Did Man Create God? The Spiritual Brain

Is there a specific part of the brain for feelings of spirituality? Many lines of evidence suggests it is the temporal lobes. Dr. David Comings, a renown human geneticist, neuroscientist and physician proposes that spirituality is genetically hardwired into a specific part of the brain, is pleasurable, is critical to the evolution and survival of man, and will never go away. Understanding the biology of the spiritual brain can help us to develop a rational spirituality where are rational brain and spiritual brain can live in peace.

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Science & Technology

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• Spirituality
• religion
• science
• faith
• God
• brain
• neurobiology

[PineAppleEx420]

wait, so spiritual experiences actually happens and has a physical effect? and its not just ppl making shit up to promote their faith? hmm.... interesting.

[KrautAttack78]

Im not in any way trying to press particular beliefs on anyone, Im only trying to gather information from anyone who is willing to give their input so I might be able to obtain some answers to my questions. Im not in here arguing for or against God and Im not arguing for or against science. The problem with science and God, is that there is no scientific data whatsoever to prove the existence of God or disprove it.

[Spetsop]

@KrautAttack78

But that's a subjective experience. You need an outside source to confirm your beliefs. If amygdala is stimulated at the same time as any other area of the brain, whatever you are experiencing in the moment will feel like the truth! And amygdala is part of temporal lobe, so it becomes even more clear why those who have temporal lobe epilepsy and have religious experiences b/c of that, tend to argue intensively that their experiences were real!

[Spetsop]

@KrautAttack78

A person on DMT would almost always experience a sensed presence, and different cultures have different explanations for such feeling. Hence why it's called the "spirit molecule". Some scientists think that small amounts of LSD can open one to higher consciousness. Incidentally DMT (Iowaska) was thought to be the "truth serum" drug, that would make one KNOW what the other person is thinking about.

[Spetsop]

@KrautAttack78

I don't know if you're correct or not... I haven't seen any such documentations by the Greek... you can provide a link to them if you could!

Ya, I know what DMT is, some people produce other substances that makes them naturally high. But that just adds to my point, a hallucination is just that, a hallucination, regardless of whether it was achieved by consuming a drug, or synthesizing it naturally inside one's body!

[KrautAttack78]

@Spetsop The human brain has its own hallucinogen, its call DMT. The Greeks documented the "miracles" that Jesus and his disciples performed, am I correct on that? Thats common knowledge? Im just saying that a lot of people seen these miracles and Greeks recorded them, so where all of these people mass hallucinating? Im only asking obvious questions that nobody can ever give me a straight answer to.

Look into DMT, some scientist think its the "Gateway to the spirit world".

[Spetsop]

@KrautAttack78

Mass hallucinations are often the result of drugs... like ergot during medieval ages (and in current times in villages)! This poison was ingested in bread and people saw witches, werewolves, vampires, etc. by the entire villages!

Oh, and what do Greek scribes have to do with any of this?

[Spetsop]

@KrautAttack78

Why would temporal lobe epilepsy mean "mass hallucinations"? A seizure in one person is not tied to the function of the brain of another person. If the cause of a seizure is internal why would people start mass hallucinating? If the cause of it is external (some stimulant, like a bright flickering light, or some sound), and you've got a room of people, then only those with higher sensitivity MIGHT have SOME sort of a seizure.

[KrautAttack78]

@Spetsop temporal lobe epileptics, no, because that would mean there were mass hallucinations going on. Remember, the Greeks were the best scribes the world has ever seen, they documented everything with precision and accuracy.

[Spetsop]

@KrautAttack78

Based on this information, and knowing that homo sapiens are one specie and we are all pretty much a copy of the same DNA (with minor variations of course, but basically the same, otherwise medicine wouldn't work), we could make a pretty accurate scientific assumption that those prophets had the same 'religious experiences' as temporal lobe epileptics do now.