Agreed,
I have the rare ability to be aware which parts of the brain are active, which
I ever get told
I cannot do, haha. I'm not much impressed with neurology's linear path analysis
and even the
later stuff. The idiocy of making the forebrain master does not help. The
hindbrain addresses
rhythms which data get fed directly into the forebrain centre. I once found a
decent anatomical
map of the brain but most available stuff is kiddy stuff. We simply cannot
mechanically analyse
the entire whole brain activity. Next it's not particles or waves but fields
that matter so
activation of brain sectors works that way. We can only crudely detect fields.
But that's where
the biblical two of you together there am I applies. I've done this myself with
meditation in a
group and the Indian "darshan" works. Darshan means sitting by and a strongly
psychic person,
called charismatic like Michael Jackson can raise the vibes of a group. Works
for Billy Graham
too but let that charismatic leave and all revert to as before. It's why
football crowds go
mad, doing a mob psychology thing. very irrational, what. The difficulty for
that and lucid
dreaming is to keep rational and irrational balanced. Aztec or South American
priests made a
paste of all the poisonous plants and animals around, boiling it up, smearing
it on their
bodies. It takes quite determined self control to stay with it when doing that.
It also correlates with gross solar system fluctuations in E.M.
activity. Reality is a
continuum and anybody who imagines we can selectively pick out this and that
better ask for a
refund on their birth certificate. The question here is exactly what isolates
these functions
or operations from one another and ditto for harmonise is we don't know. and
knowing that would
help. I have not read Gregory but dare say he has no original ideas. As long as
the material
hypothesis prevails we won't go far.
adrian
archytas wrote:
> The brain stuff I was looking for was about recent empirical work. I
> only saw the headline and meant to read up, but the headline had
> gone. It was a claim to have found complex activity of multi-
> dimensionality. Might be dross, but I'll get to the stuff
> eventually. Little work is original and I'm not sure much has shifted
> since Richard Gregory was writing Mind and Brain. It has struck me
> for a long time that all of us lack much resource other than the first
> person reference (phenomenology) and our habitus and we are all stuck
> in a form of argument with severe difficulties and interests a long
> way from truth-seeking - whatever science models we have seem too
> limited and caught up in this.
>
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