Andrew Newberg is a pioneer in neurotheology. He says brain scans can show the neural signature of spiritual experience.
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Do chimpanzees have spiritual experiences? A remarkable discovery in West Africa suggests they might.
Science journalist Claudia Hammond unlocks the weirdness of how we experience time — including our fixation on the future — in a book called "Time Warped."
We peer into one of the most fascinating investigations of consciousness: Stanislav Grof's pioneering study of LSD.
Psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist says most neuroscientists have downplayed the differences between the left and right sides of the brain. He says he thinks the left hemisphere has become so dominant in Western culture that we're losing the sense of what makes us human.
Long before Timothy Leary's study of LSD, psychiatrist Stanislav Grof launched his own investigation of psychedelics. Since then he's devoted his life to exploring non-ordinary states of consciousness.
Daniel Kahneman is a Nobel laureate psychologist. So he’s the perfect person to give us a new way of thinking about thinking, which is exactly what he does in his new book, “Thinking, Fast and Slow.” In this hour, Kahneman tells us about the two systems that drive the way we think....
Jonah Lehrer says that the great French writer Proust described insights into the way the mind processes memory long before the scientists could prove how the brain worked.
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