The Indoctrinated Brain Quotes

“What the herd hates most is the one who thinks differently; it is not so much the opinion itself, but the audacity of wanting to think for themselves, something that they do not know how to do. — Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860)”
― Michael Nehls, The Indoctrinated Brain: How to Successfully Fend Off the Global Attack on Your Mental Freedom

“The Indoctrinated Brain provides the missing practical knowledge of neuroscience, that explains why isolating people creates a more befuddled, more easily manipulated population. It explains exactly why a message that closeness with other human beings can kill you, or you can kill others (especially your grandma) through physical closeness, might rewire the human brain to create the vulnerability to delusion and bad science and cultlike thinking, that many of us observed in formerly critically thinking loved ones and friends, post-2020. It even raises the question of whether the spike protein contributes to brain fog and to the erasure of a sense of an autonomous, resilient, individuated, and questing self.”
― Michael Nehls, The Indoctrinated Brain: How to Successfully Fend Off the Global Attack on Your Mental Freedom

“Independence of thought is the first characteristic of freedom. Without it, one remains a slave to circumstances. — Vivekananda (1863–1902)”
― Michael Nehls, The Indoctrinated Brain: How to Successfully Fend Off the Global Attack on Your Mental Freedom

“For example, the book you are holding in your hands describes in detail how adult humans can be robbed of their individuality and conditioned by reprogramming their autobiographical memory center.”
― Michael Nehls, The Indoctrinated Brain: How to Successfully Fend Off the Global Attack on Your Mental Freedom

“Years ago, however, with the development of lipid nanoparticles (LNPs), molecules were found that could act as brain-penetrating packaging material; that is, they could cross the blood-brain barrier. Their original use was to deliver chemotherapeutic drugs to the brain for the treatment of brain tumors (see sidebar Brain Toxic Packaging).37 It was no secret that LNPs could also be used to deliver genetic material in the form of DNA or mRNA to the brain or brain cells to become biologically active.”
― Michael Nehls, The Indoctrinated Brain: How to Successfully Fend Off the Global Attack on Your Mental Freedom

“Five years later, in 2007, Chinese researchers at the State Key Laboratory of Virology, College of Life Science, Wuhan University, clearly demonstrated that the spike protein of SARS-CoV-1, the virus responsible for severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2003 and 2004, causes our immune system to release large amounts of proinflammatory messengers such as IL-6 and tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha).31 In other words, the coronary spike protein indirectly attacks the natural function of our autobiographical memory via our own immune system.”
― Michael Nehls, The Indoctrinated Brain: How to Successfully Fend Off the Global Attack on Your Mental Freedom

“A vitamin D level two to three times higher, around 100-150 nmol/l (40-60 ng/ml), which is necessary for both immunological77 and neurological health,78 is usually only achieved by people who supplement sufficiently.”
― Michael Nehls, The Indoctrinated Brain: How to Successfully Fend Off the Global Attack on Your Mental Freedom

“This so-called adult hippocampal neurogenesis takes place mainly during REM sleep.29 An international team of researchers led by stem cell researcher Jonas Frisén at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden found that up to 1.5 percent of all hippocampal neurons are newly formed each year.30 This is significantly more hippocampal neurons than in any other species studied to date. And, as Frisén’s team was able to show, this new production continues throughout life in humans. Frisén’s researchers calculated the individual age of existing hippocampal neurons by determining the radioactive carbon isotopes incorporated into the neurons’ genetic material and thus inferring the production rate.”
― Michael Nehls, The Indoctrinated Brain: How to Successfully Fend Off the Global Attack on Your Mental Freedom

“Victory over nature would only be possible if we simultaneously defeated ourselves.”
― Michael Nehls, The Indoctrinated Brain: How to Successfully Fend Off the Global Attack on Your Mental Freedom

