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Addressing the general meeting for the “Society of Neuroscience” in 1997, Dr. Ramachandran made comment that “there is a neural basis for religious experience.” Ramachandran’s radical statement catapulted neurotheology well into the public eye.
Neurotheology With God In Mind - Neurotheology Article - Clinically Psyched Neurotheology - Hyper-religiosity | Clinically Psyched
On the Neuropsychology of Religious Experiences
The Temporal Lobe Model Implications of Temporal Lobe Models
First for some figures. Last year, an ICM poll found 85% of Americans believe that God created the universe.
Tests of faith | Science
Tracing the Synapses of Our Spirituality Researchers Examine Relationship Between Brain and Religion By Shankar Vedantam, Washington Post Sunday, June 17, 2001 In Philadelphia, a researcher discovers areas of the brain that are activated during meditation. At two other universities in San Diego and North Carolina, doctors study how epilepsy and certain hallucinogenic drugs can produce religious epiphanies.
in the Media: "Tracing the Synapses of Our Spirituality" - Researchers Examine Relationship Between Brain and Religion - By Shankar Vedantam, Washington Post - Sunday, June 17, 2001
And then spirituality turns to religion which turns to dogma, hence "Beware the beast Man, for he is the Devil's pawn. Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport or lust or greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother's land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours. Shun him; drive him back into his jungle lair, for he is the harbinger of death." 10/08/10 10:14pm <p style="text-align:right;color:#A8A8A8"></p>
Animals can have spiritual experiences just like humans
What Your Brain Looks Like on Faith
Sam Harris is best known for his barn-burning 2004 attack on religion, The End of Faith, which spent 33 weeks on the New York Times best-seller List.
Large Hadron Collider rival Tevatron 'has found Higgs boson', say rumours
If one form of the rumour is to be believed - and Prof Dorigo is extremely circumspect about it - then it is a "three-sigma" signature, meaning that there is a statistical likelihood of 99.7 per cent that it is correct. But, of course, that is only if the rumour is to be believed. In the post, titled " Rumors about a light Higgs ", Prof Dorigo said: "It reached my ear, from two different, possibly independent sources, that an experiment at the Tevatron is about to release some evidence of a light Higgs boson signal.