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Science and religious experience, awardwinning scholar and practicing neuroscientist dr. Much of the spiritual brain is an argument against materialist and evolutionary psychology, and the supposition that there is a gene or god spot in the brain responsible for mystical experiences. He is the coauthor of the spiritual brain and more than one hundred publications in neuroscience, psychology, and psychiatry. In his classic book, toward a psychology of awakening, which was one of my textbooks during my doctoral program, he defined spiritual bypassing as using spiritual ideas and practices to. The spiritual brain does not take a distinctly christian perspective. Free educational reading books for kids online funbrain. He has also produced a 24 lecture video program entitled, the spiritual brain, for the teaching. Neurotheology, also known as spiritual neuroscience 1, is an emerging field of study that seeks to understand the relationship between the brain science and religion.
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