The Robust Necrophiliac

The act of slitting open the rectum of a cadaver and inserting the entire forearm, usually accompanied with the playing of classical music.

While my girlfriend and I participated in The Robust Necrophiliac with my recently dead mother, we listened to Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture.

I can't believe Joe turned out to be into The Robust Necrophiliac; who knew he liked Beethoven?

by The Anus Wrangler May 16, 2011

Ur Uncle Jack a necrophiliac

An insult worse than any other insult. Far worse than ur mom gay or ur dad lesbian. If said to u, u die.

Person 1: ur mom gay
Person 2: ur dad lesbian
Person 1: ur uncle jack a necrophiliac
Person 2: *Dies*

by Nick Dimeson June 2, 2018

Hard Problem of Neurotheology

The study of the neuroscience of religious experience (which brain regions activate during prayer, meditation, or mystical states) runs into its own hard problem: does it explain the experience or explain it away? Finding the "God spot" in the temporal lobe doesn't answer whether it's a receiver for a transcendent signal or merely a delusion generator. The hard problem is bridging the gap between the neurology of transcendence and the truth-value of the transcendent claims themselves.

Example: "Neurotheology proved that mystic visions and a temporal lobe seizure light up the same brain areas. The hard problem: did science just show that saints are having brain hiccups, or did it locate the hardware interface where the divine downloads data? The data is identical; the interpretation is a canyon." Hard Problem of Neurotheology

by Abzugal January 30, 2026

Critical Theory of Neurotheology

The application of Critical Theory to neurotheology—the study of the neurological basis of religious and spiritual experience. Critical Theory of Neurotheology asks: How do cultural assumptions shape which experiences are studied and how they're interpreted? Does neurotheology reduce spiritual experience to brain activity, and what's lost in that reduction? Whose religious experiences are studied, whose ignored? How might neurotheology serve either to explain away or to deepen understanding of spiritual life? It doesn't reject neuroscience but insists that studying the brain basis of spirituality requires attention to context, meaning, and the politics of interpretation.

"They scan meditating monks and find brain changes—therefore spirituality is just brain activity. Critical Theory of Neurotheology asks: 'just'? The brain activity is real, but so is the experience. Reducing one to the other misses the point. Whose experiences get studied? Why monks and not mystics from other traditions? Neurotheology can illuminate or it can reduce. Critical theory insists on asking: what's added, and what's lost, when we look at spirituality through a brain scan?"

by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal March 4, 2026