On his radio program yesterday afternoon, he announced that quiet reflection had led him to the inescapable conclusion that there exists a being greater than himself out there.
Many of us have been saying that for years. In fact, we would tend to go well beyond that minimal assessment.
Every time I read Footprints In The Sand I think of Alan Colmes carrying him on the beach.
being the dumbest person in any given room does have its advantages
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LOL, although Colmes doesn’t strike me as the “Lordly” type.
On a different note I was watching “Thru the Worm Hole” on the science channel yesterday. There is a neural doctor that is apparently working on isolating the “god center” of the brain.
It was quite interesting. It appears that there is an area of the brain that is responsible for indicating the feeling of there being a “Presence”.
He has what he calls the “god helmet”. He placed a subject in a room, blind folded and placed the helmet on her head. After an hour of “Quiet reflection” he fired small magnetic fields that were focused on the “god center”.
When the subject was interviewed she reported two instances of sensing a presence during the time the fields were activated. One was the presence of five “Beings” and the second was the presence of “Fire”.
I hope the rest of the series is as good as this one. They covered a lot of very interesting stuff from this type of thing to the possibility that everything we call “Reality” is merely a simulation in a “super godlike computer”, on the order of the matrix.
~Matt
Edit to add: The main reason I brought this up was this line "*he announced that quiet reflection had led him to the inescapable conclusion that there exists a being greater than himself out there. * " which are exactly the conditions set out by the doctors experiments. His question is what “Natural” stimulus causes the “god center” to fire.
“His question is what ‘Natural’ stimulus causes the ‘god center’ to fire.”
Somehow I don’t think artificially bombarding the brain with magnetic fields constitutes what most people would call a “natural” stimulus. I’ve read about that line of experimentation, and I was baffled why anyone would imagine that hallucinations induced by tampering physically with the brain might represent any kind of valid perception of reality. If that were the case, then Timothy Leary should have been the wisest man on earth.
In contrast, “quiet reflection” would seem to be more conducive to acquiring valid knowledge. In any case, it certainly seems to have worked for Hannity in this case. 
Somehow I don’t think artificially bombarding the brain with magnetic fields constitutes what most people would call a “natural” stimulus.
Yes that was completely admitted in the show by the doctor. As I stated he is doing this to merely find what happens and why. He is also looking for “Natural Stimulus” that causes similar reactions.
If I remember correctly he used an example of someone that had a “god experience” shortly after or during being struck by lightening
In contrast, “quiet reflection” would seem to be more conducive to acquiring valid knowledge.
Depends…are the voices inside your head or out side your head…Look a pink bunny
~Matt
I’ve read about that line of experimentation, and I was baffled why anyone would imagine that hallucinations induced by tampering physically with the brain might represent any kind of valid perception of reality.
That’s just the point, it’s not a valid perception of reality. But if it’s traceable and repeatable you’ve learned something. Have you read the books by Oliver Sachs? What he and others have learned from people who’ve had their brains physically altered is astonishing. Of course the classic example is we learned about left-right brainedness from poor suckers who’ve had their brains sliced down the middle.
So if you fire up a certain area of the brain and someone predictably sees a vision of God and starts babbling like Ted Haggard, then you may have learned something. And if you could show that other areas of the brain involved with reason go all haywire like a Coke Can in the microwave when the God-area lights up, then my whole world-view will be proven!
“And if you could show that other areas of the brain involved with reason go all haywire like a Coke Can in the microwave when the God-area lights up, then my whole world-view will be proven!”
LOL! I think you’ve made my point humorously. To restate it in more of that “quiet reflection” mode, such experiments may help us to understand better how the brain works, but they don’t tell us anything about the other (non-brain) entities that are objects of perception for that brain.