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246:  "There's a world of ideas competing for access to human brains":  Souls, Brains and the Divine:   Dr Michael Ferguson

246: "There's a world of ideas competing for access to human brains": Souls, Brains and the Divine: Dr Michael Ferguson

FromA Thoughtful Faith - Mormon / LDS


246: "There's a world of ideas competing for access to human brains": Souls, Brains and the Divine: Dr Michael Ferguson

FromA Thoughtful Faith - Mormon / LDS

ratings:
Length:
71 minutes
Released:
Apr 30, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Dr Michael Ferguson is a research fellow at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a teaching hospital for Harvard Medical School.  He works at the intersections of culture and brain.   His active research includes cognitive neuroscientific investigations of intelligence, memory, depression, religiosity, depression and spiritual experience.   Michael joins Gina to discuss the relationship between religion, church, spirituality and God.   They go deeply into the question of where and how we feel the spirit, and how the spirit is ultimately an embodied experience.  
Released:
Apr 30, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

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A podcast that seeks to highlight and model thoughtful faith within Mormonism