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Included in a skeptical article in the collection, The Myth of an Afterlife: The Case against Life after Death, was this VERY interesting reference, “Another recent study compared Theravada Buddhist Monks with lay novices … The authors found far more (brain) activity in the practiced monks than the novices during meditation, noting that the monks were able to dramatically self-regulate the activity of their frontoparietal and left insular areas.” This one statement dramatically undercuts the assertion that the brain controls ALL mental activity and not the other way around. Yet, it was nonchalantly included in an article whose agenda was to (quote) “Argue that the mind is located in the brain in such a way that there is no mental life after brain death … Our conclusion is overwhelmingly supported by neuroscientific evidence.” Yet they inexplicably include a neuroscientific case study that dramatically undercuts that conclusion. What can Creator tell us?
ClosedNicola asked 2 years ago • 
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In an earlier show, Creator agreed with the statement, “You will learn more about reality by studying the extraordinary, than the ordinary.” Yet the ordinary is the focus of the skeptics in their attempts to prove that the paranormal is make-believe. In fact, skeptics have elevated this proclivity to have the force of law. In the volume, The Myth of an Afterlife: The Case against Life after Death, behavioral geneticist Jene Mercer writes, “The law of parsimony, a guiding rule for scientists for hundreds of years, states that given two equally well-supported explanations for a phenomena, we are best advised to choose the simpler one rather than multiplying entities unnecessarily.” Skeptics routinely “choose the simpler” by ignoring and throwing out exceptions and outliers in their data, all the while congratulating themselves for being scientific. What is Creator’s perspective?
ClosedNicola asked 2 years ago • 
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Matt McCormick wrote this in his contribution to the collection titled Dead as a Doornail: “While most of us would acknowledge some connection between mental function and the brain, we may have failed to see just how deep the connection runs. Even the most abstract mental faculties—and the most specific features and contents of our private mental states—can be mapped directly onto brain functions. … People who suffer from Anton-Babinski syndrome are cortically blind, but they don’t believe they’re blind or consciously blind. They will adamantly insist they can see even in the face of clear evidence of their blindness, dismissing their inability to perform visual tasks by confabulating explanations for their poor performance. … The syndrome results from a specific sort of damage to the occipital lobe of the brain.” Is this wholly a result of brain damage, as the skeptics assert, or is this a clue about the underlying origins and actions of consciousness? What can Creator tell us?
ClosedNicola asked 2 years ago • 
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Matt McCormick wrote, “Capgras syndrome results from lesions in the occipital, temporal, and frontal lobes of the brain. Afflicted patients have the powerful sense that someone they know, particularly a loved one, has been replaced by an imposter. Vilayanur Ramachandran postulates that the problem arises from a failure of the temporal regions responsible for face recognition to communicate with the limbic system regions responsible for emotional responses.” What is Creator’s perspective?
ClosedNicola asked 2 years ago • 
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Matt McCormick wrote, “Cotard’s syndrome, or the delusional belief that you are dead, that you don’t exist, or that you have lost your organs or blood, results from damage to the channels of interaction between the fusiform face area and the limbic system.” What can Creator tell us about this? Are the researchers over-attributing causality to the brain damage alone? Would the same symptoms and delusions inevitably result in any person that suffered similar brain damage?
ClosedNicola asked 2 years ago • 
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Matt McCormick wrote, “Research shows remarkable relationships between brain tumors and brain chemistry, on the one hand, and bizarre thoughts or behaviors, on the other. In one patient the onset of hypersexuality, obsession with pornography, and pedophilia paralleled the growth of a tumor in his right orbitofrontal lobe. When the tumor was removed, his urges lapsed. When the tumor grew back, his pedophilia returned.” What can Creator tell us about this tumor-to-behavior relationship?
ClosedNicola asked 2 years ago • 
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Matt McCormick wrote, “Patients with no history of gambling find themselves overwhelmed with the urge to gamble when their dosages (of Parkinson’s drug pramipexole) cross a particular threshold, sometimes leading them to gamble away their life savings. But when the dosage is reduced, the urge vanishes.” Can Creator tell us what is REALLY going on here?
