wellwisher
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Not everyone has vivid audio and/or visual experiences. The more common experience may be intuitive and involve subtle feeling tones more than just once. Even those who may not have religious affinity, can feel awe when seeing the valley from a maintain top. This sense of awe and even our feeling of smallest, in the mix of things, can become an internal data point on which faith can appear. The experience is real and one in a timeless place that many humans have shared.
I was brought up Catholic, but became Agnostic. I was more like a person schooled in science in math, that still had an affinity with spiritual and even mystical things, from many cultures; logic and feeling. In terms of learning about the brain, I did this from the inside, out. This began with an interest in Psychology, in general, and Jungian Psychology, in particular.
Jung's theory of the archetypes of the collective unconscious could explain the religious nature of the agnostic. To me the archetypes were like apps of the brain's operating, being projected, and could appear with neural damming and natural brain adjustments. I did not see that as discounting these religious things. Rather the religions of the world could help teach me, about the coding of these apps, since they have worked the neural IT for centuries, albeit, in a more symbolic way. I also learned collective human symbolism, from the works of Jung, so I could interpret religious symbols and learn the secrets of their brain IT.
At the time when Jung was developing his theories, there were very few computers, like we have today. There was no easy cultural way to offer a parallel between the brain and archetypes, to something more tangible, like computer apps or firmware, that could reflects how the brain and consciousness work.
Now we have a way to make these parallels without a knee jerk Atheist religion deflection. For example, when we surf the web, it is no longer linear like reading a book from cover to cover. It is now more like a dream, in the sense of skipping around, in some spontaneous way, often without knowing where you are going. The web is mimicking the dynamics of the dream scape, at an unconscious level, which is why it is so familiar, even to young children. I see mythology, as the apps of various cultures, describing the human brain's operating system at that time in history. Their teachings are like the coding.
From that wide range of internal experience; inductions from focused learning and attempts to translate; dams and release, I could eventually begin to attribute what I saw in the software, with what I knew of in the brain's hardware. The hardware approach had limitations; empirical. But based on that I could reverse engineer, from inside data, I could learn new things as to how hardware needed to work to explain both the software and the hardware parallel. Rest and action potential to describe neuron firing are far less descriptive of realty than energized and action potential. The word energizes leads to new questions about directed free energy.
When it comes to consciousness and the brain, science is like someone looking at an alien machine, that learns how to use it, but they are not fully clear about the coding; software/firmware. This approach is more empirical, with the software in a black box. I have the advantage of lots of inside coding and simulation data, and I could merge this with the work of those who see from the outside.
I have learned the importance of religions; useful command lines for brain IT. This can help you get mainframe time. This IT and main frame time is why extremes of human group activity are often associated with religious IT; full power.
