tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61209190023746523842024-03-08T11:13:43.831-08:00NeurotheologyThe Neurotheology and The GodBrainAndrew T. Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719076025192162530noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6120919002374652384.post-4135346600038458792023-01-22T08:58:00.001-08:002023-01-22T08:58:07.670-08:008 Limbed Path of Yoga<p>Yoga is a spiritual, physical and mental practice that originated in ancient India. There are several different branches of yoga, but most follow a similar path of personal development and self-realization. The traditional eight-limbed path of yoga, outlined in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, includes the following stages:</p><p></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><b>Yama:</b> ethical guidelines for living, including non-violence, truthfulness, non-stealing, and non-excess.</li><li><b>Niyama: </b>personal disciplines, including cleanliness, contentment, self-study, and self-surrender to a higher power.</li><li><b>Asana:</b> physical postures, designed to improve health and strength and prepare the body for meditation.</li><li><b>Pranayama:</b> control of breath, designed to control the flow of prana (life force) in the body.</li><li><b>Pratyahara:</b> withdrawal of the senses, designed to still the mind and prepare for deeper meditation.</li><li><b>Dharana:</b> concentration, the focusing of the mind on a single object or idea.</li><li><b>Dhyana:</b> meditation, the ability to maintain concentration for extended periods of time.</li><li><b>Samadhi:</b> union with the divine, the final stage of yoga in which the individual self is absorbed into the universal self and the distinction between the two disappears.</li></ol><p>It's important to note that these stages are not necessarily linear and may be practiced simultaneously. Additionally, the path of yoga is different for each individual, some may reach the final stage (Samadhi) faster and others may take longer. Also, Yoga is not only a physical practice and it's essential to consider the spiritual and mental aspects as well.</p>Andrew T. Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719076025192162530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6120919002374652384.post-81754479352874644252023-01-03T02:34:00.001-08:002023-01-03T02:34:10.344-08:00Samadhi<p>Samadhi is a term that is often used in the context of Hinduism and Buddhism, and it refers to a state of deep meditation or concentration in which the individual is able to achieve a higher level of consciousness and experience a sense of unity with the universe. The concept of samadhi has a long history that can be traced back to ancient Indian scriptures and spiritual traditions, and it has played an important role in the development of many Eastern spiritual practices.</p><p>There are various methods that have been developed over the centuries for attaining samadhi, and these methods are often referred to as "yogas" or "paths." One of the most well-known methods for attaining samadhi is through the practice of yoga, which involves physical postures, breathing techniques, and meditation. Another method for achieving samadhi is through the practice of mindfulness, which involves paying attention to one's thoughts and feelings in the present moment without judgment.</p><p>In Hinduism, the goal of samadhi is often seen as the attainment of spiritual enlightenment, or moksha, which is the ultimate release from the cycle of birth and death. In Buddhism, samadhi is viewed as a necessary step on the path to enlightenment, or nirvana, which is the state of perfect peace and understanding.</p><p>There are many different interpretations of what samadhi actually is, and there are many different ways in which it can be experienced. Some people describe samadhi as a state of pure consciousness, in which the individual is able to transcend the ego and experience a sense of unity with the universe. Others describe it as a state of pure bliss or ecstasy, in which the individual is able to experience a deep sense of joy and contentment.</p><p>Regardless of how it is described or experienced, samadhi is seen as a highly sought-after state in many Eastern spiritual traditions, and it is often viewed as the ultimate goal of spiritual practice. Many people spend years or even lifetimes attempting to achieve samadhi, and for those who are able to attain it, the experience is often described as transformative and life-changing.</p>Andrew T. Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719076025192162530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6120919002374652384.post-23020460262637550752022-12-30T01:53:00.005-08:002022-12-30T01:53:46.330-08:00 Temporal lobe epilepsy<p><span style="color: #374151;"><span style="background-color: #f7f7f8; white-space: pre-wrap;">Temporal lobe epilepsy is a type of epilepsy that is characterized by seizures that originate in the temporal lobes of the brain. The temporal lobes are located on the sides of the brain and are involved in a variety of functions, including memory, language, and emotion. People with temporal lobe epilepsy may experience a wide range of symptoms during seizures, including changes in behaviour, hallucinations, and altered consciousness.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f7f7f8; color: #374151; white-space: pre-wrap;">Some people with temporal lobe epilepsy may also experience religious experiences during seizures. These experiences can be very intense and may involve feelings of intense spiritual or mystical experiences, such as a sense of oneness with the universe or encounters with deities or other spiritual beings. Some people may also experience visions or hallucinations of religious imagery or have vivid memories of past religious experiences.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f7f7f8; color: #374151; white-space: pre-wrap;">It is important to note that these experiences are typically the result of abnormal electrical activity in the brain and are not necessarily indicative of a person's true spiritual beliefs or practices. It is also important for people with temporal lobe epilepsy to work with a healthcare provider to manage their condition and prevent seizures, as uncontrolled seizures can have serious health consequences.</span></p>Andrew T. Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719076025192162530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6120919002374652384.post-79861942074107687922022-12-29T04:34:00.004-08:002022-12-29T04:39:04.434-08:00Dr Sam Parnia - NDEs Research<p><b>I used to work in the same hospital as Dr. Sam Parnia when he started this research in the mid-to-late 1990's. He became a virtual household name amongst the staff, such was the level of interest in his potential findings.</b></p><p>Dr. Sam Parnia is a physician and researcher who has conducted extensive research on near-death experiences (NDEs). NDEs are reported by some people who have come close to death or have been pronounced clinically dead, and describe a range of experiences that can include feelings of peace, encounters with deceased loved ones, and transcendental or mystical experiences.</p><p>Dr. Parnia's research has focused on understanding the scientific basis for NDEs and determining whether they represent a real phenomenon or are simply a product of the brain's activity during a crisis. He has conducted several studies on NDEs, including the AWARE (AWAreness during REsuscitation) study, which was a large-scale, international study that aimed to investigate NDEs and other cognitive experiences that may occur during cardiac arrest.</p><p>Dr. Parnia's research has generated significant interest and has been featured in numerous media outlets. However, the scientific community remains divided on the subject of NDEs and the validity of Parnia's findings. Some researchers believe that NDEs may be the result of the brain's activity during a crisis, while others believe that they may represent some kind of transcendental or spiritual experience.</p><p>Overall, Parnia's research on NDEs has contributed to a better understanding of these experiences and has sparked debate and discussion within the scientific community about their nature and possible causes.</p>Andrew T. Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719076025192162530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6120919002374652384.post-46763654881849463252022-12-28T22:20:00.000-08:002022-12-28T22:20:27.974-08:00Robert Anton Wilson<p>Robert Anton Wilson was a philosopher, writer, and futurist who is best known for his work in the field of transmodernism and his influential role in the counterculture movement of the 1960s and 1970s.</p><p>Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1932, Wilson was a voracious reader from a young age and had a particular interest in science fiction, occultism, and Eastern philosophy. He received a degree in psychology from Brooklyn College and later pursued a career as an advertising copywriter.</p><p>In the 1960s, Wilson became involved in the counterculture movement and began to explore alternative ways of thinking and living. He became a member of the Discordian society, a group that sought to challenge traditional modes of thought and promote chaos and disorder as a means of encouraging creativity and personal growth.</p><p>Wilson is perhaps best known for his work on the "Illuminatus! Trilogy," a series of novels co-written with Robert Shea that explores themes of conspiracy, anarchism, and the power of the individual. The novels, which were published in the 1970s, became popular among the counterculture movement and helped to introduce many people to transmodernism and the ideas of chaos magic.</p><p>In addition to his work on the "Illuminatus! Trilogy," Wilson was a prolific writer and produced a large body of work that covered a wide range of topics, including psychology, neuroscience, metaphysics, and social criticism. He was also a popular speaker and lectured on various topics at universities and conferences around the world.</p><p>Throughout his career, Wilson was known for his wit, his skepticism, and his refusal to accept conventional wisdom at face value. He encouraged people to question authority and to think for themselves, and his ideas continue to influence people today.</p><p>Robert Anton Wilson was a remarkable thinker and writer who played a significant role in the counterculture movement of the 1960s and 1970s. His work continues to inspire and influence people around the world and serves as a testament to the power of individual thought and the importance of questioning authority.</p>Andrew T. Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719076025192162530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6120919002374652384.post-63632248106453251122022-12-28T05:23:00.005-08:002022-12-28T05:46:52.051-08:00John C. Lilly - Floatation Tanks<p><b>John C. Lilly was a physician, neuroscientist, and psychoanalyst who is best known for his development of the flotation tank, also known as the sensory deprivation tank. </b>Lilly was interested in the effects of isolation and sensory deprivation on the brain and behavior, and he developed the flotation tank as a way to study these effects.</p><p>The flotation tank is a small, enclosed space that is filled with a solution of water and Epsom salt, which allows users to float effortlessly. The tank is designed to be completely dark and soundproof, and it is meant to provide a space for complete sensory deprivation.</p><p>Lilly was interested in the ways in which the brain adapts to the absence of external stimuli, and he believed that the flotation tank could provide a unique opportunity to study this process. He also believed that the tank could have therapeutic benefits, as it allows individuals to relax and meditate in a peaceful and calming environment.</p><p>Lilly's work with the flotation tank sparked controversy and was met with criticism from some in the scientific community, who saw it as unscientific and lacking in rigor. However, his work also inspired further research on the effects of sensory deprivation on the brain and behavior, and the flotation tank has become a popular tool in the field of psychology and meditation.</p><p>Today, flotation tanks are used in a variety of settings, including spas, wellness centers, and research labs. They are often used as a form of stress reduction and relaxation, and they are thought to have a number of potential benefits, including reducing anxiety, improving sleep, and promoting overall well-being.</p><p>Overall, John C. Lilly's development of the flotation tank was a pioneering and influential contribution to the fields of psychology and neuroscience, and it continues to be an important tool in the study of the effects of sensory deprivation on the brain and behavior.</p>Andrew T. Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719076025192162530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6120919002374652384.post-67572361449191856652022-12-28T05:18:00.001-08:002022-12-28T05:18:19.305-08:00Timothy Leary - Design for Dying<p>"Design for Dying" is a book written by Timothy Leary, a controversial figure in the field of psychology known for his advocacy of the use of psychedelic drugs in the exploration of consciousness. In the book, Leary discusses his belief that death is a natural and inevitable part of life, and that it is important for individuals to think about and prepare for their own death.</p><p>Leary argues that rather than viewing death as something to be feared, we should embrace it as a natural part of the cycle of life. He suggests that by accepting death and planning for it, we can live our lives more fully and authentically. To this end, he proposes a "design for dying" that includes four key components:</p><p></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><b>The "death zone"</b>: This is the time leading up to death, and Leary suggests that it is important for individuals to use this time to reflect on their lives, make peace with their past, and express their love and gratitude to those around them.</li><li><b>The "death ritual":</b> Leary suggests that individuals should plan a ritual or ceremony that reflects their personal beliefs and values to mark the transition from life to death. This could be a traditional funeral or burial, or it could be a more personal celebration of life.</li><li><b>The "death support team"</b>: Leary suggests that individuals should surround themselves with a supportive network of friends and loved ones to help them through the dying process and provide comfort and care during their final days.</li><li><b>The "death message"</b>: Leary advises individuals to consider what they would like to leave behind as a legacy or message to those they leave behind, and to plan for this in advance.</li></ol><p></p><p>Overall, "Design for Dying" is a thought-provoking and controversial book that encourages readers to consider death as a natural and inevitable part of life, and to think about how they would like to approach their own death.</p>Andrew T. Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719076025192162530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6120919002374652384.post-21338266446899954972022-12-28T05:10:00.008-08:002022-12-28T05:10:46.964-08:00Others writers/researchers in NeurotheologyThere are several leading writers in the field of neurotheology, including: <div><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><b>Andrew B. Newberg, MD</b>: Dr. Newberg is a leading expert in the field of neurotheology and the author of several books on the topic, including "Why God Won't Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief" and "How God Changes Your Brain: Breakthrough Findings from a Leading Neuroscientist." </div><div><br /></div><div><b>Daniel J. Siegel, MD</b>: Dr. Siegel is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine and the author of several books on the intersection of neuroscience and spirituality, including "The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being" and "The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are." </div><div><br /></div><div><b>Mario Beauregard, PhD</b>: Dr. Beauregard is a neuroscientist and the author of "The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist's Case for the Existence of the Soul," which presents research on the neural basis of spiritual experiences. </div><div><br /></div><div><b>Dean Hamer, PhD</b>: Dr. Hamer is a geneticist and the author of "The God Gene: How Faith Is Hardwired into Our Genes," which explores the genetic basis of spirituality. </div><div><br /></div><div><b>Jeff Warren</b>: Mr. Warren is a journalist and the author of "The Head Trip: Adventures on the Wheel of Consciousness," which explores the science of spiritual experiences and altered states of consciousness. </div></blockquote><div><br /></div><div>These are just a few examples of leading writers in the field of neurotheology, and there are many other researchers and authors who have made significant contributions to the study of the relationship between the brain and spirituality.
Regenerate response</div>Andrew T. Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719076025192162530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6120919002374652384.post-33635438528107686412022-12-28T05:07:00.002-08:002022-12-28T05:13:27.108-08:00Overview of Neurotheology<b>Neurotheology, also known as spiritual neuroscience, is the study of the relationship between the brain and spirituality.</b><div><br /></div><div>It seeks to understand how the brain processes spiritual experiences, and how these experiences affect the brain and behavior. <div><br /></div><div>There is a long history of spirituality and religion being considered separate from scientific investigation, but neurotheology aims to bridge this gap by using scientific methods to study the neural basis of spiritual experiences. This includes using tools such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and electroencephalography (EEG) to examine brain activity during spiritual practices such as meditation and prayer. </div><div><br /></div><div>One of the main areas of focus in neurotheology is the role of the neurotransmitter dopamine in spiritual experiences. Dopamine is involved in reward and pleasure, and it has been found to be released in the brain during spiritual practices such as meditation. </div><div><br /></div><div>This suggests that spiritual experiences may be related to the brain's reward system, and that they may provide a sense of meaning and purpose. </div><div><br /></div><div>Another area of interest in neurotheology is the role of the default mode network (DMN), a group of brain regions that are active when the brain is at rest or not focused on a specific task. The DMN has been found to be less active during spiritual practices such as meditation, which may contribute to the sense of peace and calm that many people experience during these practices. </div><div><br /></div><div>There is also research on the effects of spiritual practices on the brain and behavior. For example, studies have found that regular meditation can lead to changes in brain structure, such as increased gray matter in the prefrontal cortex, which is involved in decision-making and self-control. Other research has found that spiritual practices can lead to changes in behavior, such as increased empathy and prosocial behavior. </div><div><br /></div><div>While neurotheology is still a relatively new field, it has the potential to provide insights into the biological basis of spirituality and the ways in which it can affect our lives. It also has the potential to help bridge the gap between science and spirituality, and to provide a more holistic understanding of the human experience.