How does the brain process religious experience?

For many who have had an NDE, the experience has had a profoundly religious effect on them, changed their outlook and led them to live more altruistic, less materialistic lives. Perhaps, in order to understand NDEs better, we need to understand religious experiences better. Many people have in fact likened NDEs to religious experiences.

In recent years, there has been a lot of interest in latest research using high tech brain imaging techniques to understand the areas of the brain that are involved in different human experiences. This includes religious experience. more

How do brain cells work and can this tell us how our experiences arise?

Although scientists have discovered much about how brain cells work, there is still very little known about how human experience and thoughts arise. For more information read here