Channel: Cosmology Today™

Category: Entertainment

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Description: In this documentary, narrated by the author of the book Phantom of the Brain - V Ramachandran [ amzn.to/1Ulg73K ] explains the case of a man suffering from Temporal Lobe Epilepsy(TLE). This gentleman, due to the damage to his temporal lobes, was suffering from seizures. However, after his seizures calmed down he would feel an extraordinary significance in everything he observed. He felt some sort of a oneness with nature and sometimes claimed of being omnipotent, of being God himself. This raises a question; could many prophets who have had similar experiences been afflicted by TLE? Here is an discussion whether Prophet Muhammad was also suffering from TLE - reddit.com/r/exmuslim/comments/2dma65/the_prophet_muhammad_a_possible_victim_of Is it possible that Ramakrishna(Guru of Swami Vivekananda) also suffered from TLE? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramakrishna%27s_samadhi In autobiography of a Yogi, Swami Yogananda also makes similar claims about having visions (or what we can call delusions) and claims seeing his master/guru after his death. How about all the other prophets who made similar claims. Could they be TLE patients also? Note - The carry forward explanation for the end of the first documentary 12:56 is at 20:02 Some other videos about delusion of God - The Root of All Evil - The God Delusion (full length) youtube.com/watch?v=8nAos1M-_Ts Richard Dawkins -- The God Delusion youtube.com/watch?v=DMqTEfeqvmM Lennox Vs. Dawkins Debate - Has Science Buried God? youtube.com/watch?v=J0UIbd0eLxw