DISQUS

Jonathan Korman · 3 years ago

You are familiar with Austin's Zen and the Brain, right?

Al Billings · 3 years ago

Of course. I have a copy at home.

I haven't bought the sequel to it that came out this last year yet though.

pmp · 3 years ago

this is fascinating, i'm glad they're starting to delve into neuroimaging these mystical states.

i'm very interested in seeing the glossolalia data also contrasted with brain images of:

a. trance state during performance of a native-tongue mantra
b. as a. but induced from a non-native-tongue mantra where the meaning is known
c. same, with meaning not known
d. same, using an randomly generated gibberish mantra
e. trance state during kabalistic letter permutation exercise
f. during a long winded recital of the psalms or somesuch, from memory
g. during a long winded evocation with an artificial language like Enochian.