</div></div>Andrew T. Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719076025192162530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6120919002374652384.post-49568472219800572412022-10-20T05:50:00.004-07:002022-10-20T05:51:43.761-07:00Psychic Skills & Miracles - technology for telepathy and remote viewing<iframe class="BLOG_video_class" allowfullscreen="" youtube-src-id="tmC1174POpA" width="540" height="322" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tmC1174POpA"></iframe>Andrew T. Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719076025192162530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6120919002374652384.post-17343593185542563282022-10-13T22:35:00.003-07:002022-10-13T22:36:49.362-07:00Enlightenment, The Self, and the Brain. How the brain changes with final liberation<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe class="BLOG_video_class" allowfullscreen="" youtube-src-id="zqrpKUTMXgY" width="540" height="322" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zqrpKUTMXgY"></iframe></div>Andrew T. Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719076025192162530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6120919002374652384.post-88104285522602641742022-10-13T03:43:00.004-07:002022-10-13T03:43:44.881-07:00Are we hardwired for god?<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="322" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/uxREBlWvxfk" width="540" youtube-src-id="uxREBlWvxfk"></iframe></div><br /><p></p>Andrew T. Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719076025192162530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6120919002374652384.post-69917253361906828372022-10-12T10:18:00.001-07:002022-10-12T10:18:07.353-07:00Mind, Myth and Magick Workshop (Online)<p><span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 1.7em; font-style: inherit;">Mind, Myth and Magick Workshop (Online)</span></p><div class="entry-content" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;"><h1 style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-size: 1.7em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 500; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Manifesting and Mastering Your Inner Demons</em></h1><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Andrew T. Austin training | Metaphors of Movement training | Metaphors Mastery Training" class="aligncenter wp-image-731 size-full" height="768" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" src="https://metaphorstraining.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/magick-workshop-andrew-t-austin.png" srcset="https://metaphorstraining.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/magick-workshop-andrew-t-austin.png 1024w, https://metaphorstraining.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/magick-workshop-andrew-t-austin-300x225.png 300w, https://metaphorstraining.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/magick-workshop-andrew-t-austin-768x576.png 768w" style="clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin-bottom: 1.6em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="1024" /></p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This experimental workshop uses the Goetia as its central text and teaches the formula of the Goetia as applied to the anthropomorphisations and personifications of your inner worlds.</strong></p><hr style="background-color: #cccccc; border: 0px; height: 1px; margin-bottom: 1.5em;" /><h3 style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-size: 1.5em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 500; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Naples Arrangement</h3><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wondering what this is?</strong> </p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; vertical-align: baseline;">61=0.<br />61 +146=0 as Undefined (Space).<br />61 +146+207=0 as basis of Possible Vibration.<br />1. The Point: Positive yet indefinable,<br />2. The Point: Distinguishable from 1 other.<br />3. The Point: Defined by relation to 2 others. The Abyss-between Ideal and Actual.<br />4. The Point: Defined by 3 co-ordinates: Matter.<br />5. Motion (time) – H<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">e</em>, the Womb; for only through Motion and in Time can events occur.<br />6. The Point: now self-conscious, because able to define itself in terms of above.<br />7. The Point’s Idea of Bliss (Ananda).<br />8. The Point’s Idea of Thought (Chit).<br />9. The Point’s Idea of Being (Sat).<br />10. The Point’s Idea of Itself fulfilled in its complement, as determined by 7, 8 and 9.</p><hr style="background-color: #cccccc; border: 0px; height: 1px; margin-bottom: 1.5em;" /><h2 style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-size: 1.6em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 500; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Training Dates for 2022 (Online)</h2><ul style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><ul style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Monday 24th October</li><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tuesday 25th October</li><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wednesday 26th October</li><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Thursday 27th October</li><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Friday 28th October</li></ul></li></ul><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">All timings 2-4pm (UK time)</strong></p><ul style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">All sessions are recorded and uploaded to this site along with any additional pieces for participants to review at their leisure. This also means if you miss a session it will be easy to catch up.</em></li><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Video content will be available for 1 year after the end of the training.</em></li></ul><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://metaphorstraining.com/membership-account/membership-levels/" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; color: #248cc8; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><img alt="" class="alignnone wp-image-79 size-full" height="108" loading="lazy" src="https://metaphorstraining.