Plato and Socrates: Reading will produce people who are not wise, but only appear wise

Plato and Socrates: Reading will produce people who are not wise, but only appear wise

In Phaedrus (370 BCE), Plato details a discussion between Socrates and Phaedrus about the Egyptian myth of Thoth (Theuth), the god of the underworld who is credited with “number and calculation, geometry and astronomy, as well as the games of draughts and dice, and above all else, writing” (Phaedrus, 274d).

Now the king of all Egypt at that time was Thamus, who lived in the great city of the upper region, which the Greeks call the Egyptian Thebes, and they call the god himself Ammon. To him came Thoth to show his inventions, saying that they ought to be imparted to the other Egyptians.

Thamus, the King of the great city of the upper region, which the Greeks call the Egyptian Thebes, and they call the god himself Ammon. He had visited Thoth pleading with him to disseminate the various learning arts around Egypt. As Thoth made his presentations, Thamus would either praise or offer his criticisms.

When it came to the art of writing, Thoth told the King:

“O King, here is something that, once learned, will make the Egyptians wiser and will improve their memory; I have discovered an elixir for memory and for wisdom.” (Phaedrus, 274e)

Thoth claims that writing will allow humans to record and then recall their thoughts and thus help with their memories, but Thamus disagrees. The King believes Thoth’s love of writing had kept him from acknowledging the truth that writing would increase forgetfulness rather than improve memory.

Instead of understanding and experiencing things to create experiential knowledge, people would instead rely on reading and writing to learn a subject. In doing so, students would learn a great many subjects without properly thinking about them.

Hence, they may have the “appearance of wisdom” but “for the most part they will know nothing” (Phaedrus, 275a-b).

Thamus said;

“Most ingenious Thoth, one man has the ability to beget arts, but the ability to judge of their usefulness or harmfulness to their users belongs to another;  and now you, who are the father of letters, have been led by your affection to ascribe to them a power the opposite of that which they really possess.

“For this invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them.

You have invented an elixir not of memory, but of reminding; and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom, for they will read many things without instruction and will therefore seem to know many things, when they are for the most part ignorant and hard to get along with, since they are not wise, but only appear wise.”

Socrates emphasizes this point by stating that writing alone has no understanding of itself and “continues to signify just the same thing forever” (Phaedrus, 275d-e). He instead favored discourse and conversation in the form of discourse and dialect.

What Socrates means by this is that a true philosopher’s knowledge and ideas are not to be set in stone as rigid dogmas that cannot be modified or changed with the introduction of new or contradicting information.

They must always be open to viewing issues from multiple perspectives and to arrive at the most reasonable conclusion based on truth rather than selfish motives or egotistical aims.

For Socrates, true knowledge was like the seed of a flower that continues to grow allowing for more information to be added or discarded.

By continuing a dialect and discourse with the original planters, i.e., adding new knowledge about a subject or philosophy, it becomes more beautiful and perfect and thus continues to grow becoming immortal.

Socrates had said:

“The dialectician chooses a proper soul and plants and sows within it discourse accompanied by knowledge—discourse capable of helping itself as well as the man who planted it, which is not barren but produces a seed from which more discourse grows. Such discourse makes the seed forever immortal and renders the man who has it as happy as any human being can be.” (277a)

When we study the dialectical method, we find that this can be applied to the discourse a philosopher or researcher must partake in to find truth.

This can happen in different eras or thousands of years apart between the originator of the idea or philosophy and two or more people holding different points of view about a subject but wishing to hash out the difference of opinions or facts using a scientific method of logic and reason to establish the ultimate truth.

A thinking layer of knowledge and information that is introduced into human civilization as an idea that becomes our programming code based upon how many people accept, propagate, dialect, discourse, and expand upon the idea to the point it forms our reality.

This explanation of how ideas and knowledge become immortal is how I contend that the Noosphere or World Soul is formed.

This debate that Plato puts forth between Thoth and the King of Egypt is fascinating because if we fast forward to our modern era, a 1986 study had shown that the most successful readers must first decode what they read to truly comprehend the subject.

It is called the theory of the Simple View of Reading, which defines the skills that contribute to an individual’s reading comprehension as the product of their decoding skill and language comprehension (Gough & Tunmer,1986).

Meaning, that in order to learn and know a certain subject, you cannot just tread something, you must learn to recognize and interpret information to discover the underlying meaning and to explain it in a comprehensible form.

Meaning that reading and memorizing will not equate to true understanding and wisdom.

A person must think deeply about what they read in order to understand.

Almost two decades later, a new improved theory was put forth that had shown that there are many more skills a person must have to truly decode information and to be called an accurate researcher and or expert on any given subject.

