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Throughout our lives, we experience both ourselves and the world around us. Are we confident and hopeful, or depressed and anxious? Neurotransmitters act as chemical messengers that travel through the millions of neurons and receptor sites found all over the body. The majority of them are located in the brain and stomach. Neurotransmitters both inhibit and excite, meaning they help us move and stop moving. Their activation determines how much of life we can feel and understand. Scientist Karl Pribham had found our brain “mathematically constructs order of existence that is beyond both space and time” (Bartlett). Basically, a neurotransmitter acts as an antenna to see or understand dimensions that we already exist within. Oreste, a prosperous financial trader, wrote a book in 2011 about quantum perception in success. He exclaims understanding neurotransmitters and our perception is crucial to being rich, happy, and not close minded. It also prevents getting stuck in ineffective patterns of living (25). Neurotransmitters as a collection are well understood, but poorly defined individually. Each one offers a specific dimension to our conscious. With knowing GABA, Glutamate, Dopamine, Endorphins, Oxytocin, Serotonin, Noradrenaline, we map our personality and understand others, then begin decoding the “quantum” existence, where we live in the 3rd dimension but also perceive the 4th.
The seven neurotransmitters can be organized into two categories. We have one group that determines self-attribute: Dopamine, Endorphins, Oxytocin, GABA, and Glutamate. Exterior Environmental attributes are: Serotonin and Noradrenaline. These are not the only neurotransmitters found in the body, but the core ones of relevance. The rest facilitate strictly physical regulation. Acetylcholine would be one of these, or nitric oxide; neurotransmitters simply required for physiological processes like muscle contractions and blood flow. The first category affects the body independent of circumstance, meaning if things are unfamiliar, they are survival merits. In overview, Dopamine, Endorphins, and GABA give way for motivation, intuition/anticipation, and carefreeness respectively. This means in the most troublesome moments, these three help personal survival. For the second group, Serotonin allows comfort that the environment is stable and peaceful, and Noradrenaline makes the earth look like it has things to be enthusiastic about.
We will analyze a familiar one, Dopamine, the satisfaction chemical. We feel this when eating food, talking to our crush, and accomplishing tasks. Dopamine receptors create movement in the body toward survival, and the brain confirms survival as feel able satisfaction. Dopamine also provides sustenance to complete a task before the reward is granted. By being satisfied by dopamine, one becomes confident and content. Since Dopamine is survival, it is a competitive sentiment; it feels exclusive to yourself or your team. We want the pretty girl, the trophy at sports games, and the most money that we can. When we work for academic or financial success, we want to make something of ourselves and dopamine is our oil. Social interactions can be based on feelings of dopamine in some settings, like a party or a business meeting. When we talk about ourselves from experience, we present ourselves through dopamine. These conversations are based on interests and knowledge, and inadvertently inflate ego. Excessive dopamine has consequence:
Dopamine will leaves sufferers with no choice but to dislike anyone who threatens to
deprive them of their sugar, junk, or attention. To complicate matters, dopamine
makes it impossible for attention zombies to hear any status-negating (i.e.
dopamine-reducing) information. To further complicate matters, dopamine will
facilitate the self-deceptions and denials keeping dopamine addicts from wanting to
know they’re lying and denying (Lyell).
When desire grows out of control, we will manipulate situations for personal benefit. A politician in power lies because securing a position is the goal. Not only is that, but excessive dopamine in the middle cortex of the brain instead of the front part is a basis of schizophrenia: “Extraordinal activation of nigrostriatal and mesolimbic dopaminergic systems (midbrain dopaminergic system) is thought to be one of the most important etiologies for schizophrenia” (Kumamoto). Dopamine of the middle cortex is a place of creativity and ideas, but the frontal lobe is needed to processes it toward reality. Therefore, excessive ideas and not enough tangible connection make dopamine a hallucination of what is not or really happening. This also is a self-problem, because it means you see yourself as the center of a purpose of delusion. Basically although helpful to us, excessive amounts of dopamine lead to over-confidence or delusion, depending on the part of the brain.
Endorphins and Oxytocin regulate joy and pain. We do not like or love anything absent of it. These chemicals show as feelings of meaning within our lives, like when a child is born and a mother feels an unimaginable beauty. It is gratifying rather than simply rewarding, and thus we accept what we cannot change. Endorphins are pictured by remembering when we were happy anticipating as children. Although nothing was perfect, there was wonder in how the world worked; we did a variety of stuff that seems like a waste or boring now. We did not question God, or Santa clause. Exposure to human made society makes other neurotransmitters create a new viewpoint. Some children in public school will turn on GABA, to be disruptive and routy, to make it more fun. Others become fearful of academic pressures, and carefree attitudes are replaced with focus to do well from Dopamine. Endorphins are a neurotransmitter of religious connection: “Dunbar suggests that religious practices are designed to give us that endorphin kick that makes us feel so much better able to cope with the vagaries of the world and, perhaps just as important, so much more at peace with our neighbors” (Veith). Religion provides a sense of peace and meaning for many followers, because a more powerful God gives a reason for humility over self-importance.
