The redneck strike again.

[Confused Ape]

It works in this way..........when the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

It does seem like that. I like the term, synchronicity - the meaningful coincidence. Coincidences happen all the time but we don't notice most of them. On rare occasions, however, an event just happens to coincide with something going on in the unconscious and we do notice it and find meaning in it.

Anyway after reading them more feeling about yoga push me to go to India. It really was an adventure to get there in the 70's by land.
Step by step Sarkar directed me to him.
It was a spiritual attraction that i could not refuse like a magnet that attract the iron.

A very interesting story. You had to go on a quest to find what you needed and you recognised what it was when you found it.

In yoga the pineal gland is like the seed.

There has been some research into the role of the pineal gland and religious experience but it's early days yet. There's some suggestion that it produces an enzyme which enables the body to manufacture DMT.

Dimethyltryptamine

N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT or N,N-DMT) is a psychedelic compound of the tryptamine family. Since DMT resembles the basic structure of neurotransmitters, when ingested, DMT is able to cross the human blood-brain-barrier, allowing it to act as a powerful hallucinogenic drug that dramatically affects human consciousness.[3] Depending on the dose and method of administration, its subjective effects can range from short-lived, milder psychedelic states to powerful immersive experiences; these are often described as a total loss of connection to external reality and an experience of encountering indescribable spiritual/alien beings and realms.[4]

Its presence is widespread throughout the plant kingdom.[6][7] DMT occurs in trace amounts in mammals, where it functions as a neurotransmitter and putatively as a neuromodulator. DMT is also produced in humans, however its production and purpose in the brain is yet to be proven or understood.[8] It is originally derived from the essential amino acid tryptophan and ultimately produced by the enzyme INMT during normal metabolism.[9] The significance of its widespread natural presence remains undetermined. DMT is structurally analogous to the neurotransmitter serotonin (5-HT) and the hormone melatonin, and furthermore functionally analogous to other psychedelic tryptamines, such as 5-MeO-DMT, bufotenin, psilocin, and psilocybin.

The way our brains are constructed shows that left hemisphere consciousness isn't the only way of experiencing the world. Here's a very interesting extract from a lecture by V.S. Ramachandran, the neuroscientist in God On The Brain. (There's a video of it on the page.)

Split brain with one half atheist and one half theist.

Here’s a fascinating snippet from neurologist VS Ramachandran, talking about a split-brain patient. The patient’s right brain believed in God, but the more rational left brain was atheist.

Ramachandran points to the obvious theological problem of what, in the Christian view, happens to such a person after they die; does the right brain go to heaven and the left to hell?

Materialism come when you adore the matter not when you use the matter for surviving.
There is a big difference between the two.
I use the matter every day but i am not a materialist.

I see what you're getting at. Maybe I should have said that looking at religious experience from the point of view of biology etc could prove to be very useful for the future. Spiritual experiences without religious theology would mean humans could stop fighting over which religion is true.

These days 99% of the so called religious people haven't got a clue about the way to progress spiritually speaking.

My guess is that only a small percentage of the population has the kind of brain required to be a mystic and just as well, too. After all, if everyone devoted their lives to seeking the experience interpreted as union with God we wouldn't have computers, indoor plumbing and other useful things. There's also the question of what it means to progress spiritually. People can learn and grow through ordinary, everyday experience so I don't think anyone is obliged to be on a spiritual path in order to be a decent human being. After all, someone with a 'religious experience' brain won't be a decent human being if they lack empathy.