Neuroscience, Selflessness, and Spiritual Experience
Explaining the Science of Transcendence
- 1st Edition - June 15, 2019
- Authors: Brick Johnstone, Daniel Cohen
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 1 0 2 2 1 8 - 4
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 1 0 2 2 1 9 - 1
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Request a sales quoteNeuroscience, 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.
- Creates a common focus on selflessness as a reliable construct for use by all disciplines interested in the basis of spiritual experience
- Links neuroanatomical data with religious texts from multiple faith traditions to describe the necessity of selflessness for spiritual experience and transformation
- Highlights disorders in neurological functioning that result in disorders of the self
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
- No. of pages: 192
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: June 15, 2019
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780081022184
- eBook ISBN: 9780081022191
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