A recent study lead by Nicholas Epley of the University of Chicago discovered that people who feel lonely are more likely to believe in the supernatural. Epley states:
We found that inducing people to feel lonely made them more religious essentially.
There are health benefits that come from being connected to other people, and those same benefits seem to come from connection… with religious agents, too.
[via The Christian Post]
I would have to agree with that 100%!
I remember all the ‘loners’ and that at school etc and they all dabbled in witchcraft. Gave them power and control seeing they could not get it by normal means.
I would flip this around a little. In my life there is virtually no quiet time. There is noise and distraction around every corner. To escape the distractions of others I have to put on headphones and play music. One distraction to squash another.
Could it be that when we aren’t so distracted that we are better able to hear God talking to us? That we are better able to detect His presence?
The problem of going off on different religious bases could be the lens people are viewing that contact through. If you don’t have the right basis to interpret God talking to you or you only catch half of what He is saying it can be easy to go down a wrong path.