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Wednesday, September 20, 2006 12:00 AM

Divining the brain

Andrew Newberg discusses what happens in our brains during prayer, meditation and mystical visions. Yet understanding the brain, argues the neuroscientist, does not close the book on the nature of religious experience.
By Steve Paulson

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  • Wednesday, September 20, 2006 12:48 PM

    Experimental stimulation of mystical states

    Michael Persinger of Laurentian University, in Canada, has been exploring this territory for many years.

    http://www.laurentian.ca/neurosci/_research/mystical.htm

    Besides stimulating ecstatic experiences, his team has a working theory of UFOs and earthquake lights based on geophysical phenomena--the tectonic strain theory.

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