Neuroscience in Pursuit of the Holy: Mysticism, the Brain, and Ultimate Reality
September 1, 2001 C. R. Albright
Eugene d’Aquili and Andrew B. Newberg's The Mystical Mind: Probing the Biology of Religious Experience presents a core theory regarding the neurophysical nature of mystical experience; extensions of this theory, focusing upon near-death experiences and the nature of religion itself; and buttressing arguments proposing that genetically based neurophysical “operators” within the brain compel...