How Enlightenment Changes the Brain — And How You Can Become Enlightened

Enlightenment is a traditionally mystical and slippery concept, but w[image error]hen it is subjected to the rigors of empirical analysis, there is a lot to be learned about our brains and ourselves. Dr. Andrew Newberg, author of How enlightenment changes your brain, who has put enlightenment through a battery of scientific tests, says there are actually two kinds of enlightenment: lowercase-e enlightenment, which changes our opinions about the world, and Enlightenment, which changes our essence, i.e. ho...