In essence, when you think about the really big questions in life - be they religious, scientific or psychological- your brain is going to grow. Newberg says that "neurotheology" - the study of the brains role in religious belief has begun to shed light on what happens in believers heads when they contemplate God. He debunks the notion there is a single "God spot" in the brain responsible for religious belief.
Instead, religious experiences fire neurons in several different parts of the brain, just like other events do.
Locating them does not explain them, but gives pointers on how these phenomena occur and what they might mean.
Newberg sketch out some of the "God circuits" of the brain and their effects especially if trained through meditation as muscles are through exercise.
Be aware, meditation both activates the frontal lobe which creates and integrates all of your ideas about God, and calms down the amygdala, the emotional region that can create images of an authoritative deity and fog or logical thinking.
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