What separates me from being an atheist and keeps me looking at the world with skeptical eyes is the unknown and yet-not-explained phenomena. Among all of them, the top mystery around us is life itself, self-awareness, consciousness, mind, brain functionality, and prayer. Yes, prayer. Let me put it this way - unless we live in a delusional world where the major population on Earth is doing their religious rituals in vain on a daily basis, this topic deserves proper research in regards to brain functionality and social influences on life as we know it. Prayer itself should not be seen and studied as a ritual connected only to religious behavior. If we dismiss all super-divine entities and misusing prayer for questionable reasons to ask for favors, such as health, salvation, fame, victory, or winning lottery numbers, and transfer it into a form of meditation, perhaps we should start understanding how everything works; even a little bit could be a threshold of breakthrough in scient...