--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonymousff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In South America they have what are known as Lightening Shamans - > > people who have been struck by lightening and kind of fried, but > > who end up with psychic and other such abilities. > > ====== > There was a book called Saved by the Light about a guy who had a near > death experience after being struck by lightening. He claimed that > afterward, he had certain psychic abilities.
This is certainly possible, if on no other level than the theory I once heard from some TM teacher as to why TM "expands the mind." His rap was about neurons, and how they work. Each neuron has X (a fairly large) number of possible connections to the other neurons surrounding it. But brain chemistry is such that once a particular pathway has been taken, it is more *likely* that it will be taken next time. From this chemical tendency to "do the same thing we did last time" arise patterns, and habits, and, of course, samskaras. His theory was that what happened in the brain when one transcends was that instead of all the brain activity quieting down, *all* of the neural connec- tions fired at once. This phenomenon is supposedly well known in brain studies, and is *subjectively* perceived as silence, just as "white noise," which is a random set of all sounds and frequencies, is subjectively perceived as relaxing, or even silence. So this guy's theory was that when we regularly fire off all the neural connections at once, what we're doing on the level of brain chemistry is allowing *different* paths to be taken through the brain, "opening circuits" that previously were not really used because of the chemical tendency to follow past patterns. I don't know that any of this is true, but the idea struck me at the time, and it would seem to me that being exposed to a huge electrical field (being struck by lightning) might have a similar effect. Unc To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
