Broken hand, healing of
Brokenness
AA and
Bucke, Richard
Buddhist monks
brain scans
brain waves
parietal lobes
thalamus
Burnham, Sophy
Bush babies, injured, prayer and
Byrd, R. C.
Cancer patients
emotions and
psychedelic drugs and
Carmelite nuns
brain scans
Catherine of Genoa, Saint
Catherine de’ Ricci, Saint
Caudate nucleus
Celeste, Sister (Franciscan nun)
Center for Positive Connections
Centering prayer
brain-imaging studies
glossolalia and
Change, spiritual experience and
Charismatic Christians
Chemically induced experience
Chemist, God as
Chemistry, of spiritual experience
Children, mystical
Christ. See Jesus
Christian Science
and God
and healing
loss of faith in
and lost objects
and spiritual senses
Christian Science Monitor, The
Christianity, exclusivity of
Churches, evangelical
Clinical populations
Cloninger, Robert
self-transcendence test
Cole-Turner, Ron
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Collective unconscious, Jung and
Collins, Francis
Comings, David
Communication with God
Compassion meditation training
Conceptualizing, temporal lobes and
Consciousness
altered states
brain and
causal
after death
forms of, James’s view
new level of
non-local
psychedelic drugs and
science and
Contemplative brains
Conversions, n3
epileptic seizures and
James and
Copernicus, Nicolaus
Cortisol
Cosmic consciousness, Bucke and
Couples, bonded
Courtemanche, Jerome
Cousins, Norman
Craftsman, God as
Creativity, brain activity and
Crick, Francis
Culture
and religious choice
and spirituality
Dalai Lama
D’Aquili, Eugene
Darwin, Charles
Davidson, Richard
Dawkins, Richard
Death, fear of, psychedelic drugs and
Delta brain waves
Depression, and physical health
Devinsky, Orrin
Dewhurst, Kenneth
Dirac, Paul
Disease, Christian Science and
Distant healing, science and
Dittrich, Adolf
Divided self, religious conversion and
Divine intelligence, science and
DNA and spirituality, study on
Doors of Perception, The (Huxley)
Dopamine
regulatory gene
Dossey, Barbie
Dossey, Larry
Recovering the Soul
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
DPT (hallucinogen)
Durkheim, Émile, and mystics
Duvall, Robert
Dying patients
Dyson, Freeman
Ears, healing of, in Christian Science
Eaton, Don
Ecstasy (drug)
Ecstatic Journey, The (Burnham)
Eddy, Mary Baker
definition of God
Einstein, Albert
and God
Electrical reactions in brain
Electrician, God as
Emotional bonds20
Emotional release
Emotions
brain-wave activity and
limbic system and
and physical health
temporal lobes and
Endorphins
Entangled minds, Radin’s idea
Entanglement
subatomic
Environment, social, and spirituality
Epilepsy
and near-death experiences
and out-of-body experiences
religious leaders and
and spirituality
temporal lobe. See Temporal lobe epilepsy
Epinephrine system
Erotic spiritual experiences
Eucharist, peyote ceremony and
Evangelical Christians
Evangelical churches
Events, unexplainable
Experience, thought as. See also Spiritual experiences
Extrinsic religion, n5
Ezekiel
Faith, and spiritual experience
False beliefs, Christian Science and
Family, and religious choice
Fenwick, Peter
Flew, Anthony
fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging)
Forcehimes, Alyssa
Fox, George
Francis of Assisi, Saint
Franciscan nuns
Free will
Freud, Sigmund
Frontal cortex of brain
Frontal lobes of brain
glossolalia and
psychedelic drugs and
Gamma brain waves
Garren, Susan
Genes
dopamine regulatory
serotonin receptor
and spirituality
Genetic analysis questionnaire
Genetics
and spirituality
Geschwind syndrome
Gifford Lectures on Natural Religion ( James)
Gillespie, Nathan
Gilmer,Vince
Gloor, Pierre
Glossolalia
Glutamate
Goal, spiritual experience as
God
Alcoholics Anonymous and
belief in
Collins and
and healing
and brain chemistry
brain scans and
characteristics of
