecostalism, which will be covered later.



Let’s examine the underlying mechanisms of invoking of spirits in the spiritualistic séance. During the spiritualistic séance spirits can be invoked in various ways, however one of the most popular and the best working method is “needle on the thread” method which works in the following way. A group of people (usually 3-10) sit around the table. A piece of paper is placed on the table. The circle is drawn on the paper and alphabet letters are written on the perimeter of the circle. One of the participants takes into the hand the thread with the attached needle and stretches his hand over the table in such way that needle would hang above the center of the circle with alphabet letters. Then participants decide which spirit they would like to invoke. For example, participants have decided to invoke the spirit of Napoleon. Then all participants concentrate and begin mentally calling the spirit of Napoleon. However spirits are self-willed and invoking of the spirit can fail. It is very easy to check if the spirit invocation has succeeded or not. You need to ask questions for the spirit and the spirit provides the answers via the thread which has a needle attached at the end. After asking the question you need to hold the hand with the thread above the circle with alphabet letters and you need to look closely where the needle moves. The needle should move from one alphabet letter to another alphabet letter thus forming words and sentences. If the needle does not move at all or the movement of needle forms meaningless jumble of letters then this means that you have failed in spirit invocation. However this is not the end of the game. You can try invoking the same spirit anew, however now another participant should take thread with needle into his hand and procedure of the spirit invocation is started all over again. In case of the failure the third participant repeats the procedure again. And so on. Only in the case when none of the participants has succeeded in spirit invocation, only in that case it is considered that this particular spirit can not be invoked and participants must choose another spirit for invocation. If invoking of Napoleon spirit has failed then maybe the invocation of Abraham Lincoln’s spirit will succeed. And the invocation procedure is started all over again anew. The procedure is repeated as many times as needed until invocation of any spirit will succeed. When spirit is invoked, the communication with spirit is accomplished by asking questions and looking closely at the movement of needle over the circle with alphabet letters which should form words and sentences from single letters.

It is important to note that the communication with spirit (spiritualistic séance) is governed by several laws:

1) the thread the needle must be hold in the hand of alive human. If the needle with the thread will be tied to some inanimate object (like for example the ceiling) then no spirit will be able to move that needle from standing still position. The needle will hang still in one place. In other words spirit can manifest itself only via alive human. Without alive human who holds thread with the needle the spirit will be unable to manifest itself.

2) only small percentage of people can invoke the spirit with thread and needle method. For example if you have a group of 10 participants then only 1, 3, 5, 7, etc participants can invoke the spirit. Only in rare cases the spirit can be invoked by all participants in the group.

3) every man has the unique psychological portrait and a man can be identified by his unique characteristic speech pattern, unique characteristic vocabulary, unique characteristic style of sentences, even unique characteristic grammatical errors, etc. As for example when we have a text piece consisting of 10 sentences often we can quite clearly identify if this text was written by Peter, John, Thomas or somebody else. The same concept applies to spirits too. Spirits have their unique psychological portrait too. However it very important to note that the same spirit X (for example Napoleon’s spirit) changes its psychological portrait depending on which man is holding the thread with the needle. For example if John holds the thread with the needle then Napoleon’s spirit will become very knowledgeable in music and ignoramus in technical sciences, however if Peter takes the thread with the needle in his hands then Napoleon’s spirit becomes knowledgeable in technical sciences and ignoramus in music, when the thread with the needle is returned back to John the Napoleon’s spirit becomes again knowledgeable in music and ignoramus in technical sciences. In other words experimental results of spiritualistic séances clearly show that Napoleon’s spirit changes its psychological portrait depending on which man is holding the thread with the needle. It is obvious that if Napoleon’s spirit would be independently existing independent object then its psychological portrait would remain stable and would not change when different people take the thread with the needle into their hands. This means that Napoleon’s spirit is modeled by the neurocluster inside man’s brain. Different people have different knowledge about Napoleon and thus they have different Napoleon models inside their brain. Some things in these Napoleon models will similar however there will be also differences. And the more the knowledge about Napoleon differs in different people the more the psychological portraits of Napoleon’s spirit will be different when these people invoke Napoleon’s spirit using thread with the needle method. If a man’s brain contains insufficient knowledge about Napoleon, in other words if a man’s brain has very weak model about Napoleon then such man will be unable to invoke Napoleon’s spirit during spiritualistic séance.

