Are religious experiences a form of temporal lobe epilepsy!?

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With an apparatus dubbed 'God-Helmet' (generates weak fluctuating magnetic fields), neuro-science professor Michael Persinger showed that about 80 percent of his participants experienced a presence beside them in the room, which ranges from a simple 'sensed presence' to visions of "god".

Therefore, based on this empirical evidence it can be concluded that "god" is the subjective experience of an unusual kind of brain function.

Persinger, MA, et al. (2010). "The Electromagnetic Induction of Mystical and Altered States Within the Laboratory". Journal of Consciousness Exploration & Research 1 (7): 808–830
 
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