Philosophical Failures of Christian Apologetics, Part 11: The Holy Spirit

[Fake Messiah]

WLC should read a science book to see how mind works or at least look at Julia Sweeney's play "Letting Go Of God" on YouTube because she figured it out just by educating herself:

Then, I started reading about all about these experiments on the function of the temporal lobes. These doctors figured out how to stimulate, electromagnetically, the right temporal lobe. People who wore this helmet experienced a sense of transcendent understanding, an overwhelming peace and connectedness, and sometimes the presence of God. Or, of, Aliens. This was often accompanied by a white light. Everyone has certain right temporal lobe sensitivity, and we're all susceptible to these experiences.

So, this could have been what was happening to me when I had my "Heal me, Heal me" experience. Of course that doesn't mean that God just doesn't use this physical way to allow us to experience Him, or Her, or Whoever. But that sure was interesting.

I learned that because our brain is in some deep, fundamental ways, unaware of itself, hallucinations like I had, or like that people have of angels or ghosts, or out-of-body or near death experiences are perceived as real encounters or actual events. And so most people, including me, instinctively think of the mind as something separate from the body. Even though there is no evidence that they are separate.

But WLC will never educate himself because he's a snake oil salesman who is counting that people will stay away from science and listen to him instead. Just like Deepak Chopra will never read a book on quantum physics although he claims that God is energy and the quantum field to people who will believe him because they won't check what scientists actually say about that.