Instincts, Archetypes & Symbols An Approach to the Physiology of Religious Experiences

This is the lifework of neurologist, James P. Henry, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Loma Linda University, & Professor Emeritus, Department of Physiology, School of Medicine of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. In THE VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE William James insisted that religion is MORE than any theory can capture. Its experience is a natural phenomenon which supersedes traditional interpretations. Neurology recognizes the brain as triune: the reptillian brain, the limbic system, & the neocortex. Most revealing insights pertain to the instinctual & archetypal foundations within the limbic system, a realm more ancient than the neocortex. Religiousness emerges from our depths where the pristine life developed its fundamental identity. Henry explains neurological discoveries of the instinctual & archetypal which permeate the religious experience & its mythological history. This account is so all-encompassing that it may be regarded as the Grail for which people long in their quest for meaning. That which William James & Carl Jung theorized can now be perceived in neurophysiological terms. This defies any mechanistic interpretation of the brain & demands that the neurological is understood as an organic center rooted in holistic dimensions.Henry, James P. is the author of 'Instincts, Archetypes & Symbols An Approach to the Physiology of Religious Experiences' with ISBN 9781881003007 and ISBN 1881003000.