God On The Brain

[Ermintruder]

this 'God Helmet' could be used to 'cure' religiosity

That's an interesting concept. Intervention anitheism via technology. In fact, a weaponised antheism energy beam would be marvellous.

Here's what was (to me) unknown as being a formally-named overarching branch of science : Neurotheology

 

[Mythopoeika]

That's an interesting concept. Intervention anitheism via technology. In fact, a weaponised antheism energy beam would be marvellous.

Here's what was (to me) unknown as being a formally-named overarching branch of science : Neurotheology

I don't think it could be 'weaponised' and used en masse as such, but I think it could be used as part of a therapy.
Problem is, there would be no way of doing this without getting the human rights people all lathered up, let alone the religious diehards.
Perhaps surreptitious abduction and release back into the wild would be the way to play it. The people administering the treatment could dress up as aliens.

 

[Ermintruder]

The people administering the treatment could dress up as aliens.

Ah. That programme. Which may have been running for some time.

Although we probably shouldn't probe (they'll do that, as required)

 

[Mythopoeika]

Ah. That programme. Which may have been running for some time.

Although we probably shouldn't probe (they'll do that, as required)

That programme doesn't seem to be working.

 

[Moth In Relay]

The last third of the article discusses is focused on the brains ability to generate 'religious experience'. It discusses Micheal Persinger of Laurentian University, Ontario and his 'ghost hat'.

Interesting to see the above commenter (from 2002, first page of thread) referring to Persinger's apparatus as a 'ghost hat'.

Wikipedia says:

<<Persinger reports that "at least" 80 percent of his participants experience a presence beside them in the room,[36] whilst about one percent report an experience of "God",[37][self-published source?]>>

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_helmet

If that's right, then 'God helmet' is pretty misleading (though of course gold for getting journalists interested). 'Ghost hat' is pleasingly less portentous (though also not very accurate).

Is there a definitive Persinger paper where he lays out his data? I'm a bit dubious of the above source.

 

[EnolaGaia]

... Is there a definitive Persinger paper where he lays out his data? I'm a bit dubious of the above source.

It appears circa 600 of Persinger's publications are available online at:

https://neurocogconsultants.app.box.com/s/l9f7tld3yjny4b00eqbq

 

[Moth In Relay]

Thank you! Hoping there is a 'God paper' (as it were) where he goes on the record with numbers (and the nature of the 1%-ish subjects who experienced God).

 

[YHWH Allah]

G = Newtonian constant of gravitation
D = Descartesian gravitation density
https://yhwhallah.wordpress.com/

UMR Formulae
frequency=[(G*D)^1/2]
force=[(G*D)^1/2]momentum
energy=[(G*D)^1/2]hbar
power=[(G*D)^1/2]energy
current=[(G*D)^1/2]charge
G*power=c^5
G*force=c^4
power/force=c

Dark Energy
energy=[(G*D)^1/2]hbar
energy=[(G*D)^1/2]e^2*z0
energy=[(G*D)^1/2]e^2/e0*c
energy=[(G*D)^1/2]e^2*u0*c
energy=[(G*D)^1/2]h*2alpha
G=c^5/power
G=c^4/force
force=power/c

Dark Matter
mass=[(G*D)^1/2]hbar/c^2
mass=[(G*D)^1/2]e^2*z0/c^2
mass=[(G*D)^1/2]e^2/e0*c^3
mass=[(G*D)^1/2]e^2*u0/c
mass=[(G*D)^1/2]h*2alpha/c^2
power=c^5/G
force=c^4/G
power=force*c

UMR 20 March 2018
Tuesday 16:15 UTC

YHWH Allah

 

[ramonmercado]

UMR 20 March 2018
Tuesday 16:15 UTC

United Muslim Relief are having a Flag Day on 20 March?

 

[kamalktk]

Fake ‘God Helmet’ can elicit extraordinary experiences — especially among ‘spiritual’ people

http://www.psypost.org/2018/01/fake...ences-especially-among-spiritual-people-50619
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Some people report “extraordinary experiences” after wearing a skateboarding helmet with inactive wires attached to it — particularly those who describe themselves as spiritual.

That’s according to a new field study in the journal Religion, Brain & Behavior, in which Dutch scientists took a so-called God Helmet — a placebo brain stimulation device — to a music festival.

 

[Mythopoeika]

That might mean that religious/spiritual people are more swayed by suggestion.

 

[Swifty]

G = Newtonian constant of gravitation
D = Descartesian gravitation density
https://yhwhallah.wordpress.com/

UMR Formulae
frequency=[(G*D)^1/2]
force=[(G*D)^1/2]momentum
energy=[(G*D)^1/2]hbar
power=[(G*D)^1/2]energy
current=[(G*D)^1/2]charge
G*power=c^5
G*force=c^4
power/force=c

Dark Energy
energy=[(G*D)^1/2]hbar
energy=[(G*D)^1/2]e^2*z0
energy=[(G*D)^1/2]e^2/e0*c
energy=[(G*D)^1/2]e^2*u0*c
energy=[(G*D)^1/2]h*2alpha
G=c^5/power
G=c^4/force
force=power/c

Dark Matter
mass=[(G*D)^1/2]hbar/c^2
mass=[(G*D)^1/2]e^2*z0/c^2
mass=[(G*D)^1/2]e^2/e0*c^3
mass=[(G*D)^1/2]e^2*u0/c
mass=[(G*D)^1/2]h*2alpha/c^2
power=c^5/G
force=c^4/G
power=force*c

UMR 20 March 2018
Tuesday 16:15 UTC

YHWH Allah

... then place in the oven at 180 degrees for 45 minutes.

 

[Coal]

... then place in the oven at 180 degrees for 45 minutes.

It'd still only be half-baked then.

 

[Swifty]

It'd still only be half-baked then.

Whatever it is, it's probably correct .. I dunno, I'm too thick to understand it ... is that a God equation YHWH Allah ?

 

[Kingsize Wombat]

This might fit best into this thread:

Here’s What God Looks Like, According To 500 American Christians

A team of psychologists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill took hundreds of randomly varying pairs of human faces, then showed them to a sample group of 511 American Christians. The participants, which included 330 men and 181 women, combed the face-pairs and selected the ones they thought best matched what God looks like.

Using the participants’ selections, the researchers merged the results to create a composite “face of God” — and it might not look quite like you’d think.

Here's one from the Department of the Bleeding Obvious:

God as imagined by Liberals tended to be younger, more feminine, more African-American, and more loving. On the other hand, Conservatives’ perception leaned toward a God that was more Caucasian, masculine, wealthier, and more powerful. Perhaps the most telling finding, though, was that people tended to imagine that God’s facial characteristics matched those of someone pretty familiar: themselves.

http://allthatsinteresting.com/god-face-study

 

[GNC]

God did make Man in his own image, so presumably he's (or she's) some ever-shifting series of morphing faces like in Michael Jackson's Black or White video.