Scientists are making the first attempts to understand spiritual experience ”” and what happens in the brains and bodies of people who believe they connect with the divine.
The field is called “neurotheology,” and although it is new, it’s drawing prominent researchers in the U.S. and Canada. Scientists have found that the brains of people who spend untold hours in prayer and meditation are different.
I met Scott McDermott five years ago, while covering a Pentecostal revival meeting in Toronto. It was pandemonium. People were speaking in tongues and barking like dogs. I thought, “What is a United Methodist minister, with a Ph.D. in New Testament theology, doing here?”
Then McDermott told me about a vision he had had years earlier.
Nano technology or simply a new form of phrenology?
The is one objective Reality and it is centered in The Holy Trinity.