Interesting article, RAZD. I've read briefly about this kind of thing before. Religious people such as nuns have had their brains tested and scanned.

Of course, what the scientists are measuring is the brain's response to electrical stimulation in certain areas. There is, however, an assumption attached to this that says that if a mystical experience can be induced in such a way, then we can boil religion down to nothing more than the brain's electrical activity -- and pathological activity at that. (The word "schizophrenia" is not exactly suggestive of healthy brain function.)

Rupert Sheldrake, proponent of the morphic fields idea, hypothesises that the brain might act as a kind of transmitter for information which is stored in fields, and for telepathic experiences. There are quite a few people who believe that reducing the brain to nothing more than a collection of nerves and electrical impulses is missing the point. It is even debatable that the brain is the sole seat of human consciousness.

While these experiments are interesting, I don't think they tell the whole story. What do you think?