Does An Ancient Babylonian Medical Treatise Have An Amazing Insight About Religion?

Did many founders of religions have epilepsy?

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[DADLANDSHOW]

Markdzima, how is it going? Your stuff is very educational. Make me realize that I need to brush up on my history.

[markdzima]

@DADLANDSHOW

I'm in the flow of writing my next video so things are going very well, thank you.

I've been enjoying your videos, so I'm happy you came by to watch mine, and glad you found it to be very educational. Thank you for the kind words.

[h8red42]

i'm looking forward to the rest of this.

[markdzima]

@h8red42 I'm happy to hear you say that! BTW, last night I was reading Euthyphro (a dialogue of Plato) and was reminded that among the charges against Socrates was: making new gods and not believing in the old ones, and introducing novelties in religion. Vis a vis the "evolves his own religion" theme in this video, I think it is interesting that there is a medical journal article proposing that Socrates was a temporal lobe epileptic (Epilepsia, 2006).

[markdzima]

@markdzima

A sentence I wrote above was poorly written, and unclear. I meant to say that nocturnal seizures have been hypothesized to be causally connected to the neural synchrony of non-REM sleep.

[TheMina75]

@markdzima That would be interesting indeed.. I know alot about Buddha and Akhenaten (I´m a history nerd), but I don´t have the knowledge about the brain you do, will be very interesting to see what you find out.

[TheMina75]

@markdzima I´ll be looking forward to the videos.. You are doing a great job as always!

[markdzima]

@TheMina75 I've been doing research on sleep paralysis and the neurology of sleep and will be doing videos related to this, upcoming. Hopefully you will find that interesting.

Sleep relates to epilepsy. Most epileptic seizures occur during sleep, which has been hypothesized to be causally connected to the neural synchrony that occurs during non-REM sleep. Epilepsy has recently been medically defined as being a malady of neural synchrony. I'll explain all this in upcoming videos.

[markdzima]

@TheMina75 I will be looking into the persons on that list (and others) and doing videos on my findings. I just got the reference that the article cited with respect to the Buddha and now will have to find the reference it cites. A complication with people who meditate (like the Buddha did) is that there seems to be an interrelation between the neurology of meditation and the neurology of epilepsy (I will be doing videos on this, upcoming).

[TheMina75]

I don´t think Buddha had Ep, but if you look at his lifestyle before enlightenment he might have had halucinations anyway due to grave malnutrition, but that is just my own theory.. As an Atheist who don´t suffer from Ep but from Sleep paralysis I find it likely that a lot of those counted for on the list could have "seen" and experienced things that led them to start their own religion. Also didn´t Akhenaten most likely suffer from marfan´s syndrome? Just out of curiosity?