Free on Kindle, August 26-30: The God Neuroscience Found

From August 26 through August 30, 2026, the Kindle edition of The God Neuroscience Found: A Neurotheology of the Embrace from Behind is free on Amazon.

The God Neuroscience Found

Why this book exists

I am a neurologist before I am a writer. For twenty-five years I have read scans, examined patients, and sat with families in the last hours. The brain is the most honest organ I know. It does not flatter the clinician, and it does not flatter the believer.

This book is what I have been able to say, quietly, after watching both the imaging and the dying — and after noticing that the two have more in common than either field admits.

What is inside

  • Andrew Newberg's SPECT scans of Franciscan nuns in centering prayer — the parietal cortex dimming as the frontal lobes brighten, the boundary of the self softening.
  • The measurably thicker prefrontal cortex of long-term meditators.
  • Speaking in tongues, and the quieted intentional-control network.
  • Roughly four added years of life, on average, among people embedded in a faith community.
  • And then, with equal honesty, what neuroscience has not solved: the hard problem of consciousness, terminal lucidity, the fine-tuned universe. The instruments map the territory. They do not close it.

Who it is for

Readers curious about the neuroscience of prayer and meditation. Believers wondering how faith and modern brain science fit together. Atheists and the spiritually curious who want an honest, data-grounded conversation. Clinicians working with chronic pain, trauma, addiction, or end-of-life care.

The dates

Free August 26–30, 2026 (Pacific Time). After that it returns to $9.99.

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"Even at the moment you are reading this page, someone is, behind your back, with two arms quietly holding you." — from the Conclusion

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— Tae Ho Guak, MD
Riche Internal Medicine & Neurology Clinic, Bundang, Korea

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