Do Brainwave Hunting Zombies Walk Among Us?

Zombification of Americans and the World Population

• Your Marvelous Brain
• Learn to distinguish between a Living Human and the Walking Dead
• What do brainwaves have to do with zombies?
• Have you been zombified?
• Who is taking zombies seriously?
• Do brainwave hunting zombies walk among us?
• Why it is critical to be in unity in faith with your healer

To be honest, Zombies were not on my imminent radar screen when I attended the recent Transhumanism and the Hybrid Age conference in Branson, Missouri.  I left Montana at 2 PM and arrived in Springfield at near midnight and I was left with the indelible impression that Zombies are here, and they have abilities to hunt you by your brainwaves.  How or why did this come to my mind?  Not one person talked to each other during the whole journey.  People either stared at their mobile devices or looked straight ahead with a blank stare.  True, ordinary Americans are not the mutants that we see in movie genre, that said, Zombies are here now amongst us.  This is not a joke as you will soon discover.  Let us unravel why this is significant to you.

Zombies have become a fixture in literary and cinematic culture over the past century. The list of on-screen zombie productions is extensive, from White Zombie in 1932 and Night of the Living Dead in 1968, to this year’s Patient Z and dozens of others in between. In 2016, Netflix boasted a buffet of 19 zombie-themed shows to satiate their viewers’ appetite for the walking dead. Yet over the past decade, zombies have broken free of their cinematic chains. Runners can now have their zombie fix on-the-go, with zombie-themed races in which costumed zombies chase runners, or via zombie running apps. For the extreme among us, there are even zombie survival camps: “the ultimate weekend apocalypse adventure.”

The television show Revolution, a lights out scenario, was collaborated (as you can see) and scripted by the United Nations.  The show ends with the populous zombified through nanotechnology and heading to a small town in Idaho.  It is a cliff-hanger.  We do not know what happened once they got there. 

Bottom line, your brain is under attack.  It is one of the barrier's God provided for you to prevent you from becoming zombified.

The Living and the Living Dead

Unattributed Image:  https://medium.com/homeland-security/zombies-and-emergency-preparedness-20fba2261776

There is a concept in Hebrew that is not talked about much in Christianity.  I have mentioned it before, but for my new readers I will do a quick refresher.  That is the reality of the living dead.  The living dead are humans that are biologically alive, but spiritually dead.  They exist physically, but they do not have a soul or spirit.  This will play a greater role as Synthetic Humans are deployed into the wild (human population).  These constructs look like you or me, but are totally artificial constructs.  No matter the degree of tweaking of consciousness, they will never have a soul or spirit.

Before we look at the living dead we first need to understand the mechanisms of the soul and spirit.

Has the soul been replaced by neuroscience?  The following are excerpts from an excellent article In Search of the Soul on the topic.  Even though these are excerpts, they are lengthy.  We must understand the soul and the spirit because of where we are in history.  The original article was to a Hebrew audience and I endeavored to remove portions that would not be applicable to Christians and yet keep the flavor and the understanding in tact.

The ancient usage of soul is:

• (nefesh) derives from the word for neck, which appears, e.g., in the biblical expression “the water reached the neck” (מים עד נפש) found in Jonah 2:6 and Psalms 69:2. More generally, the term means living being, life, self, or person, and can even express derivative concepts such as desire, appetite, emotion or passion.

• נשמה (neshama) derives from the root נ-ש-מ, which refers to breathing, and is used in the verb לנשום, to pant, (in Modern Hebrew, to breathe) and the modern Hebrew word for breath (נשימה). The term can also mean life or spirit, based on the equation of breathing equals life, as in:

וַיִּפַּ֥ח בְּאַפָּ֖יו נִשְׁמַ֣ת חַיִּ֑ים וַֽיְהִ֥י הָֽאָדָ֖ם לְנֶ֥פֶשׁ חַיָּֽה:

[The LORD] blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living being (Gen 2:7).

