The redneck strike again.

[Confused Ape]

If coincidences happen all the times i would have already won lotto many times over.

The co-incidences happen for the people who win the lottery, though. Synchronicoty isn't that kind of co-incidence, however. It's like when something in the outside world mirrors something in the inside world. Sometimes the mirror can trigger a direction changing realisation about something. Other times the co-incidences can be meaningful in that they show how everything appears to be connected in right brain consciousness.

Everything is connected of course but humans have ignored that for too long. We aren't separate from nature or its masters who can do anything we like to the planet without repercussions.

Not early days for Shiva that explained the role of the pineal gland 7000 ago.

But it will be very useful if science can verify it. At the moment people can have all kinds of views about it such as "The pineal gland stuff is false because my religion doesn't teach it" or "The pineal gland stuff is just religious bullshit."

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.

What he was really showing in this example of a split brain is that our 'rational left brain' consciousness is just the tip of an iceberg. He was then illustrating how the reality concerning brains poses problems for some religious theology. Everyone has a right and left hemisphere so we are all two people in one body so to speak. What we consciously think isn't necessarily what we unconsciously think so would we get to the Christian heaven if we only believe in the Christian God unconsciously or do we have to be conscious of our belief for it to count?

Yoga work on a different plate.
Yoga try to establish a relationship with the macrocosm so the unit Atman or microcosm become macrocosm.

It still has to be done through the brain, though.

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.

There's a reason why Ramachandran said there might be a God antenna in the brain.

Reaching for the stars: Dr VS Ramachandran on the wonder that is our brain.

Q: The god question
You have said earlier that you are agnostic, but not atheistic. Does your research make you feel that if there is a god, at least he/she/it cannot be perfect?

A: This isn't a scientific question and I am no more qualified to answer it than you or anyone else.

As a human being, however, I tend to think that 'there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of' in our philosophy and God may indeed be such a thing.

That said, there is too much pain in the world to permit belief in a PERSONAL God - a benevolent deity or in intelligent design (One look at George Bush Jr and you know intelligent design can't be true).

I suppose the answer depends partially on what you mean by God. You can't enter the atheists' turf, accept their premises, and expect to 'prove' the existence of God. What could such a thing even mean?

On the other hand, I have no problem believing in the existence of an abstract god - the brahman of the Upanishads, who runs this whole mad magic show.

As I said in my Jawaharlal Nehru lecture (2009), he isn't probably involved in individual human concerns, yet may not be entirely indifferent to them either.

Not true.
If man wouldn't have the possibility to be a mystic he wouldn't be a man.

How are you defining mysticism? My own brain is tuned to myths and symbols etc when I use what I call 'New Age perception' but it's not the right brain consciousness that Jill Bolte Taylor experienced. I can also use Eckhart Tolle's technique to observe my thoughts floating by. On rare occasions I can become aware of just existing and being here without any thoughts about it although I can only manage it for a couple of seconds. I'm guessing this is what's meant by the observer self. It's an interesting experience from the point of view of cognition but I don't find it any kind of evidence for God.

Animals still don't have this chance that is why they are not man yet.

The way I see it, humans believing that we are God's special creation or Evolution's greatest product has led to a lot of the problems we have today.

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.

But what about people who do what they can for human rights, animal welfare and ecology. Doesn't a life devoted to service count for anything?