The false reality of loneliness | Lisa Miller 

Has your own spirituality ever made you feel less alone? If not, what helps you feel a sense of 'oneness'?

It might help if you can occasionally attempt these 3 things: - breathe through nose steadily and fully to provide oxygen to the brain - exercise focus instead of getting attached to idle thoughts - allow yourself to feel the physical sensation of any emotion you have until it runs it's course

As a species, we don't learn from our mistakes. We blame others. We bury them. We will bury ourselves in our own ignorance and the resulting hatred, and there will be no one left to blame.

As much as I want to get into this, I'm still sadly hearing too much speculation, coincidence, and lack of conclusive supportive evidence.... I'll keep an open mind still but until I see more evidence that matches up, I unfortunately remain a skeptic.

This is basically a conversation we’ve all had at a hippie party/burning man lol

One very major factor in my journey, and I live alone and am consistently content with time alone, has been to aggressively block ALL sources of advertising (capitalistic messaging working to convince us we need whatever it is someone wants to sell us). I can tell that when I do encounter people, things change, but I don't ever feel lonely. ❤✊🦉🌻

From an abstracted view, whatever helps you to get through the day, but it's unfair to put this through to people as having a basis in data. Having a sense of the numinous and the transcendent is an important aspect of the human experience, but you can have that experience without the misrepresentation or the misleading.

Alright... I wasn't too fond of this one, as it strays too far from the range of discourse I have come to expect from Big Think/The Well. Miller is obviously a fabulous and enthusiastic presenter with a message that resonates with many people and her personal story shared here is moving, but the scientific underpinnings of her claims are extremely weak, yet presented here without any critical examination whatsoever, as though random claims about the Schumann resonance and alpha waves in the brain and some uncontrolled, unblinded study published in a very questionable journal are some kind of ironclad laws that indisputably support her claims. She herself says that "science cannot define spirituality, but can point to the impact of spirituality on our lives." I completely agree with this statement, but what she's doing here is trying to use science to prove the existence of the spiritual, not to prove the psychological and sociological effects of spiritual belief. These are totally different lines of inquiry, and there is certainly abundant research showing that spiritual belief has positive effects. It would be healthier for the promulgation of rational discourse and "thinking scientifically" if this were more thoroughly explored. Presented as it is, I find it very misleading and prone to simply confirm the biases of those who already agree with her.

That's what I'm talking about, preach it sister!

In some of my comments to you, I have thought "Oh my, that's a long way around a sentence" but this video I am watching this again, thank you

Thank you for concretizing what I have always known. We are blessed beyond measure if we choose to engage with the world and beyond. We are the blessing when we can share that engagement. Much joy to all here.

love and light for all....

I don't think I can ever take someone talking about spirituality seriously

Thank you for sharing this🎉

I looove this!!! More of that!!! ❤️❤️✨

I'm going to be charitable here and assume that the speaker made sense before she got edited down to 6 minutes.

Fantastic!

This video resonates with me in a very beautiful way. It speaks of both tangible and spiritual awakenings...new journeys into deeper ways of experiencing life intertwined. Thank you.

People who complains about “not being science” should look up about what the Frankfurt school says about it

Very interesting topic. I really appreciate your explanations. My only request is to make it at least three times longer by elaborately explaining some complex terms that we are trying to understand on other sites.

Was Gangster Disciple for years in prison.Studied almost all religions etc.The symbols & history all seemed to lead to this.This does make the world different way different when its exercised. I feel people knew this in ancient times but wantend to disconnect or hide some reason.

it seems this lady experienced something powerful in her adoption process and is spending the rest of her life seeking confirmations of collective consciousness. If that one MRI study is the best she can do to provide scientific evidence, she's got some work to do.

Hard to be spiritual unless you've had a spiritual experience. Most people never do and some turn to religion.

"Reflect upon the Past. Embrace your Present. Orchestrate our Futures." --Artemis (DD3) 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ "Before I start, I must see my end. Destination known, my mind’s journey now begins. Upon my chariot, heart and soul’s fate revealed. In time, all points converge, hope’s strength re-steeled. But to earn final peace at the universe's endless refrain, We must see all in nothingness... Before we start again." 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ --Diamond Dragons (series)

Awesome, now I can go on about spiritual stuff and when someone tells me to stop going on about woo woo stuff, I can say "Schumann Resonance" look it up brah - SCIENCE! Also, this reminds me of action at a distance from quantum mechanics, the "spooky force" Einstein didn't understand. Would be interesting if there's any connection. Anyway, thanks for sharing this video, great timing!