In 2001, Dr. Hollis Scarborough, a psychologist, advanced this theory further by showing that true understanding, skill, and wisdom are attained through several different skill sets that must be used for the decoding and comprehension of knowledge and word recognition.

She used a “reading rope” model depicting a rope with its different strands to demonstrate the skills a reader needs to come to a true understanding or wisdom on a subject.

The strands of the rope show the different elements of language necessary for true comprehension (the top five strands), which bind to the three essential skills (the bottom three strands) of word recognition to form a strong rope.

If one strand is weak or if the strands are not interwoven tightly in increasingly strategic and automatic ways, then the reader cannot truly become wise.

The lower strands include:

Phonological awareness
Decoding
Alphabetic principle
Letter-sound correspondences
Sight recognition

The upper strands include:

Background knowledge
Vocabulary
Language structures
Verbal reasoning
Literacy knowledge

Therefore, attaining knowledge and becoming wise does not just involve reading about a subject, it also entails intensive thought processes from different points of view and through our own experiences, and our own capacities.

It is the quality of our thoughts in combination of who you are, what we read, and converting this knowledge (information, facts, associations etc. ) to wisdom (outcomes, philosophies etc.) is how someone truly becomes wise.

But we must remain humble in our ways and cannot become a know it all or the guru who ignorantly thinks he as all the answers. As Socrates once said:

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”

A true philosopher must also always be open to discourse and dialect with other people and researchers who many will have different ideas and opinions if we truly want to arrive at truth.

Otherwise, we are living on the fumes from the bowels of the dogmatic lies written and read by mortal automatons hell bent on storming heaven to invert and control reality for their selfish gain.

SOURCES:

Phaedrus

Gough, Philip B., and William E. Tunmer. “Decoding, Readability, and Reading Disability.” Remedial and Special Education, 7(1), Jan/Feb 1986, pp. 6–10.

Scarborough, Hollis S. “Connecting Early Language and Literacy to Later Reading (Dis)Abilities: Evidence, Theory, and Practice.” Handbook of Early Literacy Research, edited by Susan B. Neuman and David K. Dickinson, Guilford Press, 2001, pp. 97–110.

https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1191985.pdf

Scarborough’s Reading Rope: A Groundbreaking Infographic

The Symbol of the Tau Cross Preserved in Masonry

The Symbol of the Tau Cross Preserved in Masonry

Concealed within the teachings of Freemasonry are some of the most important ancient symbols known to mankind. A hidden science that Masons around the globe have preserved for many centuries until the modern era.

As Albert G. Mackey once wrote, “To study the symbolism of Masonry is the only way to investigate its philosophy. This is the portal of its temple, through which alone we can gain access to the sacellum where its aporrheta are concealed.

Its philosophy is engaged in the consideration of propositions relating to God and man, to the present and the future life. Its science is the symbolism by which these propositions are presented to the mind.”

One of these symbols in Masonry is called the T Square that we also know of today in many religions as the Tau cross.

For thousands of years, it was one of the most esteemed and important symbols in all of the world.

To the Ancient Egyptians, we find it in the holy life-giving Ankh, as the symbol of life.

The Ancient Egyptian Ankh, or Tau Cross is a symbol of divinity (Harding). To Freemasons, it symbolizes the Man’s triumph of his spiritual nature (human, angelic, godlike)  over his physical (animal, beast, demonic) nature.

The Tau Cross is a symbol for the power of life and consciousness often associated with the Old Testament and the ancient Phoenician Hebrews, Egyptian Israelites, and the Greeks who propagated the Tau around the world.

According to Manly Hall 33°, the Tau is the oldest form of the cross and may have originated with the Egyptians.

From ancient times, the act of inscribing the mark of the Tau upon one’s forehead has been observed in many places around the world. The Tau was a sign on the foreheads of people accused of crimes, the Tau meant they been acquitted of those charges. Hence, we see the Tau employed as a symbol of liberation (Hall 569).

For example, the Druids who I have connected to the Phoenicians, AKA Hebrews used the Tau cross as a representation of the planet Jupiter, their chief deity (Mackey).

The Kabalists also use the Tau cross to represent what they call the perfect number, the number “10,” which is in reference to the Pythagorean Tetractys and the ineffable name of the deity (Pike).

In Phoenician cosmogony, the Ankh becomes the Hebrew תָּו‎ tav, tau, or taw, the last letter of the alphabet. The tau is one of the most ancient symbols in Judaism and Christianity.

It is the cross that The Prophet Ezekiel speaks of as the mark distinguishing those who were to be saved from the damned in Jerusalem.

