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Big Think: Oliver Sacks on Humans and Myth-making

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Via Big Think: Question: Is all religion madness? Oliver Sacks: I think I need to say that there are specifically some conditions of the brain which predispose to mystical or religious thinking. In particular, when people have so-called temporal lobe epilepsy or temporal lobe seizures, they may have religious or mystical visions. Or even between […]

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