Spirituality Is Caused By Brain Damage
Well, some types at least. Researchers have discovered that patients who suffered trauma to a certain region of the brain were more likely to expereince a spike in "self-transcendence" after surgery.
Read original story in Science Daily | Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010
1 comment:
Having suffered a brain injury in the late 8o's with short-term memory loss and the confusion resulting, I ran into doctors who asked quite a bit about my religious observances, etc.
As an "educated" atheist I thought it strange that they expected me to give up what I had arrived at by study and purposive judgments due to suffering some bad luck.
I see now that it's physically induced.
Thank whoever it wasn't in my case.
Thanks for the reporting.
S
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