-Caveat Lector-
The human brain has receptors for an astounding number of substances and
phenomena, which science is just beginning to realize. There are receptors
for morphine, Prozac, nicotine, alcohol, for ecstasy, both physical and
aesthetic; there are receptors that are so multiply-redundant that the brain
looks like an engineer's kludge. The surprising thing is not that there is a
"God module" or "God receptor." It would be surprising if it were *not*
there and we were really only talking to the other side of our brains.
What's surprising is that it took so long for science to accept something
that the rest of humanity has known for thousands of years. This does not
"prove" the truth of Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, S*ientology, or
the Church of the SubGenius. What it *does* demonstrate is that the human
race is hardwired to look beyond itself, beyond the reality of the normal
senses, for answers to its questions about the meaning of existence. It also
suggests a hard, physiological reason for the parallels in religious
experience between traditions radically different in belief and practice.
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Friday, December 24, 1999 3:12 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [CTRL] Politically Correct Jesus
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> -Caveat Lector-
>
> Kris Millegan wrote:
> >
> > Fairytales.
> > Om
> > k
>
> Brain researchers find 'God module'
> Los Angeles Times
> [re-post]
>
> NEW ORLEANS -- No one knows why humanity felt its first religious
> stirrings, but researchers at University of California, San Diego,
> reported
> Tuesday that the human brain may be hard-wired to hear the voice of
> heaven.
>
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