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Originally posted by walktalker
Tracing the Synapses of Spirituality
In Philadelphia, a researcher discovers areas of the brain that are activated during meditation. At two other universities in San Diego and North Carolina, doctors study how epilepsy and certain hallucinogenic drugs can produce religious epiphanies. And in Canada, a neuroscientist fits people with magnetized helmets that produce "spiritual" experiences for the secular.[/b]
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That's nothing new. I've seen experiments were they stimulate a certain part of the brain which creates the feeling of presence, warmth and hallucinations of often religious images, dependent on what religious aspect is important. Some people saw jesus, others god,... One saw fire and little red men, seriously. It was a simulation of near-death experiences.