God and the Brain - The Persinger 'God Helmet', The Brain, and visions of God.

Neurotheology 1 - This talk, called "God and the Brain", is a discussion of the Persinger "God Helmet" (actually the Koren Helmet) and the 8 Coil Shakti. It covers visions of God, Near-Death Experiences, and other themes in neurotheology, the field that integrates neuroscience and spirituality. This is the first of six lectures on Spirituality and the Brain by Todd Murphy, inventor of the 8 Coil Shakti and the Shiva Neural Stimulation system, which duplicates the procedures used in the God Helmet experiments. He has been a member of Laurentian University's Behavioral Neuroscience research group, under the direction of Dr. M. A. Persinger since 1998.

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Comment by xibalba on June 23, 2011 at 4:03am

here again

we are facing the same problems the french egyptologist Champollion had when he saw for the first time the Rosetta stone in his attempt to interpret hieroglyphs. We are facing the same thing when we get a EEG pattern? what does it really means? What does a hieroglyphic sequence of falcons mean actually for the social life of ancient egypt? Is it a still life representation after a hunt?  What is the meaning of a sensation of being surrounded by an etherical presence during the experiment? how can a single perceptual experience - the "God spot" activated - exist independently from the very ancient historico-theological structures which have constructed the idea of God?

 

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Comment by xibalba on June 23, 2011 at 3:48am

Ciao Balder

 

I am open to empirical studies of neural correlates of mental ideations of all kindm it is a fundamental aspect of neurobiological research, But I don+t agree with the wild extrapolative conclusions of these experiments. I use to rejoin Wilber´s critique: reductionism.

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