Have you ever wondered:
- Can science explain spirituality?
- Why have all human cultures developed spiritual practices?
- Is there some human problem that spirituality fixes?
- Can science explain how the various spiritual practices work?
- Could science explain the enlightened states that are reported by some spiritual paths?
A forthcoming book with a tentative title of Spirituality Explained will suggest a credible scientific answers to all of these questions (and more)! The title of this book is making a very bold claim, but the ideas in this book have been presented to a significant number of people (in 22 different presentations) and has received very positive feedback – there is wide agreement that these ideas actually do explain spirituality in a new and very scientific way.
The Author:
Frank Heile is the author of Spirituality Explained. Frank has a Ph.D. in Physics and considers himself to be an atheist – and yet Frank has been doing a number of different spiritual practices (with positive results) for many years! This is evidence that these ideas permit an atheist, like Frank, to get value from spiritual practices. Click About for more information about Frank.
More About the Book:
Spirituality Explained uses a specific three agent model of the human brain (and consciousness) to explain spirituality. The key idea is:
• The human brain is modeled as being composed of three separate but interconnected and interacting agents.
• Each agent has different goals and uses different techniques for achieving those goals.
• The names given to these three agents are the Thinker, Doer and Experiencer.
The book will use this three agent model to explain:
• How human consciousness differs from animal consciousness
• And how spirituality arose when human consciousness changed
• The book will describe the problem that spirituality fixes and how spiritual practices ameliorate that problem
• Spiritual enlightenment will be described
• The three agent model will explain the properties of spiritual enlightenment
•And will show how certain practices may lead to spiritual enlightenment
• These models and the entire book is completely consistent with all known laws of physics
• There is no reliance on non-physical objects such as a soul
• Thus there are no “spirits” (of any kind) in this explanation of spirituality
Hopefully, everyone; atheists, agnostics, and spiritual or religious people will all get value out of this scientific explanation of spirituality – even if they are not scientists.
The first video explains Parts 1 & 2 well and touches on Part 3 (1 hr, 12 min):
The second video mostly explains Parts 3 & 4 (1 hr, 7 min):
Click Resources for more information about these videos and for PDFs of the PowerPoint presentations.
