Zen and the Brain

Zen enlightenment experiences have been shown to have some amount of neurophysiological explanations. These neurophysiological explanations are a new opposition for Zen Followers, but they still do not undermine their religion. Zen enlightenment experiences have often been described as taking place in a different state of mind. Followers of the Zen religion claim that they quiet almost all of the sensory input into their brain, and that they travel through different states of consciousness. Once …

…experience, which creates a Zen enlightenment experience. The proof of this is not conclusive though, and won’t be for quite sometime. Even if it will be provable, it simply cannot take away from the Zen religion. Just because the side effects of meditation could be hallucinations does not rule out the possibilities of something greater. It is the ability to be, the unknown, and faith that will always allow for religion to be possible.