| A Mystical Union |
| Spiritual neurology: A mystical union | The Economist |
| http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2478148 |
| Economist article giving overview of recent research in neurotheology. |
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| This Is Your Brain on God |
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| Wired Magazine interview of Michael Persinger, leading figure in the reductionist school of neurothe ology. |
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| Neurotheology on Wikipedia |
| Neurotheology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurotheology |
| A brief but balanced overview of the field. |
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| Tracing the Synapses of Our Spirituality |
| MAPS in the Media: "Tracing the Synapses of Our Spirituality" - Researchers Examine Relationship Between Brain and Religion - By Shankar Vedantam, Washington Post - Sunday, June 17, 2001 |
| http://www.maps.org/media/vedantam.html |
| Washington Post article by Shankar Vedantam on researchers examining the relationship between brain and religion. |
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| Neurology of Spiritual Experiences |
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| http://www.innerworlds.50megs.com/ |
| Articles on spiritual experience and magnetic signal brain stimulation by one of Michael Persinger's students. |
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| Wired for the Ultimate Reality: The Neuropsychology of Religious Experience |
| The Question of God . Other Voices . A. Newberg & E. D'Aquili | PBS |
| http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/questionofgod/voices/newberg.html |
| Article by Drs. Andrew Newberg and Eugene D'Aquili on the biological mechanisms underlying religious and spiritual experience, from the PBS "The Question of God" series. |
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| The "God" Part Of The Brain |
| The GOD Part Of The Brain - Matthew Alper |
| http://godpart.com/ |
| Website for Matthew Alper's book which suggests that "humans are innately hard-wired to perceive a s piritual reality". |
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| Linking Out-of-Body Experience and Self Processing to Mental Own-Body Imagery at the Temporoparietal Junction |
| Linking Out-of-Body Experience and Self Processing to Mental Own-Body Imagery at the Temporoparietal Junction -- Blanke et al. 25 (3): 550 -- Journal of Neuroscience |
| http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/abstract/25/3/550 |
| Paper by Olaf Blanke and team on the neurocognitive bases of out-of-body (OBE) experiences, from Jou rnal of Neuroscience. |
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| Zen and the Brain |
| CSP - 'Zen and the Brain' by James H. Austin |
| http://www.csp.org/chrestomathy/zen_and.html |
| Summary of "Zen and the Brain", James H. Austin's definitive work tracing the neuroscientific aspect s of Zen. |
| Council on Spiritual Practices - Entheogen Chrestomathy entry |
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| Neurotheology & Shamanism |
| Neurotheology & Shamanism |
| http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/neuro/winkelman1.htm |
| Dr. Michael Winkelman, Anthropology Professor at Arizona State and author of "Shamanism: The Neural Economy of Consciousness", discusses the neurological basis of shamanism, mankind's oldest spiritual practice. |
| Neurotheology and Shamanism |
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| Study Asks Whether Chemicals and Communion Are One |
| Science |
| http://www.mapageweb.umontreal.ca/beauregm/study_asks_whether.htm |
| Article from "Science and Theology News" describing the neuroimaging of praying nuns performed by Un iversity of Montreal researcher Mario Beauregard. |
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| Physiology of meditation |
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| Article covering meditation and its relationship to the metabolism, autonomic nervous system, endocr ine system, and central nervous system. |
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| On the Neuropsychology of Religious Experiences |
| On the Neuropsychology of Religious Experiences |
| http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/~bhidalgo/litreview.htm |
| Review of literature on neuropsychology of religious experiences, including temporal lobe model, D'A quili's model for meditative states, and substance-induced religious experience. |
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| Neurological Correlates of Transformational Experiences |
| Meridian Institute - Home Page |
| http://www.meridianinstitute.com/reports/neurocor.html |
| Article building on work of Persinger and d'Aquili, looking at near-death experiences with neuroimag ing. |
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| Religiosity is associated with hippocampal but not amygdala volumes in patients with refractory epilepsy -- Wuerfel et al. 75 (4): 640 -- Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry |
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| http://jnnp.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/75/4/640 |
| Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry article finding that epilepsy patients with high re ligiosity had smaller right hippocampi. |
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| Meridian Magazine :: Neurotheology |
| Meridian Magazine :: Neurotheology |
| http://www.meridianmagazine.com/ideas/040216neurotheology.html |
| BYU scholars give a brief overview of neurotheology, and ponder the neurological basis of Joseph Smi th's revelations. |
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| Body and Mind |
