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Lisa Miller states that the human brain functions as an antenna built to receive direct knowing and spiritual awareness. Concrete acts of community service strengthen these neural circuits more than other forms of practice.
Lisa Miller calls mystical experiences the greatest opportunity of a human lifetime.
“Mystical experiences are not only to be seen, perhaps appreciated, and then tucked away in the back drawer of our inner mind. Mystical experiences are the opportunity of our lifetime.”
From Why Lisa Miller Treats the Brain as an Antenna for Direct Knowing
Lisa Miller reports tracking the same individuals alongside Myrna Weissman for 35 to 40 years.
“Together with my colleague, Myrna Weissman, we looked at people over 35, 40 years…”
From Lisa Miller on the Brain Circuits Behind Spiritual Experiences
Science over the past 10 to 20 years suggests the brain functions as a conduit for consciousness. Lisa Miller refers to this capacity to receive information as direct knowing.
“What Elizabeth is calling intuition, I might call direct knowing. And here I find it is very helpful to take just a step back and wonder, how does our brain really work? Increasingly, in the past 10, 20 years, science has started to investigate the brain as a conduit to consciousness, as more of an antenna. We are built to be able to receive information.”
From Why Lisa Miller Treats the Brain as an Antenna for Direct Knowing
Every person is born with shared brain circuits built for connection. Lisa Miller states that prayer, meditation, and nature activate these pathways.
“Yes, we all, everyone of us, are born with the same circuits in our brain for transcendent relationship, whether it be through prayer or meditation, or a deep relationship with the spirit in and through nature.”
From Lisa Miller on the Brain Circuits Behind Spiritual Experiences
Concrete acts of community service provide neurological training. Lisa Miller explains that service strengthens spiritual awareness at the level of the brain.
“Where the science chimes in once again is that when we looked at what form of spiritual practice most appears to strengthen our spiritual awareness at the level of the brain, it is service…”
From Lisa Miller on the Brain Circuits Behind Spiritual Experiences
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