Can anyone point me toward some Catholic and/or Christian sources addressing the field of Neurotheology and scientist’s findings that it’s our brain which causes us to have spiritual experiences rather that God, Himself?
I don’t know if this will be any help to you, but it’s written by my Catholic psychiatrist. It deals with psychiatry and spirituality.
williamwilkie.com/downloads/SpiritualDimension.pdf
The business of neurotheology is a load of rubbish. I had the experience of my father turning up in my room the night he died. He materialised near the door, started with an apology, we argued and conversed, and at the end he disappeared with one terrifying almighty scream.
Now I didn’t know he’d died, had no reason to expect a “visit” and didn’t even want to believe it as I was an atheist at the time. The very last thing I was expecting was a uncomfortable visit from a deceased father. As it was his body wasn’t found for another four days, which is when I got told by the more usual method.
All these psychiatrists are trying to do is not know about God. When it’s all boiled down, that will be their sole justification.
I also had the experience of a wise, if discouraging, pastor tell me certain things that he thought would happen. And they did, although I’m still waiting for a few things to occur. There is no way he could have known these things through his own natural intelligence, so Somebody who could see the future was telling him.
I’d like to see these clowns explain people floating around the ceiling during exorcisms with their “neurotheology”. In fact, levitation occurs sometimes without overt demonic activity being involved -
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogi_Pullavar
You’ll note St. Teresa of Avila and St. Joseph of Cupertino in the footnotes.
Maybe these tame psychiatrists can explain this as part of their “neurotheology”.
