The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist's Case for the Existence of the Soul

Mario Beauregard, Ph.D. · Denyse O'Leary

Dec 2007 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Patrick Lawlor

About this audiobook

Does religious experience come from God, or is it just the random firing of neurons in the brain? Drawing on brain research on Carmelite nuns that has attracted major media attention and provocative new research in near-death experiences, The Spiritual Brain proves that genuine, life-changing spiritual events can be documented. The authors make a convincing case for what many in science are loathe to consider-that it is God who creates our spiritual experiences, not the brain. Challenging the conclusions of such books as Richard Dawkins's The God Delusion and Daniel C. Dennett's Breaking the Spell, this book will be of interest to readers on both sides of a hot-button issue at the meeting place of science and faith.

About the author

Mario Beauregard is an associate professor in the Departments of Radiology and Psychology at the Universite de Montreal (Canada).

Denyse O'Leary is a Canadian journalist based in Toronto who writes on topics related to science, religion, and faith.

Patrick Lawlor has recorded over three hundred audiobooks in just about every genre. He has been an Audie Award finalist multiple times and has garnered several AudioFile Earphones Awards, a Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Award, and many Library Journal and Kirkus starred audio reviews.