Neurotheology Quotes
Neurotheology Quote of the day
Nirvana is too simple an experience to be depicted by diagrams.
Meditation brings Nirvana, and Nirvana brings Buddhahood.
It is pretty simple - mind is a part of life - consciousness is a part of mind - God is a part of consciousness.
Belief is exclusively a matter of personal domain. It has nothing to do with reality.
Pathology can indeed cause experiences of the Kingdom of God, but not all God experiences are caused by pathology.
Essentially prayer and meditation are one and the same thing.
Thus, on a functional level, your meditation triggers the corresponding neurobiological networks that are responsible for eliciting health effects.
Religion is not a book, it is not an institution, and it is not even a person. True Religion is realization of the self.
God is hardwired within the neural circuitry.
Humans are not simply higher than Gods, Gods are mere mystical representations of the humans themselves.
God is not an Almighty Being watching over life on earth. God is the Event Horizon of Human Consciousness.
Morality exists in the neurons as a natural sensation. Religion only tries to codify it.
There is no such thing as 'God given scripture', 'the messenger of God' or 'the Last Prophet'.
As the neo-cortex of the brain keeps getting more complex through further evolution, eventually our far away progeny will born in a world where there will be no more religion to be endowed upon them.
Regardless of the perpetual battle between believers and atheists, for me, religion is a tool of making friends, rather than making enemies.
Religion is not a book, it is a neurological sentiment.
Qualia of God refers to the private subjective experience or conception of God in people.
I am proud to say to you that, I am a scientist and I accept all religions to be biologically true and equal. My pursuit of understanding the human mind has taught me universal tolerance.
Abhijit Naskar is a self-trained scientist and thinker who discovers the paradigm shifting phenomena of the human mind.
God lives in and through the human mind, and not in any church, synagogue, temple or mosque.
Why should a religion claim that it is not bound to abide by the standpoint of reason! If one does not take the standard of reason, there cannot be any true judgment, even in the case of religion.
Fundamentalism not only fuels devastating acts of violence, but also all kinds of primitive prejudicial behaviors, such as Misogyny, Polygamy, Homophobia, and Islamophobia.
The more a person is united within himself or herself and inwardly simple, the more and higher things he or she understands, because he or she receives the light of understanding from within.
If Christ attained the state of Absolute Divinity, so can you. And once you do, then only you will understand the true meaning of Religion and God.
All our sentiments - religious, romantic or any other - are born in the neurons.
Religion is deeply intertwined with a person’s cultural identity. Hence, trying to take it away, is not only unethical from a humane standpoint, but also it is immoral and downright inhuman.
The Qualia of God have paramount potential to alter your body chemistry through mind-body substrates of neurobiology.
Quite surprisingly the majority of religious and spiritual practices actually diminishes your brain’s ability to act out of rage and fear.
Mother Nature created God as a neurological anti-depressant sentiment, but Man tore that God apart into pieces and made citadels of differentiation out of them.
The purpose of Neurotheology shall be to ease human sufferings with a deeper understanding of the neurobiological substrates of spirituality and divinity.
Religious faith as a whole induces various health benefits in the general population through complex biological processes.
Religions began as realization of the self, but ended up being retaliation against each other.
Religion doesn’t mean obeying some textual rules from books that were written hundreds or thousands of years ago. Religion means realization of the self.
Spirituality is to Religion, what Love is to Marriage. Spirituality is an emotional state of the mind, just like Love, while Religion on the other hand, is a social construct, quite like Marriage.
There can never be a conflict between science and religion, once you understand the spiritual knack of the human brain circuits.
I (God) am only a part of your own human consciousness, but a really bizarre part.
He (Jesus) gave up his life not because of the so-called sins of humanity, but because he was too adamant to give in to orthodox monstrosity.
Christ attained the ultimate spiritual oneness through prayer and devotion, Moses and Mohammed through prayer, Buddha and all the Indian sages through intense meditation and so did I. And so can you.
Once you attain the state of Absolute Oneness or Non-Duality, you become one of those spiritual legends that humanity so gloriously venerates as the founding fathers of religion.
The transcendental state of Absolute Oneness sets the human mind free.