The Spiritual Brain torrent

The Spiritual Brain - A Neuroscientist's Case for the Existence of the Soul
by Mario Beauregard

Did God create the brain, or did the Brain create God?

Do religious experiences come from God, or are they merely the random firing of neurons

in the brain? Drawing on his own research with Carmelite nuns, neuroscientist Mario

Beauregard shows that genuine, life-changing spiritual events can be documented. He

offers compelling evidence that religious experiences have a nonmaterial origin, making a

convincing case for what many in scientific fields are loath to consider - that it is God who

creates our spiritual experiences, not the brain.

Scientific materialism is at a loss to explain irrefutable accounts of mind over matter, of

intuition, willpower, and leaps of faith, of the 'placebo effect' in medicine, of near-death

experiences on the operating table, and of psychic premonitions of a loved one in crisis, to

say nothing of the occasional sense of oneness with nature and mystical experiences on

meditation or prayer. Traditional science explains away these and other occurrences as

delusions or misunderstanding, but by exploring the latest neurological research on

phonemona such as these, The Spiritual Brain get to their real source.