God in the Brain ?

Holds abstracts of articles on meditation, telepathy, out-of-body experience, telekinesis, qi-gong, etc. that have been published in scientific journals. The full papers can be accessed via your own national library or university.

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gog
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Post: # 5848Post gog »

is that so!!


Hmmm interesting!!
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Post: # 6207Post bomohwkl »

So, having concluded that your definition of God, and your believe or disbelieve in him, is simply your idea about God, and tells you what direction you should now make. I ask you, and for this simple question I wasted hundreds of words: how do you define God? And, do you believe in your definition?

It is called self-disillusion. I think we often self-disillusionate ourselves. I wonder how we can avoid such traps. Publishing books are often a way to promote one's self-disillusion.
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Post: # 6208Post Vesko »

bomohwkl wrote:Publishing books are often a way to promote one's self-disillusion.
I second that from personal impressions. "Oh, I have published about a cosmic or grandiose subject, or I have a great number of publications, therefore I am a great writer / philosopher / scientist, etc.! And even if I'm not (although it feels so good to delude myself!), I can live with that as long as many other people think that I am!".
Do you REALLY practice meditation? If your REALLY do, do you practice a GOOD method? Are you sure this is REALLY so?
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Post: # 6209Post Yothu »

Welcome back, Bomoh!

Good to hear from you after all again 8)
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Post: # 6234Post bomohwkl »

And even if I'm not (although it feels so good to delude myself!), I can live with that as long as many other people think that I am!".
Is it a hypocrisy?
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Post: # 6237Post Vesko »

Yes, it is.
Do you REALLY practice meditation? If your REALLY do, do you practice a GOOD method? Are you sure this is REALLY so?
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Post: # 6295Post Frozn »

Yes it is a hypocricy, which usually goes hand in hand with self-dillusion.

And OH MY GOD IS THAT bomohwkl?!?!? :bounce:

It warms my heart to see you back on this forum, you were dearly missed by all of us. In any case I wanted to welcome you back as well as celebrate. :clap: \:D/ :applause:
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Post: # 6302Post Vesko »

Ah, Frozn :), I was trying to keep quiet :-$ and talk to Bomohwkl as if he had never been away, but you raised the din :shaking2:, so, then, yes, "WELCOME BACK BOMOHWKL!!!" :-({|= :applause: \:D/ :cheers: :salute: :clap:
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Post: # 6316Post Robanan »

:D :clap: :cheers: :pr: :idea: :pl: :cheers: :clap: :D Bomohwkl, you made me happy, WELCOME BACK!!!!!!
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Post: # 7799Post InfoSource »

One of the articles in the link trumpet_is_cool posted was about Michael Persinger, a Canadian neuroscientist who invented a "God helmet" that stimulates part of the brain to create religious experiences

About a year ago I watched a lecture by him on the subject of God being in the brain. It was pretty fascinating lecture (to me). The lecture starts off with Persinger describing different parts/functions of the brain (mainly the differences between the right and left side of the brain) and then goes into how electromagnetic fields can be manipulated to create god-like experinces in a person. If anyone wants to hear the podcast version of the lecture here is the link

http://www.tvo.org/podcasts/bi/audio/BI ... 091606.mp3
(44.25 minutes in length)

Some more links

Wiki on the God Helmet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_helmet

Article on Persinger's & other neuroscientists work

http://www.clinicallypsyched.com/neurot ... inmind.htm
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Post: # 10160Post Rezo »

well thats interesting because the astral body is connected to a delicate signal from the brain, right?

gotta step out but i saved the file, gonna listen to it later.
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