00000cab a22000004cb4500 IPP-00000188591 IPP 20181018114812.0 181018s2013 xx d | ||r ||||| || Maranan, Noahlyn C. God in the brain? exploring (neuropsychological) explanations underlying God-concepts and religious/spiritual experiences 2013 Religiosity-and the rituals and practices accompanying it-for many, are just part of everyday reality. But what underlie religious/spiritual experiences and the tendency to believe in a 'god'?. Why do people tend to believe in a Divine Being? To answer this, the article explores existing literature, mainly from neuropsychology, that locates the purported locus of the tendency to believe in a 'god' what it means to have a religious experience and how religious experiences-drawn from the practice of meditation and prayer-may be explained by processes occurring in the brain. The article also explores the benefits-psycologicaL and evolutionary; besides the existential social and psychological-that one maybe derive from a religious/spiritual brain. As conception of God changes and varies to fit societal and cultural changes and expectations, the relevance of the current conception of God becomes an issue-especially now that the current trend in the related fields of psychology is to reduce almost every cognitive phenomenon (e.g. consciousness, morality and religious/spiritual experiences) into its biological correlates. Would belief in God still hold? These studies while they paint to purported loci in the brain of the tendency to conceive the existence of a Higher Being- as well as the neutral basis of religious/spiritual experiences- do not unequivocally disconfirm the existence of God, inasmuch as they do not confirm it as well. Spirituality God UP Los Baños Journal Vol. XI (2013), 17-29 Article FI