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Todd Murphy is a Researching Behavioral Scientist associated with Dr. Michael Persinger of Canada’s Laurentian University. Murphy’s main interest is in understanding how the brain contributes to mystic, religious, and spiritual experiences. Murphy is also the developer and distributor of shakti neural stimulation technology that is based on Dr. Persinger’s pioneering work.Content: 6 Video conference Lectures* 1 – God and the Brain – The Persinger ‘God Helmet’, The Brain, and visions of God.* 2 – Rebirth in Human Evolution – The New Science of Darwinian Reincarnation.* 3 – Enlightenment, Self, and the Brain. How the brain changes with final liberation.* 4 – Psychic Skills & Miracles – technology used for telepathy and remote viewing.* 5 – The Sacred Body. Kundalini, Subtle bodies, Chi, Yoga, and the brain.* 6 – Practical neurotheology – using neuroscience for spiritual practice.* 1 – God and the Brain – The Persinger ‘God Helmet’, The Brain, and visions of God.This talk, called “God and the Brain”, is a discussion of Persinger’s “God Helmet” (actually the Koren Helmet) and the 8 Coil Shakti. It covers visions of God, Near-Death Experiences, and other themes in neurotheology, the field that integrates neuroscience and spirituality. This is the first of six lectures on Spirituality and the Brain by Todd Murphy, inventor of the 8 Coil Shakti (Not unlike the ‘God Helmet’, developed by Persinger and Koren), and a member of Laurentian University’s Behavioral Neuroscience research group since 1998.* 2 – Rebirth in Human Evolution – The New Science of Darwinian Reincarnation.A discussion of “Darwinian Reincarnation”, a theory that discusses rebirth as a human behavior from the perspective of biological evolution. This talk describes the “algorithmic reincarnation” hypothesis published in the Journal for near-death studies, a peer-reviewed scientific journal. This lecture is given by Todd Murphy, the creator of the 8 Coil Shakti, not unlike the Presinger “God Helmet”* 3 – Enlightenment, Self, and the Brain. How the brain changes with final liberation.What happens in the brain when a person attains enlightenment? This talk offers an hypothesis. Using concepts in neurotheology developed by Michael A. Persinger (inventor of the God Helmet), Todd Murphy (inventor of the 8 Coil Shakti neural stimulation system) explores the brain’s role in enlightenemnt as understood in Buddhism. The talk also looks at the self (or sense of self), and how it’s place as a brain function allows it to be flexible enough to change as a person becomes enlightened. It examines a few case histories, including those of Ramana Maharishi, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, The Buddha, and some others.* 4 – Psychic Skills & Miracles – technology used for telepathy and remote viewing.This lecture discusses how telepathy and remote viewing and have been generated in laboratory settings by Dr. M. A. Persinger (inventor of the “God Helmet”) using “The Octopus” and “Shiva”, circumcerebral (around the head) neural stimulation devices. It also discusses a case history of a possible miracle elicited using neural stimulation. This is part of a series of talks in neurotheology given by Todd Murphy, inventor of the 8 Coil Shakti and the Shiva Neural Stimulation system. Psychic skills and Miracles were outside the range of science until the experiments described in this lecture were published in the peer-reviewed scientific literature.* 5 – The Sacred Body. Kundalini, Subtle bodies, Chi, Yoga, and the brain.This discussion in neurotheology focuses on spiritual teachings about the body. Starting with an hypothesis (only an hypothesis; there is no evidence as yet) about Kundalini and how it projects out states of consciounsess into our bodies, it also looks at the neural basis for Subtle bodies. There is also a brief discussion of Chi and Yoga. This talk is given by Todd Murphy, who invented the 8 Coil Shakti (similar to the Persinger God Helmet).* 6 – Practical neurotheology – using neuroscience for spiritual practice.The lecture, by Todd Murphy (developer of the 8 Coil Shakti)discusses how apply neuroscience to your own spiritual process. It looks at common altered-state experiences, like the ‘sensed presence’, deja vu, tingley sensations, and others. It also looks at how to choose spiritual practices (by looking at ‘temporal lobe signs’ (also called Complex Partial Epileptic Signs) as well as using a high-tech method; complex magnetic neural stimulation. It features a discussion of the Persinger “God Helmet” (actually the “Koren Helmet”). It also covers the future of spirituality.