Is God in Your Brain? Neurotheology

People everywhere say that they have had out-of-body experiences

In this week's Journal of Neuroscience
<http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/abstract/25/3/550>, Blanke et
al. attempt to link the phenomenon known as an out-of-body experience
with specific brain activity. During an OBE, one senses that
the "self" departs the body so that the body and the world can be
viewed from "outside." Healthy volunteers imagined an OBE, mentally
shifting their visual perspective and body position. Evoked potential
mapping revealed selective activation at the temporoparietal junction
<http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/extract/329/7480/1414>. It
seems that out of the body is not necessarily out of the brain."

So maybe the phrase "In Neurons We Trust"
<http://www.corante.com/brainwaves/archives/in_neurons_we_trust.php>
isn't that far off the mark. Special kudos to the research team: Olaf
Blanke, Christine Mohr, Christoph M. Michel, Alvaro Pascual-Leone,
Peter Brugger, Margitta Seeck, Theodor Landis, and Gregor Thut

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