Originally posted by scottishinnz
I would probably suggest that the most religious amongst us perhaps are slightly more bicameral than others, and that the trance like euphoria seen in many fairly fundamentalist American congregations, notably in the deep south of the US, do actually have a neurological mechanism. Perhaps that' contentious, but there you go.
I don't really buy into t" thing though. These people are, I think, clever scammers, rather than "real" prophets.
I think ALL the prophets were 'clever scammers' as you say. What else could they be in the absence of some god link?
BTW, That woman, Jill Taylor, was featured quite heavily on the Oprah radio show, four interviews in all. I have XM radio and the O has a channel there I just found out, chan 165 I think. Anyway the interviews are all online. I wonder if Dr Taylor ever got back her Phd knowledge, she was pretty well erased and she says she is not the same person anymore, lots of memories gone. I wonder if the right brain had to be trained to recover language and math skills or if the left brain healed enough to start functioning again.
If you remember, I brought up the idea of what experience she would have had if the right brain had the stroke. Oprah brought up that same question so it must have been on a lot of peoples mind too.
Dr Taylor agreed with the assesment she would have been forced to pay attention to details and egoistic assesments and such and the spacy lala land she went to would have dissapeared.
Of course it would have been her left arm to be paralyzed. She also took up the guitar and wrote a little dittie she played on Oprah.
The world of singers is in no immediate danger of her competition for sure but it showed the change in her creative aspect, having no interest in music before her stroke. I hear a lot about people who gained a lot of creativity when the stroke cut out the left brain and the right brain could express itself, being dominated by the ego world of the left brain for so long. So now I wonder what drugs like LSD or Mescaline do, inhibit the left brain and let the right brain dominate for awhile, besides the visual effects? Do you know of any drugs that does that exactly, suppress the left brain and allow the right brain to be dominant without the hallucinations of LSD and the like? Maybe yoga can do that? Not sure, any ideas?