Author: Todd Murphy
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ISBN: 9780692957653
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Languages : en
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Describes Spiritual imaginations, meditations, and prayer techniques based on Brain science. Covers prayer, meditation, spiritual healing, all backed by published scientific data. It includes newer methods of engaging imagination in service of spiritual growth.
Author: Todd Murphy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615890487
Category : Mysticism
Languages : en
Pages : 470
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(Currently sale priced) "... illuminating ..." - The Dalai Lama.Sacred Pathways explains how the brain areas that support Near-Death Experiences are also the basis for mystic experience during our lives. It's a 21st century synthesis of science and spirituality by brain scientist Todd Murphy, in which spiritual, religious, and mystic events are explained with neuroscience.Edited and re-edited to make the science easy to understand, it's a readable introduction to the science of the spiritual.Murphy uses Darwin's theory of evolution to understand the human death-process, and proposes that reincarnation is an evolutionary adaptation which contributed to the survival of our species. The book explores the ideas that the self is actually a hallucination, God is a manifestation of a part of ourselves, and enlightenment comes from a blast of neural activity in specific parts of the brain. It also looks at prayer, spontaneous mystic experiences, romantic love, and psychic skills. The author also believes that spirituality is a very positive force, both in the world and in our lives. Spirituality, he argues, is an adaptive force that's crucial to our survival as a species, making it an integral part of human nature. An atheist who openly encourages prayer, Murphy goes past the debates between skeptics and believers and shows how religion helps us, without regard for the truth or falsehood of anyone's beliefs. Sacred Pathways is a fascinating example of no-nonsense 'new science' at its best.This extensively referenced tour-de-force work explains the brain's role in religious and mystic experiences including, enlightenment, prayer, near-death experiences, and even psychic perception. It also explains reincarnation, out-of-body experiences and the spiritual nature of romantic love.It includes a chapter that summarizes Murphy's concept of reincarnation; the first to be published by a peer-reviewed scientific journal. It also has an in-depth discussion of the famous God Helmet, and explains how psychic skills work, based on lab experiments with telepathy and remote viewing.Sacred Pathways is a major advance in neurotheology, a synthesis of science and religion that discusses spirituality only in the language of science. Most people in this field confine themselves to looking at what the brain is doing when people have otherworldly experiences, epiphanies, and peak experiences. Murphy goes further than that, seeing these things in the context of anthropology, sociology, and human evolution as well as in the human brain.Todd Murphy has published in several scientific journals, including the Journal for Near-Death Studies, Psychology Reports, NeuroQuantology, and Activitas Nervosa Superior.This fascinating, accessible, and thought provoking book will change the way you see spirituality.Sacred Pathways is "...the principia (principle work) of the scientific investigation of spiritual experiences" (From the forward by Dr. Michael Persinger, inventor of the God Helmet).
Author: Andy Otto
Publisher: Ave Maria Press
ISBN: 159471648X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Where do you seek God? Are you waiting for him to appear in a monumental, life-altering event? In God Moments, Catholic blogger Andy Otto shows you how to discover the unexpected beauty of God’s presence in the story of ordinary things and in everyday routines like preparing breakfast or walking in the woods. Drawing on the Ignatian principles of awareness, prayer, and discernment, Otto will help you discover the transforming power of God’s presence in your life and better understand your place in the world. Andy Otto found God’s presence in surprising moments during his life—when, as a Jesuit scholastic, he taught children in Jamaica and also as he discerned the call to marriage with his wife. By combining elements of Ignatian spirituality with the lessons that came from his experiences, Otto identified three practices that helped him find God in all things: Awareness—Gain an understanding that God is present in the ordinary messiness of our lives such as battle with depression or sharing in the struggle of a friend. Prayer—Develop a prayer life using Ignatian practices such as asking for a morning grace and examining how your prayer was answered at the end of the day. That way you can focus on a personal relationship with God that finds everyday physical activities such as making a meal as an opportunity to talk to him. Discernment—The more you are aware of God’s presence and draw closer to him in prayer, the better you can learn how to plug into God’s narrative of the world in a way that enables you to participate in the divine story through the use of your gifts and talents. With God Moments as a guide, you’ll have a better understanding of how to seek personal wholeness in the reality of God’s presence in the ordinary and learn to accept his invitation to participate in his transformation of the world.
