Does religious experience come from God, or is it just the random firing of neurons in the brain? The Spiritual Brain proves that genuine, life-changing spiritual events can be documented. The authors make a convincing case for what many in science are loathe to consider---that it is God who creates our spiritual experiences, not the brain. Mario Beauregard´s groundbreaking work on the neurobiology of mystical experience at the University of Montreal has received international media coverage. Before becoming a faculty member there, he conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Texas and the Montreal Neurological Institute (McGill University).

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction ix
Toward a Spiritual Neuroscience 1
Is There a God Program? 41
Does the God Module Even Exist? 57
The Strange Case of the God Helmet 79
Are Mind and Brain Identical? 101
Toward a Nonmaterialist Science of Mind 125
Who Has Mystical Experiences and What Triggers Them? 181
Do Religious, Spiritual, or Mystical Experiences Change Lives? 229
The Carmelite Studies: A New Direction? 255
Did God Create the Brain or Does the Brain Create God? 289
Notes 297
Glossary 343
Bibliography 349
Index 359