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The god brain: Are you born with a god reference?

Edit The Examiner 16 Feb 2016
NeuroscienceNews.com’s Erik Driscoll reports (Feb ... Driscoll writes, “I take the position that a belief in God, gods, souls or spirits is not innate in our brains, nor was anything installed by some divine programmer, or being ... The upcoming Brain Games episode touches on questions about spirituality, neurotheology and belief in God and briefly covers the psychological phenomenon known as pareidolia ... ....

Is The Brain Hard-Wired To Believe In God?

Edit Opposing Views 16 Feb 2016
It's a touchy, controversial question. Are religious experiences real, or are they nothing more than the result of neurons firing and misfiring, natural processes interpreted as divine intervention?. A new series on the National Geographic Channel aims to explore that question with new research about religion and the brain. Titled "Brain Games ... ET. The question has spawned an entirely separate field of study known as neurotheology ... ....

Religion and the Brain (Thomas Jefferson University)

Edit Public Technologies 24 Sep 2015
(Source. Thomas Jefferson University). a neuroscientist and director of research at Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals' Myrna Brind Center of Integrative Medicine, recently spoke to Sandy Bauers from the Philadelphia Inquirer about his research on religion's effect on the brain, or neurotheology. Dr ... Newberg ... According to the article, one outcome of Dr ... distributed by ... (noodl. 30020746) ....

Scientists seek religious experience – in subjects' brains

Edit The Los Angeles Times 07 Jan 2015
At the push of a button, the gurney holding Auriel Peterson slides slowly into the pale blue glow of a magnetic resonance imaging machine ... It's Peterson's brain. And it's probably the last thing about this exercise that will be so simply shaded ... ... Neuroscientist Andrew Newberg began by scanning the brains of Franciscan nuns and Tibetan Buddhists and wound up founding "neurotheology," which fuses science with mysticism ... ... ....

Dr Robert J. Wallis presents paper on shamanism and art at British Association for the Study of Religion (Richmond University)

Edit noodls 04 Sep 2014
(Source. Richmond University) 04/09/2014 ... The British Association for the Study of Religion (BASR) annual conference, "Religion, Art and Performance" and "The Cutting Edge",. 3 to 5 September 2014 at the Open University, Milton Keynes ... Dr Robert J ... Recent scholarship on rock art contributes to this discourse in rational-materialist 'neurotheological' terms, locating image production and visionary experience as universal brain events....

Brain's reactions to symbols suggest we're hard-wired for God — or not

Edit The Oklahoman 06 Aug 2014
Science and theology are coming together to explore how people react to religious symbols, prompting new theories about why people choose faith, or don't. Mark A ... ;. close ... Newberg, a pioneer in the field of "neurotheology," which suggests people may be hard-wired to choose faith or unbelief, also found that reactions to religious symbols may be grounded in brain activity that happens before people are conscious of it ... Belief and reality....

Cultural shifts and brain scans: Is searching for spirituality the new American dream?

Edit CNN 02 Jul 2014
By Jessica Ravitz, CNN. (CNN) - To discover one’s self. To find enlightenment. To take a spiritual journey. What does this language mean? Are these pursuits, these aspirations, really possible? And if they are, what do the results look like?. I can’t pretend to have the answers ... Andrew Newberg, a neuroscientist who helped pioneer a field called “neurotheology,” or the neurological study of religious and spiritual experiences ... Filed under ... ... ....

What god does to your brain

Edit Canberra Times 30 Jun 2014
Some believe that worshippers respond to brain activity that enables heightened feelings of connectedness with things. Photo. Reuters ... I watched, bemused ... No wonder, then, that neurotheology (or biotheology), with its implications that the brain is merely a ''computer of meat'', is hugely contentious in the US, where only 1.6 per cent and 2.4 per cent of the population declare themselves ''atheist'' or ''agnostic'', respectively ... ....

Prayer Brings Different People Together, Claims New Study

Edit The Inquisitr 28 Jun 2014
The conclusions suggest that the “power” of prayer could be used to achieve the goals of an organization regardless of the background of the people it employs ... A rising field called “neurotheology” — which involves the relation between the brain, mind, and religious activities — is raising some interest among psychologists and neuroscientists and is expected to take off within the decade ... ....

Patients 'put at risk' by plans to allow medical students to treat patients

Edit The Daily Telegraph 22 Jun 2014
Related Articles. Doctors told to apologise to patients when they make mistakes 13 Jun 2014. Surgeon could be struck off for 'fiddling surgery results' 25 May 2014. General Medical Council calls for law change after two surgeons escape ban following pregnant woman's death 15 May 2014. Half of foreign doctors are below British standards 18 Apr 2014 ... The controversial science of neurotheology aims to find the answer to an age-old question ... ....

Hard Choices by Hillary Rodham Clinton, review: 'a calculating tome'

Edit The Daily Telegraph 22 Jun 2014
Related Articles. A Journey with Hillary Clinton 08 Mar 2013. The best books of 2014 20 Jun 2014 ... Soft and hard power, masculine and feminine, liberal and conservative, must walk hand in hand, she comes to realise ... This was the fruit of negotiations begun by Hillary Clinton at a time when the idea of doing business with the Taliban was anathema ... The controversial science of neurotheology aims to find the answer to an age-old question ... 1 ... 2....

Woman, 102, faces charge of murdering roommate

Edit The Daily Telegraph 21 Jun 2014
Related Articles. Pensioner, 99, Britain's 'oldest crime suspect' 08 Aug 2009. Disabled shopper forced to carry wine with teeth 08 Aug 2009. Ronnie Biggs should 'rot in jail', says victim's grandson 07 Aug 2009. Ronnie Biggs is laughing all the way to his grave 07 Aug 2009 ... Mr Sutter's spokesman, Gregg Miliote, said the case remains open ...  . USA ... The controversial science of neurotheology aims to find the answer to an age-old question ... ....

Becoming Freud: the Making of a Psychoanalyst by Adam Phillips, review: 'acute and dazzling'

Edit The Daily Telegraph 21 Jun 2014
Related Articles. The Silence of Animals by John Gray. review 04 Mar 2013. The best books of 2014 20 Jun 2014. What matters to both Phillips and his subject is the person’s own story – or stories, which can obscure or transfix (indeed, as Phillips says, “that is their function”) ... wayswithwords.co.uk. Becoming Freud ... READ ...   ... The controversial science of neurotheology aims to find the answer to an age-old question....
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