And so I learned a very valuable lesson that particular day, and that was whenever I find one now, I go all the way down the arm to make sure there's fingers there.

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Yet that secret is only the beginning of a mystery so tightly wound and barbed with hurt and hurtful people that solving it becomes the only way to make the pain go away and the sun shine down on a place some call Paradise.

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Though there is clearly still a long way to go, this sort of imaging should eventually tie down the circuitry of religious experience and that, combined with work on messenger molecules of the sort that Dr McNamara is doing, will illuminate how the brain generates and processes religious experiences.

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