
Neuroscience, Selflessness, and Spiritual Experience
Explaining the Science of Transcendence
Description
Key Features
- 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
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Table of Contents
The Nature of Transcendence
1. Introduction
2. The Nature of Spiritual TranscendenceThe “Self” and Selflessness
3. Disorders of the Self
4. Neuroscience of the Self
5. Neuropsychology of Spiritual TranscendenceSelflessness as the Key to Transcendence
6. Faith Traditions, Spiritual Transcendence, and Selflessness
7. Universal Neuropsychological Model of Spiritual TranscendenceApplications of selflessness
8. Building bridges between Neuroscience and the Humanities
Product details
- No. of pages: 192
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2019
- Published: June 15, 2019
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780081022191
- Paperback ISBN: 9780081022184
About the Authors
Brick Johnstone
Affiliations and Expertise
Daniel Cohen
Affiliations and Expertise
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