There are several areas of research that can consclusively show that religious experience and communion with "higher powers" can now be attributed to purely biological function and biochemistry.
"According to this hypothesis, the God gene (VMAT2), is not an encoding for the belief in God itself but a physiological arrangement that produces the sensations associated, by some, with the presence of God or other mystic experiences, or more specifically spirituality as a state of mind."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_gene
2007-08-17
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