Guest guest Posted May 2, 2001 Report Share Posted May 2, 2001 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 2, 2001 Report Share Posted May 2, 2001 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 2, 2001 Report Share Posted May 2, 2001 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 3, 2001 Report Share Posted May 3, 2001 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... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 3, 2001 Report Share Posted May 3, 2001 <<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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 3, 2001 Report Share Posted May 3, 2001 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 13, 2001 Report Share Posted May 13, 2001 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 ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 14, 2001 Report Share Posted May 14, 2001 the TODAY show also did I nice segment on yoga today if anyone caught it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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