The tau is much different than the modern Christian or Latin cross, which is the ensign of warfare and symbol of death modeled after the Greek theta representing the New Testament.

According to Manly P. Hall, the Tau cross was a symbol of Light and Grand Emblem of Royal Masonry. Hall wrote;

“The TAU cross is preserved to modern Masonry under the symbol of the T square.

This appears to be the oldest form of the cross extant. To the Rosicrucians, Alchemists, and Illuminati, the cross was the symbol of light, because each of the three letters L V X is derived from some part of the cross.”

The Knight of the Brazen Serpent, which is the 25th Degree of the Scottish Rite (Council of Kadosh) preserves some of the secrets of the Egyptian Crux Ansata of the Phoenician and Greek Tau Cross.

Freemasonic author, Rex R. Hutchens, 33° discusses the meaning of the symbols and words contained in this degree.

“The jewel is a Tau cross, of gold, surmounted by a circle – the Crux Ansata of Egypt – round which a serpent is entwined. On the upright part of the cross is engraved the Hebrew word meaning ‘he has suffered’ or ‘been wounded’, and on the arms the Hebrew word given in the Bible for the brazen serpent, ‘Nakhustan’.”

Manly Hall further stated that it was used in the Royal Arch Degree as the true name of God. Hall said;

“In Freemasonry, the triple tau is used in the Royal Arch Degree as a mark designating and separating those who know and worship the true name of God from those who are ignorant.

It is placed in the center of a Triangle and Circle and is so highly esteemed as to be called the “emblem of all emblems,” and “the grand emblem of Royal Arch Masonry.”

According to Albert Pike 33°, the Masonic symbolism of the triple tau in the center of a circle and a triangle signifies the great lights of Masonry. Pike wrote;

“The triple Tau, in the center of a circle and a triangle, typifies the Sacred Name; and represents the Sacred Triad, the Creating, Preserving, and Destroying Powers; as well as the three great lights of Masonry.

If to the Masonic point within a Circle, and the two parallel lines, we add the single Tau Cross, we have the Ancient Egyptian Triple Tau.”

Pike further stated:

“This Tau was in the form of the cross of this degree, and it was the emblem of life and salvation. The Samaritan Tau and the Ethiopic Tavvi are the evident prototype of the Greek r; and we learn from Tertullian, Origen, and St. Jerome, that the Hebrew Tau was anciently written in the form of a Cross.

In ancient times the mark Tau was set on those who had been acquitted by their judges, as a symbol of innocence. The military commanders placed it on soldiers who escaped unhurt from the field of battle, as a sign of their safety under the Divine Protection.

It was a sacred symbol among the Druids. Divesting a tree of part of its branches, they left it in the shape of a Tau Cross, preserved it carefully, and consecrated it with solemn ceremonies.

On the tree they cut deeply the word Thau, by which they meant God. On the right arm of the Cross, they inscribed the word Hesuls, on the left Belen or Belenus, and on the middle of the trunk Tharamis. This represented the sacred Triad.”

SOURCES:

Albert Gallatin Mackey – An Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry and Its Kindred Sciences

Manly P. Hall – The Secret Teachings of All Ages

Rex R. Hutchens – A Bridge to Light” by Ill

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma

Cesare Ripa – Nova Iconologia (Padua: 1618) Ordini dritto e giusto, “Ordered Right and Just”

The God Thoth: The Sacred Brain Science of the Ancient Egyptians

The God Thoth: The Sacred Brain Science of the Ancient Egyptians

Thoth (Taut, Taautus, Theuth) is the Egyptian creation god of thought, knowledge, writing, math, the sciences, magic, messenger, and exclusive patron of scribes.

His stories detail a pearl of hidden scientific wisdom about human behavior and the biology and neurobiology that the Ancient Egyptians had mastered thousands of years ago.

A science that I contend we carry on as their inheritors until this very day.

The veneration and the importance of Thoth are among the longest of any god(s) in Egypt or any deity from any civilization lasting approximately 6,000 plus years. The kings of Egypt would style their royal names after this god such as the many Pharaohs called Tuthmoses – “Born of Thoth”, as well as their scribes, and priests.

In religious art, Thoth is often depicted as a man with the head of a baboon or ibis, which lays the cosmic egg that holds all of creation representing an equilibrium between order and chaos. In some stories, he is closely associated with being born “from the lips of Ra” at the beginning of creation as the embodiment of divine order and justice.

According to Egyptian myth, Thoth was self-created and was known as the “god without a mother” or “born of the seed of Horus or from the forehead of Set.” Another tells us that Set brought forth a gold disk from his forehead, which Thoth seized and placed on his own head as an ornament.

