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Selflessness - The Core of All Major World Religions - Has Neuropsychological Connection, MU Study Finds

Dec. 17, 2008

Story Contact: Jennifer Faddis, (573) 882-6217, FaddisJ@missouri.edu

COLUMBIA, Mo. – All spiritual experiences are based in the brain. That statement is truer than ever before, according to a University of Missouri neuropsychologist. An MU study has data to support a neuropsychological model that proposes spiritual experiences associated with selflessness are related to decreased activity in the right parietal lobe of the brain. The study is one of the first to use individuals wi… Continue

Posted on October 28, 2009 at 9:52pm —

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The Seat of the Soul is the Right Parietal Lobe

Ronald Bailey | December 23, 2008

Philosopher Rene Descartes famously thought that the seat of the soul was located in the pineal gland in the human brain. While modern neuroscience may not have revealed where the soul resides, Unversity of Missouri researchers have figured out that spiritual feelings of selflessness and transcendence arise when the activity in the right parietal lobe is reduced. parietal lobe

According to the press release reporting the research:

“The brain functions in a ce… Continue

Posted on October 28, 2009 at 9:45pm —

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OUR BRAINS on MUSIC: THE SCIENCE *

NEW YORK TIMES
June 30, 2009
Television Review | 'Nova: Musical Minds'

By MIKE HALE

“Musical Minds,” the season premiere of “Nova” on PBS, is based on the neurologist Oliver Sacks’s most recent book, “Musicophilia,” a collection of case studies of people whose brains have unusual relationships to music, cases in which, as Dr. Sacks puts it, “music gets them going to an extraordinary degree.” A one-hour program can’t approach the depth and texture of Dr. Sacks’s book, but it does… Continue

Posted on June 30, 2009 at 2:26pm —

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At 7:18am on August 4, 2009, Kristina said…
Hey Doc! Currently I'm reading a couple of books by Thich Nhat Hanh - Definitely makes me wish I had discovered him much earlier in my life.

Thanks for directing me to Chopra's Community.

Kristina
At 10:43pm on May 23, 2009, Jose Campos said…

Thanks for adding me as a friend.

Blessed BE in Love and Light!
~J~
At 9:58pm on May 1, 2009, Goddess Lily Seymour said…
Dear Dr. Nelson! Thanks so much for networking with us ~ Welcome!
Hugs, Lily S.

 
 

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