Can Science Prove Spirituality Ways in which the scientific world is proving the once thought unprov

Nov. 11, 2010 - PRLog -- “Science and spirituality are like the 2 sides to a coin.” Say’s Jennifer Brazil, spiritual book critic on www.booksforspirituality.com.  “One side, science, describes our outer world while the other side, spirituality, describes our inner world.”  

Recent scientific studies have been able to link the idea of God (universe,consciousness,spirit) with a specific part of the brain called the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC).  This section of the brain can be thought of as the area in which we notice our mistakes or errors.  The alarm bell that goes off in the ACC portion of the brain is lessened with those who have a stronger sense of belief in God or higher consciousness.  

Another experiment relating the brain to God is called the God Helmet.  Dr.Michael Persinger has performed this experiment where the subject wears a helmet that stimulates the brain with magnetic fields.  The Helmet is connected to a PC computer and  the signals are sent through four coils on each side of the head on the temporal lobes of the brain.  The temporal lobes are the area of the brain many researchers feel is the source of spiritual and religious experiences.  Even tho only 1% of the subjects have an actual God experience, 80% of the the other subjects experienced a “presence” of some kind.

Is this proof of God or validity of spirituality?  The answer is no but as science begins to probe deeper into the human mind they are finding evidence of outer world (science side of the coin) changes when the inner world(spirituality side of the coin) is active.

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