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Micro-Lesson: Meet the Two Systems

  • Writer: Dr. Sylvester "Sly" Sullivan
    Dr. Sylvester "Sly" Sullivan
  • Nov 15
  • 2 min read

Updated: Nov 17


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If you’ve ever felt conflicted inside — calm in your spirit but anxious in your body, wise in your mind but reactive in your emotions — you’re not imagining it.

There are two different systems inside you, each speaking its own language.

Neurospiritualism teaches that the path to coherence begins with understanding these systems clearly, gently, and with reverence.

Let’s meet them.


1. The Neural System

Your Human Design

The neural system includes:

  • your attention

  • your perception

  • your emotional rhythms

  • your imagination

  • your sensory signals

  • your memory

  • your nervous system responses

  • the patterns you learned in childhood

  • the patterns you inherited from ancestors


It’s the part of you that:

  • scans for danger

  • looks for patterns

  • tries to protect you

  • tries to predict outcomes

  • tries to keep life manageable


Your neural system doesn’t judge — it remembers. It uses memory to create protection.

When it feels overwhelmed, it becomes:

  • reactive

  • anxious

  • distant

  • numb

  • easily triggered

  • easily exhausted


Most people live at the mercy of their neural system because no one ever taught them how to regulate it.


But your neural system is not the enemy. It’s a guardian that needs guidance.


2. The Spiritual System

Your Spiritual Design

Your spiritual system includes:

  • intuition

  • meaning

  • sacred awareness

  • inner witness

  • your ability to feel connected

  • the sense of inner truth

  • the ability to sense Sacred Intelligence

  • the part of you that knows before it explains


It is the system that whispers:

  • “This is right.”

  • “This is not for you.”

  • “This is your path.”

  • “Something deeper is calling.”


The spiritual system is subtle, not loud. It doesn’t force — it invites. It doesn’t pressure — it reveals.

When it awakens, you feel:

  • grounded

  • clear

  • quietly confident

  • spiritually aware

  • aligned

  • peaceful

  • connected


But when it becomes disconnected—often due to trauma, fear, or life noise—it feels:

  • distant

  • dim

  • unsure

  • hard to trust


Not because it’s gone, but because it’s been drowned out by a louder neural system.


The Two Systems Were Designed to Move Together

Your neural system manages the world. Your spiritual system interprets the sacred.

When they work together, you feel:

  • balanced

  • intuitive

  • stable

  • spiritually connected

  • emotionally grounded

  • coherent


When they work against each other, you feel:

  • split

  • conflicted

  • anxious

  • spiritually disconnected

  • scattered

  • overwhelmed


This is why Neurospiritualism exists:

To help your neural system and your spiritual system relearn how to move together.

Harmony is the Bridge

When the two systems begin cooperating—even for a moment—you feel:

  • clarity

  • warmth

  • presence

  • inner alignment

  • groundedness


This is harmony.


And harmony is what prepares you for coherence —the state in which Human Intelligence aligns with Sacred Intelligence.


This is the foundation of Neurospiritualism.


Your two systems are sacred. Your two systems are necessary. Your two systems are ready to meet again.



Blessed harmony

 
 
 

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