rajesh p. n. rao and andrea stocco published the findings of a study in plos one, november 2014, volume 9, issue 11 entitled “A direct brain-to-brain interface in humans.” a summary of their pioneering work was presented in scientific american november 1, 2014. if readers are interested in the details of this study, i refer them to the article above. i shall present several excerpts from the summary article that show how neuroscientists are beginning to generate data that may at least partially explain how jesus knew the thoughts of others, that it was a real and true event as recorded in scripture.

“brain-computer interfaces (bci) rely on data-processing techniques to extract a person’s intention to move and then relay that information to the device he or she wishes to control. in 2010 one of us (rao) had a realization: perhaps we could use this same principle to beam thoughts from one human brain to another.

“the gist of our strategy was to use electrodes arranged on one person’s scalp to pick up brain waves (ON EEG’S) . . . . hidden in that neural hubbub are signals that indicate what a person is thinking. we would focus on extracting one such pattern and then send it over the internet to a second person. the signal would dictate how to electrically stimulate the recipient’s brain. . . . we would use one person’s brain data to produce a specific pattern of neural activity in another individual.

“once a computer decodes a neural mesSAGE, THE MAIN QUESTION BECOMES HOW TO DELIVER IT. . . . TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION (TMS) . . . RELIES ON PULSES OF A MAGNETIC FIELD TO INDUCE NEURONS IN A SPECIFIC AREA OF THE RECIPIENT’S BRAIN TO FIRE.”

DETAILS OF THE METHODOLOGY ARE PRESENTED IN THE SUMMARY. “THE SUDDEN RISE AND FALL OF A MAGNETIC FIELD INDUCES A TINY ELECTRIC CURRENT IN THE NEURONS . . . ENGULFED BY THAT FIELD, MAKING THEM MORE LIKELY TO FIRE. WHEN THEY DO, A CHAIN OF CONNECTED NEURONS ALSO ACTIVATES [AS DESCRIBED IN MY WRITINGS, BOTH BOOKS AND BLOGS].” THE ENCODED ELECTRIC SIGNAL OF INTENTION DETECTED IN THE EEG OF THE SENDER WAS PICKED UP AND TRANSMITTED VIA THE INTERNET TO THE RECIPIENT IN THIS STUDY, INDUCING VIA TMS AN INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT IN THE TARGETED PART OF AN EXTREMITY. THE AUTHORS STATED, “SUCCESS! FOR THE FIRST TIME, A HUMAN BRAIN HAD COMMUNICATED AN INTENTION DIRECTLY TO ANOTHER HUMAN BRAIN, ALLOWING THE TWO BRAINS TO JOINTLY COMPLETE A TASK. . . . WE HAVE NOW REPLICATED OUR FINDINGS WITH SEVERAL OTHER PAIRS OF HUMANS. . . . WHENEVER AN INTENTION WAS CORRECTLY DETECTED BY THE EEG SYSTEM (IN THE SENDER), THE INFORMATION WAS COMMUNICATED DIRECTLY TO THE RECEIVER’S BRAIN USING TMS. . . . OUR NEXT SET OF EXPERIMENTS WILL EXPLORE TARGETING OTHER BRAIN REGIONS TO PRODUCE A CONSCIOUS THOUGHT.”

THIS STUDY IS A PROOF OF CONCEPT. I APOLOGIZE FOR THE LENGTH OF THIS POST, BUT I WANTED TO PROVIDE A REASONABLE SAMPLE OF THE STUDY’S FINDINGS, SHOWING CONCORDANCE BETWEEN NEUROSCIENCE AND SCRIPTURE. I WILL NOW POST SEVERAL MORE BLOGS THAT DEAL WITH OUR BIDIRECTIONAL COMMUNION WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT, AGAIN SHOWING SUCH CONCORDANCE.

that we may be learning how we hear our thoughts is interesting, but perhaps neuroscientists are getting close to understanding how jesus knew the thoughts of those around him. the issue is how the waves that transmit specified information within the human brain/synaptic networks are transmitted to other neural networks. stay tuned. more information that deals with this issue is forthcoming.

