--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "dhamiltony2k5" <dhamiltony...@...> wrote: > > Could pot smokers inhibit themselves from experiencing the > transcendence in pot's interference with the physiology of the right > parietal? > > A pollicy evidently arrived at through experience, could the two week > drug-detox of recreational drugs that is recommended before folks > learn meditation be related to this functioning (of the right > parietal) in hosting spiritual experience? > > "transcendent experiences, seems to occur for people who minimize > right parietal functioning." > > "all individuals, regardless of cultural background or religion, > experience the same neuropsychological functions during spiritual > experiences, such as transcendence. Transcendence, feelings of > universal unity and decreased sense of self, is a core tenet of all > major religions. Meditation and prayer are the primary vehicles by > which such spiritual transcendence is achieved." >
But.... The periods of transcendental consciousness during TM are NOT correlated with such physiological effects... So the statement "all individuals, regardless of cultural background or religion, experience the same neuropsychological functions during spiritual experiences" is not correct. Lawson
