Sentences with phrase «induce religious experience»

This is what religion, as distinct from «spirituality» is all about: the physical machinery to induce religious experience or, at least, religious fun.

Neuroscientist Michael Persinger claimed he had induced religious experiences in subjects by stimulating specific regions of their brains with electromagnetic pulses.

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So he attended Group meetings and worked with alcoholics at the Calvary Mission, telling about his religious experiences and trying to induce it in them.

The universe is itself so vast and mysterious that it is more than enough to induce the sense of awe and joyful gratitude that characterized earlier religious experience.