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Needy creatures that we are, we put the brain's spiritual centers to use all the time. We pray for peace; we meditate for serenity; we chant for wealth. We travel to Lourdes in search of a miracle; we go to Mecca to show our devotion; we eat hallucinogenic mushrooms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Biology of Belief | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

It's hard not to be impressed by findings like that, but a skeptic will say there's nothing remarkable - much less spiritual - about them. You live longer if you go to church because you're there for the cholesterol-screening drive and the visiting-nurse service. Your viral load...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Biology of Belief | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

That's undeniably true - up to a point. But it's also true that our brains and bodies contain an awful lot of spiritual wiring. Even if there's a scientific explanation for every strand of it, that doesn't mean we can't put it to powerful use. And...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Biology of Belief | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

It's All in Your Head "enmeshed in the brain" is as good a way as any to describe Newberg's work of the past 15 years. The author of four books, including the soon-to-be-released How God Changes Your Brain, he has looked more closely than most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Biology of Belief | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

Pray and meditate enough and some changes in the brain become permanent. Long-term meditators - those with 15 years of practice or more - appear to have thicker frontal lobes than nonmeditators. People who describe themselves as highly spiritual tend to exhibit an asymmetry in the thalamus - a feature that other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Biology of Belief | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

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