Thread: What does spirituality provide that science doesn't?

Here is an ongoing massive spiritual-scientific research that really interests me. http://www.glcoherence.org/index.php

Apparently, our intuition was right! Our deepest emotions really do stem from the human heart and not our brain. And love is not just a chemical reaction. It's energy! The heart produces it's own donut shaped field of energy, which can SYNCHRONIZE with other heart fields. And when we synchronize with other heart fields, well that's when we feel all gooey inside


The text version of what the Global Coherence project is all about. Hopefully you can click on it. I'm a member so I'm not sure what's members only. http://www.glcoherence.org/templates...initiative.pdf

To understand where the GLC is coming from, you need to understand the research of HeartMath institute. The human heart is very powerful! http://www.heartmath.org/research/sc...the-heart.html

I first learned about this research in a book, which wrapped up everything nicely in an understandable way. Unfortunately, the websites are really chaotic and the information is spread out. You'll be digging forever to find the obscure page that says the human heart has a magnetic field 5000 times more powerful than the brain. And then you'll be digging even longer to understand why this is so important!

Fortunately, Gregg Braden, author of Fractal Time is a part of the GCI. And he loves talking! PS. The video is twitchy, I have no idea why.

Thanks J! Haven't watched it yet, but just wanted to say... are you aware of the Heart Brain and the Stomach Brain? Both organs have bundles of neurons attached that are actually (if I remember right) larger than the brains of some small animals.

My stomach has a brain?

Stomach brain:
http://www.psychologytoday.com/artic...in-the-stomach

Heh... in the article it says at one point it's a bundle of neurons in the bowel... now that's a different matter entirely! Not quite what you could call a Stomach Brain...

Heart Brain:
http://www.heartmath.org/research/re...art-brain.html

Now... if bundles of neurons can be called brains, then I suppose each eye also has a brain. Very interesting....

Can those be considered chakras?

Wow, that's a thought. They don't seem to really correspond though... there isn't one in the throat or the feet. But some chakras might be different.. corresponding more to bodily feelings.

Wait... I just remembered... somewhere I read that a certain part of the brain, which is very low toward the back, near the top of the spinal column - corresponds pretty closely with the throat chakra. What was it... the Amygdala, or the Pons? Don't remember.

Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live. The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. The world we have created is a product of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
- Albert Einstein

From Temenos Theatre website

Also, I was looking at acting books (us animators have to do that ya know) and ran across this one: Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre by Keith Johnstone. Wish I could paste few quotes in here, but if you click the link and then click to read excerpts you can see why I'm stoked about this. On the 1st page he talks about controlling Hypnagogic Imagery. Weird that I'd run across this on a completely separate quest... the book essentially is about connecting with shamanic roots of art and performance... shutting off your internal dialogue and forgetting the version of the world that's been programmed into you socially. This is some serious Castaneda stuff.