Neuroscience and Meditation
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 elegant homunculus |
Neuroscience and Meditation |
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Posts: 3496 (03/31/02 19:20:06) |
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elegant homunculus |
Re: Psychology of Religion | ||
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Posts: 3496 (03/31/02 20:03:48) |
Also of possible interest: "When the Dream Becomes Real: the Inner Apocalypse in Mythology, Madness and the Future" from the Science and the Sacred website.
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PatabiJoisnot |
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Posts: 5 (04/01/02 10:46:38) |
Great site. thanks.
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elegant homunculus |
Neurobiology of Religion | ||
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Posts: 3496 (05/04/02 12:24:31) |
Here is an interesting article about studying the neurological activity corelated with religious experiences.
Tracing the Synapses of Our Spirituality |
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elegant homunculus |
James Hillman | ||
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Posts: 3496 (05/19/02 21:41:32) |
Here's a nice webpage about James Hillman, the founder of Archetypal Psychology. And here's an interview.
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elegant homunculus |
Re: Neurobiology of Religion | ||
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Posts: 3496 (07/28/02 11:26:58) |
Here is an interesting article on the attempt to bridge neuroscience and Tibetan Buddhist meditation:
What Buddhists Know About Science Has anyone here ever practiced Thong Len? Workshop on Thong Len: Chenrezig Buddhist Institute: 24-25 January 2004. |
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tifkagh |
Re: Neurobiology of Religion | ||
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Posts: 16 (07/29/02 06:58:45) |
eh
Can the "Tracing the Synapses of our Spirituality" article be read elsewhere? Maps.org seems to be a nono on our corporate network. With Love from Garvin
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elegant homunculus |
Re: Neurobiology of Religion | ||
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Posts: 3496 (07/29/02 11:29:20) |
Garvin, some of the same material is discussed in this BBC article: Meditation mapped in monks.
You might also find this Wired article interesting: This Is Your Brain on God. I hope those work! |
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elegant homunculus |
Re: Neurobiology of Religion | ||
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Posts: 3496 (09/18/02 21:55:07) |
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smyyga |
Entheogenic Sects and Psychedelic Religions | ||
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Posts: 800 (09/19/02 04:23:24) |
www.maps.org/news-letters...117stu.pdf
You gotta love some of these sects, like the one where people dose themselves and then watch an 'Altar of silent T.V.'s on different stations'. For californian ashtangis the yogic sect where the ultimate goal for the disciple is to meditate in a full lotus position continuously for at least ten hours while under the influence of over a thousand micrograms of LSD might prove interesting. 
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tat tvam amasi |
More on Dr Michael Persinger ... | ||
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Posts: 2151 (09/19/02 22:34:35) Forearm Modulator |
and his deus ex machina. Persingers God machine both amuses and terrifies me. I find his comment that generating religious like experiences in the lab is neither proof nor denial of the existence of God very intriguing.
tat tvam amasi |
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elegant homunculus |
Re: More on Dr Michael Persinger ... | ||
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Posts: 3496 (09/22/02 11:15:11) |
Thanks smyyga and tta, those are great links!
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elegant homunculus |
Zen gardens | ||
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Posts: 3496 (09/30/02 10:25:29) |
Interesting article about Zen gardens: Zen Garden's Calming Effect Due to Subliminal Image?
More links here. |
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elegant homunculus |
Free will | ||
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Posts: 3496 (10/20/02 11:16:32) |
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elegant homunculus |
Re: Neurobiology | ||
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Posts: 3496 (12/04/02 12:35:34) |
This sounds like the dark side of Newberg's work with the Buddhist monks. Creepy!
The Science of Shopping Via Slashdot. |
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pbello |
Re: Neurobiology | ||
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Posts: 3 (12/05/02 11:03:58) |
V.S. Ramachandran has a chapter in "Phantoms in the Brain" devoted to the connection between the temporal lobe (TL seizure patients) & spiritual experience. Very interesting book. One of my faves.
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smyyga |
Re: Neurobiology | ||
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Posts: 800 (03/21/03 04:03:06) |
Do you think Jesus or other people who founded religions might have had TLE? It would explain their sometimes bizarre experiences and beliefs:
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/scien...865009.stm |
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elegant homunculus |
Re: Neurobiology | ||
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Posts: 3496 (03/21/03 19:16:16) |
smyyga, I'm confused by your link. Did you mean to link to the story about Saddam?
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smyyga |
Re: Neurobiology | ||
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Posts: 800 (03/22/03 09:47:42) |
oops....it's fixed now
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gembuddy |
tonglen practice | ||
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Posts: 77 (03/22/03 12:19:10) |
The reasonably (?) well-known Westerner-turned-Buddhist nun Pema Chodron has written several books about the tonglen practice found in Tibetan Buddhism (she a disciple of the late Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche). She is profiled at www.shambhala.org. I have listened to some of her tapes extensively and found the practice (to the limited degree I feel I have utilized it) to encourage the quality of compassion...
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smyyga |
Re: Neurobiology | ||
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Posts: 800 (05/15/03 01:58:37) |
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