| Channel 4 - Science, Nature and the Environment |
| http://www.channel4.com/science/microsites/S/science/body/exorcism.html |
| Materials accompanying a TV special on body and mind, with a brief overview of older theories and no table neurotheology research. |
| An aggregation of all Channel 4 Science, Nature and the Environment programmes |
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| The Physical and Psychological Effects of Meditation |
| The Physical and Psychological Effects of Meditation Introduction, part 1 |
| http://www.noetic.org/research/medbiblio/ch_intro1.htm |
| Online portions of a book by the same name, reviewing scientific studies, discussing behavioral effe cts, and giving subjective reports. Searchable bibliography on meditation research. |
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| BBC - Science & Nature - Horizon - God on the Brain |
| BBC - Science & Nature - Horizon - God on the Brain |
| http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2003/godonbrain.shtml |
| Is a part of our brains hardwired to generate religious feelings? Program summary for a BBC neurothe ology special. |
| God on the Brain. Is a part of our brains hardwired to generate religious feelings? |
| neurotheology, religious vision, hallucination, religion, temporal lobe epilepsy, magnetic fields, |
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| Meditation and the Brain |
| Technology Review: Meditation and the Brain |
| http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/04/02/newton0204.asp?p=1 |
| Report on a conference held by MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain Research, bringing together Buddhi sts and neuroscientists. |
| New imaging technology makes it possible for scientists to document the brain activity of Buddhist m onks. |
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| Evolutionary Neurotheology and the Varieties of Religious Experience |
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| Article by Bruce McLennan of University of Tennessee, outlining a neuropsychological approach to rel igious experience based on archetypal psychology. |
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| How the Brain Creates God |
| O.A.K.: HOW THE BRAIN ‘CREATES’ GOD |
| http://www.nwbotanicals.org/oak/magick/createsgod.htm |
| Broad-ranging overview by Iona Miller, touching on archetypes, NDEs, drugs, trances, TMS, and shaman ism. |
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consciousness,Robert Crookall,A.E. Waite,Bardo Thodol,noetic science |
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| Numenware, a blog about neurotheology |
| Numenware, a blog about neurotheology |
| http://www.numenware.com |
| Frequently updated weblog about neurotheology. Also covers some general neuroscience, Dogen, languag e, and Japan topics. |
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| "Neurotheology": A semantic trap set by pseudo-science for the unwary scientist |
| "Neurotheology": A semantic trap set by pseudo-science for the unwary
scientist |
| http://www.cns.res.in/neurotheology.html |
| Article claiming there is no scientific rationale for the nouveau term "Neurotheology", and that res earchers working on topics relating to religion should stick to the conventional Behavioural and Soc ial Neurosciences categories. |
| There is no scientific rationale for the nouveau term 'Neurotheology'. Researchers working on topic s relating to religion must stick to the conventional Behavioural and Social Neurosciences categorie s. |
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| Ecstasy from a Physiological Point of View |
| Religious Ecstasy - Maharaji - Elan Vital - Cult |
| http://www.ex-premie.org/papers/religious_ecstasy.htm |
| Discussion of relationship between drugs, celibacy, fasting and other physical practices and ecstasy . Presented by Kaj Bjorkqvist at Symposium on Religions Ecstasy held at Åbo, Finland, on the 26th-28 th of August 1981. |
| from a physiological point of view. |
| maharaj maharaji guru maharaj ji elan vital |
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| The Serotonin System and Spiritual Experiences |
| The Serotonin System and Spiritual Experiences -- Borg et al. 160 (11): 1965 -- Am J Psychiatry |
| http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/160/11/1965? |
| American Journal of Psychiatry research showing that "binding potential" (serotonin levels) correlat ed inversely with scores for self-transcendence. |
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| What Buddhists Know About Science |
| What Buddhists Know About Science |
| http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/news/2002/07/53820 |
| Wired article on relationship between Tibetan meditation and the brain. |
| Tibetan Buddhists described advanced neurological concepts 2,000 years before science had the techno logy to discover them. By Daithí Ó hAnluain. |
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| Are We Hardwired for God? |
| Are we hardwired for God? | Books | guardian.co.uk |
| http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2002/feb/07/londonreviewofbooks |
| The Guardian newspaper's review of Pascal Boyer's book "Religion Explained". |
| WG Runciman on whether evolutionary psychology explains religion |
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| Guardian: Tests of faith |
| Tests of faith | Science | The Guardian |
| http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2005/feb/24/1 |
| Article discussing evolutionary, anthropological (Boyer), and neuroscientific (Ramachandran, Newberg ) aspects of religion. |
| Religion may be a survival mechanism. So are we born to believe? Ian Sample reports. |
| Science,Science |
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