MYSTICAL CATAPLEXY AND THE MAMMALIAN ROOTS OF AN ARCHAIC RELIGIOUS RESPONSE
Journal Title: Acta Neuropsychologica - Year 2010, Vol 8, Issue 2
Abstract
The religious prostration derives from submissive behavior in animals, as pleas to God for mercy derive from the separation cry of infant animals. The neuroanatomical systems responsible for the motor routine of submission also me diate lacrimation, whose religious expression is penitential weeping. Mystical cataplexy is a suitable term for an archaic religious response whose motoric expression is the prostration, whose perceptual aspect is hallucinatory potential, whose emotional dimension is characterized by fear and awe, and whose internal milieu of intense autonomic arousal may lead to piloerection and profuse weeping. The responsible structures are frontal and deeply-situated; all represent early phyletic deposits.
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David Bradford
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