... specific complementary relationship between REM sleep, mystical experiences, and right temporal activity. This suggests a direct, neurophysiological/anatomical link between dreams, religious imagery, and spiritual experience, which can explain why they have been seen as a sort of portal to the spiritual world (Joseph 110-112). The limbic system, while related to both image perception and dreaming, is ... and temporal lobe become activated. Again, the fact that these structures are multimodally responsive means that religious feelings may be associated with sexuality, rage, or fear. This ...

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Japanese Religious History 1: Earhart's six themes attempt to explain the established Japanese world view, which is a perception of the world gathered through experience and memory of experience. In Japan, being religious is being Japanese, and Earhart's themes are an ... ...

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