Newberg told NPR: 'For those individuals who want to go down the path of arguing that all of our religious and spiritual experiences are nothing more than biological phenomena, some of this data does support that kind of a conclusion.
'But the data also does not specifically eliminate the notion that there is a religious or spiritual or divine presence in the world.'
This is somewhat stupid. But not seeing the original paper may be the problem.
What they are saying:
Those who meditate consciously and repeatedly have brains that activate more of the frontal lobes than someone who isn't doing so.
1. Those who do so learned how to meditate, thereby more neurons are involved just for that reason.
2. Since the article states the frontal lobe is for concentration etc., why not have someone playing a speed computer chess game be monitored and see if it isn't simply the level of concentration involved.
Says nothing about much actually, wonder how the righteous will interpret it.
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