Resources

The following resources are taken from my first book, Nerve Endings of the Soul: Interaction Between the Mind of Man and the Mind of Man Through Neural Synaptic Networks:

John C. Eccles, Evolution of the Brain; Creation of the Self, (London and New York: Routledge, 1989)

Karl C. Popper and John C. Eccles, The Self and Its Brain: An Argument for Interactionism (London and New York: Routledge, 1977, reprinted in 1998)

William A. Dembski, “Are We Spiritual Machines?” First Things, Vol. 96, (October 1, 1999) http://www.discovery.org/viewDB/index.php3?program=CRSC&command=view&id=49

William A. Dembski, “Conflating Matter and Mind,” A Response, http://www.discovery.org/viewDB/index.php3?program=CRSC&command=view&id=116

Watchman Nee, The Spiritual Man: In Three Volumes, (New York: Christian Fellowship Publishers, Inc., 1968)

Charles C. Wyrie, The Holy Spirit (Chicago: Moody Press, 1997)

Ronald H. Nash, The Word of God and the Mind of Man: The Crisis of Revealed Truth in Contemporary Theology (Phillipsburg, New Jersey: P&R Publishing, 1982)

Mortimer J. Adler, Intellect: Mind Over Matter (New York: Collier Books, Macmillan Publishing Company, 1990)

Wilder Penfield, The Mystery of the Mind: A Critical Study of Consciousness and the Human Brain (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1975)

Jeffrey M. Schwartz, M.D. and Sharon Begley, The Mind and the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force (New York: Regan Books, an Imprint of Harper Collins Publishers, 2002)

John C. Eccles, How the Self Controls Its Brain (Berlin, New York, London: Springer-Verlag, 1994)

Friedrich Beck, “Can Quantum Processes Control Synaptic Emission?” International Journal of Neural Systems 7(4): (September, 1996)

Werner Gitt, In the Beginning Was Information: A Scientist Explains the Incredible Design in Nature (Green Forest, Arizona: Master Books, 2007)

William A. Dembski, Being As Communion: A Metaphysics of Information (Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2014)

The arguments presented in my first book led to the following hypothesis:

The Mind of the personal God interacts with the immaterial mind of Man by the atoning grace of god through the living Jesus Christ in our time.  His Holy Spirit indwells a receptive, repentant human spirit with the power to interact with the electrochemical neural synaptic network of the cerebral cortex, the predominant site for cognition.  Synaptic transmission is stochastic, and it is proposed that a nonmaterial energy from the Mind of god induces the synaptic transmission of specified information to the mind of Man by quantum tunneling across presynaptic vesicular grids and synaptic clefts. Information specified in variable expressions is transmitted with a statistically small probability and is distributed through synaptic networks as encoded spike trains of action potentials, a mechanism without violation of the energy conservation law.  The human mind has the unique capacity to interpret meaning and purpose within the linguistic neural codes developed through lifelong learning and archived in memory. 

The following resources are taken from my second book, The Boundless Love of God: A Holy Spirit Story:

Jaroslav Pelikan, Credo: Historical and Theological Guide to Creeds and Confessions of Faith in the Christian Tradition, (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003)

J. Eccles, “A Unitary Hypothesis of Mind-Brain Interaction in the Cerebral Cortex,” Proc R Soc Lond Biol Sci 241 (1302): June 22, 1990)

Hans Christian Von Baeyer, Information: The New Language of Science, (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2003)

Basil Hileyt and Paavo Pylkkanen, “Can Mind Affect Matter via Active Information?” Mind and Matter, 3(2): (2005)

Calvin Miller, “The Unforsaking Christ,” A Hunger for the Holy: Nurturing Intimacy with Christ (West Monroe, LA: Howard Publishing Company, 2003)

Calvin Miller, Into the Depths of God: Where Eyes See the Invisible, Ears Hear the Inaudible, and Minds Conceive the Inconceivable (Bloomington, Minn: Bethany House Publishers,2000)

Mark Batterson, Whisper: How to Hear the Voice of God (New York: Multnomah, 2017