Scientist talks about her Near Death-like Experience and brain function.

[Keith Millea]

I am That,
Thou art That,
All this is That,
and That alone Is.

from the Vedas, noted in The Book (On The Taboo of Knowing Who You Are),
by Alan Watts

Reminds me of:

I Am that I Am

Originally from Biblical sources. from Wiki

And then this:

In the Hindu Advaita Vedanta, the South Indian sage Ramana Maharshi mentions that of all the definitions of God, "none is indeed so well put as the biblical statement "I am that I am"". He maintained that although Hindu scripture contains similar statements, the Mahavakyas, these are not as direct as given in Exodus.[11] Further the "I am" is explained by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj as an abstraction in the mind of the Stateless State, of the Absolute, or the Supreme Reality, called Parabrahman: it is pure awareness, prior to thoughts, free from perceptions, associations, memories. Parabrahman is often considered to be a cognate term for the Supreme Being in Hinduism.

I and I

Rastafarian. from Wiki

I and I is a complex term, referring to the oneness of Jah (God) and every human. Rastafari scholar E. E. Cashmore: "I and I is an expression to totalize the concept of oneness, the oneness of two persons. So God is within all of us and we're one people in fact.

:wavey:

[Ed Jewett]

The Tao that can be trodden is not the enduring and unchanging Tao. The name that can be named is not the enduring and unchanging name. Having no name, it is the Originator of heaven and earth; having a name, it is the Mother of all things.
Without desire, we can plumb its depths; filled with desire, we can see only its externals. Under these two aspects, it is really the same; but as it develops, it receives the different names. Together we call them the Mystery; where the Mystery is deepest is the gate of all that is subtle and wonderful..... The Tao is the emptiness of a vessel and in our employment of it we must be on guard against all fullness.

[Malcolm Pryce]

Or perhaps not a different kind of 'I' so much as the same 'I' with different experiences.

The brain as an electro-magnetic containment field for the ... "I" ...

That's a great image. Or the brain as a receiver, like a radio, which 'receives' rather than generates consciousness.

[Ed Jewett]

Or perhaps not a different kind of 'I' so much as the same 'I' with different experiences.

The brain as an electro-magnetic containment field for the ... "I" ...

That's a great image. Or the brain as a receiver, like a radio, which 'receives' rather than generates consciousness.

It brings to mind Roger Penrose (along with Suart Hameroff who, as Wikipedia says in the entry for Penrose, "have speculated that consciousness is the result of quantum gravity effects in microtubules" but read the rest of that blurb and then Google for "crystalline structures in brain". Radio receivers are crystals, and the mystical third eye (thought to be the pineal gland) contains "a variable quantity of gritty material, called corpora arenacea (or "acervuli," or "brain sand"). Chemical analysis shows that they are composed of calcium phosphate, calcium carbonate, magnesium phosphate, and ammonium phosphate." But see the discussion of Descartes, Spinoza, metaphysics, and philosophy. Finally, Nick Begich, in his book "Controlling the Human Mind", has a catalog of resources he sells through EarthPulse which include a dietary supplement, a proprietary blend of silica hydride (though, other than its stated purpose of keeping the body at an optimal alkaline state, I haven't a clue what he thinks it does for enhanced mental performance.

[Ed Jewett]

I found this hand-scrawled "note to self", perhaps the title of some forthcoming entity, used as a bookmark in one of the many books currently peppering my space:

Spirit and Intelligence: The Uncertain Wavicle
(Transcendent Interconnectedness and Meaning in the Context of Deep Politics)