Author: Patrick McNamara Ph.D.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313054762
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 918
Book Description
Spiritual practices, or awakenings, have an impact on brain, mind and personality. These changes are being scientifically predicted and proven. For example, studies show Buddhist priests and Franciscan nuns at the peak of religious feelings show a functional change in the lobes of their brain. Similar processes have been found in people with epilepsy, which Hippocrates called the sacred disease. New research is showing that not only does a person's brain activity change in particular areas while that person is experiencing religious epiphany, but such events can be created for some people, even self-professed atheists, by stimulating various parts of the brain. In this far-reaching and novel set, experts from across the nation and around the world present evolutionary, neuroscientific, and psychological approaches to explaining and exploring religion, including the newest findings and evidence that have spurred the fledgling field of neurotheology. It is not the goal of neurotheology to prove or disprove the existence of God, but to understand the biology of spiritual experiences. Such experiences seem to exist outside time and space - caused by the brain for some reason losing its perception of a boundary between physical body and outside world - and could help explain other intangible events, such as altered states of consciousness, possessions, alien visitations, near-death experiences and out-of-body events. Understanding them - as well as how and why these abilities evolved in the brain - could also help us understand how religion contributes to survival of the human race. Eminent contributors to this set help us answer questions including: How does religion better our brain function? What is the difference between a religious person and a terrorist who kills in the name of religion? Is there one site or function in the brain necessary for religious experience?
Where God and Science Meet
Author: Patrick McNamara Ph.D.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313054762
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 918
Book Description
Spiritual practices, or awakenings, have an impact on brain, mind and personality. These changes are being scientifically predicted and proven. For example, studies show Buddhist priests and Franciscan nuns at the peak of religious feelings show a functional change in the lobes of their brain. Similar processes have been found in people with epilepsy, which Hippocrates called the sacred disease. New research is showing that not only does a person's brain activity change in particular areas while that person is experiencing religious epiphany, but such events can be created for some people, even self-professed atheists, by stimulating various parts of the brain. In this far-reaching and novel set, experts from across the nation and around the world present evolutionary, neuroscientific, and psychological approaches to explaining and exploring religion, including the newest findings and evidence that have spurred the fledgling field of neurotheology. It is not the goal of neurotheology to prove or disprove the existence of God, but to understand the biology of spiritual experiences. Such experiences seem to exist outside time and space - caused by the brain for some reason losing its perception of a boundary between physical body and outside world - and could help explain other intangible events, such as altered states of consciousness, possessions, alien visitations, near-death experiences and out-of-body events. Understanding them - as well as how and why these abilities evolved in the brain - could also help us understand how religion contributes to survival of the human race. Eminent contributors to this set help us answer questions including: How does religion better our brain function? What is the difference between a religious person and a terrorist who kills in the name of religion? Is there one site or function in the brain necessary for religious experience?
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313054762
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 918
Book Description
Spiritual practices, or awakenings, have an impact on brain, mind and personality. These changes are being scientifically predicted and proven. For example, studies show Buddhist priests and Franciscan nuns at the peak of religious feelings show a functional change in the lobes of their brain. Similar processes have been found in people with epilepsy, which Hippocrates called the sacred disease. New research is showing that not only does a person's brain activity change in particular areas while that person is experiencing religious epiphany, but such events can be created for some people, even self-professed atheists, by stimulating various parts of the brain. In this far-reaching and novel set, experts from across the nation and around the world present evolutionary, neuroscientific, and psychological approaches to explaining and exploring religion, including the newest findings and evidence that have spurred the fledgling field of neurotheology. It is not the goal of neurotheology to prove or disprove the existence of God, but to understand the biology of spiritual experiences. Such experiences seem to exist outside time and space - caused by the brain for some reason losing its perception of a boundary between physical body and outside world - and could help explain other intangible events, such as altered states of consciousness, possessions, alien visitations, near-death experiences and out-of-body events. Understanding them - as well as how and why these abilities evolved in the brain - could also help us understand how religion contributes to survival of the human race. Eminent contributors to this set help us answer questions including: How does religion better our brain function? What is the difference between a religious person and a terrorist who kills in the name of religion? Is there one site or function in the brain necessary for religious experience?
The Language of God
Author: Francis Collins
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1847396151
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Dr Francis S. Collins, head of the Human Genome Project, is one of the world's leading scientists, working at the cutting edge of the study of DNA, the code of life. Yet he is also a man of unshakable faith in God. How does he reconcile the seemingly unreconcilable? In THE LANGUAGE OF GOD he explains his own journey from atheism to faith, and then takes the reader on a stunning tour of modern science to show that physics, chemistry and biology -- indeed, reason itself -- are not incompatible with belief. His book is essential reading for anyone who wonders about the deepest questions of all: why are we here? How did we get here? And what does life mean?
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1847396151
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Dr Francis S. Collins, head of the Human Genome Project, is one of the world's leading scientists, working at the cutting edge of the study of DNA, the code of life. Yet he is also a man of unshakable faith in God. How does he reconcile the seemingly unreconcilable? In THE LANGUAGE OF GOD he explains his own journey from atheism to faith, and then takes the reader on a stunning tour of modern science to show that physics, chemistry and biology -- indeed, reason itself -- are not incompatible with belief. His book is essential reading for anyone who wonders about the deepest questions of all: why are we here? How did we get here? And what does life mean?
When Science & Christianity Meet
Author: David C. Lindenberg
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226482154
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
This book, in language accessible to the general reader, investigates twelve of the most notorious, most interesting, and most instructive episodes involving the interaction between science and Christianity, aiming to tell each story in its historical specificity and local particularity. Among the events treated in When Science and Christianity Meet are the Galileo affair, the seventeenth-century clockwork universe, Noah's ark and flood in the development of natural history, struggles over Darwinian evolution, debates about the origin of the human species, and the Scopes trial. Readers will be introduced to St. Augustine, Roger Bacon, Pope Urban VIII, Isaac Newton, Pierre-Simon de Laplace, Carl Linnaeus, Charles Darwin, T. H. Huxley, Sigmund Freud, and many other participants in the historical drama of science and Christianity. “Taken together, these papers provide a comprehensive survey of current thinking on key issues in the relationships between science and religion, pitched—as the editors intended—at just the right level to appeal to students.”—Peter J. Bowler, Isis
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226482154
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
This book, in language accessible to the general reader, investigates twelve of the most notorious, most interesting, and most instructive episodes involving the interaction between science and Christianity, aiming to tell each story in its historical specificity and local particularity. Among the events treated in When Science and Christianity Meet are the Galileo affair, the seventeenth-century clockwork universe, Noah's ark and flood in the development of natural history, struggles over Darwinian evolution, debates about the origin of the human species, and the Scopes trial. Readers will be introduced to St. Augustine, Roger Bacon, Pope Urban VIII, Isaac Newton, Pierre-Simon de Laplace, Carl Linnaeus, Charles Darwin, T. H. Huxley, Sigmund Freud, and many other participants in the historical drama of science and Christianity. “Taken together, these papers provide a comprehensive survey of current thinking on key issues in the relationships between science and religion, pitched—as the editors intended—at just the right level to appeal to students.”—Peter J. Bowler, Isis
"I AM": The Attributes of God Seen in Scripture, Science and Creation
Author: Mario G. DeVita
Publisher: BookLocker.com, Inc.
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 99
Book Description
This book presents a thorough presentation of several of the Attributes of God as seen in the scriptures, science and the world. It includes Those attributes that are unique to God Himself, as well as those that may be shared by His people. Much of the information comes directly from the Bible.
Publisher: BookLocker.com, Inc.
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 99
Book Description
This book presents a thorough presentation of several of the Attributes of God as seen in the scriptures, science and the world. It includes Those attributes that are unique to God Himself, as well as those that may be shared by His people. Much of the information comes directly from the Bible.
