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This document discusses research into the brain activity associated with religious and spiritual experiences. Some researchers argue that identifying specific brain regions involved in mystical experiences provides evidence that God is a construct of the human mind produced by evolutionary processes. However, others note that the brain regions activated differ between individuals and experiences of the divine cannot be induced at will, suggesting God interacts with people in ways that are not fully understood and cannot be used to deny the existence of God. The document concludes that while science provides explanations for some aspects of spirituality, current scientific understanding is not complete enough to definitively disprove the existence of God.
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Mixing Dream Memories with Reality Long-term lucid dreamers might occasionally confuse dream memories with real ones, creating false memories. This issue is rare and preventable by maintaining a dream journal and avoiding lucid dreaming about real-life people or places too frequently.
Escapism Using lucid dreaming to escape reality can be problematic if it interferes with your daily life. While it is sometimes beneficial to escape and relieve the stress of reality, relying on lucid dreaming for happiness can hinder personal growth and productivity.
Feeling Tired After Lucid Dreaming Some people report feeling tired after lucid dreaming. This tiredness is not due to the dreams themselves but often results from not getting enough sleep or using techniques that disrupt sleep patterns. Taking breaks and ensuring adequate sleep can prevent this.
Mental Exhaustion Lucid dreaming can be mentally taxing if practiced excessively without breaks. It’s important to balance lucid dreaming with regular sleep to avoid mental fatigue.
Lucid dreaming is safe and beneficial if done with caution. It has many benefits, such as overcoming fear and improving mental health, and minimal risks. There are many resources and tutorials available for those interested in trying it.
Chandra Dev: Unveiling the Mystery of the Moon God
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Trusting God's Providence | Verse: Romans 8: 28-31
Trusting God's Providence.
Providence - God’s active preservation and care over His creation. God is both the Creator and the Sustainer of all things Heb. 1:2-3; Col. 1:17
-God keep His promises.
-God’s general providence is toward all creation
- All things were made through Him
God’s special providence is toward His children.
We may suffer now, but joy can and will come
God can see what we cannot see
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Good in the Brain
- 1. “ How to win an argument with a creationist” BCC Focus Magazine “ Searching for God in The Brain” www.scientificamerican.com
- 2. Is the identification of brain’s functions associated with mystical experiences a prove of God’s existence or a consequence of men’s evolutionary process?
- 3. Evolution .
- 5. “ God in the Brain” “ The height of this meditative trance was associated with both a large drop in activity in a portion of the parietal lob, which encompasses the upper back of the brain, and an increase in activity in the right prefrontal cortex, which resides behind the forehead.” Is the believe in God part of the human beings’ evolutionary process?
- 7. God’s Inexistence To prove that specific areas of our brain are responsible for the development of feelings related to faithful spiritual experiences is to deny God’s existence as a being outside man. He is, therefore, a product of human mind and does not exist independently of men.
- 8. Scientific prove of God’s . Existence .
- 11. We are still not able to completely understand the roots of religious feelings, therefore, we cannot deny God’s existence based on the information we have.
- 12. Science vs. God .
- 15. Conclusion .
- 16. Science’s explanations overcomes the religious versions
- 17. Science’s explanations overcomes the religious versions
- 18. Science’s explanations overcomes the religious versions
Editor's Notes
- Look at the research involving brain scan and analyze how far we can go, concluding that it is a prove or disprove of God’s existence.
- Mention that if it is part of the evolutionary process it may be an essence in the human being and people may acess it in the same way. When I mention God as a part of the human evolution, I would argue that our physical existence may have a capacity and necessity to believe. This necessity can be filled by different religions or even the existence of the same feeling and believe for something else – like the science. But the brain has the space for the believe and this must be occupied. That’s why so many people believe in god.
- Until the regularity cannot be find, like the creation of the big bang – god exist as far as science cannot explain a phenomenon. Once the explanation emerges, God existence will finally be denied.