Todd Murphy's fascinating argument of what enlightenment is and the vagus nerve right Hippocampus Void connection

And this is the experience that has gotten the nickname the Void....partial from near death experiences...it can happen from peyote experiences... two people who had head injuries, enough to make a concussion. They would find themselves with their eyes closed. Staring not into the dull black space behind their eyelids, but rather into the Void. This void has an interesting characteristic....it has a tactile quality, it vibrates...it has a texture. It seems to communicate something. But remember it's coming out of the right side of the brain. So it never gives you the words, to know what it is communicating.

Inhibitory Synapses are FAR MORE readily removed than Excitatory synapses  and so once the right side amygdala inhibition neurons are "removed" through a strong shock to the brain - then after then your brain is hard-wired to experience the left side amygdala that experiences bliss.

And so Dr. Todd Murphy, the protege of Professor Michael Persinger, emphasizes the central role of the right side hippocampus in creating spiritual experiences. So I looked up the vagus nerve connection to the hippocampus!

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323048295_The_vagus_nerve_modulates_BDNF_expression_and_neurogenesis_in_the_hippocampus

So this means the lower body right side vagus nerve increases nerve growth in the hippocampus!!

subdiaphragmatic vagotomy on hippocampal neurogenesis

They state - they don't know why or exactly how this is possible. haha. It's the qi energy!

The precise mechanisms underlying these effects are not yet clear. However, the vagus nerve is one of the primary bidirectional routes of communication between the gut and the brain and thus may represent a candidate mechanism. Yet, relatively little is known about the direct influence of vagus nerve activity on hippocampal function and plasticity.

And so another study shows vagus nerve stimulation increases nerve growth!!

Our results show that acute VNS induced an increase in the number of BrdU⁺ cells in the dentate gyrus that was apparent 24 h and 3 wk after treatment.

 VNS, like antidepressant drugs (Dazzi et al.2002a, b), increased the concentration of norepinephrine in the rat prefrontal cortex (Follesa et al.2007). These various observations support the idea that VNS acts directly by stimulating brainstem structures and indirectly by regulating the activity of neurons in limbic and cortical regions involved in mood modulation.

And so how to do this? Physical exericse is a big part of it:

 serotonergic neurons in these nuclei retrogradely transport BDNF from the frontal cortex, occipital cortex, entorhinal cortex, and amygdala (their projection areas) to their cell bodies [36, 37]. Noradrenergic neurons of the locus coeruleus retrogradely transport BDNF from the frontal and entorhinal cortex.

 Indeed, aerobic exercise of moderate intensity for 12 months improved memory and hippocampal size in healthy older adults, effectively reversing age-related loss of volume by one to two years [238].

 https://www.god-helmet.com/wp/index.htm  Todd Murphy website

I remember when he was just promoting "amygdala flexing." haha. Glad to see he has expanded!

Strange - new book published last fall - has no Amazon reviews and is not listed in google books.
Here's his vid on it - from his channel brainsci Deja Vu - I wonder if he thinks Precognition is real or not? haha.

He called it the "smelly can of worms" in neuroscience! Hilarious. He said that was the term you hear to describe precognition since it challenges causality and spacetime concepts.