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When neuroscience challenges the reality of spiritual experience

I study psychology and understand that religious experience might just be brain chemistry but I still want to believe my prayers matter to something real.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The reduction of spiritual experience to neural correlates threatens the felt sense of transcendent relationship.

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“Where Are You with Religion and science — the examined relationship?”

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