Late morning. Kim called and is talking to
Carol about your coming up to sit with the boys tonight. Next week is busy for
Carol with Linda coming into Columbus Tuesday morning and staying a few days.
She will be busy with family and you will be home as the granite people will be
here Monday for measurements and Wednesday the plumber will be here to install
the tub. Otherwise, today there is plenty to do as far as Carol is concerned if
you don’t go up. – Amorella
1117
hours. I’m glad Linda is coming up. She and Carol get along well together and I’m
sure they will enjoy themselves. The last time they saw each other was at the
wedding. No doubt they will see Uncle John and well as Jack and Sheryl C. and
possibly Mack B. if they take their day trip down to Ohio’s Hocking Hills area
in southeast Ohio.
Early dusk. Carol, you and the boys just
returned from supper at Potbelly’s at Polaris Shopping. Owen and Brennan
behaved very well, the best you’ve seen them, and the first time you’ve eaten
out with the boys without Kim or Paul along. It has been raining. Kim and Paul
are at a surprise fortieth birthday party one street over. The boys have
settled in to iPad play since they were active most of the day with soccer and
then at the jumping gym after lunch. They are sitting on the couch next to one
another, each checking out each other’s game from time to time. They get along
very well and you hope this continues for their lifetimes. – Amorella
2016
hours. The boys are out of their baths and Carol is reading them a bedtime
story. I was quickly re-reading the recent post titled, “The Catalyst” (13
September) because it received a number of hits and I was curious why. This
caught my eye.
** **
UBC’s
experiments show that the Ouija could be a very useful tool in rigorously
investigating non-conscious thought processes. “Now that we have some
hypotheses in terms of what’s going on here, accessing knowledge and cognitive
abilities that you don’t have conscious awareness of, [the Ouija board] would
be an instrument to actually get at that,” Fels explains. “Now we can start
using it to ask other types of questions.”
Those types
of questions include how much and what the non-conscious mind knows, how fast
it can learn, how it remembers, even how it amuses itself, if it does. . ..
Selected and
edited from -- http://www.smithsonianmag DOT
com/history/the-strange-and-mysterious-history-of-the-ouija-board-5860627/?no-ist
[my underlining above]
** **
2024
hours. May I ask such questions, Amorella?’
I have a consciousness and exist as a
spiritual being within your unconsciousness. – Amorella
2026
hours. Yes, I do not see you as a non-conscious thought process. Did
you ever exist as a process?
No. I, the Amorella, use the process because
it allows you to remain innocent of my ‘being’. I do not consider myself a part
of speech. – Amorella
2031
hours. I do not remember realizing this, but perhaps you have mentioned it
before.
As you do not remember this might as well be
the first time you’ve better understood my situation in this manner. – Amorella
2036
hours. Why did you change your name to Amorella? Originally, you titled
yourself Rosella.
You appeared unconsciously to better accept
Amorella because you would translate it as ‘little love’. Romella hinted, not
so subtly, to ‘Rome’ or ‘Roman’ oriented, such as ‘little Rome’. This flashed
back to Freshman Latin class in high school. That is the strand of memory I
used to make my decision to change the name. - Amorella
Once the
boys were asleep (within fifteen minutes) you and Carol watched NBC News and an
episode of “International House Hunting” that Kim and Paul had copied. She’s
now in the bedroom reading and you are ready to return to questions. Before
doing so though, post. – Amorella
2151
hours. In case I change my mind and delete a few paragraphs as I did last
night?
You weren’t in the right place for
entertaining questions and you saw this once I asked you a few personal
questions yourself. – Amorella
2153
hours. I discovered what I already knew deep down – I am a very shy and modest
person. I like our family privacy and the personal freedom it allows.
Originally, when we first were acquainted
and you were so sure what I was or wasn’t (this is some twenty-seven years ago)
your focus was to better know yourself, following the dictates attributed to
Socrates and that in your life experiences you wanted no sense of power to
envelope you. Your concern was evil angels, if they existed and your focus on
the novels Animal Farm, 1984, Brave New World and the uses
of propaganda for swaying the masses, during the length of your teaching
career. I have held you to these attributes. Power corrupts from Heaven to Earth
and from Earth to Heaven, true or not, this is your secret motto. You resolved
this for yourself, personally, by coming to the conclusion, deep down, that you
want nothing. Imagination or not, this thinking lights your deepest candle, so
to speak, and allows you to communicate with your deepest inner self through
me, the Amorella, who uses the lines from the unconscious to the conscious mind
to better understand what it is to be a spiritual human being. With this
statement do you agree? – Amorella
2209
hours. I certainly agree with the concepts these words above imply, even in
imagination only as long as it reflects who I am, or rather who I might be
either physically dead and still spiritual alive. The focus is from
heartansoulanmind because I cannot image having anything else or wanting or
needing anything else but heartansoulanmind. This is the base of what I am and
the base of what I think everyone else is. If we survive physical death, I
cannot imagine having anything else but heartansoulanmind. We come in the world
naked and we leave the same way. This is my opinion and I live by it. - rho
Back to my questions. What you state about
changing your name, shows that until ‘entering’ my unconscious you did not know
who or rather perhaps, how I was at that time. (2229)
No, the Amorella, did not know though I have
an understanding of what human nature is. Being spiritual I am not oriented
towards the physical universe. It is by ‘accident’ of design that I am ‘Here’
basically within your heartansoulanmind first touching, as it were, your
physical nature through your parasympathetic nervous system.