The historical figure, Jesus Christ, embodied endorphins throughout his end. He healed a paralyzed man’s hand. The dopamine based religious leaders at the time, the Pharisee, saw themselves equal to God. Jesus’s miracles infuriated them as to call it witchcraft, as it violated their man made laws. They were confused why he wouldn’t join them as the elite, if he was the powerful son of the creator. His mantra back to them was: “If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness” (The English Standard Version Bible, 2 Corinthians 11:30). Christ did not rejoice with them in secrecy, but exposed them to the public before a crowd. The Pharisee was skeptical of Jesus, and Jesus had them on their show. He debated them by implying they are nothing and out for themselves only. In this, he asks them how they will avoid hell in front of everyone. The Pharisee showed pride and anger back, but the crowd felt humility and honesty from Christ. This delayed his crucifixion, because the Pharisee feared the public loved Jesus and hated them. Humble display of strength through endorphins makes a person stronger and more likeable than other neurotransmitters. To sum up, endorphins will make us compassionate for others and not hard on ourselves.
GABA and Glutamate sit last in the Self-chemicals. They are the earliest neurotransmitters found in living organisms, which is relevant for later. They have a simple function, and that is Glutamate fires off nerve signals to cause varying action signals, usually in conjunction with other neurotransmitters. GABA receptors are sedating, numbing signals the brain responds to keep Glutamate in check and overall anxiety low. Half the brain’s receptors are Glutamate receptors (Boeree). They are required mainly for the totality of bodily signals and movements, but excessive glutamate response in a brain is toxic to cells. Glutamate is different than dopamine for our behavior in it is less about motivation or goal, and instead how much the brain is firing in the background nonspecifically. GABA is crucial for self-perception, because if Endorphins negate worry through acceptance, and dopamine reduces stress through enjoyment, GABA is the part of us that just does not care to react to our desires or fears in the simplest numbing sense.
These are all the self-pertaining neurotransmitters, and we can clue together a picture of ourselves. An example: Are you a workaholic that is content financially but constantly worrying and hopeless you’ll find love? Then you have High dopamine, and lower levels of GABA and endorphins. Do you have the ability to harbor negative self-beliefs and doubts, but have no inhibition bolstering out your opinion in public? You may be full of GABA, but lack Endorphins or Dopamine.
Now both Serotonin and Noradrenaline can be seen as chemicals of the environment, but also a measure of depressiveness. Serotonin regulates hundreds of functions in the body, such as temperature, and the most abundant neurotransmitter in the gastric tract in regards to digestion and entire body control. It corresponds primarily to comfort with where you are and consistency with the structure of your day. If life is haphazard and unstable, Serotonin levels drop. Gang violence in inner cities is believed to be from lower Serotonin, because poverty and crime create a survivalist outlook. Serotonin depends on you and your loved ones remaining in well off positions. It is having a natural “safe space”, as many LGBT, African Americans, feminists, and minorities have protested being unable to have in their narratives. This is because Serotonin is hierarchy in the environment through non-aggressive principles. This is evident in Biochemistry of Status and the Function of Mood States when
McGuire and Raleigh (1975) demonstrated that Serotonin level covaries with changes of status in vervet monkeys. Moreover, artificially raising the serotonin levels in subordinate vervet monkeys with fluoxetine (Prozac) results in these individuals rising in status, in some cases to alpha rank (Raleigh, 1991). Dominant animals display an air of calm self-assurance, self-control, and self-directed behavior. Subordinates, on the other hand, appear fidgety, easily perturbed, and their behavior seems to be largely controlled by external stimuli rather than being self-directed.
The lower Serotonin monkeys are portrayed as fidgety and at the direction of a non-impulsive monkey administered Prozac. This means, our boss at work feels more serotonin than us when they pass by. That feeling of pretending to put on your best employee face when a boss walks past you is a response of subjugating our impulses to goof off or be distracted. Furthermore, An experiment looking at brain scans proves a serotonin hallucinogen like LSD makes the user expand connection to their reality: “This could mean that LSD results in a stronger sharing of information between regions that deal with how we perceive the outer world, Enzo Tagliazucchi, a neuroscientist who helped lead the study, said in a statement” (Schlanger). Since Serotonin defines our connection to exterior environment, heightening its activity from a hallucinogen or meditation broadens our scope to belonging to all of nature. Serotonin makes up the boundaries of the encompassing 3D nature we inhabit.
Noradrenaline, the second exterior neurotransmitter is responsible for excitement, arousal, and discovery. In the human body, Dopamine and Noradrenaline convert to one another to balance arousal with rewards. How Noradrenaline arouses you is through making the environment seem engaging. With no Noradrenaline, the world feels either like a wasteland where nothing is discoverable, or like the tasks of the world are maze-like in nature. Noradrenaline serves to allow us to think most things will be easy enough so that we initiate with them. It differs from Dopamine, which relies on carrot-string reward, because Noradrenaline opens the possibility that it’s unlikely the world will disappoint once the voyage has started. Here is Noradrenaline used in regular life: a project is supposed to take 10 hours, and a student procrastinates until the morning it is due and finishes a decent result in 2 hours. Assume he would have taken 5 hours had he done it the night before for the same result, also working constantly. Noradrenaline has made him able to produce efficient work at whichever amount of time he needed. So essentially, it is duration of time. Many meditation experts specialize in trying to churn out Noradrenaline from the brain by perceiving the reality as a constant shifting reality. In that every infinitesimal part of time that passes is a new frame of reality. Lack of physical energy does not prevent Noradrenaline usually, as it is only loosely collaborated with the release of physical epinephrine or Adrenaline. By meditating, I had temporarily felt a Noradrenaline perspective that I no longer thought I had the energy to ride on.
