For more than 20 years I have been studying interaction between the Holy Spirit and the human spirit and soul (mind, will and emotion), the neural synaptic network serving as the model for my investigations. I have shared what I have learned in my books and blogs, posting what I hope is compelling evidence for the dualist interaction that occurs between the immaterial Holy Spirit of God and the spirit and soul of Man through the material components of the neural synaptic networks.
Many posts have been made showing how wave forms interact with the spike trains of action potentials in neural synaptic networks. By this process specified information with meaning and purpose is transmitted via neural codes instantiated within the wave forms. Both electrochemical energy and a proposed non-material energy provide the power for this transmission. Neuroscientists are at work to uncover the mechanisms by which transmission occurs, mechanisms that go unseen except by application of the most current technological tools. It is exciting and challenging work, with promise for people having impaired sensory and motor functions. Might Hebrews 11:1-3 (NIV) apply?
Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.
I have endeavored to show the concordance that is becoming evident between Scripture and neuroscience in dualist interaction between the Holy Spirit and the human spirit and soul and neural mechanisms. I am reminded of verses in the Book of Romans that apply to the mechanisms being revealed in this interaction. The Apostle Paul spoke to life in the Spirit in Romans 8: 9-11; 15-16 (NIV):
You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ. But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness. And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you. . . . For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we cry, ‘Abba, Father.’ The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.