Neurotheology Quotes

#1. The purpose of Neurotheology shall be to ease human sufferings with a deeper understanding of the neurobiological substrates of spirituality and divinity.

Abhijit Naskar

#2. Essentially prayer and meditation are one and the same thing.

Abhijit Naskar

#3. God is simply a magnificent state of the mind, where the finite turns infinite.

Abhijit Naskar

#4. Each of the sapiens brains generates its own perception of God in uniquely different ways. Ergo, it imposes different qualities of meaning and value on God. You see God the way your brain wants you to see it. There is no right and wrong, or fact and fiction on this matter. It is all personal.

Abhijit Naskar

#5. Religion is not a book, it is a neurological sentiment.

Abhijit Naskar

#6. Upon entering into the divine domain of transcendence, all these religious founders truly felt that they had accessed the true meaning of the universe, while in reality, what they had access to, in that state of mind, was their inner self.

Abhijit Naskar

#7. Abhijit Naskar is a self-trained scientist and thinker who discovers the paradigm shifting phenomena of the human mind.

Michael A. Persinger

#8. Pathology can indeed cause experiences of the Kingdom of God, but not all God experiences are caused by pathology.

Abhijit Naskar

#9. Humans are not simply higher than Gods, Gods are mere mystical representations of the humans themselves.

Abhijit Naskar

#10. The Qualia of God have paramount potential to alter your body chemistry through mind-body substrates of neurobiology.

Abhijit Naskar

#11. No Scripture comes from any Supreme Creator.

Abhijit Naskar

#12. The Kingdom of God is an earthly experience which manifests in an unearthly manner.

Abhijit Naskar

#13. Lack of insight into each other's private qualia of God, results in a never-ending argument between two people with vastly different conceptions of the term God.

Abhijit Naskar

#14. Once the lotus of your inner divinity gets full-blown and you reach the mental state where all the religious giants of human history experienced the all-encompassing sense of godliness, the exuberance of the human mind turns infinite.

Abhijit Naskar

#15. My exploration of the biology of beliefs has taught me universal tolerance.

Abhijit Naskar

#16. I (God) am only a part of your own human consciousness, but a really bizarre part.

Abhijit Naskar

#17. A true religious person should not think that "my religion alone is the right path and other religions are false." Other religions are also so many paths leading to the same domain of transcendental bliss.

Abhijit Naskar

#18. Qualia of God refers to the private subjective experience or conception of God in people.

Abhijit Naskar

#19. Morality exists in the neurons as a natural sensation. Religion only tries to codify it.

Abhijit Naskar

#20. I don't make any pretence of knowing about the existence of a Supreme Entity, neither do I make any attempt to create any friction among religions. If anything, I have spared myself no pains in my endeavor to smoothen the ongoing friction among all religions of the world.

Abhijit Naskar

#21. Spirituality is to Religion, what Love is to Marriage. Spirituality is an emotional state of the mind, just like Love, while Religion on the other hand, is a social construct, quite like Marriage.

Abhijit Naskar

#22. Meditation is the brain's way to exercise.

Abhijit Naskar

#23. Regardless of the perpetual battle between believers and atheists, for me, religion is a tool of making friends, rather than making enemies.

Abhijit Naskar

#24. Religion is not a book, it is not an institution, and it is not even a person. True Religion is realization of the self.

Abhijit Naskar

#25. Most religious individuals do not conceive God in an anthropomorphic or angry way. Rather, in their personal psychological domain of religious or spiritual beliefs, they conceive God in more abstract, spiritual and merciful way.

Abhijit Naskar

#26. As the neo-cortex of the brain keeps getting more complex through further evolution, eventually our far away progeny will born in a world where there will be no more religion to be endowed upon them.

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#27. God is not an Almighty Being watching over life on earth. God is the Event Horizon of Human Consciousness.

Abhijit Naskar

#28. All deities are external manifestation of humanity's internal divinity.

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#29. Religious faith as a whole induces various health benefits in the general population through complex biological processes.

Abhijit Naskar

#30. The kingdom of God is within the Self, for there is no God besides the Self.

Abhijit Naskar

#31. It may seem demeaning to the vanity of some individuals, but like all elements of the mind, God and all its correlated sensations of divinity are the majestic creations of neurobiology.

Abhijit Naskar

#32. There is no such thing as 'God given scripture', 'the messenger of God' or 'the Last Prophet'.

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#33. Religions began as realization of the self, but ended up being retaliation against each other.

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#34. There can never be a conflict between science and religion, once you understand the spiritual knack of the human brain circuits.

Abhijit Naskar

#35. I am proud to say to you that, I am a scientist and I accept all religions to be biologically true and equal. My pursuit of understanding the human mind has taught me universal tolerance.

Abhijit Naskar

#36. Religion doesn't mean obeying some textual rules from books that were written hundreds or thousands of years ago. Religion means realization of the self.

Abhijit Naskar

#37. A prayer/meditation a day, keeps the Doctor away.

Abhijit Naskar

#38. It's been long since thinking humanity has learnt that love is a majestic creation of the brain, yet that knowledge hasn't made love be deemed any less glorious. Then why should it threaten the religious believer to learn that divinity as well is a natural creation of the brain?

Abhijit Naskar