Study Shows Religion Makes The Brain Smaller

[hobbit]

Since My partners mother went down with alziehmers three years ago, I have been actively studying what is detectable of people with such.
I have a high street shop where a multitude of people come in with all sorts of conditions, and those who show the signs of dementia etc I pay special attention to, and then try to talk to them of their condition and personal circumstances, often it is their partners who can reveal most.
IMHO the brain is not the core of our information fields, just the processors.

IT IS THE SHRINKAGE OF THE FIELD that causes the FORGETTING.
All information is FIELD based, and our memory is contained in the field.
The two seperate brains have their own design operations.
The left one is mostly to do with the physical vehicles needs, the right one is the interface to our alternate selves in other dimensional geometry based fields.

The field about ourselves is highly complex with a vast amount of input points, and every so called illness is related to the lack of, or interfererance with these field inputs.

I can follow each and every seperate field lines, and have built up a personal understanding of the consequences of many of these suffering interferance or been so low powered as to cause multiple forgettings.

As above, so below.
We are small self similer entities to the planet, and the field input points are normally well marked with churches and megalithic structures.
Our fields are fed in scalar fasion from the planets, the planet is fed via the sun   etc etc.
IMHO We are right now in a geometric pinch point in galatic size where a FORGETTING is occuring.
With this also comes a REMEMBERING for those who's personal fields are large enough to access different field geometries.

If multitudes of people slowly FORGET , then I can understand the need to build camps to house such, as they will not remember who or what they are.
At such times it will be required to get to the most powerfull of such points, and noahs ark going to the top of mount Sinai is possibly a tale of such a need.
Location, location , location with as many of those who can remember as possible.

You can only know that which is in Your field, as a tree can only know what is in a trees field, a horse that which is in a horses field.

Little is stored in the brains, shrinkage of the brains will be a sympton of them forgetting to be brains, not because they are shrinking thus causing the consequences.
Our understandings of ourselves are flawed, I have and am remembering lots, sorry I can't better verbalise what is presently not in the planets field memory.
hobbit

[Pimander]

I have nothing to refute the findings either. However, I do think that anyone who believes this "study" has any credibility, is probably a "little shy" of average, on the IQ bell curve!! 

(No offense intended!)

I hate to say this but anyone who has made a decision to dismiss a study without anything to refute it has an awful lot to learn.

What reason do you have to dismiss, "anyone who believes this "study" has any credibility, [as] probably a "little shy" of average, on the IQ bell curve!!"  That's a strong statement.

First of all the study is published in a Peer Reviewed journal - PLoS ONE Journal Information. I can also reliably inform you that the authors of the paper are the real deal.  As a rule neuroscientists are not exactly shy on the IQ bell curve.  I'd even venture to say that scientists working in the field are right up there with the highest.

I stated that most religion does not encourage thinking.  I will revise that and suggest that religion does not encourage clear thinking - especially about religion.

@Hobbit:  You are on to something by associating memory with fields rather than the brain.  That is one of the great mysteries in science and also in esoteric science.

[Littleenki]

Indeed, Hobbit!
A holographic wonderland floating on the Dirac Sea!
Memory fields causing tosion effects on everything in existence? Yep!
Le

[SerpUkhovian]

From:  http://www.businessinsider.com/born-again-brain-size-2012-5

The study by the Researchers at Duke University may have flaws that question their conclusions.  The first flaw would be the limited sample space of the study, which focused only on Protestants and Catholics and leaves out all the other belief systems which can have similar effects.  If the researchers' intent was only to find fault in the Christian religion, they were successful.

Another interpretation of the results is that people who find inner peace have normal sized hippocampus regions.  People who experience mental turmoil have a swollen hippocampus region, and are experience detrimental pressure on their brains.  A belief system such as an established religion leads to favorable conditions in the human existence.

[zorgon]

OR...

Religion only works on those with a smaller mind

[SerpUkhovian]

Does Rosicrucianism promote inner peace?

[space otter]

OR

religion makes you comfortable
and
when you are comfortable you stop searching for real answers

therefore you don't need  a larger brain

[rdunk]

This report is either true or BS.  If it riles anyone maybe they need to ask themselves why?

I certainly still agree with Pimander............on the BS thought!! 

[zorgon]

Does Rosicrucianism promote inner peace?

Not exactly no...  they promote:

Spiritual Wisdom
Expanded Awareness
Sense of Connectedness
Mastery of Life

"The Rosicrucians are a community of Seekers who study and practice the metaphysical laws governing the universe."

Those, when Mastered do however give you inner peace   And perhaps a little arrogance

[Sinny]

Would you mind defining 'metaphysical laws'?

It would help me in a debate I'm having with someone about the validity of metapysics..

[zorgon]

"Why do we get what we want sometimes, and other times what we want eludes us? Why are some born rich, others poor? Why do some have great talent while others are limited in ability? What causes the wind to blow, the earth to explode, the sea to churn?

When you live among nature you can see the ebbs and flows that constitute life. The changing of the seasons, the sprouting of seeds into a plant, the rising and setting of the sun. We learn to be in rhythm with creation. Like the cycles and phases of the Earth's moon our lives flow.

Universal energy moves in us, through us, and around us. The energy we breathe is the same energy that makes up Earth and the sun and the universe. The patterns and rhythms imply an intelligence, a Creator, imaging how the energy will flow. We call those patterns Universal Laws. To understand them is to come closer to their Creator.

When we look up at the sky at night we marvel at our Universe. There are no strings or gears or generators causing the planets to move or holding stars in place. We stay on this spinning ball whether on its "top" or "bottom" and we wonder, why? Physics tells us it's gravity - the magnetic pull of the Earth herself. "What causes that pull," we ask. Metaphysics reaches to answer such questions.

Metaphysics is the study of the laws that govern our Universe and how we can live in harmony with these universal principles that govern creation. "   copyright 2002 School of Metaphysics

"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for."

-Socrates

"Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you; here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes. Even between the land and the ship."
– Yoda

"You will know (the good from the bad) when you are calm, at peace. Passive. A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack."
– Yoda