Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Fri, 04/18/2008 - 12:30pm.
Lots of interesting stuff here, including the notion that "not everyone has mystical experiences." Freud, for example, in Civilization and its Discontents, tried to account for "oceanic feelings" but acknowledged that he'd never experienced them. It would be interesting to explore brain differences that might account for that. I wonder if "oceanic feelings' and depression are related ... as opposites?
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Brain and "oceanic feelings"