neurotheology treats doubt as a neurological condition and would instead encourage people to imagine any God they can accept, and then pray or meditate on that God, in order to reorient the person’s neurological image of God back toward the experiential parts of the brain. I’ll talk more about this in the next chapter, but this insight was the most significant turning point in my return to God. I now knew that I had to stop trying to perfect my knowledge of God and instead shift toward activities that would help me cultivate a healthy neurological image of God—secure in the knowledge that this
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