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The cosmic consciousness exists in all organisms but it is more prominently expressed in lower organisms or in higher organisms having less developed conscious mind. In humans the activity of conscious mind acts as a noise against which the weak signals coming from other sources or souls are not captured. If the conscious mind is calm there is no reason for not receiving those weak signals and sensing the events, which lower organisms do. 3. Neuro-Electromagnetic Fields
Michael A. Persinger, a neuropsychologist, and Todd Murphy explored the application of neuro-electromagnetic fields to brain. They rigged up a motorcycle helmet with electromagnets and directed electromagnetic energy to specified parts of the subject's brain. The subjects often have spiritual and religious reactions, especially mystical feelings of being in the presence of God, triggered by the energy fields. Persinger found that, by varying the frequency and intensity of the electromagnetic pulses, a unitive state with the universe could be elicited as well as a sensed presence of God. The sense, which a person makes out of the experience, depends on how it is interpreted; and that interpretation is based on one's earlier experiences. Both Persinger and Todd Murphy explained such experiences with the help of operation of the brain and the background of the subject.
Let us analyze the above experiences in the light of our model. We know that memories of this life are stored in conscious mind and the memories of the past life exist in the unconscious mind. Excitation of brain by electromagnetic means at a certain frequency induces similar excitation in the conscious mind by resonance. The memory stored at that frequency (and intensity) is activated and the subject becomes conscious of the same. If the excitation frequency matches with some memory fields of unconscious mind, the memory of previous births in the unconscious mind relating to that field may also be activated and be transferred to conscious mind through adhyavasaya. The subject then becomes conscious of that part of his past. This experience lasts for the period of excitation only, the subject returns to his earlier state on removal of the excitation field. Such an experience is not likely to be an organized one and the subject may not be conscious of one particular event but a combination of many events, making the experience a concocted story. The experiments show that the connection between conscious mind and brain is location specific; by exciting different parts of the brain different memory in the conscious mind is activated. 4 Faith Healing
Another important area, which requires explanation, is faith healing. Some representative examples of faith healing are.
1. Randolph Byrd studied 393 patients admitted to the coronary-care unit of San Francisco General Hospital. Some were prayed for by home-prayer groups,
Arhat Vacana, 23 (4), 2011
