Spirituality and the Brain: A Scientific Approach to Religious Experience

Wesley J. Wildman, a School of Theology associate professor of theology and ethics, takes a scientific approach to the discussion of religious and spiritual experiences in the second lecture in the six-part series Religious Experiences: From the Mundane to the Anomalous. He explains current techniques for neurological studies of religious and spiritual experiences and debates their impact on our philosophical and scientific understanding of the supernatural.
Hosted by Center for the Study of Religion and Psychology at Boston University's Danielsen Institute on October 1, 2007.

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Simply wonderful! Well done!

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Is there anything we could understand about the soul? Or is it all about feeling and guessing?

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~ 53:00 "What is the relationship between meaning and neurons?" It is maybe that structures are being rebuilt (with semantics) in our brain that pre-exist in the collective unconscious (on an archetypal level), hereby mapping out the ontology that underlies human behaviour on a cultural and sociological level.

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It strikes me that the neuronal map acts as a mirror to its underlying ontology, hereby creating a forcing function as in; while the brain's autopoiesis progresses it is constantly built upon the agglomeration of the un-/ & the consciousness, thus recreating all knowledge that therefore must be available to the mind intuitively. Thus, knowledge never really gets lost but merely transformed such as in the second law of thermodynamics, that energy never vanishes, because it needs to keep the coherence with the ontology before, while and after the process of autopoiesis. Intuitive access to this knowledge can best be witnessed in savantism, but also geniuses or prophets. Funnily it extends the boundaries of how to access certainty of knowledge through the (classical) scientific method, as it is inductive and/or esoteric and/or holistic and/or spiritual (and/or quantum).