We have gone through the major neurotransmitters in our body, with the exception of Acetylcholine, which aids in memory and sharper thinking, comparable with Glutamate in that it is not correlating to a specific psychological feeling. Every combination of the neurotransmitters listed can create an assortment of perspectives different from one another. There are numerous types of happiness that can result. Somebody about to land on the moon for the first time will rivet at her seat in Noradrenaline, whereas that same day another man is just as happy with Serotonin and Endorphins having a dinner with his family and prayer. Somebody else is winning the lottery and experiencing an equal weight of happiness from primarily Dopamine going from a minimum wage slave to millionaire. Somebody can be an activist for an oppressed group, who feels like changing things is complicated from too low Noradrenaline, and feel oppressed from low Serotonin, but carry a fighting spirit through personal motivation in Dopamine. A friend of mine with ADHD is excited about life constantly researching technology and innovation from high Noradrenaline, but he does not have the personal Dopamine based fortitude to finish up or stay working on any one project. When walking through vast woods, would we be more comfortable with a Serotonin monk declaring there is nothing to fear about natural land, or a wildlife tour group who use the prepared innovations from noradrenaline like weapons and technology to guide and protect us. From seeing how we map ourselves and environments, we can begin to encode the earth’s history of perception. We find out we are living in a 3D world but perceiving upward of the fourth dimension. The encoding of our interactions makes sense once we look from stage 1.
Single-celled living organisms require bare minimum neurotransmitters to live, like the protozoa. Gou writes: “GABA and glutamate have existed in the earliest stage (coelenterate) of animal evolution”. The collective consciousness of organisms using only GABA and glutamate to process life is of single dimensional, a binary of whether the organism exists or not. Location is irrelevant, as bacteria overlaps with their random swimming position, because a protozoon consumes thousands of bacteria per hour. By Using Glutamate signals from touching high concentrations of bacteria, the organism expands to eat. Afterward, it contracts with GABA once it no longer needs to move. It does not need to know how to find food like later animals that would require dopamine receptors. If life were entirely based on Glutamate and GABA for humans, we would alternate between flailing or bashing around for dinner and then stumbling to calm sleep. Almost like somebody heavily drunk, where GABA levels are heightened beyond normal, and they could care less about anything but are not particularly happy. It is simple because GABA is meaningless but necessary to add sedation. We could look at movie or book plotlines to see how villains represent an extreme of one neurotransmitter. A rummaging, mindless beast that hectically causes destruction and swallows innocent people that then curls up and slumbers in a cave when nothing is around is an excessive GABA antagonist. Ghosts or demons in horror are scary because they flaunt excessive GABA/Glutamate, relentlessly inducing anxiety in the low GABA protagonist, allowing the audience to be engaged.
Dopamine is the second dimension of our perceptions. Much of the animal kingdom lives entirely in this mindset. Dopamine can be seen as a second dimension because points of interest begin to play a role in the organism’s perception. A field mouse needs to look for seeds or small prey, not just pass over them like a protozoa. The same mouse in its lifetime must avoid predators and find a mate as it does not reproduce by itself. The mouse is one point in space that is now aware of four other goals: prey, predators, mating, and shelter. By saying many animals see in 2D, we really mean they are constantly spotting something in a picture: “When an animal is hunting, what catches its eye is motion against a steady background, which is why TV images can trigger its hunting instinct” (Korneliussen). A dog will see the world as a series of changing flat picture more so than humans, spotting the point of interest in an image. 2D for animals can be seen in another way: Hawking refers to the surface of the earth as the 2 dimensional walking spaces, above or below ground is 3 dimensional. For animals, all relevance is relative to position on surface. A fox instinctively digs a tunnel once he smells an underground animal, but the relevance is the surface locations coordinate for the animal. It is clear that many animals thrive for competition, wanting the best mate to ensure their genes survive. Groups of surviving organisms will begin to allow for species homogeneity for common survival goals. A school of fish will swim together to look larger to benefit each other’s survival, and ants will effectively assemble and build an anthill putting in their “work” together for shelter. Globalism and humanitarianism are built around this concept. They will never work because although prioritizing your own dopamine release lets you take into account wanting others to feel the same, the expense is a collective consciousness no greater than animals. In movies, an overly manipulative, devil like character is usually the villain flaunting excess dopamine. Usually less outright run amuck destructive, but plotting evil instead.
