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A Skeptic Explores the Science Behind Spiritual Experiences

Not long before the death of her beloved mother-in-law, Harriet Brown had a vision that was both confounding and deeply comforting. Inspired by that revelation, she set out to explore the theories and neuroscience behind it all.

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The Significance of Religious Experience

In this volume of essays, Howard Wettstein explores the foundations of religious commitment. His orientation is broadly naturalistic, but not in the mode of reductionism or eliminativism.

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Howard Wettstein
2014
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When Religion Meets New Media

This lively book focuses on how different Jewish, Muslim, and Christian communities engage with new media. Rather than simply reject or accept new media, religious communities negotiate complex relationships with these technologies in light of their history and beliefs.

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Heidi Campbell
2010
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Psychedelics and Spirituality with Rick Strassman

Here he describes how he was an active Buddhist meditator for twenty years while he was also engaged in DMT research. Eventually he left Buddhist practice, and began a deep study of the Hebrew Bible. Initially, he thought that the DMT "spirit molecule" might be responsible for spiritual experiences.

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Jeffrey Mishlove
2019
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DMT and the Soul of Prophecy: A New Science of Spiritual Revelation in the Hebrew Bible

Naturally occurring DMT may produce prophecy-like states of consciousness and thus represent a bridge between biology and religious experience.

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Rick Strassman
2014
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