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Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist's Case for the Existence
of the Soul When my doctoral student Vincent Paquette and I first began studying the spiritual experiences of Carmelite nuns at the Université de Montréal, we knew that our motives were quite likely to be misunderstood. First, we had to convince the nuns that we were not trying to prove that their religious experiences did not actually occur, that they were delusions, or that a brain glitch explained them. Then we had to quiet both the hopes of professional atheists and the fears of clergy about the possibility that we were trying to reduce these experiences to some kind of “God switch” in the brain. Many neuroscientists want to do just that. These scientists are materialists who believe that the physical world is the only reality. Absolutely everything else — including thought, feeling, mind, and will — can be explained in terms of matter and physical phenomena, leaving no room for the possibility that religious and spiritual experiences are anything but illusions. But
I belong to a minority — nonmaterialist neuroscientists.
I do not doubt in principle that a contemplative might contact
a reality outside herself during a mystical experience. In
fact, I went into neuroscience in part because I knew experientially
that such things can indeed happen. I simply sought to study
what the neural correlates — the activity of the neurons
— during such an experience might be. Read
a review of "The Spiritual Brain" here... Genome
Scientist Peers Into the Mind of God Francis Collins, the director of the US National Human Genome Research Institute, claims there is a rational basis for a creator and that scientific discoveries bring man “closer to God”. His book, The Language of God, will reopen the age-old debate about the relationship between science and faith. “One of the great tragedies of our time is this impression that has been created that science and religion have to be at war,” said Collins, 56. “I
don’t see that as necessary at all and I think it is
deeply disappointing that the shrill voices that occupy the
extremes of this spectrum have dominated the stage for the
past 20 years.”
Karma
of the Brain: Why Good Things
Happen to Good People Patients at a California health maintenance organization are being prescribed generous behaviour as part of a program called Rx: Volunteer, one of various new research projects described by Stephen Post in his book Why Good Things Happen To Good People, out next week. Dr. Post chronicles the link between doing good and living a longer, healthier life. "The science shows that we're hardwired to be giving," he says. "We're talking here about a one-a-day vitamin for the soul." A growing number of researchers are supporting his claim with studies that show how the human body benefits from everything from gratitude to generosity. Wherever
You Are is the Center of the Universe There really is no here or there because everything is at one point where consciousness is. We all do not exist in different places but are all present at one point. The reality of here and there is all created and experienced within the singularity of consciousness itself. Where you are is the center of the universe. Consciousness
is the dimensionless program that
simulates dimensions. It is the omnipresent
dot that creates the illusion of everywhere
when there is nowhere but here and
now. There is only one true place
consciousness exists in and that is
here. There is only one true time
where consciousness exists in and
that is now. Everything else that
is experienced as there and then is
only a simulation that is experienced
from here and now. When you think
of a time and place, you instantly
travel there mentally.
"Everything
you learn is ultimately for the purpose of being able
to create your reality better. When you take everything
that you know and observe it from a perspective of reality
creation, you will find what it really is about and
how it all fits into the whole picture." Brief Meditation Boosts Attention, Curbs Stress Recent
studies have suggested that months to years of intensive
meditation can improve attention and lower stress. The
study of 40 Chinese undergraduates found that participation
in 20-minute integrative meditation sessions over 5
days showed greater improvement in attention and overall
mood, and lower levels of anxiety, depression, anger
and fatigue, compared with students in a control group
who participated in relaxation training. The
Two-Minute Self-Hypnosis Technique The good news is you can do this very easily and you can give it a go now with the following techniques. No need for deep trance! Scientist
Claims Proof of Afterlife Is
Life Finely-Tuned or a Cosmic Accident? Wish you could travel back in time? You can, according to some interpretations of quantum mechanics. Could there be an infinite number of parallel worlds? Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg considers this a real possibility. Even the big bang, which for decades has been the standard explanation for how the universe started, is getting a second look. Now, many cosmologists speculate that we live in a "multiverse," with big bangs exploding all over the cosmos, each creating its own bubble universe with its own laws of physics. And lucky for us, our bubble turned out to be life-friendly. But
if you really want to start an argument, ask a
room full of physicists this question: Are the
laws of physics fine-tuned to support life? Improve
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