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Economist article giving overview of recent research in neurotheology.
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Wired Magazine interview of Michael Persinger, leading figure in the reductionist school of neurotheology.
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A brief but balanced overview of the field.
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Tracing the Synapses of Our Spirituality
Washington Post article by Shankar Vedantam on researchers examining the relationship between brain and religion.
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Neurology of Spiritual Experiences
Articles on spiritual experience and magnetic signal brain stimulation by one of Michael Persinger's students.
www.innerworlds.50megs.com
Wired for the Ultimate Reality: The Neuropsychology of Religious Experience
Article by Drs. Andrew Newberg and Eugene D'Aquili on the biological mechanisms underlying religious and spiritual experience, from the PBS "The Question of God" series.
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Website for Matthew Alper's book which suggests that "humans are innately hard-wired to perceive a spiritual reality".
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Paper by Olaf Blanke and team on the neurocognitive bases of out-of-body (OBE) experiences, from Journal of Neuroscience.
www.jneurosci.org
Summary of "Zen and the Brain", James H. Austin's definitive work tracing the neuroscientific aspects of Zen.
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Dr. Michael Winkelman, Anthropology Professor at Arizona State and author of "Shamanism: The Neural Economy of Consciousness", discusses the neurological basis of shamanism, mankind's oldest spiritual practice.
www.cognitiveliberty.org
Study Asks Whether Chemicals and Communion Are One
Article from "Science and Theology News" describing the neuroimaging of praying nuns performed by University of Montreal researcher Mario Beauregard.
www.mapageweb.umontreal.ca
What Buddhists Know About Science
Wired article on relationship between Tibetan meditation and the brain.
www.wired.com
The Guardian newspaper's review of Pascal Boyer's book "Religion Explained".
www.guardian.co.uk
Article covering meditation and its relationship to the metabolism, autonomic nervous system, endocrine system, and central nervous system.
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Transcendental Meditation Scientific Research
Bibliography of hundreds of scientific studies on the effects of Transcendental Meditation, including improved brain functioning.
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