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The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist's Case for the Existence of the Soul, Beauregard, Mario: Religion
Challenging books such as Richard Dawkinss "The God Delusion" and Sam Harriss "The End of Faith," a neuroscientist offers compelling evidence that it is God who creates spiritual experiences and not the brain.
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The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist's Case for the Existence of the Soul
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...
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Genre: Religion, Psychology. Subgenre: Religion & Science, Neuropsychology, Mysticism. Date Published: October 01, 2008. Release Date: October 01, 2008. Publisher: Harperone. Pages: 368. Edition: Reprint. Format: Paperback.
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The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist's Case for the Existence of the Soul, Library Edition
Buy Mario Beauregard - The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist's Case for the Existence of the Soul, Library Edition - [Item: 199543 - ISBN: 1605145092] - Doors To Knowledge Christian Bookshop
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The Spiritual Brain (a Neuroscientist's Case For The Existence Of The Soul) (hardcover)
The Spiritual Brain (a Neuroscientist's Case For The Existence Of The Soul) (hardcover) - By Mario Beauregard,denyse O'leary
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Does religious experience come from God, or is it just the random firing of neurons in the brain? The Spiritual Brain proves that genuine, life-changing spiritual events can be documented. The authors make a convincing case for what many in science are loathe to consider---that it is God who creates our spiritual experiences, not the brain.
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The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist's Case for The Existence of The Soul
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...
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Current scientific philosophy, guided by materialism, argues that religious experience is the product of nothing more than the wiring of the brain. In The Spiritual Brain, Mario Beauregard and Denyse O'Leary, a distinguished neuroscientist and an award-winning writer, argue that this isn't't the case - that some people do contact a reality outside of themselves. The authors suggest that we must move toward a non-materialist perspective that can explore and document these types of experiences. Beauregard...
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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 non-material 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...
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Draws on high-profile brain and near-death-experience research to present a case for God's existence as indicated by neuroscience, arguing that God, rather than brain neurons, is directly responsible for creating spiritual experiences. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
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Does religious experience come from God, or is it just the random firing of neurons in the brain? The Spiritual Brain proves that genuine, life-changing spiritual events can be documented. The authors make a convincing case for what many in science are loathe to consider---that it is God who creates our spiritual experiences, not the brain.
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But people really like the idea of non-material stuff (whatever the patterns of neural activity in their brains cause them to think that "non-material" means). So they do silly things. Mario Beauregard actually got a bunch of nuns to undergo fMRI scans while thinking about God. And in a second experiment he got the same nuns to think about intense non-Godly personal experiences while in the scanner. Not surprisingly the scans showed different patterns of brain activity (actually blood flow),...
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Does religious experience come from God, or is it just the random firing of neurons in the brain? The Spiritual Brain proves that genuine, life-changing spiritual events can be documented. The authors make a convincing case for what many in science are loathe to consider---that it is God who creates our spiritual experiences, not the brain.
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Spiritual Brain - A Neuroscientists Case for the Existence of the Soul
Paperback edition of this study of what the authors believe to be neuroscientific evidence for the existence of the soul. The reviewer in Publishers Weekly called it 'a lively introduction to a field where neuroscience, philosophy, and secular/spiritual cultural wars are unavoidably intermingled.'
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