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- Vol. 1 Issue: 14 August 30, 2026©2026 THE HKL TIME Tony Childs on stage (far left) is an American-born Australian singer-songwriter. Volunteers stepped into the aisles carrying flowers, each accompanied by a small message inspired by the timeless virtues of Humility, Kindness, and Love.
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BEYOND I, ME & MINE The Neuroscience of Experiencing Oneness
What Johns Hopkins Researcher Dr. Andrew Newberg’s Scientific Findings Can Teach Us About the Daily Commitments of the Humility, Kindness, & Love Movement
For thousands of years, spiritual traditions have invited us to turn inward: to become still, quiet the noise of the mind, remember the Divine, and discover a deeper reality within ourselves.
cerebral blood flow during med itative prayer. Research on longterm meditators has also found differences in brain activity in regions associated with attention, emotion, and autonomic function.
Today, neuroscience is begin ning to explore what happens in the brain when we do exactly that. One of the leading researchers in this field isDr. An drew Newberg, a neuroscientist and physician who has spent decades studying the relationship between brain function and spiritual practice. His research has included brain imaging of people engaged in prayer, meditation, and other deeply immersive spiritual practices.
But the most intriguing part of his work concerns our sense of separation. During deeply immersive spiritual experiences, activity in brain regionsinvolved in our ordinary sense of spatial orientation and self-boundaries can change. Newberg and his colleagues have described how these changes may accompany experiences in which the usual distinction between self and everything else becomes less pronounced. Newberg has referred to this profound experience as His work offers a fascinating scientific perspective on some thing that HKL has long invited us to experience for ourselves:
“unitary being”—a state in which a person experiences a deep sense of connection or oneness. The boundary between oneself and other people, nature, the universe, and the Di-
What happens when we vine seems to dissolve. turn inward and begin to experience ourselves as part of something greater?
When the mind becomes still
Newberg’s research suggests that practices involving focused attention, prayer, meditation, and spiritual contemplation can change patterns of brain activity.
In studies using SPECT brain imaging, Newberg and his colleagues observed changes in Oneness is not something that can simply be proven intellectually.
It is something to be experienced. For Newberg, the scientific study of spirituality raises a profound possibility: our brains are capable not only of self-maintenance, but also of self-transcendence, moving beyond our ordinary, separate sense of self.
This scientific discussion beau tifully echoes the Truth that