How did the people know to do this before science could explain it.
If you study any neuroscience at all, there are definitive results on what happens in the brain when one meditates. The ELF frequencies measured and EEG readings show repetitive results on those who try to achive states of altered awareness.
Well...can you elaborate or try to dispute this when science is saying it is real.
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2006-09-15 06:10:07 · 17 answers · asked by Corey 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I did leave much out, but being interested is half the battle in any situation.
2006-09-15 06:18:22 · update #1
Yes, physics and quantam physics are constantly proving Buddhism to be true
2006-09-15 07:13:59 · answer #1 · answered by shinai_inaozuke 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Science has proven that some people and places mentioned in religion have actually existed but has not proven that a higher power that created us does exist. Religion does exist in many different forms as evidenced by the many people practicing them today. Does this make things a little clearer? What science has proven about altered brain waves during meditation doesn't have any thing to do with religion.
2006-09-15 06:20:59 · answer #2 · answered by S G 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If a religious text happenes to include an empircally testible claim, we can obviously evaluate that claim. If it turns out to be true, it does not necessarily mean any other claim in the text is true. Each has to be evaluated individually. Some claims in these texts or traditions may turn out to be sustantial, others not. Even in the case of 'meditation" not all of the techniques aim at the same experience(s), the same population, or have the same effectiveness. All of this is being investigated now.
2006-09-15 06:19:10 · answer #3 · answered by neil s 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For meditation it is certainly not necessary to know what is actually happening in the brain, just like people also don't have to know about it when they feel different emotions, solve mathematic tasks, dream or whatever. I also don't think that knowledge of neuroscientific measurements can help anyone to meditate. People bring themself to meditation by right thinking which they learned from others who know how to meditate, so like other human achievements it is given from generation to generation and was once found out by people of special creativity.
2006-09-15 06:21:53 · answer #4 · answered by Elly 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stand in the middle of the room. Spin around and around and around as fast as you can. Did science need to tell you about your inner ear and it's functions in your sense of balance and your visual tracking before you knew you were dizzy? Didn't the dervishes discover that upsetting their balance induced a state of "spritual euphoria" that today we understand as a purely physical phenomenon? We once understood all mental illness as demon possession. Today even the Catholics who made their reps on exorcism and demon-fighting insist officially that demon-posssession is a great rarity and ilnness and emotional aberration are most usually the cause of mental illness.
The super-natural is simply the natural we have yet to adquately undserstand and explain, and most often the explanation turn out to be much more mundane than we expected.
2006-09-15 06:19:47 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
One practicing meditation can achieve altered states of consciousness. That doesn't have anything to do with "...proving some religions to be true." It doesn't have anything to do with religion at all.
If a religious person meditates and achieves an altered state of consciousness, all that tells us is that the self-delusions that characterize religious belief are not sufficient to interfere with meditation.
2006-09-15 06:18:55 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're correct that observable changes in the brain can be seen during meditation.
You're wrong that this in any way proves religion to be true.
Observable changes in the brain are seen when people sing "Happy Birthday" (yes, actually this was used in an experiment that I know of)...
Observable changes in the brain are seen when people think about their past
Observable changes in the brain are seen when people engage in a mood induction
Observable changes in the brain are seen when people disciminate between different shapes and colors
Frankly, observable changes in the brain are seen whenever you do ANYTHING with your brain..
it doesn't mean anything with regard to religion.
2006-09-15 06:13:35 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't know that it's proving entire religions to be true, but certain elements of religions are being proven. The best example would be the evidence of the Great Flood; despite common thought, not only Christians and Jews discuss such a flood, but many other ancient religions speak of a great flood covering the entire earth.
2006-09-15 06:18:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Altered brains states have no bearing on the truth of religions - they just show the brain state of the person being monitored.
2006-09-15 06:14:14 · answer #9 · answered by bonzo the tap dancing chimp 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Why would altered brain states prove that religion is true? There is no logical connection between the two things.
2006-09-15 06:14:55 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes, Religion invented ELF and EEG.
2006-09-15 06:16:26 · answer #11 · answered by Nerdly Stud 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