Monday, October 5, 2009

A Religious Experience

Religion has been mapping the brain since consciousness evolved, and creating it's nature as it was being mapped. To say that religious experience is nothing more than brain chemistry is to present the obvious fallacy that there is something that is not brain chemistry. For everything we know of the external world is brain chemistry. Therefore religious experience is as "real" as anything else. What makes it seem unreal while other things seem "real" and external is the question we should be asking. Even the process of being able to ask these questions is as phenomenal as any religious experience. It just seems commonplace because we take normal existence for granted. Did our process of attempting to explain reality shape the brain as we know it, or was the brain formed and then we decided to ask such questions? I believe the answer is the former and this is why many of us have a sense of God or spirituality. We are aware of the order which we have evolved from and explain that order as God or spirit.

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