How is belief related to biology, miraculous healing, and the Bible? How can mind override matter?

How can wound healing be affected by our perception of time? A study was recently published by a leading journal of science, called Nature, and it reveals that our minds can override matter.

Quantum entanglement was tested in the brain by scientists from the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience and the University of Dublin tested this. This blog article discusses their findings.

The human soul, or the part of us that eternally continues forth after death, is often addressed in topics of consciousness. The soul has been treated as something immaterial or non-physical in the history of the Church. This article explores what the Bible says about the soul alongside the neuroscience of consciousness.

What happens when the non-physical narrative world touches the objective, physical world of biology?

Here, I want to discuss Antonio Damasio’s perspective of bioelectrical computations of human intelligence that separates us from the intelligence of bacteria. Though Damasio does not appear to be a non-materialist, I gather from him some non-materialist support for mind/consciousness that I think has some relevance to the Christian spiritual neuroscience of Curt Thompson. This leads me to a conclusion about the importance of having the mind of Christ that should shape our social lives and thinking patterns.

I believe that God’s design of the human mind and human subjectivity separates us from computers and machines. Read the article to find out why I believe this.

Do you believe that we are naive realists? Our perception is like a tunnel through which we see reality with peripheries that do not allow all stimuli to enter. Though we are limited in perception, our stubbornness and argumentativeness makes it seem that we like to think we know it all, making us naive realists at heart. What does psychology and neuroscience have to say about all of this?

This article discusses Michael Engor, who is a practicing neurosurgeon, a professor of neurology at Stony Brook University, and an Intelligent Design advocate. This article discusses Engor’s interpretations of the soul in the Nobel Prize-winning split-brain research of Roger Sperry from the 1960’s.

Some great thinkers in the fields of neuroscience and psychiatry have expressed that we need to move beyond materialism. Some of them are Roger Sperry, Iain McGilchrist, and Sharon Dirckx. You can read about them here.