Mechanical Enlightenment Part 2

bug alien 2005 David Opie

In wondering what an ‘enlightenment machine’ might look like, neurophilosopher suggested Persinger’s Shakti Coil.  Further explorations revealed that this coil was demonstrated by Todd Murphy at Art and Mind’s Religion, Art and the Brain Festival in Winchester last year, and was reviewed in The Times.

That article answered some of the questions that I posed about this subject in Mechanical Enlightenment, particularly the fact that the British arch-atheist Professor Richard Dawkins tried it and he experienced nothing, whereas
“What others have experienced  depended on their cultural or religious beliefs. Some saw Jesus, the Virgin Mary, Muhammad, or the Sky Spirit. Others, with more than a passing faith in UFOs, tell of something that sounds more like a standard alien-abduction story.”

hmm, doesn’t sound very universal to me, but I am still curious!