Psychologist Lisa Miller
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Now, it doesn't matter if I am Hindu or Jain or Jewish or Muslim or Catholic or Christian or spiritual and not religious.
We all share the same core neural circuits of transcendent awareness.
Of course, as in any form of perception, there's human variability in the intensity or in the nuance with which we experience perception.
Shankar, what's extraordinary is that perception of the transcendent calls on the same neural circuits no matter what tradition I may be or even if I am spiritual but not religious.
What are those circuits?
Well, there are four.
The first and only the first is associated with quieting the mind.
It's shared, of course, with mindfulness, the disengagement of the default mode network, the racket that spins round and round.
But mindfulness, as helpful as it is to bringing us present, presence alone is not sufficient for transcendent awareness.
Presence is perhaps the threshold of the door through which we might then quiet.
cross to experience transcendent awareness.
And there are three circuits on the other side of the door seen in all people of all faith traditions at a moment of transcendent connection.
First, the bonding network comes up online, the same bonding network engaged when we are babies in our parents' or grandparents' arms, through which we feel and know that we are loved and held.
The universe, God, Hashem, Allah, Jesus, whatever one's sacred word loves and holds us, we are
absolutely held.
That is not a belief.
That is a perception.
It is a felt perception.
The second circuit to come online is attentional.
We see a shift from the very narrow, top-down dorsal attention.
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