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Neuroscience, selflessness, and spiritual experience : explaining the science of transcendence /
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 transcen...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; San Diego, CA :
Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier,
[2019]
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| Edición: | First edtion. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Neuroscience, Selflessness, and Spiritual Experience: Explaining The Science of Transcendence; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Section I: The Nature of Transcendence; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1 Introduction: The Brain and Spiritual Experience; 2 The Parietal Lobes, Selflessness, and Spiritual Experiences; 3 Selflessness: Bridging Neuroscience and the Humanities; 4 The Model: Mapping the Self, Selflessness, and Spiritual Transcendence; 5 The Evolution of the Parietal Lobes, the Self, and Selflessness; 6 Outline of the Book; 7 Caveats on the Model Presented
- Chapter 2: The Nature of Spiritual Transcendence1 Difficulties in Describing Experiences of Spiritual Transcendence; 2 William James and the Scientific Study of Spiritual Transcendence; 3 Universal Foundations for Spiritual Experiences; 4 Intense Religious Experiences: Psychopathology or Mentally Healthy?; 5 Comparing the Religious Experiences of Psychotics and Mystics; 6 Spiritual Transcendence and the Sense of Self; 7 The Psychology of Spiritual Transcendence; 8 Spiritual Transcendence as a Personality Trait; 9 Genetic Studies of Spirituality; 10 Measuring Spiritual Transcendence
- 11 Need for Neuroscientific Models of Spiritual TranscendenceSection II: The "SELF" and Selflessness; Chapter 3: Disorders of the Self; 1 "No Longer Gage"; 2 Tan Tan; 3 The Man Without a Memory; 4 Brain Disorders and the "Self"; 5 Losing the Left Side; 6 Clock Drawing; 7 Whose Arm IS That?; 8 Know Thyself; 9 Mirror, Mirror ... ; 10 Imposters; 11 WHOSE Thought IS That?; 12 The Self and Other Psychiatric Conditions; 13 Disordered Self (or Selflessness)?; Chapter 4: Neuroscience of the Self; 1 The Neuropsychological Self; 2 Is That Your (Rubber) Hand?; 3 Is That My (Amputated) Arm?
- 4 Out-of-Body Experiences5 Inducing OBEs; 6 Integrating Sensory Experiences Into a Sense of Self; 7 Physical and Psychological Selves; 8 Right Hemisphere and the Physical Self; 9 Right Hemisphere and the Psychological Self; 10 Neurotechnology and the Self; 11 Conclusion: Self as Process; Chapter 5: The Neuropsychology of Spiritual Transcendence; 1 Selflessness and Transcendence: An Exploration; 2 What the Heck IS Going on?; 3 Neurophysiological Studies of Transcendent Experiences; 4 "Round Two"; 5 "Round Three"; 6 "Round Four: Cross Cultural/Religious Explorations."
- 7 Brain Tumors and Spiritual Transcendence8 Parietal Lobe, Technology, and Spiritual Transcendence; 9 Pulling IT All Together; Section III: Selflessness as The Key to Transcendence; Chapter 6: Faith Traditions, Spiritual Transcendence, and Selflessness; 1 Religion, Spirituality, and Mystical Experience; 2 Selflessness in Religious Traditions: The Buddhist "Non-Self"; 3 The Hindu Self as Totality; 4 Christianity, Soul, Spirit, and Self; 5 Judaism, the Soul, and Contact With God; 6 Islam, Selflessness and Unity; 7 Spirituality, Agnostics and Atheists