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I'm not a brain expert in any way, but have read around the subject. Long ago, a couple of hundred years, anyway, scientists tried weighing people at the moment of death to see if they could figure out what the soul weighed. The inaccuracy of the scales tended to prove nothing much, however.

The human brain seems to be more diverse, rather like distributed computer processing. People with certain types of epilepsy, particularly temporal lobe epilepsy, often report spiritual experiences, often, but not exclusively, just before a seizure. Does this mean that the experiences aren't therefore valid? I don't think that can be said - maybe there is access to something special in those moments.

There are some people who believe that St Paul (who had the vision on the road to Damascus) may have suffered this form of epilepsy.

LSD and other hallucinogenics are well-known for inducing similar experiences ....

It seems clear that some people are more likely to have spiritual experiences than others, but I don't think there is any consensus as to why.

So no answer to the question, but maybe a couple of interesting avenues for research?

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It is possible that the temporal lobes play some role in spirituality in that they can cause odd beliefs if they are damaged, and that is the part of the brain where seizures take place. The profrontal cortex is implicated in conditions like schizophrenia, so a person could be suffering insanity and assume God or other deities is speaking to them.

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