Nerve Endings of the Soul
Interaction Between the Mind of God and the Mind of Man Through Neural Synaptic Networks
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Nerve Endings of the Soul is a book emphasizing the truth that the Holy Spirit communicates in our time with the mind of human beings through the human spirit, substantiating the truth that the living Jesus Christ has sent the Comforter, the Counselor, to mankind as promised in John 14:15-21. It is a common belief that personal communion from the Holy Spirit to mankind ceased at the closure of the Canon of Scripture, that the only means of communicating with God is by prayer. The information presented in this book shows that the interaction between the Holy Spirit and the mind of Man enabled by the human spirit is bidirectional and continues in our time. Through a cumulation of evidence from theological and scientific resources the duality in Man of the immaterial mind and the physical brain substantiates the personal interaction between the Holy Spirit and the mind and soul of human beings. The model employed for study is the neural synaptic network, incorporating the microsite hypothesis put forward by Sir John C. Eccles, Henry Margenau and Friedrich Beck. Dualist interaction has been substantiated by contemporary theologians and investigators in neurophysiology, information and probability theory, all building on advances in quantum wave theory. An hypothesis is offered by this author for a mechanism for dualist interaction involving probabilistic quantum tunneling across synaptic clefts with transmission of specified information with meaning and purpose within neural codes in spike trains of action potentials. Through a lifetime of learning archived in memory the mind of humans interprets neural codes enabled by the unique capacity for language. Communication from the Holy Spirit as Sender to human minds as recipients draws upon current understandings of information and communication theory. The trigger for initiating spike trains as linguistic codes is postulated as an immaterial energy source by which the Holy Spirit communicates with the mind of Man. Evidence presented in this book provides a compelling rationale for the reality of bidirectional communication with the living Holy Spirit in our time. That Jesus Christ indwells those who accept His Truth as a personal, living Spirit is confirmation of the promise in John 14. Interaction with God by His atoning grace through Jesus Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit gives receptive mankind comfort and counsel today to His glory.
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It is a common belief that personal communion from the Holy Spirit to mankind ceased at the closure of the canon of scripture. The information presented in this book shows that interaction between the Holy Spirit and the mind of man enabled by the human spirit is bidirectional and continues in our time. Evidence presented from theological and scientific resources confirms the duality of the immaterial mind and the physical brain of man and substantiates the personal interaction between the Holy Spirit and the mind of human beings. The model for study is the neural synaptic network, incorporating the microsite hypothesis of Sir John C. Eccles. Dualist interaction has been substantiated by contemporary theologians and investigators in the neurosciences and information theory, building on advances in quantum wave theory.
A hypothesis is offered by this author for a mechanism for dualist interaction involving probabilistic quantum tunneling across synaptic clefts. Transmission of specified information with meaning and purpose occurs within neural codes in spike trains of action potentials in synaptic networks. Through a lifetime of learning archived in memory, the mind of humans interprets neural codes enabled by the unique capacity for language. Communication from the Holy Spirit, as sender, to human minds, as recipients, draws upon current understandings of information and communication theory. The trigger for initiating spike trains as codes is postulated as an immaterial energy source by which the Holy Spirit communicates with the mind of man.
Evidence presented in this book provides a compelling rationale for the reality of bidirectional communication with the living, personal Holy Spirit in our time. That Jesus Christ indwells those who accept his truth as a personal, living spirit is confirmation of the promise in John 14:15–21. Interaction with God by his atoning grace through Jesus Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit gives receptive mankind comfort and counsel today to his glory.
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Doctor E. Stan Lennard is a retired general surgeon and certified Christian apologist. His Doctor of Medicine degree was awarded at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas in 1968, and he received a Doctor of Science in Surgery degree through the University of Cincinnati School of Medicine, defending his thesis in 1976. The first half of his career was at the University of Washington in Seattle where he completed his Chief Surgical Residency in 1977 and joined the fulltime academic faculty with a subspecialty in surgical infectious disease. He entered fulltime private practice at Evergreen Healthcare in Kirkland, Washington in 1987 and retired from clinical practice in 2001. Since his retirement he has continued his affiliation since 1987 with the international, interdenominational Reasons To Believe ministry. He served on the Board of Directors for four and a half years, for four serving as its Chairman. For eleven years he served as an online instructor with Reasons Institute, the educational arm of the ministry, while conducting research that has extended over 18 years. Articles from his research have been posted on the ministry’s website, and this book summarizes his research findings. Now fully retired he will resume his lifelong hobby of art, now focusing on oil painting. He is married with two grown children.