Not too sure if this has been covered on here before but I'd noticed these recent articles on split brain patients from MindMatters explaining why splitting the brain doesn't split consciousness/the 'spirit'. I'm aware that they are somewhat biased, but their articles are still often well-supported
"Far from the staged spookiness of cable TV, part-time paranormal investigator Dan Sturges pulls back the curtain on a decade spent searching for spirits."
[quote]
Georgia van Raalte is a PhD student at the University of Surrey, whose research focuses on the novels of Dion Fortune, and in particular their initiatory nature. She is also a writer, ritualist and priestess of the Temp
[quote]
Esoteric or occult knowledge is revealed in revelatory episodes, in mantic visions that are felt to descend on us when we are engodded, or, when dreaming or enraptured, we are transported to a visionary realm.