Temporal Lobe And Spirituality

[q0101]

I was watching a soap opera on CBS yesterday. (The Young And The Restless) There is a character on the show that has temporal lobe epilepsy. It reminded me of a show that I saw on PBS a couple of year ago. The scientists on the show were explaining the role that the temporal lobe plays in spirituality. Click on the links below to read more.

http://www.epilepsy.com/epilepsy/epilepsy_temporallobe.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ww2/A933635

http://www.wireheading.com/brainstim/spiritual-neurology.html

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.11/persinger.html

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week510/cover.html

 

[Cris]

It looks like we should then assume that religious fantasies are indeed self generated, correct?

 

[baumgarten]

It appears the studies suggest that the boundary between 'self' and 'not-self' is one such fantasy.