Thank you for posting your replies. Very interesting indeed.
Thanks to ETL for posting this excellent article.
As a result I’ve just spent 3.5 hrs researching Martinotti cells. I’ve often wondered why, in some people I can’t lift their consciousness beyond a certain level. It hits a ceiling and stops. For me, it actually feels like they have a hat on their head that keeps consciousness functioning at the lower levels. This is a safety mechanism to stop consciousness from reaching high frequencies while still holding on to dense low frequency memories such as fear, anger, guilt. It’s kind of like the tilt cut out switch on the spin cycle of a washer. If you put in a wet blanket the washer starts wobbling and does not reach full spin frequency.
These Martinotti cells are in the distal layer of the brain and connect to the apex dendrite of the pyramidal cells limiting their frequency range. This also explains the feeling as though a rubber swim cap is being pulled down over my head as I tune to the higher frequencies of consciousness.
It also explains why I get a headache if I allow myself to get angry. It’s not blood pressure going up, but a pinching feeling in my brain.
Seeking understanding of the human body and the related consciousness interaction is far better than any crossword puzzle existing. What is fascinating is that intelligence is a function of the level of consciousness functioning at any moment. When I first reached the higher levels many years ago, it was as though a thousand volumes of encyclopedias were downloaded into me like epiphanies. The higher you go the easier it gets. Staying up there in this reality is very difficult. We become all ONE at the higher levels.
Per a journal article:
Scientists at Karolinska Institutet and the Brain Mind Institute in Switzerland have now discovered a mechanism that might explain how the most common type of neuron in the cerebral cortex - the pyramid cell - is prevented from becoming over-activated. Their results show that a rarer cell type that links collections of pyramid cells - called a Martinotti cell - acts as a kind of safety device. When a Martinotti cell receives signals above a certain frequency, it responds by sending back inhibitory signals that moderate surrounding pyramid cells.