Lisa Miller
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773 appearances
5 recordings
3 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 7 Jul
Lisa Miller’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Had I only treated the synchronicities, the mystical experiences, as interesting or interesting
Wow, wonderful, but set them aside, tucked them into a back drawer in my mind.
It would not have been enough.
Isaiah would have still been in an orphanage.
In time, he would have been adopted into the military, and we would not be a family.
Our family, the most important center of my life, our family was born out of a dialogue with the deeper force of all life.
prayer, meditation, right action.
Our spiritual practices can be held within the embrace of our faith tradition or held by multiple faith traditions, or our spiritual life can be outside of religion.
But whether or not we are religious, spiritual practice literally builds the muscle, if you will, strengthens the cortex of the awakened brain.
When we looked at people who said, yes, yes, I'm spiritual, but only said it on one day.
We happen to have only asked them one day.
We did not see neural correlates.
We did not see a stronger cortex in people who on any given day raise their hand and say, yes, yes, spirituality is important to me.
It's when people day after day over in our study, eight years, said, yes, spirituality is important to me day in and day out, that we saw a thicker cortex processing power across the regions of the awakened brain.
In other words, it is sustained spiritual life that seems to go hand in hand with
with the deepening of our awakened awareness, it becomes a new normal.
Through prayer, through meditation, we access the deeper nature of life and our capacity to perceive into the sacred reality becomes a new normal, becomes a new set point.
In fact, Shankar, together with my colleagues in the medical school, Myrna Weissman and her team, we looked at people
who struggled with severe depression and those who did not, and all of their children and grandchildren over 40 years.
Myrna Wiseman generously shared her 40-year longitudinal three-generation dataset through which we could follow people over the course of their life, those who were at high risk for depression and those who were at low risk for depression.
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