God on the Brain

Name: God on the Brain
Duration: 60 min
Rating: 7.8
Cast: Barbara Flynn, Rudi Affolter, Michael Baime, Merlin Burt, Richard Dawkins

· 60 MIN · IMDB 7.8 · 43 VOTES

Overview

The connection between the temporal lobes of the brain and religious feeling has led one Canadian scientist to try stimulating them. (They are near your ears.) 80% of Dr Michael Persinger's experimental subjects report that an artificial magnetic field focused on those brain areas gives them a feeling of not being alone. Some of them describe it as a religious sensation. His work raises the prospect that we are programmed to believe in god, that faith is a mental ability humans have developed or been given. And temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) could help unlock the mystery.

Dialogue Timeline - 666 lines

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00:00:04 RUDI: I thought that I had died and I had gone to hell.

00:02:43 unusual side effect.

00:04:48 Unlike Rudi, she is a strong believer, a devout Roman

00:06:29 BERNY: Got to the actual birth and Charles - that's our

00:08:36 Believers are convinced that such revelations come from god;

00:11:09 been a hundred times or more - a soft light circling

00:13:39 During her vision she was really unaware of

00:15:28 The reasons why I don't feel that Ellen White's

00:17:20 NARRATOR: And what about Moses, the bringer of the

00:19:05 Put two electrodes on their finger tips to measure the

00:21:04 temporal lobes of the brain.

00:23:20 of the solenoids are connected so that at any given

00:25:19 common and bizarre effects in the chamber, a feeling

00:27:31 She would become more and more terrified

00:29:31 found that she slept near a clock, and we measured the

00:31:27 experiences, they should never be studied because

00:33:51 right-hand side of Richard Dawkins' head.

00:36:11 and the experience end being the temporal lobe

00:38:07 explained simply by activity in one area of the brain.

00:39:38 would actually minimise any kind of distractions to

00:41:38 part of the brain.

00:43:44 NARRATOR: The implications of Dr Newberg's research

00:45:54 brain to make you more receptive to god.

00:48:05 a very, very long time.

Cast & Characters

Barbara Flynn Self - Narrator Rudi Affolter Self Michael Baime Self Merlin Burt Self Richard Dawkins Self Daniel Giang Self Don Hill Self Gregory Holmes Self Andrew Newberg Self Michael Persinger Self

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed666

Dialogue density11.1 lines / min

First line00:00:04

Final line00:48:05

Production Record

LanguageEnglish

IMDb votes43