Is There a Science of Belief?

We're recapping the best moments from Mayim's appearance on Rabbi David Kasher's Best Book Ever podcast! Mayim and Rabbi Kasher discuss how and why the human brain is wired for belief, how we can function in a world gone mad, and how mystical and spiritual structure help us navigate life. You know, light stuff! They also consider the scientific, physiological basis for emotions and spiritual experiences, why there is room for both science and spirituality to exist, what biological functions allegiance to a higher power serves, why love equates to safety, and the science of prayer.
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[@IlariaRossitti]

Hi Mayim, I'm a 17 year old Italian boy. I always love hearing your podcast, you always ask the right and interesting questions and it's so much fun and educational. The Big Bang Theory helped me and helps me a lot and it's thanks to you too... You're a great person, I love you and wish you the best!

[@kristinholcomb5817]

I love this conversation so much!

[@dannygirl689]

❤❤❤ She's amazing. I hope for a beautiful unity between the spiritual and scientific community so we may truly evolve and enlighten as humans.

[@flappycelery]

There are plenty of spiritual practices and communities that embrace, respect, understand the value & reality of, and even integrate science with spirituality. They just aren't mainstream Bible thumping religions. If I had the time (maybe later) I'd name 3 or 4. Some you may have heard of.

[@jojomillward675]

Wonderful podcast. I don’t have religious faith anymore but have retained a spiritual sense of universal connectivity. I’m still feel warmth when I go to church now and again even tho I don’t believe in god. I think humans need faith or some kind of belief to give us hope, comfort and to aid the instinct to survive. We are truly tribal creatures and need each other to live well. Religion or group belief is part of survival. Just my thoughts. Fascinating subject of your conversation. Faith is for each of us to choose. ✌🏽

[@leticiaperez243]

I listened to the entire podcast. I love how you can explain these things you're so confident in your faith and science it's calming to hear how you talk about both. I love that you shared this here too.

[@kyrilascully7828]

All I know is I used to be a mess--I had been molested at six and my narcissistic mother told everyone I lied about it and made it up. My father abandoned us for two years, my mother rejected me and turned everyone against me, and I had a lot of self-loathing issues and fantasy issues. But once I found God and accepted Jesus into my heart, I physically felt reborn! My whole attitude about life and love changed, I learned forgiveness, and felt valued and loved, light-hearted and things in my life fell into place in a good way that I could never have imagined. So yes, faith is real, and I'm an example of that.

[@themuttsandthemal7729]

I love this conversation. I personally am Roman Catholic. And believe so much in this conversation. For me I believe there is a disconnect with heart and brain. I think the old testament really reflects on heart leading one’s way and using emotion and heart as your moral compass in life. Vs using your brain. Your brain has the ability to over or under rationalize situations and can stop one’s self from doing the right or wrong thing Vs leading with your heart your responding in the moment from a wholesome place. Helping another out because you know morally it’s right Vs listening to your brain and making excuses not to help. Love you guys and love this podcast.

[@hollycox6059]

Thank you. One of my Favorites so far.

[@julesmbc]

This took me a second listen through, to catch it all - and 100% worth it! Well done, and beautiful ❤️ Thank you Mayim, & Rabbi David!!

[@angelmason23]

That very last sentence summed it up perfectly

[@omriom]

תודה רבה מיים מאוד מעניין

[@nefelipatentali9976]

I genuienly wish we could share a space, drink coffees in the morning and talk about all these topics.Then go out together and annoy everyone around us with our new gained knowlede and epiphanies . For then sealing our weirdness and coolness, we would have to do something forest related , candlish , dancing around foxes and racoons and than go to sleep like nothing happened, just to wake up and start all over again....Thanks for engaging with us and not getting tired of coming up with thoughtful and neatly chosen topics ... you feel very close to me even though (here comes the obvious....) you are not

[@flappycelery]

As soon as I saw the title I thought, "Oooooh, THIS is going to be a juicy one! Cant wait to finish it!. Long to-do list & shouldn't have stopped by & checked out whats new! 😂

[@susanhill6438]

This episode was so wonderful! I spend a lot of time contemplating {all of this}. Thank you all. ☺️

[@yo-yo9663]

Love this! ❤ community is so important for humans to thrive.

