1. The Relationship between Spirituality and the Limbic System
... , or head injury. One religious leader who could possibly fit this description is Moses, who may have suffered from temporal lobe seizures. Intense overexposure to the sun while he floated on the Nile in a basket was likely what was responsible for his development of temporal lobe epilepsy and limbic hyperactivaion. This would explain his hyperreligious fervor, occasional rages, speech impediment, and hallucinations (Joseph 128 ... described in both the Egyptian funerary texts and Book of the Dead and the Tibetan Book of the Dead, which date back 6,000 and 1,300 years, respectively. A lo...
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