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The Enchanted LoomTeasing sturdy threads from
neuroscience masterworks
Teasing 10 threads from Mario Beauregard’s and Denyse O’Leary’s …
Thread 1:
Nature is a “blind watchmaker.” But the brain turns out to be more like an ocean than a clockwork.
(pg. 1 & 103)
Thread 2:
Research on 1000 human guinea pigs has established a clear link between spiritual or relig- ious experience and the temporal lobes of the human brain.
(pg. 81)
Thread 3:
“‘Cerebral fritzing’ is responsible for almost anything one might describe as paranormal~ aliens, heavenly apparitions, past- life sensations, near-death experiences, awareness of the soul, you name it.”(pg. 84)
Thread 4:
“Synapses between cells are awash in hor- mones and neurotransmitters that modulate the transmission of signals. They constantly form and dissolve, weaken and strengthen in response to new experi- ences.”
(pg. 102)
Thread 5:
“The time has come for science to confront the serious implications of the fact that directed, willed mental activity can clearly and systematically alter brain function.”(pg. 126)
Thread 6:
“Fear is never a good counselor and victory over fear is the first spiritual duty of man.”
(pg. 136)
Thread 7:
“In large measure the history of medicine is the history of the placebo effect.”
(pg. 140)
Thread 8:
“Neither the placebo nor the nocebo effect has been much studied – medical comfort with such squishy phenomena aside, there’s no money in it.”
(pg. 149)
Thread 9:
Neuro-electric, neurochemical and neuro- metabolic changes are necessary for a religious- spiritual- mystical experience to take place.(pg. 293)
Thread 10:
Some researchers have proposed that our brains do not produce mind and conscious- ness, but rather act as reducing valves allowing us only a narrow portion of perceivable reality.(pg. 292)
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Title Page: http://www.rappler.com/science-nature/23193-personality-traits-brain-scans
Slide 3 - http://bit.ly/1PDMRHn
Slide 12 - http://www.okdokey.co.uk/reducing-touch-points-on-the-social-conversion-funnel/
Slide 2 - http://amzn.to/1W324RX; http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Denyse_O'Leary
Slide 6 - https://www.pinterest.com/pin/366410119655506161/
Slide 5 - http://www.indochinavoyages.com/eating-insects-strange-experience-try-cambodia/
Slide 11 - http://nature.desktopnexus.com/wallpaper/513921/
Slide 10 - http://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-free-research-money-image20321166
Slide 14 - http:// www.rappler.com/science-nature/23193-personality-traits-brain-scans
Slide 9 - http://www.deviantart.com/art/placebo-273893716
Slide 8 - http://huff.to/1Z3TfL9
Slide 7 - http://heres2now.com/2012/eating-bugs-siem-reap-cambodia/
Slide 4 - http://www.deviantart.com/art/Mystical-286996467
