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Jeff Lieberman on science and spirituality

DaltheJigsawDaltheJigsaw Mountain View Veteran
edited May 2012 in General Banter
Jeff Lieberman, an MIT-trained artist, scientist and engineer, makes a scientific argument for mystical experience. He asks us to challenge our perception of what we are, our relationship to the universe, and our relationship to one another. Our minds are "thought-generating machines." What we would happen if we could turn off the machine? If we could transcend our individual experience of the world?

This talk was transcribed by Brad Miele. Transcript here: http://bea.st/inevolution/?p=264

Comments

  • twobitbobtwobitbob
    Interesting talk. I think his ideas on energy are unnecessary though.
  • ThailandTomThailandTom Veteran
    Interesting Leon, thanks for posting. Some minor things I am not 100% certain onb but they are pretty trivial things such we are moving at the speed of light and we are the only organism able to become anxious about the future etc.
  • personperson Don't believe everything you think The liminal space Veteran
    A helpful talk to try to get people to look beyond the world of the senses to see that reality is more than what we think and sense and done in a language that most westerners can digest.
  • DaltheJigsawDaltheJigsaw Mountain View Veteran
    Interesting Leon, thanks for posting. Some minor things I am not 100% certain onb but they are pretty trivial things such we are moving at the speed of light and we are the only organism able to become anxious about the future etc.
    Welcome!
    Yea, but awesome that science is jumping on the bandwagon! of Eastern Thought.
  • taiyakitaiyaki Veteran
    Great talk! Thanks for sharing.
  • DaltheJigsawDaltheJigsaw Mountain View Veteran
    Great talk! Thanks for sharing.
    Welcome! Glad you enjoyed it!
  • ThailandTomThailandTom Veteran
    Interesting Leon, thanks for posting. Some minor things I am not 100% certain onb but they are pretty trivial things such we are moving at the speed of light and we are the only organism able to become anxious about the future etc.
    Welcome!
    Yea, but awesome that science is jumping on the bandwagon! of Eastern Thought.
    I mentioned this not long ago on here, but I think the Dalai Lama has been working for a long time now to bring science to the East, and not so much the East to science. He has been building a bridge and both sides are coming closer together.
  • DharmakaraDharmakara Veteran
    Yea, but awesome that science is jumping on the bandwagon! of Eastern Thought.
    Correction, it might be awesome that a scientist is jumping on the bandwagon, but it in no way implies that science is --- dialectics 101 :)

  • twobitbobtwobitbob
    Agree with Dharmakara.

    Also science and buddhism (at least how i understand buddhism) deal fundamentally with different aspects of reality.
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