This book throws down a challenge to the field of religious studies.It offers new and exciting approaches for our understanding of religious experience, drawn from the methods of cognitive science, neuropsychology, developmental psychology, philosophy of mind, anthropology, and the many other fields that have joined together to investigate the phenomenon of consciousness.
Amazon Sales Rank: #1080199 in Books Published on: 2000-12-20 Original language: English Number of items: 1 Binding: Paperback 288 pages ISBN13: 9780907845133 Condition: New Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER!100% Satisfaction Guarantee.Tracking provided on most orders.Buy with Confidence!Millions of books sold!
Review "A thoroughly gripping read ...to review a book that presents such a range of perspectives is a tough job." -- Jo Nash, Human Nature Review About the Author Forman is Associate Professor of Religion at Hunter College as well as Executive Editor of the Journal of Consciousness Studies and Director of the Forge Institute, Inc.
The customer more profit in 46 of 52 people found this review helpful.Waiting for a science of religious experience by David C.Derrington This book is a reprint from the November / December 2000 issue of the Journal of Consciousness Studies.I read it looking for something that I will continue to wait, a science that goes beyond descriptions, and speculations about the nature of religious experience.Cognitive psychology are those who say atheists and a*sumptions are sufficient to explain religion in this correct?I do not think so.Religious experience is waiting for a particular kind of analysis that would convince a skeptic of it.Maybe waiting will be beyond what you would expect.This book offers something new in the sense, but it's a good overview of some areas of difficulty is not lack of effort.Jensine Andresen doing a good job summarizing 50 years of research on the physical effects of meditation.The autonomic effects are well documented, including how different styles of meditation and different degrees of experience induce relaxation or activation imaging studies are described, although it remains uncertain whether the results mentioned there actually be something measured in the sense of the autonomic effects peripherally .The biggest obstacle to doing more with this is nothing subjective about the experience.It is a question of how limited Neuroscience answer several questions remain.The simplest theory of how meditation lowers blood pressure was easier in terms of reduction of input to the sympathetic nervous system, but these are the details?What inputs are there as we go about our lives in an ordinary state of consciousness?What aspect of meditation is necessary to change this?What aspects of optimal effect?How could benefit from blood pressure to be further expanded in states of normal consciousness?What is really going on here?This book describes how studies on these questions before were made with many types of meditation, but neuroscience is still lack of techniques to link causes and effects so that these studies can say nothing more than, Experience "Something" can be more functional brain imaging will change, but it remains to seen.M Much of what is described in this book suffers from the same problems, only more so, because the effects of the treatment of other writers such as perception, cognition and motivation, transcendent or otherwise, is even more difficult to talk about the brain mechanisms in detail, otherwise The authors are less systematic than Andresen and prone to speculative models of experience and knowledge not necessarily have anything to do with the book in physical or spiritual principles.This may be useful to those interested in learning more about the phenomenology of religious experience.Yes provides several methods to choose from.Other authors are particularly aware of his themes is Phillip H.Christic visions written Wiebe and James H.Austin in neuroanatomy and neurophysiology of consciousness.Do not expect any useful conclusion.Neuroscience is still far more detailed or experiences such as those concerning the power of prayer in medicine become more impressive, this sort of thing is still going to be a matter of preaching to the choir ..Read 1 comments ..
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