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>Marty Kent writes:
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>	  To my knowledge noone's yet been able to draw any kind of
>serious mapping between neurological events and even very "mundane"
>everyday mental events like formulating a sentence or holding a particular
>image in the mind's eye.  Some work in this direction has been to associate
>certain frequency ranges of electrical brain activity (so-called beta,
>alpha, theta and delta waves) with certain kinds of everyday activities,
>but the correlations seem pretty weak.  Still, it's a start.
>
>   Perhaps neurological events are just too low-level to use as an adequate
>basis for description and measurement of personal mental (psychic?
>spiritual?) experiences.
>
>			- Marty

Some of the neurological studies being done recently actually DO begin
to relate to some mental activities.  I remember several articles in
Scientific American (and in Psychology Today...?) about a recognizable
EEG pattern (might be called a "T wave"--I forget) which happens when
a subject sees a known symbol (word) in a meaningless context.  
It is believed that this pattern occurs while the brain searches wildly
for a context in which the symbol fits.  Several other studies
duplicated these patterns, and I beleive these findings are fairly
generally accepted.  I beleive the Sci Am Brain/Cognitive reprint
series from 3 or 4 years ago is where I saw it.

A more recent article can be found in March '87 OMNI, pg 90, about
Charles A. Warren and Norman S. Don, neuroscientists at U of Illinois.
They are trying to detect Event-Related-Potentials associated with
reception of psychic knowledge.  Their subject, a Chicago 'psychic'
named Olaf Jonsson, guessed at symbols on standard ESP cards while
connected to an EEG machine.  He guessed at a 50% hit rate (random
would be 20%), and the researchers found a 73% correlation of of 
a particular pattern and correct guesses.

Anyway, some serious scientists are trying to relate our internal
realities to the physical world, and with some amount of success.
I hope this field really blossoms in the coming years...

--das

peace. inner first, outer will follow...