[Avodah] Kabbalah and Neuroscience

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From: "Moshe Feldman" _moshe.feldman at gmail.com_ 
(mailto:moshe.feldman at gmail.com) 

_http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/992347.html_ 
(http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/992347.html) 


"A study of reports of patients suffering from lesions in the junction of  the
brain's temporal and parietal lobes (temporoparietal junction), as well  as
of people whose brains are electrically stimulated during  surgical
procedures, reveal experiences that challenge the ordinary  perception of the
body and the self, experiences that are similar to the  reports of various
mystics...."
 
 
>>>>
Some scientists think that all prophets were actually  epileptics, but I 
don't buy it.  Coming out of an epileptic seizure and  then writing the seforim 
written by Yeshayahu, Yirmiyahu and so on would be like  a modern-day person 
coming out of a seizure speaking in iambic pentameter with  rhyming couplets.
 
OTOH the evidence that Mohammed had epilepsy is strong, and the Koran  
wouldn't be too hard for any modern-day teenager in a trance to write.
 
As for whether kabbalists somehow alter their own brave waves -- well,  
maybe.  


 


--Toby  Katz
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