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An edition of Wired for God? (2011)

Wired for God?

the biology of spiritual experience

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"Siberian shamans, whirling sufis and entranced bushmen; hypnotism and magic mushrooms; hymn-singing in the suburbs and ecstatic drumming in the African night; speaking in tongues and UFOs; near-death experiences and epileptic nuns; Neolithic tomb architecture; God-helmets, God-spots and God-genes. What does all this mean for the faithful and the faithless? What does it tell us about what it means to be human? Charles Foster takes us on a fascinating, fast-paced tour through the underworld and overworld of human spiritual experience. He examines the biological basis of religious ecstasy, meditative calm and mythical voyaging to other worlds. And he asks if these experiences tell us anything about the 'truths' that religions so loudly assert"--Publisher's description, p. [4] of cover.

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Hodder & Stoughton
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331

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Experience (Religion), Human physiology, Neurology
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Table of Contents

Matter matters : religious people are made of molecules too
God head : the anatomy of religion
The holy helix : genetically predestined to believe?
Wholly mad or holy madness?
Getting out of yourself : an introduction to other states of consciousness
Finding God in a garden : how psychoactive substances can throw open the doors of perception
Finding God in the bedroom : the sexuality of spirituality and the spirituality of sexuality
Finding God in the intensive care unit : near-death and other out-of-body experiences
Other portals
Turning on and tuning in : brains as antennae
Religious experience and the origin of religion
Angels or demons? The suppression of religious experience
Breathing God.

Edition Notes

"Appendix: Who am I? The terrible problem of consciousness": P. 253-268.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-273) and index.

Originally published: London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2010.

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Biology of spiritual experience

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BL53 .F625 2011, BL53 .F67 2011, BL53

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xviii, 331 p. :
Number of pages
331

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OL25232811M
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ISBN 10
034096443X
ISBN 13
9780340964439
LCCN
2011414514
OCLC/WorldCat
701110016

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