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...University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine has used several types of imaging systems to watch the brains of subjects as they meditate or pray. By measuring blood flow, he determines which regions are responsible for the feelings the volunteers experience. The deeper that people descend into meditation or prayer, Newberg found, the more active the frontal lobe and the limbic system become. The frontal lobe is the seat of concentration and attention; the limbic system is where powerful feelings, including rapture, are processed. More revealing is the fact that at the same time these regions flash to life, another important...
...also holds daily Tarawih prayer in the Canaday Musulla...
...spent five high holiday seasons here at Harvard, I was dumbfounded to read the remarkably closed-minded opinion piece “The Eleventh Plague” (Opinion, Oct. 1). During the holidays, Harvard Hillel sponsored the religious services of four separate prayer communities—each with its own unique character—and the Chabad House at Harvard held its own set of traditional and yet highly participatory services. Both Hillel and the Chabad House also served family-style meals and break-fasts which were free to all undergraduates. If the authors felt alienated by the Reform services...
...next to each other at the prayer breakfast...
...Balinese and visitors alike, getting on with life is the secret to putting the bombs in the past. The two-year anniversary will be marked with prayer and tight security. At the widows' sewing shop, orders are steady for the sarongs, shirts and bags whose sales help Endang and her friends survive a daily struggle with their emotions. "Their recovery has been good," says Dr. Denny. "I think that holds true for Bali as well...