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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

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,”

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

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