Wired to connect
Neuroscience has discovered that our brain’s very design makes it sociable, inexorably drawn into an intimate brain-to-brain linkup whenever we engage with another person.
Social Intelligence, Daniel Goleman
The neural physiology of koinonia?
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Much of this resonates with what is now known about how a well controlled Heart Rate Variability controls positive brain functions, and that the EMF from the heart is much greater than the EMF from the brain – and so we can literally ‘be in sync’ with someone whose HRV is positive – see also all the work behind the practice of HeartMath. Again, it seems that nerological science confirms evermore the truths of the spirit.
Kevin Street
June 12, 2011 at 8:28 am
I love it when science and religion finally have a meeting of the minds, as it were. You could say that science takes the microscopic point of view, and religion the macro or cosmic point of view, but in the end they often come to the same conclusion.
Check out “archetypes” on wikipedia, specifically Jungian archetypes and pedagogy. I first came across the word archetype when studying psychology, but you often come across this word in religous studies as well.
Are we connected because we have evolved as humans from the same primordial soup, or as Plato suggested, from something inculcated into our souls before birth? Do we feel connected to certain people because we share similar ideas and interests, or because we perhaps knew each other in an earlier life? Theories on karma suggest that we will keep bumping into the same people over different lifetimes, in differing capacities.
Shirley Johnson
June 18, 2011 at 3:47 am