--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "hugheshugo" > <richardhughes103@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <groups@> wrote: > > > > > > More cogently, we have to ask whether the research approach is > > > really appropriate to the subject. Are brainwave measurements, > > > no matter how sophisticated, really indicative of the operation > > > or qualities of consciousness? > > > > Of course they are, consciousness is a quality of the brain > > therefore measuring the brainwaves gives us at least an idea of > > what's going on. > > Whenever I hear something like this, I find myself > wondering whether everyone who says it has completely > forgotten the Bardo experience, between death and > rebirth. Consciousness doesn't stop. It's there while > the body is lying dead in its coffin and the brain is > no longer functioning, and its there long after the > body has been reduced to ashes in the crematorium. > So what part of that consciousness do you believe > is based on your physical brain?
What confuses me is how time fits into all of this. This whole concept of sequential lives is bound to space-time, yet consciousness is not. >From the perspective of consciousness, isn't the life-Bardo-life-Bardo-life-Bardo-life-Bardo-etc timeline purely an illusion? 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/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> 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/
