The Divine Brain

📖 The Scoop

Human abilities to voluntarily stimulate brain regions to connect with God. Witches, yogis, and shamans—what do they have in common?

"Rodríguez masterfully weaves his book into an exciting and astonishing tapestry that will leave no one indifferent."

Genetic adaptations that allow us to identify sacred sites and stimulate experiences through geometry, engineering, and architectural structures. A collective consciousness capable of uniting individual minds. There is God and there are gods, there are heavens and souls in different heavens. Some reincarnate and others do not. There is a heaven for animals. There are auspicious hours to connect with the divine and sounds that bring us closer to mystical experiences. What does science have to say about all this? Discover Neurotheology, a discipline that will change the world...

The author serves all this up like the famous Mr. 007's Martini: "shaken, not stirred."

The book’s trajectory mirrors the expanded lyrics of a Jorge Drexler song: from brain chemistry to yogis; from mathematical experiences to neuroplasticity; from mysticism to metacognition; from Buddhism to panpsychism; from hallucinogens to the silent witness; from practice (which makes the monk (who in turn made the practice)) to the so-called "God helmet" (VAT included); from transcranial magnetic stimulation to quantum physics; from nature's software to neuroethics; from eschatology to epigenetics; from karma to transhumanism; from techno music to the Sufi turn; from gratitude to the heaven of animals.

Genre: Philosophy / Religious (fancy, right?)