'Your Personal NeuroSpiritualist' on Why Religion Is Essential to Your Brain's Health
@mythociate (21437)
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
July 17, 2018 11:59am CST
I hope 'missmayim' doesn't mind my 'rephrasing Neil deGrasse Tyson's "astrophysicist" nomenclature and using it to give her another title.'
Yes, Mayim Bialik IS a neuroscientist. And she talks about her religion-mindset in this video. https://youtu.be/X-ZyfuzFmK4
She explains (with lots of 'hand motion' 
) how Judaism's original purpose was actually 'to introduce mindfulness'---most-often in the form of prayer, almost like Islam (with its "scheduled bow-to-Mecca").
See, the 'mindfulness' she speaks of seems to be more like 'the awareness that you (yourself) are only a very-very small part of this massive network of internetworked network of interconnected networks ... the knowledge that they all work to meet the same eventual goal (though they each might want to fulfill different conditions before they get there)---a shared eventuality they might call "the will of God" or "the kingdom of Heaven" or "the wishes of Allah" or "Paradise" or "ShaVoKor" or "the conquest of Kahless" or etc.
To me: I use a music-metaphor to describe it ... the world is an orchestra that's been playing the symphony (actually 'the interwoven symphonies') of Religion since mankind's mind first developed. The symphony's been going continually, with people dropping-out and new people joining-in the whole time.
They're playing in a certain key (in C, in G-sharp, in B-flat, etc.) Sometimes the key changes. Sometimes, that's because some people join in before they know what key the symphony's in, start playing in a key that doesn't quite harmonize, and persist until the surrounding players give up on the old key and switch to the new one.
But you find that--if you listen to the key everyone's playing-in & learn to harmonize with it--your melody becomes stronger & you can carry the whole orchestra through times when the storm threatens to tear the concert-hall down!
) how Judaism's original purpose was actually 'to introduce mindfulness'---most-often in the form of prayer, almost like Islam (with its "scheduled bow-to-Mecca").
See, the 'mindfulness' she speaks of seems to be more like 'the awareness that you (yourself) are only a very-very small part of this massive network of internetworked network of interconnected networks ... the knowledge that they all work to meet the same eventual goal (though they each might want to fulfill different conditions before they get there)---a shared eventuality they might call "the will of God" or "the kingdom of Heaven" or "the wishes of Allah" or "Paradise" or "ShaVoKor" or "the conquest of Kahless" or etc.
To me: I use a music-metaphor to describe it ... the world is an orchestra that's been playing the symphony (actually 'the interwoven symphonies') of Religion since mankind's mind first developed. The symphony's been going continually, with people dropping-out and new people joining-in the whole time.
They're playing in a certain key (in C, in G-sharp, in B-flat, etc.) Sometimes the key changes. Sometimes, that's because some people join in before they know what key the symphony's in, start playing in a key that doesn't quite harmonize, and persist until the surrounding players give up on the old key and switch to the new one.
But you find that--if you listen to the key everyone's playing-in & learn to harmonize with it--your melody becomes stronger & you can carry the whole orchestra through times when the storm threatens to tear the concert-hall down!2 people like this
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