Whether these experiences are simply right temporal lobe activity, as many suspect, or, as Britton's work hints and Morse believes, a whole brain effect, remains an open question. (discovermagazine.com)
This helped explain why right temporal lobe epilepsy was a condition long defined by its most prominent symptom: excessive religiosity characterized by an intense feeling of spirituality, mystical visions, and auditory hallucinations of the voice - of - God variety. (discovermagazine.com)
When he directed these fields toward the temporal lobes, Persinger's helmet induced the sort of mystical, free - of - the - body experiences common to right temporal lobe epileptics, meditators, and people who have had near - death experiences. (discovermagazine.com)