Experimental results show that spirits which are invoked during spiritualistic séances are merely autonomic neuroclusters inside the man’s brain which model personality of spirit X. In other words during spiritualistic séances the man is communicating with his own autonomic neuroclusters inside its own brain in the similar way like in the split-brain experiments. Due to the ignorance of the brain physiology people naively believe that they are communicating with the spirits from outside of the material world.

Communication with the spirits during spiritualistic séances is dangerous because the longer communication is lasting with autonomic neurocluster the more this neurocluster overmasters the resources of the brain and the power of neurocluster increases until it may become powerful enough to “declare independence” and to begin doing takeovers and revolutions inside the brain which might lead a man into lunatic asylum – and this does happen quite often.

The same exact working principle applies to the “communication with God” – when a man prays every day and ask the God to show up, then neurocluster which models the God becomes stronger and stronger, until one day it might begin communication with the man’s main personality as independent personality. By the way, a technical hint for ones who wishfully desire to talk with God but had failed in reaching this goal so far – the good working technique for invoking the God is the spiritualistic “thread with a needle” technique which was described above. The technique for invoking the God is exactly the same as the technique for invoking any spirit.



Psychography (a.k.a. automatic writing) is a phenomenon when a man takes a sheet of paper, places the paper on the table, takes a pen into his hand, places a hand on the sheet of paper and the hand begins to write text autonomously independently from man’s consciousness which looks like some other being had been taken the control over the hand, and the man have no control over the text which is being written on the sheet of paper and the man does not know what will be written on the sheet of paper. Very often the man falls into the trance or hypnotic state during the séance of psychography, however there are some cases when a man remains fully conscious. During the séance of psychography the style of handwriting and the psychological portrait becomes completely different from the original man and due to the ignorance of the brain physiology people naively believe that psychography proves that the spirit from outside of the material world has taken over the hand of the writer and the writer is a medium (a person who serves as an intermediary between the physical world and the spiritual world). Mediumship is defined as the practice of certain people – known as mediums – to mediate communication between spirits of the dead and other human beings.

The spirit can take control not only over man’s hand but also over man’s voice – and this phenomenon is called “channeling”. During the séance of channeling the timbre of voice and the psychological portrait becomes completely different from the original man, and the man has no control over the words being spoken, very often the man falls into the trance or hypnotic state, however there are some cases when a man remains fully conscious. The phenomenon of channeling is known from ancient times and it was widely practiced in various religious cults beginning from primitive shamanistic till modern day monotheistic religious cults. As for example Bible claims that the first king of the United Kingdom of Israel Saul has used medium necromancer women named En-dor for communication with dead prophet and leader of ancient Israel Samuel (Bible. 1 Samuel 28, 3-20).





Blindsight is another important phenomenon which reveals physiological mechanisms of the brain.

Blindsight is the ability of people who are cortically blind due to lesions in their striate cortex (a.k.a. primary visual cortex or V1) to respond to visual stimuli that they do not consciously see.

Blindsight is a phenomenon when visual stimuli does not reach man’s consciousness and a man claims that he is unable to see. The main difference of the blindsight from the full blindness is that despite a man claims he cannot see anything, however the same man can avoid obstacles when moving in complex surroundings. When a blindsighted man is asked how he managed to avoid obstacles if he does not see anything, he explains that he has simply relied on his intuition and guessing. However the percentage of blindsighted patient’s correct guessing greatly exceeds the probability of random blind guessing. There are two types of blindsight. In Type 1, subjects have absolutely no awareness of any stimuli, but, if forced to “guess”, can predict (at levels significantly above chance) aspects of a visual stimulus, such as location or type of movement. In Type 2 blindsight, subjects have some awareness, for example, of movement within the blind area, but no visual percept. Blindsight phenomenon challenges what once was believed to be true, that perceptions must enter consciousness to affect the behavior. Blindsight proves that man’s behavior can be guided by sensory information of which he is completely unaware.

Blindsight phenomenon clearly shows that the brain contains independent autonomous neuroclusters which process visual information completely autonomously and can control movements of the body completely autonomously and independently, as for example they can guide blindsighted man through the corridor full of obstacles avoiding all obstacles in the way while man’s consciousness remains completely unaware and has no control over this process.



Due to the ignorance and lack of knowledge about the physiological mechanisms of the brain the autonomous neuroclusters are called by people as “subconsciousness”, and when autonomous neuroclusters provide ready-made solution for the consciousness – people call such phenomenon as “intuition” (a.k.a. “divine enlightenment”, etc).



Almost everybody has encountered in their lives a phenomenon of “psychological blindness” when a man is looking for some object and that object lies just in the front of man’s eyes however man does not see it. It is important to note here that the object lying in the front of the eyes is not seen only by the consciousness however the autonomous neuroclusters (a.k.a. “subconsciousness”) may see this object and can remember its location. When a man goes to sleep, then during the dream the autonomous neuroclusters can forward information about the object to the consciousness. When a man awakes and checks the information which he has received in the dream and when he finds out that information received in the dream is correct – then the man has no idea how he has received this information so the man decides that the source of this information is “spiritual worlds” or the God himself. However the reality is much simpler. The valuable information which he has received during the dream in reality has nothing to do with the God. Some time ago this information was simply lying in front of the man’s eyes however the consciousness was blind to it and did not see it and after some time autonomous neuroclusters forwarded that information to the consciousness during the dreaming process. The transfer of information from autonomous neuroclusters into the consciousness usually happens in situations of “extreme importance”, for example when a man was very intensively praying and asking the God to reveal some very needed information. During the dream the consciousness receives the requested information from autonomous neuroclusters and when a man awakes from a dream he becomes strongly convinced that the God himself has provided the requested information. Due to the ignorance and lack of knowledge about the physiological mechanisms of the brain the man is unable to explain the source of information which he has received – and the God (or other spiritual beings) is the only explanation which he can think of.



It is very important to note the law which governs all “revelations from the God” – the information received from so called “divine sources” never exceeds or surpasses mankind’s scientific/technical knowledge of that period of time when “revelation from God” was received. Let’s analyze all ancient sacred scriptures (Bible, Quran, Vedas, etc) – all these scriptures contain texts about the creation of living organisms where all types of creatures are listed – birds, mammals, fishes, etc – however there is not a single word mentioned about microorganisms (bacteria, viruses, etc). It is important to note that microorganisms play a vital role in the Earth’s ecosystem – the extermination of microorganisms would lead to the collapse of the Earth’s ecosystem. It is obvious that when the creator of the universe and the creator of all living organisms is telling humans about the creation of all living things he should surely mention creatures which are so small that the human eye cannot see. However not a single word about microorganisms is mentioned in all ancient sacred scriptures. This raises a question: why microorganisms are not mentioned? The answer is simple: ancient people did not know that microorganisms exist. However even if we ignore the absence of description about the microorganisms which are so small that the human eye cannot see, the sacred scriptures are teeming with errors about biological life, as for example Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (Bhāgavata Purāṇa) claims that human fetus grows and remains in abominable residence of stools and urine, which is the breeding place of all kinds of worms (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.31.5 and SB: 3.31.17), The Talmud claims that lice do not reproduce and that lice emerge from human’s sweat (Masechet Shabbat 107b), and so on.



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SB: 3.31.5: Deriving its nutrition from the food and drink taken by the mother, the fetus grows and remains in that abominable residence of stools and urine, which is the breeding place of all kinds of worms.

