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09/14/2012 09:08:04 PM · #1 |
A new, and intriguing, theory postulates just that.
Originally posted by Time:
âPeople with temporal lobe epilepsy who are exposed to sunlight get the same sort of stimulation to the mind and religious zeal,â Ashrafian told the Washington Post. âItâs likely that the family of pharaohs had a heritable form of temporal lobe epilepsy.â
The religious experience of Tuthmosis IV is inscribed near the Great Sphinx, while Akhenatenâs religious vision encouraged him to raise the status of a minor deity called Aten into a supreme god â thus establishing the earliest recorded monotheistic religion.
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09/14/2012 09:27:16 PM · #2 |
In 1982 Julian Jaynes published The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind he posits that human self awareness is rather new, that only within the last 3000 years has the brain been able to mesh the two lobes of the brain into a cohesive self through the development of the hippocampus.
He holds that schizophrenia where one hears voices emanating in the other lobe of the brain but are not recognized as internal, was the normal state for a long time. In those ancient times, the god voice was in everyone's head. Later as the brain evolved and unified into a single consciousness, those voices were lost except to those few touched by the voice, and they were called prophets. Now we call them schizophrenics.
If you hear a voice telling you to sacrifice your son as a test of your faith, it might be time to up your meds.
Message edited by author 2012-09-14 21:48:52. |
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09/14/2012 09:50:21 PM · #3 |
| This isn't going to go down well with fundamentalists of any religion. |
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09/14/2012 09:52:27 PM · #4 |
Originally posted by scalvert:
This isn't going to go down well with fundamentalists of any religion. |
Which, of course, is why I posted it here. ;) |
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09/14/2012 10:05:24 PM · #5 |
You just love a good flame war, don't you Cory?
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09/14/2012 10:10:44 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by BrennanOB:
In 1982 Julian Jaynes published The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind .... He holds that schizophrenia where one hears voices emanating in the other lobe of the brain but are not recognized as internal, was the normal state for a long time. In those ancient times, the god voice was in everyone's head. Later as the brain evolved and unified into a single consciousness, those voices were lost except to those few touched by the voice, and they were called prophets. Now we call them schizophrenics. |
I've been mentioning that book around here off and on over the years; I'm not sure anyone's actually gone out and read it on my say-so, though. Fascinating, isn't it? |
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09/14/2012 10:16:28 PM · #7 |
| I'd like to know how non-corporeal entities of any kind are supposed to be communicating with humans sans material form. Ancient peoples didn't know that sight is the result of photons physically striking the retina and sound is interpreted from physical pressure waves entering our ears. We do know. Moreover, how would the entity be able to see or hear or speak in return with no form to register or interpret outside input and no way to vocalize? It's not hard to understand a mechanism for dreams and delusions in the context of random "noise" processed with our enormous capacity for finding patterns, but sensory organs with no way to sense make no sense at all. |
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09/14/2012 11:37:00 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by Yo_Spiff:
You just love a good flame war, don't you Cory? |
Truly. |
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09/14/2012 11:42:12 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by BrennanOB:
... those voices were lost except to those few touched by the voice, and they were called prophets. Now we call them schizophrenics.
If you hear a voice telling you to sacrifice your son as a test of your faith, it might be time to up your meds. |
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