These descriptions interest me as it relates to my research on the human neurological system, the brain, and hidden biological aspects of human behavior.

These ancient stories appear to be exoteric representations of a secret science that the Egyptians mastered with the tools they had at the time that we know today as neurobiology – the study of the nervous system and the brain.

For example, the story of how Thoth was birthed from Set’s forehead and his attributes involve the brain such as critical thinking and putting in the work of writing and inventing.

In other versions, he acts as a mediator in the struggle between the gods like the battle between Horus and Set, which allude to the different functions of the left vs right brain.

As the record keeper of the gods and a judge of human affairs, Thoth seemed to be involved in the memory process as he kept account of the days of human beings. He is regularly depicted in a number of images keeping track of the days as a scribe at the side of Osiris and Anubis in the Hall of Truth as he records the outcome of the weighing of the heart against the feather of truth.

In every story, Thoth seeks equilibrium. He always stands in the middle ground to make sure the contest of the Gods will be fair.

As Egyptian Scholar Richard H. Wilkinson comments:

“In vignettes of the Book of the Dead, Thoth stands before the scales which weigh the heart of the deceased and record the verdict. This role gave Thoth a reputation for truth and integrity and is seen in the common assertion that a person had conducted his life in a manner “straight and true like Thoth”.

As if Thoth represents thought, logic, and reason to make sure that when you do think, all knowledge attained is assessed equally for true comprehension so that none will gain an advantage over the other.

His wife was Ma’at, also spelled Maat and Mayet who was the personification of truth, justice, and the cosmic order. The female Goddess of Justice and the Lower World, the Land of Ghosts, was called Maat (Mot, Mout, or Mut).

She was often depicted with a vulture headdress and sometimes a Lion’s head. In legends, she is “The opener of the nostrils of the living.”

Maat was one of the gods created when the sun god Ra emerged from the chaotic and primordial waters of Nun at the beginning of time filling the entire universe with Maat. However, with the fall of mankind, disorder, evil, and chaos entered the universe in the form of Isfet.

Ma’at gave the gods the ability to breathe air and the bringer of a good afterlife to peaceful and law-abiding people, but death to violent and evil people.

Thoth is also known as the “Lord of Ma’at”, “Lord of Divine Words”, and “Scribe of Ma’at in the Company of the Gods”.

As if Thoth was the mind or thinking apparatus for humans, while Ma’at acted as the guard or executing angel issuing neurological judgments and biological justice in the form of our brain and body health or lack thereof.

We find Thoth in the Phoenician Cadmus, the inventor of the alphabet, writing, and letters who gave these skills to the Greeks. He is the purported founder and the first king of Boeotian Thebes and Ancient Greece’s first hero.

Taautus is also the name of a god from Byblos, who invented the alphabet, and became synonymous with the Greek Hermes or Hermes Trismegistus, also spelled Hermes Trismegistos.

Interestingly, we can also find that Thoth is intimately connected to the life-giving Ankh, the symbol of life, and the holiest symbol in Egyptian religion.

In the Phoenician cosmogony, Thoth also becomes Taautus and the Ankh later from Middle English tau, taue, from Latin tau, from Ancient Greek ταῦ (taû) and Hebrew תָּו‎ (tav, tau or taw).

The tau just so happens to be one of the most important and holiest symbols of Judaism and Christianity and one of the most ancient symbols known to the Church.

It is the cross that The Prophet Ezekiel speaks of as the mark distinguishing those who were to be saved from the damned in Jerusalem.

We also are told that Jesus, a 33-year-old wise man from the land of Judea (Idumea, Crete) was brought to Golgatha, also known as the “Place of a Skull” and crucified upon a Tau cross with two others, one on each side, with Jesus in the middle.

Miraculously, after the crucifixion upon the tau, Jesus is resurrected.

The original Phoenician (Hebrew) meaning of resurrect or resurrection is ‘raising up, rising up’ or ‘to cause to stand or rise up; to raise from sleep or the dead.

I contend that this act of raising up as told in the story of Jesus is akin to a person becoming awakened or enlightened.

As if they had been woken from a sleep-like state where they were in medical terms, mentally dead. Meaning, they were not really using their full brain faculties to acquire knowledge (gnosis).

In other words, by the power of the Egyptian God Thoth and his Tau cross, the Greek Hermes, the Christian Jesus at the Place of the Skull, or just plain good thoughts in your head that lead to good actions and lives – people can be saved and find salvation.

It doesn’t matter if you are an Egyptian, Phoenician, Greek, Jew, Christian or Muslim – Salvation can be had by anyone, but not everyone can attain it.

