Neuroscience Selflessness and Spiritual Experience

• Author : Brick Johnstone,Daniel Cohen
• Publisher : Academic Press
• Release : 15 June 2019

Neuroscience, Selflessness, and Spiritual Transcendence conveys the manner by which selflessness serves as a neuropsychological and religious foundation for spiritually transcendent experiences. The book combines neurological case studies and neuroscience research with religious accounts of transcendence experiences from the perspective of both the neurosciences and the history of religions. Chapters cover the subjective experience of transcendence, an historical summary of different philosophical and religious perspectives, a review of the neuroscience research that describes the manner by which the brain processes

• Author : James H. Austin
• Publisher : MIT Press
• Release : 01 September 2011

Attention, self-consciousness, insight, wisdom, emotional maturity: how Zen teachings can illuminate the way our brains function and vice-versa. When neurology researcher James Austin began Zen training, he found that his medical education was inadequate. During the past three decades, he has been at the cutting edge of both Zen and neuroscience, constantly discovering new examples of how these two large fields each illuminate the other. Now, in Selfless Insight, Austin arrives at a fresh synthesis, one that invokes the latest

• Author : David B. Larson,James P. Swyers,Michael E. McCullough
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 22 June 1998

• Author : Swift Reads
• Publisher : Swift Reads
• Release : 28 June 2019

Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion (2014) by neuroscientist and atheist Sam Harris explores how to develop a spiritual practice that is not based on outmoded religious beliefs about how the world works. Harris draws upon personal experience, neuroscience, psychology, and Buddhist conceptions of the mind to explore the nature of consciousness and how it is possible to embrace spirituality and remain secular… Purchase this in-depth summary to learn more.

• Author : Mario Beauregard,Denyse O'Leary
• Publisher : Harper Collins
• Release : 17 March 2009

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

• Author : Paul Bailey
• Publisher : Duncan Baird Publishers
• Release : 19 December 2011

Too often, it seems that science and spirituality are irreconcilable but Paul Bailey shows that hard fact and direct spiritual experience can come together harmoniously, and only when they do will the true nature of the universe be revealed to us. What he has to say will inspire mind-shifts and alter our perception of the universe. Bailey's revolutionary approach emerged from a whimsically phrased, but ultimately serious question that scientists tried to answer: If an elephant were sucked into a

• Author : Sam Harris
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release : 16 June 2015

A guide to meditation as a rational spiritual practice informed by neuroscience and psychology considers how to learn from the examples of religious sages and saints from a secular and philosophical perspective without formally committing to religion. 100,000 first printing.

• Author : John C. Wathey
• Publisher : Prometheus Books
• Release : 12 January 2016

An essential feature of religious experience across many cultures is the intuitive feeling of God's presence. More than any rituals or doctrines, it is this experience that anchors religious faith, yet it has been largely ignored in the scientific literature on religion. Starting with a vivid narrative account of the life-threatening hike that triggered his own mystical experience, biologist John Wathey takes the reader on a scientific journey to find the sources of religious feeling and the illusion of God's

• Author : Wentzel Van Huyssteen,Jacobus Wentzel Van Huyssteen
• Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
• Release : 22 June 2021

A multidisciplinary approach that addresses all aspects of the dialogue between the sciences and the world's religions, reaching into the humanities as well as into the physical sciences and technology. Examines controversial issues such as human cloning and stem cell research long with more traditional questions such as the origins of life, the nature of sin, and the philosophy of science and religion. 4 volumes.

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 22 June 2021

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• Author : Abhijit Naskar
• Publisher : Neuro Cookies
• Release : 13 March 2021

"The world doesn't revolve around white, straight, christian males - the sooner you realize this, the sooner you'll see the light of humanity." Earth’s champion of humanitarianism Abhijit Naskar delivers us a masterpiece that breathes life into humankind's struggle for inclusion, diversity and equality. As always he presents the fundamentals on stereotypes in simple words. "Perception is 99 percent stereotypes and 1 percent truth."

• Author : Abhijit Naskar
• Publisher : Neuro Cookies
• Release : 09 September 2020

"Worshipping images is the religion of the stone-age, helping people is the religion of a civilized society." The humanitarian scientist Abhijit Naskar delivers us an expedition in thought depicting the humane fundamentals of sanctity. He gives the call to the humans: "Be annihilated in love for the society and no gun, no grief, no grudge will remain in the world."

• Author : James H. Austin
• Publisher : Mit Press
• Release : 22 June 2021

A sequel to the popular Zen and the Brain further explores pivotal points ofintersection in Zen Buddhism, neuroscience, and consciousness, arriving at a new synthesis ofinformation from both neuroscience research and Zen studies.

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 01 July 1979

• Author : James H. Austin
• Publisher : MIT Press
• Release : 04 June 1999

A neuroscientist and Zen practitioner interweaves the latest research on the brain with his personal narrative of Zen. Aldous Huxley called humankind's basic trend toward spiritual growth the "perennial philosophy." In the view of James Austin, the trend implies a "perennial psychophysiology"—because awakening, or enlightenment, occurs only when the human brain undergoes substantial changes. What are the peak experiences of enlightenment? How could these states profoundly enhance, and yet simplify, the workings of the brain? Zen and the Brain