Preface Acknowledgements 1. Exploring a strange yet familiar landscape: a strategy for interpreting religious and spiritual experiences 2. Spirituality and the brain: a revolutionary scientific approach to religious and spiritual experiences 3. A smorgasbord of dangers and delights: the phenomenology of religious and spiritual experiences 4. Gateway to ultimacy: the importance of intense experiences 5. Can you trust your instincts? The cognitive reliability of religious and spiritual experiences 6. The brain-group nexus: the social power of religious and spiritual experiences 7. Make it start, make it stop! Religious and spiritual experiences in the future 8. Brains in bodies, persons in groups, and religion in nature: an integrative interpretation of religious and spiritual experiences Glossary of key terms Works cited.
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