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.
