If you are interested in meditation, spirituality, or neuroscience, this is the book for you. Newberg is the leader when it comes to spirituality and spect brain imaging.

Thinking about the spiritual realm of life is great for our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health. It shows how the benefits of spirituality are not just in our heads or psychology, the literally change your brain. He is not preachy or tryi...  Read More

There are a few interesting pieces in this book, but it's tough to wade through and pick them out of the mess of the rest. Writers like andrew rely on your lack of knowledge to make millions selling books like this. More self-help fluff than incisive ...  Read More

The book is heavy on opinions, low on relevant citations. This writer makes it sound like fact that the prefrontal cortex is responsible for reason and logic and that the anterior cingulate isresponsible for compassion and empathy. This is false, dang...  Read More

The only dark side to religion the book mentions is people feeling they contracted a disease because god punished them. People confuse irrational things they may have learned in school with rational science.