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silverwings_88
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It’s my last year of high school, and I’m taking at the moment a Socialisation and Human Behaviour class, and we are just ending our unit on the brain and its functions.
We have been watching some videos lately, and I found some of it quite disturbing.
Could religious experiences be rather a chemical activity produced in the brain, a higher consciousness created as a by-product in the mind? There has been parallel experiences to individuals who receive seisures, but at the same time become profoundly and profusely spiritual in their quotidian lives.
Van Goh is another example (I forgot how to spell his name) who received epilepsy and people note that his ‘impaired vision’ created some of the most impressive art in the modern day. It is also noted that his religiosity was so scandalous that he even claimed once that he was the Holy Spirit…
I will talk to my teacher about it because I know he is Catholic and yet he teaches this course, and how he can compromise his faith in the light of science.
We have been watching some videos lately, and I found some of it quite disturbing.
Could religious experiences be rather a chemical activity produced in the brain, a higher consciousness created as a by-product in the mind? There has been parallel experiences to individuals who receive seisures, but at the same time become profoundly and profusely spiritual in their quotidian lives.
Van Goh is another example (I forgot how to spell his name) who received epilepsy and people note that his ‘impaired vision’ created some of the most impressive art in the modern day. It is also noted that his religiosity was so scandalous that he even claimed once that he was the Holy Spirit…
I will talk to my teacher about it because I know he is Catholic and yet he teaches this course, and how he can compromise his faith in the light of science.