Serotonin brings us to dimension number three. It lets us receive (Not see at all times) consistent 360 meaning to matter around us. Serotonin is classified to regulate comfort, depression, etc. We could look at a cube now having length, width, and height as if it were Serotonin. It is the three dimensional setting, boundary or moment we live in. Because it relates to our resource availability rather than resource finding ability like Dopamine, we can visualize it as territory plots that lift three dimensionally as volumetric spaces containing dopamine points like food or entertainment boxed in for us. Our house does not need to be rebuilt each season, has food, water, shelter, and our day to day life can stay consistent. Location has meaning to us because we are connected to our homes, communities, and families so our minds are free to see beauty to the scenery and more to life than just seeking. In real life, we can observe the importance of Serotonin in humans from experiences of drug addicts whom were addicted to crack, cocaine, heroin, and other addictive dopamine releasing drugs. My ex-girlfriend described every moment as unpredictable and seemingly dangerous in her life living homeless at age 20 on the streets of Boston Massachusetts. She described to me feeling that nowhere was safe but could not help staying active in order to chase her fixes, sometimes not sleeping for days as nowhere was permanent residence. She would climb into the laundry rooms of apartments or curl up behind garbage cans in dark alleyways. She explained it as trading all the regularities of her previous affluent life in Carlisle, Massachusetts for a perceived “rush” for the unknown converting to survival mode, like an animal. Many addicts or people in poverty live this way spending each moment seeking what is needed for imminent survival.
In the animal kingdom, gorillas, apes, and monkeys have closer serotogenic conscious to ours, and can play with cubs and understand their ground or area is their “zone”, and organize themselves in a serotogenic hierarchy. Domination is the word associated with Serotonin in a biological sense. Now, if Gaba was a single point, and dopamine signals points of interest to branch out onto, Seratonin possesses the third dimensional quality of connection to all of physical world. How can the chemical of dominance and territory, be associated with peace and nature? Because it is not a neurotransmitter of morality, just comfort and order. It is beyond dopamine, because it is entitlement to order, cohesion, safety, etc. An organism like a lion does not feel like he is outmatched or constantly surviving. Against other animals, it fights as if it doesn’t have to win but maintain fortress. Humans have more Serotonin than the kings of the jungle. In “Grasslands – Roots of Power”, on Discovery Channel, a tribe in Africa allows videotaping of their practice of walking side by side slowly and assertively toward lions feasting on a fresh large prey. By maintaining nothing but authority, man can steal food from animals. This is why many of us feel our lives are more important than animals, because humans find more importance in their families and peoples well-being than a lion to their own. The need for meat to feed a tribe overrides feeling scared of the lions, so they nonviolently step back and let man come devour. Serotonin is a higher order chemical than Dopamine, because it’s bringing territory and space to your name. Serotonin will make a person assume they are civilized by feeling more comfortable. The too much serotonin villain is the king of an evil empire, systematically dominating and oppressing others with a culture and loyal army behind him. So where we have reached, when our Gaba (anxiety) and Dopamine (survival) and Serotonin (comfort) are evolutionarily matched, we have enriched lives of happiness rather than just satisfaction or relief.
Most of us would agree we cannot see in four dimensions. The neurotransmitter Noradrenaline however does let us interpret it. A Prior chairman of Princeton university, Martin Armstrong, exclaims: “Einstein has a famous quote pertaining to the 4th dimension: “us physicists believe the separation between past, present, and future is only an illusion, although a convincing one", Likewise, we cannot see time, but we can measure its passing”. Basically, Einstein possessed a theory that time is a 4th dimension because we are shifting through realities, what we see as a 3D single moment. Try taking a picture of someone every day and then playing this collage like a flipbook to see their 4th dimensional journey. Hawking says the 4th dimension is duration on one axis, and possible outcomes on the other. Meaning Noradrenaline, since we know deals with duration of time and effort in the brain, “may make situations feel very long; a minute may feel like an hour” (Dougharty). Our perception of timing and endeavoring life choices runs on this neurotransmitter because it lets us see how much or little room there is for change. We do not take advantage of the 4th dimensional frequency when we do not think innovatively or efficiently from lack of norepinephrine. Innovation isn’t always good; the too much norepinephrine movie villain would be someone that destroys from over-excited innovation, like us to the rain forest.
Endorphins/oxytocin is what many feel as the most profound feeling of life. It would be a frequency more important than Noradrenaline, but leagues ahead of it. Endorphins are an eternalizing feeling that suggests a response to a bigger picture. People cannot explain love to them, other than it is too infinite and vast to quantify. Could Endorphins be the sum of all the great dimensions we do not have neurotransmitters to sense, or is it one farther than Noradrenaline, and we do not know what is in-between. Either way, it is the one that takes into account for all the things we cannot pinpoint.
In conclusion, we have seen how understanding these neurotransmitters give us a better picture into how our own brains work. We see how they work in a hierarchical system of simplicity to represent the dimensions we can sense. Our physical 3D realm is not without a reach into 4D interactivity, and quite possibly, we sense one higher up than directly after 4. In the end, we can only pick so much about our life, and knowing what to make of it is more important.
