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NeuroTheology:
Brain, Science, Spirituality &
Religious Experience, 2nd edition
University Press ISBN: 0971644586
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Is the Brain Wired for God?
Is There a Scientific Basis for Spirituality & Religious Belief?
Does God Exist?
What is the Physics of God?
Is There Life After Death?
What is the Anti-Christ?
These questions and more are answered by
the World's Leading Experts...


God & the Myth of Big Bang


CONTENTS

1. THE DEATH OF GOD, by Friederich Nietzsche.....................................................7

2. MYTHOLOGIES OF MODERN SCIENCE, by R. Joseph...................................................9 (download PDF)

3. THE MYTH OF THE BIG BANG, by R. Joseph...........................................23

4. CREATION SCIENCE & THE MYTH OF THE ORGANIC SOUP, by R. Joseph...............................39

5. THE DEATH OF DARWINISM, by R. Joseph................................................69

6. THEOGENESIS, by William F. Hamilton III.............................................111

7. DARWINISM AND CREATIONISM, by Michael Persinger.............................................119

8. COMPLEX MAGNETIC FIELDS, ABIOGENESIS, & THE EVOLUTION OF LIVING SYSTEMS, by Michael Persinger.............................................121

9. BRAINS, SCIENCE, NONORDINARY & TRANSCENDENT EXPERIENCES, by William Braud...................................................123

10. THE REALITY OF THE UNSEEN, by William James......................135

11. BRINGING "NEURO" AND "THEOLOGY" TOGETHER AGAIN By Andrew Newberg...................................................................145

12. THE NEUROPSYCHOLOGY OF RELIGION, by Scott Atran .........................................147

13. RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE, COMPLEXIFICATION, & THE IMAGE OF GOD, by Carol Rausch Albright.................... 167

14. INTERACTING COGNITIVE SUBSYSTEMS & RELIGIOUS MEANINGS, by Fraser Watts....................................................183

15. A SOCIAL COGNITION INTERPRETATION OF NEUROTHEOLOGICAL EVENTS, by Raymond F. Paloutzian, Thomas Fikes, & Dirk Hutsebaut ................................................................189

16. ATHEISM, RELIGIOUS CONVERSION & THE LOGIC OF GOD, by Matthew Alper..........................................................................195

17. CONVERSION & RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE by William James.............................................203

18. MYSTICISM, by William James.............................................227

19. THE NEUROPSYCHOLOGY OF AESTHETIC, SPIRITUAL & MYSTICAL STATES, by Eugene G. d1Aquili & Andrew B. Newberg ................................................243

20. NEURO-THEOLOGY, A RATHER SKEPTICAL PERSPECTIVE, by Massimo Pigliucci......................................................................251

21. ON THE "NEURO" IN NEUROTHEOLOGY, by Andrew B. Newberg & Jeremy Iversen.........................................................269

22. THE TEMPORAL LOBE: THE BIOLOGICAL BASIS OF THE GOD EXPERIENCE, by Michael A. Persinger............................................273

23. EXPERIMENTAL SIMULATION OF THE GOD EXPERIENCE, by Michael A. Persinger..........................................................279

24. THE EVOLUTIONARY ORIGINS OF SPIRITUAL CONSCIOUSNESS, by Matthew Alper..........................................................293

25. EVOLUTIONARY NEUROTHEOLOGY & THE VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE, by Bruce MacLennan.............................................. 305

26. PALEOLITHIC SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION, by R. Joseph...........................................315 (Download PDF)

27. AFTER-DEATH, ASTRAL PROJECTION, JUDGMENT DAY & THE SECOND DEATH, by R. Joseph........................................................357 (Download PDF)

28. SHAMANISM & INNATE BRAIN STRUCTURES: THE ORGINAL NEUROTHEOLOGY, by Michael Winkelman............................................387

29. EXPLORING THE CONTOURS OF MIND & CONSCIOUSNESS THROUGH MAGICO-SPIRITUAL TECHNIQUES by Manie Eagar & Enmarie Potgieter............................................... 397