Original God- Part I - I have met,14-18 yr Journey
Author: Dr. Mukesh Chauhan
Publisher: Discovery of Original God
ISBN: 0956516920
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
This book is a biography of my life. The difficulties and obstacles experienced in my 14-18yr Journey from the pinnacle of my clinical career and status in London in UK, USA and Europe with multiple degrees and striving for the fourth degree in the field of implant surgery and bone grafting, I was reduced to zero and begging conditions in three Countries. I was deliberately destroyed. My fault was to help make a Temple in Mauritius for a Priestess. After 14 difficult years I met God and Creator. The books explains about life and death, secrets about what happens to human beings after death, what happens to many souls after physical, premature and untimely deaths, how sinister techniques are employed to destroy people and kill people without leaving any trace of evidence. The ‘invisible enemies’ form the secret world of spirits and black magic. The real life road traffic accidents were too many, Yoga and meditation was my forte, Mystery of God revealed, conspiracy I was subjected to, Pyramids at back of USA Dollar bill and Paradise explained, soul power verses kundalini energies and 3rd eye. The epic Journey has more twists and turns than you will find in Hollywood or Bollywood films. The end result is author discovering or meeting both Creator and God and his fight continued to reveal the truth to masses which is completely covered up. Do remember there are many new things which can be added to what I have learned after 2009 yr. when this book was written. Any interested reader can write to me or contact me for further information Website: https://www.originalgodconsciousness.com Email: [email protected] / [email protected] You-Tube: https://bit.ly/3k5mHCl LinkedIn : https://bit.ly/3wN4w9E Twitter: https://bit.ly/3wpVxMj Facebook: https://bit.ly/3Nevoqm
Publisher: Discovery of Original God
ISBN: 0956516920
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
This book is a biography of my life. The difficulties and obstacles experienced in my 14-18yr Journey from the pinnacle of my clinical career and status in London in UK, USA and Europe with multiple degrees and striving for the fourth degree in the field of implant surgery and bone grafting, I was reduced to zero and begging conditions in three Countries. I was deliberately destroyed. My fault was to help make a Temple in Mauritius for a Priestess. After 14 difficult years I met God and Creator. The books explains about life and death, secrets about what happens to human beings after death, what happens to many souls after physical, premature and untimely deaths, how sinister techniques are employed to destroy people and kill people without leaving any trace of evidence. The ‘invisible enemies’ form the secret world of spirits and black magic. The real life road traffic accidents were too many, Yoga and meditation was my forte, Mystery of God revealed, conspiracy I was subjected to, Pyramids at back of USA Dollar bill and Paradise explained, soul power verses kundalini energies and 3rd eye. The epic Journey has more twists and turns than you will find in Hollywood or Bollywood films. The end result is author discovering or meeting both Creator and God and his fight continued to reveal the truth to masses which is completely covered up. Do remember there are many new things which can be added to what I have learned after 2009 yr. when this book was written. Any interested reader can write to me or contact me for further information Website: https://www.originalgodconsciousness.com Email: [email protected] / [email protected] You-Tube: https://bit.ly/3k5mHCl LinkedIn : https://bit.ly/3wN4w9E Twitter: https://bit.ly/3wpVxMj Facebook: https://bit.ly/3Nevoqm
God, Religion, Science, Nature, Culture, and Morality
Author: Yemant and Friends
Publisher: Archway Publishing
ISBN: 1480811246
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
"Most of us have never bothered to find out why we believe what we believe. That's especially true for our thoughts and convictions about religion. Perhaps we were otherwise too engaged. Perhaps we simply adopted what our elders and peers appeared to believe. Whatever the case, isn't it time for us all to examine matters of religiosity more carefully? At least we-a bunch of retired professors, no longer absorbed by professional duties-thought the time had come to ponder why we had taken so much for granted"--Amazon.com.
Publisher: Archway Publishing
ISBN: 1480811246
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
"Most of us have never bothered to find out why we believe what we believe. That's especially true for our thoughts and convictions about religion. Perhaps we were otherwise too engaged. Perhaps we simply adopted what our elders and peers appeared to believe. Whatever the case, isn't it time for us all to examine matters of religiosity more carefully? At least we-a bunch of retired professors, no longer absorbed by professional duties-thought the time had come to ponder why we had taken so much for granted"--Amazon.com.
