Snapshot · The School of Greatness
MRI studies identified three specific circuits — bonding, ventral attention, and parietal — present in every human brain that allow us to perceive a loving, guiding Creator.
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From her opening breath, Dr. Lisa Miller stakes a bold scientific claim: every human being is born a naturally spiritual person, and the brain has been hardwired from day one with circuits to perceive a transcendent presence. She draws on 10 years of MRI research at Columbia to name three specific circuits: the bonding network, which creates the felt experience of being loved and held; the ventral attention network, which shifts awareness from narrow task-driven focus to a wide, open reception of guidance; and the parietal network, which modulates the boundary between self and other, enabling both individual identity and the experience of oneness with all of life. [1] — Dr. Lisa Miller "Every human brain contains three specific circuits — the bonding network, ventral attention network, and parietal network — that together a…" 04:07 Lewis asks whether this is located in the brain, heart, nervous system, or soul — and Dr. Miller anchors it firmly in measurable neuroscience while remaining clear that the Creator being perceived is not merely 'something bigger than yourself' but something loving, guiding, and ever-present. The three circuits, she explains, map perfectly onto the experience of being loved, held, guided, and never alone — and onto the theological attributes of a Creator who is all-loving, all-knowing, and all-present.
The awakened brain isn't earned through years of practice — it's already built and ready. One-third innate, two-thirds cultivated, it sits a quarter inch under the surface waiting for you to choose to raise the antenna and receive.
Every human brain contains three specific circuits — the bonding network, ventral attention network, and parietal network — that together allow us to perceive a loving, guiding, ever-present Creator. These aren't metaphors; they're measurable neural structures that map directly onto the experience of being loved, held, guided, and never alone.
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