| One description of such a condition might be the notion of (or for your question, the state of) enlightenment. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/what-does-i... Medicine and science, being subject to the limitations of a falsifiable-evidence style of thinking as well as technical limitations, are understandably way behind the curve in this sort of thing. From the reading I've done, the underlying physiological explanation for "the enlightened state" seems to be downgraded activity in the Default Mode Network of the brain, and evidence suggests this can be achieved in a variety of ways. Meditation - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4529365/ Prayer - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.3109/00952990.2016.1... Psychedelics - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5857492/ Stroke - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3688936/ Meditation, prayer, and psychedelics often seem to put the rationalist-oriented mind into a sort of defensive, hyper-skeptical mode, but that the same phenomenon can also be observed in stroke patients hopefully makes such minds more open to considering the idea. |