BOOK ONE · THE GOD NEUROSCIENCE FOUND · 2026
The God Neuroscience Found
A Neurotheology of the Embrace from Behind
Tae Ho Guak, MD · Neurologist, 25 years in clinical practice
Where does spirituality live inside the human brain? A neurologist takes the reader through what twenty-first-century neuroscience has actually measured: the praying brain on SPECT, the meditator’s thickened cortex, the quieted intention circuit of those who speak in tongues, the descending pain pathway that softens when meaning returns, and spiritual recovery from trauma and addiction.
Then, with equal honesty, he turns to what neuroscience has not solved: the hard problem of consciousness, the fine-tuned universe, the depth of love. From Galileo to the Penrose–Hameroff hypothesis, from William James to Karl Rahner, the book traces the long conversation between brain and Being, and arrives at one quiet conclusion: the human brain is shaped toward God, and we are, even now, being held from behind.
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Book details
- FORMAT
- Paperback, 5.5 × 8.5 in
- PAGES
- 336
- ISBN (PAPERBACK)
- 979-11-221695-0-8
- ALSO IN
- Hardcover · Kindle
- SERIES
- Book 1 of 2
- PUBLISHER
- Riche Books
CONTENTS
Twenty-nine chapters in six parts
- PART IWere Science and Faith Ever Enemies? — Galileo, Newton, Mendel, Lemaître, and the limits of reductionism
- PART IIThe Human Being as Materialist Neuroscience Sees It — neurons and consciousness, Libet and free will, Dawkins, Dennett and Harris, the hard problem
- PART IIIThe Brain That Meets God — Newberg’s SPECT images, meditating monks and contemplating nuns, speaking in tongues, near-death and mystical experience, conversion
- PART IVWhat Is Spirituality? — awe, the default mode network, rule and freedom, spirituality without religion, fine-tuning, consciousness and love
- PART VA Life Lived in Spirit, and How the Body Answers — oxytocin and the vagus nerve, altruism and telomeres, gratitude and forgiveness, prayer and immunity, chronic pain, the Blue Zones, trauma and addiction
- PART VIThe 99% We Do Not Know — open questions, whether consciousness flows through the brain, Penrose–Hameroff, why evolution chose spirituality
- CONCLUSIONThe Breath Inside the Brain
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