Throughout our lives, we experience both ourselves and the world around us. Are we confident and hopeful, or depressed and anxious? Neurotransmitters act as chemical messengers that travel through the millions of neurons and receptor sites found all over the body. The majority of them are located in the brain and stomach. Neurotransmitters both inhibit and excite, meaning they help us move and stop moving. Their activation determines how much of life we can feel and understand. Scientist Karl Pribham had found our brain “mathematically constructs order of existence that is beyond both space and time” (Bartlett). Basically, a neurotransmitter acts as an antenna to see or understand dimensions that we already exist within. Oreste, a prosperous financial trader, wrote a book in 2011 about quantum perception in success. He exclaims understanding neurotransmitters and our perception is crucial to being rich, happy, and not close minded. It also prevents getting stuck in ineffective patterns of living (25). Neurotransmitters as a collection are well understood, but poorly defined individually. Each one offers a specific dimension to our conscious. With knowing GABA, Glutamate, Dopamine, Endorphins, Oxytocin, Serotonin, Noradrenaline, we map our personality and understand others, then begin decoding the “quantum” existence, where we live in the 3rd dimension but also perceive the 4th.
The seven neurotransmitters can be organized into two categories. We have one group that determines self-attribute: Dopamine, Endorphins, Oxytocin, GABA, and Glutamate. Exterior Environmental attributes are: Serotonin and Noradrenaline. These are not the only neurotransmitters found in the body, but the core ones of relevance. The rest facilitate strictly physical regulation. Acetylcholine would be one of these, or nitric oxide; neurotransmitters simply required for physiological processes like muscle contractions and blood flow. The first category affects the body independent of circumstance, meaning if things are unfamiliar, they are survival merits. In overview, Dopamine, Endorphins, and GABA give way for motivation, intuition/anticipation, and carefreeness respectively. This means in the most troublesome moments, these three help personal survival. For the second group, Serotonin allows comfort that the environment is stable and peaceful, and Noradrenaline makes the earth look like it has things to be enthusiastic about.
We will analyze a familiar one, Dopamine, the satisfaction chemical. We feel this when eating food, talking to our crush, and accomplishing tasks. Dopamine receptors create movement in the body toward survival, and the brain confirms survival as feel able satisfaction. Dopamine also provides sustenance to complete a task before the reward is granted. By being satisfied by dopamine, one becomes confident and content. Since Dopamine is survival, it is a competitive sentiment; it feels exclusive to yourself or your team. We want the pretty girl, the trophy at sports games, and the most money that we can. When we work for academic or financial success, we want to make something of ourselves and dopamine is our oil. Social interactions can be based on feelings of dopamine in some settings, like a party or a business meeting. When we talk about ourselves from experience, we present ourselves through dopamine. These conversations are based on interests and knowledge, and inadvertently inflate ego. Excessive dopamine has consequence:
Dopamine will leaves sufferers with no choice but to dislike anyone who threatens to
deprive them of their sugar, junk, or attention. To complicate matters, dopamine
makes it impossible for attention zombies to hear any status-negating (i.e.
dopamine-reducing) information. To further complicate matters, dopamine will
facilitate the self-deceptions and denials keeping dopamine addicts from wanting to
know they’re lying and denying (Lyell).
When desire grows out of control, we will manipulate situations for personal benefit. A politician in power lies because securing a position is the goal. Not only is that, but excessive dopamine in the middle cortex of the brain instead of the front part is a basis of schizophrenia: “Extraordinal activation of nigrostriatal and mesolimbic dopaminergic systems (midbrain dopaminergic system) is thought to be one of the most important etiologies for schizophrenia” (Kumamoto). Dopamine of the middle cortex is a place of creativity and ideas, but the frontal lobe is needed to processes it toward reality. Therefore, excessive ideas and not enough tangible connection make dopamine a hallucination of what is not or really happening. This also is a self-problem, because it means you see yourself as the center of a purpose of delusion. Basically although helpful to us, excessive amounts of dopamine lead to over-confidence or delusion, depending on the part of the brain.
Endorphins and Oxytocin regulate joy and pain. We do not like or love anything absent of it. These chemicals show as feelings of meaning within our lives, like when a child is born and a mother feels an unimaginable beauty. It is gratifying rather than simply rewarding, and thus we accept what we cannot change. Endorphins are pictured by remembering when we were happy anticipating as children. Although nothing was perfect, there was wonder in how the world worked; we did a variety of stuff that seems like a waste or boring now. We did not question God, or Santa clause. Exposure to human made society makes other neurotransmitters create a new viewpoint. Some children in public school will turn on GABA, to be disruptive and routy, to make it more fun. Others become fearful of academic pressures, and carefree attitudes are replaced with focus to do well from Dopamine. Endorphins are a neurotransmitter of religious connection: “Dunbar suggests that religious practices are designed to give us that endorphin kick that makes us feel so much better able to cope with the vagaries of the world and, perhaps just as important, so much more at peace with our neighbors” (Veith). Religion provides a sense of peace and meaning for many followers, because a more powerful God gives a reason for humility over self-importance.
