Category: Human Behavior and Cognitive Science

THE SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE

Cognitive Process:

Sensation(Senses) ->

… Model-Formation(perception) ->

… … auto association(memory) ->

… … … auto prediction (imagination) ->

… … … … auto-response (emotion) ->

… … … … … TRUST, SUBMISSION, PACK RESPONSE:

… … … … … … 1. TO DOMINANCE (High)

… … … … … … … 2. TO COOPERATION

… … … … … … … … 3. TO CARE

… … … … … … … … … 4. TO PACK, BE WITH PACK (Low)

… … (continuous feedback loop to auto-association(memory).)

Moreover, language requires suggestion. Langauge consists of storytelling. Storytellingproduces model formation.

So… mix language, storytelling, model formation and … boom.

So you can train yourself to habituate this submission response and to revel in the calm of it just as surely as you can train yourself to habituate the dominance response in business, sport, or war.

All religions are designed to train you into this submission response.

Stoicism-Epicureanism is not.

It teaches you insulation from signal pressures.

It is the only non-submissive, non-avoidance religion.

With buddhism ‘avoidance’ rather than submission.

But stoicism-epicureanism lack political aspect.

They requires paganism (a portfolio of heroes to imitate depending upon one’s talents and preferences)