Original sentence: Neuropsychology Professor John Bradshaw also says:.Pickover explores evidence suggesting that temporal lobe epilepsy may be linked to a variety of spiritual and/or ‘other worldly’ experiences, such as spiritual possession, originating from altered electrical activity in the brain.There is also the issue of how religion has addressed what it does define as mental illness
Edited sentence: Certain physical rituals can generate both these feelings and corresponding serotonergic activity.Neuropsychology Professor John Bradshaw says, “Some forms of temporal lobe tumours or epilepsy are associated with extreme religiosity.Pickover explores the growing evidence temporal lobe epilepsy is linked to a variety of spiritual and/or ‘other worldly’ experiences, such as spiritual possession, originating from altered electrical activity in the brain.Psilocybin from magic mushrooms contacts the serotonergic system, with terminals in these and other brain regions, generating a sense of cosmic unity, transcendental meaning and religious ecstasy.Recent brain imaging of devotees engaging in prayer or transcendental meditation has more precisely identified activation in such sites - God-spots, as Vilayanur Ramachandran calls them.There is growing evidence to suggest that temporal lobe epilepsy is a significant source of both religious visions and other highly unusual experiences, such as the notion of alien abduction phenomenon.While religious ‘inspiration’ may be caused by a variety of mental illnesses, there is also the issue of how religion has addressed what it does define as mental illness