The God Thoth represents the ancient Egyptian concept of the power of thought and secrets of wisdom in which the tau is an ancient symbol of the mysteries of consciousness and life.

A mystery that I hope to someday prove is associated with the science of thought, knowledge, wisdom, mental health, and memory.

The Memory Stealers: How fungi (molds) steal a person’s memories

The Memory Stealers: How fungi (molds) steal a person’s memories

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive brain disorder that destroys memory and thinking skills, ultimately causing an inability to perform even simple tasks. It also causes a significant slowdown in a person’s brainwave frequency activity to the point they could be medically described as living in a permanent sleep-like state.

In addition, people with this disease experience atrophy of the brain, which simply means that it is decaying or wasting away. (1) Hence, the old adage, use it or lose it applies to not only brain function, but whether you will have use of your mind, cognition, and memories as you age.

 

The same thing occurs to your muscles which is medically described as the wasting (thinning) or loss of muscle tissue. The main cause of atrophy is lack of physical activity or disuse (physiologic) of muscles occurs when you don’t use them enough.

As it related to atrophy of the brain, this is what I contend is one of the main causes of dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease worldwide. I believe this wasting away is the result of not actively using your brain on a regular basis to process and learn new information.

The resulting effects of this atrophy allow our microbiome and in particular, fungi to commandeer our cells, neurons, and central nervous system via our gastrointestinal tracts to induce a loss of consciousness or a sleep-like waking state.

As if we have biological laws programmed into our genes that supersede all human-made legal systems and structures that determine our fates. One of these ancient legal codes for not using our brains is to have them slowly eaten from within and wiped clean of all memories attained in this life.

What better and more sinister way than to have the very microbes within our body, blood, and organs be the very legislators of all life?

As it is related to dementia and Alzheimer’s, it is the fungi working within their central nervous system and brains that is turning off certain normal autonomous functions to make them sleep while they are awake in a covert biological attempt to control their minds as it steals their memories.

For example, a 2012 study found that fungal pathogens within the gut microbiota, which are normally well tolerated, may disseminate via the circulation to other sites including the brain leading to a systemic fungal infection, resulting in significant pathology and mortality (Brown et al., 2012).

Several studies have shown that the autopsied brains of Alzheimer’s patients reveal that they are infected with often multiple types of fungi (molds).

Fungal infections have also been widely observed in their blood vessels, which may explain why people who have Alzheimer’s also suffer from vascular pathology.

This is interesting given the fact that it appears to be a memory stealer and brain eater. It makes sense then that fungi may be the culprit responsible for this mind-decaying disease.

But this knowledge has been known by scientists for well over one hundred years.

In 1910, Czech psychiatrist, and an expert on dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, Oskar Fischer, proposed that these diseases were caused by foreign bodies in the brain, most likely fungi, which provoked inflammation and amyloid plaques (see Eikelenboom et al., 2006; Goedert, 2009; Mar 2009 conference news).

In his 1907 paper, Alzheimer described the presence of plaques and tangles in one case of presenile dementia, whereas Fischer described neuritic plaques in 12 cases of senile dementia. These were landmark findings in the history of research in dementia because they delineated the clinicopathological entity that is now known as Alzheimer’s disease.

in 2014, compelling evidence for the existence of fungal proteins in brain samples from Alzheimer’s disease patients. The study titled, “Fungal infection in patients with Alzheimer’s disease,” stated “a variety of fungal species in these samples, dependent on the patient and the tissue tested.

DNA sequencing demonstrated that several fungal species could be found in brain samples. Together, these results show that fungal macromolecules can be detected in the brains of Alzheimer’s disease patients. To our knowledge, these findings represent the first evidence that fungal infection is detectable in brain samples from Alzheimer’s disease patients.” (2)

A 2015 study titled, “Different Brain Regions are Infected with Fungi in Alzheimer’s Disease (AD),” showed the possibility that AD is a fungal disease, or that fungal infection is a risk factor for the disease. The researchers provided evidence in the study that tissue from the central nervous system (CNS) of AD patients contained fungal cells and hyphae.

According to the researchers, “Different brain regions including external frontal cortex, cerebellar hemisphere, entorhinal cortex/hippocampus and choroid plexus contain fungal material, which is absent in brain tissue from control individuals. Analysis of brain sections from ten additional AD patients reveals that all are infected with fungi.

Eleven patients (plus three additional CP samples) were described in this study, as well as in four patients previously analyzed, there is clear evidence for fungal cells inside neurons or extracellularly.

Therefore, 100% of the AD patients analyzed thus far by our laboratory presented fungal cells and fungal material in brain sections.