[@marisamartinezolivera]

Mayim’s words “If God didn’t exist, we would create God” worths to be written in new series of MBB Mantra Print Collection, to cause itching and discomfort to many..

[@pipersmith8898]

Man did create god

[@d.d.p.parker3671]

we would have to create something larger than we, if not God in each one of us in our society our world our existence we would be like animals fighting and killing for food, there would be no law and order, that is what makes us different from animals. my example is when babies are born if they are not trained to live like humans, if let loose they are the same as animals, I don't know if Im using the right words but this is my belief, we need God

[@jamiezuzu7326]

One only has to look outside to know there is a god

[@marisamartinezolivera]

@@jamiezuzu7326 Your opinion.

[@pipersmith8898]

@@jamiezuzu7326 yeah sorry no “look outside” is not evidence for god 😂 I look outside and see incredible beauty in many things and that elicits feelings of gratitude for my existence because I feel thankful and joyful to experience the world. But the trees, the sea, the sun…. Have scientific and naturalistic explanations. No supernatural explanation required

[@curseofcontext]

amuses me how from the get go of this the prolonged bit of the intro music flooded me with this physiological sense of joy which resembles a kind of religious experience in my book? fully induced a headbang for me

[@STEAMLabDenver]

This was fantastic! Thank you. 🙏 ❤

[@emilyromo1011]

you are amazing❤❤

[@lisareynolds9734]

Love, love, loved this!! SO very much to think about. Thank you!❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@yoboats]

Hi Mayim! I had my moment where the science/religion gap was bridged. I was struggling with this gap in teens, primarily the science of evolution and how old the world is, and spoke with my Reverend about it. He answered me with 2 questions of his own. 1) God made the world in 6 days. Seeing that the world was not there until he started and that eliminates earth time, how long is one of his days? 2) Have you ever started something new that you thought was good to start with, but kept tweaking it to make it better? Hear questions rocked me for a bit, but once I came to terms with that line of thinking there was no more gap for me.

[@amora5085]

God/Spirit is everything and everyone God created us and we are part of God, separation is an illusion. I definitely love with my soul. This is such a good conversation about the human mind trying to understand and comprehend that the human brain can never fully comprehend. The human experience is such a gift and also a choice, to incarnate. The experience never ends.

[@Elphaba1952]

It always breaks down to this for me: would I ever have believed in a god if no one had taught me there was one?

[@danceswithwerewolves9]

If humans invented the concept of god, which seems most likely to me, then the answer is clearly yes.

[@BJM617]

I have been listening to a lot of your videos while I'm doing things around the house. Now, whenever I am not listening or actively thinking about something, I am playing your intro and closing song in my head, over, and over again lol It hasn't stopped me from listening but I have chosen to skip those parts. I share your videos with family and friends. Thank you for what you do!

[@MayimBialik]

🥹🥹🥹

[@evawarren3258]

Jeez loise...best podceast ever. I study Anthropology with the end goa of spendimg my doctoral time on this exactt set of idea at the center. Bravo

[@apexapey]

Thank you for always providing a frame of mind I myself wouldn´t ever develop. This was enlightening in the truest sense of Enlightenment.

[@nancywatkins988]

