Basically, the relationship between the brain and the religious experiences that presumably occur due to neural events. We're looking at, among other things, the neural substrate of religious experience.
Hmm, that is interesting...i didn't even know it was a field of study. Will you study anything to do with spiritual drug use? I have a friend whose father wrote the book Conversations With God, which is about an acid trip he took, during which he believed he was speaking with God...now he doesn't do drugs anymore and is devoutly religious.
Well, we each need to present a research article at some point, so I'm hoping to get into the 2004 study at Johns Hopkins that related psilocybin (mushrooms) to spiritual experience. I expect that the subject will be raised at some point, although I might have to do so myself.
It's my opinion that drugs will likely become the number one experimental tool when it comes to applying the scientific method to religious experience (even if it must be in a roundabout manner that remains on thin ice due to its inherent subjectivity). Once we accept them as legitimate tools for religious experience and expression, anyway.
For most of the time I've known you, I've been pretty envious of how much fun you tend to have (mostly because I felt I wasn't having any). I take it as a very good sign for my own mental health that my first and utterly dominant reaction to this post was "hot damn, Joe's life is still excellent!" Let's hang out sometime soon.
Yes, hangout time is a good idea. I've got new gaming homeboys in West Philly in addition to the old, I'll introduce you sometime and we'll nerd it all up.
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Like, how the brains of Gods work?
It sounds interesting whatever it is.
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Will you study anything to do with spiritual drug use? I have a friend whose father wrote the book Conversations With God, which is about an acid trip he took, during which he believed he was speaking with God...now he doesn't do drugs anymore and is devoutly religious.
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It's my opinion that drugs will likely become the number one experimental tool when it comes to applying the scientific method to religious experience (even if it must be in a roundabout manner that remains on thin ice due to its inherent subjectivity). Once we accept them as legitimate tools for religious experience and expression, anyway.
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Oh, also: ear(s), roe, gore(s), jog(s), pea(s), o'er, jpeg(s).
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Yes, hangout time is a good idea. I've got new gaming homeboys in West Philly in addition to the old, I'll introduce you sometime and we'll nerd it all up.
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~Duk
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Glad you had an awesome time :)
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