Why revelations have occurred on mountains? Linking mystical experiences and cognitive neuroscience

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 841-845

  Arzy, Shahar ^a,b,c   Idel, Moshe ^d   Landis, Theodor ^b   Blanke, Olaf ^a,b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^c HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MOUNTAINEERING; MYSTICISM; NEUROSCIENCE; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTION; PHENOMENOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIGION; REVIEW; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STRESS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BRAIN; HALLUCINATION; METHODOLOGY; ORIENTATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE; AWARENESS; BRAIN; COGNITION; COGNITIVE SCIENCE; HALLUCINATIONS; HUMANS; MYSTICISM; NEUROSCIENCES; ORIENTATION; RELIGION;

EID: 27244438271     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2005.04.044     Document Type: Article

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