The ""God"" Part of the Brain: A Scientific Interpretation of Human Spirituality and God

by Alper, Matthew

• ISBN13: 9780966036701
• ISBN10: 0966036700
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-04-01
• Publisher: Rogue Pr

Table of Contents

Prologue	1	(6)
BOOK I: Theory's Evolution	7	(58)
Throwing Rocks At God	8	(5)
What Is Science?	13	(9)
A Very Brief History of Time	22	(19)
Kant	41	(5)
God As Word	46	(6)
Universal Behavioral Patterns	52	(13)
Book II: Intro To Bio-Theology	65	(107)
The Spiritual Function	66	(17)
Jung	68	(3)
Universal Spiritual Beliefs And Practices	71	(12)
The Rationale	83	(24)
Man's Awareness of Death	85	(2)
The Pain Function	87	(3)
The Anxiety Function	90	(4)
When Awareness of Death Meets the Anxiety Function	94	(4)
The Advent of the Spiritual Function	98	(9)
The Spiritual Experience	107	(17)
Origins of the Spiritual Experience	111	(2)
The Ego Function	113	(7)
The Transcendental Function	120	(4)
Drug-Induced God	124	(3)
The Prayer Function	127	(5)
Religious Conversion	132	(4)
Why Are There Atheists?	136	(4)
Near-Death Experiences	140	(4)
The Guilt and Morality Functions	144	(12)
The Logic of God: A New Paradigm	156	(5)
What, If Anything, Is To Be Gained From a Scientific Interpretation of Human Spirituality and God?	161	(11)
Epilogue	172	(2)
Addendum: Experiments That Might Help Prove the Existence of a Spiritual Function	174	(2)
Endnotes	176	(2)
Bibliography	178	(4)
Index	182