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.""

Comments

Re:Philosophically Uninteresting

[sqrt(2)]

however it does provide a scientific explanation for those people who claim to 'feel' god or Jesus or whatever. What was wrong with the old explanation of being a nut case?

Re:Surely this includes the hallucinations

[Greg_D]

Right. Because when you're a younger woman married to an older man, he married you for your personality.

The idea that Joseph didn't bang Mary before Jesus was conceived is more miraculous than any virgin birth or resurrection.

Re:Surely this includes the hallucinations

[aichpvee]

You heard wrong. Sorry.