Conceptual Blending and Analogy

I was wondering while reading this article about the "obvious dissimilarity that enhances the learning efficiency," in relation to holding the champagne glasses while skiing and how, if at all, this could connect to religion. Maybe because religion itself is such an intangible thing that humans are trying to connect to in a tangible world. If there were more aspects of religion that were not based off of faith, would it be such a powerful force? Maybe because there can be no absolute proof to any religion or lack there of, it makes the reasons to believe in faith stronger, in a skewed version of reverse psychology.

Also the idea of the mirror network was interesting to me, "because the same organizing frame is common to all spaces in the network" which continues on to discuss the connection of blending. I think this could also fit into religion. If the "network" can be considered to be all religious and spiritual people, then there is a similar organizing frame that most of them can be categorized into. There are many different religions in the world, however, many aspects of them are "blended" and have many basic ideas in common. To put this into a perspective in relation to how I am thinking about this, imagine all the religions of the world in a huge ven diagram, with each religion having its own circle for its own specific conditions, yet sharing parts with its neighbors and ultimately, every other religion in the world. Just as a side note- I did just try to google a religious ven diagram and apparently they actually exist. Not to the extend I was hoping for, since most of the ones that showed up involved religion in comparison to politics and stupidity.

Cognitive Linguistics By Dirk Geeraerts

This is a book I found on google books that talks about mirror networks more in depth with the same conceits. The information starts on page 341 if the link does not go there directly.
Here is a link to the religion ven diagram.
I figured I would put it as a link in case it offends anyone.