The Limbic System and the Soul: Evolution and the Neuroanatomy of Religious Experience
Zygon® March 2, 2001 R. Joseph 83 citations
The evolutionary neurological foundations of religious experience are detailed. Human beings have been burying and preparing their dead for the Hereafter for more than 100,000 years. These behaviors and beliefs are related to activation of the amygdala, hippocampus, and temporal lobe, which are responsible for religious, spiritual, and mystical trancelike states, dreaming, astral projection,...