• רוח (ruach) literally means wind or the movement of air when breathing. Ancient Israelites connected life with bodily movements associated with breathing, such as flaring of the nostrils. The term ruach can also mean life, breath, or spirit, especially when combined with the term נשמה as here:

כֹּ֡ל אֲשֶׁר֩ נִשְׁמַת־ר֨וּחַ חַיִּ֜ים בְּאַפָּ֗יו… מֵֽתוּ:

All in whose nostrils was the breath of life… died (Gen 7:22).

 All three Hebrew terms relate to the physical process of breathing, or more accurately perhaps, ventilation.

A Detached Soul

In addition to the biological meaning of soul, however, “the evidence suggests that a belief in the existence of disembodied souls was part of the common religious heritage of the peoples of the ancient Near East.” Richard Steiner, a Bible and Semitics scholar from Yeshiva University, makes a well-documented case that the idea of soul distinct from the body was already present in the Hebrew Bible before any influence from Greek thinking. Certainly by the rabbinic period the נשמה was conceived of not merely as the life force of the body but as an independent entity, something deposited by God into the human being. 

 The implication here is that the soul is akin to a security (פיקדון, pikadon) deposited into the body and detachable from it.  It is a sort of energy-providing battery that is removed at death and in sleep but available to the body once again on waking and when life resumes after death.

The Soul in Science and Medicine

Illustration of typical multipolar neuron. Wikimedia

It now appears, however, that biology and neuroscience can better explain much of what the idea of the soul once explained.  Let’s look at some examples of this.

Breathing

Ancient Israel’s equation of life with breathing and flaring of the nostrils is unacceptable now scientifically because it would mean that creatures such as plants and insects—which respire but do not breathe in the ordinary sense—are not alive! It turns out that life is not limited to creatures that breathe.  Breathing is only one way by which living creatures gain the oxygen necessary to sustain themselves.  Humans breathe because neurons of the lower medulla-oblongata sense acid-base changes in blood causing the diaphragm to move.  Life depends on this mechanism—not on soul. 

The Mind

We said above that the term soul includes aspects of mind such as desire and emotion.  Michael Carasik details the biblical terms used to describe the receptive, retentive, and creative aspects of what we now call mind.  But it is the heart, he notes, that “is the physical locus most commonly presented in the Bible as that of the mind, comparable to the head in modern English.”

The oft-recited first paragraph of Shema— “with all your heart and with all your soul (בכל לבבך ובכל נפשך)”—distinguishes between heart and soul and implies that “soul” (נפש) must be something other than “heart” (לב). So which word, if any, corresponds to our current ideas about mind—לב  or נפש?  The matter is confused because the biblical authors, like other ancient people, lacked knowledge of the brain as the source of mind.

The Brain as the Organ of Mind

Our conception of “mind” as the summary of all brain functions—including rational thought, feeling, planning, calculating, desiring, etc.— is quite recent.  The biblical authors had no unifying explanation for these aspects of mind that we now know are functions of brain.  For this reason the intricate systems developed by the medieval Jewish philosophers and rabbis that attempted to relate soul to mind have little explanatory power for us today, having been bypassed by neuroscience.

Ancient Conceptions of the Physical Source of Mental Functions

Absent any understanding of what the brain did, ancient thinkers, including the biblical authors, conceived of heart, kidneys, liver, and other organs as the sources of emotions and mental functions.  For this reason, in an attempt to preserve the body for the afterlife, the ancient Egyptians embalmed organs and kept them in canopic jars.  They would also preserve the heart inside the body.  But they destroyed the brain and poured it out through the nose as useless garbage. 

As late as the 16th century, the English philosopher Henry Moore dismissed the brain and declared that, “this laxe pithe (sic) or marrow in man’s head shows no more capacity for thought than a Cake of Suet or a Bowl of Curds.”

Discovering the Brain and the Nervous System

A great change in thinking was pioneered by the English physician Thomas Willis (1621-1675).  Willis, the founder of neurology, compared his patients’ signs and symptoms during life with areas of damaged brain he found through clandestine autopsies.  (Our present-day imaging studies are a continuation of this same highly fruitful approach.) Rapid progress ensued.

