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"How does the mind experience the sacred? What biological mechanisms are involved in mystical states and trances? Is there a neurological basis for patterns in comparative religions? Does religion have an evolutionary function?" "This pioneering work by two leading medical researchers explores the neurophysiology of religious experience. Mapping the basic functions of the brain, the authors focus on structures most relevant to human experience, emotion,...
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This book is the sequel to Robert Forman's collection, The Problem of Pure Consciousness (Oxford, 1990). The essays in the earlier volume argued that some mystical experiences do not seem to be formed or shaped by the language system - a thesis that stands in sharp contradistinction to deconstruction in general and to the "constructivist" school of mysticism in particular, which holds that all mysticism is the product of a cultural and linguistic...
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Goes beyond the usual study of the American psychologist and philosopher James' (1842-1910) classic Varieties of Religious Experience to connect the ideas on mysticism there with his other, less-well-known investigations of the mystical states of awareness. Also explores how his insights can inform the modern understanding of mysticism. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
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