Moreover, fungal macromolecules (polysaccharides, proteins and DNA) have been found in blood serum from AD patients, and fungal proteins and DNA were detected by proteomic analyses and PCR, respectively, from frozen tissue of AD brain.

Collectively, our findings provide compelling evidence for the existence of fungal infection in the CNS from AD patients, but not in control individuals. (3)

A 2003 study titled, “How a Slime Mold Came to the Aid of Alzheimer’s Research,” details how a structure called a “Hirano body” found in a slime mold is present in increased amounts in Alzheimer’s patients.

It is mostly present in the brain’s major site of learning and memory, the hippocampus.

The study reports, “What causes neurodegenerative diseases like the most common early symptom of Alzheimer’s which is difficulty remembering newly learned information because Alzheimer’s changes typically begin in the part of the brain that affects learning, is still largely unknown, but something destroys nerve cells in the brain over a period of time as victims gradually lose their minds.”

Numerous studies suggest that the accumulation of beta-amyloid peptides (betaAP) plays a central role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease. It is well established that betaAP has a wide range of toxic effects on neurons and we can connect their production in the human body to fungi.

The amyloid-beta precursor protein is an important example. It is a large membrane protein that normally plays an essential role in neural growth and repair. However, later in life, a corrupted form can destroy nerve cells, leading to the loss of thought and memory.

Scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine have shown how the disease is strongly correlated with the overproduction and accumulation of amyloid-β peptide, which begins destroying synapses before it clumps into plaques that lead to nerve cell death.

A 2009 study found that the amyloid-β peptide induced depolarization of skeletal muscle plasma membranes can significantly disturb the functioning of skeletal muscles and therefore contribute to motor dysfunction observed in Alzheimer’s disease and other disorders associated with βAP accumulation.

Depolarization causes the rapid change in membrane potential from a negative to a positive state. The process of depolarization begins with a stimulus like fungi.

Brainwave activity is related to oscillatory activity at different frequencies ranging from 2–4 Hz (delta), 4–8 Hz (theta), 8–13 Hz (alpha), 13–30 Hz (beta), and >30 Hz (gamma). These frequencies transmit certain physiological information on the brain’s functional state during wake and sleep cycles.

The EEG findings of patients with Alzheimer’s disease show a slowing of alpha activity and an increase in slow-frequency activity

A few studies have shown a significant increase in delta and theta power in conjunction with a decrease in alpha and beta power over a period of two years from diagnosis of dementia. In another study, significant increases in delta and theta were found with a decrease in beta, alpha, and mean frequency.

The awakened state is medically described as being in the alpha frequency, which is mainly related to a person’s global attentional readiness. Alpha rhythms represent the dominant resting oscillations of an awakened human brain and have been linked to intelligent quotient, memory, and cognition. (5)

SOURCES:

1. Electroencephalographic Rhythms in Alzheimer’s Disease

2. PubMed: Fungal infection in patients with Alzheimer’s disease

3. PubMed: Different Brain Regions are Infected with Fungi in Alzheimer’s Disease

4. PubMed: Different Brain Regions are Infected with Fungi in Alzheimer’s Disease

5. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3100729/

Mold People: Learn how fungi (molds) can take over a person’s mind and body

Mold People: Learn how fungi (molds) can take over a person’s mind and body

New research has revealed how fungi/molds can become lodged in our blood vessels, restricting blood flow as it blocks the blood supply to our brains.

These microbes start corrupting our immune system and biological autonomous processes as they rapidly multiply in what appears to be an attempt to commandeer the central nervous system to control our minds.

Not only can fungi block the blood flow to our brains, but they can also grow in the small blood vessels causing them to stretch, form clots, and explode.

Blood flow is very important when it comes to IQ because research has shown that a lack of blood flow to the brain has been associated with less intelligence and having an adequate amount of blood flow has been proven to increase intelligence.

Altered cerebral blood flow (CBF), which means less blood flow to the brain has been proven to lower IQ and cause severe mental disabilities, psychosis, and chronic schizophrenia (SCZ).

Studies have shown that fungi are extremely polarized organisms that constantly produce internal electrical currents and fields that are generated by hyphae. Its growth requires a constant supply of proteins and lipids to the hyphal tip.

Researchers have proven that the individual hyphae of the filamentous fungi constantly perform cellular “monologue” and cell-to-cell dialog using signal oscillations to acquire or magnetically attract the nutrients it requires to grow and thrive within the host.

For example, studies have found how psilocybin reduces low frequency oscillatory power in users brains, increases overall firing rates and desynchronizes local neural activity. It indicates experiences correlate with the lagged phase synchronization of delta oscillations. Schizophrenia, which mimics symptomatically the psychotic effects of psilocybin, is associated with diffuse delta rhythms.

