God in the Brain Electric Storm: Art and Epilepsy

Shannon describes Michelangelo’s painting of the brain, and why she put it in her picture of an oncoming ecstatic seizure. Do people hear what the birds are saying? The intellect is one arm of the psyche- only a part of it. Nonordinary states enrich life. People with excitable temporal lobes are more emotional- can artists leave a relic of their deep feeling in their work? Persinger and his assistant Todd Murphy found that mystical and paranormal experiences can compromise the sense of self. ...