When Science Meets Religion
Author: Ian G. Barbour
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062273779
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The Definitive Introduction To The Relationship Between Religion And Science ∗ In The Beginning: Why Did the Big Bang Occur? ∗ Quantum Physics: A Challenge to Our Assumptions About Reality? ∗ Darwin And Genesis: Is Evolution God′s Way of Creating? ∗ Human Nature: Are We Determined by Our Genes? ∗ God And Nature: Can God Act in a Law-Bound World? Over the centuries and into the new millennium, scientists, theologians, and the general public have shared many questions about the implications of scientific discoveries for religious faith. Nuclear physicist and theologian Ian Barbour, winner of the 1999 Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion for his pioneering role in advancing the study of religion and science, presents a clear, contemporary introduction to the essential issues, ideas, and solutions in the relationship between religion and science. In simple, straightforward language, Barbour explores the fascinating topics that illuminate the critical encounter of the spiritual and quantitative dimensions of life.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062273779
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The Definitive Introduction To The Relationship Between Religion And Science ∗ In The Beginning: Why Did the Big Bang Occur? ∗ Quantum Physics: A Challenge to Our Assumptions About Reality? ∗ Darwin And Genesis: Is Evolution God′s Way of Creating? ∗ Human Nature: Are We Determined by Our Genes? ∗ God And Nature: Can God Act in a Law-Bound World? Over the centuries and into the new millennium, scientists, theologians, and the general public have shared many questions about the implications of scientific discoveries for religious faith. Nuclear physicist and theologian Ian Barbour, winner of the 1999 Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion for his pioneering role in advancing the study of religion and science, presents a clear, contemporary introduction to the essential issues, ideas, and solutions in the relationship between religion and science. In simple, straightforward language, Barbour explores the fascinating topics that illuminate the critical encounter of the spiritual and quantitative dimensions of life.
Finding God in the Waves
Author: Mike McHargue
Publisher: Convergent Books
ISBN: 1101906049
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
"'Science Mike' draws on his personal experience to tell the unlikely story of how science led him back to faith. Among other revelations, we learn what brain scans reveal about what happens when we pray, how fundamentalism affects the psyche, and how God is revealed not only in scripture, but in the night sky, in subatomic particles, and in us"--Dust jacket flap.
Publisher: Convergent Books
ISBN: 1101906049
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
"'Science Mike' draws on his personal experience to tell the unlikely story of how science led him back to faith. Among other revelations, we learn what brain scans reveal about what happens when we pray, how fundamentalism affects the psyche, and how God is revealed not only in scripture, but in the night sky, in subatomic particles, and in us"--Dust jacket flap.
How Did God Do It? A Symphony of Science and Scripture
Author: Walt Huber
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1460211278
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Have you ever wondered... How Did God Do It? How did God perform the many miracles and supernatural events described in the Holy Bible - without violating the laws of physics and chemistry that He Himself put into place? And without conflicting with the basic tenets of Judaism and Christianity? This book proposes a theory that marries faith and rationality in a symphony of science and scripture....
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1460211278
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Have you ever wondered... How Did God Do It? How did God perform the many miracles and supernatural events described in the Holy Bible - without violating the laws of physics and chemistry that He Himself put into place? And without conflicting with the basic tenets of Judaism and Christianity? This book proposes a theory that marries faith and rationality in a symphony of science and scripture....
Meeting God - Part 1
Author: Dr. Mukesh C. Chauhan
Publisher: Dr Mukesh Chauhan
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Author has dissected his meeting with God with beautiful new details of God's Abode and how this abode is permanently lit and not amenable to human beings. Only through human consciousness can human beings attain this Abode, nothing physical can see this place. Arrangement of human souls, descent on Earth in worldly cycle. Author explains world's leading scientists knowledge does not reveal God's details as the approach was incorrect. God does not live in physical or Google Universe. There is a separate place beyond physical Universe, I call it 5th dimension or Quantum Universe which was made by Creator before the inception of our Universe or before human beings were born in their conscious or soul or atma forms.
Publisher: Dr Mukesh Chauhan
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Author has dissected his meeting with God with beautiful new details of God's Abode and how this abode is permanently lit and not amenable to human beings. Only through human consciousness can human beings attain this Abode, nothing physical can see this place. Arrangement of human souls, descent on Earth in worldly cycle. Author explains world's leading scientists knowledge does not reveal God's details as the approach was incorrect. God does not live in physical or Google Universe. There is a separate place beyond physical Universe, I call it 5th dimension or Quantum Universe which was made by Creator before the inception of our Universe or before human beings were born in their conscious or soul or atma forms.