What a fantastic "Breakdown" episode! Best ever for me, with the inclusion of your talk with Will Wheaton (see my comment there). I am also a neuroscientist, though older but not necessarily wiser! And, my childhood was extremely traumatic because of sexual abuse for 11 years by my father. To comment on this conversation: I have always experienced "prescience," since my earliest recollections. My experiences involved people's illnesses, deaths (soon or in the future), even some huge criminal events such as mass shootings. I also have had prescience for my own life, in dreams, in my writing, in awake "glimpses" of future events which were all significant to my life. But, whereas I seldom had problems dealing with my prescience about other's illnesses and/or deaths (except whether to warn someone or figure out how to help another), I wasn't as quick to pick up on warnings about my own life. Retroactively, I could see how my prescient experiences clearly informed future difficulties or a solution of a particular quandary. My question to you is as one neuroscientist to another: are there any studies you know of that attempt to investigate the prescient mind? I never tried to be prescient and I haven't gotten very involved in the sub-culture of those who are studying parapsychology and things like prescience, clairvoyance, etc. I've never enrolled in courses to learn "how to become" clairvoyant, learn to affect material objects, "read minds," train myself to see or locate and describe things or people's interactions at a distance, etc. I've read Jim Carpenter's book: "First Sight - ESP and Parapsychology in Everyday Life" which I consider to be possibly the best book available that scientifically presents past and present research on parapsychological phenomena and offers an excellent account of parapsychology in recent human history (very recent, when one considers how old the Talmud is...etc.!) Jim Carpenter is highly appreciated by some academic psychologists (he is a clinical psychologist), and his presentation of experimental methodology in the research on parapsychology is pretty flawless But, he's not a neuroscientist and doesn't claim to be one. What do you think about actual neuroscientific research on the prescient mind? My problem with it is that I have no control over my prescient experiences, nor do I have a desire to. The experiences are extremely powerful, occur either in a single moment of expanded time or over a period of time - with recurring indications or "signs" that are (painfully) clear. I don't always know who I am having prescient awareness of. Other times, I do - and the knowledge can be hard for me because I know the person. Sometimes I know exactly what I can do to help; often I know very little about how to do anything that might possibly be of help - to the person or people involved or to the person who might be the cause of the injury/negative incident. I have always tried to do the best I could. Attempts to warn another aren't easily accepted by the individual who has an illness or is at risk in some way. I would like to know if there is a history of Talmudic exploration of the prescient mind - of the very real phenomena which many people have experienced throughout human existence - does the Talmud, have Talmudic scholars investigated this kind of "seeing?" It is a gift, and it can be a curse; many cultures have revered those with prescience, helped them, provided them with the support they need, and respected if not revered their abilities. Our present society fails to accept or support - even to acknowledge - prescience. I think it's time for Neuroscientists to address parapsychology, and the mind of a prescient person. I don't know how, but perhaps the deeply religious and the truly scientific can get together to discuss and explore the phenomena of prescience, and of parapsychology. (Please keep our governments out of this!) Thank you for reading my commentary! I hope you and Rabbi Kalsher will discuss my ideas. Nancy

[@Tajieee]

Love to hear more of this! Great podcast!

[@dalejohnson1770]

"Put all your beliefs into harmony with science; there can be no opposition for truth is one. When religion shorn of its superstitions, traditions and unintelligent dogmas shows its conformity with science, then will there be a great unifying cleansing force in the world, which will sweep before it all wars, disagreements, discords and struggles-- and then will mankind be united in the power of the Love of God." "As ye have faith so shall your powers and blessings be. This is the balance-- this is the balance -- this is the balance." Abdu'l-baha "This is the Day in which God's most excellent favors have been poured out upon men, the Day in which His most mighty grace hath been infused into all created things. It is incumbent upon all the peoples of the world to reconcile their differences and with perfect unity and peace abide beneath the shadow of the Tree of His Care and loving-kindness. It behooveththem to cleave to whatsoever will, in this Day, be conducive to theexaltation of their stationsand the promotion of their best interests. Happy are those whom the all-glorious Pen was moved to remember and blessed are those men whose names, by virtue of Our inscrutable decree, We have preferred to conceal. Beseech ye the one true God to grant that all men may be graciously assisted to fulfill that which is acceptable in Our sight. Soon will the present-day order be rolled up and a new one spread out in its stead. Verily, thy Lord speaketh the truth and is the knower of things unseen." Baha'u'llah, (The Glory of God 1817-1892) Bahai.org

[@m_brokenleg]

Rooom for both science and spirituality to exist? Yes..But to me you can’t arrive to God (call It the Divinity, Cicero’s ‘Causa Causarum’ , the Supreme Spirit or what other word mankind has used along the History) through Science, nor arrive to Science from Faith. Both, Faith (or Spirituality or even Philosophy to some people not aligned with structured religions) and Science try to unravel the same mysteries of the Universe, to answer the universal questions every human being aks him/herself “Who I am? What’s the purpose of life? Why I am here? What’s consciousness? What’s that thing we call soul?” from different and probably not so distant starting points..both always at perpetual risk of same fundamentalism..How I love the idea of being humbly before “the Infinite” that rabbi Kasher talks about.

