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Does religion change our brains? |
From the age of three, the 12th-century nun, mystic, poet, and composer Hildegard von Bingen had dazzling visions of shimmering points of light and falling stars, which she recorded in detail in her writings and in paintings. The visions were accompanied by revelations about scripture and humanity’s place in the cosmos that she attributed to the will of God. |
Neurologist Oliver Sacks famously argued in his 1970 book Migraine that von Bingen’s visions were “indisputably” migraine auras, echoing an earlier hypothesis by British historian of science Charles Singer, who recognized clinical descriptions of visual disturbance in her art. |
It is impossible to know whether their shared hypothesis was correct. But it has become evident in recent decades, through the emergence of a science sometimes referred to as neurotheology, that the agonies and ecstasies of religious experience are often reflected in the workings and architecture of our brains. |
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Morgan argued that man-the-hunter theories were used to '“bolster up with pseudo-history and pseudo-anthropology the belief that it is ‘against nature’ for women to play a part in economic life.” Women were important to the evolutionary history of humanity, but had been ignored by the “blood-and-thunder boys.” |
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| —History professor Erika Lorraine Milam in her article about Elaine Morgan, the outsider who helped restore women to the story of evolution |
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