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O'leary Denyse - The Spiritual Brain A Neuroscientist's Case For The Existence Of The Soul - Paperback
O'leary Denyse - The Spiritual Brain A Neuroscientist's Case For The Existence Of The Soul - Paperback
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Description: Do religious experiences come from God or are they merely the random firing of neurons in the brain? Drawing on his own research with Carmelite nuns neuroscientist Mario Beauregard shows that genuine life - changing spiritual events can be documented. He offers compelling evidence that religious experiences have a nonmaterial origin making a convincing case for what many in scientific fields are loath to consider that it is God who creates our spiritual experiences not the brain. Beauregard and O Leary explore recent attempts to locate a " God gene" in some of us and claims that our brains are "hardwired" for religion even the strange case of one neuroscientist who allegedly invented an electromagnetic " God helmet" that could produce a mystical experience in anyone who wore it. The authors argue that these attempts are misguided and narrow - minded because they reduce spiritual experiences to material phenomena. Many scientists ignore hard evidence that challenges their materialistic prejudice clinging to the limited view that our experiences are explainable only by material causes in the obstinate conviction that the physical world is the only reality. But scientific materialism is at a loss to explain irrefutable accounts of mind over matter of intuition willpower and leaps of faith of the "placebo effect" in medicine of near - death experiences on the operating table and of psychic premonitions of a loved one in crisis to say nothing of the occasional sense of oneness with nature and mystical experiences in meditation or prayer. Traditional science explains away these and other occurrences as delusions or misunderstandings but by exploring the latest neurological research on phenomena such as these The Spiritual Brain gets to their real source.
Title: The Spiritual Brain A Neuroscientist's Case For The Existence Of The Soul
Author(s): O'leary Denyse
Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers Inc
Barcode: 9780061625985
Pages: 384 Pages
Publication Date: 9/30/2008
Category: Mind, Body, Spirit: Thought & Practice
Description: Do religious experiences come from God or are they merely the random firing of neurons in the brain? Drawing on his own research with Carmelite nuns neuroscientist Mario Beauregard shows that genuine life - changing spiritual events can be documented. He offers compelling evidence that religious experiences have a nonmaterial origin making a convincing case for what many in scientific fields are loath to consider that it is God who creates our spiritual experiences not the brain. Beauregard and O Leary explore recent attempts to locate a " God gene" in some of us and claims that our brains are "hardwired" for religion even the strange case of one neuroscientist who allegedly invented an electromagnetic " God helmet" that could produce a mystical experience in anyone who wore it. The authors argue that these attempts are misguided and narrow - minded because they reduce spiritual experiences to material phenomena. Many scientists ignore hard evidence that challenges their materialistic prejudice clinging to the limited view that our experiences are explainable only by material causes in the obstinate conviction that the physical world is the only reality. But scientific materialism is at a loss to explain irrefutable accounts of mind over matter of intuition willpower and leaps of faith of the "placebo effect" in medicine of near - death experiences on the operating table and of psychic premonitions of a loved one in crisis to say nothing of the occasional sense of oneness with nature and mystical experiences in meditation or prayer. Traditional science explains away these and other occurrences as delusions or misunderstandings but by exploring the latest neurological research on phenomena such as these The Spiritual Brain gets to their real source.
Title: The Spiritual Brain A Neuroscientist's Case For The Existence Of The Soul
Author(s): O'leary Denyse
Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers Inc
Barcode: 9780061625985
Pages: 384 Pages
Publication Date: 9/30/2008
Category: Mind, Body, Spirit: Thought & Practice