P knows NEURAL BUDDHISM, yes?...From D. Brook's NY Times column today, if interested

[Ian Livingston]

Is this what they call the "god spot"?  There are technologies that are
supposed to make it accessible to even benighted souls like me or dubya or
the Pope.  Question is, when someone has an experience of a state of grace,
bliss, non-duality, whatever, what happens when they engage again in daily
life?  See, an experience of a state is not the same as negotiating the
fulcrum into a stage of psychological development.  The state experience is
translated into the language appropriate to the developmental center of
gravity of the ego that experiences the state.  Ken Wilber has much to say
on this stuff.  There is a lot to argue with in Wilber, but there is much of
value.  This is one of those areas where I think he is right on the money.
It has much to do with why prophets and religious figures use the language
they do.  It is also beautifully portrayed in the 'Valhalla' scene of the
movie, "Network" someone posted a link to earlier.  In that scene the
non-dual state is translated into the language of a system-centric egoic
understanding and a prophet of global (economic) systems expounds.

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Andrew Newberg of the University of Pennsylvania has shown that
> transcendent experiences can actually be identified and measured in the
> brain (people experience a decrease in activity in the parietal lobe, which
> orients us in space). The mind seems to have the ability to transcend itself
> and merge with a larger presence that feels more real. This new wave of
> research will not seep into the public realm in the form of militant
> atheism. Instead it will lead to what you might call neural Buddhism.
>
>
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