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Hello and welcome back to part four of this Mormon Stories series on the psychology of religion.

With Dr. James Nagel, I'm John DeLin, your host.

Hey James.

Hello.

Again, as this is part four, I'd like to remind you guys to listen to parts one, two, and three if you can't.

I also want to remind you that there are some fantastic visuals accompanying these four episodes.

You can either download the PowerPoints at MormonStories.org or you can go up to YouTube and watch this thing in full multimedia splendor at youtube.com slash Mormon Stories.

I encourage you to do that as well because it might help you understand.

But we're going to still try and speaking away to where the audio only audience will still benefit.

So James, it seems like we've laid out kind of a framework in episodes one through three.

Is it fair to say that this fourth part is sort of just a conclusion?

Yeah, we're basically going to just tie it all together and really answer that ultimate question of where do spiritual supernatural beliefs originate from?

What is the a biogenesis of religion and culture?

All right.

So that's going to really tie it all together and hopefully explain a lot about the way people will look at the world.

Okay, cool.

Well, let's start with signs from God.

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