Book TV: Andrew Newberg "How God Changes Your Brain"

A neuroscientist examined brain scans of memory patients and web-based surveys of people's religious and spiritual experiences. The correlations he found led him to conclude that an active spirtual life physically changes the brain.

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[terencegorski]

Brain scans are nice pictures. What they really mean in terms of behavior is still left to be detrmined. The pictures imply all the action is in the physical brain and leaves out the non-physical mind which is the connection to the spiritual or non-physical world. If we could take nice full-colored pictures of the non-physical mind using very expensive machinery it my get taken more seriously. --- Terry Gorski

[ashley5mith]

You can say that God changes your brain, but you can't ignore the reality that it's the way that different people think that shapes our brains.  A recent study showed that liberals and conservatives have differently shaped brains! What we don't know is whether brain structure influenced ideology, or if ideology shaped the brain. Also, it's more subjective/fanatical than scientific to suggest that some brain structure is better than another depending on your personal beliefs!

[GnosisMan50]

I'd like to see Newberg talk to the Buddhist nun Robina Courtin and ask her if meditation is God. My gripe is that God, as a supernatural Deity is a serious misnomer. If we were to say meditation makes it possible to reach a higher level of awareness, of consciousness, of well being, that makes far more sense to me than the supernatural.

[Hackiesacker007]

@GnosisMan50 meditation is God.

[GnosisMan50]

When he says God changes your brain, which God is he referring to and why refer to a God anyway? If you meditate, it's the meditation that changes you, not God

[mjtf1113]

yes, of course, at the very least, the brain is hard wired for religious/god experiences.......in fact.........it is of the same ELEMENTAL MATTER of which god, itself, is composed............it is ensconced within the greater fibres of that, god, of which it, and everything else is a part of..........Michael Jude, author THIRTEENTH APOSTLE: THE COMING TRANSUBSTANTIATION............­..Good Day !

[sandiego624]

He's written four excellent books that go into great detail about his comprehensive, well respected studies.

[pokerslut530]

Ugh what a waste of time. This guy doesn't even talk about any of his results. He just goes on and on and on about how he conducted his study and why he feels its important. Why would you even upload this?