Neuroscience, selflessness, and spiritual experience : explaining the science of transcendence
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Neuroscience, selflessness, and spiritual experience : explaining the science of transcendence
Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, c2019
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-175) and index
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Description
Neuroscience, Selflessness, and Spiritual Transcendence conveys the manner by which selflessness serves as a neuropsychological and religious foundation for spiritually transcendent experiences. The book combines neurological case studies and neuroscience research with religious accounts of transcendence experiences from the perspective of both the neurosciences and the history of religions. Chapters cover the subjective experience of transcendence, an historical summary of different philosophical and religious perspectives, a review of the neuroscience research that describes the manner by which the brain processes and creates a self, and more.
The book presents a model that bridges the divide between neuroscience and religion, presenting a resource that will be critical reading for advanced students and researchers in both fields.
Table of Contents
The Nature of Transcendence1. Introduction2. The Nature of Spiritual Transcendence
The "Self" and Selflessness3. Disorders of the Self4. Neuroscience of the Self5. Neuropsychology of Spiritual Transcendence
Selflessness as the Key to Transcendence6. Faith Traditions, Spiritual Transcendence, and Selflessness7. Universal Neuropsychological Model of Spiritual Transcendence
Applications of selflessness8. Building bridges between Neuroscience and the Humanities
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