The historical figure, Jesus Christ, embodied endorphins throughout his end. He healed a paralyzed man’s hand. The dopamine based religious leaders at the time, the Pharisee, saw themselves equal to God. Jesus’s miracles infuriated them as to call it witchcraft, as it violated their man made laws. They were confused why he wouldn’t join them as the elite, if he was the powerful son of the creator. His mantra back to them was: “If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness” (The English Standard Version Bible, 2 Corinthians 11:30). Christ did not rejoice with them in secrecy, but exposed them to the public before a crowd. The Pharisee was skeptical of Jesus, and Jesus had them on their show. He debated them by implying they are nothing and out for themselves only. In this, he asks them how they will avoid hell in front of everyone. The Pharisee showed pride and anger back, but the crowd felt humility and honesty from Christ. This delayed his crucifixion, because the Pharisee feared the public loved Jesus and hated them. Humble display of strength through endorphins makes a person stronger and more likeable than other neurotransmitters. To sum up, endorphins will make us compassionate for others and not hard on ourselves.
GABA and Glutamate sit last in the Self-chemicals. They are the earliest neurotransmitters found in living organisms, which is relevant for later. They have a simple function, and that is Glutamate fires off nerve signals to cause varying action signals, usually in conjunction with other neurotransmitters. GABA receptors are sedating, numbing signals the brain responds to keep Glutamate in check and overall anxiety low. Half the brain’s receptors are Glutamate receptors (Boeree). They are required mainly for the totality of bodily signals and movements, but excessive glutamate response in a brain is toxic to cells. Glutamate is different than dopamine for our behavior in it is less about motivation or goal, and instead how much the brain is firing in the background nonspecifically. GABA is crucial for self-perception, because if Endorphins negate worry through acceptance, and dopamine reduces stress through enjoyment, GABA is the part of us that just does not care to react to our desires or fears in the simplest numbing sense.
These are all the self-pertaining neurotransmitters, and we can clue together a picture of ourselves. An example: Are you a workaholic that is content financially but constantly worrying and hopeless you’ll find love? Then you have High dopamine, and lower levels of GABA and endorphins. Do you have the ability to harbor negative self-beliefs and doubts, but have no inhibition bolstering out your opinion in public? You may be full of GABA, but lack Endorphins or Dopamine.
Now both Serotonin and Noradrenaline can be seen as chemicals of the environment, but also a measure of depressiveness. Serotonin regulates hundreds of functions in the body, such as temperature, and the most abundant neurotransmitter in the gastric tract in regards to digestion and entire body control. It corresponds primarily to comfort with where you are and consistency with the structure of your day. If life is haphazard and unstable, Serotonin levels drop. Gang violence in inner cities is believed to be from lower Serotonin, because poverty and crime create a survivalist outlook. Serotonin depends on you and your loved ones remaining in well off positions. It is having a natural “safe space”, as many LGBT, African Americans, feminists, and minorities have protested being unable to have in their narratives. This is because Serotonin is hierarchy in the environment through non-aggressive principles. This is evident in Biochemistry of Status and the Function of Mood States when
McGuire and Raleigh (1975) demonstrated that Serotonin level covaries with changes of status in vervet monkeys. Moreover, artificially raising the serotonin levels in subordinate vervet monkeys with fluoxetine (Prozac) results in these individuals rising in status, in some cases to alpha rank (Raleigh, 1991). Dominant animals display an air of calm self-assurance, self-control, and self-directed behavior. Subordinates, on the other hand, appear fidgety, easily perturbed, and their behavior seems to be largely controlled by external stimuli rather than being self-directed.
The lower Serotonin monkeys are portrayed as fidgety and at the direction of a non-impulsive monkey administered Prozac. This means, our boss at work feels more serotonin than us when they pass by. That feeling of pretending to put on your best employee face when a boss walks past you is a response of subjugating our impulses to goof off or be distracted. Furthermore, An experiment looking at brain scans proves a serotonin hallucinogen like LSD makes the user expand connection to their reality: “This could mean that LSD results in a stronger sharing of information between regions that deal with how we perceive the outer world, Enzo Tagliazucchi, a neuroscientist who helped lead the study, said in a statement” (Schlanger). Since Serotonin defines our connection to exterior environment, heightening its activity from a hallucinogen or meditation broadens our scope to belonging to all of nature. Serotonin makes up the boundaries of the encompassing 3D nature we inhabit.
Noradrenaline, the second exterior neurotransmitter is responsible for excitement, arousal, and discovery. In the human body, Dopamine and Noradrenaline convert to one another to balance arousal with rewards. How Noradrenaline arouses you is through making the environment seem engaging. With no Noradrenaline, the world feels either like a wasteland where nothing is discoverable, or like the tasks of the world are maze-like in nature. Noradrenaline serves to allow us to think most things will be easy enough so that we initiate with them. It differs from Dopamine, which relies on carrot-string reward, because Noradrenaline opens the possibility that it’s unlikely the world will disappoint once the voyage has started. Here is Noradrenaline used in regular life: a project is supposed to take 10 hours, and a student procrastinates until the morning it is due and finishes a decent result in 2 hours. Assume he would have taken 5 hours had he done it the night before for the same result, also working constantly. Noradrenaline has made him able to produce efficient work at whichever amount of time he needed. So essentially, it is duration of time. Many meditation experts specialize in trying to churn out Noradrenaline from the brain by perceiving the reality as a constant shifting reality. In that every infinitesimal part of time that passes is a new frame of reality. Lack of physical energy does not prevent Noradrenaline usually, as it is only loosely collaborated with the release of physical epinephrine or Adrenaline. By meditating, I had temporarily felt a Noradrenaline perspective that I no longer thought I had the energy to ride on.