definitions
Eddy’s definition
communication with
connection with
existence of
and genetic coding
James and
knowledge of
Leuba’s view
as master electrician
mystic views
new name for
as “non-local mind,”
presence of
relationships with
science and
and spiritual experiences
stories told by
view of, and immune system
God Delusion, The (Dawkins)
God gene, search for
God Gene, The (Hamer)
“God helmet,”
“Good Friday experiment,”
Gospel of Thomas
Gospels
Government, U.S., and psychedelic drugs
Granqvist, Pehr, on religious conversions
Greeley, Andrew
Greyson, Bruce
Griffiths, Roland
Grof, Stanislav
“Gut feelings,”
Hagerty, Barbara Bradley
personal beliefs
transformative experience
Hallucinations, near-death experiences as
Hallucinatory drugs
Halpern, John
Halpern, Mika
Hamer, Dean
Collins and
Handiwork of God
Harrington, Anne
Harvey, Andy
Hawking, Stephen
Heali
ng
Christian Science and
God and
peyote and
psychedelic experience and
Hearing, temporal lobes and
Heart attacks, emotions and
Heart disease, prayer and
Heart patients and prayer, study on
Heaven
drug-induced experience
Hell
psilocybin-induced
High-reactive children
Hippocampus
temporal lobe epilepsy and
Hippocrates, “On the Sacred Disease,”
HIV
prayer and
spirituality and
“Holy Laughter,”
Homosexuality, gene for
Hughes, John
Hughes, Michael
Human genome, mapping of
Huxley, Aldous
Ideas, temporal lobes and
Identical twins
Identity, spiritual
Immune system
emotions and
spirituality and
Infinitude
Insights
mystical
transforming
Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS)
bonding experiment
Intelligence
infinite, God as
near-death experiences and
Intercessory prayer
International Association for Near-Death Studies
Interpersonal prayer
Interviews, spiritual experiences
Intrinsic religion, n5
Invisible reality
IONS. See Institute of Noetic Sciences
Ironson, Gail
Jaegen, Hieronymus
Jamais vu
James,William
and epilepsy theory
Miller and
The Varieties of Religious Experience
Jansen, Karl6
Jesus
peyote and
Joan of Arc
John of the Cross, Saint
Johns Hopkins University, spirituality study
Journal of Near-Death Studies
Journalism
Julian of Norwich, Saint
Jung, Carl
Kabat-Zinn, Jon
Kagan, Jerome
Kaplan, Sheri
Kast, Eric
Ketamine
Kidney dialysis and prayer, study on
Kircher, Pam
Koran
Kuhn,Thomas
Language, temporal lobes and
Language of God, The (Collins)
Laughter, healing power of
Leary,Timothy
Lee, Ann
Left hemisphere of brain
Lennox,William G.
“Letting go,”
Leuba, James Henry
Life After Life (Moody)
Life changes, spiritual experiences and
Light
of near-death experiences
of spiritual experiences
Light and Death (Sabom)
Limbic system of brain
Literal reading of Scripture
Live narration of mystical experience
Locus coeruleus
Los Angeles Times Magazine
Love
bonds of
caudate nucleus and
light as
oxytocin and
spiritual experience and
“Love Study,” IONS
LSD
cancer patients and
Huxley and
Luther, Martin
Machu Picchu, mystical experience
Magnetoencephalography (MEG)
Martial artists
Mary (epilepsy patient)
Mary Ann (Navajo healing ceremony)
Maslow, Abraham
Master craftsman, God as
Materialism
and spirituality
Mathematician, God as
McDermott, Scott
brain scan
McNamara, Patrick
Meaning
emotional, temporal limbic system and
multiple levels of
search for
Medical materialism, and saints
Medina, Jorge
Meditation
and brain
parietal lobes
prefrontal lobes
brain scan and
Christian Science prayer as
Davidson’s view
erotic nature
Griffiths and
and immune system
Patel and
and psoriasis
training
Meditative prayer, brain scans
MEG (magnetoencephalography)
Mehlman, Debbie
Memory, hippocampus and
Mental exercise
Mescaline
Middle temporal gyrus
Miller, J. D. and Teena
Miller,William
and mystical experiences
Mind
and body
and brain
science and
entangled, Radin’s idea
infinite, God as
