Dr. andrew newberg and dr. david halpern

• Break Through the Limits of the Brain

• Neuroscience, Inspiration, and Practices to Transform Your Life
• By: Joseph Selbie, Andrew Newberg MD - foreword
• Narrated by: Rick Adamson
• Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
• Unabridged

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Joseph Selbie explores the current understanding of the brain's dismaying life-controlling influence on our thoughts, emotions, and behavior, and balances that understanding with neuroscience's discoveries of neuroplasticity and our innate ability to rewire the brain for any new purpose. Break Through the Limits of the Brain delves into the scientific support for the existence of a subtle, nonlocal reality that strongly suggests that we exist simultaneously in both a subtle and a physical reality—and that our thoughts, life force, emotions, and memories originate nonlocally.

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• positiv and transformative

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  The Rabbi’s Brain: Mystics, Moderns and the Science of Jewish Thinking

  March 30, 2023

  Note: The book is written for a Jewish audience.
  
  This book seems to be defining what neurotheology is and what it could become. The authors look into studies of how the brain functions while in prayer and meditation. They also do surveys of rabbis of various denominations asking about their spiritual experiences, if any. While this is a book for a Jewish audience, they cover Christian, Muslim and Buddhist prayer and meditation. They are careful not to make any outlandish claims, but in being careful they are also not very helpful, just interesting. I think this field should be further studied but with current technology I doubt it could go much further than it has without becoming a sub-field of philosophy.
  
  Kabbalah is mentioned quite a bit. I suggest reading, "Practical Kabbalah: A Guide to Jewish Wisdom for Everyday Life" by Rabbi Laibl Wolf. That is a good read for a lay-person.
  
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  The Rabbi’s Brain: Mystics, Moderns and the Science of Jewish Thinking | Jewish Book Council

  How do Jew­ish rit­u­als evoke a sense of awe and God’s love by acti­vat­ing the brain’s sym­pa­thet­ic and parasym­pa­thet­ic sys­tems? In this fas­ci­nat­ing book, Dr. Andrew New­berg, Direc­tor of Research at the Mar­cus Insti­tute of Inte­gra­tive Health, and Dr. David Halpern, an Ortho­dox rab­bi and res­i­dent at the Sid­ney Kim­mel Med­ical Col­lege at Thomas Jef­fer­son Uni­ver­si­ty, seek to answer these and oth­er ques­tions through an exam­i­na­tion of the field of neu­rothe­ol­o­gy and its inter­sec­tion with Judaism. New­berg and Halpern offer a look at an emerg­ing field that is impact­ing acad­e­mia, sci­ence, and religion.

  Stand­ing at the inter­sec­tion between neu­ropsy­chol­o­gy and reli­gion, and uti­liz­ing an inte­gra­tive exam­i­na­tion of con­scious­ness, psy­chol­o­gy, anthro­pol­o­gy, the social sci­ences, spir­i­tu­al­i­ty, faith, and the­ol­o­gy, the a

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