:: The religion of Temporal Lobes and the origin of Ethics :

It turns out that some of us have very sensitive temporal lobes, while others find that murder is 1) in bad taste and 2) decreases your own ability to propagate genes.
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The first researcher to note and catalog the abnormal experiences associated with TLE was neurologist Norman Geschwind, who noted a constellation of symptoms, including hypergraphia, hyperreligiosity, fainting spells, mutism and pedantism, often collectively ascribed to a condition known as Geschwind syndrome. Vilayanur S. Ramachandran explored the neural basis of the hyperreligiosity seen in TLE using galvanic skin response, which correlates with emotional arousal, to determine whether the hyperreligiosity seen in TLE was due to an overall enhanced emotional response, or if the enhancement was specific to religious stimuli (Ramachandran and Blakeslee, 1998). By presenting subjects with neutral, sexually arousing and religious words while measuring GSR, Ramachandran was able to show that patients with TLE showed enhanced emotional responses to the religious words, diminished responses to the sexually charged words, and normal responses to the neutral words. These results suggest that the medial temporal lobe is specifically involved in generating some of the emotional reactions associated with religious words, images and symbols.

UFO Researcher Albert Budden and cognitive neuroscience researcher Michael Persinger assert that increases in local electromagnetism, triggering the temporal lobe can stimulate TLE and trigger hallucinations of apparent paranormal phenomena, for example ghosts and UFOs. Persinger has even gone as far as to create a "God helmet" to apparently demonstrate how stimulation of the parietal and temporal lobe can evoke altered states of consciousness. Quite possibly, as neurotheologians have speculated, then, individuals with temporal lobe epilepsy, who have a natural aptitude for "religious" states of consciousness (such as euphoria or samadhi) have functioned in human history as religious figures or as shamans.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal_lobe_epilepsy

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[Quantrill71]

WHO CARES!!! Why do people debate and argue irrelevance. Do what makes yo happy as long as it doesn't harm anyone. What a boring video...ZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz­zzzzzzzzz

[observationspring]

As long as you don't encounter religion, and it's consequences, there is no point in wasting time on it. Lucky you.

[Ramshobraja]

COnsidering how many religions there are. Pascal's wager is utter bs.

[Rybot9000]

Ummm... You said "higher forms of energy that we can't fully understand" and you don't think that is ignorant? The definition of ignorant is: uneducated in general; lacking knowledge or sophistication

So, you readily admit to lacking knowledge, i.e. being ignorant. And then project this onto people who do actually know?

Study the science, learn it, understand it, and you won't be ignorant anymore. Its that simple, the difficult lies in letting go of your attachments to delusional beliefs.

[ih8ronpaulh8ers]

It's Pat!

[gabehampton]

In other words,,, the reason the Mayans, who ate Psychedelics, and were somewhat connected to the universe still went to war and had human sacrifices is because they had creative intelligence, but didn't have access to the years of accumulated human knowledge of creative thinking and what we have today. People have a much easier ability to connect deeper to the divine side of universe and tune in to the Cosmic Consciousness. The deeper you can go, the more you will see the truth of spirituality

[gabehampton]

The number of religions has to do with people connecting with the divine and not having enough complex information to connect at a deep enough level. Creativity is what makes a person take two seemingly different ideas and piece them together in a unique way. Those who have ADD and day dream a lot have a higher connection to the divine IMO. Those who know more about science, history, and about many topics can do more with creative thinking, and are more connected to the divine.

[weaselidiotu]

what does that mean man?

[mzjwright]

"Know God; Know Life: No God... No Life"... :)Peace

[OptimisticCynic715]

It's Pat! (Julia Sweeney). For some reason I can't find the SNL clips on youtube. Movie was disappointing.

watch?v=WRY_t6GEOB4