127. Mind, Matter, and Spirit — A Conversation with Michael Ferguson
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🗓️ 12 August 2022
⏱️ 36 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, I just want to take a second to invite you to join me this year at Restore |
| 0:06.6 | a Faith Matters Gathering happening October 13th and 14th. |
| 0:12.0 | It's going to be at the Amount and America Expo Center in Sandy and it promises to be |
| 0:16.5 | an exceptional conference. |
| 0:18.4 | I attended last fall and found it to be a remarkably inspiring, hopeful two days of listening |
| 0:27.2 | to really well-prepared, thoughtful talks as well as inspiring music and really feeling |
| 0:36.7 | a deep connection with my other Latter-day Saint brothers and sisters around me in our |
| 0:41.8 | shared desire to speak to the best in our faith and to speak to one another and find a sense |
| 0:48.6 | of connection. |
| 0:49.9 | I'm also going to be one of the people speaking. |
| 0:52.3 | I'll be speaking a bit about eros energy and its connection to spirituality and to the |
| 0:59.6 | light of Christ. |
| 1:01.1 | And so I hope to see you all there. |
| 1:05.1 | Hey everybody, this is Tim Chavez from Faith Matters. |
| 1:11.1 | Over the past few decades, our understanding of how the brain works has advanced dramatically. |
| 1:15.7 | Using new theories, methods and tools like FMIRI technology, scientists are beginning |
| 1:20.1 | to reveal the mysteries of this truly remarkable and complex organ. |
| 1:24.1 | One scientist on the cutting edge of this research is Michael Ferguson, a BYU grad who is |
| 1:28.6 | now researching and teaching at Harvard. |
| 1:30.9 | For Michael, the most exciting result of all this new knowledge of the brain is how it |
| 1:34.5 | might transform our spiritual lives and help us connect more fully to the divine. |
| 1:38.9 | He is pioneer in a field called Neuro-Spirituality and his research has been in part inspired |
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