Spiritual Doorway in the Brain A Neurologist's Search for the God Experience

Name: Spiritual Doorway in the Brain A Neurologist's Search for the God Experience
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ISBN: 9780452297586

ISBN-10: 0452297583

ISBN-13: 9780452297586

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Authors: Kevin Nelson

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"Bold, provocative, and highly readable." -V. S. Ramachandran, M.D., author of Phantoms in the BrainWhat are near-death experiences, out-of-body sensations, and spiritual ecstasy? And what do they have in common? Perhaps no one is more qualified to answer these questions than renowned neurobiologist Dr. Kevin Nelson. Drawing on his more than three decades of groundbreaking research into the "borderlands of consciousness," Dr. Nelson offers an unprecedented journey into the site of spiritual experience: the brain. Filled with amazing firsthand accounts as varied as a patient seeing the devil battling with his guardian angel to a man watching the universe synchronize around a pinball machine,…

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List price: $16.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/28/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



Prologue at the Foot of the Bed



The Architecture



What is a Spiritual Experience?: From Fear, to Pinball, to Fields of Daisies



The Three States of Consciousness: And Where Spiritual Arousal Happens



The Fragmented SelfHow We Become Our Own False Witness



At the Doorway



The Varieties of Near-Death Experience: Telling Stories



The Brain at Death's Portal: Light and Blood



The Ancient Metronome: The Tempo from Fear to Spiritual Bliss



The Borderland of Dreams and Death: What May Come?



The Other Side



The Beauty and Terror of Oneness: Deep Within the Mystic's Brain


Epilogue: A New Birth of Wisdom


Notes


Refernces and Resources


Acknowledgments


Index