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Part 2 empirical study of mystical experience: brain chemistry

Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2018 6:50 am
by Metacrock
https://metacrock.blogspot.com/2018/11/ ... tical.html


In recent years a number of books have been published in the United States which argue that religious experiences and activities can be measured as neural activity in the brain...these theories purport to explain why there are common patterns of religious behavior and experience across culture which are observable in the field of comparative religion..Most such theories assert that as our understanding the brains activities develop through exploration of its underlying structures and mechanisms so the origin of religious experiences and ritual behavior will be revealed...These theorioes purport to explain why there are common paterns of religious behaviors and experience across cultures.