Scientist have proven religious experience is chemicals in the brain - Would you take the cure if invented?

Question

Science has very compelling and observable evidence that religious experience is empirically a combination of brain chemicals. They have been able to reproduce the results and the evidence has been peer reviewed.

Now it is just a matter of showing it as being a defect as opposed to normal.

After all, almost everyone gets a cold in the winter, that doesn't make the symptoms "normal".

Would you take the cure when it becomes available?

The article was in the Journal Science recently - paid subscrition only to view sorry...

Answer 1

i want the drug that will induce a religious experience
payote maybe???

Answer 2

Going to prayer and worship of an almighty god that will send you to hell if you sin as a way of releiving pain is what humans have been conditioned to do. It's complete nonsense. You can't uncondition a person without serious consequences, but you can slowly make it so that our descendants (far descendants) won't have this default setting. That would be a cure. But looking to the cosmos as a way of finding what created the universe is not chemicals. It's neurons sending messages to other neurons, making us think.

Answer 3

I am aware of the fact that certain neuro-transmitters play a role in religious experiences but there are other things that come into play such as physical experiences. I would be more inclined to answer the question if you cited the source. I too have access to on line Scientific Journals.

Answer 4

The fact that God used chemicals in the brain to relate to people doesn't phase my faith in the least. In fact, the ability to observe or experience anything is the result of a combination of chemicals in the brain.

Answer 5

Yes, just as doing an activity you enjoy is a combination of chemicals in the brain, and how doing something boring is a different combination of chemicals..

Answer 6

Check out the "Monroe Institute". They can give you religious experiences by listening to CD's....

....I often wonder what other nasties we would get if our immune systems weren't given a workout by the odd cold.....

.....what other demons would come to the surface, if our psyches didn't have the odd workout?

Answer 7

I'll wait til the end of pay per view to make an informed decision.

Answer 8

And there's something wrong with chemicals in the brain?

Everything, by this reasoning is just chemicals in the brain...

The possible cures are: no chemicals or no brain...

No thanks, I'll pass on the cures.

Answer 9

im atheist and ill only believe that if it was actual proven evidence to back it up. like with all theories in science, you have to back it up and test it over and over for it to be fact.

Answer 10

Now you just need to learn that people don't catch colds by getting cold. I've had those levitating dreams and I think there kind of cool.