BOOK TWO · THE GOD NEUROSCIENCE FOUND · 2026
The Brain Turned Toward God
Into the Deep (Duc in altum)
Tae Ho Guak, MD · Neurologist, 25 years in clinical practice
In this second volume, a neurologist walks further into the hardest questions about consciousness, in the company of the patients he has met in the clinic: psychedelics and mystical experience, artificial intelligence and personhood, vanishing memory and the love that remains, and the last breath at a bedside. The book moves through the leading scientific theories of consciousness, including Integrated Information Theory and Global Workspace Theory, and decades of research gathered under the name neurotheology.
It does not set out to prove anything. It lays two languages side by side, the language of science and the language of faith, and shows that they are not enemies. The author did not look for God in the brain. What he photographed was a brain during the time it was turned toward God.
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DETAILS
Book details
- FORMAT
- Paperback, 5.5 × 8.5 in
- PAGES
- 438
- ISBN (PAPERBACK)
- 979-11-221695-1-5
- ALSO IN
- Hardcover · Kindle
- SERIES
- Book 2 of 2
- PUBLISHER
- Riche Books
CONTENTS
From today’s questions into the deep
- OPENINGWhat explanation does not take away · We do not look for God in the brain
- TODAY’S QUESTIONSThe door chemistry opened (psychedelics) · The machine that tells red apart (AI) · Different brains, one dignity · The body in isolation · The memory that fades, the love that remains
- THE HARD PROBLEMChalmers, qualia and zombies · A theology of damaged consciousness · Four answers: Dennett, Searle, Nagel, Chalmers · The day Mary first saw red · Polkinghorne and McGrath respond
- THEORIES OF CONSCIOUSNESSWhat cannot be computed · A single letter, Φ · The fifty-millisecond threshold · Downward causation and the soul
- THE CLINICAL PLACEThe silence and kenosis of the masters · A prescription called repetition · The wounded healer · The last breath
- THE LABORATORY OF NEUROTHEOLOGYThe God helmet · Ecstasy within a seizure · The “God gene” · The praying brain · Does prayer work?
- THE MIND REBUILDS THE BRAINNeuroplasticity · Free will reconsidered · The riddle of pain · Attachment
- SYNTHESISDoes it come out of the brain, or flow through it? · Into the deep
KOREAN EDITION · 한국어판
더 깊은 곳으로
신 앞에 선 뇌 · 곽태호 · 이 책의 한국어판
“깊은 데로 가서 그물을 던져라.” 밤새 아무것도 잡지 못한 어부에게 건넨 말이다. 저자는 이 문장을 믿으라는 명령이 아니라 다시 해보라는 권유로 읽는다.
24,000원 · A5 · 330쪽 · ISBN 979-11-221695-5-3
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