Today we welcome Dr. Lisa Miller, the founder and director of the Spirituality Mind Body Institute. Her innovative research has been published in more than one hundred peer-reviewed articles in leading journals, including Cerebral Cortex, The American Journal of Psychiatry, and the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She is the New York Times bestselling author of The Spiritual Child and The Awakened Brain.
In this episode, I talk to Lisa Miller about the new science of spirituality. Despite what skeptics might believe, science and spirituality don’t necessarily contradict each other. Lisa’s research has found that humans are born with a natural capacity to connect with the spiritual. By being open to the transcendent, our brains can reap the benefits of resiliency, creativity, and more. We also touch on the topics of neuroscience, existentialism, mindfulness, and empiricism.
Website: www.lisamillerphd.com
Twitter: @lisamillerphd
Topics
01:34 The Awakened Brain
06:14 Conversations with Martin Seligman
13:20 The spiritual child
15:16 Science augments spirituality
17:26 Defining spirituality and devotion
25:04 Personality correlations with spirituality
27:25 A monism approach to consciousness
31:27 Searching for life’s meaning
37:08 Schumann resonances
39:56 Religious war is outdated
43:34 Transcendence is a process
46:57 Meditation practice with Lisa
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