“Mind at Large,” Huxley’s idea
Mind-body connection
Mind-body medicine
Mindfulness, training for
“Mindsight,”
Mitchell, Edgar
Moods, chemical reactions and serotonin
Moody, Raymond
Moral laws
Morgan, Donna
Mortal Minds (Woerlee)
Moses
MRI, for mystical experience
Muhammad
Musicians
Mystical experiences
and brain
God of
James and
live narration of
MRI for
psychedelic drugs and
synthetically induced
See also Spiritual experiences
Mystical states
brain scans and
James and
Mysticism
experience of “other,”
psychedelic drugs and
Mystics
ancient, and epilepsy
Nancy (prophet)
Native Americans
and peyote
religious ceremonies
See also Peyote ceremony
Nature, and spirituality
Near-death experiences
brain marker for
and brain-wave activity
of Christian Science healer
elements of
and meditation, brain states in
science and
stages of
temporal lobe and
visual perceptions
See also Out-of-body experiences
Neuroscience
and God
and religiosity
study of psychedelics
Neurotheology
Neurotransmitters, and mystical experience
New England Journal of Medicine, and Cousins
New Testament
Newberg, Andrew
and McDermott
prayer experiment
Newsweek
Newton, Isaac
Nichols, David
“Non-local mind,” God as, Dossey’s idea
Noratuk,Vicky Bright
Norepinephrine, spirituality and
Norman Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology
Numinous experience, universal
Nuns, brains of
See also Carmelite nuns; Franciscan nuns
Nurture, and spirituality
Oceanic boundlessness
Organized religion
Orgasms, spiritual
Orientation area of brain
“Other,”
and brain chemistry
spiritual experiences and
Out-of-body experiences
blindness and
brain and
science and<
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test of
transformative
See also Near-death experiences
Oxygen deprivation of brain
and out-of-body experience
Oxytocin
Paloutzian, Ray
Panich, Dennis
Paradigms of science
shifts in
personal
Parapsychology
experiments
scientists and
Parasympathetic system
Parents, poor relationship with
Parietal cortex, malfunction
Parietal lobes of brain
meditative prayer and
mystical state and
in Pentecostals
psychedelic drugs and
Pascal, Blaise
Patel, Arjun
Paul, Saint
Paxil
“Peak experiences,” Maslow’s idea
Peale, Norman Vincent
Penfield,Wilder
Pentecostal Christians
speaking in tongues, brain activity
Perception, spiritual
near-death experience and
psychedelic drugs and
Persinger, Michael
and epilepsy
Personality test, and spirituality
Personality traits, and near-death experiences
PET (positron emission topography) scan
Peyote
as sacrament
Peyote ceremony
Phenomena, mystical and spiritual, James on
Physical nature of conversions
Physics, forces of, prayer and
Placebo effect
Planck, Max
Plasticity of brain
Polymorphism, and belief in God
Poset, Sharon
Positive thinking
Postal Service, U.S.
Postcentral gyrus, malfunction
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Power of Positive Thinking, The (Peale)
Practitioner, Christian Science
Prayer
and AIDS
brain activity and
brain scans
Christian Science and
and end-stage renal disease
and heart disease
and parietal lobes
prefrontal lobes and
quantum physics and
and rheumatoid arthritis
studies of
Precognition
Prefrontal cortex of brain
brain-wave activity
malfunction
meditation and
Prefrontal lobes of brain
Presence, mystical
Primary motor cortex, malfunction
Progress, scientific
Promega Corporation
Prozac
Psilocybin
and brain
brain receptor for
“Good Friday experiment,”
hellish experience
and locus coeruleus
research on
Psoriasis, emotions and
Psychedelic drugs
and brain
healing powers
outlawed
peyote
research on
and spiritual experience
Psychiatry, and religion
Psychology, and spiritual experience
Psychoneuroimmunology
Psychopharmacology, research on
Ptolemy
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