NPR religion reporter Barbara Bradley Hagerty has concluded a fascinating five-part series on science and God. I'm still listening to it on podcast, but I encourage you to listen.
Bradley Hagerty, who spent a year exploring the science of spirituality for her book "Fingerprints of God," tackles the mystery of near-death experiences, how prayer may reshape the brain and how positive thoughts might help another person, among other phenomena.
"One of the great pleasures was interviewing people who have had spiritual experiences; it's not just the scientists," she says at the NPR Web site, noting that she talked with Jews, Christians, Buddhists, Muslims and people who were spiritual but not religious.
"One of the interesting things is what they described as a spiritual experience was basically the same: An encounter with light, an encounter with love, often an out-of-body experience. What that told me is spiritual experience is spiritual experience -- it's a human phenomenon and in fact, it may be divine."
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