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Originally Posted by mrnoodle
I'm sure there is a neurological component associated with religious experiences. The harder sell for me is that the brain causes religious experience rather than reacts to it.
If a tree lands on your head, your brain says "Ow." The tree landing on the head was an independent event, however.
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Hoo Boy, this is a topic for a whole 'nother thread... Your brain can say 'ow' even if a tree never touches you. In fact, a phantom pain in amputated limbs is a good real life example of this. So are the hallucinations of scitzophrenics (whoa, murdered the spelling on that one, there should be an h in there somewhere, i know it) and persons on other illegal drugs. I've seen a bi-polar person in a state of mania with hallucinations who believed she was in direct communication with God (and my dead father), and it was an eye opening experience.
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Last edited by LabRat; 02-23-2005 at 09:32 AM.
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