Saw this post from Ideological Putty yesterday. 

But... I work with a lot of conservative Christians of the school that proving the literal truth of the bible is a must.

Recently, I got to hear about an experiment in which people claiming to have visions of Christ were hooked up to an EEG machine. When they said they were having the visions they registered brain wave patterns corresponding to waking mind and deep dreamless sleep. Simoultaneously.

The man adminstering the tests was a lapsed Catholic doctor, turned skeptic, now turned ferverent believer. And he got the exact same readings Ken Wilber got meditating. Without being aware of the Wilber experiment.

While there aren't any results listed, if the report is true, this is absolutely stunning, and something that I haven't read about before.

As Umguy puts it,

But what exactly is going on? Why such specific similarity? It feels very profound. Is it some kind of validation of the idea that all religions are getting at describing the same experience?

It would be very interesting, though impossible, to look at what happens in an EEG when people have "visits" from aliens, or what is going on with brain waves, or when ketamine is taken, or when other visions take place.

Is it the substratum of consciousness being experienced, that can actually taken a myriad of forms?  Perceived reality is generated from this substratum?

I still say that, for the "its" dimension of altered consciousness, and forms of higher awareness, there are some huge opportunities for collaborative discovery.

I've asked this once before, about four months ago - but what are people's experiences of brain-mind machines?  Which one's work?  What are the most advanced, etc? 

I'd love to get any feedback.