THE BLISSFUL BRAIN:
NEUROSCIENCE AND THE PROOF OF THE
POWER OF MEDITATION
BY
DR SHANIDA NATARAJA
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T
he human brain is a mindboggling feat of neural engineering; a biosupercomputer. Over
the last couple of decades, as
the experimental tools at our disposal have become more complex
and more successful at probing
the inner workings of the brain,
we have been able to define the
brain’s involvement in everyday
tasks, such as object recognition,
the expression of consciousness
through language, and even sexual
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attraction. However, the less tangible aspects of what it means to
be human have largely resisted our
scientific scrutiny. Not only are we
are still trying to define the neural basis of human characteristics,
such as creativity and inspiration,
but we are also still far from understanding the exact nature of the
relationship between the brain and
consciousness.
Mystical or religious experiences have historically been seen to