Do you know what I mean by the "God spot"?''Read something about it in Nature once. They did an experiment in which quasi-religious epiphanies were induced under laboratory conditions. Didn't they use nuns?' 'Carmelite nuns. But they were also able to produce these visions in non-believers. Basically they showed that there's a circuit of nerves in the brain which explains belief in God.
-Nigel Farndale
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