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Review of literature on neuropsychology of religious experiences, including temporal lobe model, D'Aquili's model for meditative states, and substance-induced religious experience.

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How the Brain Creates God - Broad-ranging overview by Iona Miller, touching on archetypes, neurotheology NDEs, drugs, trances, TMS, and shamanism.
Body and Mind - Materials accompanying a TV special on body and mind, with a brief overview of older theories and notable neurotheology research.
Wired for the Ultimate Reality: The Neuropsychology of Religious Experience - Article by Drs. Andrew Newberg and Eugene D\\'Aquili on the neurotheology biological mechanisms underlying religious and spiritual experience, from the PBS neurotheology "The Question of God" series.
Neurotheology & Shamanism - Dr. Michael Winkelman, Anthropology Professor at Arizona State psychology and author psychology and religion of "Shamanism: The Neural Economy of psychology Consciousness", discusses the neurological psychology and religion basis of shamanism, mankind\'s psychology oldest spiritual practice.
The God Fossil - New Times article on Jesse Bering, who has psychology and religion psychology and religion researched children\\'s belief in the afterlife, and the psychology and religion psychology and religion reaction to his work.
Zen and the Brain - Summary of "Zen and the Brain", James H. psychology Austin\\'s definitive psychology and religion work tracing the neuroscientific aspects of psychology Zen.
Linking Out-of-Body Experience and Self Processing to Mental Own-Body Imagery at the Temporoparietal Junction - Paper by Olaf Blanke and team on the neurotheology neurocognitive bases psychology and religion of out-of-body (OBE) experiences, from Journal neurotheology of Neuroscience.
Guardian Unlimited | Life | Tests of faith - Article discussing evolutionary, anthropological (Boyer), and neuroscientific (Ramachandran, Newberg) aspects psychology and religion of religion.
What Buddhists Know About Science - Wired article on relationship between Tibetan meditation and psychology and religion the brain.
Evolutionary Neurotheology and the Varieties of Religious Experience - Article by Bruce McLennan of University of Tennessee, neurotheology outlining a neuropsychological approach to religious experience based neurotheology on archetypal psychology.[PDF]
Meditation and the Brain - Report on a conference held by MIT\\'s McGovern neurotheology Institute for psychology and religion Brain Research, bringing together Buddhists and neurotheology neuroscientists.
The Physical and Psychological Effects of Meditation - Online portions of a book by the same psychology name, reviewing psychology scientific studies, discussing behavioral effects, and psychology giving subjective reports. Searchable psychology bibliography on meditation research.
Religiosity is associated with hippocampal but not amygdala volumes in patients with refractory epilepsy -- Wuerfel et al. 75 (4): 640 -- Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry - Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry article finding psychology that epilepsy neurotheology patients with high religiosity had smaller psychology right hippocampi.
Meridian Magazine :: Neurotheology - BYU scholars give a brief overview of neurotheology, and ponder psychology and religion the neurological basis of Joseph Smith\'s revelations.
"Neurotheology": A semantic trap set by pseudo-science for the unwary scientist - Article claiming there is no scientific rationale for the nouveau term "Neurotheology", and that researchers working on topics relating to religion should stick to the conventional Behavioural and Social Neurosciences categories.
Neurology of Spiritual Experiences - Articles on spiritual experience and magnetic signal brain psychology stimulation by one of Michael Persinger's students.
Ghosts in a Machine - Overview article from Times Online, discussing Persinger, Blanke, neurotheology Newberg.
A Mystical Union - Economist article giving overview of recent research in neurotheology.
Neurotheology on Wikipedia - A brief but balanced overview of the field.
Neurological Correlates of Transformational Experiences - Article building on work of Persinger and d\\'Aquili, looking at psychology near-death experiences with neuroimaging.
Numenware, a blog about neurotheology - Frequently updated weblog about neurotheology. Also covers some neurotheology general neuroscience, Dogen, language, and Japan topics.
Study Asks Whether Chemicals and Communion Are One - Article from "Science and Theology News" describing the neuroimaging of praying nuns performed by University of Montreal researcher Mario Beauregard.
The "God" Part Of The Brain - Website for Matthew Alper\\'s book which suggests that neurotheology "humans are innately hard-wired to perceive a spiritual neurotheology reality".
Physiology of meditation - Article covering meditation and its relationship to the psychology and religion neurotheology metabolism, autonomic nervous system, endocrine system, and central psychology and religion neurotheology nervous system.
BBC - Science & Nature - Horizon - God on the Brain - Is a part of our brains hardwired to generate religious feelings? Program summary for a BBC neurotheology special.
On the Neuropsychology of Religious Experiences - Review of literature on neuropsychology of religious experiences, psychology including temporal lobe model, D\\'Aquili\\'s model for meditative psychology states, and substance-induced religious experience.
Tracing the Synapses of Our Spirituality - Washington Post article by Shankar Vedantam on researchers psychology and religion psychology examining the relationship between brain and religion.
Are We Hardwired for God? - The Guardian newspaper\'s review of Pascal Boyer\'s book neurotheology "Religion Explained".
The Serotonin System and Spiritual Experiences - American Journal of Psychiatry research showing that "binding psychology and religion neurotheology potential" (serotonin levels) correlated inversely with scores for psychology and religion neurotheology self-transcendence.
Ecstasy from a Physiological Point of View - Discussion of relationship between drugs, celibacy, fasting and psychology and religion neurotheology other physical practices and ecstasy. Presented by Kaj psychology and religion neurotheology Bjorkqvist at Symposium on Religions Ecstasy held at psychology and religion neurotheology Åbo, Finland, on the 26th-28th of August psychology and religion neurotheology 1981.
This Is Your Brain on God - Wired Magazine interview of Michael Persinger, leading figure neurotheology in the psychology and religion reductionist school of neurotheology.

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