... results in feelings of "fear, foreboding, or religious awe," since the limbic system is also known to be active during hallucinations, an infused image is also likely to appear during a vision (Joseph 110). The earliest and most common of these "religious symbols" is the sign of the cross, the earliest of which is estimated to be 60,000 - 100,000 years ... throughout the right hemisphere of the brain, with the hippocampus and amygdala acting as a reservoir from which various images, emotions, words, memories, and ideas are extracted and incorporated into the vision. Incidentally, the ri...

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