We have gone through the major neurotransmitters in our body, with the exception of Acetylcholine, which aids in memory and sharper thinking, comparable with Glutamate in that it is not correlating to a specific psychological feeling. Every combination of the neurotransmitters listed can create an assortment of perspectives different from one another. There are numerous types of happiness that can result. Somebody about to land on the moon for the first time will rivet at her seat in Noradrenaline, whereas that same day another man is just as happy with Serotonin and Endorphins having a dinner with his family and prayer. Somebody else is winning the lottery and experiencing an equal weight of happiness from primarily Dopamine going from a minimum wage slave to millionaire. Somebody can be an activist for an oppressed group, who feels like changing things is complicated from too low Noradrenaline, and feel oppressed from low Serotonin, but carry a fighting spirit through personal motivation in Dopamine. A friend of mine with ADHD is excited about life constantly researching technology and innovation from high Noradrenaline, but he does not have the personal Dopamine based fortitude to finish up or stay working on any one project. When walking through vast woods, would we be more comfortable with a Serotonin monk declaring there is nothing to fear about natural land, or a wildlife tour group who use the prepared innovations from noradrenaline like weapons and technology to guide and protect us. From seeing how we map ourselves and environments, we can begin to encode the earth’s history of perception. We find out we are living in a 3D world but perceiving upward of the fourth dimension. The encoding of our interactions makes sense once we look from stage 1.
Single-celled living organisms require bare minimum neurotransmitters to live, like the protozoa. Gou writes: “GABA and glutamate have existed in the earliest stage (coelenterate) of animal evolution”. The collective consciousness of organisms using only GABA and glutamate to process life is of single dimensional, a binary of whether the organism exists or not. Location is irrelevant, as bacteria overlaps with their random swimming position, because a protozoon consumes thousands of bacteria per hour. By Using Glutamate signals from touching high concentrations of bacteria, the organism expands to eat. Afterward, it contracts with GABA once it no longer needs to move. It does not need to know how to find food like later animals that would require dopamine receptors. If life were entirely based on Glutamate and GABA for humans, we would alternate between flailing or bashing around for dinner and then stumbling to calm sleep. Almost like somebody heavily drunk, where GABA levels are heightened beyond normal, and they could care less about anything but are not particularly happy. It is simple because GABA is meaningless but necessary to add sedation. We could look at movie or book plotlines to see how villains represent an extreme of one neurotransmitter. A rummaging, mindless beast that hectically causes destruction and swallows innocent people that then curls up and slumbers in a cave when nothing is around is an excessive GABA antagonist. Ghosts or demons in horror are scary because they flaunt excessive GABA/Glutamate, relentlessly inducing anxiety in the low GABA protagonist, allowing the audience to be engaged.
Dopamine is the second dimension of our perceptions. Much of the animal kingdom lives entirely in this mindset. Dopamine can be seen as a second dimension because points of interest begin to play a role in the organism’s perception. A field mouse needs to look for seeds or small prey, not just pass over them like a protozoa. The same mouse in its lifetime must avoid predators and find a mate as it does not reproduce by itself. The mouse is one point in space that is now aware of four other goals: prey, predators, mating, and shelter. By saying many animals see in 2D, we really mean they are constantly spotting something in a picture: “When an animal is hunting, what catches its eye is motion against a steady background, which is why TV images can trigger its hunting instinct” (Korneliussen). A dog will see the world as a series of changing flat picture more so than humans, spotting the point of interest in an image. 2D for animals can be seen in another way: Hawking refers to the surface of the earth as the 2 dimensional walking spaces, above or below ground is 3 dimensional. For animals, all relevance is relative to position on surface. A fox instinctively digs a tunnel once he smells an underground animal, but the relevance is the surface locations coordinate for the animal. It is clear that many animals thrive for competition, wanting the best mate to ensure their genes survive. Groups of surviving organisms will begin to allow for species homogeneity for common survival goals. A school of fish will swim together to look larger to benefit each other’s survival, and ants will effectively assemble and build an anthill putting in their “work” together for shelter. Globalism and humanitarianism are built around this concept. They will never work because although prioritizing your own dopamine release lets you take into account wanting others to feel the same, the expense is a collective consciousness no greater than animals. In movies, an overly manipulative, devil like character is usually the villain flaunting excess dopamine. Usually less outright run amuck destructive, but plotting evil instead.
