Neuroscience Research for Healthcare—Judas Goat, Part One

Photo of a “Judas Goat” leading herd of sheep.

 

“Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.” —  Matthew 7:15 

 

A Judas goat is a trained goat used in animal herding. it will repeatedly lead sheep to slaughter. When referring to persons, it describes those willing to harm others for their own perceived benefit.

The Judas Goat discussed here include: US healthcare/pharma-chemical interests/scientific research, government and other organizations portraying themselves as having the public’s best interests as their goal and guiding their ethics. For some working in these institutions, this may be true; particularly if they do not comply with this cohort’s usual ways of operating. The COVID experience demonstrates this economic-political collective seeks to diminish personal autonomy for the financial, political, psychological, and military power of a self-selected few.

The BRAIN Initiative®, Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies® aims at revolutionizing our understanding of the human brain. The following is a summary of their self-description. By accelerating the development and application of innovative technologies, researchers seek to produce the first revolutionary, new dynamic picture of the brain showing how individual cells and complex neural circuits interact in space/time. They state this picture is for use by researchers seeking new ways to treat, cure, and prevent brain disorders. It would fill major gaps in current knowledge and provide unprecedented opportunities for exploring how the brain enables the human body to record, process, utilize, store, and retrieve vast amounts of information at the speed of thought.

Despite advances in neuroscience in recent years, the underlying causes of most of neurological and psychiatric conditions remain unknown because of the immense complexity of the human brain. To develop effective ways of helping people, researchers need a more complete set of information and tools for understanding brain functioning both in health and disease. One focus of the initial years of the BRAIN Initiative is development of next-generation tools to explore how dynamic patterns of neural activity in the brain control thoughts, feelings, choices and behaviors.

These ambitious goals require ideas from top scientists and engineers across diverse disciplines and sectors.So, NIH is in close collaboration with other government agencies, including the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), National Science Foundation (NSF), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA). Also, a diverse cadre of private for-profit, universities and nonprofit partners investing a variety of resources in the BRAIN Initiative.

 

According to Koroshetz et al., 2018 the NIH BRAIN Initiative rolled out three large “BRAIN 2.0 transformative projects” to (1) build a comprehensive atlas of cell types in the human brain, (2) develop and scale up the tools necessary to complete a microconnectivity map of an entire mammalian brain, and (3) provide tools for precise access to identified cell types to allow interrogation and modulation of neural circuits (Chart, Figure 1, Shown at right, Courtsey of The BRAIN Initiative® ).

Together, these tools will enable the development of novel interventions, including molecular and gene-editing therapies for human circuit disorders. Disorders’ descriptions are subject to change. Each project will be built around a framework which a) situates scientific investigation in the context of diverse perspectives (Richardson et al., 2021), b) democratizes the tools and data resources generated, and c) promotes clinical applications of discoveries for universal benefit.

Some comments and research by top neural-research related scientists give a window into their professional thoughts and are a cause for concern.

 

“And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.” — 1 Chronicles 28:9

 

In August 2020, Forbes published an article titled, “Could A ‘Morality Pill’ Help Stop the Covid-19 Pandemic?” based on the opinion of a bioethicist Parker Crutchfield. The ‘problem’ Crutchfield addressed with theoretical ‘morality pills’ was COVID contrarians, those refusing to comply with social restrictions and/or treatment protocols. Crutchfield stated, The Morality Pill’s, ‘moral enhancer’ psychoactive substances act on one’s ability to reason what is the right thing to do. Crutchfield stated,

The problem of coronavirus defectors could be solved by moral enhancement … people could take a substance to boost their cooperative, pro-social behavior. … a solution would be to make moral enhancement compulsory or administer it secretly, perhaps via the water supply.

 

A 2014 research project creating “fake memories” was reported in Smithsonian Magazine in an article titled, “Meet the Two Scientists Who Implanted a False Memory Into a Mouse,” which described a series of experiments which implanted false memories in mice. The scientists did a number of manipulations the essence of which is: they prepared the mice by surgically implanting thin filaments through the skulls of the mice into their dentate gyrus. They placed a mouse in box-B and gave it a foot shock while simultaneously triggering a memory of it previously having been in a different, “safe box,” box-A with no shock.

