Andrew Newberg Returns (on Sex, God, and the Brain)

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2024

⏱️ 121 minutes

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Dr. Andrew Newberg (Sex, God, and the Brain) is a neuroscientist and author. Andrew joins the Armchair Expert to discuss how philosophy and science can work together, how the study of seizures has changed over time, and why he started to take a more spiritual scientific approach to his research. Andrew and Dax talk about how human rituals developed, how religion and sex shaped the evolution of civilization, and the biochemistry of god and sex. Andrew explains why happens to the body during intense spiritual experiences, why he was interested in studying orgasmic meditation, and the good vs the bad of religion and spirituality. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome welcome to armchair expert experts on expert. I'm Dan Shepard and I'm joined by Monica
0:06.0	Padman birthday girl Monica Padman. Oh yay! We're going hard we're going all the way
0:12.2	through.
0:13.0	Today we have for the second time, Andrew Newberg.
0:17.0	He is a neuroscientist. He is a pioneer in the neurological study of religious and spiritual experiences known as neurotheology.
0:27.0	That's what we talked a lot about the last time he was here.
0:30.0	And he's got an incredible new book out right now called Sex, God, and the Brain, how sexual pleasure gave
0:35.7	birth to religion and a whole lot more.
0:38.5	This is a juicy fun one.
0:39.6	I love any evolutionary topic.
0:41.7	It was very interesting to hear how the brain works similarly
0:45.6	with both of these opposing topics. Please enjoy Andrew Newburgh.
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