The Magical Cure
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Religious leaders tell you that you have an imaginary problem (sin) and coincidentally they have the magical cure for your imaginary problem.
~ Steve Arowsmith
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“You’re assuming,’ said Dr. Robert, ‘that the brain produces
consciousness. I’m assuming that it transmits consciousness.
…You say that the moksha-medicine does something to the silent areas of the brain which causes them to produce a set of subjective events to which people have given the name ‘mystical experience.’
I say that the moksha-medicine does something to the silent areas of the brain which opens some kind of neurological sluice and so allows a larger volume of Mind with a large ‘M’ to flow into your mind with a small ‘m.’ You can’t demonstrate the truth of your hypothesis, and I can’t demonstrate the truth of mine. And even if you could prove that I’m wrong, would it make any practical difference?”
~ Aldous Huxley, Island
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In the field of consciousness research-and also in physics and astronomy-we are breaking past the cause and effect, mechanistic way of interpreting things. In the biological sciences there is a vitalism coming in that goes much further toward positing a common universal consciousness of which…
