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Skeptic magazine (Vol. 9, No. 4 2003) claims a theory (rather elaborate) based by research done on labarotory rats. They state the scientific testing shows that if three things happen simultaniously then a death like state occurs. The following is from this issue of Skeptic magazine as written by Michael Persinger...
1) Limbic Epilepsy or Temporal Lobe Epilepsy. The seizers induced by this specific form of epilepsy are described as 'partial complex seizers'. People who have this form of epilepsy are affected primarily by behavioral and personality changes. Most people who have this form of epilepsy are extremely creative and have noticable altered thought patterns. In fact a few of the changes include: feeling as though they are 'chosen', interpreting events to be from some cosmic source (ie: God), compulsion to tell others or 'proselytize' thier beliefs, obsession with the origins of the universe or world and the purpose of existance, excellerated excellence in oral discourse.
"Many of the individuals who display these electrical transients are very intelligent, creative people who percieve their environment quite differently from the average person. However they may be more prone to periods of depression, irritablity and altered sexuality. Perhaps the most defining characteristic of these individuals is thier frequent experiences of a sensed presence or Sentient Being, with or without auditory experiences, that are attributed to the cultural deity, such as Yahweh, Allah or to angels"
2) In labratory testing on rats with Limbic epilepsy, a certain type of drug has been administered, 'acepromazine' and later substituted with 'reserpine'. Reserpine is an alkaloid that comes from a plant called Rauwolfia serpentine (a plant growing naturally in India). This drug was used historically to treat symptoms of insanity, hypertension and insomnia. It depleates the brain of certain neurotransmitters. While we have very little knowledge of Jesus during his teen years, it is potentially possible that he may have had contact with Essene or Eastern philosophies. This would have made him familliar with the "psychotropic traditions of the East regarding consumption of plant extracts, like reserpine, and the subsequent but transient 'death-like' conditions".
3) Physical Restraint. When the rats with limbic epilepsy were injected with Reserpine and physically restrainted, they would exhibit symptoms of death. Extreme forms of hypothermia, death like state, which lasted 3 days, and then the rats would recover. They appeared normal but "they developed a type of dishevelment, lowered body weight, alteration in preffered diet, permanent deficits in memory, and a propensity for spontanious sezures for the rest of thier lives".
There are few discriptions of Jesus's actual behavior, it is possible that the ones that do exist could be matched with discriptions of those suffering from limbic epilepsy. Skeptic magazine describes it as "His bouts of rage at the temple, auditory instructions and debates during his wanderings for 40 days in the desert, his emotional liablity (such as crying), requirements to be isolated concurrent with marked moodiness, the nascent focus of his philospohies and the compelling feeling that he was 'special and chosen' suggest he displayed markedly elevated temporal lobe experiences".
1) Limbic Epilepsy or Temporal Lobe Epilepsy. The seizers induced by this specific form of epilepsy are described as 'partial complex seizers'. People who have this form of epilepsy are affected primarily by behavioral and personality changes. Most people who have this form of epilepsy are extremely creative and have noticable altered thought patterns. In fact a few of the changes include: feeling as though they are 'chosen', interpreting events to be from some cosmic source (ie: God), compulsion to tell others or 'proselytize' thier beliefs, obsession with the origins of the universe or world and the purpose of existance, excellerated excellence in oral discourse.
"Many of the individuals who display these electrical transients are very intelligent, creative people who percieve their environment quite differently from the average person. However they may be more prone to periods of depression, irritablity and altered sexuality. Perhaps the most defining characteristic of these individuals is thier frequent experiences of a sensed presence or Sentient Being, with or without auditory experiences, that are attributed to the cultural deity, such as Yahweh, Allah or to angels"
2) In labratory testing on rats with Limbic epilepsy, a certain type of drug has been administered, 'acepromazine' and later substituted with 'reserpine'. Reserpine is an alkaloid that comes from a plant called Rauwolfia serpentine (a plant growing naturally in India). This drug was used historically to treat symptoms of insanity, hypertension and insomnia. It depleates the brain of certain neurotransmitters. While we have very little knowledge of Jesus during his teen years, it is potentially possible that he may have had contact with Essene or Eastern philosophies. This would have made him familliar with the "psychotropic traditions of the East regarding consumption of plant extracts, like reserpine, and the subsequent but transient 'death-like' conditions".
3) Physical Restraint. When the rats with limbic epilepsy were injected with Reserpine and physically restrainted, they would exhibit symptoms of death. Extreme forms of hypothermia, death like state, which lasted 3 days, and then the rats would recover. They appeared normal but "they developed a type of dishevelment, lowered body weight, alteration in preffered diet, permanent deficits in memory, and a propensity for spontanious sezures for the rest of thier lives".
There are few discriptions of Jesus's actual behavior, it is possible that the ones that do exist could be matched with discriptions of those suffering from limbic epilepsy. Skeptic magazine describes it as "His bouts of rage at the temple, auditory instructions and debates during his wanderings for 40 days in the desert, his emotional liablity (such as crying), requirements to be isolated concurrent with marked moodiness, the nascent focus of his philospohies and the compelling feeling that he was 'special and chosen' suggest he displayed markedly elevated temporal lobe experiences".
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