Sunday, November 11, 2007

Is God Real?

Is God Real? Since the question came up,
let's briefly go into it.
When it comes to spiritual realities,
the fact that when you are
in a meditative state of oneness,
a G-spot might light up
(or whatever brain correlate is being tracked),
says absolutely nothing about
the ontological status of the referent in that state.
Any G-spot activity in the brain
is the correlate of a meditative state, not its content.
When I look at an apple, an area in my brain
associated with its perception lights up,
but we do not therefore assume that
the apple exists only in the brain.
So why sould we assume that
God exists only in the brain because the same thing happens? ( Ken Wilber )