Neurophysiology: Religious experiences is really just in your head.

[the_bob_delusion]

There is a likely neural basis for religious experiences which accounts for many if not all such experiences.

From studying epileptic patients who suffer seizures of the brain's frontal lobe, scientists found that patients frequently experienced mystical episodes and often become obsessed with religious spirituality.

The feeling of God's presence that she's there with you, that your prayer is being listen to, the comfort of love, seeing the light. This supposed religious experience has been induced by scientists stimulating the frontal lobe in 80% of subjects including atheists.

Interesting Heh. 

BTW, alternatively alien abductions sensation and demonic posession can also occur by the stimulation of the frontal lobe. 

[poddster]

Simple solution Bob, give all religious freaks a lobotomy.

The same could apply as a compulsory measure for polititians 🙂

[the_bob_delusion]

Simple solution Bob, give all religious freaks a lobotomy.

The same could apply as a compulsory measure for polititians 🙂

except just about everyone is susceptible to the same experience. 

And near death experience, same thing. Certain chemical induction can produce the same experience. 

[poddster]

In fact lets include all the world's people in that remedial measure (except thee and me) that would achieve peace in our time 🙂

[poddster]

you could have the northern hemisphere and i would have the south, or visa versa 🙂

[vintage-star]

;\.....  Feelin' a little left out here!!

[cherry*135]

Absurd.

[*crikey*mate*]

*smirk*

I don't have epilepsy, but I will admit to calling out "Oh my God" on occasion.......

[darksideofthemoon]

Soooo in effect we have a two way system so that outside influences can contact us?

Those areas of the brain are there intentionally for just such a purpose?

Good on us... we have discovered we have some parts of our brain that can be stimulated by outside influences.. either by probes of other measures to induce those thoughts... it doesn't mean they don't exist 🙂

If you follow me?

[tasfleur]

"I don't have epilepsy, but I will admit to calling out "Oh my God" on occasion"