Nuns prove God is not figment of the mind

This bit of research, on reflection, probably confirms what we might have guessed, but it does put Persinger's research into perspective.

mystical experiences are mediated by several brain regions and systems normally implicated in functions such as self-consciousness, emotion and body representation. In the past, some researchers went as far as to suggest the possibility of a specific brain region designed for communication with God. This latest research discredits such theories. Speculation about the God spot was triggered when a team at the University of California, San Diego, saw that people with temporal-lobe epilepsy were prone to religious hallucinations. This led Michael Persinger, a neuropsychologist at Laurentian University in Canada, to stimulate emporal lobes artificially to see if he could induce a religious state. He found that he could create a "sensed presence".

It's also worth looking at a follow-up comment from the same paper.
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