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Can Spiritual Experiences and Psychedelics Make us Happy? (LIVE from DC)
The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos
The Neuroscientific Mechanisms of Altered State Experiences
People of every religious faith, people who are spiritual, but not religious, agnostics and atheists all have these experiences. Some atheists will just choose afterwards to interpret it as a brain event rather than a God experience. It's pretty difficult to have one of these experiences on command, let alone lying in a neuroimaging scanner. The temporal parietal junction is often associated with mapping the boundaries between yourself and everything else. And so, when people are feeling this sense of unity, that region is turned down.
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