CSflim

Actually, I would take you up on this point. The conclusions that can be drawn from this research are far more profound than that, but I don't blame you for coming to that conclusion. I don't think that this article was particularly well written or inspiring.

The fact is, that one of our best ways of figuring out how the brain works is examining what happens when it doesn't! It is through examining patients with brain disorders that we work out how the healthy brain functions. As an example, our knowledge of how the brain interepts what it sees comes from people with rare disorders, when this function of the brain breaks down.

Similarly, we can learn about normal human "religious feelings" from looking at exceptional circumstances. The most important thing to take from this article is that there is a part of the brain which deals with people's "supernatural feelings". It is only when soemthing goes wrong that this part of the brain starts to malfunction, resulting in "visions" and the like. Even when functioning correctly, this part of the brain is contributing to that feeling, that inherrent "sense" of touching God.

Like I already said, by stimulating this part of the brain, with electromagnetic waves of a particular frequency, we can induce this supernatural feeling.

I have seen the Horizon program that duckznutz's link refers to, God On The Brain. In it, there is a very story, which was reconstucted:
There was this young girl who was unable to sleep in her bedroom at night. She kept saying that someone else was in the room with her, and it was scaring her. Her mother presumed it was just nightmares, but she claimed that she was awake. She couldn't see this person, she just "knew" it was there. She felt it's presence. She was adamnant that she wasn't making it up, or being silly. There was something in her room, and wouldn't let her sleep! She was eventually taken to a doctor, but nothing could be found wrong with her. Strangely, when she was allowed to sleep in her parents rooms, she slept perfectly well. It was as if her room was haunted!
The science team, who had I said previously attempted to induce the religious experience in Richard Dawkins, found out about this, and recognised the symptoms. They said, that perhaps pipes, in her room, carrying electical wires were giving off radiation at just the right frequency. They went in to investigate.
These two scientists, arrive into the little girls room, in a scene reminisent of Ghostbusters, carrying a little handheld meter device. They were wrong with their idea about the pipes, instead they found an old clock radio on the girls bedside table, which was giving off these waves. They removed the clock, and the girls visions went away.

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