God Helmet

I watched this show, Morgan Freeman's Through the Wormhole, clickon the link to wach the segment. I want to call it a documentary, but the show was too hypothetical to be called a documentary. The theme of the episode of Freeman’s show is “The God Experience;” I liked it. I wanted to share what I saw.

One of the show’s segments was “The God Helmet;” a helmet that simulates the religious experience of connectedness to God. When people wear this helmet certain areas of the brain are stimulated with magnets. People report the presence of someone or something. They have vivid and thunderous experiences. The scientist, whose name escapes me (I’m too lazy to look it up), states that if a human has such an experience while in church, or while meditating, it can be a profoundly life altering experience.

Why do we need God? According to the show, because we (humans) have anxiety because we are aware of death. We can forecast our deaths. We know that eventually we too must past. This awareness cause great anxiety in humans; it causes us to seek a connection to infinity, something that is without end for beginning. If we can connect to infinity, we do not die. People seek the connection to infinity through prayer, control of the mind/body, through drug & alcohol.