** **
The autonomic
nervous system (ANS) is a division of the peripheral nervous system that
influences the function of internal organs. The autonomic nervous system is a
control system that acts largely unconsciously and regulates bodily functions
such as the heart rate, digestion, respiratory rate, pupillary response,
urination, and sexual arousal. This system is the primary mechanism in control
of the fight-or-flight response and the freeze-and-dissociate response.
Within
the brain, the autonomic nervous system is regulated by the hypothalamus. Autonomic
functions include control of respiration, cardiac regulation (the cardiac
control center), vasomotor activity (the vasomotor center), and certain reflex
actions such as coughing, sneezing, swallowing and vomiting. Those are then
subdivided into other areas and are also linked to ANS subsystems and nervous
systems external to the brain. The hypothalamus, just above the brain stem,
acts as an integrator for autonomic functions, receiving ANS regulatory input
from the limbic system to do so.
The
autonomic nervous system has two branches: the sympathetic nervous system and
the parasympathetic nervous system. The sympathetic nervous system is often
considered the “fight or flight” system, while the parasympathetic nervous system is often
considered the "rest and digest" or "feed and breed"
system. In many cases, both of these systems have "opposite" actions
where one system activates a physiological response and the other inhibits it.
An older simplification of the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems
as "excitory" and "inhibitory" was overturned due to the
many exceptions found. A more modern characterization is that the sympathetic
nervous system is a "quick response mobilizing system" and the
parasympathetic is a "more slowly activated dampening system", but
even this has exceptions, such as in sexual arousal and orgasm, wherein both
play a role.
There
are inhibitory and excitatory synapses between neurons. Relatively recently, a
third subsystem of neurons that have been named non-noradrenergic,
non-cholinergic transmitters (because they use nitric oxide as a
neurotransmitter) have been described and found to be integral in autonomic
function, in particular in the gut and the lungs.
Although the ANS is also known as the visceral nervous
system, the ANS is only connected with the motor side. Most autonomous
functions are involuntary but they can often work in conjunction with the
somatic nervous system, which provides voluntary control.
**
The somatic nervous system (SoNS or voluntary
nervous system) is the part of the peripheral nervous system associated
with skeletal muscle voluntary control of body movements. The SoNS consists of
afferent nerves and efferent nerves. Afferent nerves are responsible for
relaying sensation from the body to the central nervous system (CNS); efferent
nerves are responsible for sending out commands from the CNS to the body,
stimulating muscle contraction; they include all the non-sensory neurons connected
with skeletal muscles and skin. The a- of afferent and the e-
of efferent correspond to the prefixes ad- (to, toward) and ex-
(out of).
Structure
There
are 43 segments of nerves in the human body. With each segment, there is a pair
of sensory and motor nerves. In the body, 31 segments of nerves are in the
spinal cord and 12 are in the brain stem.
Besides
these, thousands of association nerves are also present in the body.
Thus
somatic nervous system consists of two parts:
•
Spinal nerves: They
are peripheral nerves that carry sensory information into and motor commands out of the spinal cord.
Cranial nerves: They are the nerve fibers that carry
information into and out of the brain stem. They include smell, vision, eye,
eye muscles, mouth, taste, ear, neck, shoulders, and tongue.
The
somatic nervous system controls all voluntary muscular systems within the body,
and the process of involuntary reflex arcs.
The
basic route of nerve signals within the efferent somatic nervous system
involves a sequence that begins in the upper cell bodies of motor neurons
(upper motor neurons) within the precentral gyrus (which approximates the
primary motor cortex). Stimuli from the precentral gyrus are transmitted from
upper motor neurons and down the corticopinal tract, via axons to control
skeletal (voluntary) muscles. These stimuli are conveyed from upper motor
neurons through the ventral horn of the spinal cord, and across synapses to be
received by the sensory receptors of alpha motor neurons (large lower motor
neurons) of the brainstem and spinal cord.
Upper
motor neurons release a neurotransmitter, acetylcholine, from their axon
terminal knobs, which are received by nicotinic receptors of the alpha motor
neurons. In turn, alpha motor neurons relay the stimulus.
From
there, acetylcholine is released from the axon terminal knobs of alpha motor
neurons and received by postsynaptic receptors (Nicotinic acetylcholine
receptors) of muscles, thereby relaying the stimulus to contract muscle fibers.
Reflex arcs
A reflex arc is a neural circuit that creates a more
or less automatic link between a sensory input and a specific motor output.
Reflex circuits vary in complexity—the simplest spinal reflexes are mediated by
a two-element chain, of which in the human body there is only one, also called
a monosynaptic reflex (there is only one synapse between the two neurones
taking part in the arc: sensory and motor). The singular example of a
monosynaptic reflex is the patellar reflex. The next simplest reflex arc is a
three-element chain, beginning with sensory neurons, which activate interneurons
in the spinal cord, which then activate motor neurons. Some reflex responses,
such as withdrawing the hand after touching a hot surface, are protective, but others,
such as the patellar reflex ("knee jerk") activated by tapping the
patellar tendon, contribute to ordinary behavior.
Selected and edited from Wikipedia
** **
You have spent some time talking to Kim
before she went off to bed. Paul is still at the neighbor’s. You completed the
definitions I, the Amorella, want included. You will no doubt study this in
more detail but I will explain more tomorrow. – Amorella
2357
hours. This is interesting, Amorella. Thank you for contributing.
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