A mystical union.
This article discusses experiments in neurology to locate areas of the brain affected by strong spirituality. The same cannot be said of Mario Beauregard, a brain-imager from the University of Montreal, who has also experimented with mescaline. But that is because Dr Beauregard is interested in one...
| Publicado en: | Economist Vol. 370; no. 8365; pp. 69 - 71 |
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Economist Newspaper Limited
3/6/2004
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