Fingerprints of God
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Purpose in life
Quantum Change (Miller and C’de Baca)
Quantum entanglement
Quantum physics
and God
and prayers
Questions
Radin, Dean
bonding experiment
and God
Radio receiver, brain as
Rationality, transcendent source
Reality
differing forms, science and
entangled
hidden
interpenetrating spheres, James and
invisible
spiritual
spiritual experience and
unseen
Recovering the Soul (Dossey)
Reducing valve, brain as, Huxley’s idea
Relationship with God
Religion
distinctions between
epilepsy and
Freud’s view
mystical experiences and
organized
psychology and
scientists and
twentieth-century science and
Religiosity
biology and
high-reactive children and
Religious belief, and spiritual experience
Religious conversions
Renal disease, end-stage, prayer and
Retroactive prayer
Revolutions, in science
Reynolds, Pam
Rheumatoid arthritis, prayer and
Ricard, Matthieu
Richards, Bill
Richards, Michael
Right hemisphere of brain
Right temporal lobe
Ring, Kenneth
Rules of science
“Runner’s high,”
Sabom, Michael
Light and Death
Sacrament, peyote as
Sacred books
Sacred disease, epilepsy as
Saddleback Valley Community Church
St. Pierre, Linda
Salisbury, Edward
Sartori, Penny
Saul of Tarsus. See Paul, Saint
Saver, Jeffrey
Schizophrenia
Schlitz, Marilyn
Science
and differing realities
and effects of peyote on brain
and God
and human experience
and mood states
and mystical experiences
and near-death experiences
and non-local consciousness
and out-of-body experience
and parapsychology
progress in
and religion
revolutions in
and spiritual experience
in twentieth century
and spirituality
convergence
Science and Health
Scientists
and brain
and God
and prayer
and religion
in twentieth century
See also Science
Scripture
Segal, Nancy
Seizures
epileptic
spiritual
Self, divided, religious conversion and
Self-esteem, low, and conversion
Self-forgetfulness
Self-reporting questionnaires
Self-transcendence, measure of
“Sensed Presence,” Persinger’s idea
Senses, spiritual sight
Sensory spiritual experiences
Serotonin
and mystical experience
receptor gene
receptors
regulatory gene
Serotonin system
peyote and
and spirituality
“Sharpshooter’s fallacy,”
Sight, spiritual
Sinclair, Jordan
Skin warts, prayer and
Skinner, B. F.
Slater, Eliot
Sloan, Richard
Smith, Joseph
Smith,Tom W.
Smoky Mountains
Snyder, Solomon
Social environment, and spirituality
Social scientists, and AA
Soul, existence of
Jansen and
science and
Speaking in tongues
“Special normal populations,” in Persinger study
Spetzler, Robert
Spirit, breath as
Spiritual experiences
alcoholism and
biology of
and brain
brain chemistry and
dopamine and
elements of
erotic
Freud and
as goal
incidence of
interviews
James and
Spiritual experiences (cont.)
live narration
Machu Picchu
neurology and
of normal people
Persinger’s view
psychedelic drugs and
religious belief and
science and
serotonin and
study of
temporal lobe and
transformative
twentieth-century science and
See also Mystical experiences;Transcendent
experiences;Transformative
experiences
Spiritual laws, Christian Science and
Spiritual reality
Spiritual virtuosos
brain of
Spirituality
and brain
brain-wave activity and
drug-induced
experiments in
genetics and
and health
materialism and
neurotransmitters and
personality test and
and religiosity
science and convergence
serotonin receptor gene and
serotonin system and
studies of
styles of
temporal lobe epilepsy and
as wheel
“Squirrel monkey test,”
Staloff, Darren
“Standstill operation,”
Stories told by God
Stress
as conversion trigger
and health
and heart attacks
and immune response
and psoriasis
and spiritual experience
Stress hormones
Striatum, and visions
Structure of Scientific Revolutions, The (Kuhn)
“Superior mind,” Einstein’s idea
Support groups
Swedenborg, Emanuel
Switzerland, psychedelic drug research
Sympathetic system
Technology, and spirituality
study of spiritual experience
Temporal limbic system
Temporal lobe
electric stimulation
and out-of-body experiences
and spirituality
Temporal lobe epilepsy
and out-of-body experiences
religious leaders and
Teresa of Ávila, Saint
James and
Terminally ill patients, LSD and
Thalamus
asymmetrical activity
mystical experience and
overactive
and spirituality
Thérèse de Lisieux, Saint
Theta brain waves
Thoughts
and brain
and disease progression
as experience
healing power of
and health
positive
power of
Christian Science and
prefrontal lobes and
transference of
Torah
Toronto Airport Christian Fellowship Church
“Toronto Blessing,�
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Totenberg, Nina
Training of brains
Transcendence
brain chemistry and
dopamine and
genetic capacity for
variations
Transcendent experiences
brain changes and
brain scans
epilepsy and
serotonin and
See also Spiritual experiences
Transcendent states
Transformative experiences
alcoholism and
Hagerty and
psychedelic
triggers for
See also Spiritual experiences
Transpersonal identification
Trauma, and spiritual experience
conversion experience
Truth
disparate religions and
spiritual, Christian Science and
Tunnel, of near-death experiences
“Twice born” people, James and
Twins
Ultimate Journey, The (Grof )
Unconscious, collective, Jung’s idea
Understanding, spiritual, healing as
Unexplainable events
United Methodist Church
Unity of all things, sense of
brain and
mystical experiences and
science and
Universe
“fine-tuned” hypothesis
laws of, prayer and
understanding of, Radin and
Valliant, George
Values, change of
Varieties of Religious Experience, The ( James) 11
Vaughan-Lee, Llewellyn
Vieten, Cassi
Visions, mystical
Vollenweider, Franz
brain scans
and hellish experience
Warren, Rick
Watson, John Broadus
Weng, Helen
Wesley, John
Wheel, spirituality as
Where God and Science Meet (McNamara)
White, Ellen G.
Why God Won’t Go Away (Newberg and D’Aquili)
Why We Believe What We Believe (Newberg)
Woerlee, Gerald
and near-death experiences
Worldview, religious
Young people, and spirituality
scientists
Younge, Kathy
Zaremberg, Adam
Zoloft