Why God won't go away

brain science and the biology of belief

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Why God won't go away

brain science and the biology of belief

1st ed.
  • 5 Want to read
  • 2 Currently reading
  • 1 Have read

"Why have we humans always longed to connect with something larger than ourselves? Why does consciousness inevitably involve us in a spiritual quest? Why, in short, won't God go away? Theologians, philosophers, and psychologists have debated this question through the ages, arriving at a range of contradictory and ultimately unprovable answers.

But in this new book, researchers Andrew Newberg and Eugene d'Aquili offer an explanation that is at once profoundly simple and scientifically precise: The religious impulse is rooted in the biology of the brain.".

"Newberg and d'Aquili base this revolutionary conclusion on a long-term investigation of brain function and behavior as well as studies they conducted using high-tech imaging techniques to examine the brains of meditating Buddhists and Franciscan nuns at prayer. What they discovered was that intensely focused spiritual contemplation triggers an alteration in the activity of the brain that leads us to perceive transcendent religious experiences as solid and tangibly real.

In other words, the sensation that Buddhists call "oneness with the universe" and the Franciscans attribute to the palpable presence of God is not a delusion or a manifestation of wishful thinking but rather a chain of neurological events that can be objectively observed, recorded, and actually photographed." "The inescapable conclusion is that God is hardwired into the human brain."--BOOK JACKET.

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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Language
English
Pages
226

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Why God won't go away: brain science and the biology of belief
2001, Ballantine Books
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-216) and index.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
200/.1/9
Library of Congress
BF773 .N48 2001

The Physical Object

Pagination
226 p. :
Number of pages
226

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3964499M
Internet Archive
whygodwontgoaway00newb
ISBN 10
0345440331
LCCN
2001269244
OCLC/WorldCat
46672067, 46667729
Library Thing
36776
Goodreads
567313

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