{"id":12905,"date":"2009-05-20T15:04:04","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T15:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/npr_are_spiritual_encounters_all_in_your_head\/"},"modified":"2009-05-20T15:04:04","modified_gmt":"2009-05-20T15:04:04","slug":"npr_are_spiritual_encounters_all_in_your_head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12905","title":{"rendered":"NPR: Are Spiritual Encounters All In Your Head?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Believers are certainly going to take issue with [the idea that God is an illusion]. And so do many scientists. I put the question to New York University&#8217;s [Orrin] Devinsky. Does the fact that we can track spiritual feelings in our temporal lobe mean that there&#8217;s nothing spiritual going on?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No,&#8221; he says simply.<\/p>\n<p>Think about a man and woman who are in love, Devinsky says. They look at each other, and in all likelihood, something fires in their temporal lobes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;However, does that negate the presence of true love between them?&#8221; he asks. &#8220;Of course not. When you get to spirituality, as a scientist I think it really becomes extremely difficult to say anything other than, &#8216;It&#8217;s possible.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=104291534\">Read or listen to it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Believers are certainly going to take issue with [the idea that God is an illusion]. And so do many scientists. I put the question to New York University&#8217;s [Orrin] Devinsky. Does the fact that we can track spiritual feelings in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12905\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,129,108,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}