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Spirituality is a brain state we can all reach, religious or not

13 mins | May 1, 2021
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Future eureka moments won't need a breakthrough. States of high consciousness are generally linked to religious practices of prayer and meditation. But research has shown that creative epiphanies and the following states of happiness are similar to these spiritual experiences, with geniuses such as Einstein reporting similar states during his famous discovery. However, Tal Dotan Ben-Soussanis — the director of the Research Institute for Neuroscience, Education and Didactics — reveals that it is now possible to experience these states of elation in the most mundane moments of our lives.

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