Part of the altruistic impulse is the sense that there is some meaning to existence that is beyond ourselves - even if it is just the tribe, our people, our culture, etc. Therefore there may have been selective pressures for our hard-wiring to include a sense of the profound, of a greater good than ourselves.

Fourth, God can best be conceived as the nature one experiences at those moments, the unknowable total of all there is.

God can also be understood as a cultural construct to explain unusual neurological experiences, including feeling one with the universe, and to give a concrete conception to the abstract sense of a meaning or greater good that is beyond our individual existence.
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Part of the altruistic impulse is the sense that there is some meaning to existence that is beyond ourselves - even if it is just the tribe, our people, our culture, etc. Therefore there may have been selective pressures for our hard-wiring to include a sense of the profound, of a greater good than ourselves.

Fourth, God can best be conceived as the nature one experiences at those moments, the unknowable total of all there is.

God can also be understood as a cultural construct to explain unusual neurological experiences, including feeling one with the universe, and to give a concrete conception to the abstract sense of a meaning or greater good that is beyond our individual existence.

In other words, there is a purely materialist explanation for all that is interpreted as mysticism. The materialist model of neuroscience has been progressing rapidly and has proven to be a powerful explanatory system and basis for fruitful research.