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Religious experience, epiepsy & bipolar?

Posted on 01/28/09, 12:05 am

Firstly,
I don't know if anyone comes here anymore but I love, love love this topic!
So here's an addition.

This article is on religious experience in the brain and may've already been cited here but if not I think it's interesting that Temporal Lobe Epilepsy is implicated in religious experiences, as well as 'paranormal' stuff- out of body experience and so on. Stuff that makes us feel in touch with another realm in a very visceral way, very physical. They've found they can isolate and stimulate the exact areas in the brain that do this, and they're activated in epilepsy as well.

So I think it's interesting that many bipolar drugs were initially used as anti-siezure meds for epileptics. LIke there's something of a mini-seizure going on or something...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2003/godonbrain.shtml

• Reply #1 01/28/09  12:05am
  
  zsa
  sorry meant "Epilepsy". D'oh.
• Reply #2 01/28/09  7:25pm
  
  amalzahir
  ohhh awesome!
• Reply #3 05/08/09  8:37pm
  
  streams
  hi
  im new to the group but am into all mystic,psychological etc
  i have sm personal experineces with various "altered states" as im sure many if not most have and am interested in seeking,learning ,exploring our collective reality/realities.
  i like yr info.
  yes i have heard of links betw. epilepsy and paranormal.
  some views regard them as individual phenomena.others as related
  i am more into the latter,finding a holistic relation.
  for example,from the above article ,is there a relation and/or interaction between the physical (brain) and energetic(spiritual beings)?
  thank u for yr post:))

The aim of this group is to collect, analyse and study information about experiences of being or being meant to be a chosen one, a messenger, a prophet etc, whether from a personal point of view or from what others have shared with us etc.