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The brain on God
Religious and spiritual experiences activate the brain’s reward circuits in a similar way to love, gambling, and music, a new study finds. Researchers used fMRI scans to look at the brains of 19 devout Mormons as they engaged in an experience described as "feeling the Spirit." This feeling was reproducibly associated with activation in nucleus accumbens, a critical region for processing reward and pleasure in the brain.
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I have a one-word response to that question: "off".
Reading the article reinforces that answer. It's like a drug that makes you stupidly happy but doesn't kill you. Lithium? Lobotomy?
Yup. Never phased me. I hated going to church and quit when i was 13.