These oscillations create electricity which is one of the key factors shaping their growth and development. The hyphae become polarized and entrained as the branching of mycelium is induced by electric field frequency, which it uses to communicate and transport the raw human materials within the blood and central nervous system.

The electrical current helps fungi with the translocation of resources it gathers within the host using magnets and hydraulic pressure.

Think of it like a driverless Tesla navigating the U.S. highway and air traffic system but it moves things around autonomously with electrical currents and hydraulic pressure without the need for the driver to consciously pilot the vehicle or aircraft

Researchers have discovered that fungi exhibit “several types of oscillations and characterized families of fast, slow, and very slow oscillations.

These electrical oscillations are very similar to the human brain, where fast oscillations might be related to responses to stimulation, including endogenous stimulation by the release of nutrients, and slow oscillations might be responsible for memory consolidation.”

Scientists believe that the direction of hyphal extension and the frequency of branching and germination could be affected by this electric field. Meaning the electric field’s frequency and power or lack thereof produced in our bodies determines our fates.

As if humans were the self charging batteries and computer programs powering the Matrix we know of as life.

Yes, Neo, it is like that…

The long, filamentous tendrils that these organisms use to penetrate their host’s tissue and blood to gather nutrients and information from their environment or host. All the while within your cells, blood, veins, and organs, it grows within the perfect environment as it procreates, and explores, creating a network of hyphae that turns into a ball-like mass called mycelium.

One that I believe grows as it molds itself within our veins and central nervous system creating – Mold People.

As I have explained in a previous essay, trees actually communicate through a complex network of fungi that connect trees forming a symbiotic relationship. The uncanny resemblance between the human dendrites which are like filamentous structures within the brain and the fungi in the air and within the soil (mycelium).

You will find that these fungal mycelium networks are remarkably similar to the neural and central nervous systems of humans and animals and almost every biological system seems to be a copy of a copy. After all, they all serve the same means.

HOW DO FUNGI MIND CONTROL AND ARE THE BODILY LEGISLATORS OF HUMANS FROM WITHIN

A study that was published in the journal PLoS Pathogens shows how the fungus known as Cryptococcus neoformans infects our blood and then becomes lodged in blood vessels where they live and grow preventing blood flow and increasing blood pressure.

Cryptococcus is found all over the world in soil and it is often in bird excrement. It is the most common fungus that causes thousands of serious infections worldwide. If you breathe the fungus in, it infects your lungs and blood and can spread throughout the body (disseminate).

It is a facultative intracellular pathogen, which means that they are capable of growing and reproducing inside the cells of a host.

Several studies have shown that fungi cross the blood/brain barrier to infect the brain blood vessels as it spreads into the brain causing “fungal meningitis,” which affects an estimated 2.5 million people each year.

Dr. Simon Johnston, from England’s University of Sheffield’s Department of Infection, Immunity and Cardiovascular Disease, said: “The brain has very complex and effective defenses against microbes, but we have identified a simple and effective method that microbes may use to escape the blood and enter the brain.

“Previous research has focused on how microbes can break down the defenses of the brain or use immune cells as a route into the brain. We can demonstrate how, for some microbes, damaging blood vessels is a very effective method of invasion.

“Our immune system is very effective at recognizing and destroying microbes, including in the blood. However, some microbes can escape the immune cells and it is these microbes that would be most effective at using blood vessels bursting as a way into the brain.”

This is exactly how fungi/molds can start controlling our brain causing mental illness and various other diseases depending upon wherever they have made their home in our bodies.

As it infects our cells, it appears to hack them by slowing or stopping the normal oscillatory activity and biological rhythms.

This is interesting because recent research suggests that spontaneous electrical low-frequency oscillations (SELFOs) are found across most organisms, from fungi to humans, and play an important role as electrical organization signals that guide the development of all organisms.

Meaning that these electrical oscillations are the core mechanisms at the cell level determining how all organisms on earth communicate, grow, live, and die, as well as the quality of life.

Communication is crucial for all life on earth from fungi to humans.

As it relates to fungi, researchers have shown that they constantly use a form of constant “self-talk”, or monolog, to send signals to one another and possibly to explore the environment for another host of what is called a “fusion partner.”

Many studies have well established that the microbiomes of our bodies host vast microbial communities that communicate with each other internally within a human host, affecting many metabolic processes and they also communicate externally. They not only influence the immune system but also modulate the development of neural tissues in conjunction with neuromodulators and neurotransmitters.

As a result, they can profoundly influence health.

