Karma - Believe it or Not?

Ahnimus

Jeanie wrote:

Yeah I don't get too mystical Ahnimus. Too many science lovers and athiests in the family to let me get too caught up in the metaphysical, but I also can't deny that there are some things beyond scientific explanation at this point. Just keeping an open mind. Didn't get this far with logical thinking just to let the "new age" or mystical get me! Figure if I didn't have an epiphany and convert when I was really sick then it won't be happening any time in the near future either! But I do believe in "the soul" of sorts. Haven't heard anything from science that has changed my mind about that as yet. Although I did read some very interesting stuff recently about the brain and "ghosts". They discovered some interesting brain function on a woman on an MRI while they were talking to her and looking at something else. She kept insisting that there was someone else in the room! Looking forward to finding out more about that one!!!

Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario researches these "presences"

What we have found

We have found that: 1) the verbal label (usually supplied by the culture) the person places upon the experience strongly affects how it is recalled even within a few seconds after the end of the experiment, 2) experiences along the left side are usually aversive while those associated with the right side are more positive and may have "thoughts" associated with them, 3) increased geomagnetic activity in association with right hemispheric stimulation encourages the incidence of a sensed presence, 4) when a person attempts to "focus" upon the sensed presence it appears to become dynamic (to "move") since the act of focusing alters brain activity and hence how the applied complex fields interact with the brain, 5) an inordinate number of people who experience a sensed presence attribute them to gods or deceased individuals, 6) about 7% of the population, particularly males with enhanced temporal lobe lability and who attend a religious place frequently), report that if god told them to kill they would in his name, and 7) certain patterns of applied magnetic fields produce subjective experiences that are sometimes considered "parapsychological" or "paranormal". By applying a specific sequence of magnetic fields through the brain of a person who had experienced a "haunt", we generated the experience as well as paroxysmal electrical activity that suggested a source deep within the right temporal lobe.
http://www.laurentian.ca/neurosci/_research/mystical.htm

As well, they research Consciousness.

What we have learned

We have found consciousness can be described as an emergent property of the complex electromagnetic process generated from predictable biochemical and biological processes. Although the terms soul and mind may have been useful at one time to describe this process, they are no longer required. They are more like the term "phlogiston" that was employed to describe why things burned before modern chemistry emerged. When there is no electrical current moving through the parts of a television, there is no picture. When the specific electromagnetic patterns are not generated within the brain structures there is no consciousness or awareness.
http://www.laurentian.ca/neurosci/_research/conscious.htm

They don't seem to provide much, except an overview of their research, but interesting anyway. There is more to the articles if you follow the links.

Jeanie

Ahnimus wrote:

Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario researches these "presences"



As well, they research Consciousness.



They don't seem to provide much, except an overview of their research, but interesting anyway. There is more to the articles if you follow the links.

Thanks Ahnimus. I'll have a read and get back to you.