Candace McLean

Dr. Kevin Nelson

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The Spiritual Doorway in Our Brain: How does the brain work during spiritual experience?

What are near-death and out-of-body experiences? Do they reflect moments of spiritual ecstasy and revelation and are there physiological explanations for those tunnels of light? In The Spiritual Doorway in The Brain: A Neurologist's Search for the God Experience , Dr. Kevin Nelson, the world's leading neurologist on near-death experiences, offers the first comprehensive, empirically-tested, and peer-reviewed explanation of the biology behind mystical human experiences. Nelson's groundbreaking research delves deep into the mystery of our spiritual lives to reveal the biological machinery that enables us to perceive the miraculous.

About Dr. Kevin Nelson:

Kevin Nelson, M.D. has over three decades of experience examining the processes of spiritual sensation, in the last 26 years as a professor of neurology at the University of Kentucky. Dr. Kevin Nelson was raised along the shores of Lake Michigan, and then attended Michigan State University before entering the University of Michigan Medical School. Upon completing medical school, he struck out for the desert southwest to train in neurology at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. Afterward, he joined the University of Kentucky where he has practiced clinical neurology and neurophysiology for more than 25 years, and published in scientific journals that include Muscle and Nerve, Neurology, and the New England Journal of Medicine. Presently, as a physician leader, Dr. Nelson oversees the medical and surgical practice of 1,300 University of Kentucky Healthcare Enterprise physicians and healthcare providers. He is also active in the national society devoted to the study and practice of neuromuscular medicine.

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www.thespiritualdoorway.org