{"id":4412,"date":"2006-08-31T12:06:05","date_gmt":"2006-08-31T12:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4412"},"modified":"2025-09-25T15:50:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T15:50:37","slug":"neurological_st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4412","title":{"rendered":"Neurological study of Carmelite nuns and mysticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a really interesting study of neural activity in Carmelite sisters. Very intereesting, even if it doesn&#8217;t prove much.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2006\/08\/30\/ngodspot30.xml\">Telegraph | News | Nuns prove God is not figment of the mind<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"story2\">In other words, mystical experiences are mediated by several brain regions and systems normally implicated in functions such as self-consciousness, emotion and body representation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story2\">In the past, some researchers went as far as to suggest the possibility of a specific brain region designed for communication with God. This latest research discredits such theories.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"story2\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">See also the sidebar, with a brief listing of other sciencific studies using women religious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a really interesting study of neural activity in Carmelite sisters. Very intereesting, even if it doesn&#8217;t prove much. Telegraph | News | Nuns prove God is not figment of the mind In other words, mystical experiences are mediated by several brain regions and systems normally implicated in functions such as self-consciousness, emotion and body [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9600,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4412\/revisions\/9600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}