Despite Benjamin’s “renaissance” in contemporary research literature, the meaning of concept Jetztzeit(“Now-time”), one his key political and philosophical concepts, remains vague, largely due to tendency researchers follow Benjamin‘s narrative metaphorical style. The author this article purposely uses a strict analytical approach capture characteristics their relationship each other. To do thi...

Religious experiences have long been documented in patients with epilepsy, though their exact underlying neural mechanisms are still unclear. Here, we had the rare opportunity to record a delusional religious conversion in real time in a patient with right temporal lobe epilepsy undergoing continuous video-EEG. In this patient, a messianic revelation experience occurred several hours after a co...