Title Neuroscience, selflessness, and spiritual experience : explaining the science of transcendence / Brick Johnstone, Daniel Cohen

Edition First edtion Published London ; San Diego, CA : Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, [2019] ©2019

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Description 1 online resource Contents Front Cover; Neuroscience, Selflessness, and Spiritual Experience: Explaining The Science of Transcendence; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Section I: The Nature of Transcendence; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1 Introduction: The Brain and Spiritual Experience; 2 The Parietal Lobes, Selflessness, and Spiritual Experiences; 3 Selflessness: Bridging Neuroscience and the Humanities; 4 The Model: Mapping the Self, Selflessness, and Spiritual Transcendence; 5 The Evolution of the Parietal Lobes, the Self, and Selflessness; 6 Outline of the Book; 7 Caveats on the Model Presented Chapter 2: The Nature of Spiritual Transcendence1 Difficulties in Describing Experiences of Spiritual Transcendence; 2 William James and the Scientific Study of Spiritual Transcendence; 3 Universal Foundations for Spiritual Experiences; 4 Intense Religious Experiences: Psychopathology or Mentally Healthy?; 5 Comparing the Religious Experiences of Psychotics and Mystics; 6 Spiritual Transcendence and the Sense of Self; 7 The Psychology of Spiritual Transcendence; 8 Spiritual Transcendence as a Personality Trait; 9 Genetic Studies of Spirituality; 10 Measuring Spiritual Transcendence 11 Need for Neuroscientific Models of Spiritual TranscendenceSection II: The "SELF" and Selflessness; Chapter 3: Disorders of the Self; 1 "No Longer Gage"; 2 Tan Tan; 3 The Man Without a Memory; 4 Brain Disorders and the "Self"; 5 Losing the Left Side; 6 Clock Drawing; 7 Whose Arm IS That?; 8 Know Thyself; 9 Mirror, Mirror ... ; 10 Imposters; 11 WHOSE Thought IS That?; 12 The Self and Other Psychiatric Conditions; 13 Disordered Self (or Selflessness)?; Chapter 4: Neuroscience of the Self; 1 The Neuropsychological Self; 2 Is That Your (Rubber) Hand?; 3 Is That My (Amputated) Arm? 4 Out-of-Body Experiences5 Inducing OBEs; 6 Integrating Sensory Experiences Into a Sense of Self; 7 Physical and Psychological Selves; 8 Right Hemisphere and the Physical Self; 9 Right Hemisphere and the Psychological Self; 10 Neurotechnology and the Self; 11 Conclusion: Self as Process; Chapter 5: The Neuropsychology of Spiritual Transcendence; 1 Selflessness and Transcendence: An Exploration; 2 What the Heck IS Going on?; 3 Neurophysiological Studies of Transcendent Experiences; 4 "Round Two"; 5 "Round Three"; 6 "Round Four: Cross Cultural/Religious Explorations." 7 Brain Tumors and Spiritual Transcendence8 Parietal Lobe, Technology, and Spiritual Transcendence; 9 Pulling IT All Together; Section III: Selflessness as The Key to Transcendence; Chapter 6: Faith Traditions, Spiritual Transcendence, and Selflessness; 1 Religion, Spirituality, and Mystical Experience; 2 Selflessness in Religious Traditions: The Buddhist "Non-Self"; 3 The Hindu Self as Totality; 4 Christianity, Soul, Spirit, and Self; 5 Judaism, the Soul, and Contact With God; 6 Islam, Selflessness and Unity; 7 Spirituality, Agnostics and Atheists Summary Neuroscience, Selflessness, and Spiritual Transcendence conveys the manner by which selflessness serves as a neuropsychological and religious foundation for spiritually transcendent experiences. The book combines neurological case studies and neuroscience research with religious accounts of transcendence experiences from the perspective of both the neurosciences and the history of religions. Chapters cover the subjective experience of transcendence, an historical summary of different philosophical and religious perspectives, a review of the neuroscience research that describes the manner by which the brain processes and creates a self, and more. The book presents a model that bridges the divide between neuroscience and religion, presenting a resource that will be critical reading for advanced students and researchers in both fields. Creates a common focus on selflessness as a reliable construct for use by all disciplines interested in the basis of spiritual experienceLinks neuroanatomical data with religious texts from multiple faith traditions to describe the necessity of selflessness for spiritual experience and transformationHighlights disorders in neurological functioning that result in disorders of the self Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 24, 2019) Subject Transcendence (Philosophy) Self (Philosophy) Self -- Religious aspects. Neurosciences -- Religious aspects. Religion and science. Religion and Science PHILOSOPHY -- Metaphysics. Neurosciences -- Religious aspects Religion and science Self (Philosophy) Self -- Religious aspects Transcendence (Philosophy) Form Electronic book Author Cohen, Daniel, author ISBN 9780081022191 0081022190 0081022182 9780081022184

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