What do you think of Persinger’s arguments?

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The following are excerpts from Wikipedia relating to Michael Persinger and his experiment with the God Helmet.

“…Michael A. Persinger (born June 26, 1945) is a physical neuroscientist and natural philosopher… He has argued that all phenomena including consciousness, spiritual experiences, and “paranormal events” can be explained by universal physical mechanisms… Persinger has argued that quantitative differences in energy, rather than qualitative distinctions, are responsible for the apparent mind-body duality…

…Most of Persinger’s published articles involved with consciousness have focused upon the persistence of experiences reported by individuals who display complex partial epilepsy within the normal population of people who were creative, subject to frequent paranormal experiences or who had sustained a mild impact of mechanical energy to the cerebrum. One of his notable experiments over about three decades involved a helmet (“the God Helmet”) whereby weak physiologically patterned magnetic fields were applied across the temporal lobes of hundreds of volunteers. The research received wide media coverage[34][35][36] with high-profile visitors to Persinger’s laboratory including Susan Blackmore and Richard Dawkins reporting positive[37] and negative[38] results respectively.

Experiences often associated with mystical reports such as out-of-body-experiences, intrusive thoughts, and the sensed presence were reported by hundreds of volunteers over decades of studying the phenomenon which were not associated with the subjects’ suggestibility.[39][40] Subsequent theory and quantitative electroencephalographic measurements supported the contention that the sensed presence of a “sentient being” could be a normal brain-based prototype for god experiences or related mystical phenomena and was actually the left hemispheric awareness of the right hemispheric equivalent to the left hemispheric sense of self…

…Quantum biophysics[edit] –

Persinger suggested that ultraweak photon emissions (picoWatt per meter squared) could serve as a medium through which local and non-local space could be connected.[53] Power densities of spontaneous background photon emissions indicated potential solutions for Lorentz contractions and galactic sources that define the properties of space-time.[54…”

“…Anecdotal reports by journalists,[6] academics[7][8] and documentarists[9] have been mixed and several effects reported by Persinger have not yet been independently replicated…” … – Wikipedia – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Persinger

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