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The Mind & Life Institute is a US-registered, not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization founded in 1991 to establish the field of contemplative sciences.Based in Charlottesville, Va., the institute “brings science and contemplative wisdom together to better understand the mind and create positive change in the world."
The neuroscience of religion, also known as neurotheology, and as spiritual neuroscience, [1] attempts to explain religious experience and behaviour in neuroscientific terms. [2] It is the study of correlations of neural phenomena with subjective experiences of spirituality and hypotheses to explain these phenomena.
The novelist Andre Dubus III tutored Hoel on writing when he was 13. [11]Hoel has published essays in The Atlantic [12] and The Baffler, [13] among others. [14]The Revelations. In 2021, Hoel published The Revelations, a mystery novel set at New York University concerning a fictional scholarship program that brings together eight young consciousness researchers, one of whom is murdered. [15]
Since then, he collected and analysed more than 300 examples of near-death experiences. [13] He was criticised by some in the medical community for arguing that human consciousness can survive bodily death. [14] Fenwick argues that human consciousness may be more than just a function of the brain. [8] [15]
Books on Neuroscience: The Intelligent Movement Machine (2008) God, Soul, Mind, Brain (2010) Consciousness and the Social Brain (2013) The Spaces Between Us: A Story of Neuroscience, Evolution, and Human Nature (2018) Rethinking Consciousness: A Scientific Theory of Subjective Experience (2019) Books of music: Three Modern Symphonies (2011)
The Chen Institute was founded by Chrissy and Tianqiao Chen, both philanthropists known for co-founding the Chinese conglomerate Shanda Group in 1999. [2] [5] They decided to create the Chen Institute to fund various brain-related research initiatives and institutions, [6] citing a project by Caltech scientist Richard Andersen as being particularly inspirational.
Underhill, Evelyn (2012), Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness, Courier Dover Publications, ISBN 9780486422381; van Elk, Michiel; Aleman, André (February 2017). "Brain mechanisms in religion and spirituality: An integrative predictive processing framework" (PDF). Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews.
Michael A. Persinger (June 26, 1945 – August 14, 2018) was an American-Canadian professor of psychology at Laurentian University, a position he had held from 1971 until his death in 2018. [1]