Healthy Outlook Blog

Apparently our attitudes toward spirituality don’t fluctuate all that much. But the researchers in this study were working with patients with tumors and found that the parietal region (the top rear) of the brain can change spiritual attitudes. Patients who had tumors removed from that part of the brain “showed a significant elevation in their level of self-transcendence.”

It’s a paradoxical finding, because the front and rear sections of the brain interact with one another. They “work in sync to regulate the level of spirituality of the brain.” So, changes to the rear of the brain resulted in more control in the front of the brain, leading to an increase in spirituality.

For more on this study and the role that the brain and body might play in spirituality, take a look at this MSNBC article.