SB: 3.31.17: Fallen into a pool of blood, stool and urine within the abdomen of his mother, his own body scorched by the mother's gastric fire, the embodied soul, anxious to get out, counts his months and prays, "O my Lord, when shall I, a wretched soul, be released from this confinement?"

A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda. Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (Bhāgavata Purāṇa). Chapter 31: Lord Kapila's Instructions on the Movements of the Living Entities. SB: 3.31.5 and SB: 3.31.17

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In Masechet Shabbat 107b it is said “A louse does not reproduce,” and therefore, according to the Sages, one is permitted to kill it on Shabbat. And on page 12b it states: “Rabbah killed them” (Rashi’s commentary: “killed them even on Sabbath,” the reason being that lice do not reproduce, but “from the flesh of man they swarm,” end of quote.)

And the Tosfot there says: Lest he kill — it is written that there are two types of lice, the black jumping louse which is created from the dust, as is written “Hit the dust of the ground and it will become lice,” and there is another type, swarming head lice which do not reproduce, but come from the sweat of man. And the Rosh, in chapter one, section 29, says: One may kill white head lice which come from old clothes.

The Ran also writes: “Rav Huna said: ‘and all the fleas’ is the jumping louse, and should you ask why is the jumper forbidden, as it is from the dust and does not reproduce, it should be said that this principle serves us only to exclude vermin created from mold, such as lice -- but all that is created from dust has vitality in it, as though it had reproduced from male and female, and one who kills it on Shabbat is liable,” end of quote.

It follows from what is written that, according to Chazal, the louse does not reproduce but they were divided as to how it was created. According to Rashi it is created from man’s flesh, according to the Tosfos from the sweat of man, according to the Rosh from old clothes, and according to the Ran from mold. (A flea, according to some of the Rishonim, is created from dust.)

We will add and emphasize that the Gemara in Shabbat, on page 107b, asks: “And does the louse not reproduce? Yet it is said: G-d sits and nourishes all, from the karnei re’emim to the eggs of lice” (meaning that there are eggs from which come lice, and therefore lice do reproduce). And they explained it: “There is a creature which is called “eggs of lice” (that is, there is a different type of insect whose name is “eggs of lice”) and this answer proves how resolved Chazal were in their opinion that lice do not reproduce through procreation, but are created from inanimate matter.

After we brought these things to the attention of those who seek truth, some dialecticians tried to find in them a flaw. When they found no aid in the halachic writings, they went to external literature. They did well to go to science texts, for there you will find research and examination with no favoritism, only research for its own sake. They brought, from the Encyclopedia HaChai V’HaTzomeach Shel Eretz Yisrael (Ministry of Defense Publishing — the book is found in every public library and is well worth reading), that “there are lice which reproduce by parthenogenesis.” And you, the wise student who shows no favoritism, come and see how your rabbis answer — we claim apples and they answer oranges. Or, perhaps, they didn’t understand what they read at all, or even worse. Parthenogenesis is sexual reproduction, but the female provides the impregnating material to the egg she produces. Is this “creation from mold”? Is this reproduction in which there is no resemblance between the inanimate material which births and the living thing which is born? Something born through parthenogenesis is exactly like the being which birthed it. On the other hand, what similarity is there between mold (or flesh, sweat, or rags) and a living, crawling louse?

Their explanations are worth nothing — quite the opposite. They’ve strengthened our words, that spontaneous creation of life from the inanimate, to which sages had attributed the louse, never has happened.

And we will add that the other lice mentioned by the dialecticians are said, in the encyclopedia, to mainly exist on birds, and few exist on mammals; and there is no way they can survive on humans. Therefore, of course, they have no relation to this topic which deals with lice on people’s heads and clothing.

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The sacred scriptures do not contain any information which exceeds or surpasses mankind’s scientific/technical knowledge of that period of time when “revelation from god” was received – and the reason of that is very simple – the source of the information provided in the sacred scripture is not the God which created the universe but instead the autonomous neuroclusters which reside inside the brain of the “divinely inspired” author who wrote the sacred scripture.



