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The Neural
Structures of Christ

The neuroscience of the virtues and the message Christ came to deliver.

Pride and selfishness are not just character flaws. They are paths the brain has traveled so many times that they started running on their own. What Jesus taught with his own life can also become a path: love of neighbor, forgiveness, social justice, and the Kingdom of God, repeated until they become the natural way to react.

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By Euller Nascimento and Isabella Becker

The question of the book

When did God ask for this?

Wars with the name of God on the flag. Pulpits that preach against the neighbor. Families that cast out a child in the name of faith. And, at home, the same thing on a smaller scale: the person who knows what is right and, under pressure, does the opposite.

Peter swore he would never deny Jesus. That same night, he denied him three times. He knew what was right. What he lacked was the structure to do it.

You know the Gospel by heart and still react with pride before you think.

You see religion used as a weapon, a market, and a stage, and you wonder what is left of the message.

You were hurt in the name of God and still miss something you cannot name.

Knowing is not enough. What Christ taught is learned the way the brain learns everything it keeps: by repeating, until it becomes a response.

The idea of the book

The Gospels and Virtology, side by side

Two bodies of knowledge that had never been put together in this way.

“Virtue is not an idea to admire. It is an act to practice.”Euller Nascimento, in the book's Introduction

On one side, the words of Jesus, read with attention to the Greek and the Hebrew. On the other, Virtology, created by Dr. Eduardo Casarotto: the 33 virtues, the Pyramid of Virtues, the seven Developmental Bands, and the way pride and selfishness operate in the brain.

The thesis fits in one sentence. No one abandons an old path without opening a new one. Good intentions are not enough. What changes a person is the new response, repeated with awareness, until it is as natural as the old one was.

That is why the book does not end in reflection. It proposes training: one virtue at a time, starting with the Treatment Foundation, in fourteen-day cycles.

What Jesus came to ask

The four pillars

This is what the book calls the neural structures of Christ.

Love of neighbor

Seeing the other as someone who matters as much as I do. The border between “us” and “them” dissolves.

Who was a neighbor? · Luke 10:36

Forgiveness

Letting go of the weight that ties you to the past, without denying what happened. Whoever keeps count is still collecting.

Seventy times seven · Matt. 18:22

III

Social justice

Love that shows up as action in the face of the pain and inequality of the person beside you.

To preach the gospel to the poor · Luke 4:18

The Kingdom of God

The state in which the separation between me and the other ceases to exist. It begins within and shows up without.

Within you, among you · Luke 17:21

The body of the book

Two books in one

First the person. Then the world. 146 chapters in 32 parts.

Book I

The Person

The structure inside each one of us: the root, Scripture, and training.

The root: pride and selfishness, and what happens in the brain when they are in command
The face of Jesus: what the image hides and what it reveals
The preaching of Christ and the 33 virtues
The eight Beatitudes and the eight virtues of the Treatment Foundation
The Ten Commandments through the seven Developmental Bands
Temptation, fall, and mirror: the neural path
The four pillars and grace
Thirteen psalms, one for each situation in life
The forgotten parables and ten practical scenes

Book II

The World

The structure in society and in history: from the micro to the macro.

When the structure is distorted: religious leadership and the market of faith
Structural sexism
Sexual orientation, identity, and the right to exist
Religious prejudice and skin color
Aging with virtue
The Holy Land and the war that deforms the sacred
Colonization, slavery, and genocide
Leaders who followed and leaders who distorted
Technology that advances faster than we do, and the final prayer

Book II

Pride at scale

What pride and selfishness do when they pass from the person to the group. And the way back, with the virtues each situation calls for, in order.

the market of faiththe leader who claims to be chosenracismsexismhomophobiareligious prejudiceold agethe Holy Landcolonizationslaverythe Holocausttechnology without evolution

Book II deals with painful subjects. It was written to be read after the first. Without the foundation of Book I, the criticism sounds like an accusation against others. With that foundation, it becomes a mirror.

Inside each chapter

Faithful to both sides

The Gospel quoted accurately. Virtology without dilution.

The text

Verses with references

Every chapter rests on what the Gospels say, with book, chapter, and verse, so you can check them in your own Bible.

Becker's reading

The original word

What the Greek and the Hebrew say and the translation hides. Metánoia is not remorse: it is a change of mind.

Nascimento's reading

The clinical view

What happens inside the person living the scene: the defense, the need, the Developmental Band.

The path

The virtues, in order

Each situation with the combination of virtues that works on it, always with the ones that come before. No virtue comes alone.

