The Dying-Moment Dream Hypothesis: When the Brain Simulates Heaven and Hell
A 2026 Frontiers in Psychology paper proposes that near-death experiences are the brain's final simulation. Implications for the simulation hypothesis and religion.
INDEX // RELIGION AS SIMULATION
RELIGION AS SIMULATION
Mystical and visionary states treated as interface events with the system beneath reality. From glossolalia to near-death accounts, examined without doctrine.
IIT in 2026: The Integrated Information Theory That Religion Was Waiting For
A 2026 paper in Erkenntnis reviews Integrated Information Theory (IIT) as the first scientifically rigorous framework for what religions have called the soul. Analysis of…
The Buried Gospels: Simulation Resonance in Suppressed Scripture
The Texts That Survived the Burn Every empire that suppressed a text left a copy in a cave, a monastery, or a memory. The Nag…
Avicenna’s Floating Man: The 11th-Century Thought Experiment That Predicted Disembodied Consciousness
In the Kitab al-Shifa (The Book of Healing), written around 1027 CE in Isfahan, the Persian polymath Ibn Sina - known in the Latin West…
The Firewall Effect: What Near-Death Experiences Reveal About the Simulation’s Limits
In 1991, Pam Reynolds went into surgery for a giant basilar artery aneurysm. Her body temperature was lowered to 60 degrees Fahrenheit. Her eyes were...
The Jhana States: What Buddhist Monks Found When They Hacked Their Consciousness
When you sit long enough with your eyes closed, the simulation starts to show you its seams.
Religion as the Original Simulation
How Invisible Authorities Control Visible Reality