(June 22, 2014 at 6:31 am)Confused Ape Wrote: [quote='Riketto' pid='693388' dateline='1403358399']
It works in this way..........when the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
Quote: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.
If coincidences happen all the times i would have already won lotto many times over.
Quote: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.
A speechless experience.
Quote: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.
Not early days for Shiva that explained the role of the pineal gland 7000 ago.
Quote: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?
The guy has done a lot of interesting work.
Quite good in order to solve a lot of physical-mental problems although some of his work is mixed up with pure speculation like in this case.
Yoga work on a different plate.
Yoga try to establish a relationship with the macrocosm so the unit Atman or microcosm become macrocosm.
But you can also put in a different way.
Suppose two hungry wayfarers see a mango tree full of ripe mangoes.
Ramachandran will start studying the tree while the little Ricky will start picking up those beautiful mangoes straight away in order to put an end to
the pangs of the stomach.
Quote: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.
Spirituality is the cream of all the creams.
While religions divide spirituality unite.
Religions look outside but that doesn't make any sense because God is inside.
The seed is within.
Nothing is outside.
Quote: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.
Not true.
If man wouldn't have the possibility to be a mystic he wouldn't be a man.
Animals still don't have this chance that is why they are not man yet.
The problem lie elsewhere Ape.
It is only a question to put our own priority here rather than there but the
chances to be a mystic are there.
It is all about freedom.
Someone choose materialism or intellectual extravaganza while other choose a different path.
Quote: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.
Not true Ape.
Most of those that are engaged in spirituality that i know are also working
in this material world in all field of life.
None that i know choose to go up in the Himalaya to lead a life of heremits.
This would go against Sarkar principles.
Quote: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.
You surely can be a decent person but there is a small big problem with that.
Everything in this universe move and change so we also change.
We can go up or down in our evolution.
Spirituality help you to go ahead so the chances to go back are very slim.
I have seen countless of materialists important people fall down from high stands.