There is reasonable argument to suggest that humans have a cognitive predisposition, or ready built framework for experiencing spirituality, and there is evidence demonstrating biological brain activity, whilst in spiritual experience. This cognitive predisposition can be observed in the way children readily accept the existence of God, without ever having seeing him. The reasons why this predisposition might exist will be covered a little more in the next section.

Studies using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) have illustrated that there is observable activity in certain regions of the brain whilst in a spiritual experience. One study observed the brains of nuns whilst in a state of connecting to God, and found activity of the limbic system, associated with emotionality and a sense of comfort with God, an activation of the visual areas – as if the nuns were physically ‘seeing'. (See below; Beauregard, 2006)

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