15. Creative Consciousness Background

 

While researching something else, you came across a doctor's note about a brain scan you had some years ago. Ms. H.

 

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Here is what Dr. Ten Pas said as she went through your MRI brain scans and blood work. 

         You have a small benign tumor between the two halves of the brain. Not to worry, as it should not grow further as you are older. Your cerebellum looks very healthy. The rest of your brain looks good except for a bit of hardening of the arteries at the top left of the lateral ventricle (the central cavity). This has been caused by high blood pressure even though the blood pressure has been treated on and off since 1960 (mostly on since 1972). You have no autoimmune diseases and no inflammations in the brain. You do not have multiple sclerosis though this was suggested as a problem. You do have:

12.6: Occipital neuralgia  (15 Nov. 08)

The IHS description of occipital neuralgia is the following: occipital neuralgia is a paroxysmal jabbing pain in the distribution of the greater or lesser occipital nerves, accompanied by diminished sensation or dysaesthesiae in the affected area. It is commonly associated with tenderness over the nerve concerned. Diagnostic criteria are:

A. Pain is felt in the distribution of greater or lesser occipital nerves.

You awoke at two and lay in bed until almost three. Your legs feel better, and you wonder if it is because you lowered your dose of Gabapentin to 300mg a day rather than 600mg. You have concluded you have a hypersensitivity to the drug and that you are weaning yourself off it. Dr. Ten Pass’s office called and asked if you wanted to try another drug, but you did not return the call as you are still feeling the effects of the Gabapentin. As for the transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation, you have had enough of that also as you are still feeling the effects on your neck and the top of your left shoulder.  (7 Dec 08)

Selected from -- https://encountersinmind.blogspot.com/search?q=temporal+lobe

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"The above collaborates with my hospital witnessing ‘glitch in the left temporal lobe in the mid-eighties. Once or twice in that decade, I felt I had a seizure of some kind and mentioned it to the doctor, but nothing was detected."

 

Selected from "Notes – Ch.2 of book, Imagine . . .", 26 March 2012, "Encounters in Mind" Blog; https://encountersinmind.blogspot.com

 

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There is one more document I would like you to add here for reference. Ms. H. 

 

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Orbicularis oculi is a sphincter muscle around the eye and acts, in general, to narrow the eye-opening and close the orbit of the eye. This muscle has important functions in protecting and moistening the eye as well as in expressive displays. These muscles constrict skin around the eye, reduce the eye-opening, and close the eye. It has three parts, an outer or orbital part, an inner or palpebral part in the eyelids, and a small lacrimal part near the tear duct. The outer part originates in the medial part of the orbit and runs around the eye via the upper eye cover fold and lid and returns in the lower eyelid to the palpebral ligament; the palpebral part originates in the palpebral ligament and runs above and below the eye to the lateral angle of the eye. These two muscles form concentric circles around the eye. The action of the palpebral part is often involuntary, as in the blink reflex.

Orbicularis oculi is innervated by zygomatic and frontal branches of the facial nerve (VII) and is supplied with blood by the superficial temporal and facial arteries.

www.face-and-emotion.com/dataface/expression/o_oculi.html

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Sympathetic

Both the levator and the orbicularis are striped and voluntary. However, there are unstriped fibers which are involuntary and of the sympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system

Orbicularis oculi responses to trigeminal and median nerve stimuli Occipital neuralgia

Also selected and edited from -- Selected from -- https://encountersinmind.blogspot.com/search?q=temporal+lobe / and Wikipedia

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A part of myself, a representative of Richard's human spirit, his heartansoulanmind, works through the temporal lobe and the cerebellum. This is the same pathway that his spirit friend, Amorella (imaginary or not), worked. Amorella considered herself from the spirit world; however, in this blog, I consider myself spiritual in the upper reaches of that Cosmic Microwave Background mentioned after yesterday's blog. 

 

In Mr. Orndorff's blogs: "Encounters in Spirit" and "Old Man on a Study." I was represented as Richard's soul, and my name was oSoul. Here I am not, as this is a different setting and circumstance. Grandma Earth referred to the CMB as a "creative consciousness background – a background from when The Creator in that story became G-D is G-D in a metaphorical and allegorical story setting. These stories are not intended to be nonfiction, but they are stories to set forth a spiritual sense in human understanding for personal meditation and comfort if desired. – Ms. Havisham

 

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This is Grandma Earth. The upcoming sixth chapter story is long, so I will include it in tomorrow's blog post. Bracc is the main character, and he tells a story to his audience, his tribe. The concluding circumstance charges the audience to decide whether Bracc's story was "true" in the sense of human understanding or not. If the story is true, then it is an important story, perhaps one worth dying for. Until tomorrow, then. – Grandma

 

The story is over five thousand words, as I've read it. Mr. Orndorff may do some further editing before Grandma Earth's presentation. – Ms. Havisham

 

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