AfterGlow
Bluelighter
I just caught this again on our local PBS station. It's about a neuroscientist researching how brain injuries affect people's perception of themselves and the world. Here's a link to PBS's online companion web site about the show.
I found the last segment particulary interesting. It's about a man who suffers grand mal epiletic seizures and comes out of them feeling like he's had a religious/spritual experience with feelings of bliss/joy/inspiration. He tries to describe it with tears in his eyes and seeing him reminds me SOOOO MUCH of the way I felt rolling my first few times and experiencing that amazing enlightenment (the magic).
The neuroscientist says one possible explanation is that a seizure, which is a massive firing of neurons in the cerebral cortex, activates neural circuits in a portion of the brain where our religious beliefs may have evolved and are located. His explanation of what happens in the brain during an epileptic seizure sounds very similar to the explanation of what happens when you take MD** and your brain is flooded with serotonin.
I was just wondering if anybody else has seen this and thought the same thing I did.
I found the last segment particulary interesting. It's about a man who suffers grand mal epiletic seizures and comes out of them feeling like he's had a religious/spritual experience with feelings of bliss/joy/inspiration. He tries to describe it with tears in his eyes and seeing him reminds me SOOOO MUCH of the way I felt rolling my first few times and experiencing that amazing enlightenment (the magic).
The neuroscientist says one possible explanation is that a seizure, which is a massive firing of neurons in the cerebral cortex, activates neural circuits in a portion of the brain where our religious beliefs may have evolved and are located. His explanation of what happens in the brain during an epileptic seizure sounds very similar to the explanation of what happens when you take MD** and your brain is flooded with serotonin.
I was just wondering if anybody else has seen this and thought the same thing I did.
