God Spot in the Brain?
Posted on August 31, 2007
Filed Under Religion
Once upon a time Abraham strongly believed that there must be the higher Being, the Almighty, God that governs the universe. The kind of thought that led him to search and seek what “it” should be. Is it the almighty moon, the sun? In primitive era, the flinstone world, the genius of the time had been involved with spiritual curiosity. Hence, spiritualism exists, and will always remain, along with the existence of humankind.
Question: is there a specific God spot kind of thing in human brain? If not, why then human is so obsessed with spirituality?
Well, according to the latest findings which appears in the journal Neuroscience Letters:
Brain scans of nuns have revealed intricate neural circuits that flicker into life when they feel the presence of God. The images suggest that feelings of profound joy and union with a higher being that accompany religious experiences are the culmination of ramped-up electrical activity in parts of the brain.
The scans were taken as nuns relived intense religious experiences. They showed a surge in neural activity in regions of the brain that govern feelings of peace, happiness and self-awareness.
The findings contradict previous suggestions that human brains may have evolved with a “God spot” — a single region that lights up in response to deeply religious thoughts.
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