"Religious delusion was found in 2007 to strongly correlate with "temporolimbic overactivity”, a condition where irregularities in the brain... may present as symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia.”
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Research shows that the area of the brain associated with religious euphoria lights up the exact same brain centers as a cocaine high, sexual orgasm, a chocolate high, and a caffeine high. All these events are associated with both addiction and dopamine production.
As such, the compelling need to repeat these activities are related to a desire to create the euphoria brought on the dopamine production (I don't know about any of you, but I can deal with the sex, caffeine, and chocolare addiction with no problem - lol).
t1nick
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July 8, 2019
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It’s true that religious themes are common subjects of psychoses, but I doubt if a person can infer then that religion itself is a psychosis. People have psychoses about various subjects. John Nash, for example, once thought that he had been selected to be king of the world. You can not understand from that fact that all monarchy is just a delusion.
For anyone actually interested in a serious way in the connection between schizophrenia and spirituality, the book “Rethinking Madness” presents some deep insights.
WilliamFleming
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July 8, 2019
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You are a religious person and may still think Jesus is coming back
@St-Sinner It’s not a question of dying and coming back. All of life is a continuum—a single entity.
@WilliamFleming a single specie life is biology.
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