Something small and round

[KukriKhan]

I also wonder if it's an age thing. Without doing a ton of research, my memory reminds me that many (most?) visions are had by youngish children and older adults - I can't recall one had by a 23 - 45 year old. A chemical condition? A youngish susceptibility to "magic" and an elderly longing for lost magic?

[Sasaki Kojiro]

I also wonder if it's an age thing. Without doing a ton of research, my memory reminds me that many (most?) visions are had by youngish children and older adults - I can't recall one had by a 23 - 45 year old. A chemical condition? A youngish susceptibility to "magic" and an elderly longing for lost magic?

Brain tumors in a specific place, according to "House".

All religions depend on suspension of disbelief to begin with. That I can cope with - what confuses me is that if one makes that step, how it is possible to then claim your revelation is the exclusively correct one?

Well, I think you would have to answer this by considering what people get out of belonging to a religion, and what need it satisfies. If belonging to a close knit community is part of that, then rejections of other religious beliefs would naturally follow.