How Enlightenment Changes Your Brain, Andrew Newberg, M.D.
How Enlightenment Changes Your Brain, Andrew Newberg, M.D.
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How Enlightenment Changes Your Brain
The New Science of Transformation

Author: Andrew Newberg, M.D., Mark Robert Waldman

Narrator: Fred Stella

Unabridged: 6 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/15/2016

Categories: Nonfiction, Psychology


Synopsis

The bestselling authors of How God Changes Your Brain reveal the neurological underpinnings of enlightenment, offering unique strategies to help readers experience its many benefits.In this original and groundbreaking book, Andrew Newberg, M.D., and Mark Robert Waldman turn their attention to the pinnacle of the human experience: enlightenment. Through his brain-scan studies on Brazilian psychic mediums, Sufi mystics, Buddhist meditators, Franciscan nuns, Pentecostals, and participants in secular spirituality rituals, Newberg has discovered the specific neurological mechanisms associated with the enlightenment experience—and how we might activate those circuits in our own brains.In his survey of more than one thousand people who have experienced enlightenment, Newberg has also discovered that in the aftermath they have had profound, positive life changes. Enlightenment offers us the possibility to become permanently less stress-prone, to break bad habits, to improve our collaboration and creativity skills, and to lead happier, more satisfying lives. Relaying the story of his own transformational experience as well as including the stories of others who try to describe an event that is truly indescribable, Newberg brings us a new paradigm for deep and lasting change.

About Andrew Newberg, M.D.

Andrew Newberg, MD, is the Director of Research at the Myrna Brind Center of Integrative Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and Sidney Kimmel Medical College. He is the author of several books, including the bestselling Why God Won’t Go Away, and his research has been featured in Time, Newsweek, and O, The Oprah Magazine, and on the Discovery Channel, the National Geographic Channel, the BBC, and NPR.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Iona

At first, I thought this was a great book right up my street, but then it began to bother me that the authors hadn´t really defined “Enlightenment” to my satisfaction, and seemed to be using the word incorrectly. I couldn´t find a definition of “Enlightenment” with a capital “E” in any of my diction......more

Goodreads review by Leland

Throughout history many individuals have reported having a profound transformative experience. While the specifics of each experience vary widely, they all share certain characteristics: oneness, clarity, intensity, surrender, and permanent change in some core aspect of their lives. What is going on......more

Goodreads review by Bernie

This book busted me over the head with some profound food for thought. I’d been skeptical of the notion of Enlightenment. [Note: the authors distinguish big-E Enlightenment as a permanent and substantial brain change, in contrast to the little-e enlightenment which is just a momentary epiphanies or......more

Goodreads review by Tom LA

Inspiring.......more

Goodreads review by Andrea

I received a copy of How Enlightenment Changes Your Brain through Goodreads Giveaways. I entered to win this book because I'm currently researching and learning about Enlightenment. I started out thinking what it seems most people believe: Enlightenment is a Buddhism thing, and not accepted or unders......more