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/metaphors-training-andrewtaustin.png" style="border: 0px; height: auto; margin-bottom: 1.6em; max-width: 100%;" width="300" /></a></p><hr style="background-color: #cccccc; border: 0px; height: 1px; margin-bottom: 1.5em;" /><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Course Requirements:</strong> <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">you must have attended at least Level 1 training in MoM (or be subscribed to <a href="https://www.metaphorsinmyattic.com/" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; color: #248cc8; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Metaphors In My Attic</a>), it would also be a good idea to familiarise yourself with the Goetia so you have an understanding of just what you are getting into.</em></p><hr style="background-color: #cccccc; border: 0px; height: 1px; margin-bottom: 1.5em;" /><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Goetia</strong> is an occult practice which involves invoking (“calling”) angels and evoking demons. The word came from the 17th-century grimoire “The Lesser Key of Solomon” which describes the methodology for calling forth seventy-two “demons.” Each of these demons has something to teach the magician.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In modern parlance, we could describe it like this: someone is tormented by the Green-Eyed Monster of Jealousy, it affects their well-being, it damages their relationships and future happiness. If we bring this green-eyed monster forth, we can find out what needs to be resolved for this person, they can learn something from their jealousy and lead a more fulfilling life as a result once they have created peace between themselves and their green-eyed monster (ie. demon).</p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This workshop is a Masterclass in the systemic organisation of the metaphoric environment and how we can use this to our advantage.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">When we elicit the metaphor and ask what is to the left, what is to the right etc, the way the information is organised follows some precise principles (i.e. systemic organisation). This isn’t something that is commonly taught in the <a href="https://www.metaphorsofmovement.co.uk/" style="border: 0px; color: #248cc8; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Metaphors of Movement training</a> but is something explored extensively in the sister project of <a href="https://www.historiailliusitineris.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #248cc8; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">The Historia Illius Itineris</a>.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There are various religious, spiritual occult and magical traditions that embody these organisational principles which are often then celebrated through ritual and ceremony, often without conscious awareness by anyone involved.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In this experimental workshop, we will be taking one such set of rituals, that of Solomonic magic known as The Goetia. We will learn how the formulas embodied in this practice are relevant to the metaphoric environment and the manner in which information is organised within it.</p><hr style="background-color: #cccccc; border: 0px; height: 1px; margin-bottom: 1.5em;" /><h3 style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-size: 1.5em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 500; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Contents of the Training</strong></h3><ul style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><ul style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><ul style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">An outline of the Hermetic principle of magic.</li><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Elemental attributions and positions within the metaphoric environment.</li><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">An exploration of Goetic principles.</li><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Design and layout of the physical working space.</li><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The tools and techniques of evocation and invocation.</li><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">An in-depth examination of the formulae of Goetic evocation and invocation.</li><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A walk-through of the Goetic evocation process.</li><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Adapting the Goetic formula to an application of Metaphors of Movement.</li><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The anthropomorphication of experience in metaphor taxonomy.</li><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Evocation and mastery over your own personal demons.</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul><hr style="background-color: #cccccc; border: 0px; height: 1px; margin-bottom: 1.5em;" /><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">For those of you who have studied Metaphors of Movement level 2, you will be familiar with the taxonomical grouping of “anthropomorphications.”<br /></strong><br />This is where there is a creature, person or living thing that exists within the metaphoric environment that appears to have a life of its own. You will be aware that this is representative of both the thing itself and an organisation of people to whom the owner has the same relationship.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The easiest example is if I were to be in my metaphor of standing at a crossroads and in front of me stands my wife. It is both my wife, and an organisation of people to whom I have the same relationship. i.e. I am married to my job and regard the people at work as family.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The monster to my left might be both the monster and all my ex-wives, for example, and so on. The problem is that most people tend to be at the mercy of their anthropomorphizations in their metaphors. This workshop aims to change all that with a bit of witchery and lots of jiggery-pokery.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I am certain this will be the most unusual workshop you have ever participated in.</strong></em></p><hr style="background-color: #cccccc; border: 0px; height: 1px; margin-bottom: 1.5em;" /><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; color: maroon; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It is highly advisable that attendees read the Goetia text prior to attending this course.