Comments by "William Cox" (@WildBillCox13) on "Which Part of the Brain Makes People Religious?" video.

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  2. -Non expert with a deep and abiding interest in cultural anthropology. It seem evident to me that science is spending an incredible amount of effort avoiding the obvious: Shamanic rituals are meant to stimulate the salient parts of the brain. Study the effects of ritualized drug use and examine those networks acting at high level during exaltation. Get yourself a few mushrooms, some peyote, arrow frog sweat . . . a million years of man searching for meaning and/or connection to the unknowable through alchemical preparations and ritualized observance. Shakers and Quakers, Vudu docs, and Dervishes got high on their own body chemistry. Yaqui, Navajo, pre-hindu (Google Soma), and Yanomamo shamen use various drug cocktails to obtain that connection. Get some of those guys in your sensor nets and MRI machines. The guys who've been tested aren't trained in the same way shamen are trained. Their neural pathways have not yet been specialized to the effects you wish to observe and understand. It's not rocket science. It's stoner tradition.
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