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Posted Mon Dec 22 2008: from University of Missouri-Columbia via ScienceDaily:
Selflessness -- Core Of All Major World Religions -- Has Neuropsychological Connection http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1229970360
 All spiritual experiences are based in the brain. That statement is truer than ever before, according to a University of Missouri neuropsychologist. An MU study has data to support a neuropsychological model that proposes spiritual experiences associated with selflessness are related to decreased activity in the right parietal lobe of the brain....This study, along with other recent neuroradiological studies of Buddhist meditators and Francescan nuns, suggests that all individuals, regardless of cultural background or religion, experience the same neuropsychological functions during spiritual experiences, such as transcendence.
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