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"The book explores how our "everyday" mind works as a device for selecting just a few parts of the outside reality that are important for our survival. We don't experience the world as it is, but as a virtual reality--a small, limited system which evolved to keep us safe and ensure our survival. This system, though essential for getting us safely across a busy street, is insufficient for understanding and solving the challenges of the modern world. But we are also endowed with a quiescent "second network" of cognition which, when activated, can dissolve or break through the barriers of ordinary consciousness. We all experience this activation to some degree when we suddenly see a solution to a problem or have an intuitive or creative insight - when we connect to a larger whole beyond the self. By combining ancient teachings with modern science, we have a new psychology of spiritual experience - the knowledge to explore how this second network can be developed and stabilized."--… (más)
The book was well written with an attention grabbing cover. It's a good read for anyone looking for a different perspective on spirituality and religion.
God 4.0 is a wonderfully written spiritual book. It offers an alternative way of thinking about spirituality, science and religion. You can tell this book was heavily researched and covers a variety of topics. I highly recommend this book, and the three others before it, to get the full package of not just religion, but spirituality. ( )
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“What is needed, now, is a new view, to reassess and reform the concept of God. It is the experience of going beyond the norm to achieve insight as to how life events are connected on a “higher” level.
We now have an idea of how the process happens in the brain and, importantly, how to develop this innate potential in today’s world. This knowledge could be the first small step toward finding the common ground for us to stand on to work toward a new spiritual literacy.”
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For M.B., with love and gratitude always
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
For scores of millennia, human beings have tried to transcend normal existence in search of answers to our perennial questions about the meaning of life and death.
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We have to shift our understanding of ourselves as separate individuals, each seeking our own welfare, to an understanding of how we fit into social, biological, and physical environments.
The greatest surprise of human evolution may be that the highest form of selfishness is selflessness.
New research shows that emotions have a separate system of nerve pathways, through the limbic system to the cortex, allowing emotional signals to avoid conscious control.
If you spend too much time being like everybody else, you decrease your chances of coming up with something different.
When the 'weaker' of the two brains (right and left) is stimulated and encouraged to work in cooperation with the stronger side, the end result is a great increase in overall ability and ... often five to ten times more effectiveness.
To keep your resolve, surround yourself with those who want you to succeed. The brain cannot do its job of protecting the body without contact with other people.
This duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the conscious mind and the unconscious. There are moments in each of our lives when our verbal-intellect suggests one course, and our hearts, or intuition, another.
Unconscious decisions for action go on constantly inside the head.
Human inventiveness is overwhelming human adaptiveness. Our ability to judge lags behind our ability to create.
We're worse off than Freud thought, because many actions proceed without our knowing anything about them.
Many of the techniques used to develop an alternate higher consciousness are those that involve the dimunition of self. Qualities such as generosity, humility, gratitude and, above all, service. To others are emphasized in almost all traditions. From a psychological point of view “service” directs attention away from the individual, and that again moves consciousness away from the self to experience unity of the world and, at the same time, to understand one’s place in it.
What has been thought of traditionally and described metaphorically as “knowing God” is a special mode of perception….a “second network” which has become muddled, as followers of the original sages have interpreted, reinterpreted, distorted and even replaced insights with sets of rules made up in the cultures of many different eras.
The best way to think about the relationship between the brain’s two hemispheres is as one between the text (the literal statement itself) and the context (the meaning, taking in all the information as a while).
It is probably the case that human beings have thrived as a species because of sophisticated social bonding, attachment to others, forgiveness and gratitude.
It is not what you believe, it is what you perceive.
As we uncover the history and development of both spirituality and religion, we’ll see that there are even different genetic dispositions related to these two different belief predispositions (which do seem to make them irreconcilable for the individuals involved).
The “second system” is quiescent faculty; accidents can activate it, as can certain procedures, such as meditation, isolation, fasting, overstimulation, prayer and the use of drugs which have appeared in every known society. They involve a breakup or a bypass of normal cognition, and the opening of “another world” as it has been called metaphorically.
Consciousness changes continually within each of us…radically each day. From the hallucinations of dreaming to narrowly focused workaday full alertness – and everything in between. Areas inside the brain temporarily shut off normal thinking to make way for a new insight or new level of understanding. That fluidity of our minds makes a change in consciousness closer to our daily experiences than we assume.
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One short book on the nature of transcendence, beyond science and sects, certainly won't solve the much. But getting such an understanding could be a first step toward a unity of different approaches to knowledge and the the world. We all have the natural capacity for connecting up and perceiving the unity beyond diversity. And we can build on this to begin a long-term process of rapprochement and unity for humanity. At least, we hope so. It is time to combine the scientific and the traditional, and to enter a new era - God 4.0 - together.
"The book explores how our "everyday" mind works as a device for selecting just a few parts of the outside reality that are important for our survival. We don't experience the world as it is, but as a virtual reality--a small, limited system which evolved to keep us safe and ensure our survival. This system, though essential for getting us safely across a busy street, is insufficient for understanding and solving the challenges of the modern world. But we are also endowed with a quiescent "second network" of cognition which, when activated, can dissolve or break through the barriers of ordinary consciousness. We all experience this activation to some degree when we suddenly see a solution to a problem or have an intuitive or creative insight - when we connect to a larger whole beyond the self. By combining ancient teachings with modern science, we have a new psychology of spiritual experience - the knowledge to explore how this second network can be developed and stabilized."--
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Like with most of these books, a little dry at times, and of course some things go over one’s head. (