</span><br /><span style="border: 0px; color: maroon; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Don’t worry if it doesn’t make much sense at this time.</em></span></p><hr style="background-color: #cccccc; border: 0px; height: 1px; margin-bottom: 1.5em;" /><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Creating mastery over our inner demons with peace existing between us makes us “the master of the temple”, or more correctly, The Master of our inner Temple.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“And allow me again to assure you that when you’ve got yourself going, doing your True Will, you won’t find you have any time to get bored.</em>”<br /><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">― <span class="authorOrTitle" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Aleister Crowley</span></strong><span id="quote_book_link_432342" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; vertical-align: baseline;">“<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Do you use ‘True Will’ as an excuse to do nothing?</em><br /><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Have you declared yourself enlightened?</em><br /><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Damn your weak philosophies; a pox and a pestilence your despicable sloth and arrogance.</em>”<br />― <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="authorOrTitle" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Peter J. Carroll, </span><span id="quote_book_link_440226" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Psybermagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magick</span></strong></p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; vertical-align: baseline;">“<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Buried deep within each one of us lies a treasure. It is our mission in this lifetime to find this treasure, but its exact location is known only by the dragon that guards it</em>.” <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">― <span class="authorOrTitle" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lawren Leo</span></strong></p><hr style="background-color: #cccccc; border: 0px; height: 1px; margin-bottom: 1.5em;" /><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Andrew T. Austin training | Metaphors of Movement training | Metaphors Mastery Training" class="alignleft wp-image-727 size-full" height="317" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px" src="https://metaphorstraining.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/vitriol-rosicrucian-inner-earth-symbol.png" srcset="https://metaphorstraining.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/vitriol-rosicrucian-inner-earth-symbol.png 615w, https://metaphorstraining.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/vitriol-rosicrucian-inner-earth-symbol-300x300.png 300w, https://metaphorstraining.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/vitriol-rosicrucian-inner-earth-symbol-150x150.png 150w" style="display: inline; float: left; height: auto; margin: 0px 1.5em 1.5em 0px; max-width: 100%;" width="316" /></strong></p><hr style="background-color: #cccccc; border: 0px; height: 1px; margin-bottom: 1.5em;" /><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 1em 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Please note:</strong> <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">anyone saying, or asking, “</em>isn’t this just parts work?<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">” will be clubbed to death.</em></p></div>Andrew T. Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719076025192162530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6120919002374652384.post-3628116972710364642022-10-11T05:51:00.000-07:002022-10-11T05:51:02.487-07:00Neurotheology: Are We Hardwired for God?<h2 style="text-align: left;">Neurotheology: Are We Hardwired for God? </h2><h3 style="text-align: left;">May 2, 2008
René J. Muller, PhD
Psychiatric Times, Psychiatric Times Vol 25 No 6, Volume 25, Issue 6
</h3><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: sans-serif;"><i>Considering that the brain is increasingly being credited with having a role in everything we think, feel, and do, it was probably just a matter of time before it was postulated that religious belief has a neural substrate.</i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: sans-serif;">Considering that the brain is increasingly being credited with having a role in everything we think, feel, and do, it was probably just a matter of time before it was postulated that religious belief has a neural substrate. The question of how the brain might be "hardwired" for spirituality has captured the interest of many investigators who have established careers in fields as different as neurology, theology, and neuroscience and spawned the new discipline of neurotheology.1Neurotheology, neurons, and neurotransmitters</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: sans-serif;">Neurotheologians argue that the structure and function of the human brain predispose us to believe in God. They claim that the site of God's biological substrate is the limbic system deep within the brain, which has long been considered to be the biological center for emotion. Rhawn Joseph, a prominent neurotheologian, goes a step further to suggest that the limbic system is dotted with "God neurons" and "God neurotransmitters."</span></p></blockquote><div><div class="ad-box" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"></div></div><div><div class="block-content mt-3" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1rem; width: 990px; word-break: break-word;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 12px;">More here: </span><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="color: #212529;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><a href="https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/neurotheology-are-we-hardwired-god" target="_blank">https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/neurotheology-are-we-hardwired-god</a></span></span></p></div></div></div>Andrew T. Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719076025192162530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6120919002374652384.post-86522306140290155982022-10-10T02:07:00.003-07:002022-10-10T02:08:26.452-07:00"Third Eye" Techniques<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="372" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/aImpr_A3iwI" width="560" youtube-src-id="aImpr_A3iwI"></iframe></div><br /><p></p>Andrew T. Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719076025192162530noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6120919002374652384.post-62450730308517541782022-10-09T07:51:00.003-07:002022-10-09T07:52:16.501-07:00"The God Helmet Experiments" by Todd Murphy<p>I'm halfway through "The God Helmet Experiments" - Todd Murphy has done an incredible job of rewriting the complexities of Persinger's academic papers and converting them into highly readable pieces. I can honestly say this is one of the best books on the brain and the human experience I've ever read so far.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4FnYi0tk33TzAawbmWwDJO_7k9YVeNwdcQXhOwCdeHr_zOZ8M6kx9MQEybyFZDGcfWDfBI3wNjIMpbiuf2u0i8Fb7xIuuihHHbuz3qA7uH34lqLfqSG722n-tG6l8ekboaUrSum72Mj5mS21ylQArFy2clTiN-1ruUPkxMMYwOVd1TYuetKTs6SVt/s2048/god-helmet-experiments.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4FnYi0tk33TzAawbmWwDJO_7k9YVeNwdcQXhOwCdeHr_zOZ8M6kx9MQEybyFZDGcfWDfBI3wNjIMpbiuf2u0i8Fb7xIuuihHHbuz3qA7uH34lqLfqSG722n-tG6l8ekboaUrSum72Mj5mS21ylQArFy2clTiN-1ruUPkxMMYwOVd1TYuetKTs6SVt/w462-h346/god-helmet-experiments.jpg" width="462" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Andrew T. Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719076025192162530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6120919002374652384.post-9282811801457527352022-10-09T03:44:00.003-07:002022-10-09T10:42:33.104-07:00Learning the set up.<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioeZym4ClbF3jKLDN9QRI0ZVyISuY-MCGTheSlhqKL0PM3fcX5FhUQc36VGOJe0EIGryLcudMv61jrFRJrh3ijd_FMetbHf_izDNH7f4sOInlCECvdmWTTqDtiQWETRlFl7RZEMoD4Z3YIXk8B1XlcF2zfWoMgHQs1V3UHx0McxKBgVbpC2LL0F4_9/s2048/andrewtaustin-neurotheology-helmet.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="924" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioeZym4ClbF3jKLDN9QRI0ZVyISuY-MCGTheSlhqKL0PM3fcX5FhUQc36VGOJe0EIGryLcudMv61jrFRJrh3ijd_FMetbHf_izDNH7f4sOInlCECvdmWTTqDtiQWETRlFl7RZEMoD4Z3YIXk8B1XlcF2zfWoMgHQs1V3UHx0McxKBgVbpC2LL0F4_9/w288-h640/andrewtaustin-neurotheology-helmet.jpg" width="288" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Andrew T. Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719076025192162530noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6120919002374652384.post-75446501459330010222022-10-08T09:51:00.005-07:002022-10-08T09:51:40.848-07:00Sacred Pathways & The God Helmet Experiments<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqkcnidzZrD7mV46YMyp3QqYoDRjXXgBhWqMUPz8sSvlRaTvmZDNp_NF1O872uWBYlIQOclvh0ORYjZpZXqcH_sbxx9g4XXsP1GL03IuFo-yfVXQ8Fa-r8_sGJ3Pj5dV5AybEYvH32fYskSgPM2VZqVKI-8eq54kEZCuJPrK83GXVt2i0clVtIhvmS/s424/todd-murphy-neurotheology-pathways2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="424" data-original-width="318" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqkcnidzZrD7mV46YMyp3QqYoDRjXXgBhWqMUPz8sSvlRaTvmZDNp_NF1O872uWBYlIQOclvh0ORYjZpZXqcH_sbxx9g4XXsP1GL03IuFo-yfVXQ8Fa-r8_sGJ3Pj5dV5AybEYvH32fYskSgPM2VZqVKI-8eq54kEZCuJPrK83GXVt2i0clVtIhvmS/s320/todd-murphy-neurotheology-pathways2.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div><span style="color: #0f1111;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><b>Sacred Pathways </b>explains how the brain areas that support Near-Death Experiences are also the basis for mystic experience during our lives. It's a 21st-century synthesis of science and spirituality by brain scientist Todd Murphy, in which spiritual, religious, and mystic events are explained with neuroscience.</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #0f1111;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #0f1111;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">Edited and re-edited to make the science easy to understand, it's a readable introduction to the science of the spiritual.</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #0f1111;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #0f1111;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">Murphy uses Darwin's theory of evolution to understand the human death-process, and proposes that reincarnation is an evolutionary adaptation which contributed to the survival of our species. The book explores the ideas that the self is actually a hallucination, God is a manifestation of a part of ourselves, and enlightenment comes from a blast of neural activity in specific parts of the brain. It also looks at prayer, spontaneous mystic experiences, romantic love, and psychic skills. The author also believes that spirituality is a very positive force, both in the world and in our lives. Spirituality, he argues, is an adaptive force that's crucial to our survival as a species, making it an integral part of human nature. An atheist who openly encourages prayer, Murphy goes past the debates between skeptics and believers and shows how religion helps us, without regard for the truth or falsehood of anyone's beliefs. Sacred Pathways is a fascinating example of no-nonsense 'new science' at its best.</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #0f1111;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #0f1111;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">This extensively referenced tour-de-force work explains the brain's role in religious and mystic experiences including, enlightenment, prayer, near-death experiences, and even psychic perception. It also explains reincarnation, out-of-body experiences and the spiritual nature of romantic love.</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #0f1111;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #0f1111;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">It includes a chapter that summarizes Murphy's concept of reincarnation; the first to be published by a peer-reviewed scientific journal. It also has an in-depth discussion of the famous God Helmet, and explains how psychic skills work, based on lab experiments with telepathy and remote viewing.</span></span></div><p><span face="Amazon Ember, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1111;"><span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span face="Amazon Ember, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1111;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0M_D0Ya1hnFwEP1ExNCsFwaUuKlMiJW4HdlmlGaSootK_91CPlAFro567k6sZv0CThNKtEyNL0I91g2h8BL048m_cJig03BkxwyBiLShk5aeEsOYfdWvfALALKqv-IssW-hAKSBQxPM5VZFSRZnkYbXVSr-D_fjvL_lz8gcLXfZD2xpZWcBIvLC0H/s500/todd-murphy-neurotheology-pathways1.