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Where God Lives In Your Brain

Posted by timothy on from the third-door-on-the-left- dept.

TheSync writes: "NewScientist has a story about research into the 'religious brain,' the part of the brain responsible for a deep, calming, spiritual feeling. Brains of Tibetan Buddhists meditating and Franciscan Nuns deep in prayer were imaged using Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT). It was found that during these spiritual experiences, an area of the parietal lobe in the brain became much less active." The article is interesting as well for the other areas of brain research it touches on. Where can I get a God helmet?

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  1. Value of this research by Dancin_Santa · · Score: 5

    So they found that the brain stops functioning when a person is "talking to God". Huge surprise!

    Dancin Santa