Serotonin brings us to dimension number three. It lets us receive (Not see at all times) consistent 360 meaning to matter around us. Serotonin is classified to regulate comfort, depression, etc. We could look at a cube now having length, width, and height as if it were Serotonin. It is the three dimensional setting, boundary or moment we live in. Because it relates to our resource availability rather than resource finding ability like Dopamine, we can visualize it as territory plots that lift three dimensionally as volumetric spaces containing dopamine points like food or entertainment boxed in for us. Our house does not need to be rebuilt each season, has food, water, shelter, and our day to day life can stay consistent. Location has meaning to us because we are connected to our homes, communities, and families so our minds are free to see beauty to the scenery and more to life than just seeking. In real life, we can observe the importance of Serotonin in humans from experiences of drug addicts whom were addicted to crack, cocaine, heroin, and other addictive dopamine releasing drugs. My ex-girlfriend described every moment as unpredictable and seemingly dangerous in her life living homeless at age 20 on the streets of Boston Massachusetts. She described to me feeling that nowhere was safe but could not help staying active in order to chase her fixes, sometimes not sleeping for days as nowhere was permanent residence. She would climb into the laundry rooms of apartments or curl up behind garbage cans in dark alleyways. She explained it as trading all the regularities of her previous affluent life in Carlisle, Massachusetts for a perceived “rush” for the unknown converting to survival mode, like an animal. Many addicts or people in poverty live this way spending each moment seeking what is needed for imminent survival.
In the animal kingdom, gorillas, apes, and monkeys have closer serotogenic conscious to ours, and can play with cubs and understand their ground or area is their “zone”, and organize themselves in a serotogenic hierarchy. Domination is the word associated with Serotonin in a biological sense. Now, if Gaba was a single point, and dopamine signals points of interest to branch out onto, Seratonin possesses the third dimensional quality of connection to all of physical world. How can the chemical of dominance and territory, be associated with peace and nature? Because it is not a neurotransmitter of morality, just comfort and order. It is beyond dopamine, because it is entitlement to order, cohesion, safety, etc. An organism like a lion does not feel like he is outmatched or constantly surviving. Against other animals, it fights as if it doesn’t have to win but maintain fortress. Humans have more Serotonin than the kings of the jungle. In “Grasslands – Roots of Power”, on Discovery Channel, a tribe in Africa allows videotaping of their practice of walking side by side slowly and assertively toward lions feasting on a fresh large prey. By maintaining nothing but authority, man can steal food from animals. This is why many of us feel our lives are more important than animals, because humans find more importance in their families and peoples well-being than a lion to their own. The need for meat to feed a tribe overrides feeling scared of the lions, so they nonviolently step back and let man come devour. Serotonin is a higher order chemical than Dopamine, because it’s bringing territory and space to your name. Serotonin will make a person assume they are civilized by feeling more comfortable. The too much serotonin villain is the king of an evil empire, systematically dominating and oppressing others with a culture and loyal army behind him. So where we have reached, when our Gaba (anxiety) and Dopamine (survival) and Serotonin (comfort) are evolutionarily matched, we have enriched lives of happiness rather than just satisfaction or relief.
Most of us would agree we cannot see in four dimensions. The neurotransmitter Noradrenaline however does let us interpret it. A Prior chairman of Princeton university, Martin Armstrong, exclaims: “Einstein has a famous quote pertaining to the 4th dimension: “us physicists believe the separation between past, present, and future is only an illusion, although a convincing one", Likewise, we cannot see time, but we can measure its passing”. Basically, Einstein possessed a theory that time is a 4th dimension because we are shifting through realities, what we see as a 3D single moment. Try taking a picture of someone every day and then playing this collage like a flipbook to see their 4th dimensional journey. Hawking says the 4th dimension is duration on one axis, and possible outcomes on the other. Meaning Noradrenaline, since we know deals with duration of time and effort in the brain, “may make situations feel very long; a minute may feel like an hour” (Dougharty). Our perception of timing and endeavoring life choices runs on this neurotransmitter because it lets us see how much or little room there is for change. We do not take advantage of the 4th dimensional frequency when we do not think innovatively or efficiently from lack of norepinephrine. Innovation isn’t always good; the too much norepinephrine movie villain would be someone that destroys from over-excited innovation, like us to the rain forest.
Endorphins/oxytocin is what many feel as the most profound feeling of life. It would be a frequency more important than Noradrenaline, but leagues ahead of it. Endorphins are an eternalizing feeling that suggests a response to a bigger picture. People cannot explain love to them, other than it is too infinite and vast to quantify. Could Endorphins be the sum of all the great dimensions we do not have neurotransmitters to sense, or is it one farther than Noradrenaline, and we do not know what is in-between. Either way, it is the one that takes into account for all the things we cannot pinpoint.
In conclusion, we have seen how understanding these neurotransmitters give us a better picture into how our own brains work. We see how they work in a hierarchical system of simplicity to represent the dimensions we can sense. Our physical 3D realm is not without a reach into 4D interactivity, and quite possibly, we sense one higher up than directly after 4. In the end, we can only pick so much about our life, and knowing what to make of it is more important.
