How Enlightenment Changes Your Brain by Andrew Newberg

How Enlightenment Changes Your Brain by Andrew Newberg

The bestselling authors of How God Changes Your Brain reveal the neurological underpinnings of enlightenment, offering unique strategies to help readers experience its many benefits.

In this original and groundbreaking book, Andrew Newberg, M.D., and Mark Robert Waldman turn their attention to the pinnacle of the human experience: enlightenment. Through his brain- scan studies on Brazilian psychic mediums, Sufi mystics, Buddhist meditators, Franciscan nuns, Pentecostals, and participants in secular spirituality rituals, Newberg has discovered the specific neurological mechanisms associated with the enlightenment experience--and how we might activate those circuits in our own brains.

In his survey of more than one thousand people who have experienced enlightenment, Newberg has also discovered that in the aftermath they have had profound, positive life changes. Enlightenment offers us the possibility to become permanently less stress-prone, to break bad habits, to improve our collaboration and creativity skills, and to lead happier, more satisfying lives. Relaying the story of his own transformational experience as well as including the stories of others who try to describe an event that is truly indescribable, Newberg brings us a new paradigm for deep and lasting change.

From the Hardcover edition.

Mark Robert Waldman is an associate fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Spirituality and the Mind. He started the academic magazine Transpersonal Review as a therapist and author of nine books. He currently resides in Agoura, California.

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ISBN 13	9781594633454
ISBN 10	1594633452
Title	How Enlightenment Changes Your Brain
Author	Andrew Newberg
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Avery Publishing Group
Year published	2016-03-15
Number of pages	288
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