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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (29889)	6/25/1999 12:09:00 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

neuroanatomically- is this the same as chemical soup? It would be interesting to see if there IS a correlation, wouldn't it. To something neurological. I read somewhere recently that they've discovered that some part of Einstein's brain is definitely different- larger- than normal brains- and it's the section that controls the mathematical "stuff".

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (29889)	6/25/1999 2:01:00 AM
From: Gauguin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

<<<I don't think (well I don't know!) that it correlates with right- or left-brainedness. But I think it is a species trait. This thing called spirit-awareness. I think we are neuroanatomically predisposed into seeing the universe as the extension and domain of a Supreme Presence.>>> I agree. I mean, suppose we all do. Why are we so neuroanatomically predisposed? What purpose? <<<Maybe this is a facet of my own peculiar faith.>>> You have more facets of this peculiar faith? Can we adopt this Peculiar Faith? :o) Seriously, I think your (this) opening paragraph is profound and truthful. It's a synopsis. It's clear.

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (29889)	6/25/1999 5:47:00 AM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Probably so. My personal view of the universe is distinctly physical, not spiritual. I have never been able (outside the Sistine Chapel) to imagine a god after man's image. And the ceiling IMO is a creepy mannerist illusion. I can project my mind into molecular and atomic levels, and into subatomic, quarklike structures and down into quantum foam, and never in the direction of the small, observe or imagine anything at all that resembles spirit. Even substance dissolves into nothingness. The flashing into existence and out of virtual particles is devoid of person or god or spirit. Likewise, I can project my mind into the outer universe, slip into black holes, burning globular clusters and in 3 or 4 or 10 or 11 dimensions never find the laws of physics written down, or need or observe any spiritual existence. Yet by pressing on my eyelids I can create beauty in my retinas and brain far more magnificent than any one however great an artist can paint. I cannot capture it and show it to you. If I did not know the physiology I might imagine that I had seen god. I have had visions in dreams and under medication or drugs that exceed Dante at his most absurd. I have heard ecstatic music that sets Bach to shame. But when I set it down it turns out to be Grieg's "Solveig's Song" reeking of sentimentality. I think that I and others who imagine divinity is in their heads, are merely mad, for a moment, or for all time. No one can preserve the prophetic moment and all others to share. Like the dental patient who thought he had understood the the secret of the universe while under nitrous oxide discovered when he read his notes: "Everything smells of petroleum."