Even if we take some of the things proclaimed here for granted. The Alpha wavelength thing for example. (You would still need to proof that Alpha wavelength definitely is causally linked to a state of spiritual 'awakening', yoi'd need to define this state of awakening and you'd need to show that omitting/having this Alpha definitely is better for your health/psyche/proofs that you are more happy.) But let's take that for granted. I have heard of studies supposedly showing that in the US religious people tend to be more happy than non-religious people, if you clear foe secondary variables. Easy too imagine. When you believe there is a god and that you are enlightened as in knowing who the real god is and that he is on your side or at least that you're on the right, that you're on his side that propably helps dealing with life. Same for Spirituality. Believing that you're in touch with higher energies (or whatever it might be) probably leads to one worrying less about earthly things. There are several studies about how humans easily tend to see structures or things where in truth there are none. There are as well studies showing how people can be put in situations which they themselves experience as supernatural, while these situations are clearly induced by the scientists conducting the study. So it _may_ make people happier (which there really is no proof for at this moment) it doesn't mean that there is any substance to any of those beliefs. It's having a distorted view of reality at best, self-deception at worst. And for the MRT with healer and patient. Reproduce it. If it's really a thing I want to see several studies. I want double blind peer reviewed studies for this. This video ultimately is a let down. Much is proclaimed, pretty much nothing is delivered. But this gets people to believe even more profoundly in their (from my perspective) dreamlands. Don't get me wrong. If people are happy with this - fine. They shall be. But I absolutely hate it when people start to make unjustified truth claims in regards to their religious or spiritual views. This is where a sharp line needs to be drawn. "People who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities."

great video!!!!

You can train up alpha occipitally using neurofeedback if you have a Quantitative EEG first to determine deficiency. Depending on the qeeg a clinician may help you train down high beta, do alpha theta which can help you reprogram your subconscious to break addiction, do alpha up on Pz to increase relaxation, etc. Decreased alpha peak could show physical damage to the brain after a tbi or stroke. Technically you don't need to invoke spirituality, but I appreciate this clinicians experience and perspective.

Yes, Schumann resonance is reflective of the earth's magnetic field. I like being in a coffee house or other place like a park with people and just think.

This feels like a forced conclusion based off the examples you gave. Sounds more like a reach for divine intervention than a scientifically proven basis for a wavelength driven human collective consciousness.

OOHH, I totally thought this was Big Think youtube channel, I was about to fire off a spicy comment... essentially berating them for posting some coincidencedent religion stuff in a scientific channel, I didnt realize this was a random non-scientific channel until just now. Why is RU-vid recommending me this? It should know by now I'm not interested in zero evidence "miracles".😂

I love this woman, and I don't even know her. Great doctor, great subject, great video. This channel is so special!

I want an awakened brain!

I believe that spirituality and religion was an important stepping stone to civilization. We are past both now. We can control our environment and stave off early death better than ever. Love, compassion, acceptance are key ingredients of replacing spirituality and to not feel too alone. We are messing those up in huge ways while getting them right in huge ways. I believe we will slowly mature into a respectable, responsible, compassionate civilization. We are like immature teens of a society. We have gotten a grasp of the world but we are passionate and misguided at times. Maybe some people are drawn to spirituality and that's cool. Some people like X and some people like Y. For both kinds of people, the feeling of love and acceptance despite our mistakes is mind blowing and so restorative. You can be right or you can be kind.

I have a completely different understanding of the problem. Nation states offer anonymity. Anonymity creates a niche for psychopathy and other cluster B manifestations - as a viable strategy for power and 'winning'. Most people now look at anyone they don't know as a black box that's 2% psychopath, 2% narcissist, 2% pedophile, etc.., people actually are - further - treating each other like commodities because they were raised on consumerism, so the effects of narcissism are being inflated. Also - we're getting REALLY savvy with Darwinian game theory and all of the Slate Star Codex 'Meditations on Moloch' stuff. EVEN IF we were all one in a Neoplatonist way - we're embodied in a nature that's red in tooth and nail, where we're here to smash each other's skulls in over genes and literally everything and anything that we put on top of that is for convenience and simply avoiding getting our heads smashed ourselves. It forces a face palm when someone like Gabor Mate says that anyone who thinks they're 'not enough' is simply dealing with trauma - no, they live in a world that wants them dead unless they can perform well above most other people - who'd then want them dead out of envy. This is the one thing I can't stand about public 'spiritual' people is they nearly always fail in their doagnosis. If there's a Neoplatonist or Advaitic Source or Atman I'm sure it can give us all a big hug when we die and tell us what this experience was worth - it's irrelevant until then because there's nothing you can do until then than hunker down and do the best you can not to get eaten by other people. 'Yeah - but don't you know we're all one?' - We were very much 'all one' in the early 20th century across Europe for WWI and WWII, we were all one sending millions of people up chimneys, across Russia for Stalin's mass imprisonments and the Ukrainian famine we were all one, we were all one for Mao's Great Leap Forward. It's meaningless in the context of what we are - even if true.

