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Mario Beauregard (born 1962) [1] is a Canadian cognitive neuroscientist who is affiliated with the University of Arizona's psychology department. [2] He is known for arguing that matter is not all that exists, writing that "Along with an increasing number of scientists, I believe vehemently that the materialist framework is not science."
The creation of Magick (Book 4) was part of Crowley's broader effort to systematize and articulate the principles of Thelema, the spiritual philosophy he founded. The work synthesizes elements from a wide array of mystical and magical traditions, including yoga , Hermeticism , and medieval grimoires , alongside Crowley's original contributions.
This study was presented as an abstract at a neuroscience conference and referenced in Ramachandran's book, Phantoms in the Brain, [26] which was not published as a peer-reviewed scientific article. Research by Mario Beauregard at the University of Montreal , using fMRI on Carmelite nuns, has purported to show that religious and spiritual ...
Spiritual bypass or spiritual bypassing is a "tendency to use spiritual ideas and practices to sidestep or avoid facing unresolved emotional issues, psychological wounds, and unfinished developmental tasks". [1] The term was introduced in the mid 1980s by John Welwood, a Buddhist teacher and psychotherapist.
The pneumatics ("spiritual", from Greek πνεῦμα, "spirit") were, in Gnosticism, the highest order of humans, the other two orders being psychics and hylics ("matter"). A pneumatic saw themselves as escaping the doom of the material world via the transcendent knowledge of Sophia 's Divine Spark from inner revelation coming from the highest ...
[4] In his review John Abbondanza wrote,"The actual citations in the book go on and on, but the main point is clear. The brain reorganizes itself based on its use. This is called 'use-dependent cortical reorganization', and is thought to be the basis of recovery after brain injury or stroke." [5]
The book was reviewed as "appealing and persuasive" by the Wall Street Journal [8] and "a shining example of lucid and easy-to-grasp science writing" by The Independent. [9] A starred review from Kirkus Reviews described it as "a book that will leave you looking at yourself—and the world—differently."
The God Helmet was not specifically designed to elicit visions of God, [1] but to test several of Persinger's hypotheses about brain function. The first of these is the Vectorial Hemisphericity Hypothesis, [20] which proposes that the human sense of self has two components, one on each side of the brain, that ordinarily work together but in which the left hemisphere is usually dominant.