Author: Rick Curry
Publisher: Destiny Image Publishers
ISBN: 0768458994
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 126
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You are Gods strategy for revival. As the nations crumble under chaos and compromise, have Christians sunk so low in their hope that they can no longer anticipate a glorious move of God? Or will a remnant of ordinary dreamers shake off despair, rise up, and join God in His mighty purpose for His people? God always uses ordinary men and women to bring about revival, and He is doing it again. The Spirit is stirring up a peoples revival! Best known for his prophetic Appeal to Heaven dream, revivalist Rick Curry believes that you play a pivotal role in bringing in the next wave of Holy Spirit outpouring. In The Sound of Awakening, Curry inspires you to abandon old mindsets and structures that have held you back from being used mightily by God. Its time for everyday Christians like you to dream again for the coming awakening. You will find: Abundant Hope from prophetic dreams and encounters that foresee a coming global awakening. Practical Principles to shift from apathy and isolation to passion and dynamic purpose. A Clear Vision of Gods unfolding plan for global awakening and the greatest harvest the world has ever seen. You are not exempt from being used dramatically by God. Its time to take your place in the unfolding story of the next great awakening!
Author: J. G. Renato
Publisher: Veritas Shield
ISBN: 0989718603
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 71
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They're everywhere around us, but usually we choose to ignore them. They happen in space. They happen in time. They’re little moments of discontinuity in our experience, but they can become portals to the greater experience of our world as illusion, as the veil, as maya, as the collective dream – and the experience of ourselves as the dreamers. If we choose not to ignore them, but to follow them, like Alice down a cosmic rabbit hole, we might just begin to understand how it was that we got here in the first place. Offering unique ways to look at light, quantum physics, string theory, the universe existing as a single unified melody, the power of imagination, free will, the language of mathematics, death, and more, Renato successfully challenged me to consider not just “Who am I?” but “What am I?” — Patricia Reding, Readers’ Favorite J. G. Renato attempts to uncover the deeper meaning behind that often disconcerting déjà vu we’ve all experienced at some time or other. He skillfully uses this sense of stepping out of one plane of reality and seeing things from a different perspective to explore the whole nature of being, presence, and existence. Most crucially, he poses the thorny question of how spiritual phenomena can fit within a world obsessed by rationality and tangible productivity. … The key achievement of this slight volume is managing to be metaphysical while remaining lighthearted and fun. — Seamus Mullarkey, ForeWord Reviews
Author: Sylvia Browne
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101218940
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 269
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For nearly 50 years, New York Times bestselling author Sylvia Browne has been giving millions of readers and listeners spiritual advice, psychic predictions, inspiration, and emotional connections to a world on "the other side." Now, in this fascinating A-Z compendium, Browne delivers to her fans a complete guide to all things paranormal, including: Atlantis -Where did it go and when will it return? Clairvoyance -How does one know if they have the gift? Déjà vu -Are past lives the answer to this strange phenomenon? Ghosts -Who are they? Miracles -Can they happen every day? Numerology -What effect does it really have? Reincarnation -Is there a new life for everyone? Sorcery -Is this something we should fear? Zombies -Are they only in horror movies? ...and much more, in this easy-to-use reference that helps readers to understand the phenomenon of the other side.
