Posted on 12/24/2008 1:09:17 PM PST by CE2949BB
What makes us feel spiritual? It could be the quieting of a small area in our brains, a new study suggests.
The area in question — the right parietal lobe — is responsible for defining "Me," said researcher Brick Johnstone of Missouri University. It generates self-criticism, he said, and guides us through physical and social terrains by constantly updating our self-knowledge: my hand, my cocktail, my witty conversation skills, my new love interest ...
People with less active Me-Definers are more likely to lead spiritual lives, reports the study in the current issue of the journal Zygon.
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
Breathing is controversial to some.
I don’t get it.
They call it quieting the “monkey Mind”..
Actually they didn’t discover the spot that makes you feel spiritual...They discovered what has to be overcome first.
For those of us who believe we have a spirit, not just a soul of behavior mechanism, there would naturally be some means by which the spirit influences the beahvior mechanism, some spacetime structure somehow tuned to the spiritual ‘frequencies’.
Toning down dissonance from the soul would be essential to ‘hearing the still small voice’ ...
This isn’t the spirituality spot; it’s the original sin spot—activity here makes one less likely to be spiritual.
seems like junk science.
so if someone votes for conservatives, the federal officials will order a spirit-ectomy of the brain.
muslims are against non-muslims doing that. Meanwhile here at home the RATs feel that only the entitled should be allowed to breathe and everyone else should have to pay for it, the moderates aren't sure if it's a good or a bad thing and conservatives think that breathing is a God given right.
You got my intent 100%. ;-)
Wouldn't that make the "me definer" spot the anti-spiritual spot?
Only controversial to those who use it for reductionism.
Otherwise it’s like saying ears are necessary for music appreciation.
Whoa. . .quick glance at the headline and I thought I’d read; “Spirituality Found in Britain”
Boy. . .had me going for a moment, I thought the Empire was making a comeback.
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