By perfecting the new methods of staining cells with different dyes, Santiago Ramón y Cajal (Madrid, 1888) discovered that the nervous system is made up of individual cells touching one another.  These cells, later called “neurons,” are the basic unit of the nervous system.  Neurons generate an electro-chemical signal (the action potential) that travels along a branched “wire“ or axon to connect with or “talk to” other neurons at connecting points called synapses.  Each synapse is enormously complicated, and each of the hundreds of billions of synapses in our brain is capable of reintegrating its past experience or pattern of activity to determine its future excitability.  Memory and learning are thought to be based on such changes in synaptic connections.

Populations of neurons are organized into modules that specialize in one or another brain function, such as making sense of what we hear or see, planning, feeling, language and remembering.   All of these capabilities taken together are called “mind.”  Thus, soul considered as mind is no longer mysterious and adds nothing to our scientific understanding.  Mind is simply what the brain does.

The Self

“[I]t was her soul more than her body that knew fear. She had realized for the first time, with finality and fatality what was the illusion she laboured under.  She had thought that each individual had a complete self, a complete soul, an accomplished I. And now she realized as plainly as if she had turned into a new being, that this was not so.  Men and women had incomplete selves, made up of bits assembled together loosely and somewhat haphazard.” – D.H. Lawrence, The Plumed Serpent

The opening verse of Psalm 103 reads:

בָּרֲכִ֣י נַ֭פְשִׁי אֶת יְ-הֹוָ֑ה וְכָל קְ֝רָבַ֗י אֶת שֵׁ֥ם קָדְשֽׁוֹ:

Bless the LORD, O my soul, and all that is within me His holy name.

 The first and second cola of the verse are parallel.  Thus, “Yhwh” is parallel with “His holy name,” and “my soul (נפשי)” with “all that is within me (כל קרבי).” These latter phrases (“my soul” and “all that is within me”) are likely trying to convey the concept of “myself” or “my being.”  Nefesh frequently has this meaning in the Psalms and in the Siddur (Jewish prayer book).

Explaining the Feeling of “Selfness” and Where in the Brain It Resides

The mysterious feeling of “selfness” was explained in the past by the concept of a soul, which represented a person’s essence. In recent years, however, neuroscience has made great strides in understanding how the brain produces this feeling of self and how we each construct our inner “me.”  In fact, we even have a good idea as to where in the brain this feeling is produced. 

Recent studies point to the medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC), the area along the midline of the frontal lobes anterior to the motor area, as a key neural structure for processing various kinds of information relative to the self. The ability to think about oneself in abstract and symbolic ways is a function of the frontal cortex—a part of the brain that expanded dramatically during mammalian and human evolution and accounts for our distinctively high foreheads.

The MPFC places information about ourselves based on our multiple past experiences onto a continuum of self-relevance.  This collected information constitutes the self-concept and is stored in brain areas that are the loci of long-term memory.  This is where “I” resides. It may feel as though my soul— that is, “all that is within me”— blesses God, but in fact, it is one specific area of the brain that generates that feeling.

Conscious Awareness

The blessing recited over waking up in the morning ends: “…who restores souls to lifeless bodies (המחזיר נשמות לפגרים מתים).”  But sleeping bodies are not lifeless.  The autonomic nervous systems that regulate heart rate, blood pressure, respiration, digestion, renal function and all the panoply of processes that keep us alive are all maintained during sleep.  What does change in sleep is our level of consciousness and awareness of our surroundings. Again, neuroscience offers an explanation for this phenomenon.