Author: Renee Lloyd
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1456738550
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 75
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Living and coping with psychic abilities, spiritual gifts, and paranormal information
Author: Chris Moulin
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315524910
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 205
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Déjà vu is one of the most complex and subjective of all memory phenomena. It is an infrequent and striking mental experience, where the feeling of familiarity is combined with the knowledge that this feeling is false. While until recently it was an aspect of memory largely overlooked by mainstream cognitive psychology, this book brings together the growing scientific literature on déjà vu, making the case for it as a metacognitive phenomenon. The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Déjà Vu reviews clinical, experimental and neuroimaging methods, focusing on how memory disorders and neurological dysfunction relate to the experience. Examining déjà vu as a memory phenomenon, Chris Moulin explores how the experience of déjà vu in special populations, such as healthy aging or those with schizophrenia, provides new insights into understanding this phenomenon. He considers the extensive data on déjà vu in people with epilepsy, dementia and other neurological conditions, assessing neuropsychological theories of déjà vu formation. Essential reading for all students and researchers interested in memory disorders, this valuable book presents the case for déjà vu as a ‘healthy’ phenomenon only experienced by people with sufficient cognitive resources to oppose and detect the false feeling of familiarity.
Author: Todd Murphy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781702117517
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 371
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The God Helmet Experiments is about the research which led to a technology that created a wide range of religious, mystic, and spiritual experiences in the laboratory. These included some visions of god, out of body experiences, waking dreams, apparitions, and the feeling that there is someone standing behind you when no one is there. It's even elicited Near-Death Experience phenomena. Used in other ways, the God Helmet has also created paranormal experiences, including ghostly visions. There were even a few experiments successfully applying the God Helmet for depression.The God Helmet was developed by two scientists at Laurentian University's behavioral neurosciences program, Stan Koren, and Dr. Michael Persinger, who was the director of the research group until he passed away in 2017. The editor took some of Dr. Michael Persinger's difficult to read scientific papers about the God Helmet, and rewrote them to make them easier to read. This book is designed to help you understand the God Helmet, the brain's role in religious and mystic experiences, and even presents some material related to the debates and misunderstandings in this area of brain science. The God Helmet Experiments is a new kind of science book, letting the reader see the actual research. It's still a work of science, and still calls for some careful reading, though it's very much easier to read and understand than the original scientific journal articles. Dr. Michael Persinger was Todd Murphy's (this book's editor) mentor for 23 years, and they even published a few papers together. Not only can The God Helmet Experiments help you to understand the how the brain contributes to spiritual experiences, but it will also let you see the other exciting possibilities in this fascinating technology (low intensity complex magnetic signal stimulation). The book has three sections. The first is dedicated to some of Dr.Persinger's longer review and summary articles, four in all. The second is a series of experiments using the God Helmet, recounting the experiments, one by one. The third is a response to Persinger's critics and their (unfounded) criticism. Dr. Michael Persinger published over 500 articles in scientific journals during his career, and this volume only scratches the surface. Nevertheless, this collection of simplified papers by Dr. Persinger includes some of the most important "review" articles, where he summarizes his work. One day, mysticism and mystic experience could be available to every human being through this technology, or a future version of it that no one can now imagine. There may be a few errors and typos in this book, and we ask the reader to be understanding about them. Let the author know, and they'll be fixed in a future revision. Thank you.
Author: Dr. Marrissa R. Dick
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1663266069
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 664
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Devina, unsure if she’s awake or dreaming, stumbles upon the man of her dreams in Barbados. While she grapples with the surreal nature of the encounter, Tyberius, steadfast in his faith, is certain that their meeting is a divine intervention, marking the beginning of a new chapter in their lives. Meanwhile, Greg and Maxine's relationship spirals out of control, and she has two life-altering experiences that cause her to lash out at God. Keith is being prepared to become a warrior for the Kingdom, and their mother, Queen, finds herself seeking comfort in the arms of her husband’s best friend, Dr. Martin McGuire. They are all seeking comfort as chaos and fleshly desires enter their lives. God sends His angels from heaven to help direct their paths so that their purpose for His kingdom and their deep desires for comfort draw them closer to Him.
