Oneness, boundaries and anger

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There's an area of our brain
called the parietal lobe.

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It's located in the back of our head

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and it normally takes our sensory information

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and helps us to establish
our sense of self

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and how that self relates to other
people and the rest of the world.

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In our everyday life
it's very clear.

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I'm me, you're you.

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You know everybody sort of has their
own way of thinking about themselves

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and their relation with the world.

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But when people enter into
these very spiritual states,

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meditative states, mystical states,

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what happens is and we've seen a
lot of evidence for this is that

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there's a change of
activity in this parietal lobe.

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The parietal lobe actually
starts to shut down

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and as it quiets down,

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it starts to lose its ability
to define ourselves

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and the boundaries of our self
as clearly as possible.

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And so we see a breakdown between
ourself and the rest of the world

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and we begin to feel a sense of connection
or even a sense of oneness

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with other things with other people.

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And so when you get into a variety
of practices like meditation

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and prayer, specific rituals.

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An important question is always
what's incorporated within that.

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If what's incorporated within
that is all of humanity

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then everyone feels, we feel that
everyone is included in that experience.

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And so we feel compassion, love,
and positive feelings for other people

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because they're all
part of that oneness.

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Whereas when we start to focus
more on that anger and hatred

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which defines the boundary of ourselves

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and expresses these outwardly negative
thoughts and negative emotions

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then that is something that
can become very destructive

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because it becomes very much of an
us versus them kind of mentality.

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In fact, arguably speaking,

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you might actually view the person
almost as not part of reality.

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And if the person is not real
then removing them,

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killing them or whatever
is is easy to do.

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There's no reason not to do it
because they're not part of reality.