And we can't say that's wrong, either. The problem is that all of our experiences are equal, in that they are all in the brain. Our experience of reality, our experience of science, our mystical experiences are all in the brain. That turns everything around. To Newberg, it means that reductionist science, powerful as it is, has its limitations.
Religious experts agree.
But you could also say this is the outflow of a great soul, and that would also be true. He says there are different levels of explanation which are each true at their own level, but which don't offer a comprehensive explanation. Just as physicists cannot fully understand the electron as either a particle or a wave, but only as both at once, says Newberg, so we need both science and a more subjective, spiritual understanding in order to grasp the full nature of reality. Copyright 2001 New Scientist. All rights reserved.