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Why God Won't Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief

di Andrew Newberg, Eugene G. D'Aquili

Altri autori: Vince Rause

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Why have we humans always longed to connect with something larger than ourselves? Even today in our technologically advanced age, more than seventy percent of Americans claim to believe in God. Why, in short, won't God go away? In this groundbreaking new book, researchers Andrew Newberg and Eugene d'Aquili offer an explanation that is at once profoundly simple and scientifically precise: The religious impulse is rooted in the biology of the brain. In Why God Won't Go Away, Newberg and d'Aquili document their pioneering explorations in the field of neurotheology, an emerging discipline dedicated to understanding the complex relationship between spirituality and the brain. Blending cutting-edge science with illuminating insights into the nature of consciousness and spirituality, they bridge faith and reason, mysticism and empirical data. The neurological basis of how the brain identifies the "real" is nothing short of miraculous. This fascinating, eye-opening book dares to explore both the miracle and the biology of our enduring relationship with God.… (altro)
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A Photograph of God?: An Introduction to the Biology of Belief
Brain Machinery: The Science of Perception
Brain Architecture: How the Brain Makes the Mind
Myth-making: The Compulsion to Create Stories and Beliefs
Ritual: The Physical Manifestation of Meaning
Mysticism: The Biology of Transcendence
The Origins of Religion: The Persistence of a Good Idea
Realer Than Real: The Mind in Search of Absolutes
Why God Won't Go Away: The Metaphor of God and the Mythology of Science
Epilogue: So Just What Is Neurotheology Anyway?
Notes
References
About the Authors
Index
  LeannePorter | Jun 23, 2023 |
Interesting book on the physiology of our brains when we meditate or pray. I read this for a book club for my Skeptic group. Not a real fast read but very interesting, especially if you are science minded. The book doesn't end up saying one way or the other whether god is a figment of our imagination or real. ( )
  KyleneJones | Apr 25, 2022 |
> Babelio : https://www.babelio.com/livres/Newberg-Pourquoi-Dieune-disparaitra-pas--Quand-la...

> POURQUOI "DIEU" NE DISPARAÎTRA PAS, Quand la science explique la religion, de Andrew Newberg et Eugene d’Aquili. — Andrew Newberg et Eugene d’Aquili, tous deux biologistes à l’Université de Pennsylvanie, initient une nouvelle discipline, la neurothéologie, qui cherche à concilier religion et biologie. Leur approche avant tout expérimentale repose sur des techniques d’imagerie du cerveau. Bouddhistes tibétains en méditation et moniales franciscaines en prière sont leurs sujets d’étude. Ils montrent la réalité des expériences mystiques et spirituelles où le méditant connaît « un état de pure conscience, une conscience dépouillée de l’ego, focalisée sur rien, inconsciente du passage du temps et des sensations physiques. Cette conscience… percevrait et interpréterait la réalité comme un tout unifié sans forme, sans limite…. » Les auteurs proposent aussi un fondement théorique - que nous n’aborderons pas dans cette rubrique - expliquant les phénomènes mis en évidence dans leurs expérimentations qui rejoignent les descriptions des enseignements traditionnels d’un niveau de conscience non-duel.
Selon eux, le cerveau est programmé pour connaître des « états de transcendance unitaire » dans lesquels l’activité du cerveau abolit la sensation de séparation de soi et de l’univers. Les auteurs vont même jusqu’à affirmer que « l’esprit peut exister sans l’ego. »
Un élément de ce livre est cependant déstabilisant : le tiraillement constant des auteurs entre les faits, selon eux indéniables, qui démontrent la réalité des états de transcendance, et leur crainte de trop s’éloigner des conceptions scientifiques matérialistes. Les auteurs cherchent ainsi à montrer que cette fonction neurologique de transcendance s’inscrit parfaitement dans un modèle évolutionniste darwinien. Par exemple, ils affirment que cette fonction biologique a été sélectionnée par la nature parce qu’elle était bonne pour l’homme (pour sa santé…), ou alors ils comparent le rituel religieux humain au rituel sexuel animal. Ces deux exemples un peu caricaturaux, sont, bien sûr, parfaitement recevables. Mais ces hésitations contribuent à créer un certain flottement chez un lecteur averti, et le sens de leur démarche épistémologique échappe parfois. En fait, leur conviction est que la « réalité ultime », que connaissent ces moines et moniales, est une réalité d’ordre supérieure à la réalité dite matérielle que nous connaissons dans la vie ordinaire.
Un ouvrage intéressant au carrefour de la spiritualité et de la science. 2003 - Sully, 2003. 320 p.
3e millénaire, (71), Printemps 2004
  Joop-le-philosophe | Apr 8, 2019 |
A single quote from this book probably explains all we need to know about why God won’t go away:

So impressive are the health benefits of religion … that after reviewing more than a thousand studies on the impact of religion upon health, Dr. Harold Koenig of Duke University Medical Center recently told The New Republic, that “Lack of religious involvement has an effect on mortality that is equivalent to forty years of smoking one pack of cigarettes per day.

What more evidence do we need that evolution has wired us for religion? The subtitle is Brain Science & The Biology of Belief, and the back cover copy promises, “This fascinating, eye-opening book dares to explore both the miracle and the biology of our enduring relationship with God.”

The book begins with a short overview of the brain; in particular, the orientation association area that defines the “self.” The authors believe this area is extremely important in the brain’s sense of mystical and religious experiences.

Religion is far from new. The graves and shrines of the Neanderthals are the earliest known evidence of religious behavior. As soon as hominids began to behave like human beings, they began to wonder and worry about the deepest mysteries of existence—and found resolutions for those mysteries in the stories we call myths. This observation is central to the authors’ quest for understanding our religious need. Why would the human mind compel us, in every culture and throughout time, to seek answers to our most troubling problems in myth?

The book next discusses ritual, mysticism, and the mind’s search for absolutes … for the “realer than real.” Our minds are drawn by the intuition of a deeper reality, an utter sense of oneness with the Absolute. God, say the authors, will not go away, so long as we are capable of sensing something more. ( )
  DubiousDisciple | Apr 10, 2011 |
This book was very thought provoking. I expected it to be more of a Dawkinian approach to squash religion with science, and was pleasantly surprised to find that it has a much more even-handed approach to the traditional dichotomy, making a real concerted effort to bridge the divide. The book basically centers around the attention and orientation centers of the brain, and the principle that certain events/behaviors can deafferent them (or shut them down), providing an extra-sensory experience. As opposed to taking a radical scientific standpoint (i.e. this proves there is no god) the authors suggest that perhaps during these mystical "altered states" (which we all attain periodically in varying degrees) we are in fact perceiving a truer reality than our own. Their arguments are often driven by conjecture, although still backed by scientific evidence, and make for great contemplation. ( )
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Why have we humans always longed to connect with something larger than ourselves? Even today in our technologically advanced age, more than seventy percent of Americans claim to believe in God. Why, in short, won't God go away? In this groundbreaking new book, researchers Andrew Newberg and Eugene d'Aquili offer an explanation that is at once profoundly simple and scientifically precise: The religious impulse is rooted in the biology of the brain. In Why God Won't Go Away, Newberg and d'Aquili document their pioneering explorations in the field of neurotheology, an emerging discipline dedicated to understanding the complex relationship between spirituality and the brain. Blending cutting-edge science with illuminating insights into the nature of consciousness and spirituality, they bridge faith and reason, mysticism and empirical data. The neurological basis of how the brain identifies the "real" is nothing short of miraculous. This fascinating, eye-opening book dares to explore both the miracle and the biology of our enduring relationship with God.

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