When a man is in the normal awareness state his brain keeps active the brain zones which “criticize” the surroundings – too hot, too cold, too dark, too bright, too tight, etc. The necessity for such “criticism” has a good explanation in the theory of Artificial Intelligence – without mechanism of “criticism” the agent becomes apathetic, the agent does not take any action in order to improve the current situation, and as a result the agent perishes because of the changing surrounding factors. In other words, the mechanism of “criticism” is necessary in order for the agent would survive in the surrounding conditions which are changing.

In biological brain it is possible to turn off (or partially subdue) the “critics” and force them stop “criticizing”. This can be checked by the following experiment. When you go to sleep you need to put the headphones on with music turned on and then close the eyes and sleep. During the REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep stage there are high chances that the music played via headphones will come into the plot of the dream when the “critics” are turned off – the result will be that you will hear super magnificent divine music which will be the most beautiful music which you have ever heard during your entire life. After awakening if you will still remember your dream (technical problem is that not all dreams can be recalled) you will have the remembrance of super magnificent divine music. If you will listen to the same music again when you are awake – you will find that the same exact music is not so divinely beautiful after all – some notes will appear to sound ugly, some instruments will sound too loud or to quiet, etc. However during the dream when all “critics” are turned off – and no matter what crap is playing – it will appear like super magnificent divinely beautiful music.

The physiological mechanism of the brain – the possibility to turn off the “critics” in the brain – is the reason why the majority of artists are winos and dependant on alcohol/tobacco/narcotics/etc. After drinking of alcohol (or taking of narcotics) in dizziness state the “critics” in the brain become turned off and as the result any crap which is painted/composed/etc begins to appear like super magnificent and divinely beautiful. As the result the artist becomes strongly convinced that drinking of alcohol (or taking of narcotics) helps to create the art and provides artistic inspiration. Artistic inspiration plays a vital role in the survival of the artist so the artist begins to use alcohol (tobacco/narcotics/etc) more and more often in order to get more “artistic inspiration” and as the result the artist becomes a totally wino.

The next law which governs “revelations from the God” is based on the same physiological mechanism of the brain – when a man enters “spiritual words” – the “critics” in the brain are turned off and as the result even the most banal and pathetic ideas begin to look like super-mega divine wisdom. The repertory of “wisdom” in such “divine revelations” is extremely miserable and pathetic – like for example “be obedient”, “be humble”, “do not steal”, “do not kill”, etc – all these ideas were already known a long time ago, however a man which receives “divine revelation” sees these banal ideas as the most revolutionary discovery of the humankind which no man on the Earth had ever heard before. These messages from so claimed “super-intelligence” like “do not steal, do not kill, etc” do not need any supernatural source because it is enough to have elementary nous in order to understand that members of community must keep at least minimal order in behavior patterns of the community or otherwise this community will destruct itself from the inside even without any external enemy. However here lies a technical problem – how the members of the community can be forced to obey the code of the behavior? The most effective way is to declare that the code of the behavior was given by the God himself and because people are afraid of the God, they will be forced to obey the “commandments of the God”.