30. DRUG-INDUCED GOD, by Matthew Alper.................................................. 409

31. DREAMS, SPIRITS AND THE SOUL, by R. Joseph.................................................411

32. THE STUDY OF "BIG DREAMS," by Kelly Bulkeley.............................................427

33. LOVE, RELIGION, & THE PSYCHOLOGY OF INSPIRATION by Ralph D. Ellis............................................447

34. "WIRED" FOR SELF-DESTRUCTION, by Matthew Alper..........................................467

35. SEX, VIOLENCE & RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE, by R. Joseph..................................................473 (download PDF)

36. SPIRITUAL HELPERS & MULTIPLE PERSONALITY DISORDER, by Ralph B. Allison.................................................................517

37. POSSESSION & PROPHECY, by R. Joseph................................. 527 (download PDF)

38. ANTI-CHRIST, ARMAGGEDON, ASTRONOMY & THE SCIENCE OF RELIGION, by R. Joseph................................... 555 (download PDF)

References ..................................................582-624




Authors - Contributors

  • Carol Rausch Albright, Editor, Zygon, Journal of Religion & Science--retired

  • Ralph Allison, M.D. Author: Minds In Many Pieces

  • Matthew Alper, author: God Part of the Brain

  • Scott Atran, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and University of Michigan

  • William Braud, Institute for Transpersonal Psychology

  • Kelly Bulkeley, Graduate Theological Union

  • Eugene G. d'Aquili

  • Ralph D. Ellis, Editor, journal of Consciousness & Emotion, Clark Atlantic University.

  • Manie Eagar & Enmarie Potgieter, Rand Afrikaans University & Apeiron Institute

  • William Hamilton, (UCLA) University of California Los Angeles

  • Jeremy Iversen, Stanford University

  • William James (author of "Varieties of Religious Experience" and until his death, professor at Harvard University)

  • Rhawn Joseph, Brain Research Laboratory

  • Bruce MacLennan, University of Tennessee

  • Andrew Newberg, University of Pennsylvania

  • Raymond F. Paloutzian, Thomas Fikes, & Dirk Hutsebaut, Westmont College

  • Michael Persinger, Laurentian University

  • Massimo Pigliucci, University of Tennessee

  • Fraser Watts, University of Cambridge

  • Michael Winkelman, Arizona State University








    • The Editor: R. Joseph, Ph.D.

    Dr. Joseph is the editor of Neurotheology and the author of two best selling neuroscience textbooks, Neuropsychology, Neuropsychiatry, Behavioral Neurology (Plenum, 1990), and Neuropsychiatry, Neuropsychology, Clinical Neuroscience (Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 1996).Dr. Joseph and colleagues were also the first to demonstrate neuroplasticity AND recovery of function in the primate brain; and the first to conclusively demonstrate the profound effects of the early environment on learning, memory and intelligence; and he pioneered research on the hormonal basis of sex differences--pioneering research published in esteemed scientific journals such as Comparative Neurology, Brain & Behavioral Research, Developmental Psychobiology, etc. -work first published in the late 1970s. Dr. Joseph is also the author of studies on split-brain functioning, and his work of the development of emotion, consciousness and the origin of thought, and cognition and the brain, was twice featured on the cover of the Journal of Clinical Psychology. More recent research and scholarly studies have concerned the evolution of language, sexuality, sex differences, and spirituality, and the development of the brain and human cognition. His works have received rave reviews in scientific journals.

    "One of the most astonishing books of our time." -Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society

    "First rate... Among the best... Deserving of a place on the shelf of any neuropsychologist, neuropsychiatrist, or behavioral neurologist." -the journal of Neuropsychiatry.

    "The finest analysis of... brain phenomena that we have to date."- The New England Review of Books

    "Joseph is to mind brain studies as Asimov and Sagan are to the physical sciences." -Choice

    "An intense, in-depth examination of the relationship between neuroanatomy and associated behavior, personality, thinking, psychosis, and emotions." 4 Stars! Highly recommended. -Doody's Medical Review Journal

    "Brilliant." -Choice

    "Excellent... Comprehensive... Exceptional... Enthusiastically recommended!" -Health Sciences Review Journal

    "Astounding... astounding... [Joseph] deserves our admiration." -Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology