The Spiritual Brain: Science and Religious Experience

<p>An award-winning scholar and practicing neuroscientist offers you 24 riveting lectures that explore the new and exciting field of neurotheology, a discipline aimed at understanding the connections between our brains and different kinds of religious phenomena.</p>

• By This Professor
• 01: A New Perspective on Ancient Questions
• 02: Why Do We Have a Spiritual Brain?
• 03: Brain Function and Religion
• 04: How Does Science Study Religion?
• 05: Believers and Atheists
• 06: Spiritual Development
• 07: The Myth-Making Brain
• 08: The Brain and Religious Rituals
• 09: The Biology of Spiritual Practices
• 10: Religion and Health
• 11: Religion and Mental Health
• 12: Religion and Brain Dysfunction
• 13: Transmitters to God
• 14: Stimulated States and Religious Experiences
• 15: Near-Death Experiences and the Brain
• 16: The Believing Brain
• 17: The Brain's Influence on Religious Ideas
• 18: Revelation, Salvation, and the Brain
• 19: The Brain's Influence on Religious Behavior
• 20: How the Brain Changes God
• 21: How God Changes the Brain
• 22: Why God Won't Go Away
• 23: The Mystical Mind
• 24: Reality and Beyond