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    Is the soul real? A Neurosurgeon explores the evidence

    I Misspoke on the name of Clark’s book that I read and liked. “Teach” was a typo. Supposed to be Reach, and the book I read I think was God’s Reach for Man, but he also wrote Man’s Reach for God, which I didn’t read.
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    Is the soul real? A Neurosurgeon explores the evidence

    Sounds like it’s very familiar territory for you. Do es the terrain get you partway or all the way where a modern mind longing for spirituality wants/needs to go? I certainly gravitate toward Nee Thought thoughts. An old Christian author by last name of Clark wrote a book called Man’s Teach for...
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    Is the soul real? A Neurosurgeon explores the evidence

    Your belief based on thin veil experiences matches the presentation except for the minds. Are they like directors of souls? More like soulless spirits? Interesting.
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    Is the soul real? A Neurosurgeon explores the evidence

    I couldn’t find the part in the book where I recall that McTaggart reports that Pibram concluded that memory is stored OUTSIDE of the brain! I’ll keep looking. I stumbled though upon a section that claims there is scientific evidence of human minds affecting randomized computers to become...
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    Is the soul real? A Neurosurgeon explores the evidence

    And this (page 86) : … Pietsch (Paul, biologist) discovered that he could remove the brain of a salamander and although the animal became comatose, it would resume functioning once the brain was put back in. If Pibram were right, then some of the salamander’s brain could be removed, reshuffled...
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    Is the soul real? A Neurosurgeon explores the evidence

    Add this except (page 88 of The Field): Pineal conjectured that these wave collisions must create the pictorial images in our brain. When we perceive something, it’s not due to the activity of the neurons themselves but to certain patches of dendrites distributed around the brain, which, LIKE A...
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    Is the soul real? A Neurosurgeon explores the evidence

    Wil, If and/or when you can find the time to read the excerpts (mainly about Pibram’s research and theory) from Lynne McTaggart’s book, The Field, which seems to go into more detail and cover more (or at least DIFFERENT) ground than the You Tube presentation shared, I’d like to get your feedback...
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    Is the soul real? A Neurosurgeon explores the evidence

    Excepts from the book (but all in parentheses is my comment to provide context), The Field, by Lynne McTaggart, might reinforce the conclusions of Dr Michael Egnor: page 81-95: The problem was that the old notions about electrical ‘image’ formation in the brain—the supposed correspondence...
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    Is the soul real? A Neurosurgeon explores the evidence

    Thanks Thomas. Not all the way through yet, but really gets one (one’s soul?!) thinking.
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    Organic Religion, The “Projects”

    I think science is already hinting of something like a natural iCloud that we may use to enhance the quality of our existence. One of my premonitory dreams saved my life. Others gave me previews of sermon and movie content. Seeing into a future doesn’t fit with assumptions of a material reality...
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    Organic Religion, The “Projects”

    I’ll start this thread with a response I made on another thread (Religion as Self Fulfilling Prophecy). The notion that a God Function is probably more “real” in any meaningful/worthwhile sense than the form or forms we attribute to God led me to a broader concept (than self fulfilling prophecy)...
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    Religion as Self Fulfilling Prophecy

    People without sufficient resources need to create more resources or make better use of the resources they had. How could one (or a group) do that? Find something that can create. The regular human mind can dream up all sorts of things and then create them. But a yet deeper Mind is needed when...
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    Religion as Self Fulfilling Prophecy

    Sa Same story for me, but I do see the need to relax into a gapless, convergent, nondual, base that helps the efforts to make a better world emerge more gracefully and fresher, fuller—similar to how the mind can create better and think clearer soon after waking up. Hence the saying “I need to...
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    Religion as Self Fulfilling Prophecy

    I tend to think of praying to God as a “good” thing that bears good fruit, but also realize how judging things good or bad can foster duality and gaps and contradictory emotions and thoughts that move us away from peace. So I also value practicing neutral mind states (“isness”?) in which no...
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    Do we choose what we believe?

    Yes, but only if open to the unknown or paramarthika within them, so there can be some depth and wholeness to how they interpret and react to what comes to them. Your nondual emphasis would promote such openness. The “Holy Spirit” would also circumvent the duality since it is a bridge between...
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    Do we choose what we believe?

    I was minding my isness while running today That aligns with the way I am using the word “belief.” Looks like another yes voter to me. But again, a matter of semantics when it comes to “belief.”
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    Do we choose what we believe?

    Does it suggest that consciousness might be a nonlocal sort of thing that energy-processing devices that might have something in common with the energy processing device we call our brain can channel. While “mind” seems a subjective reality, one might guess that it operates more like energy...
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    Do we choose what we believe?

    Precisely why I cast my vote for choosing to believe. Has anyone heard of Vahinger’s (sp?) Philosophy of “As If”? We proceed on notions that work for us As If they are really true. My exposure to statistics in the field of psychology perhaps (probably) gave me a habit of looking at most things...
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