Sleepwalking (a.k.a. somnambulism or noctambulism) is a sleep disorder belonging to the parasomnia family. Medical reports show that approximately 18 percent of the population is prone to sleepwalking, however only 1 percent of the population experiences sleepwalking events regularly. Every tenth man knows at least one sleepwalking event during his lifetime. During sleepwalking event a man rises from bed and walks however his level of consciousness, reaction and motors skills are low. Sleepwalkers perform activities that are usually performed during a state of full consciousness. Sleepwalker returns to the bed himself or with the mild help of others. During sleepwalking event the sleepwalker can accomplish simple actions like sitting up in the bed, walking to the bathroom, and cleaning, however sleepwalker’s actions can be also as complicated and as hazardous as cooking, driving, violent gestures, grabbing at hallucinated objects, having sex, or even homicide. Sleepwalkers can even leave the home, drive the car, go up to the roof and walk on the roof like a cat, etc. Sleepwalking may last as little as 30 seconds or as long as 30 minutes. Sleepwalker reacts very weakly when other people try to influence his action or when they try to communicate with the sleepwalker and huge endeavors are needed to wake up the sleepwalker. When sleepwalker is asked something, he responds with unarticulated murmur or answers with one word. Sleepwalker often have little or no memory of the dangerous incidents in which he has been involved (like a fire, being buried alive, being chased on the roof, etc) because their consciousness has altered into a state in which it is harder to recall memories. Although their eyes are open, their expression is dim and glazed over. In many countries sleepwalkers are not allowed into the military service because during sleepwalking event they can misuse the weapons and other military equipment. A common misconception is that the sleepwalker cannot harm himself. In the reality sleepwalkers do harm themselves due the lack of agility and the lack of the balance. Another common misconception is that sleepwalkers are not dangerous to anyone, however there many cases reported in which sleepwalkers were involved violent actions, even murders, and after waking up they did not remember anything.

In the “folk wisdom” there is huge number of sleepwalking cases, however due to the ignorance of the brain physiology the sleepwalking cases are mystified, like for example when sleepwalker leaves the home and brings back a lot of various stolen items – the “folk wisdom” considers that the brownie (a.k.a. brounie or urisk) has brought these items to his master, when the sleepwalker accomplishes household chores (washes dishes, shaves potatoes, etc) – the “folk wisdom” considers that the puck/sprite/elf/pixie/fay/etc has done that household chore and so on.

What is the underlying mechanism of the sleepwalking? It is very simple. During the sleep the main personality of a man falls asleep and during that time the autonomic neurocluster takes over the control of the human body and initiates actions. When the main personality wakes up he can not remember what was happening during the sleepwalking because all events had happened without his knowledge.



The similar underlying mechanism is during the state of affect. When a deadly danger condition arises the autonomic neurocluster pushes the main personality from the control of the body and takes over the control of the body, the autonomic neurocluster accomplishes defensive and/or lifesaving actions, and then returns the control of the body to the main personality. Most countries allow conditions that "affect the balance of the mind" to be regarded as mitigating circumstances. In many countries there is a common legal practice - if the forensic psychiatrists determine that the murder was done in the state of affect the man is considered not guilty and not responsible.

Many people believe that every man has his own “guardian angel” which protects and guides a man and which can save a man from a deadly danger. The underlying mechanism of the “guardian angel” is very simple. The “guardian angel” is the autonomic neurocluster which takes over the control of the body thus saving man’s life in the deadly danger situation.



The James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) is a non-profit organization founded in 1996 by magician and skeptic James Randi. In 1964, Randi began offering a prize of $US1000 to anyone who could demonstrate a supernatural or paranormal ability under agreed-upon scientific testing criteria. This prize has since been increased to $US1 million in bonds and is now administered by the JREF as the One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge. Since its inception, more than 1000 people have applied to be tested. To date no one has either been able to demonstrate their claimed abilities under the testing conditions or have not fulfilled the foundation conditions for taking the test; the prize money still remains to be claimed. The JREF also maintains a legal defense fund to assist persons who are attacked as a result of their investigations and criticism of people who make paranormal claims.

Randi Foundation has conducted tests of telepathy and made the conclusion that the telepathy does not exist. Yet there are millions of people who claim that telepathy is a real phenomenon. Millions of people who have personally experienced telepathic séances will never believe the claims of the skeptic scientists (like Randi Foundation) that the telepathy does not exist. Who is right and who is wrong? The answer is simple – both sides are wrong because both sides have no idea what is the underlying mechanism of the telepathy due to the ignorance of the brain physiology.

