Many religious beliefs were triggered by a bizarre or unexplained "religious experience", often produced by changes in brain activity. For example, it had been shown that when Buddhist monks went into deep mediation and had a sense of "being at one with the world", they also had decreased blood flow to the part of the brain responsible for concepts of the "self".
Posted by: acb | http://dev.null.org | Wed Jul 16 05:57:22 2003
Ah, Godwin's law rears its head again I see.
What do you make of recent findings into the neurological basis of mystical experience then? Were they put there by God to test us like dinosaur fossils?
Btw, it's spelled Nietzsche.
Posted by: Graham | http://grudnuk.com/ | Wed Jul 16 16:03:25 2003
I bet you we could probably find fossils of Jesus.
Posted by: dj | http:// | Thu Jul 17 02:15:58 2003
Is that Jesus or Jebus?
Posted by: Paulo | http:// | Thu Jul 17 14:02:56 2003
One could ask too: "Cause or effect" ... just a thought
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Posted by: RhinoSteve | http:// | Tue Jul 15 19:57:06 2003
This is an old trick going back to Nazi Germany to get rid of religion. Nothing but updated "facts" that Niche and Freud used to do. Ok so the brain does something when you get "spiritual" -- so what? The spirit is the driver of the body. Take this to the analogy of the driver and a car. When you look at the car and it stops you notice a mechanical section that moves when something blocks the car ... but you ignore that the driver exists. So many of these researchers are so spiritually ruined, their opinions are occluded in this matter.