They do this by fusing with our cells thus becoming one with the human species as it appears to do with all life.

Scientists have discovered that this hyphal fusion within the host usually results in a form of programed cell death.

Studies have shown the formation of channels between fungal hyphae by self-fusion creating a fungal colony of a complex interconnected network.

A type of biological computer ouroboros program that is self-perpetuating as it mates with itself inside its host and hacks its cells to ultimately fuse together as one entity.

Unlike humans who use their eyes as visual cues from stimuli to explore their environments, fungi do not have eyes so they cannot see. Instead, they use electrical signals and secreted signaling molecules to communicate with the colony to orchestrate communication, and cell fusion to establish its hyphal network within the host.

All the while, its host is completely oblivious that an entity with a mind of its own, i.e., fungi have taken control of these biological processes.

Fungi use their hyphae to alternate roles as signal-sender and signal-receiver using signaling proteins. Researchers have found they act like a minuscule magnet within the cells in an oscillatory manner to the respective cytoplasmic membrane as it is interacting with the network hyphae.

Studies have shown that G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) act as the signaling proteins which serve the fungi as transmembrane receptors to send signals from the external environment inside the cell.

They use G-protein signaling pathways for “sensing external ligands, which include nutrients, hormones, proteins, and peptides and especially pheromones, ions, hydrophobic surfaces, and light,” ().

This enables fungi to coordinate communication, metabolism, growth and sense nutrients for cell transport to create the perfect environment within the host while ensuring its survival, reproduction, and virulence means are constantly met ().

Extracellular signals regulate downstream pathways by activating G protein signaling and, thus, influence cellular behavior, environmental cues, and communication signals that bind to the GPCR. This process influences cellular growth, reproduction, metabolism, virulence, and stress responses.

One study found that once two fusion partners came into each other’s vicinity, their oscillation frequencies slowed down (entrainment phase) and transited into anti-phasic synchronization of the two cells’ oscillations.

The researchers suggested that single hyphae engage in a “monologue” that may be used for exploration of the environment and can dynamically shift their extra-cellular signaling systems into a “dialogue” to initiate hyphal fusion.

They discovered that the fungi’s hyphae constantly perform signal oscillations, comparable to a cellular “monologue” until they meet another hypha with which they then coordinate signal oscillations in a cell-to-cell dialog. They also showed how “signal oscillations are mechanistically interlinked with calcium-dependent growth oscillations.”

It appears that people who consistently operate within the range of low-frequency electrical oscillations attract these microbes like a magnet as if it is a type of autonomous kill switch that sends out signals in our environment for our own destruction.

“Incredibly, when it comes to learning, the neuron behaves like a giant antenna, with different branches of dendrites tuned to different frequencies for maximal learning.” – Mayank R. Mehta – UCLA Neurophysicist

A tracking beacon of sorts sending our frequencies so these fungi can find us and carry out our destruction no matter where we hide or go.

All the while, the host and the best medical professionals in the world remain clueless.

Hence, the point.

After all, how can we hide when for possibly millions of years they have already infected and altered the human operating system and when most of humanity has no knowledge of this ancient threat?

Some researchers claim these proteins should be called “the most successful structures evolved during the whole of animal evolution”. Meaning, that if you are looking for one of the secrets of life and biology, these scientists will point you to the study of fungi and the G protein signaling.

The process within and without our bodies and minds  acts like a biological cable network connecting us all to the earth’s biosphere and to one another.

When I look at my own research over the years and my incessant quest for knowledge, I now realize I’m just a servant to something greater than myself.

Something much more ancient and intelligent that uses me to feed it the information and knowledge (light or glass) it demands daily. I’m just one of the tips of its hyphae that is part of a massive network spanning the globe.

This is what I contend may be the ultimate goal of the fungi hive mind.

A massive mycelium network that we will mimic as a hierarchical New World Order based on a One World Religion and Laws from the hive mind controlling the planet and biological strings of all life.

The Black Iron Prison of Philp K. Dick is in reality a global fungal network in which humans are entrapped within its web as hyphae that it uses to “see and expore the world to gather resources and spread the phosphporic light (heaven) or to become parasitic creatures (Dick’s Androids) of the dark chewing our own faces off (hell).”

A fact of our nature that we must admit there is no escape (mycelium web).

Only mutual cooperation (symbiosis) in a multipolar world (filaments) ensures our survival.

SOURCES:

https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/pdf/S2211-1247(22)00610-6.pdf

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-16325-w

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-26007-1

New Insights on How Meningitis Spreads Uncovered

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.07.02.498545v1.full.pdf

https://microbialcellfactories.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12934-021-01520-7

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7907439/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25380205/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK5993/