the enchanted loom reviews mario beauregard's and denyse o'leary's book, the...

The Enchanted LoomTeasing sturdy threads from

neuroscience masterworks

Teasing 10 threads from Mario Beauregard’s and Denyse O’Leary’s …

Thread 1:

Nature is a “blind watchmaker.” But the brain turns out to be more like an ocean than a clockwork.

(pg. 1 & 103)

Thread 2:

Research on 1000 human guinea pigs has established a clear link between spiritual or relig- ious experience and the temporal lobes of the human brain.

(pg. 81)

Thread 3:

“‘Cerebral fritzing’ is responsible for almost anything one might describe as paranormal~ aliens, heavenly apparitions, past- life sensations, near-death experiences, awareness of the soul, you name it.”(pg. 84)

Thread 4:

“Synapses between cells are awash in hor- mones and neurotransmitters that modulate the transmission of signals. They constantly form and dissolve, weaken and strengthen in response to new experi- ences.”

(pg. 102)

Thread 5:

“The time has come for science to confront the serious implications of the fact that directed, willed mental activity can clearly and systematically alter brain function.”(pg. 126)

Thread 6:

“Fear is never a good counselor and victory over fear is the first spiritual duty of man.”

(pg. 136)

Thread 7:

“In large measure the history of medicine is the history of the placebo effect.”

(pg. 140)

Thread 8:

“Neither the placebo nor the nocebo effect has been much studied – medical comfort with such squishy phenomena aside, there’s no money in it.”

(pg. 149)

Thread 9:

Neuro-electric, neurochemical and neuro- metabolic changes are necessary for a religious- spiritual- mystical experience to take place.(pg. 293)

Thread 10:

Some researchers have proposed that our brains do not produce mind and conscious- ness, but rather act as reducing valves allowing us only a narrow portion of perceivable reality.(pg. 292)

Image Credits:

Title Page: http://www.rappler.com/science-nature/23193-personality-traits-brain-scans

Slide 3 - http://bit.ly/1PDMRHn

Slide 12 - http://www.okdokey.co.uk/reducing-touch-points-on-the-social-conversion-funnel/

Slide 2 - http://amzn.to/1W324RX; http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Denyse_O'Leary

Slide 6 - https://www.pinterest.com/pin/366410119655506161/

Slide 5 - http://www.indochinavoyages.com/eating-insects-strange-experience-try-cambodia/

Slide 11 - http://nature.desktopnexus.com/wallpaper/513921/

Slide 10 - http://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-free-research-money-image20321166

Slide 14 - http:// www.rappler.com/science-nature/23193-personality-traits-brain-scans

Slide 9 - http://www.deviantart.com/art/placebo-273893716

Slide 8 - http://huff.to/1Z3TfL9

Slide 7 - http://heres2now.com/2012/eating-bugs-siem-reap-cambodia/

Slide 4 - http://www.deviantart.com/art/Mystical-286996467

Mark Brady, PhDTheEnchantedLoom@gmail.com

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