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The subjects of neurotheological investigations have thus far made dubious claims that their experiences are equivalent to the purported revelatory and mystical experiences of the originators of the major religions and mystical traditions. Parallels between ancient mysticism and modern physics have thus far mostly dissolved into poetic metaphors. However, a new approach to testing the ancient claims of supersensory perceptions of absolute truth is on the horizon. Mystical traditions have consistently described a circuit running through the center of the spine that connects the human and the divine. If descriptions of this circuit are based on actual interoceptions, then it corresponds to a little-known, epigenetically suppressed structure that ensheathes the central axis of the central nervous system; Reissner’s fiber (RF). A regenerated fiber could create a new relationship with realities that quantum orthodoxy has declared to be beyond conception or perception, a relationship that could to lead to a marriage between the origins of religion and the frontiers of science.