{"quotes":[{"text":"Any thought sequence that minimizes anxiety would get reinforced over time. The sequence would be maintained during the person’s development and would be provoked in contexts where refutation of the belief might occur. So, any kind of refutation of a person’s religious beliefs makes the beliefs only stronger.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["belief","belief","belief-system","beliefs","brainy","neuroscience","neurotheology","religious-beliefs","religious-diversity","religious-extremism","religious-faith","religious-freedom","religious-tolerance","religious-violence","science-and-religion","truth"],"id":12046,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Christ was an ordinary man who upon the attainment of absolute divinity or Nirvana or Samadhi became a better version of himself. Such an experience of divine ecstasy neurologically transformed him into a great teacher for humanity filled with love, kindness and divinity.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["advaita","brainy","buddha","christ","inspirational","inspiring","jesus","jesus-christ","jesus","meditation","meditations","mindfulness","neuropsychology","neurotheology","nirvana","nirvana","nonduality","philosophy","samadhi","theology","transcendence","truth","wise-sayings","words-of-wisdom","words-of-wisdom-inspirational"],"id":15764,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"It is pretty simple - mind is a part of life - consciousness is a part of mind - God is a part of consciousness.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["consciousness","consciousness-explained","consciousness-mind-brain","consciousness","god","inspirational","inspiring","life","mind","neuroscience","neurotheology","pearls-of-wisdom","philosophy-of-science","science-and-religion","theology","truth"],"id":17193,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"When circumstances pour the minds of some young helpless individuals with hatred and rage towards the society, and when that pain, hatred, and rage become unbearable, they turn to the scriptures as the final resort, in a pursuit to find absolution, guided by the psychopathic, misogynistic, genocidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent, fundamentalist preachers.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["fundamentalism","inspiration","inspirational","inspiring","neuroscience","neurotheology","philosophy-of-religion","religious-extremism","religious-tolerance","religious-violence","science","science-and-religion","science-vs-religion"],"id":22783,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Religion is not a book, it is a neurological sentiment.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["faith","life-lessons","love","neuroscience","neurotheology","religion","scriptures","sentiment","theology"],"id":22969,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Once the lotus of your inner divinity gets full-blown and you reach the mental state where all the religious giants of human history experienced the all-encompassing sense of godliness, the exuberance of the human mind turns infinite. Awakening into that state makes all the perceptual limitations of the mind disappear, just like a bucket of muddy water turns crystal-clear once poured into the ocean.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["consciousness-mind-brain","consciousness-raising","divine-self","meditation","mindfulness","mindfulness","moses","muhammad","muhammad-pbuh","neurotheology","nirvana","nondual-philosophy","nondualism","nonduality","peace","pearls-of-wisdom","philosophy","philosophy","self-realization","transcendence","transcendence","transcendentalism"],"id":34684,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Quite surprisingly the majority of religious and spiritual practices actually diminishes your brain’s ability to act out of rage and fear.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["faith","inspirational","inspirational","motivational","motivational","neurobiology","neurotheology","pearls-of-wisdom","religion","religion-and-science","religious-faith","religious-rituals","science-of-happiness","spiritual-health","spiritual","spirituality","wise","wise-sayings"],"id":35487,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"The religion I am talking about here is plain everyday humanism. That’s exactly what the person named Jesus attempted to spread, but due to innate psychological reasons, his pupils ended up constructing yet another orthodox circle with its own distinct beliefs, ideals and fantasies.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["beliefs","brainy","christ","christianity","christians","compassion","consciousness","evolutionary-psychology","fantasies","gods","human-mind","human-nature","ideals","jesus","jesus-christ","jesus","love","love-thy-neighbor","neurotheology","philosophy","prophets","religion","religions","religious-diversity","science-and-religion","science-of-human-nature","science-of-mind","self-preservation","truth"],"id":47268,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"A true religious person should not think that “my religion alone is the right path and other religions are false.” Other religions are also so many paths leading to the same domain of transcendental bliss. Likewise, no person should think “my perception of the reality is the only absolute reality, and all others’ are false”, because each human brain has its own unique way of perceiving the reality.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["faith","god","meditation","neuroscience","neurotheology","oneness","perception","reality","religious-diversity","religious-tolerance","science","spirituality","transcendence","transcendental-meditation","transcendentalism-god"],"id":50957,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Qualia of God refers to the private subjective experience or conception of God in people.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["god","inspiration","neuroscience","neurotheology","qualia","religion","science-and-religion","truth","truth","wisdom","words-of-wisdom"],"id":51478,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":102,"pages":11,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}