[@orland0110]

Really interesting topic! It is so nice to have two Mayim videos in one week! You are so great! ❤

[@christiblyseth1488]

“This conversation is the glory of God. We are wired for this!”❤ “Now what should our response to this experience be?”

[@luisgomez3936]

I really enjoyed this conversation! The two viewpoints are always fascinating! Your materialistic vs religious or metaphysical explanations are expanding our questions! I think that a physical explanation of Love, Happiness,Hate is akin to explaining the internet by describing the excitation and the electrical pathways that occur while using your computer! Your questions are similar to those being studied by Physicians and scientists looking into Near Death experiences! I think that we are discovering that consciousness is separate from brain cell! Certain drugs that have allowed some users to experience transcendental experiences do so because they quiet the organic brain and allow the consciousness to experience these new feelings! Also Yogis can experience this and when you meditate deeply you can experience this! I believe that our consciousness continues after death that the universe is interconnected! We are also learning and evolving which give meaning to our lives.

[@angieallen4884]

People in my faith community often ask how I can reconcile my faith in God and "creation" and my adherence to the theory of evolution. Why do they have to be mutually exclusive? I see the hand of God in the Big Bang!

[@paris_light]

what a beautiful conversation

[@kimdelie8197]

TODAY - I randomly watched a panel of intellectuals and John Cleese discussing just this topic!! Coincidence?! Edward Kelly, a Neurobehavior scientist, boiled it all down to this: Counciousness is not a byproduct of Brain Activity. Consciousness IS, in fact, AT THE SOURCE OF EVERYTHING. Fascinating. He predicts THIS theory (which directly contradicts today's science-based Physicalism) will be the next big breakthrough and replace Physicalism completely.

[@cornelisvolschenk]

Thank you Mayim! I'd love to see you doing something about the conflict that I, and I believe a lot of other religious persons, sometimes have between our religiousness and our daily living ....... especially in things like sexuality and relationships.

[@m_brokenleg]

Rooom for both science and spirituality to exist? Yes..But to me you can’t arrive to God (call It the Divinity, Cicero’s ‘Causa Causarum’ , the Supreme Spirit or what other word mankind has used along the History) through Science, nor arrive to Science from Faith. Both, Faith (or Spirituality or even Philosophy to some people not aligned with structured religions) and Science try to unravel the same mysteries of the Universe, to answer the universal questions every human being aks him/herself “Who I am? What’s the purpose of life? Why I am here? What’s consciousness? What’s that thing we call soul?” from different and probably not so distant starting points..both always at perpetual risk of same fundamentalism..How I love the idea of being humbly before “the Infinite” that rabbi Kasher talks about.

[@ladywood855]

Bullseye. First time I’ve heard people discuss my position on this topic, in language that can be understood. Thank you

[@annbastin6654]

Best discussion ever.

[@rosem6877]

I am Catholic. Maybe we are not “training ourselves to believe something” that we don’t initially believe, but we have happened onto a way, a route to discover God that is out there and in here, and cannot be explained in our rational and physical world. God did the wiring if you want to put it that way, as an impulse to seek Him.

[@annikaullmann]

beautiful! thank you for the insight!

[@martaardesi2056]

I found this episode very interesting. I would love to listen to Mayim’s thoughts, experiences and beliefs more frequently like we did in this episode. Thank you very much for sharing all this beauty, knowledge and wisdom. ❤️🥰🫂

[@dawnheer6831]

St. Paul says Faith is not the absence of doubt but the means to get through it

[@onebraveheartlion]

This is wonderful. I don't see it as so much other worldly but as experiencing more of this amazing world. I get that feeling in ketosis too. 🤗

[@jamiezuzu7326]

Really in ketosis? That’s interesting… I’ve only been in ketosis once many years ago, I’d try it again

[@Kati-did]

Loved this one! Hope to see more like this one!

[@dianathimmesch6272]

your podcast is awesome. i think , at least for me is accepting the fact that in my current human state of being, that my brain isnt quite capable of understanding everything that is spiritual. however, i await a time when understanding will happen. thanks so much for your insights.

