The late Eugene d'Aquili, M.D., Ph.D., was, until his recent death, Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School. A pioneer in neurological research of religion, he published in the area for twenty-five years. Andrew B. Newberg, M.D., is a Researcher in Nuclear Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania.
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Table of Contents Introduction Chapter 1 -- The Brain and Central Nervous System Chapter 2 -- The Basis for the Mystical Mind Chapter 3 -- Why the Mind Creates Myth Chapter 4 -- Ritual, Liturgy, and the Mind Chapter 5 -- The Mind, Meditation, and Mysticism Chapter 6 -- The Near-Death Experience as Mystical Phenomenon Chapter 7 -- The Origin of Religion Chapter 8 -- Neurotheology Chapter 9 -- Consciousness and Reality Chapter 10 -- Consciousness and Reality Chapter 11 -- Metatheology and Megatheology Epilogue