Rational mysticism : dispatches from the border between science and spirituality / John Horgan.
Rational mysticism : dispatches from the border between science and spirituality / John Horgan.
Rational mysticism : dispatches from the border between science and spirituality / John Horgan.
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Boston, Massachusetts : Houghton Mifflin, c2003.
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292 p. ; 24cm.
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1. Huston Smith's Perennial Philosophy -- 2. Attack of the Postmodernists -- 3. The Weightlifting Bodhisattva -- 4. Can Neurotheology Save Us? -- 5. The God Machine -- 6. The Sheep Who Became a Goat -- 7. Zen and James Austin's Brain -- 8. In the Birthplace of LSD -- 9. God's Psychoanalyst -- 10. Th...
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Boston, Massachusetts : Houghton Mifflin, c2003.
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Massachusetts
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c2003.
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"How do trances, visions, prayer, satori, and other mystical experiences "work"? What induces and defines them? Is there a scientific explanation for religious mysteries and transcendent meditation? John Horgan investigates a wide range of fields - chemistry, neuroscience, psychology, anthropology, theology, and more - to narrow the gap between rea...
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Rational mysticism : dispatches from the border between science and spirituality / John Horgan.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c2003.
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0618060278
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291.175
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