[@anitakyota9922]

I wish I knew more about about the Jewish religion but growing up LDS then, undenominational Christian. The teachings of Jesus Christ tells us that we are all as he was and that we could do all that he did and more. In my spiritual awakening I feel that we all return pure positive energy! In that I totally believe we are our own creators. Like Napoleon Hill taught “ Anything the human mind can believe, the human mind can achieve. That is the Supreme Secret.... This is the secret known in bygone times; this is the secret which governs present-day accomplishment; this is the secret which will follow man to the stars. This is the secret of the ages. We are spiritual beings having a human experience!

[@yo-yo9663]

In a sense the teachings of JC are Judaism ✡️

[@TheFuzzieWuzzie]

Re- people being prayed for recover from illnesses faster and better. There is evidence that people who aren’t aware they are being prayed for also healed faster.

[@scottallen3932]

Great discussion

[@igshort]

It’s interesting to me listening to him wanting to really keep the material and spiritual as separate, science as separate from spirit/god, but the beginning of science was literally a drive to understand god. As someone with no religion, but with experience of the divine, I cannot separate god from 3D reality. Just because we understand the science of the physical world does not negate the presence of spirit in all things. I don’t see god as something “out there” “separate from us”, because my experience of god is within. A rabbi once said, “God is the Isness of Is.” God IS, god=love=energy=spirit=existence. That is not something *separate* from 3D reality. It is one and the same. God is the electricity that animates all that is.

[@mailleweaver]

The way I tend to think about these things is: Is God not intelligent enough to influence the system of reality that he created without contradicting the rules which he also created to govern that system? Does God have to break his own stuff in order to interact with it? I think not. The system of spirit and the system of matter can interface with each other without conflict because they were designed to interface without conflict. Of course, some people will call that flawed logic because it doesn't leave room to be disproven. Conversely, it also can't be proven. But it's what I choose to believe. That's what faith is: belief without proof. "The essence of what we hope for, the evidence of things not seen." A lot of people hold science as their religion. Science can't yet explain everything, but some people still choose to believe that it eventually will be able to even though there's no proof that it will. Belief without proof. They have faith in their religion of Science because they hope that it will one day explain everything. I think science is just a useful tool for understanding the material world. I think it's silly to think that science could be used to understand (or even prove/disprove) things outside of the material world. Can the characters in a book prove or disprove the existence of the library the book is in? The rest of the library affects the story of that book, and that book affects the rest of the library, but there's no way to observe that from within the book. Science as religion is a misplaced faith because it limits itself to the system that it is in.

[@lindseypoindexter702]

He and Mosher speak so alike! It's wild!

[@hnybee113]

@Mayim Bialek been waiting for an episode about this topic specifically about YOUR faith.

[@misse2013]

Very interesting thoughts to ponder!

[@analusouza]

I believe the emotions and all things integrated to them have a different response that is also related to our early life experiences, as well as your life experience on other existences (if you believe in reincarnation). These experiences might trigger memories we don't have on our conscience, but only on the unconscious (Shadow, if you think of some psychological ways of think/believe). I absolutely believe there is a lot more to life than what we have discovered up to today with the technology and knowledge available to humans up to today! I am a science person with a veterinarian degree, a master and a PhD, on different areas than you. Love to hear your conversations! There are more things for me to think about!!!

[@analusouza]

I love this episode and the discussion!!! Wonderful!!!

[@stevesmith7839]

I wish that the pursuit of spiritual truth was in the realm of science instead of religion. There is definitely an ability to apply the scientific method to spiritual pursuit like gathering and correlating the experiences and changes on people, at least in their interpretations. I don't believe in the god of religion's interpretation of a deity or spiritual existence, however, strange coincidences do happen that indicate an intention separate from random encounter. In my experience, I have noticed a correlation between mysterious interventions by African men who appear as from no where, help a person, and then disappear. I can only reference this to "angels." It would be nice if we had an entire history of interventions of this and each other type of strangely coincidental phenomenon in addition to all the paranormal phenomenon. It should all be fact checked as much as possible, witnesses interviewed, and recorded to a data base. I agree about emotions. We are addiction machines operating on a peptide soup along with other hormones and brain produced drugs. All of our emotional experiences should be considered skeptically. All religious experiences are indistinguishable from the experiences described by drug users. Euphoria, other worldly, floating, hyper aware, all encompassing love, or evil, under emotional attack, paranoia, profound separation. Physics is getting closer to the conclusion that we exist in a programmed or holographic universe. If that turns out to be true, then there had to be a programmer. We could define that programmer as our god.

