The area of ​​the brain associated with "spiritual experience" is revealed

byWilliam Farlow

"Spiritual experience (spiritual experience)" that the feeling of existence and power is larger than myself and the view of life changes drastically has been reported from all over the world regardless of country or culture. However, since the mechanism by which spiritual experiences take place has not yet been elucidated in 2018, the research team investigated which part of the brain is related.

Neural Correlates of Personalized Spiritual Experiences | Cerebral Cortex | Oxford Academic
https://academic.oup.com/cercor/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/cercor/bhy102/5017785

Scientists Have Discovered The Brain Region Involved in Spiritual Experiences
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-just-identified-spiritual-heart-human-brain-neural-cognitive-parietal-lobe

A spiritual experience is a sense that is not wordsFelt senseIt is said that you will experience connection and harmony with existence larger than yourself and experience the strong power of something transcendental such as God. Marc Potenza, a cranial neuroscientist at Yale University, says that it is a "spiritual mental state that has a great impact on people's lives" on spiritual experiences.

HumanParietal lobeSince it is thought that it is related to doing "experience far beyond the normal state", the researcher investigated which part of the parietal lobe spiritual experience is occurring this time.

byjesse orrico

The research team gathered 27 healthy subjects and asked, "Please explain the moment when you feel the most connected with" spiritual being "or" great force "." And one week later, the same 27 subjects took fMRI brain scan while listening to the content of the spiritual experiences I had spoken with the voice of a neutral woman. As a result, the change in the brain at the moment that recalls the spiritual experience was investigated.

As a result of the survey, the brain of a subject recalling a spiritual experience recognizes itself and othersParietal lobuleIt turns out that the activity on the left side of the left is less. It is also related to perception and emotion processing at the same timeThalamusYaCaudate nucleusWe also found that the activities of the farmers are also less.

"Taken together, these findings suggest that spiritual experiences include encounters with" perceptible large entities "or" outside of you ", the researchers wrote.

byGreg Rakozy

However, this research is limited in that subjects were recruited at Connecticut and only young people speaking English. The "spiritual experience" experienced by subjects is not necessarily the same as the spiritual experience experienced by other people. Researchers say that in the future, we should investigate many subjects with diverse backgrounds. Researchers believe that understanding how spiritual experiences are influenced by the brain is useful for treatment and prevention in the mental health field.