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" The "God" part of the brain : "
Matthew Alper.
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BL
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968154
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b722524
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Alper, Matthew.
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The "God" part of the brain : : a scientific interpretation of human spirituality and God /\ Matthew Alper.
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Naperville, Ill. :: Sourcebooks,, ©2008.
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273 pages ;; 21 cm
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1402214529
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: 9781402214523
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Originally published: Rogue Press, 1996.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-264) and index.
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| Contents
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Book I: Theory's Evolution -- Chapter 1: Throwing rocks at God -- Chapter 2: What is science? -- Chapter 3: A very brief history of time or everything you ever wanted to know about the universe but were afraid to ask -- Chapter 4: Kant -- Chapter 5: God as word -- Chapter 6: Universal Behavioral patterns -- Book II: Intro to biotheology -- Chapter 7: The "spiritual" function, jung, universal spiritual beliefs and practices, the argument for a spiritual function -- Chapter 8: The Rationale, the origin of mortal consciousness, the pain function, the anxiety function, when mortal consciousness meets anxiety function, advent of the spiritual function, the origins of immortal and God consciousness -- Chapter 9: The "spiritual" experience, origins of the spiritual experience, the ego function, the transcedental function -- Chapter 10: Drug -- induced God -- Chapter 11: The "spiritual" gene -- Chapter 12: The prayer function -- Chapter 13: Religious conversion -- Chapter 14: Why are there atheists? -- Chapter 15: Near -- death experiences -- Chapter 16: Speaking in tongues -- Chapter 17: Why is America so religious? a bio-historical hypothesis -- Chapter 18: The guilt and morality functions -- Chapter 19: The logic of God: a new "spiritual" Paradigm -- Chapter 20: What, if anything, is to be gained from a scientific interpretation of Human spirituality and God? Epilogue: Quests end -- Addendum: Experiments that might help prove the existence of a spiritual function.
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Brain-- Religious aspects.
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Psychology, Religious.
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Brain-- Religious aspects.
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Psychology, Religious.
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200.1/9
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BL53.A47 2008
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