[@hollyhinman9818]

BAM!

[@ExoticTerrain]

I have traditionally been athletic however as I’ve gone through my life I’ve come up with a concept of god that makes sense to me but it’s controversial. I think we are all our own gods. We’re not god to others just ourselves. And it’s our mission to figure out what kind of god you want to be. I used to be an angry god and I did a lot of self distructive things. I’m learning to be a kinder god tho. Thanks to lots of helpful podcasts like yours!

[@ExoticTerrain]

I consider life sacred, maybe not god but definitely sacred, and something outside of myself, as well as inside, that is more knowledgeable than myself but that I can access.

[@williamlewis8773]

Aoife McLysaght's lecture at Britain's Royal Institution may be fun for the podcast audients to hear . It seems related to this topic .

[@susanwerner9961]

Fascinating podcast Mayim. Have you ever done an exploration of synchronicity? It is a more psychological /spiritual concept but I wonder what you think of it besides happy accidents! Love your podcasts.

[@flappycelery]

A heart which knows - 1st word that came to mind was wisdom.

[@augusthavince8909]

As I understand it, we are vessels for belief. The Universe created and evolved life up to the point of observing and studying itself. When we recognize it, we often experience awe and we faun for it. We want to understand it and get closer to it. Some prefer the mystery. Many want the beauty (when they recognize it in some form or another). We are vessels of belief. Everyone believes something(s), and we live accordingly. A fear, an idea, a concept, a tradition, etc. I understand these as spirits. Some invoked from within people, some have always been. Potential? From the Big Bang there was a potential for life, then as heavier elements were formed and conglomerated in particular conditions, life manifested. Chemically sensitive, photosensitive, consuming, acting out of fear of being consumed, favorable mutations, combining genetic codes, pioneering from water to breathing air, maternal and paternal love somewhere along the way, the ability to adapt, migrations and navigating, epiphanies and technologies, adapting surroundings to be favorable for many forms of psychological security. With life came the hardwired spirit of The Will to Live. I think if we're raised favorably, we are biased more towards curiosity, but with a healthy amount of fear (the favorable kinds?), amounting to ways of life and a wonder where it all came from. Philosophies and more science. We know loving relationships are more favorable, healthier than fearful ones. We know that might does not make right. We know that people have more potential than our traditions often allow for. Humanity wants to Progress, with the balance of distilled wisdom and knowledge. The Law of Everything permeates it all. From before the Big Bang to the experiences in our hearts and our minds. Our astrophysical, our Newtonian and our quantum existences. That is supernatural. To me, science and scientific method search for the Truth, which to me is the "search for God." Most just prefer it to be rationalized, tested and made consensus. Science supports me in my irrational belief in God/dess (as you can see, I've tried to rationalize The Law as far as I can).

[@hifitommy]

i had a thought today that religions are like a labor union. it has rules and laws and leaders, confidants, etc. it equates to a way to deal with others as a group and provides security in different ways, of course, that can be expanded upon in many ways which i did in my mind while listening to your program.

[@marvintpandroid2213]

Belief is an absence of proof, science requires proof and must be falsifiable. 'God' is a psychological part of the make up of the brain.

[@cyndykated358]

I’m just starting this. I was thinking the other day…if we knew for sure there wasn’t a God…would we act differently? It’s scary (for me) to think that it’s just this thought/hope that there is one..that’s keeping us from acting crazier. Maybe it’s also a bit of relief if there’s not one..less guilt..lol

[@kimmcdaniel8933]

This may blow some minds when I say this, please allow me to say... You have all the proofs of a God before you. Science tells us we were created to be a certain way, live a certain way. We, however, do not live as the law tells us to. This is where Christ comes in. He was God, very God in human flesh who could and did live the law perfectly for us. What greater love than a man lay down his life for his brother. Now you can rest in his finished work. He says CAST all your anxieties onto him for his burden is light and his yoke is easy. You don't have to give up control you just have to have faith/believe. The reason a "higher" power works in 12 step programs is this, people come to realize they can not control the world around them but their high power does. There is a peace that passes all understand and it is in Jesus Christ. We are not called to know everything right now, we are called to rest. Please not shoot me:)

[@PatrickBMoore]

Mayim the singers that sing your theme song is that the same ones that sang the theme song to The Big Bang Theory?

[@fugithegreat]

I have a book that delves into the neuroscience of religion and theorizes on why we have evolved with the trait of belief in religion and superstition. I haven't actually read the whole thing yet but maybe I should. 😅😅

[@a.4238]

Very interesting! Regarding the whole chemical explanation vs soul/feeling/God, I'm thinking that even if all these things have chemical processes that explain them, that doesn't mean that these processes are necessarily the cause of the feeling. Can we rule out for sure that they can sometimes be the consequence of a feeling or thought, of which we can't explain the origin?

[@nonnidreams]

The ultimate experience I have had that to me, makes it so that my faith/belief/trust in God reigns over Science. Is His surpassing Peace. And Agape Love. And to me Science will always be the study of how things seems to work from the physical perspective. Which is limited. Not why things work. For me the mind, heart and spirit will always be the unlimited, eternal, part of humans. I never did mind altering drugs of any kind and I have had experiences that only make sense according to Christ centred, biblically sound and in context understanding of existence. Surpassing Peace and Agape Love. Holy Spirit led. The three persons in One God. I always gravitated to the Peacemaker verses. And I always find it funny when people take it too far and use religion to excuse murder. War. Conquering the land of others. Taking ownership of land. That is human force thing. Control over others. Not really, loving your neighbor as you love yourself. Defense, I understand, but sadly, humans fall short of God’s glory and forget one important concept, freedom of choice of the will. You may conquer physically. But the person will think, feel and know in their spirit. Unless they shut it down to survive oppression. And how healthy boundaries work themselves out. What it means to entrust everyone and everything to God. That it’s between God and the one person. Even the sad endings. God knows the heart of each person. I trust His Holiness and Justice, as well as His Grace and Mercy. God Is the creator, the great I AM. He will have the final word/say. We each choose, consciously or unconsciously. 💖✝️📖🕊️💖

[@Christopher33312]

I believe it is the notion of "needing forgiveness" from a God that created us flawed and who is the original source of both Good and Evil, invalidates most world religions. If God is the source of everything, then He is the source of all of the world's sufferring... And to (at least in the Christian tradition) require belief and worship in exchange for eternal reward, those who can't muster "faith" and or reason to worship, are threatened with punishment, when they are not our failures, but are, in fact, His failure of imperfect creation. If God created me unable to believe and unwilling to worship, why should I be damned to eternal suffering? Because I have "free will"? Then who's fault is that?

[@junglejolene]

History has shown us that we dont all get a burning bush experience with God but faith is required as much to believe that was Moses' experience as to believe that if our ancestors put lambs blood over their door, their first born was saved from the plague as to believe my mezuzot bless my home and family. And maybe God had to light that bush on fire to get Moses to stop and look and listen in a way that a voice inside his mind just wouldnt do...

[@betsyr4724]

You know we have brain cells on our heart not attached to our brain. So yes. There is a science of belief. We feel it in our heart.

[@dianehewitt6921]

I wonder if the Bible and other spirtual good books around the world that need to be updated in modern languages

[@flappycelery]

People keep trying! There are & have been countless versions & interpretations of the Bible in print through millennia.

[@Rainbowofthefallen]

💚

[@alexcross7800]

You sound like my 4th great grandfather....Jonathan Edwards...was one of the first to say science and religion go together...not to down play the other...coexist together...

[@janinemuller5797]

I just absolutely love the way you've been afforded the opportunity to contribute collectively, science and comedically, offering Big Bang relief quiet literally to many...I just wonder, you seem to understand how "spiritual recovery" means "trauma recovery" and given what you studied scientifically, I wonder how you reconcile our patriarchy not yet reforming their choice to sever the root cause of early life trauma inside the Hippocratic Oath, from its stream of effects ~ especially in matter's of man's sexuality still being projected upon our species young. I know you might not have considered it from that particular humanitarian issue yet, that's cool if not, I was just wondering

[@hanadolad2061]

Just I said DRS mayim please help people today people sans covid 19. Need help thanks

[@teresajsherrick5099]

Morn'n... Though I do believe in the something "other" responsibile for all that exists, I am not tied to any religious tradition or belief system. Viewing "all that is" through the lense of science, I believe that particles are bits of this Supreme Other (god) ...this is how god exists in all things... including us... every molecule, every cell, every strand of our DNA contains god energy. ...paraphrasing: we are wonderfully made... From a linguistic perspective, language evolves... the meanings of words change... is it possible that the meaning of the word translated as "love" meant something different in that command to love god?

[@bananaegger]

believe in law

[@pattikoontz2431]

I do not understand the conflict. God is Love, first and foremost. Therefore Love is God. If I love you then I am sending God out into the world. Next, with God, all things are possible. God created science. If a burning bush is not consumed, there is a scientific explanation because God created science. If the Red Sea is parted, there is a scientific explanation because God created science. The world was created in 6 days and He rested on the 7th. Is that Earth days or God days? I don't have a conflict. I am looking forward to knowing it all when I Meet my maker.

[@MeditativeBreathing]

They cutie. I just subscribed

[@kyah279]

"if God didn't exist, we would create God".

[@eclectickimmer]

I think mankind did create God because many human beings cannot face and deal with trauma and/or life changing experiences.

[@nancoppola]

I can only say "It's not rational' We can't think it. Consciousness is.

[@subbtopp]

will AI ever believe in god?

[@anitakyota9922]

I want to be clear that this is my own opinion and I in no way discount anyone else’s beliefs!

[@galpalsal]

Agree that we can be science minded and spiritually minded concomitantly. One does not preclude the other. Mayim, what do you think about the idea that G-d needs us to love in certain ways because they are G-d's preferred ways to develop a relationship with G-d, oneself, and others? Or, is the Torah just one big instruction book on what G-d wants us to do/be/act/think/feel and it's a compendium of G-d's Favorite Things ('raindrops on roses....")? It's the hotline to serenity and peace. "Its ways are ways of pleasantness and ALL its paths are peace."

[@fabricio4794]

Both

[@hey_daralon]

let the guest speak!!!!!!!!!!

[@jackdispennett744]

Re: 29:20 and 35:50-In my own intellectual religious tradition (Roman Catholic), as summarized popularly these days by Bishop Robert Barron but expounded hundreds of years ago by Aquinas. God is not in any genus, even in the genus of being, so God is not a Being, or even the greatest being, but He is the very act of “to be” itself. Thus God’s being is inseparable from his essence. Far from making him impersonal, I would argue that God is Supra-personal (eg the doctrine of the Trinity).

[@elijahhanavi7023]

jesus is lord and god, the messiah,

[@tomlichnofsky.7048]

😊✊👊🍁

[@Shane-zl9ry]

The short answer is no 😏

[@jennebeattie3168]

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[@dxd48c]

most scientist are afraid to admit what you have said because their position and tenure is at stake.

[@renacleerican7824]

All the advertisings are so annoying. It ruins it for me. Is Mayim Byalik so poor that she needs all this money from this publicities? Really wrong and greedy. You ve lost a subscriber and a fan. 💵💵💵💵😤🤢🤮

[@MyplayLists4Y2Y]

Two religious people rationalizing why they need to believe.

[@russell6011]

There's nothing wrong with valuing rituals and cultural traditions. It is wrong to claim to know something of reality when you don't have a good reason, IE: Faith. One of the many baggages of claiming to be religious is to imply that you're credulous. To want magic to be part of reality when there is zero evidence of magic actually existing in reality since magic can solve all your problems that are naturally outside of your control or outside of your control due to someone else needing to take steps to solve your problem. IE: earthquakes and crashing economies. If religion is nothing more to you than cultural traditions and values and rituals, then anyone can be religious, even educated people. But once you start claiming there's something mystical..oohhhh...or of the beyond...ooooohhh....or supernatural...cough cough BS, BS....or anything like that, then you get the Ted Haggard label so we know not to take you seriously on any discussion about reality.

[@keetahbrough]

yep. none of the things ya'll spoke of was really spiritual sacred things. ya'll intellectualized meaningful insanity lol. xo so be it.

[@bobzillen]

please no religiots