Neurotheology - Trance, Neuroscience and Religion

1. Why trance belongs in a conversation about neuroscience and religion
2. What trance mediumship looks like across religions (and why that matters scientifically)
3. Neurotheology in plain English: what it studies (and what it doesn’t)
4. How scientists measure trance states: EEG vs fMRI (and why both are used)
5. Brainwaves and trance: what EEG patterns can (realistically) suggest
6. What fMRI can reveal about selfhood, agency, and the ‘sense of another presence’
7. Trance, dissociation, and clinical neurology: similarities without collapsing categories
8. Designing a good study on trance mediumship (what researchers must control for)
9. Where science ends (for now): hard problems of consciousness and meaning
10. A practical bridge: how to talk about trance respectfully in both scientific and religious spaces
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Neurotheology - Trance, Neuroscience and Religion

  • Helen DaVita

  • 5 Aug 2026

  • 13 minute read

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