What Happens to Awareness during Sleep

The states we think of as conscious or awake are dependent on the activity of the reticular activating system, a network of neurons in the brainstem that sends projections throughout the thalamus, hypothalamus, and cerebral cortex.  These projections release nerve-signaling chemicals called neurotransmitters that control whether we are asleep or awake by acting on different groups of neurons.  Neurotransmitters such as serotonin and norepinephrine keep some parts of the brain active during our wake state.  As we fall asleep, other neurons at the base of the brain release acetylcholine that “switches off” the signals that keep us awake.  As one might imagine, the prefrontal cortex—the area involved in so-called “executive functions” of the brain and the source of the concept of self—is deactivated during sleep.

It is because of these changes in neurotransmitter activity that we are less able to react to environmental stimuli, integrate information, focus attention, or control our behavior during sleep.  From the neurologic point of view, “restoring souls to lifeless bodies” on waking is no longer mysterious.  It is a matter of changes in neurotransmitter activity.

The “Activating Principle” of Life

Life and death have always called for explanation.  An ancient solution to their mystery was that the soul’s presence constitutes life; its absence accounts for death.  The soul was the “activating principle” of life. When philosophers—or “natural scientists” as they were once called—discussed the term “activating principle,” they were not picturing physically sustaining substances like oxygen and glucose that produce the energy to power our bodies.  Rather, they thought of an animating, non-physical principle in living things that rendered them fundamentally different from non-living entities. 

The concept of elan vital, the vital force or impulse of life, persisted into modern times and was advanced by French philosopher Henri Bergson as late as 1907. Nevertheless, this concept is no longer part of the way biology conceives of life.

Synthesizing Organic Compounds in the Laboratory

In 1828, the German chemist Friedrich Wöhler synthesized the organic compound urea from inorganic chemicals on his laboratory shelf.  This inorganic urea was identical to that which is regularly excreted by humans as a way of ridding our body of nitrogenous waste.  The key point is this: there is no vital principle inherent in organic urea that makes it any different from synthetic urea!  Both living and non-living things conform to the same physico-chemical principles. This is not to say that living things are not different from non-living things.  Living things, for   instance, have highly complex molecules not present in non-living things. An example is deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), a double-stranded chain of nucleic acids that coil around each other in a helical ‘twisted ladder’ structure.  A sugar-phosphate backbone is on the outside of this double helix and the nucleotides adenine, guanine, thymine and cytosine are in the inside.  The information in this double helix is ‘transcribed’ into the closely related ribonucleic acid (RNA) that serves as a template for producing proteins. But a molecule of DNA doesn’t differ in any fundamental way from a non-living molecule, such as water or ammonia. All molecules, living and non-living, are dependent on the properties of atoms and their physico-chemical bonds.  It happens that molecular DNA is of immense importance, since it encodes the “recipe” for living beings.  But it does not depend on any outside non-physical, non-chemical “vital force.”  While it is clear that a living system is something quite different from an inanimate object, “… not one of life’s characteristics are in conflict  with a strictly mechanistic interpretation of the world.” From a neuroscience point of view, therefore, the use of “soul” to mean the mysterious vital force or פיקדון deposited into the body and responsible for life is unacceptable— because there is no such force.  It has been replaced in our understanding by the biochemical processes that sustain living beings.

The Marvelous Brain Physiology

The human brain is an electrochemical organ capable of generating as much as ten watts of electrical power via neural oscillation, commonly known as brainwaves. These brainwaves can actually change depending on what you are doing and feeling. For example; low beta waves are often associated with quiet concentration, while high beta waves are usually dominate when we experience significant stress, anger, and anxiety like when and if you ever must flee from zombies!

In fact, researchers have discovered that beta activity is dramatically increased when movement has to be voluntarily suppressed. Simply resisting the urge to run from the living dead could generate a relatively massive amount of electrical activity (from 14 to 40 Hz almost instantly).

Your brain houses the most powerful forces in existence, except for the Creator.  Your brain is the seat of the soul, consciousness, memory center, it is thought that the Spirit resides in this location, the executive coordinator for all our actions and inactions and bodily functions primarily get run through the brain. 

