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This story will be told in ways that are disarming, fun, historically accurate and visually mind-blowing. This attraction will be an amazing journey of discovery that will stun people into wonder and inspire them as they experience the Greatest Message Ever Told in a way that its never been delivered before — through sight, sound and touch….
Increasingly, people are immersing themselves in superficial lifestyles that stimulate the senses but do little more. Families are weakening and religious commitment is waning while our culture becomes polarized and jaded. Something needs to be done.
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Do you believe inspiring individuals to be better and happier human beings by bringing them face-to-face with the claims of Christ a worthwhile cause? Our culture is rapidly moving away from traditional views on just about everything. It was developed by Koren and neuroscientist Michael Persinger to study creativity, religious experience and the effects of subtle stimulation of the temporal lobes. The apparatus, placed on the head of an experimental subject, generates very weak magnetic fields , that Persinger refers to as " complex. Persinger reports that many subjects have reported "mystical experiences and altered states" [4] while wearing the God Helmet.
The foundations of his theory have been criticised in the scientific press. One attempt at replication published in the scientific literature reported a failure to reproduce Persinger's effects and the authors proposed that the suggestibility of participants, improper blinding of participants or idiosyncratic methodology could explain Persinger's results.
The God Helmet was not specifically designed to elicit visions of God, [1] but to test several of Persinger's hypotheses about brain function. The first of these is the Vectorial Hemisphericity Hypothesis, [19] which proposes that the human sense of self has two components, one on each side of the brain, that ordinarily work together but in which the left hemisphere is usually dominant. Persinger and Koren designed the God Helmet in an attempt to create conditions in which contributions to the sense of self from both cerebral hemispheres is disrupted.
The second experimental hypothesis was that when communication between the left and right senses of self is disturbed, as they report it is while wearing the God Helmet, the usually-subordinate 'self' in the right hemisphere intrudes into the awareness of the left-hemispheric dominant self, [21] causing what Persinger refers to as "interhemispheric intrusions".
The third hypothesis was that "visitor experiences" could be explained by such "interhemispheric intrusions" caused by a disruption in "vectorial hemisphericity". The God Helmet experiments were also intended, though not specifically designed see above , to validate the idea that religious and mystic experiences are artifacts of temporal lobe function.
Persinger uses a modified snowmobile helmet that incorporates solenoids placed over the temporal lobes. This device produces magnetic fields that Persinger describes as "weak but complex" [29] [30] 1 microTesla. The sessions are conducted with the subject seated in an acoustic chamber.
Persinger reports that this shielding allows him to use the apparatus to investigate the effects of geomagnetism on the human brain. Neither the God Helmet, nor technologies derived from it, are examples of transcranial magnetic stimulation TMS , which uses magnetic fields on the order of one million times stronger than those used in Persinger's lab. TMS uses single, paired, and repetitive pulses of high intensity to penetrate the cranium.
Most reports from Persinger's lab consist of people sensing "presences"; people often interpreted these to be that of angels, a deceased being known to the subject, or a group of beings of some kind. There have also been reports in which the participant has experienced what they perceive as God. The scientist and science writer Richard Dawkins , appearing in the BBC science documentary series Horizon , did not have a 'sensed presence' experience, [42] but instead felt at times 'slightly dizzy', 'quite strange' and had sensations in his limbs and changes in his breathing.
He summarised his experience as follows: In contrast, the experimental psychologist, and former parapsychology researcher, Susan Blackmore said: But the same obstacles that hinder our ambitions can also be used as motivation for change. Whatever the case may be, please always remember this: Nothing God is and nothing God gives is forced upon you.
One attempt at replication published in the scientific literature reported a failure to reproduce Persinger's effects and the authors proposed that the suggestibility of participants, improper blinding of participants or idiosyncratic methodology could explain Persinger's results. As people and over time we can become stubborn, selfish, arrogant, lazy and complacent. Whatever the case may be, please always remember this: Lay summary — " subjects exposed to a computer-generated wave form, designed to simulate neuronal burst firing, generated narratives dominated by more pleasantness and less activation than a reference group. We are prone to harbor feelings of anger, guilt, doubt, worry, fear and frustration. God is right now; right this second, hard at work within you.
A person can make a thousand mistakes in a row without God interfering. God is so gentle, so subtle and so unobtrusive that He is seemingly non-existent until you make that connection. Then it becomes brilliant, bright, bold and vibrant. This is what takes place the moment you plug into God. This is something that I am personally reminded of every single time I become one with God. Finding and experiencing becoming one with God requires a few things. It starts with will and desire and is achieved through hard work, effort and due-diligence as well as intense focus and serious concentration.
Opening the door requires a combination of heart and mind, emotion and intellect working together in concert. When I found God, I was a carefree perhaps too carefree happy go-lucky eighteen year-old kid without a worry in the world. This certainly is not the case with everybody and may not be the case with you. Do not be discouraged. God will wait as long as it takes for you to make this connection.
If you keep on digging, eventually you will hit water. What good are the most eloquent speakers with all their theological knowledge, or the tall buildings with their amazing architecture and colorful glass windows, if at the end of the service you feel no closer to God?
What good is the fancy nightclub with its fine crystal, plush carpeting and exotic drinks if at the end of the evening you leave feeling the same way you did when you arrived there: The core truth of this entire book lies within these next few paragraphs: God is right now; right this second, hard at work within you.