I don't mean to be hurtful, but there is a huge population of mankind who just don't need this... Obviously, there are others who this works for. This is definitely not science though.

This is all anecdotal storytelling, where are the replicable results? Who else confirmed this lady’s theory?

Life is made up of the known, the unknown, and the unknowable. Modern man has forgotten how to relate to the realms of the unknowable. That's what's sad.

Lovely woman and a lovely video. More like these please! 😍

What the heck. She did not even explain how the Schumann Resonance is everywhere...sounds like she made it up

Yea......

Don't know what to think of this. Help, please!

Wow, this is amazing. I grew up just outside Yosemite, and was always very spiritual. Lost a lot of that recently, this was an amazingly timed video for me.

I love how factual science is connected to experiential reality, which science attempts to measure anyway with newer technologies and openness in statistical benchmarks. Beautiful and profound.

Yes! I love this.

Too much woo. And You might know she’d throw in the Schumann Resonance which became a favorite trope of Qanon.

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There are spureous correlations between anything! That's basic statistics...That MRI study could be nothing more than coincidence, come on! You gotta be more serious.

i am bipolar ...will this information apply to me ?

Is this serious - "science of spirituality"? That's an oxymoron if I even seen one.

Ooff, WOO WOO alert ladies and gents. Be careful with this one.

This doesn't not sound like it based in scientific research. This sounds like a theory based mostly on imagination.

All I'm hearing here is "don't be an atheist" (for me, if you're spiritual, you're not an actual atheist but an agnostic). Sorry, I just can't. My brain finds spirituality absolutely ridiculous. I understand the effect it can have in people's lives and its benefits, but my brain just can't. I find solace in other things.

Cool, but show me a method, since it doesn't seem very scientific, it sounds mythical.

Mind not brain

There’s a lot of close-mindedness in this comment section. That isn’t the mindset that allows for scientific development or study. Spirituality is someone that a large majority of the humans experience and so it should be hypothesized, theorized, and studied. Science shouldn’t make you think in a box - as it seems to do for a lot of people. If science is how we explain the world, then spirituality is scientific as it is a worldly phenomenon. If Humanity’s greatest minds had listened to ppl like you in the comments, we’d probably still be in the Bronze Age. It’s important to make sure what was healthy skepticism doesn’t become dogma.

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That's a lot of esoteric bullshit for a psychologist. Of course scientists can define spirituality, but idealists won't like it.

How does the science of algorithm prove we are all dumbasses for clicking on this video? Great question!

Sounds like woowoo Sue do science BS.

It's funny to see people's ego feeling attacked in comments hahahahaha

Revealing that the child she wanted was a male

I thought this channel was a sister channel of big think, very sad to see it promoting pseudo science

That's a lot of bs

I want to like this channel, but this video, as it is edited, suggests quackery. The idea that the younger generation is somehow less spiritual because of supposed alpha wave suppression, makes no sense in her own world view if science cannot define spirituality. The study may be too small to actually see if young people have radically different brain signatures and that may also be due to some other factor even if it is true. I meditate regularly, and have had what would be called peak experiences stone cold sober by examining the contents of my consciousness or perturbing them with specific stimuli or repetitive actions, but I also have no illusions that the experience was in my mind, not out there in the world. Schumann resonances are a physical phenomenon, that is being used to try and elucidate some vague claim of collective consciousness. I have a bit of a neuro background, and one study of one patient healer pair shows...nothing. There is not 'healing' pattern. I also think the idea that one can simply reach out and be healed of loneliness is frankly dismissive of the struggles people who suffer from marked loneliness feel. If it were enough for them to be in the presence of nature, wouldn't that just be enough? Yet it isn't. The solution isn't to point to them and say, ah, you are closed minded.

Lovely thoughts, but she left out the one true way that we are never alone: G0d is always with us and cares deeply about every one of His children.

nah, this aint it

Sad to see The Well giving space to pseudo science.

Spiritual awareness …. Unsubscribed

You will never receive the evidence you ask for. You will not know before you leap. And you will not ever be sure until you stop needing to be. Good luck, study your maths.

Nonsense

I honestly didn’t think I’d see pseudoscientific stuff like this in an academically leaning channel like this one. Unsubscribed 😔

More god thumping, yikes