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Dreams and Visions: How Religious Ideas Emerge in Sleep and Dreams (Brain, Behavior, and Evolution)

Patrick McNamara

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Description:Across time and around the world, billions of people with highly dissimilar backgrounds and cultures have felt spiritual or religious inspiration that shaped their lives and supplemented their mental strength and in many cases, this inspiration came via a dream. The "how" and "why" of this common phenomenon is one that science has largely failed to explain. In this book, nationally recognized behavioral neuroscientist Patrick McNamara taps the latest science in sleep and dreams as well as neuropsychology to investigate one facet of the answer from the "inside out" the human brain's role.The first study of its kind in an emerging field, "Dreams and Visions: How Religious Ideas Emerge in Sleep and Dreams" provides a comprehensive summary of past theory and examines the latest science on dreams, REM sleep, cognitive approaches to religion, and neuroscience approaches to religion. Readers will come away with an in-depth understanding of how and why god beliefs and spiritual convictions so often emerge in our dreams. Dedicated sections address special dream types like visitation dreams, nightmares, precognitive dreams, "big" dreams, lucid dreams, paralysis dreams, twin dreams, and more."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Dreams and Visions: How Religious Ideas Emerge in Sleep and Dreams (Brain, Behavior, and Evolution). To get started finding Dreams and Visions: How Religious Ideas Emerge in Sleep and Dreams (Brain, Behavior, and Evolution), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Across time and around the world, billions of people with highly dissimilar backgrounds and cultures have felt spiritual or religious inspiration that shaped their lives and supplemented their mental strength and in many cases, this inspiration came via a dream. The "how" and "why" of this common phenomenon is one that science has largely failed to explain. In this book, nationally recognized behavioral neuroscientist Patrick McNamara taps the latest science in sleep and dreams as well as neuropsychology to investigate one facet of the answer from the "inside out" the human brain's role.The first study of its kind in an emerging field, "Dreams and Visions: How Religious Ideas Emerge in Sleep and Dreams" provides a comprehensive summary of past theory and examines the latest science on dreams, REM sleep, cognitive approaches to religion, and neuroscience approaches to religion. Readers will come away with an in-depth understanding of how and why god beliefs and spiritual convictions so often emerge in our dreams. Dedicated sections address special dream types like visitation dreams, nightmares, precognitive dreams, "big" dreams, lucid dreams, paralysis dreams, twin dreams, and more."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Dreams and Visions: How Religious Ideas Emerge in Sleep and Dreams (Brain, Behavior, and Evolution). To get started finding Dreams and Visions: How Religious Ideas Emerge in Sleep and Dreams (Brain, Behavior, and Evolution), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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