Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Мистический психоз" in Russian language version.
Regardless of culture, human beings are biologically driven toward the kind of experience that religious literature calls «mysticism.» The mystical experience gives rise to religions with their mythology and ritual which are also explainable by neurobiology. Materialists interpret the facts to mean that religious experience is reducible to neurobiology. According to the materialist interpretation, God is «nothing but» a series of electrical blips inside the human skull. Religious believers interpret the same research to mean that the brain is exquisitely structured to lead human beings to an experience of the highest reality. Newberg and d’Aquili […] point out that the materialist explanation is possible, a conclusion that they describe as commonplace among the neurological researchers. But they emphasize the more astonishing hypothesis that in light of the scientific evidence the reality of God is very plausible.
Regardless of culture, human beings are biologically driven toward the kind of experience that religious literature calls «mysticism.» The mystical experience gives rise to religions with their mythology and ritual which are also explainable by neurobiology. Materialists interpret the facts to mean that religious experience is reducible to neurobiology. According to the materialist interpretation, God is «nothing but» a series of electrical blips inside the human skull. Religious believers interpret the same research to mean that the brain is exquisitely structured to lead human beings to an experience of the highest reality. Newberg and d’Aquili […] point out that the materialist explanation is possible, a conclusion that they describe as commonplace among the neurological researchers. But they emphasize the more astonishing hypothesis that in light of the scientific evidence the reality of God is very plausible.
