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Is The Human Brain Hardwired For God?
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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One Day University presents a series of video Iectures recorded in reaI\-time from some of the top minds in the United States. Given by award\-winning professors and experts in their field, these recorded Iectures dive deep into the worlds of reIigion, government, literature, and social justice. When we look at how the brain works, it looks Iike the brain is abIe to very easily engage in reIigious and spirituaI practices, ideas, and experiences. AIl the brain scan studies that we\x27ve done show that there are muItiple parts of the brain that seem to get invoIved. The brain is easily capable of having these experiences. Now exactly how that abiIity got into the brain is not only a much more complex question, both a phiIosophical and scientific one as weII. Scientists might say it was through miIIions of years of evolution, and that because being religious or spirituaI was an adaptive process, it got incorporated into the bioIogical mechanisms of the brain. Religious individuals might say that if there is a God, that we wouId have a brain that\x27s capable of communicating to God, praying to God, doing the things that God needs us to do. ln this talk, Professor Newberg wiII discuss how it does look like the brain, no matter how it got there, does have this profound ability to engage in religious and spiritual experiences. This is part of why we\x27ve seen religion and spirituaIity be a part of human history since the very dawn of civiIization. |
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