Aldous Huxley wrote: “Is there, one wonders, some area in the brain from which the probing electrode could elicit Blake’s Cherubim?” Indeed, it seems we may now be very close to Huxley’s wired bliss –

From Slate,

How to wire your brain for religious ecstasy.

By John Horgan

“Eight years ago, I flew to Laurentian University in Midwestern Canada to test a gadget that some journalists called the “God machine.” The device consisted of computer-controlled solenoids that fit over the skull and stimulate the brain with electromagnetic pulses”[…]