Fingerprints of God_ The Search for the Science of Spirituality - Barbara Bradley Hagerty [157]
Ideas, temporal lobes and
Identical twins
Identity, spiritual
Immune system
emotions and
spirituality and
Infinitude
Insights
mystical
transforming
Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS)
bonding experiment
Intelligence
infinite, God as
near-death experiences and
Intercessory prayer
International Association for Near-Death Studies
Interpersonal prayer
Interviews, spiritual experiences
Intrinsic religion, n5
Invisible reality
IONS. See Institute of Noetic Sciences
Ironson, Gail
Jaegen, Hieronymus
Jamais vu
James,William
and epilepsy theory
Miller and
The Varieties of Religious Experience
Jansen, Karl6
Jesus
peyote and
Joan of Arc
John of the Cross, Saint
Johns Hopkins University, spirituality study
Journal of Near-Death Studies
Journalism
Julian of Norwich, Saint
Jung, Carl
Kabat-Zinn, Jon
Kagan, Jerome
Kaplan, Sheri
Kast, Eric
Ketamine
Kidney dialysis and prayer, study on
Kircher, Pam
Koran
Kuhn,Thomas
Language, temporal lobes and
Language of God, The (Collins)
Laughter, healing power of
Leary,Timothy
Lee, Ann
Left hemisphere of brain
Lennox,William G.
“Letting go,”
Leuba, James Henry
Life After Life (Moody)
Life changes, spiritual experiences and
Light
of near-death experiences
of spiritual experiences
Light and Death (Sabom)
Limbic system of brain
Literal reading of Scripture
Live narration of mystical experience
Locus coeruleus
Los Angeles Times Magazine
Love
bonds of
caudate nucleus and
light as
oxytocin and
spiritual experience and
“Love Study,” IONS
LSD
cancer patients and
Huxley and
Luther, Martin
Machu Picchu, mystical experience
Magnetoencephalography (MEG)
Martial artists
Mary (epilepsy patient)
Mary Ann (Navajo healing ceremony)
Maslow, Abraham
Master craftsman, God as
Materialism
and spirituality
Mathematician, God as
McDermott, Scott
brain scan
McNamara, Patrick
Meaning
emotional, temporal limbic system and
multiple levels of
search for
Medical materialism, and saints
Medina, Jorge
Meditation
and brain
parietal lobes
prefrontal lobes
brain scan and
Christian Science prayer as
Davidson’s view
erotic nature
Griffiths and
and immune system
Patel and
and psoriasis
training
Meditative prayer, brain scans
MEG (magnetoencephalography)
Mehlman, Debbie
Memory, hippocampus and
Mental exercise
Mescaline
Middle temporal gyrus
Miller, J. D. and Teena
Miller,William
and mystical experiences
Mind
and body
and brain
science and
entangled, Radin’s idea
infinite, God as
“Mind at Large,” Huxley’s idea
Mind-body connection
Mind-body medicine
Mindfulness, training for
“Mindsight,”
Mitchell, Edgar
Moods, chemical reactions and serotonin
Moody, Raymond
Moral laws
Morgan, Donna
Mortal Minds (Woerlee)
Moses
MRI, for mystical experience
Muhammad
Musicians
Mystical experiences
and brain
God of
James and
live narration of
MRI for
psychedelic drugs and
synthetically induced
See also Spiritual experiences
Mystical states
brain scans and
James and
Mysticism
experience of “other,”
psychedelic drugs and
Mystics
ancient, and epilepsy
Nancy (prophet)
Native Americans
and peyote
religious ceremonies
See also Peyote ceremony
Nature, and spirituality
Near-death experiences
brain marker for
and brain-wave activity
of Christian Science healer
elements of
and meditation, brain states in
science and
stages of
temporal lobe and
visual perceptions
See also Out-of-body experiences
Neuroscience
and God
and religiosity
study of psychedelics
Neurotheology
Neurotransmitters, and mystical experience
New England Journal of Medicine, and Cousins
New Testament
Newberg, Andrew
and McDermott
prayer experiment
Newsweek
Newton, Isaac
Nichols, David
“Non-local mind,” God as, Dossey’s idea
Noratuk,Vicky Bright
Norepinephrine, spirituality and
Norman Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology
Numinous experience, universal
Nuns, brains of
See also Carmelite nuns; Franciscan nuns
Nurture, and spirituality
Oceanic boundlessness
Organized religion
Orgasms, spiritual