Table of Contents

PROLOGUE

BOOK I: THEORY'S EVOLUTION

Chapter 1:

Throwing Rocks At God

Chapter 2:

What Is Science?

Chapter 3:

A Very Brief History Of Time

Chapter 4:

Kant

Chapter 5:

God As Word

Chapter 6:

Universal Behavioral Patterns


BOOK II: INTRO TO BIO-THEOLOGY

Chapter 1:

The Spiritual Function
a) Jung
b) Universal Spiritual Beliefs
And Practices

Chapter 2:

The Rationale
a) Man's Awareness Of Death
b) The Pain Function
c) The Anxiety Function
d) When Awareness Of Death
Meets The Anxiety Function
e) The Advent Of The Spiritual
Function

Chapter 3:

The Spiritual Experience
a) Origins Of The Spiritual
Experience
b) The Ego Function
c) The Transcendental Function

Chapter 4:

Drug-Induced God

Chapter 5:

The Spiritual Gene

Chapter 6:

The Prayer Function

Chapter 7:

Religious Conversion

Chapter 8:

Why Are There Atheists?

Chapter 9:

Near-Death Experiences

Chapter 10:

Speaking In Tongues

Chapter 11:

The Guilt And Morality Functions

Chapter 12:

The Logic Of God: A New Paradigm

Chapter 13:

What, If Anything, Is To Be Gained
From A Scientific Interpretation Of
Human Spirituality And God?

Addendum: Possible Experiments Which May Prove The Existence Of A Spiritual Function

EPILOGUE
FOOTNOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY

EXPLORE THE EVOLUTIONARY AND
NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL ORIGINS OF:

  • · Pain
  • · Anxiety
  • · Self-Conscious Awareness
  • · Human Spiritual Consciousness
  • · Spiritual/Transcendental Experiences
  • · Religiosity
  • · The Healing Properties of Faith and Prayer
  • · Near-Death Experiences
  • · Moral Consciousness
  • · Guilt and Sin
  • · Mathematical Consciousness and the universal concepts of infinity and eternity
  • · Atheism
  • · Religious Conversion