The following brainwave discussions come from controlmind.info

Beta Brainwaves

Beta brain waves are the most commonly found in awake individuals out of all brain wave patterns. The frequency range is between 12Hz-38Hz and considered among the fastest brainwave frequencies. Beta brainwave is produced by our left brain and has been linked to conscious thought or being wide awake. Each time you solve a math problem, logic puzzle, or read a book, your beta brainwave kicks in. Beta brainwaves will increase as you get older, it is the dominant rhythm.  Beta brainwaves are what is used by your brain to help you function in society. If you were without any beta brainwaves, you would be unable to function while you are awake. You would basically be an awake, “brain-dead zombie”. Beta Waves have been associated with an increased ability to focus on our external reality.

Functions of Beta Brainwave

• You Can Think Quicker and More Focused
• Feel More Excitement and Increase Performance
• Become More Motivated and Goal Oriented
• More Energy and Positivity
• Being more Social Outgoing
• Write Easily and Quickly
• Increase in I.Q.

Too Much Beta

• Anxiety and Stress
• Sweat the Small Stuff or Paranoia
• Addiction
• Irrational Thoughts and Think Negatively
• Insomnia and Muscle Tension

Alpha Brainwaves

Alpha brainwaves cycle within the frequency range of 8Hz to 12Hz and were the first brainwave frequency range to be discovered. It was found by an Austrian research psychiatrist in 1908 and named it Alpha Brainwave because it was the first brainwave to be discovered ("Alpha means "first" in Greek).

Alpha brainwaves are the dominant brainwave activity when the body is relaxed and can turn on our creativity. When you take the time to breathe deeply, meditate, or close your eyes, there will be a big increase in the amount of alpha brainwave activity inside your brain. You may experience this brainwave if you practice yoga or even drinking alcohol. They are commonly produced in synchronized fashion connecting both hemispheres of your brain, but can be found solely in the right hemisphere.

Benefits

• Emotion Stability and More Relaxation
• Enhanced Problem Solving and Creativity
• Optimal Athletic Performance
• Ability to Tap Super Learning
• Improved Immune System Functioning
• Calm Mind and Can Think Positive

Theta Brainwaves

Theta brainwaves are the second slowest frequency of brainwave with cycle rate of 4-7 times per second (4Hz–7Hz) and usually generated in the right brain hemisphere. Theta brainwaves kick in when we feel emotional, deeply relaxed, daydream, unfocused, or are asleep. Theta brainwaves are considered extremely relaxing brainwave activity that is commonly associated when brain activity slows almost to the point of sleep, but not quite. We normally only experience theta brainwave as we drift off to sleep, during some dreaming, and as we return from the depths of delta sleep.

Theta brainwave can bring you deep states of meditation. A sensation of floating. and you may feel your mind expand beyond the boundaries of your body. In theta state, vivid imagery flashes before the mind's eye and we are receptive to information beyond our normal conscious awareness.

Theta brainwave has also been identified as the gateway to learning and memory. Theta meditation increases creativity, enhances learning, reduces stress and awakens intuition and other extrasensory perception skills. The inspiration that take place during the theta state is often free flow and occurs without censorship or guilt. The Theta state is where intuition comes, instantaneous healings occur and accelerated learning occurs. Einstein trained himself to spend many hours in that state. It is typically a very positive mental state.

Benefits

• Deep levels of relaxation
• Ability to reprogram subconscious mind
• Hyper focus and super learning
• Enhanced long-term memory
• Emotional connection
• Advanced intuition
  As you increase your theta wave, your intuition will increase as well as your ability to recognize those feelings in your gut.
• Bridges to the spiritual connection and psychic experience
• Boosted immune system, healing of body and mind

Drawbacks

• Inability to focus
• Too many daydreams
• Depression
• Sleepiness
• Lack of excitement
• Extreme impulsiveness
• Hyperactive
• Overly receptive mind

Delta Brainwaves

Delta brainwaves are the brain’s slowest frequency range cycling at a rate of 1-4 times per second (e.g. 1 Hz – 4 Hz), but are the highest in amplitude and are responsible for the slowest form of mental processing. Like other slower brainwaves patterns, delta brainwave are generated in the right hemisphere, though they may be observed in widespread patterns throughout various parts of the brain. Delta brainwaves become active in your brain when you are in the deeper stages of sleep (e.g. stage 3 and stage 4). If you’ve ever woken up and felt irritable, unconscious, confused, or disorientated, you likely woke up during your delta stage of sleep. They are associated with being completely unconscious (i.e. you usually won’t know or remember anything while Delta brainwaves are dominant).

