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Scientists Deliver 'God' Via A Helmet
prostoalex writes "Scientific American is reporting on scientific work done to map the euphoric religious feelings within the brain. As a result, it's now quite possible to experience 'proximity to God' via a special helmet: 'In a series of studies conducted over the past several decades, Persinger and his team have trained their device on the temporal lobes of hundreds of people. In doing so, the researchers induced in most of them the experience of a sensed presence — a feeling that someone (or a spirit) is in the room when no one, in fact, is — or of a profound state of cosmic bliss that reveals a universal truth. During the three-minute bursts of stimulation, the affected subjects translated this perception of the divine into their own cultural and religious language — terming it God, Buddha, a benevolent presence or the wonder of the universe.""
Geeze... religious asshats have degraded and debased itself constantly with apologists at the wheel... Athiesm and skepticism - when you constantly bash it, you show (1) How afraid of it you are and (2) Give it more validation than discredit because of item (1). Get off you anti-free-thinking kick and stick to new that matters....
Since Jesus apparently had other siblings, why do people still refer to his mother as virgin?
Drugs are bad, because they cause physiological (chemical) dependence — not because they cause you to sense something, that's not there (like movies).
Religion — as well as hamburgers (a potential targets for the now unemployed anti-tobacco lawyers) — has no such effects.
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
As a non-mathematician I am always interested in new insights, for instance that 'disproof by feeling offended' is now an acceptable mathematical technique.