[Buddha-l] Singing brainscience

[Erik Hoogcarspel]

Katherine Masis schreef:
> Erik wrote: "Does anyone have a clue what New Thought is?"
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> Hi, Eric
> New Thought was the New Age of the turn-of-the-20th-century.  The main exponent was Ella Wheeler Wilcox.  Excerpts from her book *The Heart of the New Thought* and other books can be accessed at:
> http://ellawheelerwilcox.wwwhubs.com/
> William James deals with New Thought and Mary Baker Eddy’s Christian Science and similar pre-Norman-Vincent-Peale’s-positive-thinking in a rather favorable light in “The Religion of Healthy Mindedness”, i.e., Lectures IV and V of *The Varieties of Religious Experience*.
> O.K., now I can safely confess my rather high score on New Age on the Belief-O-Matic test!
> Katherine
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Thanks Katherine, I remember my parents were into positive thinking, but 
on this side of the ocean it was called dr. Coué's method.
Anyway, after being confronted with my atheist and materialistic bias, 
which has become very dear to me, I remembered Jill Bolton Taylor (see 
http://www.drjilltaylor.com/ ). See is a brainscientist who experienced 
a stroke while she knew what was happening and eventually recovered from 
it. She claims to have experienced something akin to the Buddhist 
nirvaa.na, during the period that the left part of her brain was not 
working. So if she is right nirvaa.na is nothing but a switch off of the 
left brain. This has serious consequences Buddhist ontology, which is 
mainly idealistic or at best dualistic.
Does she have a point?

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Erik

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