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Kirtanman
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 Posted - Jun 08 2009 : 10:08:01 PM
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The Neural Connection Between Science & Mysticism
by Antonio T. de Nicolas, PhD.
(NOTE: Mysticism & Yoga are effectively synonymous, both equating to sets of practices which facilitate the neuro-spiritual evolution to unitive awareness, aka enlightenment.)
Excerpt:
Human biological systems need mystical practice for their own renewal and continuity. We tend, however, to identify mystical practice with the "religious", but this is not necessarily so, as is evident from the practice of scientists in their breakthroughs and new paradigms, relativity, the Heisenberg principle, or the models involved in the study of fundamental particles. Mystical practice is primarily concerned with the identification of neural structures that are wholly human first, and only later, through grace perhaps, are touched by the divinity, and the same with the scientist, though he/she might substitute the word divinity by something like insight, inspiration or "oceanic" state.
Modern science has labored to provide us with new models of human acting and human worlds (Comfort, 1984) but no model is as alive and actual as the one the mystics have provided us since the beginning of writing with their practices.
Following these comments we may conclude that human biological systems are not one brain, or one mind. Instead we have five primary brains, and five independent and interacting minds. Where "culture" interacts with "biology" neural passages open and brains are affected. Where " culture" does not activate "biology" no neural passages and no brains develop. Thus we may have more or less complete humans, more or less complete biological systems. The human biological system does not only have five possible brains, five possible biocultures, but each brain in turn gives rise to a "shadow": a delay mechanism in perception that accounts for reflection on perception.
This delay mechanism can account for what we loosely call the self. This shadow sitting on perception accounts for our many conflicting wills.
Perception, reading, interpreting are always linked to the "self" as a biocultural bias involving perceiving, reading and interpreting.
Furthermore, while the right hemisphere – the reptilian, limbic, right side of the neocortex, or as named earlier, maia, mythos, right brain mimesis – has direct access to the world, to the origin of perception, and produces a "holistic", "integrated" image of the world, the left hemisphere – left brain mimesis and logos – is largely isolated from the right side of the brain, though drawing from it all its information, that it returns to the system in the form of "concepts" or "abstract ideas". The left hemisphere works in isolation- not necessarily subject to the general rules and interests of the integrated brain, and it can even turn the tables on the rest of the brains and reverse or even cancel the natural order of the other brains.
The study of human biological systems has also established that each bioculture has different ways to develop itself as a brain, to read the rest of the world, to interpret, or to establish its own will. Thus, the left hemisphere operates through concepts (its primary technology) and the repetition of concepts as embodied in its language, while the right hemisphere operates through images and the language of images. Thus, where conceptual thinking is approximate and has room for doubts, imagining and the acts of the imagination can not tolerate ambiguity.
Decision making can be based on either, except that decisions based on the left hemisphere skills are always approximate and never without doubt. The left hemisphere has access to the right hemisphere, but its criteria for action is only human and biased, while the right hemisphere is linked to both, the human and divine worlds.
The possibility exists, therefore, that the right hemisphere may reach, tap, or accept the nod of the Divine.
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(Emphasis Mine ~ KM)
Awareness/Consciousness is certainly not limited, or even primarily associated with "individual" body-minds ... it's not so much that yoga/mysticism helps us "find God in the brain" as scientific validation of yoga & mysticism asserts along with its conclusions ... but rather, that the receiver-transmitter we call the body-mind is evolved into its fully mature potential and original design via practices (AYP, for instance) - and can therefore come to transmit-receive Awareness-Consciousness without distortion or filters of artificiality.
And .. I just found this article to be interesting ... though, as always, please remember ... it's never about information; it's always about this eternally still Oneness, That Is Ever Only in formation.
It's Good To Be AUM!
Kirtanman |
Edited by - Kirtanman on Jun 08 2009 10:25:27 PM |
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stevenbhow
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Posted - Jun 12 2009 : 10:58:29 PM
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| Great stuff Kirtman. In another thread I brought up quantum physics and it's connection to consciousness, which I think is very much related to this thread. |
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