“However, binding of the S1 subunit of SARS-CoV-2 to β-amyloid also accelerates viral infection or virus entry into somatic cells, increasing the release of proinflammatory messengers, which could also be a reason for hippocampal damage and increased Alzheimer’s risk.”
― Michael Nehls, The Indoctrinated Brain: How to Successfully Fend Off the Global Attack on Your Mental Freedom

“the basic physiological mechanisms that ensure that there is never a shortage of index neurons in our hippocampus—a basic requirement for charging and maintaining the capacity of the “frontal brain battery”—can be explained quite simply. Different domains of life interact, stimulating hippocampal neurogenesis and keeping it active throughout life.”
― Michael Nehls, The Indoctrinated Brain: How to Successfully Fend Off the Global Attack on Your Mental Freedom

“Commenting on the significance of these findings, Boldrini’s team writes, “Healthy elderly people have the potential to remain cognitively and emotionally more intact than commonly believed, due to the persistence of AHN [adult hippocampal neurogenesis] into the eighth decade of life.” In fact, “over a 65-year age span, proliferating neural progenitors, immature and mature granule neurons [neurons at different stages of maturing] and dentate gryus volume were unchanged.”
― Michael Nehls, The Indoctrinated Brain: How to Successfully Fend Off the Global Attack on Your Mental Freedom

“The dentate gyrus has the unique ability to produce thousands of new neurons every day, even in adults, to ensure that we always have a sufficient number of place-and time-coding index neurons with which to form new memories and distinguish them from previous ones.”
― Michael Nehls, The Indoctrinated Brain: How to Successfully Fend Off the Global Attack on Your Mental Freedom

“These index neurons remain in the hippocampal dentate gyrus throughout life, anchoring (indexing) all of our autobiographical memory content. Without these index neurons, our memory fragments stored on the neocortical hard drive would be impossible to find or reconstruct (see the thick black arrow in figure 5). Therefore, remembering is easier when we recall when and where something happened or was thought, thereby activating the place and time neurons responsible for that experience.”
― Michael Nehls, The Indoctrinated Brain: How to Successfully Fend Off the Global Attack on Your Mental Freedom

“For contextual remembering, new memories are related to existing memory content. This happens in a later stage of sleep, when we dream. As we sleep and try to follow our dream actions and experiences in the virtual space created by our brain, we often move our eyes rapidly. That’s why this stage of sleep is called rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. In REM sleep, the new memories uploaded in SWS are linked to past memory content, so it is not uncommon for us to wake up in the morning with new insights.23 We need to sleep and dream to be able to remember what we have experienced and thought in the long term.”
― Michael Nehls, The Indoctrinated Brain: How to Successfully Fend Off the Global Attack on Your Mental Freedom

“The contents of a hippocampal memory are stored in fragmented form in different locations in the neocortex according to a rule that is not yet fully understood, which means that whenever we recall neocortical memories, defragmentation must take place.”
― Michael Nehls, The Indoctrinated Brain: How to Successfully Fend Off the Global Attack on Your Mental Freedom

“Because the hippocampus is only designed to handle a daily load of memorable events, most people are unable to store any more information in the evening, particularly after a busy day. In order for us to be receptive the next day, the hippocampus must move the new information into permanent storage. We can compare the memory contents of the hippocampus to the data on a memory stick. In order to be ready for recording again, the computer transfers the data on the memory stick from the limited memory space to an internal mass-storage device. A similar kind of transfer also takes place in the hippocampus during sleep.”
― Michael Nehls, The Indoctrinated Brain: How to Successfully Fend Off the Global Attack on Your Mental Freedom

“have also been able to show in studies. My theory that the actual target is the memory center of our brain is also supported by the fact that lipid nanoparticles are used as gene transfer vehicles, which can efficiently cross the blood-brain barrier. This is no more justified for vaccination against a virus that primarily infects the respiratory tract than it is for vaccination of children, for whom the virus poses no threat in the first place.”
― Michael Nehls, The Indoctrinated Brain: How to Successfully Fend Off the Global Attack on Your Mental Freedom