Let me get this right Little Hawk... your 'proof' that the brain is not what determins conciousness is that you once saw the ghost of a cat...!

My respect for your intelligent imput on other threads is the only thing that prevents me from making the obvious sarcastic rejoinder!

Of course you were hallucinating, and there is increasing scientific evidence to suggest that religion, and in particular religious visions, are a function of the brain. Scientists have even located the region of the brain responsible and noted that when it is damaged or unusually developed the person often suffers from constant hallucinations and/or religious mania.

Amos, of course you need a brain to know something! What else would you use, your toenails? Or were you being gnomic? If so, why not talk in clear language, if the poverty of your arguments can stand it.