Religious Studies
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-11-25 | Author:James H. Austin

Item: The ACH nerve cells in the brainstem are highly resistant to the toxic side effects of NO'. In fact, ACH nerve cells cultured from the parabrachial nuclei are some ...
( Category: Neurology October 9,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Lauritzen, Bill [Lauritzen, Bill]

With our modern (around 2000 AD) knowledge of geology, or earth science, we can reinterpret many other classical myths, but as I said once before, this book is not meant ...
( Category: Science & Religion October 9,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-07-08 | Author:Bulkeley, Kelly [Bulkeley, Kelly]

Humans are not, of course, the only species to create music. Whales, birds, and nonhuman primates make vocalizations to each other that employ structured variations in pitch, tone, rhythm, and ...
( Category: Psychology October 9,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1999-06-03 | Author:Austin, James H. [Austin, James H.]

Figure 14 Sleep cycles on two successive nights, before and after LSD In the top graph, the subject descends, in “staircase” fashion, through the four stages of normal sleep. She ...
( Category: Psychology October 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 2009-03-12 | Author:Murray, Michael & Schloss, Jeffrey [Murray, Michael]

(Pyysiäinen 2004: 45)13 The problem is that the list of ‘religious’ properties is insufficient to distinguish religious ideas from merely strange and MCI ideas that are taken to be fanciful. ...
( Category: History October 9,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-01-31 | Author:Tremlin, Todd [Tremlin, Todd]

4 Gods and Why They Matter What Does the Brain Have to Do with Gods? Though mountain gorillas bend foliage into comfortable sleeping mats, human beings build luxurious beds for ...
( Category: Science & Religion October 9,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-08-24 | Author:Norenzayan, Ara [Norenzayan, Ara]

The anthropological record tells us that in moving from the smallest scale human societies to largest and most complex human societies, the following patterns emerge: • Big Gods go from ...
( Category: Sociology October 9,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-31 | Author:Thomson, J. Anderson & Aukofer, Clare [Thomson, J. Anderson]

8 Wherever Two or More of You Are Gathered Harnessing Brain Chemistry through Ritual The formation of different languages and of distinct species and the proofs that both have been ...
( Category: Psychology October 9,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-10-28 | Author:Weidenkopf, Steve [Weidenkopf, Steve]

6 Fiasco of the Fourth Crusade Our Lord commands and tells us all to go forth and liberate the Sepulchre and the cross. Let him who wishes to be in ...
( Category: Christianity September 8,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-07 | Author:Battin, Margaret Pabst

Source [#45] Kwakiutl: Ruth Benedict, Patterns of Culture, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1934, pp. 215–219. TALKOTIN [#46] Barbarities Practised on Widows (Ross Cox, citing Duncan M’Gillivray, 1794–95) The ...
( Category: Suicide September 8,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Christie, Niall

MUSLIM VIEWS ON FRANKISH CULTURE We will now turn our attention to some aspects of Frankish culture as they are represented in the Muslim sources, considering how the Muslim writers ...
( Category: Christianity August 25,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-04-06 | Author:Michael Novak

THE PROVIDENTIAL NATION Finally, a word must be said about the tradition of seeing Providence in the affairs of the American colonies. This tradition was as old, of course, as ...
( Category: United States August 21,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2008-12-09 | Author:Newberg M.d., Andrew & Eugene G. D'Aquili & Vince Rause

THE NEUROBIOLOGY OF MYSTICAL EXPERIENCE It’s difficult for those of us living in the practical world, and coping from day to day with the mundane challenges of existence, to comprehend ...
( Category: Psychology August 21,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-12-31 | Author:David Bentley Hart [Hart, David Bentley]

V 5. Intentionality. The Latin verb intendere means, among other things, to “direct toward,” “aim at,” or “reach for.” In the philosophy of mind, the term “intentionality” refers not simply ...
( Category: Philosophy August 20,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-10-13 | Author:Trigilio, John & Brighenti, Kenneth [Trigilio, John]

Ever wonder why some Catholics go to Mass on Saturday evening instead of Sunday morning? Using the Hebrew method of time reckoning, after sundown on Saturday evening is actually the ...
( Category: General August 20,2015 )