> God lives in all our heads---
>
> <<It's not an accident that some of the strongest religious experiences
> experienced in history are experiences of epileptics.>>
As someone who has had such an experience as a result of acute mania I can
tell you it was very weird and changed my outlook on religion completely. I
was brought up as a Catholic but the experience I had was nothing to do with
Catholicism. It has left me feeling deeply spiritual but completely
disillusioned with all organised religion.
If anyone would like me to try to put the experience I had into words I will
try, but it was really not something that is easy to describe.
>
> Can't say I have heard of that one before and does not apply to any of the
> very religious people I have known over the last 40 years or so.
>
> <<Spirituality is like an optical illusion -- an experience that seems
> real but is actually the result of the way the brain is wired.>>
I can see where you are coming from here. I think the brain has the answers
to our questions about God as much as the universe does
>
> Haven't come across that one either. My own very pathetic experiences of
> spirituality were definitely not optical. Much deeper.
> But as M'sieur Michael puts it, what causes the electrical activity?
Precisely, my point as well
Margaret
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