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Neuroscience & Karma
6. Worshipping
Throughout this analysis/discussion our idea has been that believing is a characteristic feature of the human brain. The same is also true of worshipping. It is not something that is done with ritual solemnity only in church or temple. It is the product of a need in every human being and most of us have programs that provide satisfaction of the need to worship. We can, positively, identify worshipping as a very real program of the brain. As we feel the effects of worshipping, we allow our reward systems to pour their gladness over the whole range of cortical programs and there are literally streams of nerve-impulses releasing floods of the chemical messengers that open useful pathways to the cortlex and within it. Study of belief and worship emphasizes again that the brain program is one undivided whole.
