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My colleagues hailed from The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, USA Today, Newsday, ABC News, the BBC, and New Scientist magazine. Another journalist made his living authoring popular science books. This was the sharpest and most magical group of people I have known, their intellect rivaled only by their capacity to laugh and to drink.

2 Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion (New York: Bantam, 2006).

3 Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996, 3rd edition; originally published 1962).

4 This quotation has repeatedly, and wrongly, been attributed to Kuhn. In fact, the words are those of a science writer reviewing Kuhn’s book: Nicholas Wade, “Thomas S. Kuhn: Revolutionary Theorist of Science,” Science 197, no. 4299 (1997): 144.

5 Kuhn, Structure, p. 6.

6 Ibid., p. 5.

7 Darren Staloff, “James’s Pragmatism,” a lecture in the series “Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition,” produced by the Teaching Company.

8 William James, Pragmatism (New York: Longmans, Green, 1916), p. 107 (italics mine).

9 Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures (Boston: Christian Science Publishing Society, 1875), p. 587.

Index

Accelerator machines, pilots in

Achterberg, Jeanne

AIDS

prayer and

spirituality and

Albuquerque Journal

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)

Alcoholism

recovery from

spiritual experience and

Alicia (recovered alcoholic)

Americans

belief in God

and prayer

Amygdala

electrical stimulation

temporal lobe epilepsy and

Angular gyrus, malfunction

“Anthropic Principle,”

Antidepressant drugs

Anxious ego dissolution

Apostle,The (movie)

Arnott, John

Aspect, Alain

Astin, John

Astonishing Hypotheses, The (Crick)

Atheism, and transcendence

Attitude, and disease outcome

Auditory spiritual experiences

Augustine, Saint

Autoscopic seizures

Ayahuasca

Ayala,Terrence

Baby boomers, and evangelical churches

Baine, Michael

Barkley, Gregory

Barrow, John

Beard, A.W.

Beauregard, Mario

Bedard, Gilles

Behaviorism

Belief in God

Benson, Herbert

Bible

Blackmore, Susan6

Blanke, Olaf

Blind Faith (Sloan)

Blindness, and spiritual sight

Body, and mind

Bonds, emotional

Borg, Jacqueline

Bowyer, Susan

Bradley, Mary Ann

Brain

changes in

chemicals of

and consciousness

dying

electrical activity

epilepsy and

and mind

science and

and mystical experience

and near-death experiences 6

and out-of-body experiences8

plasticity of

as radio receiver

remolding of

spiritual

spiritual center

and spiritual experience

Persinger’s view

study of

training of

transformation of

Brain scans

of Buddhist monks

of Carmelite nuns

for glossolalia

for near-death experiences

Brain-wave activity

manipulation of

Brave New World (Huxley)

Breast cancer, emotions and

Breath

Bright,Vicky

Britton,Willoughby

Broken hand, healing of

Brokenness

AA and

Bucke, Richard

Buddhist monks

brain scans

brain waves

parietal lobes

thalamus

Burnham, Sophy

Bush babies, injured, prayer and

Byrd, R. C.

Cancer patients

emotions and

psychedelic drugs and

Carmelite nuns

brain scans

Catherine of Genoa, Saint

Catherine de’ Ricci, Saint

Caudate nucleus

Celeste, Sister (Franciscan nun)

Center for Positive Connections

Centering prayer

brain-imaging studies

glossolalia and

Change, spiritual experience and

Charismatic Christians

Chemically induced experience

Chemist, God as

Chemistry, of spiritual experience

Children, mystical

Christ. See Jesus

Christian Science

and God

and healing

loss of faith in

and lost objects

and spiritual senses

Christian Science Monitor, The

Christianity, exclusivity of

Churches, evangelical

Clinical populations

Cloninger, Robert

self-transcendence test

Cole-Turner, Ron

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Collective unconscious, Jung and

Collins, Francis

Comings, David

Communication with God

Compassion meditation training

Conceptualizing, temporal lobes and

Consciousness

altered states

brain and

causal

after death

forms of, James’s view

new level of

non-local