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Yes, very interesting article. Thanks for posting the link. And I agree with

your statement on it, a point which they also make in the article.

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Hmmm, soon they'll be developing a drug that will

quiet those lobes of our brain that interpret space and

the self to bring us all to enlightenment. Wonder how

much that would sell on the black market.

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Well how about that, I just started reading "Zen

and the Brain" a few days ago. It's an excellent

book, though it is a very thick one too. I highly

recommend it to anyone interested in both meditation and

neuroscience. V. S. Ramachandran's (also mentioned in the

article) book "Phantoms in the Brain" also has an

interesting section on this topic (amongst many

others).<br><br>"I think just b/c the brain may react a certain way

when one experiences the mystical/divine it in no way

makes that experience less valid or

real."<br><br>Agreed, and it wouldn't unless one were already commited

to a dualistic view of mind and matter which judges

only the former sacred, the later profane. I think

cognitive neuroscience is doing an excellent job of

dissolving such dualism.<br><br>"Science without religion is

lame, religion without science is blind"<br><br>-Albert

Einstein

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We've had those drugs for millennia, Plants of the Gods you know. People don't

want enlightement, they want cocaine - that's why LSD goes for around 2$ per

trip...

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<<I think just b/c the brain may react a

certain way when one experiences the mystical/divine it

in no way makes that experience less valid or real.

>><br><br>I think that the mystical experience is a state of

mind, accessible to just about all of us if the

conditions are right. I do think that religions have made a

mistake when they suppose that the source of these

mystical experiences is God/Gods. To summarize: mystical

experience is a real state of mind but beliefs in Gods are

based on a false interpretation of the mystical

mindstate.

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Yes...Yes...most people want the

quick-fix/fast-track/don't wanna feel no pain track but (HA HA) there is no

easy path to enlightenment. Everyone has to go down

the same painful arduous challenging exhausting

exhilarating path to get to the goodies. Just proves that real

life is a total equal opportunity employer. there is

justice in the universe. :)

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yeah, but you know, every generation has to feel

like they are discovering the truth of existence for

the first time. hence all those serious folk singers

in their late 20s (or claiming to be) just so angry

and earnest ...

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