RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE AND NEUROSCIENCE

Religious Experience and Neuroscience

Introduction

The religious experience is defined as the belief in supernatural spirits in sacred objects, or when access to the inner feelings and experiences, it is the religious consciousness, religious sentiments and religious feelings of a comprehensive reflections, and it is religious believer's direct contact with God as one of the mystical experience of intuition.

It is generally believed that the problem stems from ancient oriental religion religious experience. It is a faith profoundly aware of the reality of the spirit of the moment things feel, this feeling is often accompanied by a "divine euphoria" is the individual and his sacred objects that maintain relationships, emotions that occurs, behaviors and experiences. Religious experience is in religious activities and the accompanying state of mind or understanding the emotional experience, it is a process. Religious experience is individual in nature, but the religious activities of individual sub-activities and group activities, and religious experience because of personal behavior or group behavior is also different, this article describes only the religious activities of individual religious experience in the related research.

Discussion

Every religious experience is one kind of object for the existence of religious feelings. In religious experience the performance of such objects can exist as a mysterious concept of the natural existence. Religious experience is a more complex activity; it is characterized by the role of various neural regions, and these regions play an important role in human response to the religious experience. More than a century, the essence of religious experience has always been an important learning and discussion topic of social sciences. (Newberg, D'Aquili & Rause, 2002)

The human brain is involved in all of types of behaviors and experiences, sensations, perceptions, emotions and thoughts and even some specific brain areas are responsive to certain situations and sometimes generates different response. All religious experiences are brain based. Religious and spiritual state of neurobiological changes associated with still images through a number of techniques to get nervous. In general, the basic requirement is to evaluate changes in brain function. (Apfalter, 2009)

However, there are many metrics such functional changes in the way of religious and spiritual phenomena of functional neuro imaging studies have been in use in Positron Emission Tomography (PET) including single photon emission tomography (SPECT) and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (FMRI).

The concept of the content of religious experience is extensive and unexceptional, such as the object of worship of religious belief and then some kind of special feelings, wishes come true after the joy of prayer, because the spirit of meditation to achieve a peaceful state of ancient India Christians through the practice to achieve "the Vatican Me" sacred realm and so are the religious experience. (Apfalter, 2009)

The specific content of religious illusions in the history of mankind is shaped by an individual's culture, believes as well as personal experiences. These effects vary not only across contemporary cultures, but also across historical period. (McKinney, 1994)

Researches of the neurobiological origins of illusion and religious experiences have emphasized ...