Neurotheology-Matters of the Mind or Matters that Mind?
Understanding the true nature of an individual, be it a child or an adult, a male or a female, is almost an impossible task. The vast abyss like behaviour of a human mind is virtually unfathomable. Yet, with the advent of neurosciences, it can be said that we, as the medical fraternity, have bee...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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JCDR Research and Publications Private Limited
2013-07-01
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| Series: | Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research |
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| Online Access: | https://jcdr.net/articles/PDF/3181/61%20-%205409_E(C)_PF1(M)_F(P)_PF1(P)_PFA(NC)_OLF_PF1(PUH)_1.pdf |
| Summary: | Understanding the true nature of an individual, be it a child or an
adult, a male or a female, is almost an impossible task. The vast
abyss like behaviour of a human mind is virtually unfathomable.
Yet, with the advent of neurosciences, it can be said that we,
as the medical fraternity, have been in a position to decipher a
considerable part of the human mind. This review accepts the fact
that religion and theology have extreme reverence and respect. Yet,
when it comes to extraordinary beliefs, phenomena, unimaginable
feats and emotional deviations of the human mind, especially those
which involve deep faiths and beliefs, comprehensive neuroscientific
explanations from the emerging data, with the aid of elaborate
neuroimaging, have proved to be extremely rational and logical.
This review did make an attempt to untangle some facets of
spirituality and to make rational explanations of the same. It
was an attempt to understand the function of the mind (as an
abstract) and the brain, on the spiritual experiences and sudden
enlightments, the experience of togetherness with the universe,
and to understand the phenomena of trance and an altered
state of consciousness, which is better referred as the emerging
science of neurotheology. |
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| ISSN: | 2249-782X 0973-709X |