When they placed the mouse in the “safe” box again; it acted terrified, associating box-A with the shock received in Box-B. The scientists’ conclusion, the mouse’s brain, housed an intentionally manipulated memory. They repeated this to confirm they had identified and labeled an engram [unit of cognitive information imprinted in a physical substance]. They killed the mice after the repeat; examined their brain tissues under a microscope to confirm the presence of the engrams. The cells involved in a specific memory glowed green having been treated with chemicals which react with channelrhodopsin-2, a light-gated proton channel from a green alga.

A 2015 article, “Neuromodulation of Group Prejudice and Religious Belief” was published in “Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.” The authors of this study presented participants with a reminder of death and a critique of their ‘in-group’ ostensibly written by a member of an ‘out-group’ which lessened both avowed belief in God and out-group devaluation by downregulating posterior medial frontal cortex (pMFC), assumed to monitor performance problems and interact with other brain areas implementing the adaptations. The results provide the first evidence group prejudice and religious belief are susceptible to magnetic, targeted neuromodulation.

 

Magnetogenetics is a biological technique involving the use of magnetic fields to remotely control cell activity. According to the behavioral research company Noldus, magnetogenetics uses electromagnetic control, by activating cells using magnetic fields. With magnetogenetics researchers have found a way to control neurons with electromagnets.

Magnetogenetics is one with two other brain cell control methods which are, optogenetics and chemogenetics. Optogenetics, an invasive method, requires inserting optical fibers to into the brain to switch groups of related neurons on or off on a millisecond-by-millisecond timescale with pulses of laser light. Chemogenetics uses engineered proteins activated by designer drugs and can be targeted to specific cell types.

In 2016, two University of Virginia scientists demonstrated neurons in the brain supplemented with a synthetic gene, can be remotely manipulated by a magnetic field. They said they may have discovered a major step toward developing a ‘dream tool’ for remotely controlling neural circuits demonstrating a genetically engineered virus protein ‘Magneto’, can remotely control the firing of neurons deep within the brain, and control complex behaviors.

 

My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their resting place. — Jeremiah 50:6

 

Another area of behavioral modification is digital vaccines, behavioral modification software. According to the Center for Digital Health at Brown’s Alpert Medical School, digital vaccines solve the problem of creating sustained behavioral change as a subtype of digital therapeutics, using neurocognitive training to promote positive human behavior using convenient technologies like smartphone apps.

Carnegie Mellon University hosts Digital Vaccine Project, an initiative for developing and evaluating digital vaccine prospects. Among a number of candidates is COVID-19, which looks like a gamified, nudging bot designed to train people to perform health-hygiene habits, as defined by the owners of the algorithm.

In a recent lecture, Dr. James Giordano, Professor at Georgetown University Medical Center who served as a Senior Science Advisory Fellow of the Strategic Multilayer Assessment group of the Joint Staff of the Pentagon discussed neuroweapons; how most if not all the past few decades of developments in brain science can and are being weaponized and used in the military and beyond. He stated the ethical questions are mostly yet to be determined; however, military applications have had primacy. He said Pandora’s box has been open for decades. You can watch Dr. Giordano explain this in these videos:

Video one: Bold New Neuroscience;

Video two: (DARPA) Nano SMART Dust, Johnny Depp Transcendence, Hive-Minds, Revolution Sci-Fi.;

Video three: The Medgeía Club

 

We are created by God in His Image; as His Image bearers. He imbued us with the personal authority to make choices. Manipulation, particularly in a manner which subjugates one to the domination of another is Biblically referred to as sorcery, Acts 8:9-13, Galatians 5:13. ‘You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love.’

 

Barbara Bush, M.P.S. was an alcoholic/drug addict until age 34, and after a 5 year cleansing period she earned a master’s degree from Loyola University Graduate Institute for Ministry. Her career has spanned federal, state and local governments, community organizations and ministry working in behavioral health, criminal justice and human services. For the past ten years she has focused on promoting Biblical Truth. She is the principal at Graceful Dynamics Consulting.

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