Synopsis of Religious Experience and Pain: A Neuroscientific and Philosophical Probe (original) (raw)
Faith based treatments were often claimed to reduce the intensity of pain. Most often, these treatments were connected to Placebo effect. In this regards, the basic question of the probe was, "Does religious experience reduce the intensity of pain?" The method of study is most often descriptive; at times it is analytic and synthetic. The aim of the study is to provide a holistic view of understanding of pain during religious experience. Various studies of neural correlates of different types of religious experience, pain, reduction of pain and pain during religious experience were analyzed. The neuroscientific studies have concluded that there has been some activation of right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex during this process, which is unique to other means used to reduce pain. The philosophical examination shows the limitation of neuroscientific view and proposes a multidimensional conceptualisation of pain during religious experience.
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