Patrick Suppes and coworkers at the University of Southern California authored an article in 1997 entitled “Brain Wave Recognition of Words.” In many of my previous blog posts I have shared that cognition generates wave forms that transmit specified information through synaptic networks that the immaterial mind interprets. This article provides some early confirmation of this activity whereby the mind interacts with the material synaptic networks.

The methodology of these investigators involved recording electrical and magnetic brain waves of subjects “for the purpose of recognizing which one of seven words was processed.” Their results showed “that brain waves carry substantial information about the word being processed under experimental conditions of conscious awareness. . . . the relevant cognitive processing uses in an essential way time-varying populations of neurons.”

In my more recent blogs I have shared that linguistic, specified information is instantiated within wave forms transmitted by spike trains of action potentials with amplitude, frequency and shape and facilitated by quantum tunneling across synapses. It is a most complex process which is being increasingly documented by neuroscientists who are open to the interpretation of dualist interaction.

Moro makes the following comments at the end of his article:

“The very fact that the majority of human communication takes place via waves may not be a casual fact; after all, waves constitute the purest system of communication since they transfer information from one entity to the other without changing the structure or the composition of the two entities. They travel through us and leave us intact, but they allow us to interpret the message [by the immaterial mind] borne by their momentary [linguistically encoded] vibrations. . . .”

The author shares a very interesting finding in his article:

“. . . we found that the shape of the electric waves recorded in a non-acoustic area of the brain when linguistic expressions are being read silently preserves the same structure as those of the mechanical sound waves of air that would have been produced if those words had actually been uttered. The two families of waves where language lives physically are then closely related - so closely in fact that the two overlap independently of the presence of sound. The acoustic information . . . is part of the [neural] code from the beginning. . . . “

Perhaps this researcher is finding how we hear our thoughts! Perhaps this also applies to our hearing from the indwelling Holy Spirit via linguistic neural codes transmitted through our synaptic networks.

addendum

that we may be learning how we hear our thoughts is interesting, but perhaps neuroscientists are getting close to understanding how jesus knew the thoughts of those around him. the issue is how the waves that transmit specified information within the human brain/synaptic networks are transmitted to other neural networks. stay tuned. more information that deals with this issue is forthcoming.

Andrea Moro has an article in The MIT Press Reader dated 9/6/22 entitled “What Is the Sound of Thought.” He makes very interesting comments which I will share in the next few blog posts. He addresses the “reading [of] linguistic thought directly from the brain.” He asks, “Why do we include the sounds of words in our thoughts when we think without speaking?”

Moro asks what language is made of. “When it lives outside our brain, it consists of mechanical, acoustic waves of compressed and rarefied molecules of air (i.e., sound); when it exists inside our brain, it consists of [encoded] electric waves that are the channel of communication for neurons. Waves: In either case, this is the concrete stuff of which language is physically made.” . . . This complex system translates the acoustic signal’s mechanical vibrations into electric impulses in a very sophisticated way, decomposing the complex sound waves into the basic [encoded] frequencies that characterize them. The different frequencies are then mapped onto dedicated slots in the primary auditory cortex, at which point the sound waves are replaced by [encoded] electric waves [transmitted via the process of quantum tunneling that has been explained in previous blog posts and in my books and ultimately interpreted by the immaterial cognitive mind].”

from a google search i found Bible scriptures indicating that Jesus knew people's thoughts or intentions. they include Matthew 9:4 and Matthew 12:25, where He directly addresses the thoughts of the scribes and Pharisees. In Luke 5:22-23, Jesus perceives the reasonings of the religious leaders and speaks to their unspoken questions. Furthermore, John 2:24-25 states that Jesus knew what was in people and did not entrust Himself to them because of this complete knowledge. 

Here are some specific passages:

• Matthew 9:4:

  "But Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts?”" 

• Matthew 12:25:

  "Jesus knew what the Pharisees were thinking. So he said to them, “Every kingdom that is fighting against itself will be destroyed..." 

• Luke 5:22-23:

  "But Jesus, perceiving their reasonings, answered and said to them, “Why are you reasoning in your hearts? Which is easier: to say, 'Your sins have been forgiven,' or to say, 'Get up and walk'?" 

• John 2:24-25:

  "But Jesus did not entrust himself to them, because he knew them all, and needed no one to bear witness about man, for he himself knew what was in man". 

