The Unexpected Link Between Neuroscience, Spirituality & Happiness | Andrew Newberg, MD

Hi. Thanks for listening to the Tony Robbins podcast. This is just a quick note about this episode in case you'd rather watch and see the video of this conversation. That's found at youtube.com backslash tony robbins live. If you'd like to listen, you're in the right place. I am here today to talk about the relationship between our brain and our spiritual selves. What do you think about when you think about a spiritual experience? People often come up to me and say, I don't really believe in God, but my spirituality is is the dancing that I do or something creative or being out in nature. So there's a lot of ways in which people can express their spirituality. Part of my goal here is to basically show you that everything that people like Tony and Sage are telling you, it makes sense. One of the things they first told me in medical school is never talk about neuroscience after 10PM. So But my daughter reminded me that we're from Florida so it's still 2PM my brain's time, so we're gonna go with that and hope that we can talk about this. So, as you heard in my introduction, I am here today to talk about the relationship between our brain and our spiritual selves. That's the basic gist of what we're gonna be talking about, but it is a very complex tapestry of interweaving different ideas about the brain, the mind, consciousness, spirituality, sexuality, and all the things that really make us who we are as human beings that ultimately can lead to the kind of happiness that you're talking about at the conference. In fact, part of my goal here is to basically show you that everything that people like Tony and Sage are telling you, it makes sense. There's a reason behind what they're saying because it really has a lot to do with how your brain is responding to the world around you to help you have all of these different experiences. So that's what we're gonna be talking about today, and I think there's some very important things. I'm gonna give you kind of this grand tour of all the work that I've been involved in over the last thirty years looking at these questions. There's a couple of important points to keep in mind here that while I can show you some cool brain scans and we're gonna look at that in a little bit, if I don't know what the person is doing on the inside, my brain scans are meaningless. So it's really essential that I ask people questions about what they think, what they feel, and I'm gonna do that a little bit later on tonight as well. But one of the things I want you to start thinking about is what do you think about when you think about a spiritual experience? Maybe a spiritual experience that you've had, spiritual experiences you've heard about, you know, read about. …