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MYSTICAL EXPERIENCES, NEUROSCIENCE, AND THE NATURE OF REALITY
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Miller, Jonathan Scott
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Year and Degree
2007, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bowling Green State University, Philosophy.
Abstract
Research by neuroscientists has begun to clarify some of the types of brain activity associated with mystical experiences. Neuroscientists disagree about the implications of their research for mystics’ beliefs about the nature of reality, however. Persinger, Alper, and other scientific materialists believe that their research effectively disproves mystics’ interpretations of their experiences, while Newberg, Hood, and others believe that scientific models of mystical experiences leave room for God or some other transcendent reality. I argue that Persinger and Alper are correct in dismissing mystics’ interpretations of their experiences, but that they are incorrect in asserting mystical experiences are pathological or otherwise undesirable.
Committee
Marvin Belzer (Advisor)
Pages
142 p.
Keywords
Mystical experience
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Mysticiam
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Neuroscience
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Religious experience
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Self-transcendence
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Spiritual experience
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Transcendent reality
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Miller, J. S. (2007).
MYSTICAL EXPERIENCES, NEUROSCIENCE, AND THE NATURE OF REALITY
[Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1174405835
APA Style (7th edition)
Miller, Jonathan.
MYSTICAL EXPERIENCES, NEUROSCIENCE, AND THE NATURE OF REALITY.
2007. Bowling Green State University, Doctoral dissertation.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1174405835.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Miller, Jonathan. "MYSTICAL EXPERIENCES, NEUROSCIENCE, AND THE NATURE OF REALITY." Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1174405835
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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