The underlying mechanism of the telepathy is the following. The behavior of any man is governed by a simple law – standard stimulus invokes standard reaction (for that particular man) and this reaction can be forecasted with high probability (for example with 90 % probability). As for example, if Marry will be asked to do the housecleaning there is 90 % probability that Marry will become hysterical and will not do the housecleaning, however if Peter will be asked to do the housecleaning there is 90 % probability that Peter will do the job without any salvos and put-offs, if Laura will be offered to eat a cake there is 90 % probability that Laura will happily eat all the cake, however if John will be offered to eat a cake there is 90 % probability that John will decline the offer, etc. Everybody has seen in their lives huge number of people whose reaction so some stimulus (phrase/action/etc) can be forecasted with almost 100 % probability – especially this is inherent to old age people who are very inclined to “replay the same tape” precisely word after word.

In the human brain for every real world object there is been created the model of that object and some neural cluster saves the data about that object and this neural cluster undertakes to do the modeling of that object. When a man gets acquainted with [Marry/Peter/Laura/John] then some neural cluster undertakes to do the modeling of [Marry/Peter/Laura/John]’s behavior. The more the man gets to know [Marry/Peter/Laura/John] the more exact and the more detailed becomes the model about [Marry/Peter/Laura/John] in the brain of the man. Usually the deepest relationships are between the family members (the mother and her child, brothers and sisters, etc) and for that reason the models of close family member are especially precise. As for example, the mother has helped her child to do the homework and then she goes to the shop for a food. The child, while waiting for the mother, suddenly starts wanting “mom, please buy the ice-cream”, and approximately at the same time, when the mother is still shopping, suddenly in mother’s brain the neurocluster which models her child tells the mother “please buy the ice-cream”, the mother hears that and buys the ice-cream. When the mother returns home with the ice-cream and when the mother discusses with her child the evens which had happened – they both will decide and will become strongly convinced that the thoughts were transmitted via distance (the telepathy event). However the reality is much simpler – the model of the child in the mother’s brain has pretty well forecasted and modeled the behavior of the child – both the real child and the model of the child – both simultaneously started wanting the ice-cream. I.e. the “telepathic connection” is the connection inside the brain of the same man – the neurocluster which models the behavior of person X sends the message to the main personality and main personality receives that message. The law which governs “telepathic connection” is very simple – “telepathic connection” can be successful only when very detailed model of another X person’s behavior is implanted in the man’s brain. And the “telepathic connection” will be complete failure if it will be used for transition of telepathic information between people who does not know each other. And for that reason all double-blind tests of telepathy which were done by skeptic scientists failed and skeptic scientists naively think that they have “proven that telepathy does not exists”, however millions of people use the “telepathy” successfully in their daily life and are strongly convinced in the existence of “telepathy”. The denial of the phenomenon is not the explanation of the existing phenomenon – and for that reason millions of people simply do not listen to the twaddle of skeptic scientists and these people keep studying occult books written by “spiritual gurus” and keep believing in mystical nature of the “telepathy”.

All “telepathic information transmission” cases are governed by the following law – the more the participants know each other – the stronger/better is the “telepathic connection” between them, i.e. the more detailed model about the telepathic séance partner is in the brain of the man – the more precise is the “telepathic connection”.

The same underlying mechanism is in the similar phenomenon when some people experience “telepathic séances” with various celebrities – usually with some TV star, movie star, singer, musician, etc. What is the underlying mechanism of such “telepathic séances”? It is very simple. Some teenage girl falls in love with some TV-star-musician which is broadcasted via TV almost every day and this girl begins collecting and reading various articles in magazines/newspapers/etc about her “lover-TV-star”, she begins collecting various fetishes (video and sound records, photo cards, etc) and she knows every single small detail of TV-star’s life even better than that TV-star knows about himself. As the result very detailed and precise model about TV-star is formed in the girl’s brain and the girl begins “telepathic communication séances” with that TV-star – séances usually happen in the nights during dreamtime, however séances may also happen during the full awareness state.



…. More detailed description is available at “Official Neurocluster Brain Model site” ….

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