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How does one measure the transcendent?

How does one measure the transcendent beauty of music, poetry, and paintings? Last month Richard Gunderman, MD, PhD, Vice-chair of the Radiology Department at Indiana University, wrote a very thoughtful piece in The Atlantic entitled, “Sensing God and the Limits of Neuroscience”, At issue: are the details of life-altering religious experiences associated with neurologic abnormalities? When one says

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