Autonomic nervous system.
But that's not all. Your cerebral cortex is very active even if you aren't thinking or dreaming, if you can achieve such a state. much of your sensory inputs are processed here, as is your sense of self (parietal lobe). All religious experiences involve and can be explained by activity (or the suppression of) in the parietal lobe.
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