Neural correlates of mystical experience.

TL;DR: Kastrup as discussed by the authors has a Ph.D. in computer engineering with specializations in artificial intelligence and reconfigurable computing and has worked as a scientist in some of the world's foremost research laboratories, including the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the Philips Research Laboratories (where the Casimir Effect of Quantum Field Theory was discovered).

TL;DR: This work investigates the association between magical ideation and religious experience in a sample of Vietnam veterans who sustained penetrating traumatic brain injury (pTBI) and matched healthy controls and clarifies the mechanism by which the frontal lobe processes modulate magical beliefs.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors conducted a literature search to identify and compare definitions of the experiential dimension of spiritual pain and proposed a new definition for "spiritual pain" as a self-identified experience of personal discomfort, or actual or potential harm, triggered by a threat to a person's relationship with God or a higher power.

TL;DR: In this paper, two exploratory studies were conducted using a sample of meditators (N = 269) and undergraduate students (n = 123), and regression analyses revealed weekly religious/spiritual practice, absorption, and mentalizing predict increased mystical experiences.

TL;DR: A clinical scale has been evolved for assessing the depth and duration of impaired consciousness and coma that facilitates consultations between general and special units in cases of recent brain damage, and is useful also in defining the duration of prolonged coma.

TL;DR: It is proposed that cognitive control stems from the active maintenance of patterns of activity in the prefrontal cortex that represent goals and the means to achieve them, which provide bias signals to other brain structures whose net effect is to guide the flow of activity along neural pathways that establish the proper mappings between inputs, internal states, and outputs needed to perform a given task.

TL;DR: Evidence for partially segregated networks of brain areas that carry out different attentional functions is reviewed, finding that one system is involved in preparing and applying goal-directed selection for stimuli and responses, and the other is specialized for the detection of behaviourally relevant stimuli.