except maybe at some point someone will actually read this blog. Maybe. Prayer, on the other hand, might make a person feel better, it might even "work" in some way. But prayers are not, in my experience, ever answered by a god. Am I doing it "wrong?" Is there a "right" way to pray. Oh, the religious types will say so, but I really have no idea.
It is interesting that the most reasonable (to me that is) and the least objectionable set of beliefs are held by the non-Manichean faiths. But they have a lot of dogma, too. I did zazen for a while, decided I was not Japanese. Believe me, the zen folks have as much dogma in their non-dogmatic approach.
Prayer is probably connected to brainwave states. At least that's one hypothesis of mine. And brainwave states are connected to the point at which our scale and the quantum scale intersect. That is, the consciousness waveforms are perhaps the only human interaction with the god-like set of rules by which the universe and everything in it is both manifested and not-manifested.
I once asked a vipassana master meditator what he thought about brainwave entrainment. He answered that "...he had tried it and it effected him about as much as a glass of wine." Interesting response, especially since this fellow produced a 13 CD set entitled "The Science of Enlightenment." If brainwave entrainment isn't included in the science of enlightenment, I don't klnow what is. It may or may not lead to enlightenment, but it is an interesting way to produce brainwave states identical to those of the vipassana master meditator, or for that matter, of the master sufi, the monastic christian, the master yogi, etc.
Anyone out there? Or is this just like my feeble attempts to have my prayers answered?
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