MSNBC has this article on Neurotheology
Austin’s moment in the Underground therefore inspired him to explore the neurological underpinnings of spiritual and mystical experience. In order to feel that time, fear and self-consciousness have dissolved, he reasoned, certain brain circuits must be interrupted. Which ones? Activity in the amygdala, which monitors the environment for threats and registers fear, must be damped. Parietal-lobe circuits, which orient you in space and mark the sharp distinction between self and world, must go quiet. Frontal- and temporal-lobe circuits, which mark time and generate self-awareness, must disengage. When that happens, Austin concludes in a recent paper, “what we think of as our ‘higher’ functions of selfhood appear briefly to ‘drop out,’ ‘dissolve,’ or be ‘deleted from consciousness’.”
Update: Check out the following two articles on this topic
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2003/godonbrain.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2003/godonbrainqa.shtml
I am trying to understand this as follows. “God State” is a particular form of a more “generalized state”, which is a result of some neurobiological transformation. It could be achieved through deep meditation or by inducing external electric waves. The “god state” is only formed due to environment and genetics (possibly). In the hypothetical scenario of a human being existing in a world where the concepts of god and religion doesn’t exist, he/she will still experience “god state” under certain conditions, except that it will not be called as “god state” in that world. This, then, goes on to prove that god is just a freakin’ society induced third rated crap, exploiting the fears of the people.
Thanks to my brother for tipping me about this article
