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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: E who wrote (25265)	10/5/1998 8:33:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

E, <<If we defined "God" as "the universe," I would certainly believe "He" was real!>> Might seem obvious, if it wasn't for all of those who assure us that the physical world is an illusion. I always wonder how they feel when, while wandering around in a mantra-mumbling glaze, they stub their sandaled toes on illusory stones. If it's an illusion, it's a pretty good one. I kind of like the physical world, but I've often been accused of perversity. Steve PS. You know more about the Gaia hypothesis than I do. Though it would make a great title for a novel. Probably been used already.

To: E who wrote (25265)	10/5/1998 8:50:00 PM
From: E	Respond to of 108807

Here's an excerpt from Science Frontiers, original source Cook & Persinger, 'Experimental Induction of the Sensed Presence in Normal Subjects and an Exceptional Subject' in Perceptual and Motor Skills (1997) 85:683... "All cultures have contained a few people who have claimed to be visited by spirits, gods, angels or even extraterrestrials. Cook and Persinger associate these visitations with a phenomenon they call 'sensed presence' or 'the awareness of an extrapersonal, incorporeal entity.' They assert that the 'sense of self' is a construct of the left brain, the side usually associated with language. Secondly, they hypothesize that a 'sensed presence' is only a fleeting right brain homologue of the left brain 'sense of self', like a transient short-circuit between both hemispheres of the brain that probably travels along the corpus callosum that interconnects them." In their lab at Laurentian University, Cook and Persinger asked subjects to press a button when the 'felt a mystical presence'. Unbeknownst to them, they were subject to an occasional weak magnetic field. More often than chance would predict, mystical presences (button pushes) correlated with applications of magnetic fields." [This is just an anecdote about a theory and an experiment, for whatever interest it has, which will probably be none for some and a little more than that for others.-- E.]