The Big Question Abstract

Throughout the ages people have always been lost and confused with life and unable to find any sort of lasting internal peace and tranquility. Many people turned to religion and other forms of faith that preached about the unknown to seek solitude and find that peace within themselves while others in more recent times have contented themselves with the fact that life is meaningless and that anything they say and do essentially will not matter. Yet there are scientists in the fields of psychology and neurology that explores the brain and its natural processes in hopes to find the chemical produced that creates this feeling of almost divine peace. My purpose in studying the state of mind called enlightenment is to understand how people can reach the conditions under which they achieve a state of mind that enables them to perform at high levels in circumstances others might consider stressful and what those key conditions are to begin with. I intend to do my research mainly based in the scientific fields of psychology and brain study as well as looking into the religious/faith aspect of it so that I may get the whole picture about this elusive state of mind. In addition to studying in these branches, I will be using some personal experience from myself and some of my peers to give a little bit of personal touch to this assignment.