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The Paradoxical Response to Spiritual Experiences
There are other neuroscientific studies looking at what's happening in the autonomic nervous system when we're having some of these experiences. Some scientists think that these spiritual experiences, while otherwise quite different from an orgasm, may involve some of the same underlying physiology. The paradoxical response is where both seem to be activated at the same time.