The mirror

Questions for you

Where did my pride and my selfishness defeat me? When did I follow the neural structures of Christ? It is worth answering in writing.

The training

Fourteen days per virtue

One virtue, one concrete situation in your life, fourteen days. First the Treatment Foundation, beginning with Humility.

Straight from the book

Excerpts

Neuroplasticity does not promise a light at the end of the tunnel. It offers a lighted road.

No one removes the darkness from a room by pushing it out. You turn on a light.

The drone that locates a target is the same device that would locate a missing person under the rubble. The choice was never in the device.

If the land belongs to the Father, the house belongs to the children.

In all honesty

What belongs to whom

Bringing two things together requires saying what comes from where.

From Virtology

The 33 virtues, the Pyramid of Virtues, the Developmental Bands, the Human Needs Groups, the Laws of Life, and the reading of pride and selfishness as systems of the brain belong to Virtology, created by Dr. Eduardo Casarotto.

From the authors

The idea of the neural structures of Christ, the four pillars as a synthesis of what Jesus did, and the crossing between the pillars and the virtues belong to this work. Jesus did not formulate the 33 virtues, and the book does not attribute them to him in a single line.

Who it is for

Who reads this book

It is for you if

You have faith and distrust neuroscience.
You have no faith and distrust the Gospel.
You were hurt in the name of God and still miss something you cannot name.
You work with people and want to understand why understanding is not enough to change.

It may not be if

You are looking for a church's doctrinal book. This book does not speak on behalf of any church.
You only want to read, without looking at yourself. The book asks you to test it: one virtue, one concrete situation, fourteen days.
You are looking for treatment. The book does not replace a doctor or a therapist.

Who wrote it

The authors

Euller Nascimento

Psychologist, psychoanalyst, and Virtologist

Supervisor in Virtology through the Instituto Virtudes. Before any title, he defines himself as someone passionate about Virtology, because it was there that he found a way to understand human beings by what they can become.

“Real change does not happen when a person understands the virtue, but when they practice it, day after day, in the small and concrete situations of life.”

He wrote the book's Introduction and brings the clinical perspective to the readings at the end of the chapters.

@euller8446 on Instagram →

Isabella Becker

Human Development Advisor

Human Development Advisor and founder of the PRM, the Personality Reconstruction Matrix. Creator of Alchemy of Virtues and author of A Treatise on the 22 Laws of Life, A Treatise on the 51 Human Needs, Stories That Shape the Soul, and They Love Us Unmasked.

For more than twenty-five years, her craft was translating between Portuguese, English, and German. From this craft, made of fidelity to what the other meant to say, came the book's care with the words the Gospel used and with what was lost in translation. She lives in Grainau, Bavaria, at the foot of the Alps.

@alquimiadasvirtudes on Instagram →

The virtues, the Pyramid of Virtues, and the Developmental Bands are part of Virtology, created by Dr. Eduardo Casarotto.

The book

Seven hundred and forty-seven pages

Book I and Book II, the four pillars, thirteen psalms, the parables, the ten scenes, and the fourteen-day training. Yours forever, to come back to whenever you need it.

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Frequently asked questions

Before you begin

Is the book in English?

Not yet. The book is currently available only in Portuguese. An English translation is coming soon. The purchase on this page is for the Portuguese edition.

How do I receive the book?

It is a PDF ebook with instant delivery. As soon as Hotmart confirms the purchase, you receive access and can read it on your phone, tablet, or computer, and print it if you like.

Do I need to be a Christian to read it?

No. The book was also written for those who have no faith and distrust the Gospel. It reads what Jesus taught as conduct that can be trained, and it quotes the biblical text with references so you can check.

Does the book belong to a church?

No. It does not speak on behalf of any church or any tradition. It quotes the Gospels accurately and separates what is biblical text, what is Virtology, and what is the authors' reading.

Do I need to read it in order?

Book I is worth reading first, because it builds the foundation: pride, selfishness, the four pillars, and the training. Book II can be read by whichever subject catches your attention most.

Do I need to understand neuroscience?

No. The book explains whatever is needed, in simple language, and says what is scientific consensus and what is a proposal of Virtology.

Does the book replace therapy?

No. It helps you understand and train the virtues, but it does not replace the care of a doctor or a therapist.

What is Virtology?

It is the system created by Dr. Eduardo Casarotto, which brings together the 33 virtues, the Developmental Bands, the human needs, and the Laws of Life. This book places Virtology beside the Gospels.

The Neural
Structures of Christ

When did God ask for this?

The Gospels and Virtology, side by side