Shahar Arzy Kabbalah: A Neurocognitive Approach sku-42417304

Shahar Arzy's Kabbalah: A Neurocognitive Approach to Mystical Experiences (sku-42417304) is a hardcover in Religion & Religious Studies Books, coauthored with Moshe Idel. Arzy, a cognitive neuroscientist and neurologist, and Idel, a scholar of Jewish mysticism and thought, examine the brain mechanisms underlying ecstatic mystical experiences.

They analyze first-person accounts of techniques used by prominent Jewish mystics to produce bodily reduplication and dissociation, then compare those accounts with neurological observations and laboratory experiments. The study offers a brain-based account of these experiences and describes Kabbalists as early investigators of the human self.

It takes a different approach from the theological, sociological and psychoanalytic studies that have generally dominated the field.