"In Sex, God and the Brain, neuroscientist Andrew Newberg, M.D. argues that our religious and spiritual experiences derive directly from our sexual being. While others have speculated on a connection between religion and sex, Newberg is the first to demonstrate - with groundbreaking brain scan research - that the underlying biological mechanism of religious, spiritual, and sexual experiences are identical. In fact, many religions, especially in the Judeo-Christian tradition, have an apparent fear of sexuality. Newberg's explanation of the problem is that both religion and sex compete for the…mehr
"In Sex, God and the Brain, neuroscientist Andrew Newberg, M.D. argues that our religious and spiritual experiences derive directly from our sexual being. While others have speculated on a connection between religion and sex, Newberg is the first to demonstrate - with groundbreaking brain scan research - that the underlying biological mechanism of religious, spiritual, and sexual experiences are identical. In fact, many religions, especially in the Judeo-Christian tradition, have an apparent fear of sexuality. Newberg's explanation of the problem is that both religion and sex compete for the same brain networks. So, sex is a potential threat to any religious system unless it can resolve the conflict within its doctrinal concepts. That is what some mystical sects do, relying on sexual activity as a means of achieving spiritual communion rather than preventing it.In his latest research, he has scanned the brains of women as they achieve spiritual orgasm in a process called Orgasmic Meditation. In this ecstatic experience obtained through sexual stimulation, self, other and the universe converge on a unity experience similar to states of enlightenment described in spiritual texts - and revealed in brain scans of people in heightened states of religious experience"--
Andrew Newberg is Director of Research at the Marcus Institute of Integrative Health at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and Medical College. Dr. Newberg has been particularly involved in the study of mystical and religious experiences throughout his career, in addition to the use of neuroimaging studies in the evaluation of neurological and psychiatric disorders. He is considered a pioneer in the field of neurotheology which seeks to link neuroscience with religious and spiritual experience. Dr. Newberg has published over two hundred articles, essays and book chapters. He is the author or co-author of eight books including the bestselling How God Changes Your Brain (Ballantine, 2009) and Why God Won't Go Away (Ballantine, 2001). He has presented his work at scientific and religious meetings throughout the world and has appeared on Good Morning America, Nightline, ABC's World News Tonight, Book TV, National Public Radio, Fresh Air, London Talk Radio, the Discovery Channel, the National Geographic Channel, the BBC, National Public Radio, and the nationally distributed movies, "What the Bleep Do We Know?" and Bill Maher's movie "Religulous." His work has been written about in the Los Angeles Times, Time, Newsweek, Discover Magazine, Reader's Digest, The Washington Post, and The New York Times.
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