People with high amounts of delta brainwave have been found to have increased empathy (or understanding of others’ emotions) and access to the unconscious mind. Individuals who are therapists, guides, teachers, and those into professions which involve helping others tend to have delta brainwave while awake. It has been said that this unconscious brainwave give them more understanding and access to other individuals’ mental and emotional state.

Benefits of increasing delta

• Release of Anti-Aging Hormones
• State of Empathy
• Extreme Bliss
• Advanced Healing of Body and Mind
• Human Growth Hormone (H.G.H.) Release
• Connection with Unconscious Mind
• Deepest Possible Level of Mind and Body Relaxation
• Perfect Intuition
• Connecting with the Spiritual Body
• Paranormal Experiences
• Boosted Immune System

Drawback of too much delta

• Emotional Baggage
• Extremely Unfocused Mind
• Extreme Sleepiness
• Hyperactive

Have you been Zombified by the Blue Light Special?

As we have established, our brain waves emanate out from us into the environment.  Is it possible that zombies can pick up these neural transmissions just as many animals pick up the frequencies of frightened or scared creatures?  Could the walking dead zombies develop  cryptochrome in their eyes to sense our circadian rhythms, or provide a heightened sense of magnetoception often found in other animals like bats, deer, and birds:

[Cryptochrome is] … an ancient protein with versions in all branches of life. In most cases, these proteins control daily rhythms. Humans, for example, have two cryptochromes – CRY1 and CRY2 – which help to control our body clocks. But Lauren Foley from the University of Massachusetts Medical School has found that CRY2 can double as a magnetic sensor.

Neurobiologist Lauren Foley, in her research paper, notes that flies without the cryptochrome gene completely lose the ability to find their next meal. However, when researchers injected these flies with human CRY2, they discovered the flies were able to sense magnetic fields. Steven Reppert, who the led study, also notes that CRY2 is heavily active in the human retina, claiming that “It’s beautifully poised to sense light but we don’t know if it has the downstream pathways that communicate magnetic information to the brain. The possibility exists.” The possibility exists that zombies could develop the cryptochrome naturally found in their eyes to sense electromagnetic fields produced by our brains; especially during times of significant stress, anger, and anxiety. This discovery suggests that zombies may not simply be rotting corpses, but rather gain significant advantages as the result of their deadly infection. For more information please read the original research papers “Human cryptochrome exhibits light-dependent magnetosensitivity” available via Nature Communications, and “Response preparation and inhibition: The role of the cortical sensorimotor beta rhythm” as published by The National Center for Biotechnology Information. Both articles are incredibly informative!

How could you become zombified?  Easy!  Cryptochromes (from the Greek  κρυπτός χρώμα, "hidden colour" are a class of flavoproteins that are sensitive to blue light. They are found in plants and animals. Cryptochromes are involved in your circadian rhythms, and possibly also in the sensing of the magnetic fields in a number of species. Your computer and mobile device emit blue light. Not only that, but it is my hypothesis that the world has been saturated, or light modulated, to change the colors we see or perceive.  For instance, I grew up on the beach in Del Mar, California and Red Tide used to luminescence green but today it luminescence blue.

These hidden colors change our brainwaves internal and also what projects out from our body.

Who else besides the military is taking the Zombies seriously?

• Zombie Apocalypse Medicine Meeting
• The CDC uses Zombies as a training tool for preparedness
• Homeland Security
• FEMA
• Interdisciplinary Medicine
• Private Sector
• Media
• Others