Andrew Dennison

Selflessness as the Neuropsychological Foundation of Spiritual Transcendence

March 31, 2026 Brick Johnstone, Daniel Cohen, Andrew Dennison

This chapter describes results obtained from our Shirley Ryan AbilityLab/JTF funded study, A Longitudinal fMRI Study of Theistic Relational Processing in Individuals with Neurologic Dysfunction, which demonstrated that spiritual experiences can be conceptualized in terms of neuropsychological processes minimizing the sense of self (i.e., selflessness), and can also lead to experiences of...