Bliss in Suffering - podcast

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Bliss in Suffering

Matthew Syed ponders the possibility of experiencing bliss in life-threatening circumstances - like war - and discovers the remarkable potential of the brain.

The brain as an explanation is not over-emphasised. Ordinary people describing their own experience is the main topic.

I don't know whether this mp3 download link will work. If not, there is a download option on the page linked above.

From BBC radio

Bliss in Suffering

The brain as an explanation is not over-emphasised. Ordinary people describing their own experience is the main topic.

I don't know whether this mp3 download link will work. If not, there is a download option on the page linked above.

The link worked for me... I'll give that a listen to that soon...

From BBC radio

Bliss in Suffering

The brain as an explanation is not over-emphasised. Ordinary people describing their own experience is the main topic.

I don't know whether this mp3 download link will work. If not, there is a download option on the page linked above.

enjoyed that Typoz, I'm always eager to hear about other peoples wakeful epiphanies since my own in 2021, whereas there are loads of NDE/OBE experiences... wakeful epiphanies are hard to find...

enjoyed that Typoz, I'm always eager to hear about other peoples wakeful epiphanies since my own in 2021, whereas there are loads of NDE/OBE experiences... wakeful epiphanies are hard to find...

I'm glad you found it interesting.

You're right that it can be hard to find different kinds of experiences. Partly I suppose it's because people tend not to talk openly about their more unusual experiences. Another difficulty is how things get categorised, things may fit into more than one 'box' but once a word is used to describe something (for example in this case the word bliss) it becomes a kind of boundary or limitation on finding related experiences which might not use that word but perhaps use other language, yet it may be a similar phenomenon.

I was reminded of someone else talking about experiences in stressful or life-threatening situations. Very briefly here, from about 45:13 to roughly 47:30.

start at 45:13
https://youtu.be/7m1EO4A4upQ?t=2713

I'm glad you found it interesting.

You're right that it can be hard to find different kinds of experiences. Partly I suppose it's because people tend not to talk openly about their more unusual experiences. Another difficulty is how things get categorised, things may fit into more than one 'box' but once a word is used to describe something (for example in this case the word bliss) it becomes a kind of boundary or limitation on finding related experiences which might not use that word but perhaps use other language, yet it may be a similar phenomenon.

I was reminded of someone else talking about experiences in stressful or life-threatening situations. Very briefly here, from about 45:13 to roughly 47:30.

start at 45:13
https://youtu.be/7m1EO4A4upQ?t=2713

My sister told me some years ago, that she had recently popped out of her body during a job interview, looking down on herself and the interviewer from above. Not had one of those experiences yet.

I found Dr Steve Taylor's Doctoral Thesis Vol 1 & 2 and read the first 30 odd pages (featured in the Bliss in Suffering podcast). I used the label 'epiphanies' earlier, but it seems from what little I read, that with the wild electric-like ecstasy thing going on up and down my back, and out of the top of my head, my 2021 Kitchen experience would more likely be labeled Kundalini-like (Hatha Yoga Pradipika), although it had the mystical lifted up, and vision type thing going on too...

...anyway his 330 page thesis looks interesting to read, with full transcripts of his interviews with experients...

https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/epr...4_vol1.pdf

http://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/epri...4_vol2.pdf

There is also a lot on his web site:

https://www.stevenmtaylor.com/