Science and Spiritual Practices: Transformative Experiences and Their Effects on Our Bodies, Brains, and Health - Softcover

Sheldrake, Rupert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1640092641 ISBN 13: 9781640092648

Publisher: Counterpoint, 2019

Synopsis

"I have personally adopted many of the practices Rupert Sheldrake describes in his book and experienced more love, joy, empathy, gratitude, and equanimity as a result." ―Deepak Chopra, MD

The effects of spiritual practices are now being investigated scientifically as never before, and many studies have shown that religious and spiritual practices generally make people happier and healthier. In this pioneering book, Rupert Sheldrake shows how science helps validate seven practices on which many religions are built, and which are part of our common human heritage: meditation, gratitude, connecting with nature, relating to plants, rituals, singing and chanting, and pilgrimage and holy places.

A book for anyone who suspects that in the drive toward radical secularism, something valuable has been left behind.

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About the Author

RUPERT SHELDRAKE, PhD, is a biologist and the author of more than eighty-five scientific papers and twelve books. He was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge University, a Frank Knox Fellow at Harvard University, and a Research Fellow of the Royal Society. From 2005 to 2010, he was the director of the Perrott-Warrick Project, funded by Trinity College, Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, Petaluma, California, and of Schumacher College in Devon, England.

Edition details

• Publisher: Counterpoint
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1640092641
• ISBN 13: 9781640092648
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240