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1 THE INTERIOR "I": TRANSDISCIPLINARY REFLECTIONS ON THE EXPERIENCE OF THE NUMINOUS OSCAR CASTRO Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Abstract Nowadays, science restricts the contents of all scientific explanations with very specific and technical definitions. This is specially the case in its attempt to define borderline issues. At the present moment, there is a growing interdisciplinary link between the so-called “sciences of the mind” and the “sciences of the spirit”. This growing connection is specially an issue with mystical phenomena (for instance, when one regards a key issue, such as the existence of God). Neurobiology usually considers explanations on the basis of the relation “stimulus-response”, but they are not knowledgeable about what happens for instance, in self-induction. When explaining a mystical experience, it is difficult to define the exact differences of an individual manifesting itself and one needs to use terms such as “ego”, “I”, “self”, “selfness”, “ipseity”, etc. They are not the same thing. These concepts must therefore be analysed in a comparative way. My intention is to render a transdisciplinary programme for the study of the first person (I) as a foundation for the study of the “numinous” (the term invented by Rudolf Otto) or the base of all mystical experiences of the homo religious. Two of the basic aspects of the transdisciplinary programme will be expounded: a) A study of co mparative semantics of all the historical conceptions of the “I”, present in all traditions from an ontological and a phenomenological point of view b) A b rief review of the recent history of “neurotheology”. We will analyse the explanatory models present in the neurobiological studies of the mystical phenomena. My intention is to render a new epistemological and hermeneutical view of the question about the “I” experience of the numinous as a transdisciplinary scientific model. Introduction We live at a time in which there is an overload of information intoxicating out brain, making it vulnerable to computer contamination. The more information we accumulate in our brains, the less space we have to fill it up with facts from real life. So much intellectual activity is unhealthy unless we can find a balance with some form of physical activity. Our thoughts have become increasingly alienated, that is if we are to considere our thoughts entirely our own. Do we think or are we thought by our own thoughts? Is our very existence Cartesian? Are we a consequence of our thinking? Are we sovereign of our very existence? I suscribe the Chilean philosopher Dario Salas Sommer’s view in his Moral for the 21st Century 1 when he says that that human beings are subject to thoughts which are outside one’s own intellectual reasoning. We are obeying the consumption of memes inoculated by others without reaching the deep processing of the messages we receive. Our present scientific establishment debates whether we are the result of our brains’ wiring. In the same way as Berger and Luckmann in their book The social construction of reality speak about a self-sustained society, I ask myself if my individual identity is a social construction and even more so, of my immediate medium (education, family, etc.), thus becoming autonomely a meer spirit in the “machine”.

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