Volume 8 No 4 (2010)
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NeuroTheology and Its Convergence with NeuroQuantology
Michael A. Persinger, Paula L. Corradini, Alexandra L. Clement, Colleen C. Keaney, Mason L. MacDonald, Leah I. Meltz, Nirosha J. Murugan, Maxime R. Poirier, Kory A. Punkkinen, Melissa C. Rossini, Samantha E. Thompson
Abstract
The principles of neuroscience assume and predict that all experiences are
generated by brain activity as a consequence of structural patterns. A
convergence of methodologies and measurements indicate that
religious/mystical experiences and beliefs associated with them are predictable
phenomena. The central roles of the right hemisphere, specifically the temporal
lobe, and the chemistry, structure, and gene sequences that affect this region’s
electrical sensitivity and intercalation with the left hemisphere are reviewed.
The precarious consequences of the enmeshment between the neuronal
networks that mediate the survival of the self and moral judgments are
considered. The neuroquantological bases to the cellular activity that mediates
these experiences suggest an imminent change in paradigm that will alter the
manner in which we perceive ourselves and our relationship to the universe.
Keywords
neurotheology, neuroQuantology, cerebral volume, neurochemistry, sex differences, gene potentials
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