: Yeah, pretty good, it gets pretty technical and in-depth at times... well,
: quite often... but it's pretty interesting stuff... I just borrowed the
: library copy and it's past due back :)
: By Rita Carter...
: ah, here's the god-spot info, page 13...
: "...has even managed to reproduce such feelings in otherwise unreligious
: people by stimulating this area. According to Persinger: "Typically
: people report a presence. One time we had a strobe light going and this
: individual actually saw Christ in the strobe... [another] actually
: experienced God visiting her" "
: Interesting stuff. We have a religious hotspot in our brains.
Sounds like they used a flicker device, a complex way to get high(sort of). Many psychotropic users feel to have spiritual expeinces. I've met many former christens, who have felt jaded by their religion, get in touch with that lost spirituality. Perhapse this can be given to guilt of wishing to reunite with such feelings.
Then again there are studies showing that hospitialized people who are prayed for recover better and faster. Whether they are of the beliefe or not. These were blind studies also, hospitialized indivsuals did not have to know about the prayers to benifit. Don't ask me to pull this up, I read a it a few years back when my history prof. gave me the artical.
Like wise are the paranormal hunters who find all sorts of stuff that neither scince nor religion will choose to define.