• Matthew 12:34:

  "Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks". This verse, while spoken by Jesus, shows His understanding of the inner intentions that lead to outward speech, and He often confronts people with the inner thoughts behind their words or questions. 

my blog posts are now returning to the process of mind-to-mind communication, specifically how the mind of god communes with the mind of humans and how human-to-human communion occurs. i have emphasized in my earlier writings the role the neural synaptic network is involved in this process. my latest blogs have also considered communion in near-death experiences wherein synaptic transmission is not known to be applicable. this is a most complex topic drawing upon recent advances in understanding from the neurosciences.

in my next blog post i shall identify several scriptures from the bible that testify to jesus’ knowing the thoughts of people. it serves as an introduction to the reality of this process, even in our times.

i am concluding the gathered posts from my over 600 blogs addressing the Holy Spirit. it is my hope that readers have derived benefit from learning what i have learned and shared. i am resuming posts that deal with my research. thank you.

Pinkham, Wesley M. and Gruenberg, Jeremiah, Relational Christianity: A Remarkable Vision of God, Wipf & Stock, Eugene, Oregon, 2022

God created Man to have a personal communion with Him, a dual, bidirectional interaction between the Mind of God and the mind of Man.  The Creator God is triune, comprised of Father, Son and Holy Spirit.  It is a tripartite communion based in Love.  God created mankind with spirit, soul and body, and love was to guide mankind’s interrelationships as well as with the Creator.  But the relationship was lost in sin, so that Man lost an indwelling communion with the Spirit of God, manifesting thereby a spiritual death.  By the grace and love of God through His sinless Son, Jesus Christ, Jesus became a sin sacrifice for all mankind for all time.  By his resurrection through the power of the Holy Spirit victory over spiritual death was provided to those who repented and accepted the Truth of the Gospel in faith.  The Spirit of God was sent to believers through the resurrected Son who lives at the right hand of the Father.  What then is the nature of the restored relationship between the triune God and believers?  Doctors Pinkham and Gruenberg eloquently address this question in their book, Relational Christianity: A Remarkable Vision of God. 

As Love defines the triunity of God, so also is the relationship intended between God and believers and between believers in the church.  The authors characterize this relationship as holistic, consisting of an interpersonal Oneness between the triune God and believers.  It is a relational Oneness that gives believers identity as Sons of God and the Father as abba. It is a “kenotic” relationship exhibited by the life and ministry of Jesus who emptied himself, revealing the Trinitarian priority of Oneness over individualism.  Likewise, believers should emulate Jesus’ Oneness with the Father and the Holy Spirit, having the Spirit as an indwelling sent as Jesus promised at Pentecost.  Believers are to live a servanthood lifestyle in the name of Jesus Christ.  As Jesus fully depended upon the Father during his life and ministry on Earth, so also are believers to depend upon the indwelling Holy Spirit as their Counselor and Helper, a relationship for all members of the church. 

The authors decried the reality that much teaching in the church today is binitarian rather than trinitarian.  The Holy Spirit is neglected though fundamental to Christian orthodoxy.  Drs. Pinkham and Gruenberg successfully explain how the “kenotic” relationship should be nurtured in the church, so that God’s Holy Spirit indwells believers and governs their lives as was the life of Jesus Christ during his ministry on Earth.

Thanks to advances in the technology of the neurosciences we are beginning to understand the reality and mechanism of the personal interaction between the Mind of God and the mind of Man.  It is a causal interaction between the immaterial Mind of God and mind of Man through the material synaptic networks of the human brain.  God does commune with Man in our time in fulfillment of His plan since the creation of Adam, a communion lost at the Fall but restored by the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ for all mankind.

I heartily recommend this book.  It is a must read for Christian believers so that the relationship with our triune Creator and Lord is fulfilled.

i draw the reader’s attention to romans 8:1-17 which speaks to the comments i shared in my last blog post about our direct access to the “most holy place” made possible by the sin sacrifice of the living jesus christ.

for what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature, god did by sending his own son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering. and so he condemned sin in sinful man, in order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the [holy] spirit.

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 [human] 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. (romans 8;3-4: 9-11)

we have direct communion with the holy spirit, sent by jesus from the father at pentecost and on to the present day. it is a dual interaction made possible by god’s created neural synaptic networks which i trust have been compellingly explained in my writings.