Can “neurotheology” bridge the gap between religion and science?: “Donning chain-mail hoods of electrodes and contemplating universal peace and love, the [Tibetan] monks [including the Dalia Lama] show EEG patterns that appeared to be laced with higher than normal levels of gamma waves—even after they stopped meditating. These higher-frequency vibrations have been proposed as a mechanism for synchronizing separate brain modules—auditory, visual, etc.—to produce a unified perception of the world. How the brain does this is what philosophers call ‘the binding problem.’ Maybe the monks can bind these parts so tightly that everything seems like one—a mystical short circuit.”