The Doors of Perception

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BuckyE B
BuckyE Nov 13, 2005 08:17:19
Replying to Littlestone

You have heard about the brain scans done on meditating monks? Seems there's a pretty specific area of the brain that sorts somatic sensory perceptions (received from the body) and external ones (received from eyes, ears, etc.) Meditation supresses the activity in this area (among other somatic changes.) It's theorized this accounts for the "oneness" experience: your brain stops distinguishing between "me and them."

A moment of extreme stress could possibly have a similar effect.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/1847442.stm (and google monks meditate brain scan)

L Littlestone
Littlestone Nov 13, 2005 11:44:16
Replying to BuckyE

Yes, thank you for that link, very interesting, particularly the comments that -

"During meditation, people have a loss of the sense of self and frequently experience a sense of no space and time..."

and -

"When someone has a mystical experience, they perceive that sense of reality to be far greater and far clearer than our usual everyday sense of reality..."