Can Humans `Talk` To God?

The idea is not the least bit new. Prophets of all great religions have “talked” with God one way or the other. At least this is what believers believe. Descriptions of these encounters are often hazy and unclear, which is logical, because it is not easy to communicate with intelligence that has created the world and recall it. As famous Muslim mystic Hazrat Inayat Khan said: “It is impossible to see God and live…”. He meant that all human senses must stupor in order for people to see the “ulterior”, the idea all living beings strive towards.

The clearest descriptions are that of mystics who are relatively not famous, of the Radhasoami or Sant Mat school, as some call it. This Sikh religion describes visions of “inner worlds” in detail, where God has multi layers. Namely, He is envailed with less illusion of our mind at every further level, than at the previous level. He has a different name at every level and calling this name provides insight into the higher worlds in which He exists.

Spiritual evolution takes place in a way that the follower gradually develops the power to enter the state of “clinical death”, when they find what awaits them in the otherside, to which they will slide. Suspension of all functions during clinical death has become quite a hit in its time, especially after doctor Raymond Moody`s book “Life After Life” was published- The US scientist determined that a dead man can be alive and wander around in their other energy body. Descriptions of some 300 persons who had such an experience and stated that a man cannot die have stimulated many others to study this phenomenon in detail. Works by Susa Moore, Kenneth Ringo, Melvin Kelvin, the Fenwick couple and others, and many who have went through the dying process and returned back to life have made contacts.

The most powerful example is that of controversial former violator and special officer Danion Brinkley, who “died” twice even. Once when lightning stroke, and the second time from a heart attack. During his death, he predicted 122 future events, while his fans claim 96 of them have already happened. Brinkley says the entire future can be seen as if on a screen, if you are dead, of course. Is it possible that Rudolf Steiner was right when he said that “all events of the past, present and the future have already been recorded in the akasha, the ether level, but the future ones are waiting to be materialised in this world”?

After scepticism over persons who have survived clinical death and have seen some form of God or his manifestation, new, astonishing theories appeared, which, of course, are impossible to check. According to them, 774 persons experience it every day in America! Is statistical evidence of the existence of an afterlife on the verge?

If you think that science is immune to thesis of the existence of God – you are wrong. American neurologist of Indian origin, doctor Srinivasan Ramachandran, studied patients suffering from a rare type of epilepsy in a San Diego clinic. The subjects described powerful religious experiences, they even said they were directly talking to God. As they had increased activity in the frontal brain lobe, this is where Ramachandran placed the “God module”. He interpreted this physiological peculiarity in two possible ways. The first being that God really did give humans a brain centre through which they can talk to Him, and the second being that the evolution has given it to humans to provide deceptive hope in the existence of life after death, thus keeping them in good spirits until his dying days on Earth.

Whatever the case may be, Ramachandran significantly set the world of science and mysticism afire. While colleagues attacked him, often pointing to the fact that the Indian was more prone to mysticism that a Westerner, mystics celebrated him as a pioneer on the path of combining science and religion. Religious institutions remained reserved, largely because connecting the experience of God with epilepsy did not seem appropriate.

Ramachandran is not the only scientist to have dealt with attempts of proving God, or at least the existence of something from the otherside of our reality. The icon of such research is surely professor at the Canada Laurentian University, doctor Michael Persinger. Induced by Ramachandran`s revelations, he has elaborated an experiment with a group of young assistants, where subjects were exposed to the affect of low magnetic fields which reached the brain from a specially constructed helmet, in complete sound isolation. 900 subjects of the experiment described unusual sensations.

Mostly, it was a “presence”, a powerful sensation of some form of intelligence or force being present, but there were those who claimed they have seen “light that was God”, while some even saw something they thought was “the embodiment of God”. Persinger again brought back the “God module” theory in the limelight. He went a step further. He declared visions of Canada Indians in a canyon, where they fasted and were isolated for a month effects of atypical magnetic discrepancies in the very spot, and he said the so-called “flying saucers” were the fruit of hallucinations caused by these peculiar changes in our planet`s magnetic fields. The latter is a bit less convincing.