Guest guest Posted April 1, 2006 Report Share Posted April 1, 2006 This is in one of the newsletters I get each day this morning...I'm gonna see when there's a rerun..It looks like a fun and interesting show. " As I was browsing through the seemingly endless amount of television channels last night, I stumbled upon a program entitled, " God, Ghosts, and Magnets " . Airing on the always- intriguing Tech TV channel, the show presented a new theory involving a possible relationship between the human brain and religious/paranormal experiences. It seems that some of the world's top neuroscientists claim to have found a link between a specific area of the brain and moments of divine revelation. Their basic theory is that faith and religious experience, as well as paranormal sightings, are simply caused by an electromagnetic field within the brain. To study this new area of science, given the name 'neurotheology', scientists examined a condition called " temporal lobe epilepsy " . Knowing that some epileptics tend to report profound religious encounters, scientists were curious to find out if a connection between the brain's temporal lobes and paranormal visions existed. What they found, after monitoring the brains of nuns sensing unity with God and Buddhist monks achieving oneness with the universe, was that all exhibited very similar patterns of brain activity. Though further study is still needed, a controversial question has been raised: Do people actually see ghosts and divine beings, or are they merely illusions created by the brain? " ......posted by bob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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