E124 - Dr. Lisa Miller: The Neuroscience of Spirituality, Synchronicity & The Awakened Brain
Know Thyself
André Duqum
4.8 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Author and researcher Dr. Lisa Miller unpacks the science of the Awakened Brain and how humans are innately wired for spiritual experiences. She discusses the root causes of the mental health crisis our planet is facing, and how by reconnecting to this innate spirituality we have the power to heal on a global level. She describes depression as two sides of the same door, revealing the opportunity hidden within our suffering. She discusses how transcendent experiences are explained on a neurological level and the 4 major finds of her research.
She reveals the science of synchronicity, surrender, and our ability to be 'trail angels' who help others along their journey. She also shares a guided practice to open yourself up to life's wisdom and live in harmony with the divine will.
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0:00 Intro
1:42 Defining Spirituality as a Scientist
3:45 The Cause of the Mental Health Crisis
6:00 Is Spirituality Limited to the Brain?
12:00 The Awakened Brain: Being in Sync with the Universe
16:52 Children are in This State Naturally
20:54 Mirror Neurons and Past Life Regressions
24:51 4 Major Findings on the Awakened Brain
30:39 Science of Synchronicity & Surrender
37:35 Guided Practice: Open Yourself Up to Life’s Wisdom
43:10 Her Most Shocking Discoveries
44:30 Depression as the Doorway to Spirituality
51:24 Integrating Achievement & Awakened Brain
56:00 Conclusion
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Lisa Miller, Ph.D., is the New York Times bestselling author of The Spiritual Child and a professor in the Clinical Psychology Program at Teachers College, Columbia University. She is the Founder and Director of the Spirituality Mind Body Institute, the first Ivy League graduate program and research institute in spirituality and psychology, and has held over a decade of joint appointments in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical School. Her innovative research has been published in more than one hundred peer-reviewed articles in leading journals, including Cerebral Cortex, The American Journal of Psychiatry, and the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
Website: https://www.lisamillerphd.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dr.lisamiller/
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| 0:00.0 | The best clinical science can say is that spirituality is not a belief, |
| 0:04.0 | it is an inborn human seat of perception. |
| 0:07.0 | In 30 years as a scientist, the most breathtaking finding that I've seen is this. |
| 0:11.0 | The spiritually engaged brain vibrates at the wavelength of all life. |
| 0:16.0 | It can be through synchronicity, it can be through a gut instinct, |
| 0:19.0 | but we have knowing in many forms. |
| 0:21.0 | So the awakened brain is our inborn capacity, rather than fear uncertainty, to be an open |
| 0:27.7 | system. |
| 0:28.4 | And this is our greatest strength. |
| 0:29.9 | I hear from people, well, how do I do that? |
| 0:32.1 | There is a practice that I have found to be highly effective. |
| 0:35.4 | It was a gift to me. |
| 0:37.2 | Should we share it? |
| 0:38.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:39.3 | So there's a very popular view right now |
| 0:42.4 | that somehow if I want something |
| 0:44.2 | and if I really align myself, |
| 0:45.7 | it'll be just as I perhaps ordered on Amazon. |
| 0:48.9 | But what if the most important parts of our lives |
| 0:52.0 | are not strategically planned? |
| 0:54.0 | They're not what we want. |
| 0:54.9 | They're better than what we want. |
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