ClosedNicola asked 2 years ago • 
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Matt McCormick wrote, “Even something as common as the effects of a cup of espresso show that those elements of consciousness alleged to survive biological death depend directly upon the brain.” This seems like missing the forest for the trees. Stimulus effects are conditions that arouse the “decision-maker” within, but they do not decide for her or him! Otherwise, it would be impossible to resist ANYTHING. And life calls for a great deal of discerning resistance! Is it safe to say that DECISION is a spiritual function, not a biological function? What is Creator’s perspective?
ClosedNicola asked 2 years ago • 
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Matt McCormick wrote, “Even rats are responsive to the pain of others, refusing to eat when their eating inflicts electric shocks on other rats.” He used this to argue that even morality is a product of evolution. What is Creator’s perspective?
ClosedNicola asked 2 years ago • 
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Atheist evolutionists have a tendency to showcase theory as fact. Matt McCormick wrote, “(Experts)… have now converged on the view that evolution favored hyperactive agency detection devices (HADD). The basic idea is there is survival benefit to detecting or attributing agency or intentionality to many things in our environment. ‘It is better to mistake a boulder for a bear, than a bear for a boulder.’ Mistaking too many things as conscious agents is a helpful error since detecting too few of them can be deadly.” McCormick speculates that this is why we are so quick to believe in brainless consciousness. We can’t help it. McCormick writes, “The prevailing view is that seeing manifestations of God’s conscious will, desires, and goals in the world is a byproduct of HADD.” What is Creator’s perspective?
ClosedNicola asked 2 years ago • 
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The secular headwinds are strong, and appear to be growing stronger. Can Creator share with us how Empowered Prayer and the Lightworker Healing Protocol can turn this trend around, in time to save humanity from the encroaching darkness?
ClosedNicola asked 2 years ago • 
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A client asks: “My partner was admitted recently to our local teaching hospital for a few days with a critically low sodium level, and also changes in depressed mood, affect, memory, agitation, attention, etc. However, many of these changes were present before his sodium tanked (and we assumed these behavior changes had been due to his temporal lobe epilepsy). When his sodium was brought up (slowly, to not cause brain damage), they did a 24-hour video EEG to monitor for the epilepsy he was diagnosed with last fall (and that you did a session of deep subconscious channeling with trauma resolution for about two months ago.) Although he had several of these emotional ‘episodes’ while on the EEG, they said he did not have ANY epileptiform activity in the whole 24 hours! While he’s been on super-high doses of anti-epilepsy drugs, they said that if he was actually having seizures, they would still be able to see the seizures on the EEG as “background” epileptiform activity, and there wasn’t even any of that. Did the session you carried out two months ago correct the epilepsy?”
ClosedNicola asked 3 years ago • 
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She asks further: “Now, the doctors are trying to come up with explanations for the behavioral stuff, much of which has been going on quite a long time but has worsened recently (which could also be caused by the high dose Keppra he’s on but is now tapering off of without any sign of epilepsy), and they DO see some signs of ‘microvascular changes’ on his brain MRI so they’re wondering if this is normal aging or a dementia process. He’s been having serious memory lapses for many years and also some out-of-nowhere paranoia, agitation, and rage, for a really long time, at least 6.5 years that I can identify, and I’m often the target of that rage. One example, in 2016, we were flying home from a trip, and he was sitting several rows behind my daughter and me. When we got home, he wouldn’t even speak to me, because he was *convinced* I was going to have an affair with the (very inebriated) guy I’d been sitting next to on the plane. He seethed at me for the next 36 hours, and even woke me up in the middle of the next night to scream at me about said affair. This, or incidents like this, have only happened maybe 12-15 times in the last 6.5 years, but they’re scary, and very (emotionally) destructive, and NOT reflective of the heart that I know him to have. These episodes have increased recently, and a couple of weeks ago, prior to hospitalization, he stalked me and was unable to be de escalated for nearly 8 hours, even with our mutual friend who’s an LCSW, present. That night, I was physically scared of my 6’3″ partner. These things make it seem like it COULD be a potential dementia process, and if so, we would really like you to work on them and also, the potential betrayal trauma that seems to be terrifying and enraging him. I talked to him about this last night, and he would like to hear the channeling.” Are these episodes a consequence of dementia?
ClosedNicola asked 3 years ago • 
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