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="341" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0M_D0Ya1hnFwEP1ExNCsFwaUuKlMiJW4HdlmlGaSootK_91CPlAFro567k6sZv0CThNKtEyNL0I91g2h8BL048m_cJig03BkxwyBiLShk5aeEsOYfdWvfALALKqv-IssW-hAKSBQxPM5VZFSRZnkYbXVSr-D_fjvL_lz8gcLXfZD2xpZWcBIvLC0H/s320/todd-murphy-neurotheology-pathways1.jpg" width="218" /></a></div><div><span style="color: #0f1111;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><b>The God Helmet Experiments</b> is about the research that led to a technology which created a wide range of religious, mystic, and spiritual experiences in the laboratory. </span></span></div><div><span style="color: #0f1111;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #0f1111;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">These included some visions of god, out-of-body experiences, waking dreams, apparitions, and the feeling that there is someone standing behind you when no one is there. It's even elicited Near-Death Experience phenomena. Used in other ways, the God Helmet has also created paranormal experiences, including ghostly visions. </span></span></div><div><span style="color: #0f1111;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #0f1111;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">There were even a few experiments successfully applying the God Helmet for depression.</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #0f1111;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #0f1111;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">The God Helmet was developed by two scientists at Laurentian University's behavioural neurosciences program, Stan Koren, and Dr. Michael Persinger, who was the director of the research group until he passed away in 2017. The editor took some of Dr. Michael Persinger's difficult-to-read scientific papers about the God Helmet, and rewrote them to make them easier to read. This book is designed to help you understand the God Helmet, the brain's role in religious and mystic experiences, and even presents some material related to the debates and misunderstandings in this area of brain science.</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #0f1111;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #0f1111;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">The God Helmet Experiments is a new kind of science book, letting the reader see the actual research. It's still a work of science, and still calls for some careful reading, though it's very much easier to read and understand than the original scientific journal articles.</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #0f1111;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #0f1111;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">Dr. Michael Persinger was Todd Murphy's (this book's editor) mentor for 23 years, and they even published a few papers together. Not only can The God Helmet Experiments help you to understand how the brain contributes to spiritual experiences, but it will also let you see the other exciting possibilities in this fascinating technology (low-intensity complex magnetic signal stimulation).</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #0f1111;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #0f1111;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">The book has three sections. The first is dedicated to some of Dr. Persinger's longer review and summary articles, four in all. The second is a series of experiments using the God Helmet, recounting the experiments, one by one. The third is a response to Persinger's critics and their (unfounded) criticism.</span></span></div>Andrew T. Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719076025192162530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6120919002374652384.post-85290940626326500652022-10-06T07:20:00.006-07:002022-10-06T10:21:03.387-07:00Arrival<p> The package arrived today. The importation fees were high, but hopefully, it will be worthwhile.</p><p>I had the first commercially available unit, "The Shakti" back in 2000 and swore I'd never use it again after having a bit of a rough time after some experimentation. Twenty-two years between then and now, the technology has developed sizably as have I. </p><p>Thus in these days of adult maturity, I won't be mixing the streams of Shakti, booze and God only knows what other psychoactives I used back then.</p><p>I'll write up a report on each experiment as I go. At the time of writing I've not set it up yet or read through all the instructions, but it looks like sessions are once every 72 hours.</p><p>Watch this space!</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhucaPclI611T9Nyy624Cv-GMIUrFGBTDTu9zV4OlPZVFLy3YYEunEdylnrM38KYrbFviDCuQojHKFrckvwnlDz6FKEClKrzrhQAeLk6vF_ro6r4meU8dFOKxTnM0_EHJ0Z3Meq9rn1Ap-jr94N_cdLYEPqjj492X7dhAsL-0wAsS9pxzmkCQfqUlQ3/s4624/box1.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2602" data-original-width="4624" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhucaPclI611T9Nyy624Cv-GMIUrFGBTDTu9zV4OlPZVFLy3YYEunEdylnrM38KYrbFviDCuQojHKFrckvwnlDz6FKEClKrzrhQAeLk6vF_ro6r4meU8dFOKxTnM0_EHJ0Z3Meq9rn1Ap-jr94N_cdLYEPqjj492X7dhAsL-0wAsS9pxzmkCQfqUlQ3/w400-h225/box1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlUMn2COmk5AxqGnnrjfnpsHGwvJzQ3_OPHZJDKXy6tPc6F-H5MJL1ccXctQXMn5obEtuJ3gv4yffOy9jl8QGxQtjLVHf9IPH55WpLBbSw_KQcHU9zPtb9KNgySLSniiX9Al3pibxMUorevgbh_mFrJd86A4EOiSUhSXskPhL-2KE3dP7I5RM-whzE/s4624/20221006_135123.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4624" data-original-width="3468" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlUMn2COmk5AxqGnnrjfnpsHGwvJzQ3_OPHZJDKXy6tPc6F-H5MJL1ccXctQXMn5obEtuJ3gv4yffOy9jl8QGxQtjLVHf9IPH55WpLBbSw_KQcHU9zPtb9KNgySLSniiX9Al3pibxMUorevgbh_mFrJd86A4EOiSUhSXskPhL-2KE3dP7I5RM-whzE/w300-h400/20221006_135123.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRs5opQGccTkstBoKPiWl_p_QqYJuMoit0pb17iO1NWHaXtnOFqkgylAqiWlbg1krOG82R-pWG_bALnTary7hRlgMgIZWgoty2DjjAjXg2cTthbZK9mruG0RAUQwwjFV1Tbu6UqcFF0UFTgOvhx7TWXDkQSpR7gLfNTPLPVibXvZB124pMfIzXma6f/s4624/shiva-god-helmet-persinger.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3468" data-original-width="4624" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRs5opQGccTkstBoKPiWl_p_QqYJuMoit0pb17iO1NWHaXtnOFqkgylAqiWlbg1krOG82R-pWG_bALnTary7hRlgMgIZWgoty2DjjAjXg2cTthbZK9mruG0RAUQwwjFV1Tbu6UqcFF0UFTgOvhx7TWXDkQSpR7gLfNTPLPVibXvZB124pMfIzXma6f/w400-h300/shiva-god-helmet-persinger.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Andrew T. 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