Godspeed Institute – 04/15/12

Matthew Alper and His Book ‘The God Part of the Brain’

94% of human beings in the world believe in God, or a form, or forms, of a
Supreme Being. Could it be scientifically proven that human beings are
built to have a spiritual nature as a survival function, just as we are
designed to develop fingers and toes?

Matthew Alper is the author of The God Part of the Brain: A Scientific
Interpretation of Human Spirituality and God. Part of the emerging fields
of biotheology and neurotheology, his book has been called “an essential
book for those in search of a scientific understanding of man’s spiritual
nature.”

Topics in this hour include: whether human beings are hard-wired to
develop spirituality and religions as a survival mechanism; the struggle
with mortality that set Matthew off to find answers; the spiritual nature
as a developed and adapted evolutionary trait; developing this survival
trait to quell our fear of death; how science can measure the real effects
of prayer and meditation in the human brain; religion as delusion and
imagination; the role of ethics and morality therein; whether human life
has a purpose; Caer’s Spiritual Tip for your Spiritual Toolbelt; more.

For more information visit www.godspeedinstitute.com.

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